― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:18 (nineteen years ago) link
welcome to earth!
― N_Rq, Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
The answer is simply that copyright law protects lyrics and melodies, not arrangements.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― snotty moore, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Completely different scenario: Edwyn / Orange Juice knowingly, deliberately and unashamedly lifted two complete lines of lyric; as well as the trademark signature lead guitar line; from a Buzzcocks song and immediately acknowledged this clear act of homage in the following line of the song:
"You know me I’m acting dumb-dumbYou know the scene it’s very humdrumAnd my favourite song’s entitled 'Boredom'".
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link
i mean, sure the beatles wrote bunches of different chords and melodies, but people still buy those records, above all, because they're familiar--classic. so's bang a gong...
― b b, Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Erm, probably because Bolan ripped it off from someone else first.
I'm not sure it matters, really. I mean Blur's rip-off of "Boys Keep Swinging" was even more blatant if possible, and no-one's ever called them on it.
Radiohead paid up for 'Creep'
I've never heard that. What was Creep a rip-off of?
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
What song was that?
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, the more I think about it, the more litigious it gets. E.g., The chorus of "Boys" goes "Boys keep swinging/Boys always work it out", whereas M.O.R has: "You, me, we, we'll work it out!"
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Bowie and Brian Eno have a co-songwriting credit for "MOR" on the single and probably every other release of that song (other than the album).
So yeah, Blur got called on it.
― bob knob, Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 3 June 2005 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link
And there's a song of theirs, which esacpes me now, which is a direct ripoff of a Lee Hazlewood song.
― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 3 June 2005 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 3 June 2005 07:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 3 June 2005 07:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 3 June 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― snotty moore, Saturday, 4 June 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link
"all the young dudes" = the rest of that song!
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 5 June 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― snotty moore, Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― hott the moople, Monday, 6 June 2005 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link