Songs that seem to copy PJ songs

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Niche
Niche Posts: 16
edited April 2006 in Words and Music...Communication
I know we ve discussed this subject several times. PJ's songs are so great that there will always be other bands trying to copy them. I recently heard Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams and instantly thought of Alive. I went and listened to Alive and bingo they sure sound alot alike. Esp. the guitar solos. Oh well!
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  • westbygod
    westbygod Posts: 11
    boulevard of broken dreams has the same riff as wonderwall by oasis. that song hanging by a moment by life house has a similar chorus to courduroy
  • bucket1988
    bucket1988 Posts: 212
    "While We Cry" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd is eerily like Yellow Ledbetter. It has the same chord progression and a lot of the same guitar styling. It appears on the album "Ledbetter Heights." Hmmm... Yellow Ledbetter...Ledbetter heights... is this a coincidence?
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  • St. Nick
    St. Nick Posts: 72
    bucket1988 wrote:
    "While We Cry" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd is eerily like Yellow Ledbetter. It has the same chord progression and a lot of the same guitar styling. It appears on the album "Ledbetter Heights." Hmmm... Yellow Ledbetter...Ledbetter heights... is this a coincidence?


    Would be a huge coincidence. Could've named it little wing heights though ;)
  • Evvo
    Evvo Posts: 195
    YL and while we cry are 2 perfect blues songs. love them both!!
  • Seattle1974
    Seattle1974 Posts: 81
    It's not PJ's..........Huddie Ledbetter.
  • mayushka
    mayushka Posts: 1
    Has anyone heard Puddle of Mud - Blurry? That last part is totally Given To Fly.
  • depopulationINC
    depopulationINC Posts: 2,074
    I don't see the big deal in songs sounding alike. There is tons and tons of music out there, so a whole pile of them will sound like something else....intesional or not.
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  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    Anything by Creed and Staind....uhg...
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  • ItsEvolutionBaby74
    ItsEvolutionBaby74 Posts: 490
    I hear alot of clones of the song "Save You".
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  • capybaralet
    capybaralet Posts: 145
    interesting one (IMO) is the last song offof White Stripes latest: "I'm Lonely (But I ani't that Loney Yet)" sounds very similar to "Drifting" off of Lost Dogs, although the style is kinda different.
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  • sistanumsy
    sistanumsy Posts: 218
    Don't listen to 'em. Classic Rock N' Roll resembles them!
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  • AfternoonDelight
    AfternoonDelight Posts: 25
    Occasionaly songs will sound the same...even pearl jam have songs that could have been considered to copy someone else (not saying they copyed thoguh) for example Yellow Ledbetter - Little Wing or Thimbing My Way - Love Will Tear Us Apart (in some parts)
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,215
    I agree with AfternoonDelight. I think in most cases its not trying to copy another artist or band, it's just that their music will sound similar because they admire and respect others' songs.

    Even though I did bust a (now defunct) local band from my hometown for basically copying the tunes of two bands. One of their songs was Wishlist with different words and the other was really similar to an REM song, but I have forgotten which one. I talked to the author and he did admit it because he was having "writer's block".
  • pineapplesandwaves
    pineapplesandwaves Posts: 584
    westbygod wrote:
    that song hanging by a moment by life house has a similar chorus to courduroy
    I think Hanging By A Moment also has some of Nirvana's All Apologies

    It really doesn't bother me if a song has a similar sound to another, as long as it's not a total rip off.
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  • JumpingtheGreen
    JumpingtheGreen Posts: 32
    Zee Deveel (sp) By incubus sounds like half full
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  • carolinabeerguy
    carolinabeerguy Kernersville, NC Posts: 2,517
    I just downloaded While We Cry by Kenny Wayne Shepherd and it's almost identical to Yellow Ledbetter. An obvious homage to PJ here. Not like the Little Wing similarities, this song IS Yellow Ledbetter. The fact that at the beginning of the song he claims that he wrote it is a bit odd. I can't find a stream of it, but it is the same song.
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  • riantLoVEsu
    riantLoVEsu Posts: 74
    Just something on my mind ::shrug::

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    Baby sneezes
    Mummy pleases
    Daddy breezes in
    So good on paper,
    So romantic,
    But so bewildering..
    I know nothing stays the same
    But if you’re willing to play the game
    It’s coming around again
    So don’t mind if I fall apart
    There’s more room in a broken heart
    You pay the grocer,
    Fix the toasted,
    Kiss the host good-bye,
    Then you break a window.
    Burn the souffle,
    Scream the lullaby..
    I know nothing stays the same
    But if you’re willing to play the game
    It’s coming around again
    So don’t mind if I fall apart
    There’s more room in a broken heart

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