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Left: Zoran Predin, Right: Bono.

The Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik recently published a story claiming that one of the melodies on the new U2 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, was similar (if not identical) to a song written thirteen years ago by Zoran Predin. The U2 song in question is City of Blinding Lights; the Predin song is Okupatorka, a 30-second clip of which can be heard here.

I asked internationally renowned DJ, Nik Å mon, if he could mix them together. After a heroic struggle, he sent back an e-mail saying:

"The
city of blinding lights has 139 bpm, so I had to speed it up for 37 bpm
but I preserved the pitch of the track, so the tone height is the same
as the original."

I have no idea what he’s talking about, but here is the odd-sounding result:

U2 vs. LaÄ?ni Franz — The City of Blinding Occupiers

(Thanks to Martinovanje, Vlasta and especially Mr. Å mon!)

Posted on Friday, July 15, 2005 to Music

Comments

  • 1

    BPM is beats per minute. Some time ago it was hard to beat-match a
    song while preserving the pitch at the same time (remember the
    chipmunks singing? that’s what happens when the pitch AND the speed are
    sped up). I can’t hear this now, cause my girlfriend is sleeping in the room, but I’ll have a listen later. Thanks for the post!
     

         by Carlitos on July 15, 2005 at 6:35 am

  • 2

    Thanks, carlitos. I first thought it might be a substitution cypher
    based on a simple polynomial, but when I decoded it I just got the
    message: "P0r7m4n 1$ 7h3 h4w7!!!1" which is gibberish. I think.

         by Michael M. on July 15, 2005 at 9:31 am

  • 3

    Yea. I knew it. Thats why me and my wife allways when we hear City of Blinding Lights mumbling chorus of Okupatorka.

         by samuelion on July 15, 2005 at 11:55 am

  • 4

    Michael - Ready to dump Natalija for Natalie? Just remember, I saw her first ;)

         by Jernej on July 15, 2005 at 1:33 pm

  • 5

    No, no, Å mon is the Portman fan. Fanatic, actually.I forgot to mention that Predin has no plans of suing or anything like that. He said he was "flattered" by the coincidence and that’s it. It was nice to hear that.

         by Michael M. on July 15, 2005 at 2:56 pm

  • 6

    Too bad, it would have been fun to see Predin suing Bono. It’s
    probably just a coincidence, though. Strange, huh? Makes you wonder if
    1.000.000 typing monkeys could produce a Wikipedia.  

         by crni on July 15, 2005 at 4:28 pm

  • 7

    Another simmilarity: Predin is the most annoying Slovenian "celebrity" and Bono is fast approaching that status internationally. Although I can’t ever picture him getting quite as full of himself.

         by Poulette on July 16, 2005 at 3:17 pm

  • 8

    Grandmaster Nik The Scratch Å mon - that was pretty cool, Nik! I was impressed.

         by novala on July 17, 2005 at 10:09 pm

  • 9

    I have been stupefied hearing that, and mr. Predin is such a gentleman.

         by zweistein on July 18, 2005 at 12:02 am

  • 10

    And then there’s also Russian anthem, which is suspiciously similar to Predin’s Zadnja veÄ?erja ;-)

         by PiiiiiP on July 23, 2005 at 5:56 am

  • 11

    PiiiP, can you read? Than take a look at CD "Zadnja veÄ?erja" and see
    who is named as author of the song: it stands black on white: ZADNJA
    VEÄŒERJA (Himna Sovjetske Zveze, Predin). Good enaugh?

         by nus on August 19, 2005 at 11:47 am

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