Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" and The Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Uhm, does anyone else notice the suspect similarities between this song and "Can't Stop" by RHCP? I do.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you really think those four foppish Scots listen to the largely washed-up likes of the RHCP?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

it reminds me of blancmange "living on the ceiling"

― the surface noise of psychotic badassery (electricsound), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know, man. I just find a similarity between the two songs, I'm not accusing them of direct plagiarism. In point of fact, I despise both bands' music. Just an observation.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Moments of Musical Mimicry

Great moments of musical mimicry - part two

Songs that blatantly rips off a famous or better artist

riffs you never realised were borrowed from something else until years later

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

they're not especially similar

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember thinking that a recent RHCP song sounded like Faraquet. I know they were big big big Fugazi fans.

― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Has referencing mash-ups lost its cache? Either way, how bout Talking Heads vs. Franz Ferdinand, pitting "Burning Down the House" against "Take Me Out". Talking Heads is surely a better reference point for Franz than the RHCP.

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

vs. Cheap Trick "You Must Be Dreaming"

― dave q, Sunday, 16 May 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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