View Full Version : Biggest rip offs in music
materamagic
12 Oct 2003, 00:29
Vanilla Ice replicating Queen and Bowies "Under Pressure" riff
Why Don't You Get A Job ripping of Ob la di - Ob la da
Tribute ripping off Stairway To Heaven
Don't Look Back In Anger intro ripping off the Imagine intro
There's one pop song I heard recently which "makes use" (to put it in extremely flattering terms) of the first movement of Beethoven's fifth symphony.
Blasphemy. The culprit should be sentenced to death by stoning.
Vanilla Ice replicating Queen and Bowies "Under Pressure" riff More than a rip off. It's an exactly copy. Surely VI must've paid royalties? :confused:
Why Don't You Get A Job ripping of Ob la di - Ob la da This was the one I thought of when I saw this thread.
When there was all the controversy over WDYGAJ, I'd never heard of ob la di ob la da. Then when I first heard Ob la di od la da from a friend's CD... I could instantly see what all the fuss is about.
Tribute ripping off Stairway To Heaven It does? :confused: I'll have to listen more closely next time...
Don't Look Back In Anger intro ripping off the Imagine intro Can't say I've noticed this one either. But then Oasis have made an art form of ripping off the Beatles.
The start of Soundgarden's Blow up the Outside World apparently rips off Nirvana's Something in the Way. There's a slight similarity there, but I don't think it's a rip off.
materamagic
12 Oct 2003, 01:39
Originally posted by DaveW
More than a rip off. It's an exactly copy. Surely VI must've paid royalties? :confused:
This was the one I thought of when I saw this thread.
When there was all the controversy over WDYGAJ, I'd never heard of ob la di ob la da. Then when I first heard Ob la di od la da from a friend's CD... I could instantly see what all the fuss is about.
It does? :confused: I'll have to listen more closely next time...
Can't say I've noticed this one either. But then Oasis have made an art form of ripping off the Beatles.
The start of Soundgarden's Blow up the Outside World apparently rips off Nirvana's Underneath the Bridge. There's a slight similarity there, but I don't think it's a rip off.
i thought chilli peppers did under the bridge
Leaping Lindner
12 Oct 2003, 01:40
How about Jet doing "Lust for Life"?????
Rod Stroker
12 Oct 2003, 02:15
Anytime an upstart, Johnny-come-lately murders a classic rock tune for the sake of a quick buck ! :mad:
Stealth bomber
12 Oct 2003, 02:39
"Funky Drummer" by James Brown has been sampled about 200 times. There's a two-bar section where everything except the drums cuts out, providing what is surely the most overused drum loop ever created.
The beginning of Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" would have to be a solid #2.
Originally posted by materamagic
i thought chilli peppers did under the bridge Duly edited. I meant Something in the Way.
The first three words of Something in the Way are "Underneath the bridge..."
Magpira
12 Oct 2003, 12:21
Originally posted by materamagic
i thought chilli peppers did under the bridge
Maybe it's me, but I always thought that part of the RHCP's 'Under The Bridge' ripped of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Stones.
Originally posted by DaveW
Can't say I've noticed this one either. But then Oasis have made an art form of ripping off the Beatles.
It's just C F strummed a few times. Like Noel said, the beatles don't own those two chords. They've used alot more Bowie, T-rex riffs (and chord progressions) than The Beatles. A fact Noel freely admits.
Milkman
12 Oct 2003, 15:23
Maybe, but they also ripped off the Beatle's hairstyles and mutton chops.
Originally posted by Milkman
Maybe, but they also ripped off the Beatle's hairstyles and mutton chops.
And later Johnny Marrs as well. ;)
Adrian Shelton
12 Oct 2003, 20:09
That song that rips off the Go Betweens-Streets of your town
FreoDocker
12 Oct 2003, 20:58
N-Trance butchering a Bee Gees classic - Staying Alive
All Saints cover of Under the Bridge was a shocker
Lockyer24
12 Oct 2003, 22:36
Scooter, DJ Sammy, die ****s.