― 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
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― 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
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
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 24 May 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Monday, 24 May 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
=
Hanson - "Mmmbop"
― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Monday, 24 May 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 24 May 2004 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
The intro to "Breakout" by Swing Out Sisters = PSB "West End Girls"
― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 00:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
― adgaehg, Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:26 (twenty years ago) link
― de, Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago) link
― lkjp, Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:02 (twenty years 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 (two months 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (three weeks ago) link
Sharon Van Etten - “Don’t Do It”Cranberries - “Linger”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 17 June 2024 22:04 (three weeks 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 (four days 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 days 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 days 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 (two days ago) link