Coldplay / Nirvana
Compare and contrast: Nirvana - All Apologies and Coldplay - Life In Technicolour. Give them both about a minute to get going, then spot the difference.
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Tor are currently giving away free ebooks as part of a promotion for their new website. Just sign up for their newsletter and once a week they'll email you a link to download it in html, pdf, or mobi format. They're on their third book at the moment: " The Outstretched Shadow " by Mercedes Lackey and Someone Else Whose Name Isn't As Distinctive. The previous two were " Old Man's War " by that nice Mr. Scalzi, and " Spin " by Robert Wilson. I have a decent-sized screen on my PDA-phone-thing, and reading "Spin" was quite comfortable. There were advantages over the paper version (reading in the dark; not as heavy; easier to read one-handed while swaying on the commuter meat wagon; I always have my phone with me so I've always got a book too), and disadvantages (could not read at the beach; or anywhere in bright light; not as high contrast as print on paper which did give me a slight headache after an hour or so; my book now depe...
DO you think they are similiar or something like that? Imo I think All apologies is much better than Life in Teqnicolour. But maybe that depends on that I love Nirvana more than Coldplay.
ReplyDeleteThe melody is the same in both songs. I'd agree that the Nirvana song is better, but that's not what I was bothered about. I'd had the coldplay song rattling around in my head, because it sounded like something else and I couldn't work it out. Eventually I did, so I posted it here, just in case anyone else though the same.
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