Songs that are rip-offs of other songs

[IKnowSomeJudo]

Which songs make you wonder how come someone didn't file lawsuit?

For example:

Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean - Jesus Christ, I liked this song better when it was called Billie Jean. It's almost exactly the same: same synth bassline, same guitar riff, same keyboard sounds, there's even a vocal melody that mirrors MJ's "love on the run/I am the one".

 

[redmarvel]

I still can't believe that Queen lost the lawsuit against Vanilla Ice for Under Pressure / Ice Ice Baby

 

[Erzengel]

Weird Al's "I'm Fat" is a blatant ripoff of Michael Jackson's "Bad".

Even the choreography is similiar in the video. How did he not get sued?

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

I still can't believe that Queen lost the lawsuit against Vanilla Ice for Under Pressure / Ice Ice Baby

Well, in his defense, it's not like he even tried to hide the fact that he sampled it. I'm talking about artists that put out a thinly disguised version of other song and try to pass it off as their own.

 

[Ben Urich]

Nickelback rip themselves off.

 

[Tangled Web]

Every ****ing Kidz Bop album should get sued. The only one who was successful in getting Kidz Bop to piss off was Fallout Boy.

 

[ゴジラ]

Weird Al's "I'm Fat" is a blatant ripoff of Michael Jackson's "Bad".

Even the choreography is similiar in the video. How did he not get sued?

Haha very funny

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

Nickelback rip themselves off.

Yeah, there was that clip where two of their songs were played back-to-back, hahaha. Let this be a lesson to all you hot-topic kiddies out there: corporate alt buttrock sucks balls.

 

[The Chairman]

RHCP ripped off Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" for "Dani, California".

Quiet Riot's "*** On Feel The Noize" sounds like a sped-up version of AC / DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long".

90 % of all of Chuck Berry's song have the same riff, so he pretty much ripped himself off. (I don't care though, because the man is a genius).

 

[Kipobe]

Hey IKnowSomeJudo,

Do you really know judo? Are you being modest when you say "some", (implications being that you know a little, when in reality you a lot...), or are you being presumptuous in what you think you know (example: you trailed your older brother to the tail end of his judo sessions and you think you got something out of it...)?

Which is it? I wouldn't ask, but you stuck the word "some" in there, and I'm totally at a loss for what that could mean.



Love,
Kipobe (someone who's name makes sense).

PS - **** you.

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

Quiet Riot's "*** On Feel The Noize" sounds like a sped-up version of AC / DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long".

*** on Feel the Noise was originally released by a band called Slade that predates AC/DC by 7 years.

90 % of all of Chuck Berry's song have the same riff, so he pretty much ripped himself off. (I don't care though, because the man is a genius).

Ok, new rule for the thread: every blues and rockabilly tune is excluded, since they all pretty much follow the same chord structure
.

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

Hey IKnowSomeJudo,

Do you really know judo? Are you being modest when you say "some", (implications being that you know a little, when in reality you a lot...), or are you being presumptuous in what you think you know (example: you trailed your older brother to the tail end of his judo sessions and you think you got something out of it...)?

Which is it? I wouldn't ask, but you stuck the word "some" in there, and I'm totally at a loss for what that could mean.



Love,
Kipobe (someone who's name makes sense).

PS - **** you.

Dear Kipobe, **** you too.
Great, now that we got friendly greetings out of the way, to answer your question, my name is a quote from Superman II. I don't really know any Judo, or any martial arts whatsoever.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

ArGh, I've discovered scores of these over the years, but I can't remember a single one right now.

All I can think of are some fave little ones that aren't lawsuit worthy at all.

Such as, the one-note part of the riff from "More Human Than Human" by White Zombie is identical to the one-note part of the verse in "Magic Man" by Heart and I would love to take the WZ riff and stick the Ann Wilson vocals over it, then do the WZ lyrics and instead of the slide guitar part, go into the m00gy synth solo from Heart.

Also, a weird one, if you watch the movie Blue Velvet, when Dorothy Valens is singing "Blue Velvet", at the very end when it slows down to finish, it sounds like she's going to say:
"And...I...still, can see...the sof-ter, side, of...Sears."

 

[SoulManX]

Parker was accused of plagiarizing the melody from Huey Lewis & the News song "I Want A New Drug" for his 1984 #1 hit theme to Ghostbusters, released only six months after Lewis' hit reached #6 in the Billboard Hot 100. This ended with Lewis suing Parker, and the pair settled out of court in 1995.
They returned to court once again in 2001, as Parker sued Lewis for breaching a confidentiality agreement forming part of their original out of court settlement which prohibited either side from speaking about it publicly. Lewis had revealed in a VH1 Behind The Music special that Parker had paid a financial settlement as part of the original agreement.

 

[Erzengel]

Hey IKnowSomeJudo,

Do you really know judo? Are you being modest when you say "some", (implications being that you know a little, when in reality you a lot...), or are you being presumptuous in what you think you know (example: you trailed your older brother to the tail end of his judo sessions and you think you got something out of it...)?

Which is it? I wouldn't ask, but you stuck the word "some" in there, and I'm totally at a loss for what that could mean.



Love,
Kipobe (someone who's name makes sense).

PS - **** you.

Who originally did the "I'll rate your username" thread. Because that hasn't been done in a while and there's a lot of really awful names going around.

Can't they get a mod who's only job is to review usernames?

Okay, like Batman, Spider-Man and Superman those are fine for the first come, first serve crowd. But WickedBatman, or Really Cool Superman or Spiderman123456 should be automatically kicked back and a new more embarassing username.

 

[The Chairman]

Also, the galloping rhythm of Heart's "Barracuda" sounds as if it was directly lifted from Led Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand".

 

[Ben Urich]

Who originally did the "I'll rate your username" thread. Because that hasn't been done in a while and there's a lot of really awful names going around.

Can't they get a mod who's only job is to review usernames?

Okay, like Batman, Spider-Man and Superman those are fine for the first come, first serve crowd. But WickedBatman, or Really Cool Superman or Spiderman123456 should be automatically kicked back and a new more embarassing username.

Tukiluka did that years ago. He let me take over after seeing how I deconstructed VenomSpits, but my followups sucked.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Quiet Riot's "*** On Feel The Noize" sounds like a sped-up version of AC / DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"

But of course "*** On Feel The Noize" was written by Slade in 1973 and "YSMANL" is from 1980.

 

[The Chairman]

But of course.

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

But of course "*** On Feel The Noize" was written by Slade in 1973 and "YSMANL" is from 1980.

Besides, I don't think they are all that similar, except for the "And I Don't Know Why/Aaaall Night Long" parts.

 

[Motown Marvel]

i forget who it was, but i believe the yeardbirds totally ripped off someone when writing the music for "dazed and confused".

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Besides, I don't think they are all that similar, except for the "And I Don't Know Why/Aaaall Night Long" parts.

Well of course the thing that rockets AC/DC into sexy superiority is the stops in the verses, whereas there are none in the chuggin' Slade song.

Bow - - - Bow buh bow bow buh BOW - - - Bow, b-Bow - bow - bow- Bow.

Same reason Back In Black is the best Hard Rock song in the world.

Bow - Bow-ba-Bow - Buddle-Ump - - Beeowdlebeeownoo

 

[Ghostvirus]

I would have to say most mainstream rap.

 

[Victarion]

Didn't someon say that Teen Spirit was an imitation of The Pixies?

 

[PLAS]

Cat Stevens sued The Flaming Lips over "Fight Song", which has pretty much the same chord progression as Stevens' "Father And Son"

they came to a shared royalties agreement outside of court, or so I heard

there's a band that's pretty popular here in Mexico amongst teenagers and braindead chums called Panda, they were accused of ripping of My Chemical Romance and several other emoish bands in their last album.... and they pretty much just translated the songs to spanish

and whenever someone points this out to them, they tell them to "shut the **** up"