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| Author: | KevW [ Sun May 18, 2014 10:27 pm ] |
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Songs that rip off other songs. Famous examples everyone knows would be something like My Sweet Lord by George Harrison nicking some melody from He's So Fine by The Chiffons (which they successfully sued for), and The Verve stealing the strings from a version of a Rolling Stones' The Last Time (again which they had to cough up for in the end). Any other examples? Not ones which give credit to the tracks they borrow from (How You Satisfy Me by Spectrum which I posted the other day borrows a section from I Can't Let Go by Evie Sands - but Sonic openly admitted that and it was in the credits and so on), but songs that people try to get away with that steal from others. I'll get things started with one which I only just found out about, but some people might know. Led Zep are getting sued - and apparently thisisn't a sudden thing, it's been talked about for years - by the bass player from the band Spirit, because Stairway To Heaven apparently gets its intro from their song Taurus. I can see what he means too... Spirit - Taurus (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8AVbwB_6E#t=107 I won't bother posting Stairway - you all know how it goes. |
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| Author: | milchman [ Mon May 19, 2014 12:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Plagiarists! |
We did this once before. Here were the ones I suggested last time: Armitage Shanks ... Shirts Off / Buzzcocks ... Fast Cars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5KdJuCGwk0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW49tFZPCF4 Adam & The Ants ... Prince Charming / Rolf Harris ... War Canoe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p__WmyAE3g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvzobDENcF0 Deep Purple ... Black Night / Ricky Nelson ... Summertime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHlODWd4GeM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fu3jd05R-I T.Rex ... Jeepster / Howlin' Wolf ... You'll Be Mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-G7-yLFmCQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLGgVRMk0Rg The Long Blondes... Christmas Is Cancelled / Elvis Costello ... Oliver's Army http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4s76oLcPTo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVwrrkt22Ag The Rolling Stones ... The Last Time / The Last Time (traditional gospel standard) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM2b9CcH1KM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1jGF-6bFpI When The Verve sampled an orchestral version of The Last Time for Bittersweet Symphony and were made to pay all their royalties to Mick & Keef, Keef said something like "serves them right, should've written their own song instead of ripping off one of ours"! And here's a few more: The Beach Boys ... Surfin' USA / Chuck Berry ... Sweet Little Sixteen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4slliAtQU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLV4NGpoy_E Elastica ... Connection / Wire ... Three Girl Rhumba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilKcXIFi-Rc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja2NXS3njXs Elastica ... Line Up / Wire ... I Am The Fly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Y7vH2XsAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnIXXe83fe4 Elastica ... Waking Up / The Stranglers ... No More Heroes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipsBL7IBwzY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6yTRq_rJg4 Nirvana ... Come As You Are / Killing Joke ... Eighties http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqN0ZOEO9oI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8 The Jam ... Start / The Beatles ... Taxman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdSqpT6gfDU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqK97av7I3s The Kinks ... Holiday In Wakiki / The Rolling Stones ... 19th Nervous Breakdown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqfywQua5E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU1kTuVSUOw |
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| Author: | KevW [ Mon May 19, 2014 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Plagiarists! |
I thought Start was acknowledged to be a rip off? Anyway - Elastica: Me@nswear were accused of ripping off Connected for their track Daydreamer. Talking of Me@nswear - see if you can guess which song called Paperback Writer they might have been listening to when they wrote this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vICR80UFv8g |
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| Author: | milchman [ Mon May 19, 2014 1:54 pm ] |
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| Author: | KevW [ Thu May 22, 2014 4:29 pm ] |
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Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys - Ida Red Likes The Boogie (1938) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSPbTL0 ... redirect=1 Chuck Berry - Maybelline (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75RiHJGfyUE |
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| Author: | milchman [ Sat Jun 14, 2014 7:26 pm ] |
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Johnny Clarke ... None Shall Escape The Judgement / Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers... Egyptian Reggae http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czpk40mlxFE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZAQwIMx7k |
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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Sat Jun 14, 2014 8:44 pm ] |
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| Author: | milchman [ Sat Jun 14, 2014 9:42 pm ] |
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The main melody of the latter is the bass line of the former. |
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| Author: | tim [ Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:13 am ] |
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The opening line of Black Box Recorder's Goodnight Kiss: The chorus for Wig in a Box from Headwig and the Angry Inch Tenuous I know, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's a nod. |
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| Author: | milchman [ Thu Jun 19, 2014 6:39 pm ] |
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The Montanas ... Difference Of Opinion / Hüsker Dü ... Terms Of Psychic Warfare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVnJ-t-zLRE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amaZcOsVMIY |
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| Author: | He Who Hears Horses [ Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:33 pm ] |
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Pulp - Common People - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHo233RntO4 |
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| Author: | KevW [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:45 am ] |
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While we're at it then... Pulp - Disco 2000 (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGExYuth-WE Laura Branigan - Gloria (1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXx0pWpszKg |
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| Author: | milchman [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:26 pm ] |
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| Author: | Bola [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:29 pm ] |
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And: New Order - Love Vigilantes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlHQSIMHqjA Lightning Seeds - Pure (towards the end sounds like the start of the above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6myNbk15sMs And New Order got sued for this: John Denver - Leaving On A Jet Plane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBKOcUbHR0 New Order - Run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdpC0JT7nEc |
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| Author: | milchman [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:30 pm ] |
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The Sweet ... Blockbuster / David Bowie ... The Jean Genie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQj9Gbr2hx8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQo6zpVzt8 |
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| Author: | KevW [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:40 pm ] |
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Pink Floyd's Intersellar Overdrive (1967) was written from Syd Barrett trying to play a song that the band's manager was humming to him, so there is a little similarity with the intros. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2sA0vpA-4 That song was My Little Red Book by Love (1966) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-SuGfLhqo4 |
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| Author: | KevW [ Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:31 am ] |
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I guess this counts - although (I haven't checked, but I think) both were written by the same team (Barry, Greenwich - with Spector on the second version) so it could just be an idea taken to the next level. The Shirelles - I Met Him On A Sunday (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWHcROtzeks The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron (1963) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSpwxz8s0NU |
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| Author: | milchman [ Sat Jul 05, 2014 9:29 am ] |
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After Brazil v Colombia last night, I flipped over to BBC4 and caught a bit of a program about Neil Sedaka. My girlfriend commented on the similarity between the verse melody of Neil's big 70s comeback song Laughter In The Rain and Waterloo Sunset, something I'd never noticed before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3gX47rHGg&feature=kp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsYIiY2wnyU |
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| Author: | SPT [ Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:54 am ] |
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Bonnie Prince Billy - One With the Birds The Byrds - Hickory Wind I assume this one's deliberate. |
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| Author: | He Who Hears Horses [ Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:14 pm ] |
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