Metallica rip off Why Go?

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  • PJamGrunge10
    PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 596
    I doubt they were just sitting around listening to Why Go and said "hey lets use this riff for a song!". Probably just a coincidence. It's not like Why Go was a popular song anyways.
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    PJamGrunge10 wrote:
    I doubt they were just sitting around listening to Why Go and said "hey lets use this riff for a song!". Probably just a coincidence. It's not like Why Go was a popular song anyways.
    I bet at least 12 million people know what that song is. ;)

    It was never released as a single but I've actually heard it played on rock stations a few times already.
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  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    i doubt they've even heard 'why go' before
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  • youngster
    youngster Boston Posts: 6,576
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    The same argument could be made by Metallica fans that Pearl Jam has lost a ton of fans along the way (which they have).

    True. I agree with that. I guess it's all in what you like. Actually, now that I listen to the samples from Metallica's new album, I'm on the fence about buying it. Some songs actually sound pretty good (I agree Track 2 sounds like Why go but so what, the Chili Peppers opening riff on Dani California sounded like Tom petty's Last dance with Mary jane. It happens. I bet the song in whole won't sound the same. It sounds like 80's Metallica so I might give it a spin.
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  • UndyTaker
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    yoke wrote:
    yeah and lets not forget that Zep ripped everyone off...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjPAEPFaxoM&feature=related

    That doesn't make anything better. It's just dumb to see people crying that Metallica ripped off PJ when PJ has made songs that sounded almost identical to other bands songs. That's called hypocrisy.
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  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    SoapMakesUTaller wrote:
    I hear more Animal in there than Why Go
    yeah i do too like theyre schmooshed together
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  • HatredThrownDown
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    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    The rift sounds similar, but there's only so many rifts before things are recyled. Pearl Jam songs rifts have ripped off just any song from 70s rock. A while back I heard the "doo do doo do doo doo dooo" from Black on the radio, turns out it was an old Rolling Stones song.
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  • hopethatuchoke
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    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    They heard it at Bonnaroo and said " FUCK YES, that's the riff we've been looking for". Metallica were destroyed at Bonnaroo by Pearl Jam so they must have decided if you can't beat em' we'll join em'.
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    Yep, that is exactly what happened.
  • PJ_Lukin
    PJ_Lukin Posts: 2,055
    There are only so many notes and so many ways to put them together. It is inevitable.
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  • Surf Rider
    Surf Rider Posts: 813
    PJ_Lukin wrote:
    There are only so many notes and so many ways to put them together. It is inevitable.


    Ya but it just so happens that Metallica was very close by at Bonnaroo for Pearl Jam's set and they played Why Go. Then miraculously a Metallica song with Why Go dripping from it appears. A kawinkydink, I THINK NOT!
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    tsk, tsk, metallica.
    let's try & be original, k?
  • gobrowns19
    gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    The drums sound the same but I can't hear anything else honestly. Sorry.

    Now that Severed Hand rip off from a while back, that's another story. Anyone have a link of that one?
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  • emily18
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    MayDay10 wrote:
    1. it does sound similar to why go/

    2. hearing those snippets, i have no doubt metallica is going to continue to suck

    hahah perfectly said!
  • Surf Rider
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    Wanna hear the biggest rip off of all-time. It's from a guy named Kenny Wayne Shepherd, the song is called While We Cry. Get this the album is called "LEDBETTER Heights" and yes Yellow Ledbetter is the song being ripped off.



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If955Enc3k0
  • yoke
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    UndieTaker wrote:
    That doesn't make anything better. It's just dumb to see people crying that Metallica ripped off PJ when PJ has made songs that sounded almost identical to other bands songs. That's called hypocrisy.


    Not saying that it does make any better.. My point was that everyone borrows or even outright steals shit from other musicians. This has been going on for ever.
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  • Shawn Smith Collective
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    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    Wanna hear the biggest rip off of all-time. It's from a guy named Kenny Wayne Shepherd, the song is called While We Cry. Get this the album is called "LEDBETTER Heights" and yes Yellow Ledbetter is the song being ripped off.



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If955Enc3k0

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  • Surf Rider
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    Shawn Smith Collective wrote:
    Good lord man! "This song that I wrote..." IS HE MAD?!?!?!


    That's some funny shit ain't it.
  • hopethatuchoke
    hopethatuchoke Posts: 2,927
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    Ya but it just so happens that Metallica was very close by at Bonnaroo for Pearl Jam's set and they played Why Go. Then miraculously a Metallica song with Why Go dripping from it appears. A kawinkydink, I THINK NOT!


    You are being sarcastic right?
  • Surf Rider
    Surf Rider Posts: 813
    hopethatuchoke wrote:
    You are being sarcastic right?


    The only thing sarcastic in this thread is the QUESTION MARK the OP put in his thread title.

    :D
  • bigbadbill
    bigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    Even though I like Pearl Jam more than Metallica, I don't think Metallica are that bad. I guess since I didn't start listening to Metallica until summer of 1992, I didn't grow up listening to their first four albums (which I do like more than Load through St. Anger). Like I said, Metallica might not be as good as they were in the 80s, but I still like their music. I even like some of the songs from Load, Reload and St. Anger.
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