Originally broadcast of Burgess Hill Radio 103.3FM 3-5pm Sunday 7th February 2021
Ep 471 / #2 on Burgess Hill Radio
Some musicians talk about just knocking off a tune when a song comes together quickly. This week we look at the strange similarity of the Coldplay Song Viva La Vida to three other songs from the seventies, 2000s and just after the Viva La Vida album was released in 2008. Plagiarism or just something in the water – you decide..
We listen to a variety of Cure Covers from Mumm-Ra to Adele, find out what happened to the briefly Brighton based songstress Raissa and the Mummers Project and investigate how another Raissa aged just 22 has been feted as the next big pop sensation by producer Mark Ronson, no less. We’ll also compare and contrast the 80s dream pop collective This Mortal Coil and darlings of the slightly left of centre dinner party, London Grammar. And after a brilliant return to The Whole Nine Yards on last week’s show we go back to 2003 and hear Alison David’s distinctive vocals on Red Snapper’s ‘Image of You’.
Tracklist
Hour One
Joe Satriani – If I Could Fly (Is There Love in Space? 2004)
Creaky Boards – The Songs I Didn’t Write (Brooklyn is Love 2008)
Cat Stevens – The Foreigner Suite (Edit last 4 minutes) (Foreigner 1973)
Coldplay – Viva La Vida (Viva La Vida or Death and all his Friends 2008)
Mumm-Ra – In Between Days (Out of the Question Single B-Side and Radio 1 Live Sessions 2007)
The Mummers – March of the Dawn (Tale to Tell 2009)
Raissa – How Long Do I Get (Believe 1999)
Adele- Lovesong (21 2011)
Paloma Faith – Never Tear Us Apart (Orchestral version) (John Lewis Ad 2012)
Black – More Than the Sun (More Than the Sun Single 1984)
Cousteau – Jump in the Water (Cousteau 2001)
Hour Two
White & Torch – Parade
This Mortal Coil - Song for the Siren (It’ll End it Tears 1984)
London Grammar – Rooting for You (Truth is a Beautiful Thing 2017)
The Separate ft Mark Laneghan – Close to Me (Orchestral Variations 2012)
The Wedding Present – High (Just Like Heaven (A Tribute to The Cure 2008)
Luna – Fire in Cairo (A Sentimental Education 2017)
Red Snapper ft Alison David – Image of You (Making Bones 1998)
Akala – I Don’t Know (Freedom Lasso 2007)
Richard Durrant – Ballad of the Rusting Bikes (Cycling Music 2014)
Raissa - Me Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte (It's so hard to forget you) (Herogirl EP 2020)
Scott Walker – If Ships were made to Sail (Any Day Now 1973)
Jim Webb – Galveston (Ten Easy Pieces 1996)
