bricap ([info]bricap) wrote,
@ 2007-03-18 16:54:00
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Copycat Songs
I've thought a lot about copycat songs lately. It seems every time I turn on the radio, I hear a song that sounds like one that's already been done before. Here are a few that I have figured out. Some are new, some are older. I provide some links so you can see for yourselves:

Cheap Trick - The Flame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-LnenoWfD8

copied by: Maroon5 - She Will Be Loved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqFeQBzN3fc


Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking (this was yet another cover of an old song, though, but this version works for this exercise just fine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn_DPz3KDk8

Bob Seger - Old Time Rock and Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6UJZtCz1-c


The Supremes - Keep Me Hanging On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYrT4cxvlq4

U2 - Vertigo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLQsSKTpRE


Pat Benatar - Invincible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbomJNYQDJo

Garbage - Stupid Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N29vkIT3eo&mode=related&search=


Elvis Presley - Burning Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MTSXTagFeE

The Cars - You Might Think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NXmK1YISpk


The Beatles - Getting Better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vD8nBraflw

The Clash - London Calling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiVbkHhJUzw


The Beatles - Two of Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ztr8j_-gD4

The Killes - All These Things That I've Done (ripoff starts about 1:30 into it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ERe23kSBM


The Beatles - Taxman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQqtvl2Ibzo

Start! - The Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDT3D3NFitI


I think that's enough for now. Any thoughts?

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(Anonymous)
2007-03-18 11:24 pm UTC (link)
Sesame Street specialized in this. Such as:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhcAvXR2PvM

More obvious than the ones you mentioned, but a great song nonetheless.

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[info]millcake16
2007-03-18 11:26 pm UTC (link)
Sorry, that was me. I've never had to log in again before.

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[info]bricap
2007-03-19 01:47 am UTC (link)
No, this is about ripping off songs, not parodying them...

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[info]millcake16
2007-03-19 01:59 am UTC (link)
Figured that's what you meant. Wanted to share it anyway.

And welcome back to this thing...

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[info]getofftheoven
2007-03-19 05:21 am UTC (link)

Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp", main riff, appropriated by Smashmouth in "Walking On the Sun", and probably on other songs too, I dunno...

George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" was a rip of "He's So Fine", so much so that it triggered a lawsuit...

CCR's "Run Through The Jungle", copied by, well, John Fogerty ("Old Man Down The Road")

80's hair metal department: Def Leppard's "Bringing On The Heartbreak", lifted almost completely intact by Cinderella for the dreckier "Nobody's Fool"

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[info]sneakyofverb
2007-03-19 01:45 pm UTC (link)
On a family trip to DC as kids back in '84, me and my brother liked to hum/mumble/mangle the lyrics of one particular recent song and then insert them into another recent song.

We were having fun and didn't think much of what we were doing. So it was quite shocking to see, upon returning home, that these two songs just happened to be involved in litigation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Lewis_%26_The_News#Ghostbusters

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Copycats
(Anonymous)
2007-03-21 12:36 pm UTC (link)
It's all a question of whether one would like to have a dance with Title 17 - Copyrights. Wherever there is huge money to be made in the record business, there is a copyright infringement lawsuit (or more)sniffing around the corner.

There is no doubt that stuff gets borrowed or stolen all the time, but much of it is settled before the record comes out and sometimes it's helpful in that "Oh, look! He's got his father's nose!" kind of way.

xoxoxo
GuitarGirl

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Creativity hits all time low?
[info]agenothree
2007-05-18 02:12 am UTC (link)
This habit of ripping off songs is merely part of something bigger - and much more horrifying.

I personally think that popular music... at least in America... has hit an all time low in creativity.

I mean, just about every BIG rap song I hear nowadays rips off another song - and uses pretty much no talent whatsoever to create.

It frightens me to see what becomes popular nowadays.

-Brian Leavitt

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[info]walterzuey
2007-12-04 05:47 pm UTC (link)
Heh, I said the exact same thing about the Jam song to Laura last year. Paul's got a lotta great bass lines. People should steal them.

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