I hear a slight resemblance between the choruses of "Heaven is a Place on Earth" and Starz's "So Young, So Bad." Maybe it's just the chord changes.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm sure there are several other "Sweet Leaf" rip-offs that I can;t think of right now.
― Dave Beckhouse, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
This is Smoke on the Water: Dun dun DUN, dun dun DUN-DUNNThis is Cat Scratch Fever: Dun dun DUN, dun-dun DUN
And hey, did anyone notice the resemblances between "Ice Ice Baby" and "Under Pressure"?
― My name is Kenny, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Charlie, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
You're shitting me. :-)
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Sorry. Listening to Sabotage at the moment.)
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
dsico
― dsico (dsico), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Not listening to Sab right now.)
― wl, Monday, 9 September 2002 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
more terribly, the offspring's "get a job" and "o bla di o bla da" by the beatles have very similar choruses (try singing one over the other sometime, it's horrifying).
― brian (yournullfame), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 00:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Charlie, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 04:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
Furthermore, for the record: an obvious choice, perhaps, but Pulp's "A Little Soul" and Smokey R. and the M.'s "The Tracks of My Tears".
― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 08:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
Other than that, the similarity of the intro to Cast's "Fine Time" and Guns'n'Roses "Paradise City" could be pretty confusing at indie discos in the mid-ninties, just when you're ready to blow the whistle and rock out with Axl, Izzy and Slash you get, "What's it all about? Do you really want to know..."
Shit.
― Stephen Burrows (steveeeeeeeee), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm sure that's no accident, given Rick Rubin's appreciation for old school metal.
The Manic Street Preachers' "If You Tolerate This Than Your Children Will Be Next" was alleged to have ripped off the Stranglers' "Duchess," but I find that a bit of a stretch.....and I'm a much bigger fan of the Stranglers than I'll ever be of the Manics.
Then, of course, Nirvana stole the riff from Killing Joke's "Eighties" for "Come as You Are." Little known fact is that my beloved Killing Joke stole that very same riff from the Damned's "Life Goes On" (on the STRAWBERRIES album).
Big Black's "L Dopa" off SONGS ABOUT FUCKING is virtually indistiguishable from Killing Joke's "the Wait".
The Germs' "No God" ripps the opening riff off of Yes' "Roundabout," but that's more willfull desecration rather than theft (despite the fact that guitarist Pat Smear is an unapologetic Yes fan).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A., Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jens (brighter), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh, and dancing at Mother to retro-ironic white trash trailer rock last night, I realised that there's a Sloan song which is Foghat's Slow Ride down to a T, but I can't remember which one it is.
― kate, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Butthole Surfers' "Human Cannibal" is "The Rose" by Bette Middler. Sing along. "Some say love..."; it's eerie.
I'm blanking right now....
― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
that Spirit song (?) -> "Stairway to Heaven" -> that Metallica song (?)
That Offspring song rips of Simon & Garfunk's Cecilia.
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 05:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 05:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 06:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway, Call Me / Blondie = What She Said / Smiths
― bham, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 08:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:19 (twenty years ago) link
― brains (cerybut), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 12 December 2003 07:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 12 December 2003 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
The Doll "Burning up like a fire"The Cars "Just what I needed"
Odd as they came out at very similar times and it would be unlikely that one would have heared the other....
Maybe its cuz they are both dull and derivative...
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:22 (twenty years ago) link
and nelly and justin timberlake have a song over "back in black" by AC/DC how disgusting. the sad fact is that most of the 10-16 year old girls that listen to justin timberlake have no idea o fthe musical travesty that has been committed. but I will admit that it is kinda neat.
― Matt Graves, Monday, 24 May 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link
Guitar line also sounds lifted from Al Green “Tired of being alone”.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:23 (four months ago) link
They even covered “tired of being alone” but smartly decided to remove the guitar line for strums instead so it wouldn’t seem like a direct connection to their own hit.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:31 (four months ago) link
I have no idea how it never occurred to me until last night, having heard the Jeopardy! theme song thousands of time, but surely I'm not the first to notice its resemblance to "I'm A Little Teapot?"
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, February 10, 2024 5:24 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think this every single time i watch
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:14 (four months ago) link
I'm a little teapot short and stoutThis author created character "Kilgore Trout"
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:17 (four months ago) link
John Martyn - "Over The Hill" (1973)Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head" (1975)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:05 (three months ago) link
"Hold On Loosely""Just What I needed"
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:07 (three months ago) link
I don’t know which Cure song in particular it reminds me of but Metro Station - “shake it” does a very distinctive Robert Smith copy on vocalizations throughout this song. Specifically on:
“Tonight you're falling in love, This feeling's tearing me up, Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 February 2024 17:43 (three months ago) link
Pavement - "Fillmore Jive" (1994)Te Vaka - "Loimata e Maligi" (2002) (aka "An Innocent Warrior" in Moana)
same chord progression
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 23 February 2024 18:11 (three months ago) link
Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”
I don't know this song but the lyrics are making me think of All Coming Back To Me by Celine Dion, which I always think is a Meatloaf song because it's almost a parody of one, then I googled today and realised Jim Steinman wrote it and his band did it originally
― kinder, Friday, 23 February 2024 19:24 (three months ago) link
Nobody did bombast better than Jim Steinman
― Lee626, Saturday, 24 February 2024 01:39 (three months ago) link
Lol yeah that Celine Dion song is totally a Meat Loaf song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 February 2024 05:36 (three months ago) link
Song at 4:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ljHhR8XPA
Sarah Brightman & Steve Harley, "The Phantom of the Opera"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBJNCXL9Vg
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 March 2024 08:47 (three months ago) link
just occurred to me that Fugs - "The Garden Is Open" is a "Masters of War" rip
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:49 (two months ago) link
I have had "She Blinded Me With Science" stuck in my head for a while, and it always morphs into "Owner of a Lonely Heart."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:55 (two months ago) link
The chorus of Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" sounds like it was snipped out of "American Pie"
― Josefa, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 21:49 (two months ago) link
noticing now that there's a bit of melody in the magnetic fields' "sweet-lovin man" ("there's just one kind of love/you can spend your life dreaming of") that strongly evokes big star's "thirteen" ("rock and roll is here to stay")
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:08 (two months ago) link
"Buildings" by an artist called Not Me But Us sounds like a knockoff of Slowdive's "Prayer Remembered".
― punning display, Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:37 (two months ago) link
"Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms and "The Little Black Egg"
― timellison, Friday, 12 April 2024 04:04 (two months ago) link
"lightning strikes" by YES sounds like a modernized cover of "wallbanger" by GRYPHON
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 April 2024 18:57 (two months ago) link
I heard Dick Emery's 1969 single 'If You Love Her', and the chorus sounds a lot like the 'If You Love Her' part from XTC's Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Monday, 29 April 2024 11:41 (one month ago) link
I was listening to "Everything is alright when you're down" Jesus and Mary Chain, and the chorus matches the tune of "The story of my life" Michael Holliday.
Just me then...
― Mark G, Monday, 29 April 2024 18:57 (one month ago) link
It's pretty clear to me now that Daft Punk's Nightvision is absolutely inspired by the instrumental intro to 10cc's I'm Not In Love
― octobeard, Monday, 29 April 2024 19:00 (one month ago) link
can't you see i'm trying, i don't even like it -- disarm the settlers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLuq5cEE6T8
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:02 (one month ago) link
the new drunk drivers! just lied to get to your apartment!
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:03 (one month ago) link
The Supremes "You Keep Me Hanging On" and Grass Roots "A Millions Tears"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Monday, 6 May 2024 01:32 (one month ago) link
As pointed out by Yasi Salek on Bandsplain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7lBq0zuSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDK-wsdEhNE
― nate woolls, Sunday, 12 May 2024 20:43 (one month ago) link
I've been getting into Rush lately, and the opening guitar riff from their Caress of Steel album brought to mind another famous album opener.
Rush - Bastille Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80hamog2uks
X - Your Phone's Off the Hook (But You're Not)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWwcl9JbsBo
― peace, man, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 15:17 (one month ago) link
is it memorex or stereolab?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVShQi7UtxM
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 16:57 (one month ago) link
Why can't I get just one kiss?Wht can't I get just one kiss?Tried to run Tried to hideBreak on through to the other side
Add It Up + Break On Through
― giraffe, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 05:13 (three weeks ago) link
I just re-remembered that the Bangles' "Manic Monday" is Prince re-using "1999" for the verses.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 05:52 (three weeks ago) link
just like Sussudio.
Hell, I feel like "pop songs that sound like a intentional remix of a Prince song" could be its own thread.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 14:43 (three weeks ago) link
like how many millions of songs copy chuck berry?
Uh....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3qXfF7hqE
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 17 June 2024 15:25 (yesterday) link
Sharon Van Etten - “Don’t Do It”Cranberries - “Linger”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 17 June 2024 22:04 (yesterday) link