by OntiqoMore Than a Feeling by Boston and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana: how alike are they?
Sonalize compared the two recordings: 4%, unrelated.
| Harmony | 26% |
|---|---|
| Melody | 0% |
| Sound | 88% |
| Rhythm | 31% |
These tracks have no more in common than unrelated songs usually do.
| More Than a Feeling | Smells Like Teen Spirit | |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Boston | Nirvana |
| Key | G Major | F Minor |
| Tempo | 109 BPM | 118 BPM |
| Most alike passage | 4:15–4:44 | 2:58–3:26 |
Track B moved up 1 semitones (F Minor to G Major)
On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is alike in style, as songs of the same genre often are, though not the closeness of another version (distance 1.41; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).
Why this pair
This is a pair from a publicly reported dispute. Public background: main riff shape (different key and chords); No claim; Cobain called the riff a cliche and played Boston's song live as a joke. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.
How this was measured
Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.
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