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By *ackformore100 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tin town

This is a slightly different one... And may require a bit more grey matter. Or not as the case may be.

What songs do you know that sound so similar to others?

I'll start with Ed sheeran thinking out loud and Marvin gaye and let's get it on...

There are some beauties out there..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loaded by Primal Scream is a great song.

And that song is Sympathy for the Devil.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

All of Greta van fleets output.

I do quite dig it though.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

‘Creep’ by Radiohead - great song!

But they were actually legally challenged by The Hollies who deemed it to be an almost identical chordal structure to their classic hit, ‘The Air That I Breath’.

The case was eventually settled out of court with Radiohead reportedly paying them an undisclosed fee.

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By *ackformore100 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"‘Creep’ by Radiohead - great song!

But they were actually legally challenged by The Hollies who deemed it to be an almost identical chordal structure to their classic hit, ‘The Air That I Breath’.

The case was eventually settled out of court with Radiohead reportedly paying them an undisclosed fee."

A third of the royalties... Interestingly it wasn't the hollies who sued them... They didn't want to. It was their record company.

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By *J StathamMan
over a year ago

Manchester

A lot of Elvis Presley songs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never understood how Adele didn't get sued by Limahl. The chorus melody of 'Take It Easy' is exactly the same as 'The Neverending Story'

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Up Your Frock!


"‘Creep’ by Radiohead - great song!

But they were actually legally challenged by The Hollies who deemed it to be an almost identical chordal structure to their classic hit, ‘The Air That I Breath’.

The case was eventually settled out of court with Radiohead reportedly paying them an undisclosed fee.

A third of the royalties... Interestingly it wasn't the hollies who sued them... They didn't want to. It was their record company."
typical of record companies - greedy bunch of wankers…. Any similarity I think was unintentional in that case - hence why the band had no interest in suing them… ive never listened to Creep and thought oooh thats like the air that i breathe… the limited amount of chords in a key mean that chord progressions are certain to be repeated across different works. Some songs like Lets work together and bryan ferrys Lets stick together are obviously rooted in the same song …

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Pure Shores - All Saints

Frozen - Madonna

They have almost the exact same delayed chord sound.

You can hear it in the chorus of Frozen and through out Pure Shores

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By *lue morphoCouple
over a year ago

north west

First ones that come to mind are:

Coldplay's Talk taken from Kraftwerk's Computer Love. (Permission given).

Nirvana's Come as You Are steals from Killing Joke's 80's. (Permission not given).

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Didn’t Vanilla Ice initially try to deny ‘borrowing’ John Deacon’s famous bass riff from Queen’s classic, Under Pressure for his hit, Ice, Ice Baby?

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By *ackformore100 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tin town

I saw a grear video of these and here's one I hadn't realised...

Killing jokes eighties

And

Nirvana's come as you are...

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By *ackformore100 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Staying out of the summer... Dodgy..

Don't fear the reaper blue oyster cult

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Luke combs - kind of love we made

Chris stapleton - tennesse whiskey

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
over a year ago

IPSWICH

I remember reading a few years ago that music had reached the point where every combination of notes had been written. So from that point on no new piece of music would be completely unique.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Luke combs - kind of love we made

Chris stapleton - tennesse whiskey"

Haha i read the topic wrong

My answer was for ripping their clothes off

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By *lue morphoCouple
over a year ago

north west


"Staying out of the summer... Dodgy..

Don't fear the reaper blue oyster cult "

Nice! A new one.

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By *ackformore100 OP   Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"I remember reading a few years ago that music had reached the point where every combination of notes had been written. So from that point on no new piece of music would be completely unique. "

I've seen similar. The point being made on the program I saw was that most musicians appreciate that sentiment. It's the record companies who are driving and motivated by the litigation.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Led Zeps Whole lotta luv is such a rip of of Small Faces You Need Love.

There is a bigger story to it though as the melody is a an old Muddy Waters track.

Robert Plant made no effort to hide his copying of Steve Marriotts vocal interpretation of it.

And yes, Steve Marriotts is way better.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Jean Genie by Bowie and Blockbuster by Sweet.

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

My sweet lord by George Harrison had a copy right infringement taken against him as it’s the same as He’s so fine by the Chiffons

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol


"I remember reading a few years ago that music had reached the point where every combination of notes had been written. So from that point on no new piece of music would be completely unique.

I've seen similar. The point being made on the program I saw was that most musicians appreciate that sentiment. It's the record companies who are driving and motivated by the litigation. "

A few years ago two guys, a musician and a programmer have created a program called AllTheMusic, what it's done is brute force every possible combination of musical notes within an octave (that's 8 notes) starting at C, within 6 days the program had worked out 68.7 Billion melodies.

The program will be expanded upon to include all 88 notes (you typically get 88 notes on a full sized piano), this would equate to 216 Sextillion melodies... that would look like 216,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

They did this to avoid copyright infringement and allow artists to "create" freely without fear of getting railed by record companies suing them for unwittingly stealing music.

So the next time you mindlessly whistle a tune as you make your coffee or think you're writing a beautiful melody, just remember, your tune already exists on a flash drive in some guys desk draw.

I will mention though, this program does not account for chords and harmony, nor timing/rhythms. It is just basic 8th notes without accompaniment.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field


"I remember reading a few years ago that music had reached the point where every combination of notes had been written. So from that point on no new piece of music would be completely unique. "

Aphex Twin laughs in your direction

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

Elasticas first album ripped off a few songs..well they stole parts of songs from str*nglers.and .wire..and got sued for it..

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
over a year ago

IPSWICH


"I remember reading a few years ago that music had reached the point where every combination of notes had been written. So from that point on no new piece of music would be completely unique.

Aphex Twin laughs in your direction "

Good for them. I'm sure there's a joke there but its lost on me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hotel California has long been compared to a Jethro Tull song due to the same chord structure.

George Harrison’s ‘My sweet lord’ was a direct copy of The Shirelles ‘he’s so fine’

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The whole of Led Zeppelin’s first album was proven to be complete ripoffs of old blues numbers

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By *tylebender03Man
over a year ago

Manchester

Every Puff Daddy song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Men at Work - Down Under famously had to fight a lawsuit for similarities to Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

https://youtu.be/2Mfve0oxbPA

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field


"I remember reading a few years ago that music had reached the point where every combination of notes had been written. So from that point on no new piece of music would be completely unique.

Aphex Twin laughs in your direction

Good for them. I'm sure there's a joke there but its lost on me. "

Him...he's somewhat unique and a bit left field (but not Leftfield...they're a different act completely)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Taxman: The Beatles

Start: The Jam

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Radiohead we’re successfully sued by The Hollies because ‘Creep’ sounded like ‘the air that I breathe’

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"This is a slightly different one... And may require a bit more grey matter. Or not as the case may be.

What songs do you know that sound so similar to others?

I'll start with Ed sheeran thinking out loud and Marvin gaye and let's get it on...

There are some beauties out there..

"

How about Oasis & The Beatles?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You should check out axis of awsome's 4 cord song then tell me why they don't get done for copyright more often

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"I remember reading a few years ago that music had reached the point where every combination of notes had been written. So from that point on no new piece of music would be completely unique.

I've seen similar. The point being made on the program I saw was that most musicians appreciate that sentiment. It's the record companies who are driving and motivated by the litigation.

A few years ago two guys, a musician and a programmer have created a program called AllTheMusic, what it's done is brute force every possible combination of musical notes within an octave (that's 8 notes) starting at C, within 6 days the program had worked out 68.7 Billion melodies.

The program will be expanded upon to include all 88 notes (you typically get 88 notes on a full sized piano), this would equate to 216 Sextillion melodies... that would look like 216,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

They did this to avoid copyright infringement and allow artists to "create" freely without fear of getting railed by record companies suing them for unwittingly stealing music.

So the next time you mindlessly whistle a tune as you make your coffee or think you're writing a beautiful melody, just remember, your tune already exists on a flash drive in some guys desk draw.

I will mention though, this program does not account for chords and harmony, nor timing/rhythms. It is just basic 8th notes without accompaniment.

"

Playing a chord progression or melody in a different octave or even a different key doesn't make it different. It is all about the relationship between the notes and the timing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pretty much anything Oasis have ever done.

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By *ansduoCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Bit in the Mario tune for the new movie that rips off the Popeye the Sailorman theme tune. Scandal.

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By *rDiscretionXXXMan
over a year ago

Gilfach

Aha - Sun always Shines on TV

U2 - Beautiful Day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is a bit of a random one but there’s an old Eurovision winner from a France called Sebastian who did a song called Divine.

You may remember him, wore a big old fake moustache and beard, dark sunglasses and came on stage in a golf cart

Anyway, that song had a really catchy beat/rhythm and vocal style and when the Bruno Mars song - I think I want to marry you - came out, it always made me think of Divine.

See what you think

Bruno Mars https://youtu.be/dElRVQFqj-k

Sebastiene https://youtu.be/Vz58Hw9hldw

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