Songs That Sound A Little Too Similar

[AtomicBlonde]

Listen to the opening of Just Like Jessy James and the lyric in Total Eclipse Of The Heat "once upon a time there was love in my life."

Similar for mine.

It's a very long bow to draw for that brief few seconds though to be "too similar."

 

[AtomicBlonde]

During the sessions for The Rolling Stones' Bridges To Babylon album (1996/97), Keith Richards was playing "Anybody Seen My Baby" at home and one of his daughters just started singing k.d. lang's "Constant Craving" during the chorus. Keith phoned Mick and the end result was Jagger and Richards having to share equal credits/royalties with lang and Ben Mink (her co-writer).

 

[RedmanWasHere]

During the sessions for The Rolling Stones' Bridges To Babylon album (1996/97), Keith Richards was playing "Anybody Seen My Baby" at home and one of his daughters just started singing k.d. lang's "Constant Craving" during the chorus. Keith phoned Mick and the end result was Jagger and Richards having to share equal credits/royalties with lang and Ben Mink (her co-writer).

With Angelina Jolie in the first thumbnail.

 

[james Dean]

Gary Glitter rock and roll and the Black Keys howlin' for you

 

[SnakeMan86]

and

 

[AtomicBlonde]

Was just playing an old Mary J. Blige CD and could hardly believe my ears when this track came on, it is soo similar to Prince's I Hate U - it is scary.

MJB from 1997 album Mary:


Prince from 1995 album The Gold Experience:

 

[d33my]

Main riffs/hooks in both these songs are very similar in both melody and tempo (though the AATA one sounds like it's an octave or two higher--don't have guitar on me but maybe will confirm later).

'Electric Funeral' - Black Sabbath (1970)


'Ants Invasion' - Adam and the Ants (1980)

 

[Twoslabs]

This guitar riff



became this



and ended up as this

 

[RedmanWasHere]

This guitar riff



became this



and ended up as this

It then turned into this:

 

[pokerspiv]

Not sure if it's already been posted

 

[RedmanWasHere]

(At the 50sec mark.)

 

[screech]

Everytime I hear this in the background:



it reminds me of this:

 

[Running Dog]

Back on the Triple j hottest 100 of 1994 there was a song called Fade Into You, by Mazzy Star, one of the best covers of Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door.

 

[Zuma]

ELO - Telephone Line vs Green Day - 21 Guns.

ELO have a great song called Poker that is pretty much a blueprint of the Greenday sound

 

[raskolnikov]

Listen to Devil Inside from about 4:00 on and tell me they didn't rip off Gloria from about 3:30 on.

 

[The Dice Man]

I was out of radio range for a month, now being exposed to pop radio stations in France and this song is popping up a lot.



Is the part that's a blatant melody rip off enough to land them in trouble?

 

[d33my]

I was out of radio range for a month, now being exposed to pop radio stations in France and this song is popping up a lot.



Is the part that's a blatant melody rip off enough to land them in trouble?

Can you be more specific?

 

[The Dice Man]

Just listen to it man. There's a few bars that are a direct rip of a very very famous MJ song.

 

[d33my]

Just listen to it man. There's a few bars that are a direct rip of a very very famous MJ song.

Haha I did, and I'm worried I'm missing something big. But also, pop is pop. As evidenced by this thread, so much of it is 'inspired' by other songs.
I'll work it over in my head during the day though.

 

[The Dice Man]

Beat it.

 

[edgie]

Listen to Devil Inside from about 4:00 on and tell me they didn't rip off Gloria from about 3:30 on.

They didn't.

 

[AtomicBlonde]

This one just popped up in the Daily Mail today.

Full article here (James Reyne is reluctant to take on might of GNR's legal eagles):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...songs-Gunners-listening-Aussie-rock-time.html

Gunners (recorded in 1987):



Possibly lifted from/based on this Aussie Crawl song from their classic 1981 album, Sirocco:

 

[Quivorir]

Spoiler: Repost

Was just reading this article on the age and its not wrong.

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainm...al-from-australian-crawl-20150512-ggzq7d.html

Lol, literally the last post. All I had to do was read Quivorir.

 

[d33my]

That one has been posted before IIRC, but it's certainly incredible. You can sing the GNR lyrics to 'Unpublished Critics'

 

[RedmanWasHere]

1995 vs 2011.



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