dbt track of the week # 107 - Days of Graduation

[Gator McKlusky]

Ok Bubba you are going to have to explain because I have never seen the TV show.

[Penny Lane]

Why did his girl leave with Bobby anyway? Sounds very suspicious to me!

Haven't you seen Friday Night Lights?

I love the show--(really I love Coach Taylor)--I need enlightened, Bubs. ??

[beantownbubba]

In a word, it's all about high school. Especially small town high school, but really any of 'em. You know, hormones, growing up together, shared secrets, unshared secret secrets, hormones, resentments and perceived slights boiling under the surface, promises made, promises kept, promises broken, hormones, cliques, in crowds, losers, greasers & geeks, dares, lines to be approached, lines crossed (or not), hormones, hopes, dreams and, ummmm, hormones. You know, high school. FNL gets it mostly right and Patterson has it all there in a line. I don't know which part of all this is specifically relevant to bobby & the narrator's best girl, but it's somewhere in that mix.

[Cole Younger]

Very good comparison. I loved Friday Night Lights too. Mostly because I lived it. There aren't many tv shows that I can relate to but I enjoyed it.

[Penny Lane]

In a word, it's all about high school. Especially small town high school, but really any of 'em. You know, hormones, growing up together, shared secrets, unshared secret secrets, hormones, resentments and perceived slights boiling under the surface, promises made, promises kept, promises broken, hormones, cliques, in crowds, losers, greasers & geeks, dares, lines to be approached, lines crossed (or not), hormones, hopes, dreams and, ummmm, hormones. You know, high school. FNL gets it mostly right and Patterson has it all there in a line. I don't know which part of all this is specifically relevant to bobby & the narrator's best girl, but it's somewhere in that mix.

You forgot the most important part. TEXAS FOREVER

[Kudzu Guillotine]

I think I've only seen one episode of Friday Night Lights and that's the one where the Gourds made an all too brief appearance. Mainly what I remember is reading about how often their soundtrack was an alt-country friendly one.

[beantownbubba]

Definitely some excellent music on FNL. The one i remember most is gary clarke jr but there were plenty of others.

No, Penny, I didn't forget "Texas Forever" i just thought it was a little too specific and was covered by stuff like "promises".

[Penny Lane]

Definitely some excellent music on FNL. The one i remember most is gary clarke jr but there were plenty of others.

No, Penny, I didn't forget "Texas Forever" i just thought it was a little too specific and was covered by stuff like "promises".

Delta Spirit and Beach House, too..
maybe the car crash motif is substituded here for the football paralysis

[RolanK]

Got no idea what this thread is all about now... Just saying

[LBRod]

Got no idea what this thread is all about now... Just saying

It's simple. This thread is about Penny messing with Bubba Hen.

[one belt loop]

Got no idea what this thread is all about now... Just saying

It's simple. This thread is about Penny messing with Bubba Hen.

I thought it was about her lusting after Coach Taylor.

Which, of course, leaves more bad boy for me.

[beantownbubba]

Keep your hands off that Timmy Riggins, OBL. He's radioactive, having just starred in one of the biggest bombs in movie history.

For RolanK, an attempt to get this back at least somewhere in the vicinity of the original topic: Having listened to SRO from top to bottom today, I was once again struck by how flat out audacious it was for the band to make that album. The scope, the reach, the risk (financial, artistic and otherwise), the ambition and the extent to which they pulled off what they aimed for make SRO a very special album that stands in very rarified company (tho i'm not exactly sure what that company is).

[Kudzu Guillotine]

There's more similarity between this song and "Days of Graduation" than "Taurus" and "Stairway To Heaven" but will there be a lawsuit?

[Zip City]

There's more similarity between this song and "Days of Graduation" than "Taurus" and "Stairway To Heaven" but will there be a lawsuit?

Holy shit

[Duke Silver]

wow

[ramonz]

dude....

[211poundsofpork]

yikes!

[John A Arkansawyer]

Those are very different songs, but if I were Rod Melancon, I'd put an "inspired by" on it, even if it wasn't actually, because I doubt most folks would believe that. I might, but...

[allisonsdc]

Those are very different songs

Doesn't sound different enough to me.

[walthers]

Sounds way too similar to me.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

They are so close it's difficult to tell if it's an homage or a blatant rip-off.

[gepman]

Wow... Holy Shit... All appropriate responses...

[Beaverdam]

My son's preschool graduation is this weekend and as a result I've been thinking about "Days of Graduation" all week!

[schlanky]

My son's preschool graduation is this weekend and as a result I've been thinking about "Days of Graduation" all week!

I hope it's a great graduation day, Beaverdam. Don't listen to "Freebird."

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ALSO: Dude ripped off DBT's song.

[Rocky]

Those are very different songs

Don't know what you're hearing but to me this is the most obvious rip off of a song I have ever heard.

2nd place is Hey Pretty Girl by Kip Moore which sounds an awful lot like Springsteen's I'm On Fire.

[Iowan]

Those are very different songs,

[Iowan]

This is worse than the "A Ghost to Most" rip off that got posted here a few years back, and worse than Dierks Bently aping "Razor Town".

[Clams]

First of all, who the fuck is Rod Melancon and why would any of us give a shit about him and/or his video that has all of 660 views?

Second, this kind of thing happens all the time. You could make the argument that Cooley ripped off Mama Got Run Over By a Reindeer with The Weakest Man. I'm not saying he did, but the two melodies are pretty similar.

Unbunch your panties, people. It's just Rod Melancon.

[Iowan]

I'm not suggesting we launch some kind of e-warfare on Rod Melancon, or that DBT should even take any kind of action. I'm just pointing out the obvious rip off on multiple levels.

Songs recycle chords and melodies all the time, and that's somewhat what makes this more specific and egregious. It's a spoken word piece with loud, distorted guitars that aren't using any kind of standard progression and revisits the themes of youthful car wrecks and tying a specific song into the fabric of the accident.

[John A Arkansawyer]

Those are very different songs

Don't know what you're hearing but to me this is the most obvious rip off of a song I have ever heard.

What I'm hearing is the difference between homage or parody or pastiche or whatever is going on in someone's mind when they imitate something (which I assume to be the case) and a flat-out plagiaristic rip-off. It's the idea of the song that's being imitated less than the song itself. They are incredibly similar and yet not all that alike. I wouldn't call it theft but I would call it an insult.