sneaky spiritual covers

my library on shuffle has elicited some eye-widenings in me recently. tracks where the lineage is so obvious that it's… surprising they even changed the title. a sneaky spiritual cover.

KIND WORDS by Gretchen is one, of Horizontal Hold by This Heat. Everyone in that Calgary scene was obviously, famously inspired by This Heat but I hadn't heard these two songs back-to-back before to realize how direct it got. thanks shuffle.

the other was Cadriopo by Stereolab owing everything to Sun Ra's Love in Outer Space. this one wasn't so sneaky (see also: Mellotron and Ruby by Silver Apples). i just hadn't heard Cadriopo before.

one time I wrote a drum part for a song and was really chuffed with it and then listened to it some time later and realized it was basically identical to Apocalypse Dreams by Tame Impala, so y'know, not throwing shade. inspiration is sneaky too.