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Suede: "Saturday Night" / Elton John: "Song for Guy"
Kelly Osborne "one word" / Visage "fade to grey"
Lynyrd Skynyrd "sweet home alabama" / Warren Zeavon "werewolves of london"
Beck "debra" / Ramsey Lewis "my love for you"
Sublime "what I got" / Beatles "lady madonna"

Led Zep < too many rip-offs during their career to enlist.

― Moka (Moka), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Moka, please explain your choices!

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

OK OK, if you listen to the songs enlisted you'll immediatly notice why are they rip-offs but here goes some sort of explanation:

Suede-elton john: I'm amazed elton joh never sued for this one, the album closer of suede's "coming up" was a breezy tune bore that more than a passing resemblance to Elton John's instrumental classic, "Song for Guy." Listen to both songs and you'll understand it.

Kelly-visage: Kelly got in fact contacted by Visage themselves so she could explain them why does her song "one word" was an almost note-by-note rip-off of their hit "fade to grey". The song even has a women speaking french at the beginning.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Warren Zeavon : maybe not an exact copy but it's impressive how much both songs recall each other. It's probably because they have the same tempo and chord progression.

Beck - Ramsey Lewis : shameless one, beck ripped the same bassline and the overall mood of the ramsey lewis song and just added a tighter production to hide it.

Sublime - beatles: am i the only one seeing this?

― Moka (Moka), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Eyeball! What happened to your original wit on this thread? Need a few more pints or have you had a few too many?

― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

What are the chords?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

you're serious?

D Csus2 & G

― Moka (Moka), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

Stephen Halpern's Chakra Suite has a passage from "If 6 was 9" in it that had to be a subconscious accident, but is quite hilarious when it mellowly drifts out of the indistinguishable massage music mists like a giant pink elephant and then disappears.

― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

mmm here's another

flaming lips - fight test
Cat Stevens - father and son

the melody of the verses is very similar to the cat stevens one. I heard cat stevens sued and they agreed to give all the royalties of the song to him.

― Moka (Moka), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

I heard Cat Stevens was sued by actual cats & the song got to no. 1 in the chart regardless.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

1. Siouxsie & the Banshees 'Carcass' = Doobie Brothers 'China Grove'
2. Rolling Stones 'Stupid Girl' = Velvet Underground 'Sister Ray'
3. Mercy 'Love Can Make You Happy' = Belle & Sebastian 'My Baby's Got Miraculous Technique'

― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Sunday, 5 November 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Woody Guthrie cribbed the melody from "John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man", married it to a CliffsNotes summary of The Grapes of Wrath, and called it "The Ballad of Tom Joad."

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 5 November 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

-Beach Boys "Girl Don't Tell Me" = Beatles "Ticket to Ride"
-Beach Boys "Our Sweet Love" = Beach Boys "God Only Knows"

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 5 November 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

1. Beach Boys - "Surfin' USA" = Chuck Berry - "Sweet Little Sixteen"
2. The Chiffons - "He's So Fine" = George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"
3. John Fogerty - "The Old Man Down the Road" = CCR - "Run Through the Jungle"
4. Lenny Kravitz - "Be" = Ivan Neville - "Why Can't I Fall In Love"
5. Ween - "Japanese Cowboy" = Vangelis - "Chariots of Fire"

― monocle (Sean Miguel), Sunday, 5 November 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

6. The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood" = Bob Dylan - "4th Time Around"
7. Rolling Stones - "Anybody Seen My Baby" = k.d. Lang - "Constant Craving"
8. Elastica - "Connection" = Wire - "Three Girl Rhumba"
9. Beck - "Devils Haircut" = Them - "I Can Only Give You Everything"
10. Juliana Hatfield - "Somebody Is Waiting for Me" = Pixies - "Where Is My Mind"

― monocle (Sean Miguel), Sunday, 5 November 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

LIST THREAD PLZ TO BE DELETE!!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Sunday, 5 November 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Some of these are a bit thin (a chord progression isn't the actual song, rather a part of the arrangement)

Anyway, "When I Need You" was surely the same song as "Famous Blue Raincoat".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 5 November 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

My Daughter was playing some Bright Eyes song that just is 'Death of a Clown'

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Sunday, 5 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Luscious Jackson, "Naked Eye" = June Carter Cash, "The Heel"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 5 November 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Arovane "thaem nue" - Air "electronic performers"

― Moka (Moka), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

The Romantics "What I Like About You" = John Mellencamp "R.O.C.K. In The USA"

New Order "All The Way = The Cure "Just Like Heaven"

― turkey (turkey), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

There's some song that got played on alt-rock radio a year or two ago whose chorus melody sounded EXACTLY LIKE the synth part of the Cars' "Just What I Needed." I don't know what it was though. (It is not Fountains of Wayne.)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

NO LIST NOVEMBER on ILM (in effect and approved by shadowy cabal of 30+)

― banrique (blueski), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

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