Sexy Sadie - The Beatles (White Album)
and
Karma Police - Radiohead (OK Computer)
this is by far the most uncanny of all the above.

The new My chemical romance song “teenagers” sounds very simler to the song “you are my sunshine” by Jimmie Davis

the exies - tired of you
hoobastank - the reason

has the same damn Drum playing and structure through out the song.

i think they used the same exact Drum Loop ..it sounds so annoying when you hear the rip off of the same drum line like no one would notice. i bet it’s the same lazy producer

LOL here’s another one…”Yankee doodle dandy” and the theme song to Barney the Purple Dinosaur hahaha.

I’m surprised no one’s yet mentioned Hootie and the Blowfish “Only want to be with you” and The Who’s “No sugar tonight”…it seems that Hootie and the Blowfish has copied a lot of their songs’ rifts.

I definitely agree that “Phantom of the Opera” copied Pink Floyd’s “Echoes”!

Admittedly, even some of Pink Floyd’s songs sound alike. E.g., “Pings on the wing”(part 1 or 2) from their “Animals” album and a select few chords/rifts in “Mother” on “The Wall.” Or some of the songs on the album “The Division Bell” sounding reminiscent of their older albums’ material. But Pink Floyd is still very good and exceptionally talented nonetheless.

Oh yeah and that stupid emo shit song that goes something like “Do you feel like a man when you push her around” or some other pussy shit(hey, maybe I LIKE to push around my ex-boyfriend! Serves him right for cheating! So I hate this anti-abuse song), sounds similar to a few punk rock songs…

Before I first heard Claptons “Let it Rain” the person who recommended it commented how much it sounds like Ringo Starrs “It don’t come easy”. As I listen to Let it Rain now, it seems there is another song the guitar parts sound like, but I can’t quite place it.

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…adding to my list of ‘”decendants of peter gunn”: springsteen’s “pink cadillac” (along with ‘hashpipe’, ‘juice box’, ’she bop’, and on and on)… but what influenced Mancini to write Peter Gunn????

Mest - Graveyard and The Used - all that i’ve got. My Chemical Romance - i dont love you and Coldplay - Yellow. Rehab - Last Tattoo and Bowling for Soup - Shut up and Smile. Lit - Lovely Day and All American Rejects - Swing Swing. and i’m sure its been said before, but Social Distortion - ball and chain with Rolling stones - dead flowers and good charlotte - Day that I die

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The Cure’s “Close to Me” and George Michael’s “Faith” (I’d been listening to “Close to Me” for years and never heard it . . . but it’s there)

Led Zepplins Babe Im Going to Leave you and Chicagos 25 or 6 to 4 (and then to some degree Green Day Brain Stew).

Phish Sample in a Jar and Janis Jopplin Peice of My Heart

anyone ever notice that FeFe Dobson’s song Don’t Go (Girls & Boys) is virtually the same song as Good Charlotte’s song Girls & Boys!?!?!? I don’t know what happened here. I think Good Charlotte’s came out first. They must have had the same production team or something…

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Weezer’s beverly hills and Def leppards pour some sugar on me were mentioned, but they both sound like Steve Miller’s Space cowboy

what about Jet “Look What youve Done” and Beatles “Let it Be”

Barney theme song:Yankee doodle dandy, I love you, you love me: This old man

Gwen’s “Holla back girl” is almost the same beat as Prince’s “Housequake.”

Jet’s “Are You Gonna be my Girl” is Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life”

Steve Miller’s “The Stake” is exactly Joe Walsh’s “Rocky Mountain Way”

Are you gonna be my girl-Jet, sounds like Iggy Pops Lust for Life.

Horrible rip off here,
Steve “Douche Bag” Miller- The Stake is to a T, Rocky Mountain way- Joe Walsh

Edward Van Halen said it best, “you’ve only got 12 notes, how you arrange them is your business”. Who cares if one song sounds like another, if it rocks, its all good.

Britney Spears should sue herself…”Oops I Did It Again” is a phrase-for-phrase redux of “Hit me Baby 1 More Time”…you could sing the lyrics of one song right over the other.

Then again, I suppose we shouldn’t find that all that suprising…

Britney Spears should sue herself…”Oops I Did It Again” is a phrase-for-phrase redux of “Hit me Baby 1 More Time”…you could sing the lyrics of one song right over the other.

Then again, I suppose we shouldn’t find that all that suprising…

john mayer” waiting on the world”
but i hear Squeeze, “black coffee in bed”

Ha ha I agree, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ songs all sound the same. I lost interest way back in the last decade with them. Now can someone agree with my posting on Lenny Kravitz???

Ray Parker, Jr.’s forgotten 1983 hit “I Still Can’t Get Over Loving You” is a note-by-note re-write of the Police’s “Every Breath You Take”, released earlier that same year, and even has the balls to include the lyric “Every breath you take, I’ll be watching you, girl.”

Sting apparently didn’t bother to sue, but Huey Lewis wasn’t so forgiving the following year when Parker ripped off “I Want A New Drug” to write the the theme song to “Ghostbusters”, which Lewis & the News had been asked to do first, but turned down.

OK Go - “No Sign of Life” &
Pixies - “Where is my Mind?”

A few people have mentioned “All Right Now” by Free.

But, wasn’t the opening lifted by Steve Miller for “Jet Airliner”?

Not really “sound alike”, but total ripoff:

“Taj mahal” — Jorge Ben
“Do ya think I’m Sexy” — Rod Stewart

Not really “sound alike”, but total ripoff:

“Taj mahal” — Jorge Ben
“Do ya think I’m Sexy” — Rod Stewart

“To be with You” — Mr. Big
“The Itsy Bitsy Spider”

“How Come” by Ray LaMontagne sounds just like Traffic’s “Feelin Alright”…

La Bamba and Dylans Like a Rolling Stone

Pink Floyd’s Brain damage, off Dark side, is essentially “Dear Prudence”. ;however, they both rock

someone mentioned this is a fishing expedition because musicians are bound to reuse and use and reuse all of these riffs, and beats and etc. so this is sort of a fun waste of time. none the less, everytime i hear kelly clarkson’s since you’ve been gone i just think yeah yeah yeah(s).

most red hot chilli pepper songs sound like any other red hot chilli pepper song. they should sue themselves for royalties.

“kelly clarkson–since u been gone is a complete rip off of the yeah yeah yeahs maps”

No, there is a brief guitar part near the middle of the song that sounds like a brief guitar part in “Maps.” It is not a “complete rip off.”

“kelly clarkson–since u been gone is a complete rip off of the yeah yeah yeahs maps”

No, there is a brief guitar part near the middle of the song that sounds like a brief guitar part in “Maps.” It is not a “complete rip off.”

weezer “hash pipe” and lia ford “kiss me deadly” also beatles “lady madonna” and sublime “what I got”

The riff in “Moonage daydream”, by David Bowie, was copied by the Eagles in “Hotel california”….well is very similar

Some friend says that “Creep”, by Radiohead, was based in the Hollies’ “The Air that I breath”. I don’t think so..but you can compare.

kelly clarkson–since u been gone is a complete rip off of the yeah yeah yeahs maps

Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” is a note for note rip off of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”.

Damn Regret by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is incredibly similar to Grand Theft Autumn by Fall Out Boy.

Also, a remix has been made because of the similarities between Oasis’ Wonderwall and Green Day’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

Metallica: Hero of the Day
Fleetwood Mac: Hold Me

Odd

The beginning of the Dandy Warhols song Godless sounds like the guitar in George Harrisons My Sweet Lord.

All of Lenny Kravitz’s watered down songs sound like his other watered down songs.

Eerie… huh??

The intro to “When I Look Into Your Eyes” by Firehouse sounds almost exactly like the intro to “Faithfully” by Journey.

Also part of the chorus in “there and back again” by Daughtry sounds kind of like the chorus to “Only” by Anthrax.

Although three amazing songs by three bands that I cant live without, The Stone’s “Dead Flowers” turned into GNR “Used to Love Her” and Social Distortion’s “Ball and Chain” around the same time. But like I said, I love all these bands.

“If you really want nirvana on your list, you should have put them vs. the killing joke for ripping off “Come As You Are”.”

Killing Joke’s song came out 10 years before Nirvana’s you idiot.

If you slow down Eighties by Killing Joke you get Come As You Are by Nirvana.

Not an Addict by K’s Choice sounds very much like The Cranberries Zombie.

Also, in the song Volcano Girls by Veruca Salt, the bridge is a direct take-off of The Beatles Glass Onion. In Glass Onion, The Walrus was Paul, in Volcano Girl, The Seether’s Louise. Pretty clever.

what about the riff from frankenstein by edgar winters and the riff from cheap sunglasses by zz top.

the chord progresion in oasis’s taurus sound exactly like stairway to heaven by led zepp

Morrissey’s “Certain People I Know” is T. Rex’s “Ride a White Swan” with different lyrics

Morrissey’s “Certain People I Know” is T. Rex’s “Ride a White Swan” with different words

The Eagles’ disappointing 1994 comeback single “Get Over It” was essentially a re-write of drummer/lead singer Don Henley’s solo tune “She’s On The Zoom” from the “VisionQuest” soundtrack ten years earlier. And the original is much better, in my opinion.

the main melody to ’sewing the seeds of love’ reminds me strongly of ‘i am the walrus.’

‘lyla’ by oasis is redolent of ’street fighting man’ by the stones.

what’s really cool is that all four songs stand strongly on their own.

Hoobastank’s “The Reason” is a total Rip off of Super Furry Animal’s “edam anchorman”

Travis’ new single “Selfish Jean” is a complete and unashamed rip-off of everything The Shins have ever written.

The Clash Lost in a Supermarket & the Foo Fighter’s Generator

The Clash “Lost In a Supermarket” was cloned by the Foo Fighters’s “Generator”

any song by ween sounds like another song, for example, “friends sounds like darudes “sandstorm”, “bananas and blow” sounds like jimmy buffets margarittaville”, and “if you could save the world(you’d save us all sounds like a missing song off of pink floyds the wall.

any song by ween sounds like another song, for example, “friends sounds like darudes “sandstorm”, “bananas and blow” sounds like jimmy buffets margarittaville”, and “if you could save the world(you’d save us all sounds like a missing song off of pink floyds the wall.

I couldn’t care less about Avril Lavigne, but now that you’re at it, “Girlfriend” has the same beat as Toni Basil’s “Mickey”.

Black Moon’s “Stay Real” and Jay Z’s “Public Service Announcement” both have pretty much the exact same beat. Both came out in the same year, but Black Moon dropped first.

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Readymade” sounds fairly similar to Janes Addiction’s “Mountain Song”. I guess there has been some overlapping in the bands in terms of some of the same members, over the years…

Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice” and Johnny Cash’s “Understand Your Man”

How about the opening chords to Free’s “Alright Now” and “Keep On Rockin’ Me” by Bad Company or BTO (not sure which).

Arcade Fires “Keep the Car Running” and J. Geil’s “On The Darkside” aaaannddd Spoon’s “Rhythm & Soul” and CCR’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” (just slowed down).

Lou Reed- Sweet Jane
Cornershop- Brim Full of Asha

It was once said that Nirvana was influenced by The Smithereens early in their career. If you take a listen to the rhythm and bass riff in About a Girl, it doesn’t sound much different than The Smithereens Blood and Roses. Both great songs.

damn, someone beat me to John Mayer / Curtis Mayfield (note for note rip off).

Gov’t Mule- Deep End
Neil Young- Ohio

All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow sounds like Stealers Wheel’s Stuck in the Middle With You.

Paralyzer by Finger Eleven sounds like Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out.

Funny story… John Fogerty was once sued for sounding like himself… It was said that his solo hit The Old Man Down the Road sounded like his own Run Through the Jungle during his Creedence days. John Fogerty successfully defended himself against this frivolous lawsuit.

SHAMELESS:
We Are the Sleepyheads by Belle & Sebastion
Just like
Love Rollercoaster by Ohio Players

teen spirit was written before u-mass

One more I forgot about:

Take the main riff from

Vehicle, by Ides Of March

speed it up, and you get

Para Los Rumberos, by Santana

the vines get free sounds like nirvana negative creep

A note for note rip-off. (seriously play them at the same time)

Paris Hilton “Stars are Blind” and Ub40 “Kingston Town”

Ub40 should sue her and give me 20% for listening to her crap.

Totally need to add pixies’ “u-mass” to smells like teen spirit/more than a feeling. It’s a pretty likely that Kurt would imitate the Pixies anyway, even if subconsciously.

All time most obvious rip - off

Paris Hilton “Stars are Blind” is a note for note rip off of UB40 “Kingston Town”. Ub40 needs to sue her ass.

All time most obvious rip - off

Paris Hilton “Stars are Blind” is a note for note rip off of UB40 “Kingston Town”. Ub40 needs to sue her ass.

R. Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix)” and Akon’s “Don’t Matter”

Gwen’s, “Holla Back Girl” totally rips Prince’s “Housequake.” If you listen to the beats they are almost identical.

I’m so happy that someone else picked up on the John Mayer “Waiting for the world to change” and U2’s “Stuck in a Moment”

I’m so happy that someone else picked up on the John Mayer “Waiting for the world to change” and U2’s “Stuck in a Moment”

I’m so happy that someone else picked up on the John Mayer “Waiting for the world to change” and U2’s “Stuck in a Moment”

Oh, like “twinkle, twinkle little star” and the “A B C’s”? Did Astronomy sue the Alphabet over that?

I am always floored by how many knock-off’s of ZZ Top’s LA GRANGE I hear. One of the most perfect riffs ever. YOu can hear in in:

Chris Isaak - Baby Did Bad Bad thing.

Tom Petty’s first single off his last album (can’t remember it).

Kid Rock - Son of Detroit

And a TON more. And all are great. You almost can’t write a bad song with that riff.

Anyone know if it existed before ZZ Top?

-Uh, yeah. It’s called “Boogie Chitlin’” by John Lee Hooker. He even sued ZZ Top over the similarities.

George Harrision’s “My Sweet Lord” and The Ronettes “Be My Baby” likewise sparked a lawsuit, not to mention the ever-classic “Under Pressure”/”Ice Ice Baby” debate.

Otherwise, “Song 2″ by Blur and “I Hate To Say I Told You So” by The Hives features the exact same riff simply in a different key.

Likewise, Busta Rhymes’ “Light Your Ass on Fire” (featuring Pharrell, and found on The Neptunes’ CLONES album, I.E. produced by The Neptunes), features the exact same rhythm, (save in a different key)as Busta Rhymes’”What It Is” featuring Kelis on The Violator soundtrack, and also produced by The Neptunes.

I think the song “David Watts” by the Kinks sounds like “Lets Spend the Night Together” by the Rolling Stones. Although when The Jam covered David Watts it sounded even more like Lets Spend the Nigh Together.

I also think the guitar riff in Saxon’s “Wheels of Steel” sounds like “Rock n Roll Damnation” by AC/DC

That doesn’t take anything away I love all of the songs i mentioned

She Hates Me by Puddle of Mudd sounds like Nirvana’s Lithium.

Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) by The Hollies sounds like Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Green River.

My Own Worst Enemy by Lit sounds like Everclear’s Santa Monica.

She Hates Me by Pubble of Mudd sounds like Nirvana’s Lithium.

Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) by The Hollies sounds like Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Green River.

My Own Worst Enemy by Lit sounds like Everclear’s Santa Monica.

She Hates Me by Pubble of Mudd sounds like Nirvana’s Lithium.

Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) by The Hollies sounds like Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Green River.

My Own Worst Enemy by Lit sounds like Everclear’s Santa Monica.

Everclear’s “Everything to Everyone” and Spacehog’s “In the Meantime”

“Mayonaise” by Pumpkins was Creed before Creed was. Especially “My Sacrifice”. And on the John Mayer/Curtis Mayfield similarities, throw in U2’s “Stuck in a Moment”.

To David who posted below…

C-F on a piano… a I to IV… does not make two songs entirely similar.. check the chord progressions of both songs, I don’t see any IV to iv (In Look Back in Anger’s bridge)in “Imagine”…

and BTW, “Pour Some Sugar on Me” was not Poison, but Def Leppard off of Hysteria… unless Poision covered it on that icky new covers album they did

Jet totally jacked the riff from the White STripes “Screwdriver” for “Are you gonna be my girl?”

the chorus of “feelin’ good inc.” and “staring at the sun” are extremely similar

i think damon albarn and the other gorillaz definetely listened to u2’s pop a few times…

No Speak No Slave and Cypress Tree by The Black Crowes

Green Day Bouelevard of Broken Dreams stole from Wonderwall by Oasis

Not sure if someone’s already mentioned this because there’s a crapload of comments that I don’t feel like reading through, but:

Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock and Roll” and Weezer’s “Beverly Hills”

“Don’t Look Back in Anger” by Oasis is a completely SHAMELESS ripoff of “Imagine” by John Lennon.

The verse section of No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” is a dead on rip off of “Dream On” by Aerosmith, with the key changed.

“Beverly Hills” by Weezer is a complete rip off of “Pour Some Sugar on Me” by Poison (and nevertheless, is an improvement on the original).

The intro to “Last Night” by the Strokes is an aweful lot like the intro to “American Girl” by Tom Petty.

“Beautiful Girls” by Sean Kingston is basically a remake of “Stand by Me”, but that could be a sample.

John Mayer’s Victoria and Radiohead’s Karma Police sound very similar, particularly in the intro.

ugh… Spoon’s “Don’t Make Me a Target” sounds NOTHING LIKE Wilco’s “Walken.” Pull your head out of your ass.

It’s a simple blues riff, so most likely it was used before them in some variation.

the beginning of comforting lie by no doubt really sounds like the beginning of oasis’s importance of being idle

I am always floored by how many knock-off’s of ZZ Top’s LA GRANGE I hear. One of the most perfect riffs ever. YOu can hear in in:

Chris Isaak - Baby Did Bad Bad thing.

Tom Petty’s first single off his last album (can’t remember it).

Kid Rock - Son of Detroit

And a TON more. And all are great. You almost can’t write a bad song with that riff.

Anyone know if it existed before ZZ Top?

The Chiffons “He’s So Fine” and George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord.” The Chiffons actually went to court over this and Harrison had to pay them for the ripoff!

There’s a section of Jane’s Addiction “Three Days” that I always thought sounded like Metallica’s “Master of Puppets”. But I guess that can happen with a heavy riff and drum part.

Rockstar Supernova’s “leave the ligths on ” and Oasis’ “alcohol and cigarettes”…the intro riffs are exactly the same.

Dio’s Hungry for heaven chorus was inspired by The Who’s Baba O’Riley

the main riff in Motörhead’s No class is the same as ZZ Top’s TUSH!

AC/DC’s song Rock N Roll Damnation borrows the main riff from Thin Lizzy’s Rosalie. It doesn’t matter. None of this matters.

‘Little Green Bag’ (1970) bij George Baker Selection is the blueprint of The Corals 2002 UK-hit ‘Dreaming of You’.

The latest Dave Matthews does resemble the sound of my 91 year old aunt slowly, slowly dying in her sleep… Uncanny…

I can’t believe nobody has mentioned The Chiifons “He’s So Fine” and “My Sweet Lord” by George Harriosn.How about “Love Is a Wonderful Thing” by Micheal Bolton and the same song by the Isley Brothers?

“How Am I Supposed To Live Without You” by Michael Bolton rips off a bit of the melody of “I Honestly Love You” by Olivia Newton-John in its opening line.

La Bamba by Ritchie Valens and Twist and Shout (the way The Beatles played it) sound like the same song to me.

“It’s The Same Old Song” by The Four Tops is just a rework of “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (I Can’t Help Myself)” by the same group.

“ABC” by The Jackson Five is just a better rework of “I Want You Back” by The Jackson Five.

“4th Time Around” by Bob Dylan is a slightly changed copy of “Norwegian Wood” by The Beatles.

“The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)” by Rod Stewart blatantly rips off “Don’t Let Me Down” by The Beatles, and John Lennon says as much in his 1980 Playboy interview (though he says the lyric is “Maggie Don’t Go”, when it’s actually “Georgie Don’t Go”). Lennon said Rod should have just sung, “Don’t Let Me Down” instead of “Maggie Don’t Go”.

The riff for Smashing Pumpkins’ “Mayonaise” and Sade’s “By Your Side”

“You Won’t See Me” by The Beatles seems to have inspired a number of artists.

The melody of the oooh la la la in “You Won’t See Me” is also used in:

“You’re All I Need To Get By” by Marvin Gaye and Tami Terrell. The notes of the melody of the title are exactly the same.

“You Won’t See Me” also appears to have inspired the horn notes in Saturday in the Park (by Chicago). Pay attention to the horn notes at the end of the song. You can sing the oooh la la la’s from “You Won’t See Me”. They didn’t even change any notes or the tempo.

The beginning of “Missing You” by Diana Ross and “This Used To Be My Playground” by Madonna are extremely similar.

The beginning of “Daisy Jane” by America is extremely similar to the beginning of “Let’s Wait A While” by Janet Jackson.

“What I Got” by Sublime is an obvious rip-off of “Lady Madonna” by The Beatles.

“Rain” by Madonna has the first few lyrics lyrics to “Here Comes The Sun” by The Beatles and they are sung using the sam notes, but in a higher octave.

“Look What You’ve Done” borrows lyrics and some notes from “Sexy Sadie” by The Beatles.

“Don’t Look Back in Anger” by Oasis borrows the piano chords from “Imagine” by John Lennon for its intro.

“Woman” by John Lennon uses the same backing ooohs as “Here, There And Everywhere” by The Beatles.

“Paperback Writer” by The Beatles uses the French tune “Frère Jacques” for backing vocals.

“Crying” by Aerosmith is “Pachelbel’s Canon In D Major” played with rock instruments and with words. “Pachelbel’s Canon” probably inspied “Crying” because the song was used by Care Unit (a rehab center) in their commercials during the 1980’s, and “Crying” is ambiguously about a relationship that either is or is a lot like a drug addiction.

“Never Gonna Fall In Love Again” by Eric Carmen is a rework of Rachmaninoff’s “Symphony No. 2″.

“All by Myself” by Eric Carmen borrows heavily from “Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor”.

I’ve read a lot of people compare Nirvana’s “Teen Spirit” to Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”
Here’s a couple of more…

If you took the chords to “Wild Thing” by the Troggs,sped them up a little,you get “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen and if you take “Wipe Out” by the Surfaris,slowed it down,you get the theme to the t.v. series “Batman”

I’ve read a lot of people compare Nirvana’s “Teen Spirit” to Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”
Here’s a couple of more…

If you took the chords to “Wild Thing” by the Troggs,sped them up a little,you get “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen and if you take “Wipe Out” by the Surfaris,slowed it down,you get the theme to the t.v. series “Batman”

I’ve read a lot of people compare Nirvana’s “Teen Spirit” to Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”
Here’s a couple of more…

If you took the chords to “Wild Thing” by the Troggs,sped them up a little,you get “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen and if you take “Wipe Out” by the Surfaris,slowed it down,you get the theme to the t.v. series “Batman”

I know a lot of people have mentioned Nirvana’s “Teen Spirit” and Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” have the same chords.Here’s another two-If you took the chords to “Wild Thing” by the Troggs,sped them up a little,you get “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen.
Also,if you take “Wipe Out” by the Surfaris,slowed it down,you get the theme to the Batman T.V. series with Adam West.

I know a lot of people have mentioned Nirvana’s “Teen Spirit” and Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” have the same chords.Here’s another two-If you took the chords to “Wild Thing” by the Troggs,sped them up a little,you get “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen.
Also,if you take “Wipe Out” by the Surfaris,slowed it down,you get the theme to the Batman T.V. series with Adam West.

Tons of people have mentioned Jesus of Suburbia, but the Cash and Bryan Adams parts of it. How about the part titled Dearly Beloved, it’s a blatant rip off of Sixty-Eight Guns by The Alarm.

‘Start!’ By the Jam is far to similar to ‘Taxman’ by the Beatles. I’ve never heard two songs sound as similar. Please check this one out!!

Here’s an obscure one: Duran Duran had a minor hit (#72)in 1989 with a song called “Do You Believe In Shame” that’s blatantly ripped-off from Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Suzi Q.”

The riff that Jet uses on “Are you gonna be my girl” is EERILY similar to the White Stripes’ “Screwdriver” and screwdriver was released a couple years earlier.

AND
The White Stripes “Little Bird” sounds like Led Zeppelin’s song…shoot i forgot what its called but its about dying…anyone know what its called? i know dying is in the title…anyway its understandable anyway cuz the stripes and zeppelin are a bit similar.

Someone named REXWEST said:

“Weezer ‘Hash Pipe’ and Lita Ford ‘Kiss Me Deadly.’”

Nope, not quite.

The riff from Hash Pipe is exactly the same as the one from a song called “Shot Himself Up” by a Boston band called The Shods. When he was at Harvard in the 90s, Rivers Cuomo was friends with people in The Shods, according to people in The Shods.

So, Hash Pipe ~ Shot Himself Up

The Doors — “Hello, I Love You”
Kinks — “All Day, and All of the Night”

Has anyone mentioned that Bow wow wows “I want candy” is identical to every bo diddley song ever written?

Led Zeppelins Over the Hills and Far Away

and

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Wet Sand

The intro’s for “R-Evolve” by 30 Seconds to Mars and “Adam’s Song” by Blink 182 are pretty similar.

George Michael’s “Freedom” is identical to the Stones “Sympathy for the Devil”. Hell! you can sing the whole Stones song to the ryhtm track of “Freedom”!

The intro’s for “R-Evlove” by 30 Seconds to Mars and “Adam’s Song” by Blink 182 are pretty similar.

The White Stripes “You Dont Know What Love Is” and Van Morisson’s “It Stoned Me”

incubus album a crow left of the murder has a few songs that sound like pearl jam songs, like the song made for tv movie begins jut like pearl jams all those yesterdays. Also the song zee devel sounds a lot like pearl jams rival. smashing pumkins ‘’disarm'’ sounds just like My bloody valentines ‘’sometimes'’ actually i think almost everything the pumpkins did sounds exactly like MBV.

The strokes - Juicebox

has the same exact intro as

Hollywood Babylon - The misfits

Smells Like Teen Spirit and More Than a Feeling both have four words in the title, but other than that I’m not hearing any similarity.

What I Got by Sublime is a ripoff of Lady Madonna by the Beatles, though.

wait, one more. . .

I just remembered that Better than Ezra owes some MONEY to Nikki Costa for “juicy” and “everybody’s got their something.” That’s the worst one, ever. I think “and hope” that it was an accident.

Ryan Adams’ song Nobody Girl uses the same drum beat from The Weight by The Band.

sweet little sixteen and surfin’ usa

LADY MADONNA and WHAT I GOT

OH, and Maroon 5’s “harder to breathe” sounds like Billy joel’s “sometimes a fantasy” at points…

“missing you” by John Waite reminds me of “Every breath you take” by the Police

“lady in red” by Chris De Burgh is way too much like “Wonderful tonight” by Eric Clapton

All Chuck Berry songs have the same opening riff…
School Days, Johnny B Godde, Rock And Roll Music, Sweet Little Rock and Roller.

the black keys-when the lights go out
yeah yeah yeahs-gold lion

there’s the obvious– “la bamba” — “come a little bit closer”

I’ve always thought “look what you’ve done” by Jet was ALot like “sexy sadie” by THe Beatles.

Also, ELO completely ripped Wings’ “C-Moon” with “Jungle”

Ben Folds and Ben Kweller tend to re-write their old songs a la john fogerty and . . .

Randy Newman’s soundtrack numbers, i.e. “you’ve got a friend in me” and “I love to see you smile” are too much the same.

Van morrison recorded a cool “domino” re-do called “wave length”

Finally, somebody should crib something from “through the long night” by Billy Joel, because that’s a great song and nobody knows it.

‘Hang on Loosely’
and
‘Just What I Needed’

Beck’s Loser and Butthole Surfer’s Pepper.

There’s a really cool site with a long list of soundalikes plus a lot of other interesting music trivia: http://www.songsthatsoundlikeo thersongs.com/HomeAbout.html

sick sick sick by queens of the stone age and all my life by the foo fighters

“Hungry Heart” by Bruce Springsteen and “If you Leave” by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark.

Also, “I will buy you a new life” “everything to everyone” “my daddy gave me a name” and EVERY OTHER hit song by Everclear are all nearly the same. Everclear found one groove, one basic chord progression, and 3 themes to write all of their songs around: ‘i hate my dad’ ‘you’re a poser’ and ‘baby, it’s you and me against the world.’ That worked out pretty well for them.

american girl - tom petty

last nite - the strokes

but i think petty was fine with it…

always thought the guitar in blink 182s all the small things sounds very similar to the sex pistols god save the queen , to the point that during the song i often start singing the pistols tune .

I love how so many idiot’s claim so many different inspirations for teen spirit, God! It’s four chords, yet they have 70 influences for it, get real people.

Megadeths hanger 18 and call of ktulu by metallica, intro is the same chord progression, just played differently.

Megadeths hanger 18 and call of ktulu by metallica, intro is the same chord progression, just played differently.

Clever George, clever…

John Fogerty The Old Man Down The Road

CCR Run Through The Jungle

no talent bastard ripped off a great songwriter… “That guy from CCR”

This whole thing sounds like one big fishing expedition….pop/rock, by its very nature in both its simplicity and the limitations of the musicality of its performers, is going to lead to retread after retread after retread of rhythms and chord progressions, etc. Who cares….

I’m surprised only one other person mentioned this, but the Sex Pistols’ “Holidays In the Sun” is the same song as the Jam’s “In the City.” You can even karaoke the melody of one to the tune of the other.

Also, about 2/3 of the singles released by the Cult are so similar that they could sue themselves.

Finally, sampling shouldn’t count (Fergie’s “Fergalicious,” Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” or anything by Puff Daddy should be left out of the discussion).

mr tamburine man and hey carrie ann

I’m surprised only one other person (perfect boy) has mentioned this one, but the Sex Pistols’ “Holidays In the Sun” and the Jam’s “In the City” are so similar that you could karaoke the melody of one song to the music of the other. Did anybody ever get sued over that?

Also, about 2/3 of the singles released by the Cult were so similar that they could have sued themselves about a dozen times.

Finally, I agree with dj blurry. Some of the songs mentioned here are sound-alikes but not ripoffs.

Oh yeah, and one more time, SAMPLES DON’T COUNT, so quit mentioning Vanilla Ice, Puff Daddy and Fergie.

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” sounds like “Peace of Mind” only in the beginning, and that’s because the riff for “Peace of Mind” inspired Kurt for “Teen Spirit.”
yehh…

Timbaland “The Way I Are”
Salt-N-Pepa “Push It”

The White Stripes’ “You Don’t Know What Love Is, You Just Do As You’re Told” is a blatant rip off of the Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody”

Of recent have you heard the start of
Goodnight by Maroon 5, everyone knows what that is. For better or worse

Weezer “Hash Pipe and Lita Ford “Kiss Me Deadly”

Beatles “Lady Madonna” and Sublime “What I Got”

Scissor Sisters’ Return To Oz, is definitley a wink at Elton John’s Yellowbrick Road (he was their producer at the time).

Okay dudes, it’s now time to end this competition, cuz the BEST sound-a-like songs ( or vibe-a-like songs ) are right here:

Jefferson Starship: “Sarah” (what trash!)

Mr. Mister: “Broken Wings” (uuhhh… pass.)

Stone Temple Pilots: “Creep”

Weiland’s voice is always a beaute, no matter how grueling the song.

Except on the new Libertad record, where you can’t hear him.

The chord progression of the verses in Aldo Nova’s “Fanasy,” and the verses of Jefferson Starship’s “Jane.”

Okay dudes, it’s now time to end this competition, cuz the BEST sound-a-like songs ( or vibe-a-like songs ) are right here:

Jefferson Starship: “Sarah” (what trash!)

Mr. Mister: “Broken Wings” (uuhhh… pass.)

Stone Temple Pilots: “Creep”

Weiland’s voice is always a beaute, no matter how grueling the song.

Except on the new Libertad record, where you can’t hear him.

Hey, does that new Ozzy Osbourne song sound like another song to anyone? I can’t figure out what it is.

there are some clearly tonedeaf people here…

Tom Petty’s “American Girl”
The Strokes’ “Last Night”

sissor sisters just went to town on becks midnight vultures album, “take your mama “, is ” debrah ” and then to use the ” im a full grown man” just makes it worse , rip off one song and then refernce another

wilco’s ” outasite ” is barry white your my first my last my eveything”

every nickelback song- stolen from alice in chains and soundgarden.

every nickelback song- stolen from alice in chains and soundgarden.

the new bob seager song is a rip off of ” i beilve I can fly ” , but its ok because I Think r kelly never paid Bob for humming ” Firelake” during that sex video

I cannot believe Tom Petty would steal from us like this. I mean now I for sure am not buying that Traveling Wilburys’ two cd set. What a jerk!

I WISH I was making this up…

That crappy band Blue October has a song called “Into The Ocean”… The chorus IS (I shit you not) the “Siskel & Ebert” theme note for note.

What is the world coming to when you’re ripping off music from a movie review show.

I thought I was the only one who noticed but the Todd’s pick of the Beatle’s Obla di and Offspring’s, Get a Job is the worst rip off of all time!!!

UMM THE MOST SHAMEFUL OF ALL: WEEZER’S “BEVERLY HILLS” IS A REWORKING OF BOTH “I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL” AND “THE JOKER”. ROBBERS!!!

Rush-Spirit of the radio and Wolfmother Spirit of the radio
just listen to how they start and how they progres its identical

Any Nickleback song
sounds exactly like
any other Nickleback song.

Rush- spirit of the radio/ Wolfmother-Joker and the theif

Pachelbel’s Canon is very apparent in Coolio’s “C U When U Get There” and Vitamin C’s “Graduation”

john cougar melloncamp’s
ROCKIN IN THE U.S.A.
and neil diamonds…CHERRY,CHERRY

phish “farmhouse”= no woman no cry bridge or chorus outro or whatever, same words, same chords, same everything, trey you fucking suck. and so does todd haynes now. except for the david cross thing

Phish’s Bug = Neil Young’s Down by the River

JT - Sexyback
Nelly Furtado - Maneater

QUESTION!: do Jet and Mat Kearny legally sample songs? because they have both have some songs that sound very similar to other songs… (I’m not being sarcastic by the way… does anyone know?)

Jet:
Are You Gonna Be My Girl VS. Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life…
Look What You’ve Done VS. John Lennon’s Imagine…
Roll Over DJ VS. Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Takin’ Care of Business… several other of their songs also…

Mat Kearny:
Nothing Left To Lose VS. Radiohead’s High and Dry…
Undeniable VS. Incubus’ Drive… (maybe others too, I’ve only heard those two songs though…)

Papa Roach - Last Resort Vs. Green Day - Brain Stew

Britney’s “Oops! I Did It Again” may be cut from the same cloth as “Baby…One More Time”, but the tune itself is a carbon copy of Barbara Streisand’s “Woman In Love”.

“Oops I Did It Again” by Britney Spears with….. “Hit Me Baby One More Time”!!! (and not in the way that early Beatles sounds alike, but “Oops” is clearly a reworking of “Hit Me”. NIchleBack dos the same thing.Also, I for one think that the Riff in The Green Day song “Holiday” is almast the same as the riff in Iggy Pop`s song, “The Passenger” But the iggy pop version is accustic. The green day song is better, though so im not complaining.

everything from “Lazy Eye” by THe Silversun Pickups Sounds ALOT like “1979″ by the smashing pumpkins, but I really like both songs. very good Weekend Rock list, By the way.

Fleetwood Mac, “Oh Well”
AC/DC, “Beating around the Bush”

its almost the exact same riff!

Oh, another one I’m sure has been mentioned - the “But not like I love my guitar” line from Prince’s new one seems to be copied note-for-note from “Back In The U.S.S.R”!

Bang the Drum All Day, Todd Rundgren vs Living After Midnight, Judas Priest

Let It Be Me- Everly Brothers, another song probably based on Canon. In turn, Walk Away Renee- Left Bank sounds like Let it Be Me.

Blue Sky Allmans
Heaven Los Loneley

Heaven - Los Lonely Boys
and
Blue Sky - Alman Bros

You can’t say Canon vs. anything because that’s just a popular chord progression. There are a handful of chord progs that are used in many mainstream songs, and you can’t say they all rip off eachother.

On another note, I’d like to say “Move Away” by The Killers vs. “Fascination St.” by the Cure.

Are You Gonna Be My Girl and Ballroom Blitz - same rhythm and style

Feeling Alright and You Can’t Always Get What You Want have the same piano chords

R O C K in the USA, The Dark Side, Cherry Cherry - same chords and rhythm

For Your Love and I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone - same chords

Sooner or Later, This Old Heart of Mine, Georgia, and Love Train all have similar rhythm and the same chord progression C-Em-F-G

Avril Lavigne’s “Skater Boi” sounds like “Nails On A Chalk Board”

The Cars - My Best Friend’s Girlfriend vs. The Proclaimers - 500 Miles

Pearl Jam - Given to Fly vs. Led Zeppelin - Going to California

Nelly - Hot In Herre vs. Nelly Furtado - Permiscuous

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust vs. Sugar Hill Gang - Rappers Delight

Sublime - What I Got vs. The Beatles - Lady Madonna

John Cochrane - Life is a Highway vs. Tom Petty - Free Fallin

Another one that isn’t really a soundalike, but sound pretty sweet mashed up is Jay-Z’s 99 Problems and Aerosmith’s Walk This Way.

More Canon in D… (i’m telling you this progression is ALL OVER pop music)

Jack Johnson - Flake
Live - All Over You
John Mayer - My Stupid Mouth
Goldfinger - Superman

smells like teen spirit and the pixies umass, damn near the same riff at a slightly accelerated speed

90s hits “Good” by Better than Ezra and “Closing Time” by Semisonic are the same exact trash.

Awful hit song by Jet “Look What You’ve Done”(is that what its called?) uses the same chords and melody as Radiohead’s classic, “Black Star.”

Deeper into the vault, Weezer’s “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here,” is the same song as their idols, The Pixies’ “Gigantic.”

All Nickelback songs have the same chord progression as me taking a shit.

As long as everybody’s listing Canon In D knockoffs, Welcome To The Black Parade uses the progression too.

this is one i’m suprised no one’s mentioned yet…
the vines’ “get free” is a pretty obvious rip-off of nirvana’s “Negative Creep.” Then again The Vines’ first album pretty much sounds like a Nirvana tribute act.
Also “She” by Kiss and The Doors’ “Five to One.” The guitar solos on both are pretty damn similar.

Travis “Writing to Reach You” - Oasis “Wonderwall” (intentional, as the lyrics suggest [”What’s a Wonderwall anyway?”])

Oasis “D’Ya Know What I Mean” - “Wonderall”

John Mayer “Waitin’ on the World to Change” - Sarah MacLachlan “World on Fire”

Blues Traveler “Hook” - Pachelbel “Canon in D”

pearl jam better man
english beat sooner or later

woah whoever said marilyn mansons speed of pain and david bowies space oddesy was freaky accurate. The guitar sounds exactly the same.

And obviously ice ice baby.

Also…

“Get By” by Talib Kweli vs. “Used 2 Love U” by John Legend *(both Kanye West productions)

With respect to “Canon in D” getting ripped off by Hook, here’s some more (albeit in different keys) that follow that same path:

Dispatch - The General
Oasis - Dont Look Back in Anger
Green Day - Basket Case

Canon in D is the most “borrowed from” song of all time. Nearly every artist prays to write a song that catchy…

Pearl Jam - Unemployable and Shania Twain- Man,I feel Like A woman

the chords from

QOTSA - 3’s and 7’s
and
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Oasis - Wonderwall vs. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams (no, really… identical)

Dave Matthews Band version of All Along the Watchtower vs. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven.

Phish - Farmhouse vs. Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry.

Hootie and the Blowfish - I’ll Be There Waiting vs. John Mellencamp - Hurts So Good.

I could come up with these in my sleep…

Blues Traveler’s “Hook”
Pachabel’s “Canon”

Blues Traveler’s “Hook”
Pachabel’s “Cannon”

The verses to “Material Girl” can be sung to the verses of Nirvana’s “Serve The Servants”

I have a hard time remembering song titles by bands I don’t like, but there’s a song on the “American Idiot” album (it’s broken into two or three parts) that alternately sounds - almost note for note - like Motley Crue’s “On With The Show” (from their first album) and “I Walk The Line”

Hang a Strokes album on a wall, throw a dart at it, and you will find a soundalike. On the new album, there’s a song that rips off the chorus of Barry Manilow’s “Mandy” (I swear to God). I’ve also heard riffs on songs that they copped from the Buzzcocks, Tom Petty (listen to “American Girl” then play “Last Night”) and countless others.

XTC’s “King for a Day” rips off the Tears for Fears song “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.”

the all-american rejects’s i`m waiting and lostprophet’s can`t stop, gotta date with hate.

The Doors — “Hello, I love you”
The Kinks — “All Day and All of the Night”

AFI-”Miss Murder ”
and the beginning of The Smashing Pumpkins “turantula”

come on fellas…

U2 Beautiful Day clearly rips off Aha’s Sun always shines on TV vocal riff in the ‘Touch me’ section.
The dirty irishmen also have a go on Vertigo with a clear riff nick.
Filthy but clever… love it.

well, the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight” and blink-182’s “What’s My Age Again”
Very little but enough I think.

“King Kong Reggae” by Todd Rundgren and “Flakes” by Frank Zappa

“Long As You Know You’re Living Yours” by Keith Jarrett and “Guacho” by Steely Dan

“The Pusher” by Stepponwolf and “Planet Telex” by Radiohead

The Almighty speaks the truth

this wasn’t supposed to be about rip offs… it was supposed to be about songs that sounds very similar to songs that came before them… and songs that intentionally sample other songs should not count…

Apparently people are tone-deaf and don’t recognize the difference between Smells Like Teen Spirit and More Than A Feeling. Boston’s is 1 4 6 5, Nirvana used chords 1 4 m3 m6 . They are not ripped off. A video of Nirvana playing both songs means absolutely nothing. Eventhe rhythms are completely different.

The chorus for Bowling for Soup’s song from a couple years ago “1985″ is nearly identical to that of Beach Boy’s “Kokomo”

Sublime’s “What I Got” is note-for-note “Lady Madonna” by The Beatles… just slowed down.

Def Leppard Hysteria rips off Police Every breath you take.

Phil Collins Sussudio rips off Princes’ 1999.

Michael Jackson Black and White rips off John Cougar Hurt’s so good guitar riffs.

Belinda Carlise Heaven is a place on earth rips off Bon Jovi’s Livi’ on a prayer (not You give love a bad name)

Nirvana Teen’s Spirit rips off Boston more than a feelin’ guitar riffs

Anything from Nik Kershaw sounds like early Howard Jones and Level 42.

Rick Astley’s Never gonna give you up rips off Kylie Minogue’s I should be so lucky.

Dead or Alive You spin round is a rip off Divine’s You think you’re a man. Same producers as Kylie and Rick!

Queen’s Another bits the dust bassline rips off Chic’s Good Times bass riff.

Robbie Williams Rock DJ rips off Barry White’s It’s Ecstasy when you lay next to me intro’

I think the piano in Jet’s Look What You’ve Done sounded a lot like the piano in Imagine by John Lennon. Could be wrong though, I’ve only heard the Jet song a couple of times. They suck.

diddy’s “last night” sounds similar to prince’s “erotic city”… listen to the drum loop… there is even a remix that uses erotic city in it heavily, and it sounds about right… that is probably the one and only p. diddy song i like… other than that, the man must die…

marilyn manson’s “speed of pain” sounds a lot like david bowie’s “space oddity”

marilyn manson’s “speed of pain” sounds a lot like david bowie’s “space oddity”

dylan’s “Things Have Changed” chorus is Billie Jean.

Huey Lewis and the News with “I Want a New Drug” and the theme to Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr.

Try Pearl Jam’s “Given to fly” and Led Zepelins “Going to California”

rocco de luca takes a lot from led zeppelin in many songs, check out tangerine and speak to me

Bowie’s under pressure/ Ice Ice Baby is the most obvious one out there

How about John Cougar “Small Town” ripping off Ian Hunter “When the Daylight Comes”?

taxman by the beatles and start by the jam. both great bands but very similar guitar riffs.
in the city the jam and holiday in the sun sex pistols.
green day- a few songs.
cant remember the tiles but a fewe kinks songs and chicagos 25 6 or 4.

bob dylan- it takes a lot to laugh it takes a train to cry- and a old joe turner song which cops a huge part of the lyrics.<