Songs That Sound A Little Too Similar

[Fossie 32]

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[Fossie 32]

Whoa! 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago and Babe I'm Gonna Quit You by Zep

 

[Deledinho]

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[TheBigT]

in fairness to muse, the piano intro to spinning in daffodils sounds exactly like the one in new born

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Snowy White-Bird of paradise, Dire Straits-Brothers in arms. Dunno if it was just their styles being similar or maybe a few streches of the songs are the same.

 

[Scotland]

Generation Why by Kisschasy reminds me of something...

I can't put my finger on whether it's old school Jebediah (ie the first EP Twitch) or something else... Either or it's a whiny, rubbish song.

 

[Fossie 32]

This sounds like an early Beatles song but can't remember which - maybe a bit like "Things We Said Today"

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[Wanbli]

Was talking to a mate the other day and we realised that the riff at the start of this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YtB4kxfQPs

sounds a little too similar to this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8VTlXVqUQ

Still prefer the first song, though.

 

[Deledinho]

They're definitely different enough to avoid plagiarism lawsuits, but Phoenix's Lisztomania strongly reminds me of ELO's Mr. Blue Sky.

 

[Pure Pop]

When listening to The Drums' "Let's Go Surfing" does anyone else want to start singing The Cure's "Grinding Halt"?

 

[Zarrix]

Meshuggah- Pineal Gland Optics
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Porcupine Tree- Circle of Manias
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I think PT openly admitted that Circle of Manias was influenced by Meshuggah.

 

[don vito of fitzroy]

Some parts of "New Dawn Fades" by Joy Division sound like "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath.

 

[scooterb]

The opening riff of Wake Up by R.A.T.M

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and the opening riff of Kashmir (no video needed).

 

[don vito of fitzroy]

I think they even admitted to ripping it off or editors on Wikipedia have pointed it out.

The main riff in "Enter Sandman" by Metallica sounds like a re-working of "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple.

"Pumping Up Your Stereo" by Supergrass sounds like a huge rip-off of David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel".

 

[mehz69]

the intros to sweet child of mine by jon bon jovi & perfect by simple plan.

even tho sweet child o' mine is a rip off of rush-xanadu

 

[mehz69]

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[youtube]8EtkuHzBVFM[/youtube]

one miniscule sounds the similar....coincidence...sounds more like t-rex than that

 

[scooterb]

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[scooterb]

double post

 

[Deledinho]

Another Zeppelin one:

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[Ron The Bear]

Down Under - Men At Work and Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree (apparently).

AUSSIE pop group Men at Work ripped off an Australian folk tune in their 1980s smash hit Down Under, a federal court judge has found.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ju...n-hit-down-under/story-e6frf7jo-1225826673826

 

[DJ Dupree]

Down Under - Men At Work and Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree (apparently).



http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ju...n-hit-down-under/story-e6frf7jo-1225826673826

lol.

Pathetic.

An Aussie great suing an Aussie great.

"Strike me roan".

 

[JUBJUB]

Down Under - Men At Work and Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree (apparently).



http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ju...n-hit-down-under/story-e6frf7jo-1225826673826

It can't be too obvious if it took nearly 30 years for this issue to be raised in court.The only reason the publishers found out was because of a question on Spicks and Specks 2 years ago.

 

[Plugger35]

lol.

Pathetic.

An Aussie great suing an Aussie great.

"Strike me roan".

Pathetic is the word.

It's only a small part of the Down Under song that Men of Work supposedly ripped off, ie. the little flute part, the rest of the song sounds nothing like it. I've heard plenty of worse cases of plagiarism.

Looks like a case of some money hungry publishers seeing an opportunity to get their slice of a cash cow. Men at Work should tell them to get f***ed, it was the rest of their song that made it a big money spinning hit, not the silly little "Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree" flute part.

 

[krisholio14]

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Bohemian Like You (warning: contains full frontal nudity)
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Little Bitch by The Specials:
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Which are rip offs of this....

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[krisholio14]

Some others.....

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