One of things is quite like the other

Is it just me, or does the new Strokes single “Juicebox” sound an awful lot like Possum Dixon? Especially “Pharmaceutical Itch”?

Seriously, kids, I was in the car on my way to work this morning, and I thought I’d become the luckiest man in the world when I heard the opening bassline. But no… it was “Juicebox.” I mean, it’ s a cool song, but very very similar.

I mean, it’s not a blatant rip-off like Green Day using the melody from the Kinks‘ “Picture Book” for “Warning” or Hoobastank swiping the breakdown from Refused‘s “New Noise” for “Crawling In the Dark.” They’re just similar.

Hear what I mean…

Possum Dixon – “Pharmaceutical Itch
the Strokes – “Juicebox