Can you tell the difference?
- Exhibit A: Flesh #1 (Beatle Dennis) [mp3] by Robyn Hitchcock. This version recorded in April 2009 Live at Cat’s Cradle. Originally on the Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians album “Globe of Frogs”, released 1988.
- Exhibit B: Is it Cold in Silverlake? [mp3] by Buddy (original dodgy mp3 harvester link here). Seemingly recorded in 2009.
(awesome sleuthing by fegmaniax)
I see that a blogger caught it in March 2009
(http://powerpopulist.blogspot.com/2009/03/post-sxsw-post-camera-obscura.html)
and someone on Last.fm noticed it just over a year ago:
http://www.last.fm/music/Buddy/_/Is+it+Cold+in+Silverlake
Wow….
simply WOW
I didn’t write this, but it pleases me nonetheless:
— https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Buddy_%28band%29#Plagiarism
this track “is it cold in silverlake” was never released, it was a demo that leaked in 2010, it was never intended for release and was a homage to the great robin hitchcock, no court ever contested the song and if you view the body of buddys work you will find zero ripoff’s. the band was never contacted by any court or sent home in any shape or form. get the facts about the music before you start writing unfounded claims.
Oh dear, I think someone really missed the point …
The grey is correct. Buddy’s work contains “zero ripoffs”. This includes a casette tribute to the Indian band’s masterpiece, “Albummed” which was accidently left on a lorry in Leatherhead, as well as a stolen MIDI version of “PSP 12” (renamed ,in homage to Mendonsa and company, as “SPS 21”) that turned up in a bar in Sacramento.
Best of all Is a leaked tape of Buddy’s cover of Zero’s cover of Neil Young.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9OvYjuKZro
A triple tribute from an awsome indie combo!!!!