Songs that sound alike

[Little Texan]

I have a few in my head, but I'll just list a pair for now.

Last Call by DLR and Walk This Way by Aerosmith.

[Unchainme]

Easy, John Forgerty auctually got sued for RIPPING OFF HIMSELF :D!

Run through The Jungle

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The Old Man is down The Road

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Both are Great Tunes, and Both John Fogerty and CCR kick much ass.

[ThrillsNSpills]

Space Cowboy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uho2SAVliUc) (embedding disabled)

Steve Miller's Space Cowboy has the same riff as beatles' Lady Madonna just in a different key. (not the whole song though)

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[Mr Badguy]

Alice Cooper`s "I`m eighteen" shamelessly ripped off by Paul Stanley for "Dreamin`" from 98`s "Psycho circus".

[DeadOrAlive]

Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure" with Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby"... :D

[Little Texan]

Am I Evil cover by Metallica and When by Megadeth

[Little Texan]

Bad Seed by Metallica and Prince Of Darkness by Megadeth

The main riff sounds the same.

[Little Texan]

Four Horsemen by Metallica and Mechanix by Megadeth

Basically the same song, but with different lyrics.

[Dave's Bitch]

fuck how many more metallica megadeth ones you gonna post?

[Mr. Vengeance]

He's obviously a disgruntled Metallica fan.

Most famous ever is George Harrison, My Sweet Lord and The Chiffons, He's So Fine

[Little Texan]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
He's obviously a disgruntled Metallica fan.




Yes, I am, but in all those instances Megadeth copied Metallica.

[Little Texan]

Mas Tequila by Sammy Hagar and Rock and Roll Pt. 2 by Gary Glitter

[WOAHYEAH]

Shit...KISS' Hard Luck Woman sounds like a Rod Stewart song...I think it was Rod Stewart.

[rustoffa]

That stupid Weezer song "Beverly Hills" sounds like a down-tempo ripoff of "I Love Rock And Roll."

Remember that Sweet song "Little Willy?" Every up-tempo song the Ramones ever recorded was based on that.

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[Tiki-Tom]

"Get YOur Hands Off My Woman" by The Darkness sounds much like "Sister Havana" by Urge Overkill.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by Little Texan
Yes, I am, but in all those instances Megadeth copied Metallica.

They certainly didn't need to.

[blueturk]

"Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits is a "Jumping Jack Flash" rip-off, "Blue Morning" by Foreigner rips off the main fiff from Thin Lizzy's "Johnny". "Beat It" is a rip of "Back On The Road Again" by REO Speedwagon (their only good song too!). The list goes on and on....

[Soul Reaper]

Baba O Riley by The Who and Hungry for Heaven by Dio

it's the same riff....

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[binnie]

Zakk Wylde re-uses Sabbath riffs in the BLS quite frequently...


Metallica also nicked the riff from "Spirit in the Sky" for Poor Twisted Me

I always think that The Beatles riff from Day Tripper was ripped off by Nazareth - can't remember the song title, but GNR covered it on "The Spaggeti Incident".....

[binnie]

Jet "Are you gonna be my girl" sounds, musically at least, a lot like "Lust for Life" by Iggy.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Originally posted by Little Texan
Yes, I am, but in all those instances Megadeth copied Metallica.

I don't hear it. Disgruntled Metallica fans think every song Megadeth did ripped off Metallica. Especially since Metallica went into the shitter and Megadeth had a great comeback album.

[Panamark]

Wild thing and Louie Louie

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by Panamark
Wild thing and Louie Louie

BTW, many of Chuck Berry's tunes look a lot like each others.

In a totally different genre - and league - Duran Duran's guitarist always plays the same thing IMO.

So many blues sound alike too...

As for precise songs, it's true that there are a fucking lot from one band to another.

I think Uli Roth with the Scorpions rather often ripped off Hendrix generally speaking, in the verse of "Fly to the Rainbow" (<=> "Little Wing") or another example, you clearly hear the riff of "Gypsy Eyes" in "Polar nights" (in the "Virgin Killer" album)...
That said, I dig what Uli Roth did with the Scorpions anyway. :cool:

[Mr. Vengeance]

Georgia Satellites Keep Your Hands to Yourself is a blatant ripoff of Rod Stewart's Hot Legs

[Little Texan]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
I don't hear it. Disgruntled Metallica fans think every song Megadeth did ripped off Metallica. Especially since Metallica went into the shitter and Megadeth had a great comeback album.

Dude, I don't think every song Megadeth has done ripped off Metallica. I actually like both bands, and prefer Megadeth these days to Shittalica. On two of my examples, the similarity is obvious, and on the other, the two songs sound different except that I think the main riff sounds similar, so, I'll admit that one is questionable, at best.

The second half of When sounds nearly identical to Metallica's version of Am I Evil. Four Horsemen was originally called Mechanix when Mustaine was with Metallica, and being as he wrote the song and it was his baby, it's not really a knockoff. After they kicked Mustaine out of the band, Metallica changed the lyrics to Mechanix and renamed it Four Horsemen. So that one is indisputible since it is the same song.

[saint]

Good ol Dave's Tell The Truth

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Sounds a little to close to

Alannah Myles - Black Velvet to be coincidental

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[Panamark]

Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise
BTW, many of Chuck Berry's tunes look a lot like each others.



Yeah !

Sweet little sixteen was rehashed many times..

Two of Chuck's that spring to mind...

School Days
No Particular place to go...

[sadaist]

Originally posted by Little Texan
in all those instances Megadeth copied Metallica.

Hardly. Mechanix & The Four Horseman for instance. Mustaine co-wrote those songs and took them with him. They are as much his as Metallica's.

My entry is AC/DC - Beating Around The Bush & VH Sinners Swing.

[Panamark]

Its one thing plaguerising yourself, I cant stand
the fuckers that obviously do this today, and
claim to be original songwriters..

eg:

Ever notice that when you hear a Greenday song for
the first time, it sounds totally familiar..
Thats because most of their melodies are ripped
off from other tunes.. (Just different lyrics)

The last greenday song I heard, I actually broke
it down into four different, really well known songs
that they have copied the melodies from, exactly..

They mix it up a bit, half the verse might be from
one song, half the verse from another. But they
are stealing big time.. Nobody seems to care..

How about "The Offspring's" Nah Nah why dont
you get a job..

Mix Oh Blah Di Oh Blah Dah (Beatles) with
Celia (Simon and Garfunkel) and you have
every melody in that song covered.....


Offspring are another where many songs are
instantly familiar... There is a good reason for that !!!

[theicecreamman]

Originally posted by Little Texan
Yes, I am, but in all those instances Megadeth copied Metallica.

Actually Dave Mustaine wrote the Mechanix and Metallica used to play the song in 1982. Once Dave was kicked out they changed the lyrics and added a few little extra parts so Metallica actually ripped off Dave Mustaine.

[Satan]

Originally posted by rustoffa

Remember that Sweet song "Little Willy?" Every up-tempo song the Ramones ever recorded was based on that.



Actually, I always thought David Bowie's "Hang On To Yourself" was the blueprint for the entire Ramones sound (except the guitar's not nearly as loud)

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[Satan]

Originally posted by Panamark
Yeah !

Sweet little sixteen was rehashed many times..

Two of Chuck's that spring to mind...

School Days
No Particular place to go...

Not to mention "Surfing USA". The tune was so directly stolen from Sweet Little Sixteen that the song is credited "Brian Wilson/Chuck Berry".

[Satan]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
Georgia Satellites Keep Your Hands to Yourself is a blatant ripoff of Rod Stewart's Hot Legs

Which in turn was a blatant ripoff of the Rolling Stones "Crazy Mama".

[Little Texan]

Originally posted by sadaist
Hardly. Mechanix & The Four Horseman for instance. Mustaine co-wrote those songs and took them with him. They are as much his as Metallica's.




Originally posted by theicecreamman
Actually Dave Mustaine wrote the Mechanix and Metallica used to play the song in 1982. Once Dave was kicked out they changed the lyrics and added a few little extra parts so Metallica actually ripped off Dave Mustaine.



I guess ya'll missed this little post of mine earlier regarding that...


Originally posted by Little Texan
Four Horsemen was originally called Mechanix when Mustaine was with Metallica, and being as he wrote the song and it was his baby, it's not really a knockoff. After they kicked Mustaine out of the band, Metallica changed the lyrics to Mechanix and renamed it Four Horsemen. So that one is indisputible since it is the same song.

[Satan]

Originally posted by Panamark


The last greenday song I heard, I actually broke
it down into four different, really well known songs
that they have copied the melodies from, exactly..



Actually, that was done deliberately. When they started writing the "St. Jimmy" part of the album, initially it was loosely based on Kurt Cobain, who they had met in 1990 right before Nirvana got huge and when Green Day themselves had first started out. But the piece grew from that into being more of a tribute to rock n roll itself. Actually the entire album, if you listen carefully, has influences like that, but they're intentional tributes as opposed to deliberate plagarism.

For example, "Holiday", the anti-war song might as well be called "London Calling, part 2". But I think Joe Strummer would have got the joke.

Now any similarities on their earlier albums (and there definitely are some) I just always chalked up to the limitations of writing three chord punk rock songs.

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by Satan
Actually, I always thought David Bowie's "Hang On To Yourself" was the blueprint for the entire Ramones sound (except the guitar's not nearly as loud)

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The Ramones were a bunch of glam-ripping-off fuckers!!

There's no doubt they sat around LOL about their irony-laden success!!!
:D

[Panamark]

Originally posted by Satan
Actually, that was done deliberately. When they started writing the "St. Jimmy" part of the album, initially it was loosely based on Kurt Cobain, who they had met in 1990 right before Nirvana got huge and when Green Day themselves had first started out. But the piece grew from that into being more of a tribute to rock n roll itself. Actually the entire album, if you listen carefully, has influences like that, but they're intentional tributes as opposed to deliberate plagarism.

For example, "Holiday", the anti-war song might as well be called "London Calling, part 2". But I think Joe Strummer would have got the joke.

Now any similarities on their earlier albums (and there definitely are some) I just always chalked up to the limitations of writing three chord punk rock songs.

Its a very grey area when defining what is "plagarism"
and what is "tribute"

Sounds like a good excuse when you get busted for plagarism :D

[Panamark]

Originally posted by Satan
Not to mention "Surfing USA". The tune was so directly stolen from Sweet Little Sixteen that the song is credited "Brian Wilson/Chuck Berry".

I saw a documentary on the Beach Boys only two weeks ago.
Good doco... Brian Wilson said straight out that he used
"Sweet little Sixteen" for Surfin USA.......

Old Chuck must have received royalties for that..

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Satan
Actually, I always thought David Bowie's "Hang On To Yourself" was the blueprint for the entire Ramones sound (except the guitar's not nearly as loud)

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'Hang on to Yourself' by Bowie was the blueprint for most of the Sex Pistols songs as well.....

[sadaist]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
Baba O Riley by The Who and Hungry for Heaven by Dio

it's the same riff....

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Dammit Soul Reaper, good call. I never really listened to Dio after his 1st two albums. What a blatant ripoff of one of the greatest songs ever written.

Jesus Christ! Just watch Entwistle. Dude was a madman.

[saint]

And where does this fit in the Woh / Dio soup

The Sweet - Lies In Your Eyes

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[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by saint
And where does this fit in the Woh / Dio soup

The Sweet - Lies In Your Eyes

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well, the first few chords sound like Baba O Riley....just with a different rhythm....

I didn't think the rest of it did....

[Soul Reaper]

going into rap music....if you can stand it....

but I quite like the George Clinton song...

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George Clinton - Atomic Dog

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Snoop Dogg - What's my Name

[Satan]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
going into rap music....if you can stand it....

but I quite like the George Clinton song...

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George Clinton - Atomic Dog

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Snoop Dogg - What's my Name

Dre loves his George Clinton samples, that's for damned sure.

[Susie Q]

Anything by AC/DC. They have the same drum beat in every song. Just sing any other their songs to yourself, you'll see what I mean.

[Little Texan]

Surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but a more recent example is Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Last Dance With Mary Jane by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by Little Texan
Surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but a more recent example is Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Last Dance With Mary Jane by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

Google search that. That is a huge controversy going on right now.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

The only rap I like is the Chronic album. Good shit.

[binnie]

Originally posted by Little Texan
Surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but a more recent example is Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Last Dance With Mary Jane by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

Thank-you!

I had been trying to work out what song that reminded me off!

[binnie]

Originally posted by Little Texan
Surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but a more recent example is Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Last Dance With Mary Jane by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

Very true....

I think Malcolm Young actually said something like "we put out the same album every year with a different cover".

Gotta love DC tho....

[sadaist]

Originally posted by Little Texan
in all those instances Megadeth copied Metallica.

If Megadeth did copy Metallica, at least they never copied the lame songs. And there have been plenty of those.

Weird Al Yankovic might copy a few songs. Call me crazy, but his stuff sounds kinda familiar.

[binnie]

Blurry by Puddle of Mud and Lithium by Nirvana, ahh fuck it, anything by Puddle of Mud and Nirvana....

[Shaun Ponsonby]

There's 2 songs by the 4 Tops. "I Can't Help Myself" and "Same Old Song", they practically are the same old songs.

[PHOENIX]

Did anyone ever notice also the Wild thing has the same chord changes as Janis Joplins Piece of My Heart?