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― dsico (dsico), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:30 (twenty-two years ago) link
(Not listening to Sab right now.)
― wl, Monday, 9 September 2002 23:31 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― naked as sin, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 00:28 (twenty-two years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 03:59 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Charlie, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 04:03 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― Leee, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:34 (twenty-two years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:38 (twenty-two years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:40 (twenty-two years ago) link
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:11 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 08:23 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:50 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:52 (twenty-two years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:06 (twenty-two 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-two 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-two years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:01 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick A., Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:12 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jens (brighter), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:49 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:50 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:38 (twenty-two years ago) link
― robin (robin), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:17 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 05:25 (twenty-two years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 05:33 (twenty-two years ago) link
― minna (minna), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 06:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Anyway, Call Me / Blondie = What She Said / Smiths
― bham, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 08:23 (twenty-two 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
huey lewis and the news came first. they sued ray parker for that one.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Monday, 24 May 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
=The Who "I Can't Explain"
― phil dennison, Monday, 24 May 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Evanston Wade (EWW), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
Also, I was just noticing the other day how Sly Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime" has the same little chord progression as a Led Zep song (maybe "Fool in the Rain" or something from that album) - though obviously Sly came first.
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 24 May 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link
Sharon Van Etten - “Don’t Do It”Cranberries - “Linger”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 17 June 2024 22:04 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaPF5O9RwWA
seems obvious 'man in a box' by alice in chains was a str8 rip of this melody right ? or is there some common antecedent 'hall of the mountain king' style
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 5 July 2024 22:53 (three months ago) link
The verses of "Longing For Fire" on Scorpions' In Trance from 1975 have a number of similarities to "Fly By Night" from Rush's Fly By Night, released seven months earlier:
- guitar riff using the same syncopation - very busy melodic bassline, completely atypical for Scorpions but very much like early Geddy Lee- lyrics that conspicuously mention "flying" and "night"
I thought they were both on Mercury Records at the time, but Scorpions would not sign with them until 1978.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 6 July 2024 03:04 (three months ago) link
It's taken me so long to realise Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" is basically a tribute to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Saturday, 6 July 2024 13:33 (three months ago) link
It was pointed out even at the time, but I didn't appreciate until recently how Rachel Stevens' "Some Girls" is essentially a crib of Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine", but with weaker production and a less charismatic delivery:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIYgig9maY
Hearteningly the Goldfrapp song has millions of views on YouTube versus merely tens of thousands for "Some Girls". Rachel Stevens was only relevant in a brief temporal window and only in the UK whereas Goldfrapp transcends time and space. Whatever happened to Richard X? He was the Ilxor generation's Mark Ronson.
This all came about from a thread on RYM about the John Lee Hooker "Boogie Chillun" riff. The Goldfrapp song has a little bit of it, "Some Girls" almost none at all.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 7 July 2024 17:34 (three months ago) link
I'm sure there were Strict Machine/Rachel Stevens mashups floating about in the good old 2000s but it was possibly Sweet Dreams My LAX, rather than Some Girls, even though that would seem more similar!
― kinder, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 20:25 (two months ago) link
Speaking of Goldfrapp, Kylie Minogue was definitely inspired by them when she recorded "Two Hearts". Even the video has the same esthetic as "Ooh La La".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQGU-vdXoVE
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 00:23 (two months ago) link
I remembered it was a Kish Mauve song first, so looked it up to check, and on the Wikipedia article there is a quote from Tom Ewing comparing it to Goldfrapp (among others), ha
― kinder, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 13:43 (two months ago) link
the chorus of freez's "southern freez" quotes the opening notes of coltrane's "giant steps"
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 July 2024 21:56 (two months ago) link
We finally went to see Hamilton a couple weeks ago and I feel it necessary to report that almost ALL the Hamilton songs sound like other songs - which, I mean, smart move?
― trm (tombotomod), Monday, 29 July 2024 22:32 (two months ago) link
Pere Ubu's "Waiting for Mary" and the Velvet Underground's "Lady Godiva's Operation"
― timellison, Friday, 2 August 2024 19:10 (two months ago) link
^^ And the Stones' "Gomper" has that riff also
― timellison, Tuesday, 13 August 2024 20:37 (one month ago) link
“Lust for Life” drums are a slowed down version of those on “Touch Me”
― The Zing from Another URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 02:33 (one month ago) link
Music doesn’t otherwise sound similar but still
― The Zing from Another URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 02:34 (one month ago) link
Never occurred to me before, despite Iggy’s acknowledged debt to Jimbo.
― The Zing from Another URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 02:35 (one month ago) link
not to mention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsZa3diYZg
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 19:38 (one month ago) link
!
― The Zing from Another URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 21:00 (one month ago) link
There's a moment about 25 seconds into this (and then again a few times throughout) that sound just like For You Blue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlLlwVk9eI
― nate woolls, Thursday, 12 September 2024 02:06 (three weeks ago) link
Some pretty intensive Talking Heads cosplay from Martha & The Muffins (in 1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrXQ31dGlB8
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 29 September 2024 20:47 (one week ago) link
I know their previous three and their next two albums, but not this one, though the video for the title track is one of my favourites. Their shift into dance-oriented rock was somewhat at the expense of their strong melodic sensibilities, but basically hip Toronto bands had to sound like this in 1983 - the alt-country revival movement hadn't taken hold yet.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 30 September 2024 19:41 (one week ago) link
Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party" and Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 1 October 2024 16:40 (six days ago) link
I was gonna say the second half of Sabbath's Symptom of the Universe and PWEI's Familus Horribilus until I learnt the former is a sample on the latter
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 1 October 2024 16:50 (six days ago) link
I can't listen to 'Doctrine' from Autechre's debut album without getting 'If we ever get out of here' bit of Wings - Band On The Run stuck in my head
― pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Tuesday, 1 October 2024 19:40 (six days ago) link