Songs that are rip-offs of other songs

[PLAS]

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

well, if you listen to "Smells Like Teen Spirit", it basically sounds like your regular Pixies song, so while some may call it a rip off, other might say it's just inspiration

 

[Speedball]

^The Flaming Lips should be sued. They suck.

 

[Majik1387]

Gwen Stefani - That song that uses the puppet song from The Sound of Music.

 

[Eddie Brock]

I would have to say most mainstream rap.

 

[Hades]

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

It rips off Bostons-More then a feeling quite a bit.

Or at least the intro. I can't really remember, I lost my hearing aid.

 

[Duende Verde]

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

Come as You Are sounds like Killing Joke's Eighties

 

[Batty for Bats!]

^The Flaming Lips should be sued. They suck.

*sigh*

 

[Speedball]

Gwen Stefani - That song that uses the puppet song from The Sound of Music.

she's acknowledged that she used the music from the Sound of Music.
I'm not saying it's a good song, but she did it intentionally, because she likes the Sound of Music.

 

[Speedball]

*sigh*

they really aren't any good, or is it a he?
They remade Bohemian Rhapsody for a Queen tribute album, and they massacred it.
They can't sing worth crap, and their version, like their other songs, left me completely bored.

 

[Majik1387]

^Meh, still ripped off to me.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

^The Flaming Lips should be sued. They suck.

you suck for saying that The Flaming Lips suck.
hence you should be sued.


for sucking.

 

[muertevilla]

rammstein's du hast is a rip off of ministry's just one fix

 

[Mr Sparkle]

there's this song by the white stripes that sounds to me like " rock around the clock" slowed down, "We're Going To Be Friends"

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

there's this song by the white stripes that sounds to me like " rock around the clock" slowed down, "We're Going To Be Friends"

I really hate his soft side.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

yeah...I don't care how many b-list frontmen he beats to a pulp after that.
it's just not believable.

 

[Motown Marvel]

there's this song by the white stripes that sounds to me like " rock around the clock" slowed down, "We're Going To Be Friends"

i dont know about that one. but if you want to bring a questionable stripes song into this discussion, listen to 'lets shake hands' and then listen to the flat duo jets 'john law'.

I really hate his soft side.

also, i forget the exact songs, but my friend who's a zeppelin fanatic told me about their constant pillaging of howlin' wolf. and speaking of pillaging, wolfmother are constantly ripping off zeppelin and black sabbath...and to some degree, the stripes.

 

[Ben Urich]

^The Flaming Lips should be sued. They suck.

You go to Hell. You go to Hell and you die!

 

[Speedball]

You go to Hell. You go to Hell and you die!

WhatThey aren't as good as everyone thinks.
The singer can't sing, why haven't you people noticed this?

 

[Ben Urich]

WhatThey aren't as good as everyone thinks.
The singer can't sing, why haven't you people noticed this?

• Because he can sing
• Because we're too busy being amazed by the incredible audio sex that is The Flaming Lips

 

[Speedball]

• Because he can sing
• Because we're too busy being amazed by the incredible audio sex that is The Flaming Lips

Your opinion isn't valid, neither is mine, so just drop it.

 

[Ben Urich]

Your opinion isn't valid, neither is mine, so just drop it.

What did I do to elicit that sort of tone?
The :cartman: in my first post clearly indicated that it was fully tongue-in-cheek.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

okay, I need to chime into this discussion.
you are correct speedball the Guy from Flaming Lips can't "sing"in a Kelly Clarkson sort of way, he is not a "competent" singer under that category.
the thing we're lloking for is, does he convey the feeling of a given song through his othewise "bad" singing voice?
I'm my case, he does.
and I find more sentiment in 15 of his songs that I could find in the entire Mariah Carey catalogue, when she is infact a great "singer" from a technical standpoint.

 

[Lighthouse]

Fuel's "Falls on Me" kinda sounds like Collective Soul's "Heavy".

 

[Majik1387]

The Alphabet song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

 

[Ghostvirus]

That is a pretty red X you got there. Care to repost, so that I know whether or not you were instulting me or agreeing with me?