Songs That Sound A Little Too Similar

[Zuma]

tell me more

toniiiights the niiight
Ba-ba-da-bung
Toniiights the nii-ii-ii-ii-ii-ight

It’s got groove it’s got meaning instrumental riff during 1.02- 1.04 are the same notes as the main riff in Neil’s song

I’ve heard this for years

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

listen to the chorus and see if you can work it out yourself



pretty sure he won the suit, or at least the offending band settled with Joe

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

i have heaps of these:



and



Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wonderwall is an obvious one and probably already been done



this one is Taxman



one that i find really funny is this





this one is definitely not a direct copy in terms of composition, but it is very clearly inspired by This Charming Man - The Smiths



there's also stuff like this



and yeah, heaps more that im sure have already been mentioned or ppl already know about, like enter sandman, creep etc.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

listen to the chorus and see if you can work it out yourself



pretty sure he won the suit, or at least the offending band settled with Joe

I raise you this.

 

[RobbieGray17]

Heard Kraftwerk Computer Love yesterday and was like That's totally Coldplay Let's talk. Turns out they used the actual sample so legit.

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

Apologies in advance if these two have been posted before:

 

[RedmanWasHere]

The start of both songs.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Another pair.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

This pairing is rather striking in the similarities.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

I reckon the above inspired the tune below.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

 

[RedmanWasHere]

These 2 are bang on for me.


Edit: I'll include the tune that DJ Shadow sampled for this similarity.

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Need some help badly. I've heard this exact chorus progression somewhere before but can't work it out. Unless of course I'm recalling the actual song.

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

Need some help badly. I've heard this exact chorus progression somewhere before but can't work it out. Unless of course I'm recalling the actual song.

I actually listened to this without having the vision of who was singing it, and immediately thought of Take It Easy by The Eagles.

 

[Purple7x08_24]

I actually listened to this without having the vision of who was singing it, and immediately thought of Take It Easy by The Eagles.

It's one of those things that's destroying my mind. I know I've heard it before. I feel like a 2010s band

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Thoughts

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

Thoughts

Not seeing it personally but I love the latter so a bit blinkered

 

[Juke]

And

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

And

Ive seen much less than this get Please Explain from lawyers. Good find.

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

The choruses in particular

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

Speed up the second one slightly and they sound rather alike to me

 

[JackFlash]

There have been some big-name songs that people love to this day, but they were all ripped off....I like to think that Led Zeppelin just "zeppelinized things". But they were not the only ones.
Deep Purple Purpleizied "Black Night" from the Blue Magoos - We Aint Got Nothin Yet from 1966 who took the riff from Ricky Nelson's "Summertime" in 1961.
in 1970. They also took It's a Beautiful Day's "Bombay Calling" and made "Child In Time". Ritchie was also a big Gershwin fan taking "Fascinating Rythm" and turning into "Burn"...
The one us Aussies have to frown about is the anthemic "Angels" classic "Am I ever Going To See Your Face Again" which the boys pinched from a Status Quo non album B side called "Lonely Night" (they thought no one would notice)?

And as for Stairway to Heaven? It's a classical piece that infleunced Jimmy Page not Spirit who were influenced by the same piece of music for their song Taurus in 1968. Giovanni Battista Granata uses this same progression and nearly the same melody heard in “Stairway to Heaven.” The work, “Sonata di Chittarra, e Violino, con il suo Basso Continuo,” was composed in 1659. Bach was also fond of it.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

And as for Stairway to Heaven? It's a classical piece that infleunced Jimmy Page not Spirit who were influenced by the same piece of music for their song Taurus in 1968. Giovanni Battista Granata uses this same progression and nearly the same melody heard in “Stairway to Heaven.” The work, “Sonata di Chittarra, e Violino, con il suo Basso Continuo,” was composed in 1659. Bach was also fond of it.

Dolly Parton hitched her wagon to this melody for We Used To.

 

[Interceptor]

There have been some big-name songs that people love to this day, but they were all ripped off....I like to think that Led Zeppelin just "zeppelinized things". But they were not the only ones.
Deep Purple Purpleizied "Black Night" from the Blue Magoos - We Aint Got Nothin Yet from 1966 who took the riff from Ricky Nelson's "Summertime" in 1961.
in 1970. They also took It's a Beautiful Day's "Bombay Calling" and made "Child In Time". Ritchie was also a big Gershwin fan taking "Fascinating Rythm" and turning into "Burn"...

Ritchie talks about some of his riff sources here:

And as for Stairway to Heaven? It's a classical piece that infleunced Jimmy Page not Spirit who were influenced by the same piece of music for their song Taurus in 1968. Giovanni Battista Granata uses this same progression and nearly the same melody heard in “Stairway to Heaven.” The work, “Sonata di Chittarra, e Violino, con il suo Basso Continuo,” was composed in 1659. Bach was also fond of it.

Interesting, was this cited in the Stairway court case?
There were certainly a few experts outside the case who pointed out how "generic" the Stairway intro actually was, not sure if any mentioned classical origins.

 

[JackFlash]

Ritchie talks about some of his riff sources here:





Interesting, was this cited in the Stairway court case?
There were certainly a few experts outside the case who pointed out how "generic" the Stairway intro actually was, not sure if any mentioned classical origins.

It's what got them off, most good guitar players would've heard the piece...Spirit just didn't do it as well as Page. And the riff to Smoke on The Water was born...