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Post by dirtyoldman on May 5, 2023 12:39:09 GMT -5
So Ed Sheeran got away with it....erm I mean cleared of accusations, but what are really good examples. Sometimes it's a complete coincidence and easily done but other times it's like .."what are you doing? You've just ripped off X.."
Metalers are all aware of the 2 minutes to midnight riff being used over and over (although I think Saxons power and the glory came before it) but what else can you think of.
I'll fire off with Pain's "Party in my Head." How the f*** have Neil Young's management not sued them for ripping off rocking in the free world?
(Also no funny bastards with Metallica's 4 housemen and Megadeths Mechanix)
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on May 5, 2023 12:55:06 GMT -5
I feel like some of these are relatively well-known, but if not:
Green Day's "Warning" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eebfMFzJHNs) is a blatant rip-off of The Kinks' "Picture Book" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7encWb7lNQ).
Nirvana's "Come As You Are" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o) is similar to Killing Joke's "Eighties" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8), which itself is dangerously close to the Damned's "Life Goes On" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDbMZlN2Pg)
The Strokes' "Last Nite" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOypSnKFHrE) is pretty much the same overarching riff as Tom Petty's "American Girl" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhb-kNvL6M)
And, my personal favorite one:
M83's "Sitting" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMYe0lMv7FM) is basically a looped sample of Apocalypse's theme from the Marvel Super Heroes arcade game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXVY3s2o8qo)
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Post by Hit Girl on May 5, 2023 12:58:35 GMT -5
Through an odd quirk in the space-time continuum, Bruce Hornsby's 1988 song "Road Not Taken" somehow ripped off Ed Sheeran's 2017 song "Galway Girl"
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Post by MiLB Fan on May 5, 2023 13:11:58 GMT -5
Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet sounds very similar to Iggy Pop’s song Lust For Life.
I always thought the opening riff of How Do You Talk to An Angel by The Heights sounded similar to the beginning of Don’t Dream It’s Over by Crowded House.
John Fogerty faced a charge of self-plagiarism over his song The Old Man Down the Road sounding like CCR’s song Run Through the Jungle.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on May 5, 2023 13:38:04 GMT -5
Katy Perry shamelessly ripped off 'Brave' by Sara Barellis with the vastly inferior "Roar"
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on May 5, 2023 14:58:17 GMT -5
So Ed Sheeran got away with it....erm I mean cleared of accusations, but what are really good examples. Sometimes it's a complete coincidence and easily done but other times it's like .."what are you doing? You've just ripped off X.." Metalers are all aware of the 2 minutes to midnight riff being used over and over (although I think Saxons power and the glory came before it) but what else can you think of.I'll fire off with Pain's "Party in my Head." How the f*** have Neil Young's management not sued them for ripping off rocking in the free world? (Also no funny bastards with Metallica's 4 housemen and Megadeths Mechanix) It's genarally regarded that Riot was first(?) with Swords & Tequila in 1981. Then you have Accept with Flash Rockin' Man in 1982. Since it was mentioned, Saxon with Power and the Glory is from 1983. And 2 Minutes to Midnight by Maiden in 1984. It's a simple, and general enough, riff, and I'm sure there are many more songs using it. Oh, and all above songs and bands frickin' ROCKS!
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Post by dirtyoldman on May 5, 2023 15:15:09 GMT -5
Yeah I knew maiden were nowhere near the first with it, but they did get the most out of it.
Didn't papa roach use it too or is that another maiden riff I'm thinking of?
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Post by James Fabiano on May 5, 2023 15:21:37 GMT -5
Not Under Pressure and Ice, Ice Baby. One note!!!
I'll Be There and Standing In The Shadow of Love.
Never Gonna Give You Up and That other hit Rick Astley song that isn't Never Gonna Give You Up.
I Know A Place's instrumental backing and that of Sesame Street's theme. I think another Tony Hatch song is the same.
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Post by DSR on May 5, 2023 16:15:46 GMT -5
The main riff to Aldo Nova's "Fantasy" is eerily similar but not exactly the same as the guitar riff in Jefferson Starship's "Jane".
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Post by Cyno on May 5, 2023 16:27:13 GMT -5
I say this as someone who thinks Ed Sheeran is one of the most milquetoast and boring singers in the last 20 years and I would probably get killed if one of his songs came on when I was driving because it'd put me to sleep. But I don't hear the similarities between his song and Marvin Gaye's at all. Maybe it's because Marvin Gaye's body of work is actually good.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 5, 2023 16:33:07 GMT -5
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Post by Lance Uppercut on May 5, 2023 18:00:25 GMT -5
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Post by thegatewaydrug on May 5, 2023 18:07:13 GMT -5
The chorus melody of Dua Lipa's "Break My Heart" is totally a beefed up version of Stacey Q's "Two Of Hearts". Who else hears it?
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 5, 2023 18:17:11 GMT -5
Can you imagine being a heavy metal guitarist trying to come up with riff no one has heard before?
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on May 5, 2023 19:27:28 GMT -5
Can you imagine being a heavy metal guitarist trying to come up with riff no one has heard before? Come on! Jimmy Page did it all the time, or at least that’s what his lawyers would have you believe. My favorite was Busta Rhymes “Dangerous” lifting the lyrics for the chorus from a late 1970’s PSA featuring muppets of pills. He had no idea why those lyrics have been bouncing around in his head for years and when someone made the connection he immediately sought the owner of the copyright of the PSA to make things right. They told him that the validation that some kids remembered the PSA was recompense enough.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on May 5, 2023 20:24:00 GMT -5
John Cougar (Mellencamp) "Jack & Diane" and Jessica Simpson "I Think I'm In Love".
(I know it's a cheat, Mellencamp has a co-writer credit on the Simpson song because of the music, I'm just adding it because I have them on my playlist meshed together so that it flows seamlessly from J&D to Jessica.)
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Post by sfvega on May 5, 2023 20:52:43 GMT -5
The intro to the Buffy The Vampire Slayer theme and the intro to The Offspring's "The Kinds Aren't Alright" sound like exactly the same.
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Post by mrpeacock on May 5, 2023 22:34:31 GMT -5
I always thought that the following songs all had really similar guitar riffs
Cherry Cherry - Neil Diamond What I Like About You - The Romantics R.O.C.K. In the USA - John Mellencamp The Authority Song - John Mellencamp (lol) On The Darkside - Eddie and the Cruisers
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Post by Main Event Mark on May 6, 2023 15:50:24 GMT -5
Whenever I hear Somebody That I used to Know by Gotye, I can only hear Ba Ba Black Sheep.
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Post by 4real on May 6, 2023 15:58:10 GMT -5
Teenagers by MCR sounds like Cigarettes & Alcohol by Oasis which sounds like Get It On by T-Rex
Gutter Ballet by Savatage sounds like Hallowed be Thy Name by Iron Maiden.
Muse ripping off a Marilyn Manson song of all things in 2022 with The Will of The People. They also ripped off RATM’s Freedom on Reapers.
I hated Elimination by Overkill when I first heard it because it sounds like Master Of Puppets but I like it now.
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