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song: Here Comes a Soul Saver
artist: The Charlatans
album: The Charlatans
released: 1995-08-28length: 3:16
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Here comes a soul saver
On your record player
Floatin' about in the dust
You sing the joys baby
I'll be down when you're free from the rust

Take your pick who's your savior
Come in five different flavors

Tell me I'm sweeter than your broken leader
I'll take the smooth with the rough
I see you lying there
Put him down no reply in the sand, in the mud.

Don't kick it I wanna keep it
Don't feel it I wanna drive
In the sunshine of my life
In the sunshine of your life
Can you feel it when it's right?

Can you feel it in your soul
Can you feel what's goin' on?
Yeah! Right

Don't kick it I wanna freeze it
Don't feel it I wanna drive
It's the sunshine of my life
It's the sunshine of my life
Can you feel it when it's right?

Look it comes
And when it flows like your country song
What's going on Going on Going on
The Charlatans

The Charlatans (often referred as The Charlatans UK in the United States) are an English rock band formed in the West Midlands, England in 1988. As of 2000, their line-up consists of lead vocalist Tim Burgess, guitarist Mark Collins, bassist Martin Blunt and keyboardist Tony Rogers.

All the band's thirteen studio albums have charted in the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart, three of them being number ones. They have also had 22 top 40 singles and four top 10 entries in the UK Singles Chart, including the hits "The Only One I Know" and "One to Another".

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Comments ( 250 )
Posted 17 years ago by radiozep:
harmaton wrote:
completely ripped off Pink Floyd's riff in Fearless on Meddle
Agreed...
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Posted 4 years ago by drawcard:
When the world collapses, and cities wash into the sea, and great volcanoes destroy the mountains and the Earth is swamped by lava and turns to rock, and the solar system drifts toward a black hole and is ripped apart, and the galaxies all spread apart and every atom in the Universe is torn to shreds and ceases to exist, the RP community will still point out the riff was stolen from Pink Floyd.
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Posted 20 years ago by stevebeaver:
I like other Charltans tunes, but taking the Floyd riff is lame.
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Posted 4 years ago by Spalted:
stevebeaver wrote:
I like other Charltans tunes, but taking the Floyd riff is lame.
 
Well they are The Charlatans.
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Posted 17 years ago by Pips914:
Please everyone - continue to point out that the riff isn't an original! Your posts are so entertaining, and your disdain is so exhilarating and refreshing! I feel like I haven't read good music criticism until I saw this thread! I am just so glad you all took your valuable time to write such introspective and original posts! I feel like I just read Shakespeare for the first time! I am so excited that I can't stop using exclamation points!
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Posted 7 years ago by ziggytrix:
That repeated PF riff reminds me of a story my friend told me about a Smashing Pumpkins concert during a point in time where the band was not getting along so well, and, to hear my friend tell it, James Iha kept inserting a riff from Guns N Roses' Sweet Child of Mine into nearly every song they played that night.

That's a secondhand story, so I probably have a few aspects wrong, but it makes me giggle anyway.
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Posted 19 years ago by Cruithne3753:
Hey, doesn't this sound... oh, never mind.
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Posted 2 years ago by aspicer:
As I belive ColoradoJohn pointed out. The PF Fearless riff IS a HOMAGE to them - not a "rip off" everyone. Chill out, relax, and enjoy the tune. :)
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Posted 3 years ago by thatslongformud:
I really enjoy the Fearless reference!  The guitar tones and faster tempo transforms it into something new (though hardly new anymore) with clear respect for the original.  I bet a lot of kids in the 90s heard this first but then later discovered Fearless and loved it 
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Posted 20 years ago by ScopArch:
There's something very Pink Floyd about this song. Oh, did someone mention that already?
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Posted 1 year ago by ed_cardiff:
Ha ha! Nice little nod from Bill in his segue from this to Fearless
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Posted 3 years ago by TimeWaster:
That Hammond sounds incredible.
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Posted 3 years ago by bahalana:
 drawcard wrote:

When the world collapses, and cities wash into the sea, and great volcanoes destroy the mountains and the Earth is swamped by lava and turns to rock, and the solar system drifts toward a black hole and is ripped apart, and the galaxies all spread apart and every atom in the Universe is torn to shreds and ceases to exist, the RP community will still point out the riff was stolen from Pink Floyd.



Well, look up the definition of "charlatan"....
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Posted 20 years ago by the_jake:
Heathen wrote:
Glad I wasn't the only one to notice that :D
Me too.
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Posted 3 years ago by Easyrider:
Sneaky,I hear the Pink Floyd riff in this song🤔
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Posted 5 years ago by unclehud:

correct LP cover?
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Posted 5 years ago by johnrah:
radiozep wrote:
harmaton wrote:
completely ripped off Pink Floyd's riff in Fearless on Meddle
Agreed...
 

it throws me for a loop every time. But they are called the charlatans. 
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Posted 5 years ago by jpeaton:
The cover used by RP is for a completely different Charlatans album. Great song, though!
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Posted 15 years ago by Mugro:
Pips914 wrote:
Please everyone - continue to point out that the riff isn't an original! Your posts are so entertaining, and your disdain is so exhilarating and refreshing! I feel like I haven't read good music criticism until I saw this thread! I am just so glad you all took your valuable time to write such introspective and original posts! I feel like I just read Shakespeare for the first time! I am so excited that I can't stop using exclamation points!
 

howseabout I just bump your post instead!!!! How do ya like THEM apples! {#Wink}
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Posted 21 years ago by rockasaurus:
Leslie wrote:
I too checked in here to see if anyone else heard the very distinctive Pink Floyd "Fearless" guitar riff as well! Are we good or what?
Yep, we're good, alright. Good music nerds who instantly pick up and identify 4 second guitar riffs.
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