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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Matt on December 04, 2007, 03:58:15 PM
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The Rolling Stones, "Who's Been Sleeping Here?"
Artist ripped off = Bob Dylan
Just listen to Jagger's "I wanna know!" at the end of every verse. It's uncanny. Good song, though, from one of the kings of co-option.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/n0oa9n (http://www.sendspace.com/file/n0oa9n)
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The Buzzcocks "Harmony In My Head" lifted the guitars right outta Wire's "Champs",
and TV Smith's Explorers' "Tomahawk Cruise" and The Kinks' "Superman" are pretty much identical.
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melody from Pavement's "Silent Kid" is just like that one Buddy Holly song.
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Pretty obvious, but the bassline in the Jam's "Town Called Malice" and "You Can't Hurry Love" by the Supremes...
Maybe I'm crazy, but the bassline in Superchunk's "Out on the Wing" (at the end) and the Jam's "In The City!"
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Wire and Elastica, as mentioned by the Kid in the past. [5/30/06 -thanks Omar!]
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Led Zep's entire first album.
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As I noted in the chat a while back, ABBA's "Waterloo" sounds a lot like "Build Me Up, Buttercup," originally recorded by the Foundations and later covered by many another.
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Lucinda William's "What If" is a dead ringer for Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer", one of the greatest songs ever written, particularly as performed in its original studio version on Zuma, one of the greatest albums ever written.
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That one Pavement song sounds a lot like that one Fall song.
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As I noted in the chat a while back, ABBA's "Waterloo" sounds a lot like "Build Me Up, Buttercup," originally recorded by the Foundations and later covered by many another.
This song ("Build Me Up, Buttercup") is so good all around. More groups should rip it off.
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That one Pavement song sounds a lot like that one Fall song.
Spiral Stairs Kannberg is responsible for a lot of that, imho.
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From the Howard Stern show
from March of this year
they blow thru a few
http://www.zshare.net/audio/5405156c477c83/
little bad language etc
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From the Howard Stern show
from March of this year
they blow thru a few
http://www.zshare.net/audio/5405156c477c83/
little bad language etc
There's a better segment where they specifically look at Led Zep
I gotta dig up
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I know this is pretty well-known, Fight Test by Flaming Lips is pretty much just Father and Son by Cat Stevens.
And Green Day's Warning sounds exactly like the Kinks' Picture Book.
Oh, and that stupid song Stutter by Joe from about a decade back was note for note and word for word a ripoff of ONE LINE of Passin' Me By by the Pharcyde. And they didn't give credit. Blech.
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C'mon Everybody by Eddie Cochran & Suzy is a Headbanger by the Ramones.
Same riff.
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This song ("Build Me Up, Buttercup") is so good all around. More groups should rip it off.
Rhymefest's cover, with ODB, was fun as aw'hell.
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I shall always remember fondly the Cat's performance of it in Red Dwarf.
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The Mummies - Come on Up = The Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling in Love
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Here is that Howard Stern clip from June of this year
where they focus in on the song stealing of Led Zepplin on their first record
http://www.zshare.net/audio/5417309e54fe93/
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"So It Goes" by Nick Lowe sounds a lot like "Reelin' in the Years" by you-know-who.
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The Donna's- "Take It Off" and Pretenders "Middle of the Road"
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Listening to the 3/2/2004 archive where Tom is debating OCDJ about Smells Like Teen Spirit (about whether it is a ripoff of More Than a Feeling) during the Courtney Love record review.
Wikipedia backs up Tom:
Comparisons between the song have been made to Nirvana's 1991 hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain even noted the similarity. And during a live performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the Reading Festival in 1992, bassist Krist Novoselic sang the chorus of "More Than A Feeling" as a statement that the band were tired of playing it live. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Than_a_Feeling)
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"So It Goes" by Nick Lowe sounds a lot like "Reelin' in the Years" by you-know-who.
I see where you're coming from with the shuffle beat and the descending riff in the verse and all, but the vibe of each of those songs is SO different - the similarities never even occurred to me until you mentioned it just now.
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Speaking of Nirvana, "Come As You Are" and Killing Joke's "Eighties" have the same guitar part. I think there was a lawsuit, actually.
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Speaking of Nirvana, "Come As You Are" and Killing Joke's "Eighties" have the same guitar part. I think there was a lawsuit, actually.
There was a lawsuit about George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine," recorded by the Chiffons.
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/mysweet.htm
George Harrison lost.
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I'm so glad he ripped that song off, though.
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Stereolab
[youtube]Lhz5BlqIUTU[/youtube]
Neu!
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Neu!
[youtube]ZbAWBElA6dA[/youtube]
It's been said before, but that song sounds an awful lot like:
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=TuNP_rFu91I[/youtube]
I like Wilco, but that's straight up highway robbery.
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Listening to the 3/2/2004 archive where Tom is debating OCDJ about Smells Like Teen Spirit (about whether it is a ripoff of More Than a Feeling) during the Courtney Love record review.
Wikipedia backs up Tom:
Comparisons between the song have been made to Nirvana's 1991 hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain even noted the similarity. And during a live performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the Reading Festival in 1992, bassist Krist Novoselic sang the chorus of "More Than A Feeling" as a statement that the band were tired of playing it live. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Than_a_Feeling)
It's all "Louie Louie"
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alright, this has pissed me off for quite some time, so I think I better weigh in here. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" IS NOT the same chord progression as "More Than A Feeling". Here's how it breaks down (some minor music geekery lay ahead):
Teen Spirit, from what I have always known, if played in the key of F-Minor, with the famous riff using a I-IV-III-VI progression. Now, that key may have been transposed (I dunno, maybe they downtuned) but it is still that progression.
More Than A Feeling's famous riff can be played in the key of G Major, utilizing the chord progression I-IV-VI-V.
Even if they are played in the same key, they are different chords. I admit, there is a similar feeling to both parts, but I think that might have to do with the dynamics of the song (each is somewhat of a release of tension and quite anthemic).
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I dunno, KTB, I hear it at the 51 second mark. Yeah, the cords are slightly different, but they both serve the same function: "heavy riff hook". I repeat, both children or "Louie Louie". :)
[youtube]lpDdNOB-GjQ[/youtube]
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I dunno, KTB, I hear it at the 51 second mark. Yeah, the cords are slightly different, but they both serve the same function: "heavy riff hook". I repeat, both children or "Louie Louie". :)
well, if we are gonna get all reductionist here, Louie Louie is a simple I-IV-V-IV progression. I would wager to say that a good 85% of (Popular) Western music is based around that same (or minor deviations of) that pattern. Dem blues? all I-IV-V.
As far as More Than A Feeling goes: I cannot contest that it "kinda feels/ sounds like Teen Spirit". I was just pointing out that as far as theory is concerned, they are two different progressions, regardless of key. The "similar feeling" most likely has to do with the first tonic to sub-dominant (I - IV) chord change. This same chord change can also be heard in the popular tune "Here comes the Bride".
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ew boy.
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The piano part on Wilcos song "On and On" off Sky Blue Sky is a note for note ripp off of an old psychedelic song from the 60's. I just wish I could remember which one it was.
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That one Pavement song sounds a lot like that one Fall song.
I hear this all the time, but have never really heard it in the music. That story where Mark E. Smith is played 'Two States' and told it's an old b-side of his and believes it, that MUST be apocryphal?
Does any one have any specific song comparisons so I can understand what this is all about? I'm not a Fall completist by any stretch but I have four or five albums and a couple compilation, so I know a bit about them.
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I don't own "Bright Ideas" by Portastatic, but did listen to it a fair bit when it was streaming on the Merge Records site. There is this one song on that album that has three descending power chords that sound exactly like a bit in a Chicago song (one of the hits -- it contained Peter Cetera singing "good times I remember"). When I hear the Portastatic song, I half expect to hear a blast of brass during that part.
Also, the stairstep melody in REM's "Fall on Me" -- where Stipe sings "feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air" -- always reminds me of Macca's "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey" -- "but there's no one left a home and I believe it's gonna ra-ain."
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While the chords are slightly different, the meters/rhythm patterns are identical.
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Speaking of Nirvana, "Come As You Are" and Killing Joke's "Eighties" have the same guitar part. I think there was a lawsuit, actually.
Good call. The only way it could have been more obvious is if they'd literally sampled it.
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Heard this song "Halcyon Daze" by Local H the other day and felt it sounded like a total knockoff of Queens of the Stone Age's "Feel Good Hit of the Summer".
Just looked it up on wiki and it sounds like the two songs were flukes that happened concurrently:
In the linear notes, Lucas says that "Halcion Daze" was, quote: "all set to be the closing track to Here Comes the Zoo." While recording this album, however, Queens of the Stone Age released "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" on their 2000 album Rated R. Lucas felt the two songs were too similar (both musically and lyrically) and scrapped this idea. The song was later re-written into "Halcyon Days (Where Were You Then?)" as the closing track to Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?.
Weird.
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Also, the stairstep melody in REM's "Fall on Me" -- where Stipe sings "feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air" -- always reminds me of Macca's "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey" -- "but there's no one left a home and I believe it's gonna ra-ain."
I never realized that before, but yes, it makes complete sense! And then the chorus of "You" on Monster is kind of a rehash of that melody, again.
And continuing on the subject of REM, how about "Stand" and "La Bamba"? The melody of "Stand in the place where you live," in particular, is the same as the guitar line at the beginning of t'other.
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As long as we're talking similar melodies/instrumental passages, I'll note that the descending guitar in Elvis Costello's "Two Little Hitlers" (when he sings "I will return") is a "Rebel Rebel" knockoff.
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"The Jean Genie" vs. "Block Buster": FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
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Yo La Tengo's "Straight Down to the Bitter End" (Electr-O-Pura) references Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire" in the chorus.
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Vampire Weekend's Oxford Comma sounds like something straight out of Rent particularly Light My Candle.
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Also seem to recall that Chokebore had a song that was very similar to "Do ya think I'm sexy", almost like they were covering it, but not.
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Also seem to recall that Chokebore had a song that was very similar to "Do ya think I'm sexy",
Which is itself a direct rip off of a Jorge Ben song.
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As long as we're talking similar melodies/instrumental passages, I'll note that the descending guitar in Elvis Costello's "Two Little Hitlers" (when he sings "I will return") is a "Rebel Rebel" knockoff.
Indeed. And how about the "give you anything but time" refrain of EC's "Party Girl"? I imagine Lennon in his panama suit playing that bit at the end of "Carry That Weight" right before "The End" begins. EC also has a clever little sampling of the melody from a Shostakovic string quartets in "I Thought I'd Write to Juliet" (that album he did with The Brodsky Quartet):
"You know the rest...and it's no joke...Forgive me please as I quote..."
[the melody used for the following line is the lift from Shostakovic]:
"This is a letter of thanks, as I'm so bored here in I can't
say where."
Which is itself a direct rip off of a Jorge Ben song.
Taj Mahal. Great song.
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Which is itself a direct rip off of a Jorge Ben song.
Taj Mahal. Great song.
Somewhat lesser-known: it also rips off Bobby Womack's "If You Want My Love (Put Something Down on It)".
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I don't remember where I first heard about this one, but it's kind of mind blowing:
[youtube]nxpblnsJEWM[/youtube]
[youtube]FFG--wvb9Xo[/youtube]
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The piano part on Wilcos song "On and On" off Sky Blue Sky is a note for note ripp off of an old psychedelic song from the 60's. I just wish I could remember which one it was.
Nothing? This has been killing me since that album came out.
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The piano part on Wilcos song "On and On" off Sky Blue Sky is a note for note ripp off of an old psychedelic song from the 60's. I just wish I could remember which one it was.
Nothing? This has been killing me since that album came out.
Are you thinking of Procol Harum's "A Salty Dog" maybe? Sounds a little like Steely Dan's "Through With Buzz" to me, too.
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Yo La Tengo's "Straight Down to the Bitter End" (Electr-O-Pura) references Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire" in the chorus.
Supposedly Ira Kaplan loved that movie.
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Speaking of Yo La Tengo, to me, the music in "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" sounds a lot like Liz Phair's "Supernova."
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Also seem to recall that Chokebore had a song that was very similar to "Do ya think I'm sexy", almost like they were covering it, but not.
Which one is that?
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Also seem to recall that Chokebore had a song that was very similar to "Do ya think I'm sexy", almost like they were covering it, but not.
Which one is that?
"Hit Me" off their first album. Just dug it up and actually... it is a reinterpretation of the Rod Stewart song. The lyrics of the verses are the same except that they replace the chorus with "Hit Me". The music is not much like the original, though just enough so to help you "get it".
I guess it wouldn't technically qualify for what we're looking for in this thread.
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If I listen to "Hello, There" by John Cale, it reminds me of the Ghostbuster's Theme.
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No theft going on here, but whenever I hear Beck's Elevator Music (the last bit with the touch-tone sounds), I always here the closing of Out of The Blue by Matt Johnson.
Beck: Elevator Music
3:15 [phone tones]
[youtube]S-QHWXFJTek[/youtube]
The The: Out of the Blue (Into the Fire)
3:55 "come my love with your desire ..."
[youtube]Okz5Ejb946U[/youtube]
Matt Johnson's "character" in his video seems like Jason agonizing over his composter :)
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Every Camper van Beethoven song....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThQKlt45LrM[/youtube]
sounds like The Beatles, "Don't Pass Me By."
Written by Mr. Starkey.
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The first song Tom played on this week's show (4/8).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Cgqxq2zrs
I think this song is great, and doesn't count. It sounds JUST like a great Brian Wilson song, but does sound like any particular song.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=01C4RPEinM4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uuuDjOzXMX0
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-W-4Izjwc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8dHUfy_YBps
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Everyone probably knows these two already. Modest Mouse's Blame It On the Tetons sounds a lot like Sonic Youth's Unwind.
Also the Billy Childish song Joe Strummers Grave uses the exact same riff as The Exploders' song My Country Brain— though I suppose they can both be considered parallel rip-offs of the Kinks.
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I think this song is great, and doesn't count. It sounds JUST like a great Brian Wilson song, but does sound like any particular song.
I agree. For a brief moment -- just when the pounding piano starts -- I expected him to sing "Well, it's been building up inside of me for oh, I don't know how long" from "Don't Worry Baby", but before that impression can gain any traction, he descends the bass and makes the song his own. It's another great "Jesus Christ" song, right up there with Big Star's version.
If I am hearing the lyrics correctly, and he is, in fact, singing "the clouds are nice, I tore them on my mind" then he wins. But then again, I've always thought Robert Plant sang "One more, u-oo-nique LOVE!" in Whole Lotta Love.
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The piano part on Wilcos song "On and On" off Sky Blue Sky is a note for note ripp off of an old psychedelic song from the 60's. I just wish I could remember which one it was.
Nothing? This has been killing me since that album came out.
Are you thinking of Procol Harum's "A Salty Dog" maybe? Sounds a little like Steely Dan's "Through With Buzz" to me, too.
There is a show on XM called The Blacklight Room they play it on there every once and awhile.
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I finally figured it out listen to Wilcos On and On and Spirits Space Child next to each other.