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good call Alex.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks, Mr.D.

Another, then.

The intro to Motley Crue's "Dr.Feelgood" (the sinister, bass-driven bit before the riff kicks in) is the main riff of Killing Joke's "Love Like Blood."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Immigrant Song" vs. the Get Smart theme song

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 27 March 2003 03:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Southern Cross" ("So I'm sailing for tomorrow...") and The Monkees' "Door Into Summer" ("And he thought he heard an echo...")

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 27 March 2003 03:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pink Floyd - riff from "Echoes" vs. Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera"

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 27 March 2003 03:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Beatles' "Hey Jude" and The Drifters' "Save the Last Dance For Me" (though McCartney admitted as such, I think)

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 27 March 2003 03:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Immigrant Song" vs. the Get Smart theme song

I remember reading something about David Lee Roth getting in a huge fight with Valerie Bertinelli (Eddie's wife) that "Immigrant Song" was a re-write of "Balli Hai" (sp?) from "South Pacific".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 27 March 2003 04:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

The guitars (and, often, the vocals) on Turbonegro's APOCALYPSE DUDES and the new album quote liberally from the Stooges, The Stones, Alice Cooper, and countless other classic hard-rock guitar moments. If I can get around to it I'll make a little list for later. It never fails to amaze me how clever they are, while still completely rocking ass.

― matt riedl (veal), Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

How about:

Brian Eno's "On Some Faraway Beach" and Bob Seger's "Still the Same"?

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

"This Corrosion" by the Sisters of Mercy and "Are We Ourselves?" by the Fixx

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Smells like Teen Spirit" bears a subtle but eerie resemblance to "More Than a Feeling" and another one of Nirvana's songs lifts the opening riff from "Eighties" by the Killing Joke. (Supposedly they lifted bits from the Pixies...but thats to be expected.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

"This Corrosion" by the Sisters of Mercy and "Are We Ourselves?" by the Fixx
Metallica's "Enter Sandman" == some Sisters o' Mercy song...can't remember which one, but the opening riff is almost exactly the same.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Sincetta" by Plaid = Hotel California.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 31 March 2003 05:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Brian Eno's "On Some Faraway Beach" and Bob Seger's "Still the Same"?

This is a great one!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 31 March 2003 05:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Certain parts of Nena's "Nur Geträumt" and the Wipers' "No Fair" (two of my favorite songs, incidentally)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 March 2003 05:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Certain parts of Pere Ubu's "Final Solution" and the Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right to Party"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 March 2003 05:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Certain parts of Pere Ubu's "Final Solution" and the Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right to Party"

Hmmmmm....don't hear it, but....

"King Contrary Man" by the Cult = "Fight For Your Right to Party" by Beastie Boys (both produced by Rick Rubin, of course).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 31 March 2003 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Metallica's "Enter Sandman" == some Sisters o' Mercy song...

Hmmmm....possibly the opening notes of "First & Last & Always," but only just...

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 31 March 2003 11:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, I think it might be "Dr Jeep"...but for the life of me, I can't find my friggin Sisters tape to confirm it.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 31 March 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Didn't "Enter Sandman" pre-date "Dr.Jeep"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 31 March 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay. Just found my Sisters tape...

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 31 March 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait...it might be "Vision Thing" that I'm thinking of.
(*getting out the Black Album*)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 31 March 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Didn't "Enter Sandman" pre-date "Dr.Jeep"?
Sisters of Mercy released "Vision Thing" (contains "Dr Jeep") Nov 1990 (release) inprint
Metallica released "Metallica" Aug 1991 (release) inprint

so, no..."Dr Jeep" was already out before "Enter Sandman" was.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 31 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nope. Never mind. I was hallucinating again. "Vision Thing" and "Enter Sandman" aren't a close enough match to count. Sorry, my bad.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 31 March 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Those early 90's all blur together for me now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 31 March 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Love As Laughter slide into the "Jumpin' Jack Flash" riff at the end of "I'm a Bee."

― Sam J. (samjeff), Monday, 7 April 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The opening of "Crack City" on the first Tin Machine is a knowing appropriation of the opening guitar moan of "Iron Man" by Sabbath.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

If I was somwhere I could listen to music (ie, not at crappy temp job) I would list many Clinic songs and their antecedents. I'm simple-minded -- I love Clinic.

Things I can think of from here: Roadrunner (organ solo), Ring of Fire (horn part, played on melodica), Levitation by 13th Floor Elevators (verse part of a whole song on Internal Wrangler), etc. etc.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

How have none of you pointed out Offspring's "Get a Job" and Beatles' "Ob La Di"? Too obvious?

― Nathan Eric Scoll, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

I think it's more a matter of no one really paying any attention to The Offspring. As they shouldn't.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

Am I the only one who thinks the first track on the DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo record "Ki-Oku" sounds an awful lot like Miles Davis' "All Blues"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 3 July 2003 06:33 (twenty years ago) link

the main riff in green day's "warning" is identical to the riff in the kinks' "picture book"

the hidden cameras' "golden streams" bears a strong musical resemblance to merle harggard's "silver wings"

and every time i hear birthday party's "zoo music girl" i think of talking heads' "i zimbra"

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 4 July 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

the string instrument part of boom bip's "roads must roll" sounds EXACTLY like part of a song (I THINK it's from the title screen, but I'm really not sure anymore) from the legend of zelda: the adventure of link for the 8-bit nintendo. seriously.

― appliance, Sunday, 6 July 2003 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

but it's not a sample. it's more like he took the "riff" from the game, and then played on his keyboard or had someone play it for him. or something.

― boxleg, Sunday, 6 July 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

The verses of Collective Soul's "Shine" sound like the melody of A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran" played over "Cherub Rock"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 1 August 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

the main riff of "sand on fire" by kitchens of distinction reminds me an awful lot of one song on loveless whose title i can't remember. to the point where my first listen around i had it pegged as a ripoff (though it's really fine on its own merits). i've yet to listen to them back to back to prove it to myself, though.

― joseph, Friday, 1 August 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

Manic Street Preachers, '...Tolerate...' = Stranglers, 'Duchess'

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 1 August 2003 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

Re - Smells Like Teen Spirit vs. More Than a Feeling:

Cobain frigging teased MTaF right before ripping into SLTS at the 1992 Reading Festival. At the least, he was amused by the similarity; at the worst, he was openly acknowledging what he stole from.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 1 August 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

What's going on with The Rapture's "Echoes" and Public Image Limited's "Careering"? Surely that's intentional??

― lou (lou), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

As I Sat Sadly By Her Side vs Re-Offender

― man, Friday, 5 December 2003 02:37 (twenty years ago) link

The guitar part for The Byrds' "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" sounds *exactly* like the intro to an old country song I just heard a couple of weeks ago. Does anyone know what song that is?

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:25 (twenty years ago) link

The Mission's "Wasteland" basically is "Over the Wall" by Echo & the Bunnymen.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link

the drum parts for oasis' "fucking in the bushes" and prince's "tick tick bang"

― k good, Friday, 5 December 2003 09:56 (twenty years ago) link

hmm ... never heard that Oasis track ... but the Prince song drum track is a sample of "Little Miss Lover" by Jimi Hendrix.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:58 (twenty years ago) link

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" = minor chords versh of Pixies "Debaser"!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

Tori Amos "Cornflake Girl" vs the theme from "Shelley" w/Hywel Bennet

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:44 (twenty years ago) link

"Bill McCai" by The Coral = "These Boots Are Made For Walking"

Also, much has been made in years past, in various circles, of "Waking Up" = "No More Heroes", but I found the track The Stranglers ripped off in the first place for *that* riff. It's a keyboard riff at the beginning of a track on The Essential Pebbles and now it's come to it I can't remember what it's called... it's not "You Treated Me Bad" by the JuJus, is it? (Look for update on this once I get home to check)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

I think Yeah Yeah Yeah's Our Time steals both its structure and its primary melody from The Bangles'/Prince's Manic Monday.

― Dave Vinson (Gaughin), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:06 (twenty years ago) link

"Just" by Radiohead has always sounded very like King Crimson's "Red" to me, moreso than "Shot By Both Sides", which "Just" is always alleged to have been a rip-off of.

I know every track on Pink Flag is supposed to be a re-cycling of something or other, but I can never tell what, aside from "Feeling Called Love" being "Louie Louie".

― Schwingung (Damian), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:51 (twenty years ago) link

The Coup uses the melody of 7th Wonder's "Daisy Lady" (also famously used in Sugarhill Gang's "8th Wonder") on "Everythang". I first thought it was a legitimate loan, since the melody is so well-known in rap, but the album sleeve doesn't give any credit to 7th Wonder. Is this a mistake or a rip-off?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:16 (twenty years ago) link

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