24 July 2008

Stealing from the future

A special Popjustice investigation this week revealed famed girl group The Shirelles to be nothing more than time-travelling thieves, guilty of journeying forward to 2008 in order to nick Sharleen Spiteri’s ‘oeuvre’.

Sadly it is our duty to report that another girl group, this time Martha Reeves and The Vandellas (no less) are guilty of the same. They travelled forward from 1963 to 2005, just so that they could totally rip-off Doves’ seminal 2005 hit ‘Black And White Town’.

See for yourself:

Doves - ‘Black And White Town’



Martha Reeves and The Vandellas - ‘(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave’



Naughty girls. There is a fairly good bootleg made by someone called Lenlow demonstrating the above similarities, which we have posted below.

Click here (zshare)

Unfortunately the only version of it we could find has got Tyres from Spaced speaking at the beginning (it’s taken from a studenty mix we made ’back in the day’). This should not be too much of a problem though because - let’s face it - Spaced is fucking brilliant.
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