New "Get Some" a clear Devo ripoff
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Wow, I made the same DEVO comparison as well when the girlfriend and I watched the show this morning!
DEVO is a great band...they were way ahead of their time, and, if they'd change up their setlist as much as PJ, I'd prefer to see them play multiple nights!0 -
Most people only know Devo for Whip It, sadly.
Devo is a good band.
But if you don't like it, you don't like it.
"Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!" is a great album.0 -
WOW, YOU ARE SOOOOO RIGHT....I DONT LIKE PEARL JAM ANYMORE..........I WOULD BE EMBARASSED TO HAVE POINTED THAT OUT. FUCK DEVO AND FUCK YOU...WHAT A FUCKING JACK-ASS... :ugeek: :!:0
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over_bends wrote:Sometimes these claims have validity but this is a pretty big stretch. There are stylistic similarities but I don't see how you can call this a clear ripoff.
Like Ed's ripoff of that French song for the guitar for Guaranteed... THAT'S clear. This is most certainly not.
Can someone tell me what song you are talking about for Guaranteed? I never heard this before*Official Marker in the Sand Fan Club Junkie*
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This thread is retarded. It reminds me of people saying WWS sounded like Offsprings "Keep Em' Seperated" when that came out. The chord progression is vaguely similar on the verse (different key though) but so what?So this life is sacrifice...
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The choruses are very similar, but "clear ripoff" is a stretch."They said ... timing was everything
made him ... want to be everywhere
there's a ... lot to be said for nowhere."0 -
It's a carbon copy in my book. As soon as Ed started the chorus over and over, I was wondering if I was listening to a cover song. Seriously.
The melody, chord structure and lyrical cadence - right down to the same two-word chorus delivery - are exactly alike.
How apologists try to defend it, i don't know. I've been as big of a fan as anyone else here since 95, and of course I hear lots of other influences/chord structures/etc on other PJ songs, but this one song is blatantly ripped off.
Sorry, but it is.
And it pains to type that, because I still love the band and I know the album is gonna rock regardless - 99.7 percent of the people who listen will have no idea about Devo's song, just like 99.7 percent of the people out there have no idea The White Stripes' Hardest Button to Button is a complete ripoff of Detroit punker Mick Collins' work (and who knows, we don't know if Ed or someone in the band approached Devo about the song; after all, Jack White and Mick Collins are good friends and jam together).[/u]__________________
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NothinGBetteRPJMaN wrote:over_bends wrote:Sometimes these claims have validity but this is a pretty big stretch. There are stylistic similarities but I don't see how you can call this a clear ripoff.
Like Ed's ripoff of that French song for the guitar for Guaranteed... THAT'S clear. This is most certainly not.
Can someone tell me what song you are talking about for Guaranteed? I never heard this before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rodnvh2BbZwYield!
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CJMST3K wrote:I can see how the band or Ed was influenced by DEVO on this. The real question is, if there was no Devo, would we be hearing "Get Some" today?
Very puzzling question....reminds me how people who travel in time machines are warned not to step on any bugs or kill any dinosaurs, since it could change the course of the world!0 -
hahahaha.....Pearl Jam plays a better version though:)0
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Only the start of the French song and Guaranteed are similar (though Ed re-uses that intro as the basis for his song).__________________
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slightofjeff wrote:They should go back to ripping off Zeppelin
I second that one.
That was a damn good rip off of "Going To California" they pulled off.0 -
I finally broke down and watched that Devo clip. Now I'm laughing my ass off. The two sound vaguely similar in parts. I guess. And I think I'm being charitible giving you that.
I mean, the choruses of both songs start with the words "I got." So that's something.everybody wants the most they can possibly get
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SweetAndLow wrote:It's a carbon copy in my book. As soon as Ed started the chorus over and over, I was wondering if I was listening to a cover song. Seriously.
The melody, chord structure and lyrical cadence - right down to the same two-word chorus delivery - are exactly alike.
How apologists try to defend it, i don't know. I've been as big of a fan as anyone else here since 95, and of course I hear lots of other influences/chord structures/etc on other PJ songs, but this one song is blatantly ripped off.
Sorry, but it is.
And it pains to type that, because I still love the band and I know the album is gonna rock regardless - 99.7 percent of the people who listen will have no idea about Devo's song, just like 99.7 percent of the people out there have no idea The White Stripes' Hardest Button to Button is a complete ripoff of Detroit punker Mick Collins' work (and who knows, we don't know if Ed or someone in the band approached Devo about the song; after all, Jack White and Mick Collins are good friends and jam together).[/u]
Do you always post the same post in two different threads?
You wanna hear ripoff, go listen to Under Pressure and Ice Ice Baby. This Pearl Jam song is not even close to the same as that. You make it sound like they are EXACTLY the same. Same beat, maybe. Lay There and Hate Me by Ben Harper has the same beat as Billie Jean. That must be a ripoff too. Go back under your bridge. Why does new Pearl Jam excite most, and anger some? They could make the next Present Tense, and people would complain. It's new Pearl Jam. That's pretty cool! How about celebrating the fact that after almost 20 years, the same fellas like to get in a room, and make some rock and roll that melts mine and most people's faces. Not everything they do I like, but even their crap is better than other's best, IMO (like Dissident).So now I'm drivin the bus- Kramer
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SweetAndLow wrote:It's a carbon copy in my book. As soon as Ed started the chorus over and over, I was wondering if I was listening to a cover song. Seriously.
The melody, chord structure and lyrical cadence - right down to the same two-word chorus delivery - are exactly alike.
How apologists try to defend it, i don't know. I've been as big of a fan as anyone else here since 95, and of course I hear lots of other influences/chord structures/etc on other PJ songs, but this one song is blatantly ripped off.
Sorry, but it is.
And it pains to type that, because I still love the band and I know the album is gonna rock regardless - 99.7 percent of the people who listen will have no idea about Devo's song, just like 99.7 percent of the people out there have no idea The White Stripes' Hardest Button to Button is a complete ripoff of Detroit punker Mick Collins' work (and who knows, we don't know if Ed or someone in the band approached Devo about the song; after all, Jack White and Mick Collins are good friends and jam together).[/u]0 -
over_bends wrote:NothinGBetteRPJMaN wrote:over_bends wrote:Sometimes these claims have validity but this is a pretty big stretch. There are stylistic similarities but I don't see how you can call this a clear ripoff.
Like Ed's ripoff of that French song for the guitar for Guaranteed... THAT'S clear. This is most certainly not.
Can someone tell me what song you are talking about for Guaranteed? I never heard this before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rodnvh2BbZw
wow.... i just listened to that for the first time.... that's pretty weird....
that being said, when screwing around on guitar it can be easy to find chord progressions that just seem to fall under your hands... and given the history of the guitar, it's really likely that the same progression fell under somebody else's hands too.....
i wrote a song that went Dmaj-Bmin-Amaj-Gmaj in high school... (19993) 8 years later Creed came out with a song using the exact same chords (One Last Breath)... as soon as I heard it on the radio, I was like... "hey!"
mostly i was pissed because Creed forced me to retire that little ditty... bastards...0 -
jambayleaf wrote:SweetAndLow wrote:It's a carbon copy in my book. As soon as Ed started the chorus over and over, I was wondering if I was listening to a cover song. Seriously.
The melody, chord structure and lyrical cadence - right down to the same two-word chorus delivery - are exactly alike.
How apologists try to defend it, i don't know. I've been as big of a fan as anyone else here since 95, and of course I hear lots of other influences/chord structures/etc on other PJ songs, but this one song is blatantly ripped off.
Sorry, but it is.
And it pains to type that, because I still love the band and I know the album is gonna rock regardless - 99.7 percent of the people who listen will have no idea about Devo's song, just like 99.7 percent of the people out there have no idea The White Stripes' Hardest Button to Button is a complete ripoff of Detroit punker Mick Collins' work (and who knows, we don't know if Ed or someone in the band approached Devo about the song; after all, Jack White and Mick Collins are good friends and jam together).[/u]
Do you always post the same post in two different threads?
You wanna hear ripoff, go listen to Under Pressure and Ice Ice Baby. This Pearl Jam song is not even close to the same as that. You make it sound like they are EXACTLY the same. Same beat, maybe. Lay There and Hate Me by Ben Harper has the same beat as Billie Jean. That must be a ripoff too. Go back under your bridge. Why does new Pearl Jam excite most, and anger some? They could make the next Present Tense, and people would complain. It's new Pearl Jam. That's pretty cool! How about celebrating the fact that after almost 20 years, the same fellas like to get in a room, and make some rock and roll that melts mine and most people's faces. Not everything they do I like, but even their crap is better than other's best, IMO (like Dissident).
Present Tense is such a ripoff of the Beach Boys' "Kokomo." It's uncanny!everybody wants the most they can possibly get
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***GASP***
A Rock 'n' Roll song that sounds like another Rock 'n' Roll song?
BALLS!!! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!!
Anyways... You ever wonder how many times Chuck Berry thought to himself:
"Hey!! that guitar sound is rippin' me off"
Or
how many times Wille Dixon said to his buddies:
"Wow!! those there Led Zeppelin lyrics sure sound familiar"
Hmm...I guess it's all just inadvertent imitation
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SweetAndLow wrote:How anyone can say otherwise after having a listen needs their head examined. Listen to Devo's "Gut Feeling" AT LEAST until the 2 minute mark of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YievWIX9AKk
Then, listen to "Get Some" from Conan last night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9bScneEUOs
It's as blatant as Jack White/White Stripes' "Hardest Button to Button" ripoff of seminal Detroit punk rocker Mick Collins and his old band The Gories' "Sovereignty Fight."
I think its called "influential" in the music industry, And on that note ( no pun intended) hasn't EVERYONE been ripping off the Beatles over the last 40 years, or David Bowie, and Hey, how about how Led Zeppelin ripped off Muddy Waters and BB King?
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