Plagiarism Thread: Are you fucking kidding me edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o
>>65181975
It's not a note-for-note rip-off really. Yep, it sounds somewhat similar, but that's it. By this logic, you can deconstruct a lot artists from Led Zeppelin to Sonic Youth.
Same as people claiming Cobain ripped off More Than A Feeling. The songs are from completely different eras, have different sound. He might have taken the beat, but changed the melody completely, built a different song on it.
>>65182430
I generally agree with you but that's a lot more than "somewhat" similar, the Nirvana riff is almost note-for-note lifted from the Killing Joke tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BRyp9FCGvs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UntRWekUyo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDKqA5fbosY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gVRgLJTqK0
I hope no one forgot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sYbzKp-nDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSdTBGhDSg
>>65182709
Mutually, I hope no one forgot that Branca mentored Gira when he arrived in New York in 1982 and Gira played in his orchestra before forming and dissolving Circus Mort.
>>65182430
Cobain himself admitted he ripped off that riff from More Than A Feeling, it's not a claim. He would even begin to play part of More Than A Feeling at shows instead of just doing Smells Like Teen Spirit.
>>65182535
Well, the first half of the riff is very similar indeed. The second part is different.
Nevertheless, I'd understand the hate totally if it was, say, Green Day with their most commercial album and they ripped off a top 40 hit from the past. But Cobain really wasn't caring as much about money. Nevermind's sales took him pretty much by surprise and he went to reject its sound. If he really cared about success, he wouldn't make In Utero, record all those Vaselines covers and just make tame whiny teenage pop-rock for radio. He cared more about his punk "cred" and did an hero, what more do people want? The rest is the work of radio, MTV, and press. Cobain absolutely didn't think of himself as icon, he was down-to-earth even in his last interviews and rejected his fame as he could.
>>65182773
>that makes it OK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc67atweLKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krGDNbT4CSE
basically the same song
>>65182791
See >>65182862
Also, Wikipedia says,
>Cobain himself held similar opinions, saying that it "was such a clichéd riff. It was so close to a Boston riff or [The Kingsmen's] 'Louie Louie.'"[4] However, Rikky Rooksby points out that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "More Than a Feeling" follow different chord progressions.
Also, Cobain himself started hating playing that song after its success.
>>65182873
I'm not saying it makes it ok but it establishes their association.
It would've been a different thing to have borrowed from Rhys Chatham or David Behrman or someone to which he had no relation.
Again, he played in his orchestra. He probably rehearsed and performed the same riff alongside Branca at some point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFRX-84ato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xCgwXWEQ10
not really melodically but thematically
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox00eZHRTOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPaZ6HU-i6s
>>65182628
not really even that close
>>65182880
same label too
>>65181975
Reminder that Killing Joke ripped off The Damned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RmMry47MCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8
Brian Jonestown Massacre copied Spacemen 3 and every other big psych band
>>65182709
The main riff is similar yeah, but that's it. They veer off to completely different paths, paths that I both love since I love both artists.
Its not really a rip off because they are close friends, and they are associated and stuff
https://youtu.be/ULX0LCkuqFw
https://youtu.be/dwCk0truaXY
>>65183792
in fact here thay are both of them playing said song
https://youtu.be/_iLXbohQOO8
>>65181975
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSngzjqMF38
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et3AJIry4iI
>>65183606
That's kind of their thing though
I got so unreasonably mad at this when I first saw it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_LOiiWjpug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTg2G7no-fQ
>>65183942
Also, I remembered
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM @2:49
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1PNvopXjbg @0:38
Primus and King Crimson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qf6rNIDLqY
https://soundcloud.com/rodrigolopezf/king-crimson-elephant-talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXGflGxCpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtdWGGpvY1s
Fucking shameless
>>65184046 here's a panda bear ripoff as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTnBc_-QCXk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLRQ1j5SYO4
as /mu/ is having a couple of threads about The Strokes,let me tell ya something
>Under Cover Of Darkness(2011):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l09H-3zzgA
>Birds(2015):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqOnUB9gnDM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBU3pzy7is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuK6n2Lkza0
>>65182862
I mean I don't care at all, loads of musicians lift shit, I'm not strictly against it or whatever. Shit, Radiohead are my favorite band and they generously borrow other artists' work all the time, it's just how it goes.
>>65184762
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88sbbIX07Qg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da0JwKT3GyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7encWb7lNQ
>>65184046
Stranger Think shitposts here, too. He comes and goes. Pretty weird. He's like Car Seat Headrest but without the originality or shitposting determination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQI6rskwCLg
>>65184627
this is the worst
>>65184627
piece of shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGD8aQ2GKr0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ar2VHW1i2w
Can't believe they got away with it
https://youtu.be/oN5VtKcJ1Uo
https://youtu.be/stGBvxG6pWE
i doubt anyone else knows (or gives a shit), but it gave me a laff when i noticed it
>>65184046
Dude you really did
>>65184046
>>65185425
pretty sure I've seen his posts b4, like right after he released that track. Barefaced self-promo, he even mentioned Anco
It's too fuckin bad cause I actually really like the song, it's just such an obvious rip that I can't give him credit for any of it
>>65184627
I was willing to forgive them until the chorus lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liwIyMp6FKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-xD_wSSJ8U
tame impala and pablito ruis (argetinan singer)
>>65189449
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0M901BgWqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00ikilDxW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqsgB2TZ9Ks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77R1Wp6Y_5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8dh9gDzmz8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWNT11IqSXM
>>65184046
Man his voice is like everything that's bad and annoying about Avey's voice and none of the good parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EgB__YratE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbI75qOF7Sw
It's just the drums but I swear to god I've heard so many songs that use that same drum line lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UMJKlMqAlI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv4Yj5sMfFQ
wew
Here's a case where plagiarism actually works, where the copier (Manilla Road) beats the original (Angel Witch):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPAYS-jMyVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6LSTcVL3c
Dokken self-plagiarized hard on "Under Lock and Key".
These two songs are literally the same just in a different tempo and key:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7DjCQfMqqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKF5R8doqDE
It took me a while before I realized that this is actually the exact same riff as the acoustic intro to "Unchain the Night", but even though it does rip off ITS OWN FUCKING ALBUM, I'd say it's passable...I mean, it's obviously played in a much heavier style and thus completely changes the sound and mood of it. It's a pretty widely used riff, by the way; bands that have used it include Iron Maiden ("2 minutes to Midnight"), Accept ("Flash Rockin' Man"), Grave Digger ("Heavy Metal Breakdown", "The Dark of the Sun") and more. It's one of the very few upbeat rockers on here and this time the distortion pedal is pushed a bit more as well, but in the end, it's hardly noteworthy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6okxuiiHx2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPvuNsRccVw
>>65183423
It is, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiHMy6V5Qjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V86VfXxSec
this is, huh, wow
>>65181975
Coldplay's new song vs Lil Waynes How to Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7RKnXZHpC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmNJbZs4wPg
the Number Girl song also sounds somewhat like Gigantic by Pixies
>>65185167
Planet Telex and My Iron Lung both borrow from this. Makes sense though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZVdWoz6cX0
>>65184627
Is it really a Panda ripoff if it's Panda sampling?
>>65190361
If you're not shitposting it's Be My Baby. It gets bit all the time, usually intentionally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g_FD_sYazk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jfu_gfttSY
Sweater Song is a well known ripoff of I Bleed. They are way too similar to be coincidence.
>I once had that nicking happen with Leo Sayer. Do you remember that song 'When I Need You'?" Cohen sings the chorus of Sayer's number one hit from 1977, then segues into 'And Jane came by with a lock of your hair', a lyric from 'Famous Blue Raincoat'. 'Somebody sued them on my behalf … and they did settle', even though, he laughs, 'they hired a musicologist, who said, that particular motif was in the public domain and, in fact, could be traced back as far as Schubert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSERbdl39Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoXcRw9gJCA
>>65190361
lrn2 Hal Blaine
>>65193690
how is this song similar to planet telex or my iron lung?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3OaMZojJRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaA4zHMnwDs
I wouldn't say it's ripping off a particular song persay, but this totally apes Radiohead's signature style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8kcU3ZasqQ
>>65194036
The chord progression is the same in the chorus for Telex and posted song. It's also the same in the verse for Lung and posted song. To be fair, the second example is also based on Rachmaninoff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM6e9ltaLVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUwrVKHXFkw
>>65183138
wrong order. the nirvana one was first.
also I was NOT expecting the sound of the rest of that teenage fanclub song. went from nirvana to oasis rather quick
>>65184762
pleb not knowing both iggy and jet agreed they ripped off motown tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBzrTdZIbes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Bae3R49ew
and LCD Soundsystem's Dance Yrself Clean.
Remember when Panda Bear blatantly ripped off the Beach Boys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_LX-m74uw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhtIIyvivSw
>>65194218
FUCK
>>65193760
It's basically a cover with other lyrics. cunts.
>>65190651
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNLASyPsUU
>>65183138
I disagree with most of these being plagiarism, but Ok I can totally see this being a ripoff. Sounds almost exactly the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoyEVTN_h9I
the video doesn't included Venom's Welcome to Hell song or Helloween's Phantoms Of Death pretty sure there are other bands who've used this riff
>>65189928
I don't understand the Pokemon one
