Be Excellent To Each Other

Today I suddenly sprang to the realisation that Opus 40 by Mercury Rev...



Sounds just like All The Young Dudes by Mott The Hoople



Any other ahhhhhhhh moments in songs that you think you've heard?

If I remember rightly, the melodies and backing tracks to most Will Smith songs are ripped off almost wholesale from other music, and the lyrics are just changed.

eggzamples, Gazchap, eggzamples!

But they usually credit the original.

Isn't anyone going to tell me how right I amm about Mercury Rev and Hoople?!

Miami.



Although it's just using samples which 99.9% of r'n'b and hip-hop uses.

http://www.whosampled.com is a fascinating site for finding which songs have ripped off others.

<refrains from mentioning the whole Oasis back catalogue>

Without playing them, I can't see too much in common of the choruses of Rev/Hoople.

Dunno about the verse as I can't remember ATYD well enough.

"Deserter's Songs" is one of my all time favourite albums. 'Endlessly' is amazing (and sounds like 'Silent Night').

Play them when you get home.

Wolf Parade apeing Black Sabbath War Pigs and Iron man at around 2.25



Arcade fire not playing Heart of Glass.



Great riff by Magazine...



or was it by Buzzcocks?

Baa Baa Black Sheep and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

noooo...

Twinkle Twinkle little star sounds far far more like the alphabet song.

I didn't so much mean people who sampled other songs, but more bands that took a little bit too much 'inspiration' from other songs, perhaps?

Mary had a little lamb and London Bridge is falling down.

On a more sensible note, 'Uprising' by Muse and 'Call Me' by Blondie.

I wan't even aware that Mary Had A Little Lamb had a tune

[edit]Oh.

yes, and the start is White collar boy by Belle and Sebastien.

Oooooh, yes!

Also, 'Monument' by The Frames and 'Vaseline' by Stone Temple Pilots have the same guitar riff.

vaseline, that the one I was trying to remember!

Chorus theft:





Not to mention the entire output of the Foo Fighters sounds like a narrow selection of Wildhearts stuff. They're complete phoneys. True story: After leaving East/West the Wildhearts signed for Mushroom. At roughly the same time Foo Fighters launched and the instruction from Mushroom high command was "you need to sound different to the Foo Fighters". Cue lots of drugs being taken and the release of Endless/Nameless, Ginger's "Metal Machine Music" and an album I really liked, you just couldn't get it airplay. Guess which poor bastard was on the PR team for that one?

I eventually went to work for a bank. This was one of the singles, featuring a 90's pop-rock proto bass-drop and deliberately produced to sound like it was being played in the next room. Awesome, but unsellable. I repeat, yes it is meant to sound like that. They spent a lot of time on it.

"I Think I'm Paranoid" by Garbage is "Bend Me, Shape Me" by the American Breed.

This is Baa Baa Black Sheep:



I assume it is actually meant to be Baa Baa Black Sheep and not a coincidence though.

While I remember, the same golden age of British music gave us Elastica:





(settled out of court)





(settled out of court) and...

that turbonegro one is terrible!

It's been said

Status Quo.

Sorry Findus.

Damn it! I'm dead good at these but I can't remember any right now. Keep this thread open, yeah?

Sooooooo tempted to lock the thread!

If we're including songs by the same band, Chuck Berry too. 'No Particular Place to Go' and 'School Day' for a start.

Why do people complain about songs sounding they same when the band is called Status Quo?

I don't get why people complain about a band having the same sounding songs anyway. It doesn't happen with anything else, nobody was pissed off that the Harry Potter books all had the same people in them, for example.

Because all the songs should sound like Pictures of Matchstick Men.

Er, those two things aren't even slightly related.

People complaining that bands always have the same band members in them would be like people moaning about the same characters in a book.

However, when the plots of films are all the same (The Matrix and sequels) then people mention it all of the time.

The plots of the Harry Potter books are all the same, basically.

People complaining that the author is always the same, would be the same as people complaining that the band always has the same members...

God no. I'm a Quo fan and while I like their early stuff, I'm not a fan of that one.

Yeah, like you've worked out how to do that yet.

*bans myp*

hang on, WTF is curio a mod?? *flounces*

Supermassiveblackhole by Muse, and one of the more recent ones that Britney did sound awfully similar.

Yeah, like you've worked out how to do that yet.

Challenge accepted!

Myp had to have about 15 tries at it when he banned me.

No, that would be people complaining that the songwriter/composer was always the same person.

Super Furry Animals - Rings around the World



Daniel Johnston - Fake records of Rock and Roll

Strange it's the only Quo song I actually like.

I like it I like it I like it I like it I la la la like it.

No, I successfully banned you each time, just you decided to use loopholes to get around it. You're the Zac Goldsmith of Beex.

This takes a little bit of a listen, but I think the advert song is a bit familiar...

Turns out he does know how to ban people. Just...not how to unban people.