I've always thought Abba's "Waterloo" borrows quite liberally from "Build Me Up Buttercup". Compare the two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ45_kvgyq4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgyq0adAIhE
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Just done some "googling" & have answered my own question. ie. 'Ghetto supastar' by Pras (1998) is a rip off of 'Islands in the stream. Thanks to Jim.
-- geoff huggins, 22. toukokuuta 2006 15:22 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
The Gibb brothers are credited as cowriters of "Ghetto Supastar" though, so it's more like a "I'll Be Missing You"/"Men In Black" type of reworking than a rip-off.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy3ILuDwAXA
As for another very obvious reworking, here's DJ Bobo's "Somebody Dance With Me", which takes the chorus from "Somebody's Watching Me". I'm not sure if Rockwell was actually even credited for this.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
The chorus of 'Black Coffee' by All Saints sounds a lot like the chorus of 'Got A Feelin'' by The Mamas and the Papas.
― musically, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 07:40 (sixteen years ago) link
sublime's "what i got" rips off beatles' "lady madonna".
― one time, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 07:51 (sixteen years ago) link
hoosiers new tune has ELO's goodbye mr blue all over it.
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a descending progression in British Sea Power's "Atom" which is just like Buzzcocks "Everybody's Happy Nowadays".
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I was just saying on the thread about Pure Prarie League's "Amie" how much it cops from "Christine's Tune (Devil in Disguise)" by the Flying Burrito Brothers.
― dad a, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Only recently occurred to me that "The Great Annihilator" by Swans is very reminiscent of "Tomorrow Never Knows" by ye olde Beatles. kinda (it's all in the percussion).
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Chromatics' "I Want Your Love" reminds me of Cat Power- "Keep on Runnin'"/John Lee Hooker- "Crawlin' Black Spider".
― lou, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
christopher cross - arthur's song elton john - goodbye yellow brick road
inspired by yesterday's music round on university challenge which i sucked at.
I made exactly the same mistake! I'm also rubbish at the intros round on Never Mind the Buzzcoks.
― ledge, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
What is it with all those songs appropriating the opening drums on "Be My Baby"? I seem to hear a a couple of new ones every year.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"high & dry" by radiohead and "slow love" prince.
― AleXTC, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Buzzcocks "Lipstick" and Magazine "Shot by Both Sides." Though I guess that one is one purpose.
― hugo, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I probably need to listen to them back-to-back, but I heard u2's "All I Want is You" the other night in a bar and it really brought to mind "Let Me Die in My Footsteps" by Dylan.
― will, Monday, 17 December 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Just done some "googling" & have answered my own question. ie. 'Ghetto supastar' by Pras (1998) is a rip off of 'Islands in the stream. Thanks to Jim.-- geoff huggins, Monday, May 22, 2006 5:02 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
-- geoff huggins, Monday, May 22, 2006 5:02 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
I did some "googling" recently too and apparently "Bittersweet Symphony" is a rip-off of some Stones song!!!
― musically, Monday, 17 December 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://photos10.flickr.com/12257835_e98b844cf5.jpg
― sexyDancer, Monday, 17 December 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Kinda obvious but "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop and "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet are almost twins.
-- musically (musically), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:46 (1 year ago) Link
I always figured one (or more) of them was closer to 'You Can't Hurry Love' by the Supremes
― Popture, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
notice that a lot of rap songs seem to sound like bits of old songs maybe one or two bars played over and over again, very often the drumbeat, or even sung choruses between the "rapping".
what's all that about?
― pc user, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
And Solomun's "Jungle River Cruise" is essentially the younger (i.e. It came out after, I think) Amazonian cousin of the superior, Pele's "Childhood's End".
― mehlt, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" and the theme song to the US version of The Office
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Kinda obvious but "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop and "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet are almost twins.-- musically (musically), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:46 (1 year ago) LinkI always figured one (or more) of them was closer to 'You Can't Hurry Love' by the Supremes-- Popture, Monday, December 17, 2007 3:01 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
-- Popture, Monday, December 17, 2007 3:01 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
I think "Songs that use the bass line from 'You Can't Hurry Love'" could be its own thread (if it isn't already).
― musically, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Silver Apples - Program Folk Implosion -Nothing Gonna Stop
Actually, them cardigan wearin' folk imploders basically plundered Silver Apples for the Kids soundtrack. Us internet music nerds already know this - did the they not expect people to find out?
― Chelvis, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" and the theme song to the US version of The Office-- Mr. Snrub, Monday, December 17, 2007 3:25 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
-- Mr. Snrub, Monday, December 17, 2007 3:25 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Speaking of which, the first 10 seconds of the Office theme sounds a LOT like the first 10 seconds of "Theme For An Imaginary Western" by Jack Bruce.
― musically, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
When I first heard that dang abnoxious Atari Teenage Riot album I was like "Does nobody else hear Bad Brains and Sham 69 riffs?" Dr. Know is what makes this song good, not some German dudes! There are at least a few Bad Brains samples which built that album...
― Chelvis, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Other thread made me think of it. James Brown - It's a Man's Man's Man's World -> Alicia Keys - Fallin'
― Popture, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
to be honest the pre-chorus of Linkin Park's "Breaking the Habit" reminds me of the pre-chorus to Mike and the Mechanics' "The Living Years".
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
the verse to "High Flying Adored" from Evita and "Stuck on You" by Lionel Ritchie
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard a Bad Company song today that totally ripped off the intro to "Ozone Baby" by Led Zeppelin.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Brian Eno - Needles in the Camel's Eye -- Velvet Underground - Waiting for the Man
The Fall - Elves -- Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
― S-, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Refrains of: Alice Cooper, "You and Me" Partridge Family, "I'll Meet You Halfway"
Riffs of: Beatles, "It's All Too Much" Three Dog Night, "Family of Man"
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 10:52 (sixteen years ago) link
christina aguilera - "beautiful" --> motley crue - "home sweet home"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Vanilla Ice claims the wrote all of "Ice Ice Baby" even though the riff is strangely similar to the "Under Pressure" intro....
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Bon Jovi's "Who Said You Can't Go Home" seems to be an embellishment of Sam Cooke's "Cupid".
― Dewey B., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Somebody asked the Knack guy how he came up with such a catchy hook for "My Sharona" and he said "Easy: we just ripped off the bassline to 'Goin' to a Go-Go'."
― ellaguru, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Oxia's Domino sounds very much like Patrick Chardronnet's Eve By Day.. (I think I read that here)
― mmmm, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't there that Green Day song that rips off "picture book" by the Kinks?
Heard this for the first time yesterday. It's pretty blatant.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"warning"
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"Do Ya" = "Fox on the Run." otm
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, the Green Day song American Idiot is a pretty solid ripoff of the Dillinger Four song Doublewhiskeycokenoice.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"Sunshine of Your Love" / "Funky Town" (hint: those repeating instrumental squiggles, pretty much the same)
Someone mentioned it elsewhere on ILM, but that Ashra Bhonsle song and "Don't Phunk with My Heart." Also Black Eyed Peas to thread in general.
― babyalive, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"Lonesome Surprise" by Refrigerator is almost identical to "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" by the Velvet Underground.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 19 December 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Glamourous Glue by Morrissey = Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum
Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats = Blank Generation by Richard Hell and the Voidoids
― miryam, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Oasis - "The Importance of Being Idle" = Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon"
― musically, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
If those sound alike, then "With a Little Help From My Friends", "Penny Lande" and hundreds of other songs with the same Music Hall-influenced beat do too.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Dylan's Ballad of the Thin Man pimps the dirgey piano roll from Ray Charles' "Sinner's Prayer",
― tremendoid, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
It's more than just the beat that they have in common, surely.
― musically, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
are you asking me or telling me? i didn't listen to the lyrics on the Ray Charles one, just heard it today, I dunno.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I was replying to the comment just above yours.
― musically, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link