Billy D says:

MOOOONKEYS! ahahahaha. Funny stuff. Love the little monkey sets too

Billy D says:

it isn’t EXACTLY the same, the chorus in consolation prizes is the same as the verse. the hungry kids progression changes from E to A to B to A which if you look further past Phoenix, is actually a standard 1950’s swing progression. maybe Pheonix shouldn’t be getting all their praise, they ripped off swing music. OH NO!

Bones says:

yes it is exactly the same, none of this we all copy bullshit, hungry kids would know that song by phoenix and it went in the head and they ripped it off, they probably realise it now and feel like crap, or maybe they know all along. I tried to write this to see if everyone was feeling the same on the triple j forums but they wouldn’t fooken put it up, incredible, they wouldn’t allow anyone to criticise their sacred australian playlist.

Billy D says:

if it was such a blatant rip off of that song, triple j would not play it. it is a standard progression and rhythm, it’s like saying anyone who uses a basic 12 bar blues progression in G is ripping each other off. the hungries don’t sound anything like phoenix, sonically or melodically. i’ll admit that the progression is similar…to a whole genre of music that phoenix did not create or have anything to do with. i’m not giving you any ‘we all copy bullshit,’ i’m saying that if you think phoenix are responsible for that progression and rhythm then you need to do some homework.

Bones says:

Billy D you need to do less homework and start listening and feeling more. Yes twelve bar blues is standard and transposable, but it IS different. Blues is borne out of generations of the same shit and a concrete form, and while you could argue the same with pop music it is just isn’t the case. The hungry kids hit that opening chord the same amount of times before going to the the next two quick chords exactly as it appears on Phonex’s main refrain. That is plagiarism. This is EXACTLY the same as a band playing the main A chord in Jet’s are you gonna be my girl with the same rhythm. imagine if a band did that and it was played on JJJ tomorrow, they’d be fooken crucified. No Jet didn’t invent the Amajor chord and that rhythm, but they most recently brought it to pop music prominence. That’s what hungry kids did. Agreed?

Kirsty says:

Argh. Bones, Billy D…Freakin know it all douchebags! This is great song and a great clip from a fantastic up and coming Brissy band, simple. take your shit elsewhere. Can’t you listen to a song without over anaylizing every inch of it? you both need a hug and a dance

Bones says:

arrr Kirsty. So young and naive. Soon you will you wise up and realise that we are all failed musicians criticising other people’s work because we want to be them. You remind me of that song, Naive by the Kooks how shit is that song!!! Fuck I hate them, little weeping pussies they are. HAHAHHA. get it? get it?