I'm Beginning To See The Light / Beginning To See The Light

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How do you see the relation between these two songs?

― the pinefox, Monday, 24 March 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Ones a standard and ones Lou?

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Monday, 24 March 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

It's similar to the relation between 'What Goes On' and 'What Goes On'

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 March 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

..or between "The Power of Love", "The Power of Love", "The Power of Love" and "The Power of Love". A new thread subject, maybe: what's the mos common name for a song?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm sure that's been done.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, I'm new here...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

What Goes On is also on the 3rd VU album. But still, sorry for getting your thread off to a bad start.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Well -- did Lou Reed deliberately or openly take the title from the standard? Did he mean it as an interesting and significant act of quotation?

― the pinefox, Monday, 24 March 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Well...He was a Brill Bldg writer so he may have used the title as a resource. Like evoking a gospel or blues standard. And working from there

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

there's tons of songs named ONE too...

Metallica - One
U2 - One
Jhonny Cash - One
Foo Fighters (spit spit spit) - One

just to name a few.

In fact - you're no musitian if you don't have at least one song named ONE. :lol

― emilichescu, Monday, 24 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

He may have been listening to the original (Duke Ellington?) and the title became inspiration for a song.
Because he wrote in a factory setting it could also be the result of a technique he used in songwriting (scavaging old titles as muse)

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Deliberate theft=Classic

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

my sister used to think the song was called "I'm A Guinea To See The Light" when I used to play it on the family stereo back in middle school.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

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