Pop music ripoffs

[M3ph]

There's also Fuel / Falls on Me, whose chorus bears an uncanny resemblance to Collective Soul / Heavy. In addition to subtle similaries in the music (despite the markedly different styles of Collective Soul and Fuel), compare the lyrics of the refrain of each song:

Collective Soul: "And all your weight, it falls on me, it brings me down. And all your weight, it falls on me, it falls on me."

Fuel: "And all of your ways, all you dream, falls on me. It falls on me."

I noticed that also, I had just finished listening to Collective Soul's album :Se7en Year Itch and when I heard the new Fuel song... it really irritated me.

any decade that brought us Joy Division/New Order, Nick Cave, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, The The, The Misfits, The Replacements, Husker Du, Echo & The Bunny Men, The Police, Bahaus, Peter Murphy, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, Danny Elfman, Adam Ant and Peter Gabriel is pretty cool with me.

Hell yes. Soul Mining was an awesome album (The The). Hrm. Anyone up for some DEVO?

And though its not 80's... do any of you like Frank Zappa?

And for more rip offs: I think the most famous being "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. It directly rips off of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, and I also think "Cant Touch This" by MC Hammer took the chords from another song. (cant remember the name though)

[Chris]

I also think "Cant Touch This" by MC Hammer took the chords from another song. (cant remember the name though)

Superfreak.

[jesse]

see, in the case of "U Can't Touch This", that was rap music, which has always been built out of samples. MC Hammer creditted and paid Rick James to use that riff.

However, "Be My Girl" is just a blatant rip on "Lust for Life".

[ch0l0man]

ozzfest is for kiddies, its all about US Festival!!!

[bascule]

And though its not 80's... do any of you like Frank Zappa?

I pledge allegiance to Frank Zappa and the United Mutations of America
And to the Duke of Prunes and the Grand Wazoo for which he stands
One size fits all, Excentrifugal
With Yellow Sharks and Hot Rats for all

[bascule]

And for more rip offs: I think the most famous being "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. It directly rips off of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie

Yes, although that was resolved internally as all three artists were on the same label. However, Vanilla Ice insists his version is different, as theirs goes "Dun dun dun dunga dun dun, dun dun dun dunga dun dun" and his goes "Dun dun dun dunga dun dun *chish* dun dun dun dun dunga dun dun". "It's not the same thing!" he insists...

However, keep in mind that the title track of the album Ice Ice Baby was on, Play that Funky Music, was a Wild Cherry song which Vanilla Ice also "forgot" to get the rights to. Except in that case, they weren't on the same label, and Vanilla Ice got sued.

There was also the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony, which contained a barely audible sample of an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones' The Last Time. In that case, the Rolling Stones sued for, and won, 100% of the publishing rights. Ouch.

[M3ph]

I pledge allegiance to Frank Zappa and the United Mutations of America
And to the Duke of Prunes and the Grand Wazoo for which he stands
One size fits all, Excentrifugal
With Yellow Sharks and Hot Rats for all

^^ Greatness.

OOh...go watch Baby Snakes. Excellent film.

[Webster]

Speaking of Pop-Music rip off's satan himself produced an album by the name of Kidz Bop, oh dear god. >:\

[bascule]

^^ Greatness.

The credit for that belongs to Matt Groening:
http://www.catalog.com/mrm/zappa/images/lih.jpg