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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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Pearl Jams Given to Fly sounds an awful lot like Going to California by Zep.
The riff from Jerry was a Racecar Driver by Primus sounds like the riff from King Crimsons Elephant Talk. The verses from Pink Floyds Echoes kinda sounds like Across the Universe. The riff to Warning by Green Day is pretty much a direct ripoff of Picture Book by The Kinks. The bassline to My Guitar Gently Weeps, the riff to 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago, the riff to Brain Stew by Green Day, the riff to Last Resort by Papa Roach (lol, remember them?) and the heavy parts from Zeppelins version of Babe I'm Gonna Leave You all sound like the same melody. |
QOTSA - 3s and 7s
Blur - Song 2 |
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what? its blatantly obvious |
yeah, comparable. not the same at all
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T. Rex - Get It On
Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol. Pixies - U-Mass Nirvana - Smells Like Teenspirit |
Theres always someone saying SLTS is a "ripoff" of something else. I don't really get that one though, it dosen't sound like U Mass to me.
I've heard everything mentioned from More than a Feeling to Louie Louie to Godzilla (by Blue Oyster Cult) to Debaser. Rock music just tends to revolve around very generic use of chords, I think more often than not its more coincidence than intentional. |
i don't know about U-Mass but the heavy riff in smells like teen spirit IS a sloppy version of boston's 'more than a feeling'. chord for chord it's the same thing. then again, it's a very common progression. i've heard live mp3s of nirvana spoofing the boston tune before kicking into SLTS.
rape me also uses the same chord progression. same as 'self esteem' by the offspring. it's about as common as the chord progression the chili peppers lifted from tom petty. Am G D oh yeah - louie louie is a 3 chord progression SLTS is 4 chords. |
The chorus riff in U-Mass is almost the exact same as the riff in 'Teenspirit.
I agree with The Offspring's Self Esteem though, very similer. Yeah Rape Me is pretty much the same too. |
In the verse of "What I got" by Sublime there is a section that is identical to a melody line in "Lady Madonna" by the Beatles.
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Its not the same riff, its the same riff reversed.
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Either way it was intentional.
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