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PostPosted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:32 am 
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Igotsomeonme wrote:
Remember the Heavy Metal soundtrack? There was a blue oyster cult song on it called "veteran of the psychic wars". Very similar in music and theme to an old Funkadelic tune called "march to the witches castle" on the album Cosmic Slop.

Hmmm. Never made that connection. I hear what you mean.


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A while back I was listening to a lot of Sun Ra. It was all on YouTube so I don't remember any of the names of the songs but I noticed a lot of similarities to parts in Zappa's music. In particular a tune that was like "ripoff" similar to "filthy habits". Anyone know the song I'm talking about?

No. I wish I did.
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Dir En Grey's Ryoujoku no ame would be a song I could enjoy if it wasn't for the fact there are some melodic associations with a song of which I hope and pray for the sanity of the world that they never heard of it: Ik Heb De Hele Nacht Liggen Dromen by Wolter Kroes.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGBe2FpO89I sounds suspiciously similar to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lC1lRz5Z_s

Listening to the harmonies they're similar, but especially at the guitar section 2:20 in. I can't believe it's a coincidence.

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Flaming Lips - Take Meta Mars (1990)
CAN - Mushroom (1971)

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Tom Petty dismisses it, but accusations have been made against The Red Hot Chili Peppers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5aq5HcS1A

They sound different to me, but I'm not a musician.

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to me the riff from Spiderwoman by Ruben and The Jets sounds super similar to the riff from In France by FZ and the intro to Sparkie, also by Ruben and the Jets, kinda shares the same vibe as the intro to the studio version of Dinah-Moe Humm.
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Philostopher wrote:
Tom Petty dismisses it, but accusations have been made against The Red Hot Chili Peppers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5aq5HcS1A

They sound different to me, but I'm not a musician.


Similar but wouldn't call it plagiarism that easily.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axlI2OTa-yk
Frank Zappa - Any Downers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAIu5yJdx0
Arthur Brown - Conception

Wierd how Arthur Screaming sounds just like Jumbo :shock:

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Which in turn is nicked from Dirty Love.

I hear a touch of Lucifer's House For Sale in Cocaine Decisions. Brr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qL5-mF6Cv4 Watch At Own Risk.

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Dirty Love starts on E but the Common Scale follows
where's those other Too start on E and Chromatic scale also got Screaming Identical
So how did Arthur steal.

that song you post sounds like Duran Duran/ordinary world Mixed with a little Chris De Burgh/Woman in Red been run over by a Bws :mrgreen: with a coo coo clock playing in the back ground.

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cleon wrote:
Zazaban wrote:
Pink Floyd's Echoes and The Phantom Of The Opera. Blatant rip off.

Also, compare Bo Diddley's self titled song with The Who's Magic Bus and The Rolling Stone's Not Fade Away
Also Floyds pigs on the wings part 1 and 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnC7TdkRnP4
PINK FLOYD Echoes Part 1 Live at Pompei 1972

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JaeBxYCI9k
The Phantom Of The Opera - Theme Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYo9oXBsE5M
Frank Zappa - The Legend of the Illinois Enema Bandit

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the ending of pinball wizard (2:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM
and the 'middle 8s' in spellbound (0:39 / 1:22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otg_Cm50RE
the same !!!

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deuce wrote:
the ending of pinball wizard (2:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM
and the 'middle 8s' in spellbound (0:39 / 1:22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otg_Cm50RE
the same !!!
also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehRB1FTeTo
THE BEATLES - Strawberry Fields Forever
3.15 :wink:

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The intro to Pink Floyd's Hey You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjmvfRvjTc
sounds a lot like the intro to Paul Stanley's Tonight You Belong To Me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p9Hl0YP6Mk Not the notes or melody but the instrumentation and general feel. I think Bob Ezrin, who earlier had produced the Kiss Destroyer album, was directly influenced by the Paul Stanley track (released the year before) and he wanted that sound on The Wall.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in7fFBDhRbc
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries Mary
1.48-1.52min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB9tqgdCt5I
The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down

Every 2 seconds of the verses

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roots - sepultura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk

i'm too sexy - right said fred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6IjeprfEs

really...

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Devil In My Veins - Yelawolf

sounds suspiciously similar to

Greensleeves (trad.)

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Ronny's Noomies wrote:
McCartney was, in his own words, trying to out-riff Roy Orbison's PRETTY WOMAN when he wrote the riff to DAY TRIPPER. The riffs sound similar if you play them back to back.


Never knew this, but I recently read that McCartney said he was influenced by John Sebastian when he wrote Good Day Sunshine. When I listen to GDS, it makes sense.

I also read that Last Train to Clarksville, written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, was influenced by Paperback Writer. That makes sense too.

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And then of course, there's Axis of Awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

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The 2016 Belgian Eurovision entry sounds just like Queen's Another One Bites The Dust.

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/jimmy-page-takes-stand-in-led-zeppelin-copyright-trial/ar-AAh6er5?ocid=ansmsnent11


Jimmy Page testifies in Stairway to Heaven copyright trial. Don't ya just love these courtroom sketches?

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May as well throw this into the mix.

Exclusive: ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Is Actually In the Public Domain

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/04 ... n-lawsuit/

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May as well throw this into the mix.

Exclusive: ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Is Actually In the Public Domain

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/04 ... n-lawsuit/


Oh my god that's awesome.

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sleeping in a jar wrote:
Not that I like to flaunt my knowledge of western classical music or anything, but whoever composed the soundtrack to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey blatantly ripped off that classical writing team "The Strauss Brothers" (Richard and Johann)* in not one, but several scenes...Am I the only one here who sees this? Am I?

*The Strauss Brothers were kind of a Viennese version of The Carpenters, except that they were both doods. Not many people are privy to this info...(and I'm not even sure what privy means)
I was looking at this because, in another "songs that sound the same" thread, Bonny pointed out there were existing "songs that sound the same" threads elsewhere on the forum.

Please tell me you were being facetious in this post. I'm pretty sure you were.

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Here's a live version of the Dir en grey song Deity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eneqt0a1geM

All good and rocking until the singing starts and you realize it sounds so much like this you can just picture pigs building houses to this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O192eo9zbT4

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