― nathalie, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Curt, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― harveyw, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― al, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ethan, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― N., Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Simillarly, on UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY, Bono messed with the lyrics to "Send in the Clowns" in the middle-eight, until another lawsuit stripped the album of it (you cannot hear it on the CD version, thanks to Jimmy Iovine's editing).
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Oh, and on UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY, the track where Bono tried to send in the clowns is "Electric Co."
― Robin Carmody, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dave225, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dleone, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dbini, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Public Enemy made Party For Your Right To Fight. Was (Not Was) claimed I Feel Better Than James Brown. I think the Butthole Surfers's No, I'm An Iron Man was a Sabbaf reference, Half Man Half Biscuit's Reasons To Be Miserable must be a riposte to Ian Dury, Helen Love's Rockaway Beach For Me, Heartbreak Hotel For You is self- explanatory, as is Meatmouth's Meatmouth Is Murder, and the JAMMs' Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) refers to Dave Brubeck.
― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kodanshi, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Snotty Moore, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jesse, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― EdwardO, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ron Hudson, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Vinnie, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Damian, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Chris Barrus, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Snotty Moore, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Darren, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Plagiarism is usually fine with me, but I have to say I felt sick when I heard that Blur song where Damon starts singing 'Space is the place' with all the heart and soul of a fucking courgette.
Less lists! more talking!
― Ondes Martinot, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I believe Sofia Coppola took notice of this.
― BARMS, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link
o The TV Personalities casually drift into the Byrds' "8 Miles High" riff on one "King & Country."o Cornershop's "England's Dreaming" collapses into Morrissey's "I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour..." before seemingly indicating their disdain with a "Fight the Power!"o There's a Moose song (probably "Boy"?) which appears to steal most of its chorus from a Tim Buckley song I can't quite recall the name of. Can anyone confirm that I'm not fabricating this?
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
The list is endless, everyone stills from everyone, really. I once read that our civilization has a much bigger legacy of imitation than creativity, and I have to agree. But I do like when people take parts from other songs and write a much better one. If they make something better than the original, that's o.k. by me.
― Bruno dos Santos, Saturday, 8 October 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― ezra, Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bruno dos Santos, Saturday, 8 October 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bruno dos Santos, Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Others off the top of my head.
Sonic Youth: Bubblegum (the vocal melody is the riff to Till the End of the Day by the Kinks)
Kinks: Sittin' On My Sofa shares a lyric with Lovely Rita and a guitar riff that is similar to the aforementioned Taxman song.
― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 9 October 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Another example is "Twisted Logic", which is a rip off Radiohead's "Electioneering"
― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Sunday, 9 October 2005 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
...Elvis Costello drops two lines of "Dancing Queen" into "When I Was Cruel Pt.2"
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Here's one more:
R.E.M.'s "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" opens with Stipe's approximation of the "Lion Sleeps Tonight" falsetto (hence, probably, the song name - in R.E.M.'s grand tradition of holding on to blatantly provisional titles: "Country Feedback" etc).
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― nbcv, Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
examples:
"all or nothing at all" (referencing sinatra)"mansion on the hill" (hank williams)"wreck on the highway" (roy acuff)"downbound train" (chuck berry)"dancing in the dark" (sinatra again)"two faces" (lou christie)"walk like a man" (four seasons)etc etc
you could argue that a lot of them are coincidences, but some of 'em have further lyrical references within, and when you add the book titles and movie titles he's also referenced with abandon, it's fairly obvious he's doing it on purpose.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bruno dos Santos, Monday, 10 October 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― douglas eklund (skolle), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Sunday, 16 October 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― splates (splates), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― splates (splates), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― douglas eklund (skolle), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Empereror does a small part of Metallica's For whom The Bell Tolls in Anthems To The Welkin At Dusks' The Acclamation of Bonds.
― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
This section of Time Trap by Built to Spill sounds like a pretty direct nod to Gates of Steel by Devo.
https://youtu.be/goV57pGmiCk?t=11s
https://youtu.be/1F9amPUZokg?t=1m48s
― how's life, Saturday, 6 February 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
Rabbit heart by Florence references house jam by gang gang dance
― Ross, Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
SSION's recent "At Least The Sky Is Blue" strings multiple borrowed elements together, most conspicuously "In Every Dream Home...", "Not In Love" and "Hey Hey, My My".
(Come to think of it, Roxy Music themselves do similar in the latter half of "Remake/Remodel" innit. Classical works have likewise been known to pay tribute via borrowed melodic elements. Or so I keep reading in liner notes; they're often too subtle for me.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to9ggdpiSyk
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 19 May 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
Cool ^
― Ross, Saturday, 19 May 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link