Top 10 song rip offs

Dillsnufus
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edited August 2010 in The Porch
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  • Blah
    Blah Posts: 469
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqN0ZOEO9oI


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cvIPqMjORE



    Goodnight. No wait we got more.

    42 second mark. It Smells Like Stolen Spirit.


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  • TheVan218
    TheVan218 Posts: 302
    Beach Bum wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqN0ZOEO9oI


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cvIPqMjORE



    Goodnight. No wait we got more.

    42 second mark. It Smells Like Stolen Spirit.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94


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  • Ty
    Ty Posts: 1,007
    Given To Fly (Pearl Jam)
    Going To California (Led Zeppelin)
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    Ty wrote:
    Given To Fly (Pearl Jam)
    Going To California (Led Zeppelin)

    thats probably the worst example of a band ripping another band off. those two songs are VAGUELY similar at best.

    Bottom line: all bands copy/share influences from others, whether its accidental or on purpose.
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  • Kloddz
    Kloddz Posts: 2,573
    AC/DC - Stormy May Day
    Led Zeppelin- In My Time of Dying

    Not strictly a rip-off, but the similarities are undeniable.

    (Also, isn't any AC/DC songs basically a rip-off of the previous AC/DC song? :lol: j/k, I love me some DC!)
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  • Electric_Delta
    Electric_Delta Posts: 977
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Ty wrote:
    Given To Fly (Pearl Jam)
    Going To California (Led Zeppelin)

    thats probably the worst example of a band ripping another band off. those two songs are VAGUELY similar at best.

    Bottom line: all bands copy/share influences from others, whether its accidental or on purpose.

    I agree. I always thought this comparison was bullshit.
    Bristow, VA (5/13/10)
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,789
    Vanilla Ice- Ice Ice Baby
    Queen- Under Pressure.

    Should have been #1 (how did this not even make the top 10?)
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  • Cradles Broken Glass
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    I'm sorry, but I just don't see some of these. :?
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  • Rearviewrelease
    Rearviewrelease Posts: 721
    eeriepadave wrote:
    Vanilla Ice- Ice Ice Baby
    Queen- Under Pressure.

    Should have been #1 (how did this not even make the top 10?)


    It's number 9...
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,789
    Rearviewrelease wrote:
    eeriepadave wrote:
    Vanilla Ice- Ice Ice Baby
    Queen- Under Pressure.

    Should have been #1 (how did this not even make the top 10?)


    It's number 9...


    ooops must have missed that one, my bad
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    5/1/16- NYC
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    9/2/18- Boston, MA
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  • jethrojam420
    jethrojam420 Foxborough MA Posts: 1,075
    I cannot give any credit to a list that includes the offspring ripping off the Beatles. The whole album Americana rips off other songs, uses the same music but different lyrics....all with permission....that was the point/theme/idea behind the whole damn cd....
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  • mookeywrench
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    Electric_Delta wrote:
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Ty wrote:
    Given To Fly (Pearl Jam)
    Going To California (Led Zeppelin)

    thats probably the worst example of a band ripping another band off. those two songs are VAGUELY similar at best.

    Bottom line: all bands copy/share influences from others, whether its accidental or on purpose.

    I agree. I always thought this comparison was bullshit.


    Bullshit? Even though both, Robert Plant and all of Pearl Jam, have acknowledged the simularities?
  • Electric_Delta
    Electric_Delta Posts: 977
    I mean more in the sense it is always used against PJ in an accusatory way.
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,095
    I thought the article was fairly neutral towards the subject.

    A rip off is a rip off, whether it's positive or negative is based on your own connotations.
  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,131
    Rearviewrelease wrote:
    eeriepadave wrote:
    Vanilla Ice- Ice Ice Baby
    Queen- Under Pressure.

    Should have been #1 (how did this not even make the top 10?)


    It's number 9...

    It should be number one, although it really is more like sodomizing the song than ripping it off. :evil:
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  • Back_Pedal
    Back_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Ty wrote:
    Given To Fly (Pearl Jam)
    Going To California (Led Zeppelin)

    thats probably the worst example of a band ripping another band off. those two songs are VAGUELY similar at best.

    Bottom line: all bands copy/share influences from others, whether its accidental or on purpose.
    Actually, I'd say the verses are pretty similar in terms of guitar melody, and some of the vocal melodies, but the choruses are pretty different from each other, and obviously the instrumentation is different. And hey, if Plant and Mike have even acknowledged it, and Plant is cool with it, I don't see the problem. It's still a great fuckin' song, which I dig more than Going to California.
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  • craigb
    craigb Posts: 806
    Check out this one:

    Doors "Five to One"

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

    Oasis "Waiting for the Rapture"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwFMc_Tn9QQ
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  • iamdirtyfrank
    iamdirtyfrank Posts: 207
    aerosmith ripped off the yardbirds with train kept a rollin. it's the same song, different lyrics. don't know the name of the yardbirds tune tho sorry, it's been a while since i've heard it.
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  • Tangerine
    Tangerine Posts: 880
    MUSE-Uprising
    Battles-Atlas

    The beat is almost identical, and I love Muse.

    And for the record Given to Fly sounds NOTHING like Going to California. PJ and Zeppelin are my two favorite bands and both are great songs, but personally GTF is the better song.
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  • TMudrick
    TMudrick Posts: 267

    thats probably the worst example of a band ripping another band off. those two songs are VAGUELY similar at best.

    Bottom line: all bands copy/share influences from others, whether its accidental or on purpose.

    I agree. I always thought this comparison was bullshit.


    Bullshit? Even though both, Robert Plant and all of Pearl Jam, have acknowledged the simularities?[/quote]

    Ya i mean.... They aren't identical... But you cant totally tell that the structures of each songs share a similar tone; with the intro, and the build up, and even the melody of the vocals in the chorus.


    I've always liked this one... Coldplay ripping off Joel Satriani

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvB9Pj9Znsw&feature=related

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