Songs That Steal From "Taxman"

the beat, the lyrics, anything blatant

― da croupier, Friday, 21 September 2012 17:12 (7 months ago) Permalink

― da croupier, Friday, 21 September 2012 17:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 21 September 2012 17:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

Always thought Rory Bremner could have done a spoof number about the Newsnight presenter, could have been marginally more amusing than his usual pish

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 21 September 2012 17:21 (7 months ago) Permalink

So did the Beatles invent this groove or did they steal it from somewhere else?

― Moodles, Friday, 21 September 2012 17:30 (7 months ago) Permalink

Can't find a link but "A slender wrist" by Trembling Blur Stars cops the riff, sort of.

― Rob M Revisited, Friday, 21 September 2012 17:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

james jamerson referenced on wikipedia but i don't know any specific track that was allegedly yanked

― da croupier, Friday, 21 September 2012 17:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

xpost

― da croupier, Friday, 21 September 2012 17:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

Ride 'Seagull' lifts the bass

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 21 September 2012 18:48 (7 months ago) Permalink

Ha - just spotted my typo - I meant Trembling Blue Stars, but you knew that anyway.

― Rob M Revisited, Friday, 21 September 2012 20:45 (7 months ago) Permalink

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 21 September 2012 20:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

mostly yes

― nostormo, Friday, 21 September 2012 20:56 (7 months ago) Permalink

Come on, nobody's ever googled did the Beatles have 4 members

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 21 September 2012 20:58 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah they had 5 (pete best)

― nostormo, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

the autotune one is kind of baffling

― Moodles, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

Everything about that Beck video up top is making me embarrassed and a little angry.

― Evan, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

did the beatles split up

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:09 (7 months ago) Permalink

some Yo La Tengo cd that was at my college station a couple years back had a song that sounded just like Taxman, and I cannot remember what the hell the song or album was called

― fadanuf4erybody, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

Does it have to be "steal"? Hendrix may have assimilated some of it, or been influenced by it.

― dow, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:15 (7 months ago) Permalink

there was a band that sounds like the beatles/early stones, they had a song with that Taxman riff but i can't remember their name..

― nostormo, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:15 (7 months ago) Permalink

Didn't Jimi cover "Day Tripper", like at the BBC? That and "Taxman" have Hendrix-compatible elements.

― dow, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:17 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah jimi hendrix experience covered 'day tripper', was playing 'sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band' within 3 days of its release -

― balls, Friday, 21 September 2012 22:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

Come on, nobody's ever googled did the Beatles have 4 members

― Ismael Klata, Friday, September 21, 2012 4:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Run DMC sure wish they could've googled that back in the day

― some dude, Saturday, 22 September 2012 11:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

The Beatles kinda had autotune ... at least they doubletracked Harrison's vocals.

― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Saturday, 22 September 2012 14:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

"theres 3 of us but we're not the beatles" is a good lyric though

― billstevejim, Saturday, 22 September 2012 14:57 (7 months ago) Permalink

wikipedia:

McCartney's bass line has been considered to imitate Motown bassist James Jamerson in its active lines and glissandi (at 0.55-1.08)[14

The Jam in 1980's "Start!" wrote a new song around the McCartney bassline and guitar solos.

Ride's song "Seagull", from the album Nowhere, borrows McCartney's bassline.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:11 (7 months ago) Permalink

Oops, those items mentioned upthread.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

So did the Beatles invent this groove or did they steal it from somewhere else?

― Moodles, Friday, September 21, 2012 10:30 AM (Yesterday)

IMO this is the groove (info from wiki):
The genesis of "In the Midnight Hour" was a recording session on May 12, 1965, at which Wexler worked out a powerful rhythm track with studio musicians Steve Cropper and Al Jackson of the Stax Records house band, which also included bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn. (Stax keyboard player Booker T. Jones, who usually played with Dunn, Cropper and Jackson as Booker T. & the M.G.'s, did not play on any of the Pickett studio sessions.) Wexler said to Cropper and Jackson, "Why don't you pick up on this thing here?" He performed a dance step. Cropper later explained in an interview that Wexler told them that "this was the way the kids were dancing; they were putting the accent on two. Basically, we'd been one-beat-accenters with an afterbeat; it was like 'boom dah,' but here this was a thing that went 'um-chaw,' just the reverse as far as the accent goes."

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:26 (7 months ago) Permalink

RE: Sgt. Pepper video above-

Still blows my mind that Jimi Hendrix was playing a little club with triple Marshall stacks. It must have been the loudest thing any of the people in that audience had ever heard or could have conceived of.

― Moodles, Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

ok, thats the ultimate answer for this thread:
songs starts after 15 seconds.
they should be sued for plagiarism!

― nostormo, Saturday, 22 September 2012 18:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

and

― nostormo, Saturday, 22 September 2012 19:15 (7 months ago) Permalink