The Lifted Melodies/Riffs/etc. Thread
I don't know if there was one of these already...but I thought it might be interesting to have a thread where people can post examples of well-known songs that have almost "verbatum" lifted certain melodies/riffs from much earlier songs.
Now, I don't mean the obvious ones that everybody knows about, but rather those suspicious things that people have personally come across in their own listening experience. It's odd just how many of these types of things you find yourself coming across. Just today I came across a song called "The Queen Of My Nights" by The Blues Magoos, 1966. And the riff & progression is so strikingly similar, that it must have been lifted by those who wrote "Summer Nights" for the film Grease. Check it out, if you can. |
the one that always annoyed me the most was the offspring's 'get a job'. it's a straight lift of the beatles 'ob-la-di ob-la-da'.
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i remember an interview with frusciante where he spilled the beans on 'give it away' being a lift of black sabbath's 'sweet leaf'. he even kicks into the sabbath riff near the end.
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I also did songs that are blatantly a rip off of other songs.
Keep in mind with that last one it's seriously one of the most basic rock riffs ever. |
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The riffs are nearly identical and the songs themselves sound hella similar.
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hmm i'll compare them....
EDIT: yes i see it now |
Check this out, peeps.
Blues Magoos, "We Ain't Got Nothing Yet": 1966 ... Deep Purple, "Black Night": 1970 The bleedin' cheek! |
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Thrasher by Neil Young reminds me of another song I can't think of.
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