― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Charlie, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 04:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
Furthermore, for the record: an obvious choice, perhaps, but Pulp's "A Little Soul" and Smokey R. and the M.'s "The Tracks of My Tears".
― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 08:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
Other than that, the similarity of the intro to Cast's "Fine Time" and Guns'n'Roses "Paradise City" could be pretty confusing at indie discos in the mid-ninties, just when you're ready to blow the whistle and rock out with Axl, Izzy and Slash you get, "What's it all about? Do you really want to know..."
Shit.
― Stephen Burrows (steveeeeeeeee), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm sure that's no accident, given Rick Rubin's appreciation for old school metal.
The Manic Street Preachers' "If You Tolerate This Than Your Children Will Be Next" was alleged to have ripped off the Stranglers' "Duchess," but I find that a bit of a stretch.....and I'm a much bigger fan of the Stranglers than I'll ever be of the Manics.
Then, of course, Nirvana stole the riff from Killing Joke's "Eighties" for "Come as You Are." Little known fact is that my beloved Killing Joke stole that very same riff from the Damned's "Life Goes On" (on the STRAWBERRIES album).
Big Black's "L Dopa" off SONGS ABOUT FUCKING is virtually indistiguishable from Killing Joke's "the Wait".
The Germs' "No God" ripps the opening riff off of Yes' "Roundabout," but that's more willfull desecration rather than theft (despite the fact that guitarist Pat Smear is an unapologetic Yes fan).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A., Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jens (brighter), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh, and dancing at Mother to retro-ironic white trash trailer rock last night, I realised that there's a Sloan song which is Foghat's Slow Ride down to a T, but I can't remember which one it is.
― kate, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Butthole Surfers' "Human Cannibal" is "The Rose" by Bette Middler. Sing along. "Some say love..."; it's eerie.
I'm blanking right now....
― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
that Spirit song (?) -> "Stairway to Heaven" -> that Metallica song (?)
That Offspring song rips of Simon & Garfunk's Cecilia.
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 05:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 05:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 06:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway, Call Me / Blondie = What She Said / Smiths
― bham, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 08:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:19 (twenty years ago) link
― brains (cerybut), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 12 December 2003 07:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 12 December 2003 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
The Doll "Burning up like a fire"The Cars "Just what I needed"
Odd as they came out at very similar times and it would be unlikely that one would have heared the other....
Maybe its cuz they are both dull and derivative...
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:22 (twenty years ago) link
and nelly and justin timberlake have a song over "back in black" by AC/DC how disgusting. the sad fact is that most of the 10-16 year old girls that listen to justin timberlake have no idea o fthe musical travesty that has been committed. but I will admit that it is kinda neat.
― Matt Graves, Monday, 24 May 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
huey lewis and the news came first. they sued ray parker for that one.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Monday, 24 May 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
=The Who "I Can't Explain"
― phil dennison, Monday, 24 May 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Evanston Wade (EWW), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, I was just noticing the other day how Sly Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime" has the same little chord progression as a Led Zep song (maybe "Fool in the Rain" or something from that album) - though obviously Sly came first.
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 24 May 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 24 May 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Monday, 24 May 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
=
Hanson - "Mmmbop"
― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Monday, 24 May 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 24 May 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
lol
― budo jeru, Saturday, 10 February 2024 04:03 (one month ago) link
I have no idea how it never occurred to me until last night, having heard the Jeopardy! theme song thousands of time, but surely I'm not the first to notice its resemblance to "I'm A Little Teapot?"
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 10 February 2024 10:24 (one month ago) link
Just realized that “say what you want” lifts it’s pre-chorus from “sexual healing” mixed with Prince’s “love thy will be done”.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:20 (one month ago) link
The Texas song that is.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:21 (one month ago) link
Guitar line also sounds lifted from Al Green “Tired of being alone”.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:23 (one month ago) link
They even covered “tired of being alone” but smartly decided to remove the guitar line for strums instead so it wouldn’t seem like a direct connection to their own hit.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:31 (one month ago) link
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, February 10, 2024 5:24 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think this every single time i watch
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:14 (one month ago) link
I'm a little teapot short and stoutThis author created character "Kilgore Trout"
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:17 (one month ago) link
John Martyn - "Over The Hill" (1973)Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head" (1975)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:05 (one month ago) link
"Hold On Loosely""Just What I needed"
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:07 (one month ago) link
I don’t know which Cure song in particular it reminds me of but Metro Station - “shake it” does a very distinctive Robert Smith copy on vocalizations throughout this song. Specifically on:
“Tonight you're falling in love, This feeling's tearing me up, Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 February 2024 17:43 (one month ago) link
Pavement - "Fillmore Jive" (1994)Te Vaka - "Loimata e Maligi" (2002) (aka "An Innocent Warrior" in Moana)
same chord progression
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 23 February 2024 18:11 (one month ago) link
Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”
I don't know this song but the lyrics are making me think of All Coming Back To Me by Celine Dion, which I always think is a Meatloaf song because it's almost a parody of one, then I googled today and realised Jim Steinman wrote it and his band did it originally
― kinder, Friday, 23 February 2024 19:24 (one month ago) link
Nobody did bombast better than Jim Steinman
― Lee626, Saturday, 24 February 2024 01:39 (one month ago) link
Lol yeah that Celine Dion song is totally a Meat Loaf song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 February 2024 05:36 (one month ago) link
Song at 4:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ljHhR8XPA
Sarah Brightman & Steve Harley, "The Phantom of the Opera"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBJNCXL9Vg
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 March 2024 08:47 (two weeks ago) link
just occurred to me that Fugs - "The Garden Is Open" is a "Masters of War" rip
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:49 (one week ago) link
I have had "She Blinded Me With Science" stuck in my head for a while, and it always morphs into "Owner of a Lonely Heart."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:55 (one week ago) link
The chorus of Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" sounds like it was snipped out of "American Pie"
― Josefa, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 21:49 (one week ago) link