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It's pretty common in the jazz world, although I couldn't name one example (& I'm not looking for jazz examples) - A song is reworked so it's a little bit different - paying homage to the original (as opposed to ripping it off or sampling from it.) This is a rework of the melody/chords - not a rip-off of a riff or an answer to lyrics (Like "Sweet Home Alabama" answered "Alabama" it wasn't "Southern Man".)

Examples I could think of:
2 Nigs United from West Compton (Prince) -> Pennsylvania 6-5000
Low (Cracker) -> Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan)
Final Solution (Pere Ubu) -> Summertime Blues (Blue Cheer version)
Frightened at Night (Blue Aeroplanes) -> Born on the Bayou (CCR)

― Dave225, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

...And, of course, Prince's "Pop Life" kinda-sorta became Elvis Costello's "The Bridge I Burned"...

― Douglas, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Start" by the Jam --> "Taxman" by the Beatles

"Come As You Are" by Nirvana --> "Eighties" by Killing Joke

"Everybody Here Wants You" by Jeff Buckley --> "Protection" by Massive Attack

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ferlix da Housecat's She Lives on his latest album sounds eerily similar to Queen's Football Fight from the Flash Gordon OST - Go! Flash Go!

― K-reg, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It just occured to me yesterday that "The Bells of Rhymney" by the Byrds (and tons of other people, I'm sure) sounds very much like "All Tomorrow's Parties" by the Velvet Underground.

Also--does anyone know which song came first: "Bedazzled" by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore or "Je T'aime", by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte/Jane? Cause they seem to have a similar approach, lyrically and musically. Sorry if this strayed from the orig. question, Dave225.

― Arthur, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box (Radiohead) --> Birmingham School of Business School (The Fall)

― Melissa W, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

does anyone know which song came first: "Bedazzled" by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore or "Je T'aime", by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte/Jane?

I would guess Bedazzled came first. "Je T'aime" (Jane) came out in 1969, if that helps.

― Dave225, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It just occured to me yesterday that "The Bells of Rhymney" by the Byrds (and tons of other people, I'm sure) sounds very much like "All Tomorrow's Parties" by the Velvet Underground.

Don't you mean "All Tomorrow's Parties" sounds like "The Bells of Rhymney"?

― Vic Funk, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

my favorite: Let's Get Down (Tony Toni Tone) --> Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)

shameless ripoffs don't get much better than that, folks.

― M. Matos, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, you're right Vic, sorry.

Orleans-Still the One -> Grand Funk-Bad Time To Be in Love

Maybe that's a stretch, though.

― Arthur, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Theme from Friends - The Monkees "Pleasant Valley Sunday" The from Law & Order - Aerosmith's "Janie Got Her Gun"

― nickn, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pleasant Valley Sunday - good one. (Don't know the L&O theme.)

...which can spawn a sub-thread: What other songs have the Pleasant Valley Sunday sentiment? - Respectable Street (XTC) - The Big Country (Talking Heads) - Smalltown (Reed/Cale)

― Dave225, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Paperback Writer > Pleasant Valley Sunday

― Dr. c, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not too sure whether this hits the rip-off category, but George Michael's 'Faith' could not have existed if it hadn't been for The Cure's 'Close To Me'

― Daniel, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And George Michael's "Faith" > Primal Scream's "Movin' On Up"?

― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I was following Dr.C's symbol formulation there, not the one in the original question. Sorry.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

dodgy's "good enough" as informed by "wake me up before you gogo" by "yer wham"

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Chrissy Hynde also said that "My City Was Gone" was a rework/riffage of "The Adultress" (It's hard to hear because of that heavy bassline that was added.) Also, "Don't Get Me Wrong" is an unconscious ripoff of the four British Airways tones heard before announcements.

..And "We Love Cheesy Poofs" is the same tune as the Morning Edition theme.

― Dave225, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Vangelis: Blade Runner Theme ----> Andy williams: Can't take my eyes off you.

― Mike B, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't know which came first - A Public Execution (Mouse) -or- Like a Rolling Stone

Also - Jean Genie (Bowie) < I'm a Man (Diddley) < Oh Yeah (Shadows of Knight) bridge in "The Adversary" (Crime And The City Solution) < Knockin on Heaven's Door (Dylan)

― Dave225, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Stones, 'Satisfaction' --> LLoyd Cole, 'Mercy // Killing'.

Dylan, 'Like A Rolling Stone' + 'I Threw It All Away' --> Lloyd Cole, 'Waterline'.

LLoyd Cole, 'Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?' + S&G, 'America' --> Lloyd Cole, 'Unhappy Song'.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Radiohead fans will ove this one:

"Creep" - derived from "The Air That I Breathe", the Hollies.

― Dave225, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Time flows backwards in the pinefox house. This explains everything.

― Jeff, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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