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Speaking of Sabbath, "Dramamine" by Sebadoh (a Jake L song) cops a riff midway through from, damn, I think a breakdown in "Supernaut"?

(Not listening to Sab right now.)

― wl, Monday, 9 September 2002 23:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

moonblood "midnight" = burzum "det som engang var"

more terribly, the offspring's "get a job" and "o bla di o bla da" by the beatles have very similar choruses (try singing one over the other sometime, it's horrifying).

― brian (yournullfame), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:43 (10 years ago) Permalink

And hey, did anyone notice the resemblances between "Ice Ice Baby" and "Under Pressure"?

No, ice ice baby is "din din din di-di din doonn" and under pressure is "din din din di-di din din". fucks sake.

― naked as sin, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 00:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

George Washington and the Cherry Pickers' "Crisco Party" is basically "Wipeout" + vocals - drum solo.

― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 03:59 (10 years ago) Permalink

Manics' "Roses In The Hospital" and Bowie's "Sound And Vision", although that sounds more like a semi-conscious "tribute" than either a cynical deliberate steal (cf. Oasis's early Beatles/T Rex theft) or an accidental appropriation (cf. Coldplay/Ride, probably and against my better judgement)...

― Charlie, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 04:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

I was just listening to "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush. It took me quite a while to figure out of what it was reminding me strongly, and it turned out to be "Paint a Vulgar Picture" by The Smiths. The way they both can't seem to settle into anything...

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

When The Czar's "Song to the Siren" starts out, I always think it's Mogwai's "Yes! I am far away from home."

― Leee, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Bring Me Edelweiss" was a "S.O.S." knock-off. Gert Wilden's "Dirty Beat" nicks Zep's "Heartbreaker".

― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

too many Stereolab songs to mention.

― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

naughty by nature feat. 3lw - feels good to you = fat joe feat. ja rule & ashanti - what's luv?

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

Doesn't Ice Ice Baby actually sample Under Pressure?

― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 08:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

Cracker's "Low" = Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man"
Radiohead's "Creep" = the Hollies' "The Air that I Breathe"
Go-Betweens' "Karen" = Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot"
Pere Ubu's "Final Solution" + "Heart of Darkness" = Blue Cheer's version of "Summertime Blues"
Bowie's "Jean Genie" = Yardbirds' version of "I'm a Man"
Prince's "2 Nigs United from West Compton" = Glenn Miller's "Pennsylvania 6-5000"

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

BTW, done already.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

the strokes' "last nite" crops up the jam's "town called malice".
and what's the other song in their album that has the same structure and bassline than iggy pop's "the passenger"?

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

X-Press 2 ft David Byrne "Lazy" is a total rip off of Frankie Knuckles & David Morales ft. Alison Limerick "Where Love Lives".

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

"The bridge late in the Chili Peppers "Give it Away" sounds an awful lot like Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf""

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Cult swiped (via a sample) the ominous "buzz buzz buzz buzz" intro from Killing Joke's "Requiem" for the bridge in "The Witch" (originally on the soundtrack to the roundly derided cartoon, "Cool World"). Being the lovable bastards they are, despite being old touring mates, Killing Joke sued The Cult for it, and the sample was stricken from all other versions that have since been released (HIGH OCTANE CULT, etc.)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

I was home sick yesterday, watched a Conan O'Brian rerun on Comedy Central and ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead was on, playing "Relative Ways," and I'll be damned if the main guitar riff (during the verses) doesn't rip the vocal melody from "On Broadway."

― Nick A., Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

the Action Time - comedown blues steals the "ooh ooh"s from Manics - Motown Junk

― Jens (brighter), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

The White Stripes "Hotel Yorba" is a Country Joe and the Fish song, note for note, and even word for word at times. I don't know the name of the Country Joe song, but it goes "1,2,3, what are we fighting for, don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam, and it's 5,6,7, open up the pearly gates" and could someone PLEASE tell me the name of this song? It fits so perfectly it's frightening.

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

Country Joe: "Feel like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" I'll die if I have to hear it again. It's kind of a traditional folk song, so I wouldn't credit Country Joe McDonald.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Vicious" by Lou Reed steals from "Maggie May" by Rod Stewart. I can't even listen to the Lou Reed song without "MM"'s lyrics taking Reed's place.

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

I just heard Sheryl Crow's "Steve McQueen" on the radio, which steals the "hoo-hoos" straight from Steve Miller Band's "Take the Money and Run".

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

i'm always going on about this but i can't think of many at the moment...
the high pitched voice bit of hash pipe by weezer is very like that "somewhere in my heart there is a star that shines for you" song though...

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

Rod Stewart - "Do you think I'm Sexy" steals Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben's "Taj Mahal"

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Buzzcocks' "Something's Gone Wrong Again" reminds me of a decade-later postpunk (in)version of the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog", what with the "dinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdink" piano and the sludgy partway drawn-out guitar notes and the general Neanderthal rhythm. The vocals are a completely different story, though, which just makes the cop more interesting.

― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 05:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

more white stripes... i say 'little room' borrows from jim croce's 'you don't mess around with jim'.

― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 05:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

the israelites by ? = the theme from shaft

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 06:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

It's interesting how subjective all this is. I would never hear Israelites (Desmond Dekker, btw) in Theme from Shaft, or Maggie May in Vicious...

Anyway, Call Me / Blondie = What She Said / Smiths

― bham, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 08:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

shakiras underneath your clothes reminds me of michael jacksons man in the mirror

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 16:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

It appears that about a million years ago, I once started one of these threads too - Too close for comfort?

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

"Orphans" by Teenage Jesus and the Jerks seems to share a riff with "London Calling"...

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

Junior Senior's "boy meets girl" rips off the band's "wheel's on fire" for the verse. i thought that they sampled it at first it's so shameless

― brains (cerybut), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

Red Blooded Woman by Kylie is so totally Cry Me A River

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 12 December 2003 07:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Digital Emotion's "Outside in the Dark" rips the groove from "Billy Jean".

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 12 December 2003 09:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

Two songs that are alost exactly the same:

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

Andre 3000 'Behold a Lady' = Siouxsie b-side 'I Could Be Again'

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

The guitar riff on last song on the new Strokes album is similar to the chorus of Junior Senior's 'Rhythm Bandits'.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Huey Lewis and The News "I want a new drug"=Ray Parker Jr. "ghostbusters"

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

Huey Lewis and The News "I want a new drug"=Ray Parker Jr. "ghostbusters"

huey lewis and the news came first. they sued ray parker for that one.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

that fucking stupid uncle kracka song sounds just like "a thing called love" by bonnie raitt. and I hate it.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

radiohead's "subterranean homesick alien" reminds me of nick drake's "parasite"
i always get "freeze frame" and "footloose" mixed up.
that puddle of mudd song "she hates me" = "tell me more" from grease

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

Not sure which came first, but the Clash's "Manicifent Seven" and Man Parrish's "Hip Hop Be Bop" are almost identical.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 24 May 2004 19:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

I think we covered it on another thread but I still don't get how "L Dopa" rips off Killing Joke.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

Sloan's "She Means What She Says" = The Nazz "Open My Eyes"

=The Who "I Can't Explain"

― phil dennison, Monday, 24 May 2004 19:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

Felt's "The Stagnant Pool" calls to mind The Cure's "Disintegration"; particularly the long guitar play toward the end.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

of course there's always NIN "Down In It"= Skinny Puppy's "Dig It"

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

There's a Decemberists song (I think it's "I Was Meant for the Stage") that has the same melody as Sting's "Fields of Gold"

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

I always mix up "Times Like These" by the Foo Fighters with the beginning of the verse of Manics' "Australia".... It's because of the first "I...", I guess.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 24 May 2004 20:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Flatness" by Uncle Tupelo sounds kinda like "Letter Never Sent" by REM.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 24 May 2004 20:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

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i feel bad calling out merchandise because i like them a lot, but their new song has the same guitar lick from "Crash" by the primitives.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:00 (3 months ago) Permalink

was trying to recall an early 90s house tune that lifted the gtr lick from "happy house" note by note and made it the main synth motif. any ideas?

― cock chirea, Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:13 (3 months ago) Permalink

― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

Maybe, XD. This one is more definite (speaking of Pump Up the Jam on the 77 top tracks of 2012 thread):

― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:43 (3 months ago) Permalink

― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:51 (3 months ago) Permalink

(xp) For me, "Gangnam Style" usually leads to "Pump Up the Jam" getting stuck in my head.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:53 (3 months ago) Permalink

In fact, I'm bummed no one's mashed those 2 yet.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:54 (3 months ago) Permalink

We have another thread for this. Why are there two? Anyway.

SHOULD I DO IT? MY BLOODY VALENTINE'S DON'T ASK WHY!

WITH YOUR FAVOURITE: SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER'S KISS ME

You love it!

― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:38 (3 months ago) Permalink

Darn!

― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:38 (3 months ago) Permalink

Squeeze's "If I Didn't Love You" and Hum's "Ms. Lazarus" always blur into the same song when I remember either one (which is often; they're great)

― Thomas Puncheon (imago), Saturday, 9 February 2013 23:29 (3 months ago) Permalink

This one's pretty obvious.

― afriendlypioneer, Saturday, 9 February 2013 23:42 (3 months ago) Permalink

oh i don't know. this is still ilm

the biggest No. 2 hits that never topped the Hot 100

― pplains, Sunday, 10 February 2013 00:34 (3 months ago) Permalink

It's taken me this long to notice how similar QOTSA's "No One Knows" is to Radiohead's "Electioneering".

― dog latin, Monday, 18 February 2013 09:26 (3 months ago) Permalink

"Driver 8" sounds like "Don't Fear The Reaper."

― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 February 2013 19:53 (2 months ago) Permalink

Official title "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"

― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 February 2013 20:02 (2 months ago) Permalink

My kids play a lot of Green Day at the moment. They pointed out to me the similarity between the choruses of 21 Guns and ELO's Telephone Line. Uncanny....

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 24 February 2013 20:51 (2 months ago) Permalink

"Driver 8" sounds like "Don't Fear The Reaper."

hmm, I never noticed that before. I feel like they both must descend from Zouzou's 'Puisque tu es revenu'.

― garfield drops some dank n' dirty dubz at 2am (unregistered), Sunday, 24 February 2013 20:58 (2 months ago) Permalink

Wow.

― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 February 2013 00:17 (2 months ago) Permalink

Boney M's "He Was a Steppenwolf":

...has pretty much the same chorus as The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk":

They even stole the doo-wop vocal arrangement from The Drifters!

― Tuomas, Friday, 1 March 2013 13:05 (2 months ago) Permalink

Don't know if it's ever been noted on this thread or on this board that David Bowie's "1984" has a similar groove to Isaac Hayes's "Theme from Shaft."

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 March 2013 01:23 (2 months ago) Permalink

those intros:

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 4 March 2013 08:31 (2 months ago) Permalink

Totally.

― pplains, Monday, 4 March 2013 14:19 (2 months ago) Permalink

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