craigb
The song remains the same? Here's a great example from Nickleback. Each ear has one of their songs playing back.
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Talk about recycling, eh? 
It's weird ... I'm reading the book "Eurock" by Archie Patterson, and it is the actual magazine and all its issues in the 70's and 80's and it is massive, and reading how much so many European musicians had issues and troubles and jail for their politics and such, is a bit different, and sometimes, while I am not cynical enough to say it's all poor, too much of it is "the same" ... and then someone else wants to know what we think, and it's the same thing as everyone else ... I find it strange ... and weird, and then ... dig this ... in the film "Isaac Stern goes to China" ... a young Chinese student says that "Mozart is so industrial" ... which is like saying that it is commercial and sounding the same, for my translation. It is also saying that the music is very mechanical, which we know a lot of it is, in the sense that the numbers, or notes, are simply moved around.
It's hard to not see this, when you listen to some much different music all over the world ... even if so much of it is just their "culture" and native expression, before anything else.