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
The intro to "Breakout" by Swing Out Sisters = PSB "West End Girls"
― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― adgaehg, Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― de, Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― lkjp, Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, keeping with This Nation's Saving Grace, Magnetic Fields took the riff from "Paint Work" for "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off"
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 4 June 2004 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter dee (peter dee), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
You Belong to Me sounds like 19th Nervous BreakdownTokyo Storm Warning really sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 21 January 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:12 (nineteen years 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 month 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 month 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 month ago) link
noticing now that there's a bit of melody in the magnetic fields' "sweet-lovin man" ("there's just one kind of love/you can spend your life dreaming of") that strongly evokes big star's "thirteen" ("rock and roll is here to stay")
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:08 (two weeks ago) link
"Buildings" by an artist called Not Me But Us sounds like a knockoff of Slowdive's "Prayer Remembered".
― punning display, Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:37 (two weeks ago) link
"Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms and "The Little Black Egg"
― timellison, Friday, 12 April 2024 04:04 (one week ago) link
"lightning strikes" by YES sounds like a modernized cover of "wallbanger" by GRYPHON
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 April 2024 18:57 (one week ago) link