radar graph, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue
linear trend-line, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue
Below, in the white on blue cells–
The calibrated speeds for groups of contiguous groups of ten of Tangled Up In Blue.
radar graph, Hootie & The Blowfish, Only Wanna Be With You
linear trend-line, Hootie & The Blowfish, Only Wanna Be With You
Below, in the black text in white cells–
The calibrated speeds for each measure of Only Wanna Be With You. Each measure is timed in a contiguous way
Our Speed Summary of Only Wanna Be With You, calibrated under the supervision of James “The Senator” Manning, chief calibrator:
mean speed=103.4 beats per minute.
meanemotion=natural
mean space=0.580 seconds between beats.
mean phase=1.723 beats per second.
mean pitch=441.2 hertz.
The speed summary, calibrated by James “The Senator” Manning revealed–
mean space=0.597 seconds per beat
mean speed=100.5 beats per minute
mean emotion=natural
mean phase=1.69 cycles per second
corresponding pitch=433.2 hertz
Only Wanna Be With You is a pop song released in 1995 by Hootie & the Blowfish, the third single from their breakthrough album Cracked Rear View. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, #3 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. It is most noted by its music video, which took the artistic form of an episode of ESPN SportsCenter. In addition to SportsCenter anchors Dan Patrick, Keith Olbermann, Mike Tirico, Charley Steiner and Chris Berman, several athletes were included. Among those appearing were golfer Fred Couples, basketball player Alonzo Mourning, and football player Dan Marino.
The video was nominated in the Best Group Video category at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. Five lines from Bob Dylan’s song “Idiot Wind” are quoted in the song, leading to a lawsuit. The song is at the speed of natural, the speed which we all found out last week corresponds to the universal, universal-sexual speed of sexual climactic pulses.
All would stipulate to the above–in a pure Wikipedia manner. Who is getting Grammy and music attention these days, though? The hip-hoppers, the samplers, the engineers. Given the cut and paste way much “music” commonly labeled “rap” is made, can the Hootie and the Blowfish song really be called one of plagiarism? Admiration gone too far? Meanspeed Music takes the position, that after looking at the graphs and the measurements through which they were created–of course, Only Wanna Be With You is simply a variation on Dylan’s last great song. To us, we ask the question the answer to which we would love to know–so anyone out there–if ya know, please tell us! DID anyone in the Hootie “camp” ask or notify Bob Dylan about using the song? If not, Robert Zimmerman also known as Bob Dylan was *right* to sue: both songs are among te top 1% of popular songs ever recorded–but to not give Dylan credit on the Hootie song–hey, that’s a case of Look Hootie, without Bob paving the way for you in the 1960s, you be spinning records and sampling along with RUN_DMC or something. Bob desrerved the credit. But: If Bob just was not returning letters or phone calls pleading for the use of the song–another story indeed.
Bob Dylan is no angel in this regard:
from the Rolling Stone magazine ONLINE ARCHIVES:
Bob Dylan’s Greatest Thefts
Everybody just relax: Bob Dylan is still, hands down, the most gifted and original songwriter of the last century. But yes, he did poach some lines from 19th century Confederate poet Henry Timrod for Modern Times. He’s been lifting lines from other people for his entire career — for one, huge chunks of his 1985 disc Empire Burlesque was based on Humphrey Bogart movies. It’s part of the whole folk music thing, as well as the whole “geniuses steal” thing, and Dylan did name his last album, um, Love and Theft. Here are a half dozen of Dylan’s greatest “appropriations” — can you think of any more?
Dylan:
Go ‘way from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed
- “It Ain’t Me Babe” (1964)
Source:
Go away from my window
Go away from my door
- John Jacob Niles, “Go Away From My Window”Dylan:
“A phrase in connection first with she I heard
That love is just a four-letter word.”
- “Love is just A Four-Letter Word” (1967)
Source:
“You don’t know what love is. To you its just another four-letter word.”
- Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Dylan:
“Well, I have had some rotten nights,
Didn’t think that they would pass.”
- “Seeing the Real You At Last” (1985)
Source:
“I’ll have some rotten nights after I’ve sent you over - but that’ll pass.”
- Humphey Bogart, The Maltese FalconDylan:
“When I met you, baby,
You didn’t show no visible scars,
You could ride like Annie Oakley,
You could shoot like Belle Starr.”
- “Sweetheart Like You” (1985)
Source:
“I’m looking for a woman who can ride like Annie Oakley and shoot like Belle Starr.”
- Clint Eastwood, Bronco BillyDylan:
Lot of water under the bridge, Lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through
“Things Have Changed (1999)
Source:
“Don’t get up, I’m only passing through”
- Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire
Dylan:
“My old man, he’s like some feudal lord.
- “Floater” (2001)
Source:
“My old man would sit there like a feudal lord”
- Confessions Of A Yakuza
– Andy Greene
Bottom line: grab the songs on iTunes before the “record industry” pulls out, along with the short-sighted, stupid move by Universal (”real men don’t threaten”). Then you can pay these musicians at the most reasonable price they are ever going to receive. If “the industry,” of which I have been a part and is so viciously competitive it makes the New York City Court System look like a pure example of kindness, etiquette and truth, pulls out from iTunes, we will all obtain out music in a manner by which I will not speak. Any industry can only price gauge for so long. Do I need gas in my car for my Toronto vacation? Indeed. Do I need the third re-master of U2’s One? No. The first two did me. Did everyone in this office.
Sophia St. John Newman
Ian Schneider
Sarah Jane Garcia
James T.S. Manning
May11, 2008
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