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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[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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