0:50 Kinks vs. Doors 1:50 Led Zeppelin vs. Muddy Waters 3:05 Coldplay vs. Creaky Boards vs. Joe Satriani vs Cat Stevens(?) 4:20 Kinks vs. Other Garden vs. Green Day 5:32 Huey Lewis vs. Ray Parker Jr. 6:41 CCR vs. John Fogerty (how ironic) 7:45 Marvin Gay vs. Robin Thicke vs Funkadelic 8:50 Stones vs. Verve 10:01 Chiffons vs. George Harrison 11:21 Honorable Mentions 12:30 Chuck Berry vs. Beach Boys
@@marjoriemorris5849 Respectfully Marjorie, I think you might be wrong. That has been a highly publicized example of a rip-off and successful lawsuit and eventual contrition by Vanilla Ice and the producers. I'm not an expert, but I think sampling is done in very short spurts, and that baseline was throughout the "Ice Ice Baby" song. Correct me if I'm wrong.
the stones had a roasting cheek, as everything they did was based on a blend of american underground psychedelia which didnt get much radio play so everyone thought the stones were ''original'' (which they were really), and from black R&B guys from the 1920s onwards.... Even country Joe and the fish ''up the country'' was an older R&B hit from a few decades before they had their hit.. big deal i say... music for for and by everyone!
AYeah that was good. Surely it's not like Mick, Keith and the boys really need the Verves royalties. They musta made a packet by now [and still are]. So they made themselves look good by giving it back to the Verve [their only really big hit].
The CCR vs John Fogarty thing was seriously ridiculous. Fantasy Records was seriously reaching, considering John wrote almost all of CCR's music. Glad he beat that.
There are only so many chord progressions and riffs possible, of course there are going to be similarities in songs. Although there is a difference between being inspired and completely stealing.
With the way music is composed, it's pretty hard to 'own' musical patterns unless you've drawn attention to a claim of being the first. I think eventually there'll be so many things similar that no one will be able to own these patterns. The only thing you'll be copyrighting is the measurable waveform which accounts for any unique tonal qualities, everything else about the melodies and chord patterns you can't own.
Cat Stevens is a fucking bellend! You can see it on his face that he's a dickhead! Nothing similar to his crappy song I hadn't even heard and the other two
where is danny black me too! For sure. It's so obvious I figured it'd be number 1 or at least make it on the list. This channel lost a little credibility leaving that out.
+Party Sword Perhaps, unlike myself, you're too young to remember this. Vanilla Ice actually denied it was the same. I actually saw him in an interview doing a ridiculous job of explaining the difference. "Queen's song goes bum bum bum ba da bum bump, and mine goes bum bum bum ba da bum ba bump." It was silly. If you're going to be a one-hit wonder, make the one hit original! If he had just given them credit, and admitted to sampling, he could have avoided the lawsuit.
Legit wrote an entire song with the exact chord progression and strum pattern as "Last Kiss". I had never heard the song before until my uncle noticed I was playing the tune to my song and he played last kiss. It's a pain in the ass honestly
It's a sample meaning Nicki Minaj bought half (or a part) of the rights to the song and she payed a pretty large price for it too. Please educate yourself!
Maximiliano Boderone Plagiarism: The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. No it is not plagiarism because she didn't pass it off as her own she gave credit to Sir-Mix-A-Lot.
(10) The Kinks - all day and all of the night vs The Doors - Hello I love you (9) Muddy Waters - you need love vs Led Zeppelin - whole lotta love (8) Joe satriani - If I Could Fly vs Coldplay - viva la vida (7) The kinks - picture book vs The other garden - never got a chance vs Green Day - warning (6) Huey Lewis and The News - I want a new drug vs Ray Parker jr - ghost busters (5) CCR - run through the jungles vs John Fogerty - the old man down the road (4) Marvin Gaye - gotta get it up vs Robin Thicke - blurred lines (3)The Rolling Stones- the last time vs the Verve - Bittersweet symphony (2) The Chiffons - he’s so fine vs George Harrison - my sweet lord. (which I completely disagree with) (1) Chuck Berry - sweet little sixteen vs The Beach Boys - surfin’ USA
@@lovelyrita7108 It was called by the judge as an "unconcious plagiarism" and that's exactly what it is. So it is a rip-off. I love the Beatles too btw
I know. My opinion of the band, management or anybody associated with them dropped like a three ton brick when this happened. Not even funny because even if the Stones themselves didn't do this, they could've spoken out in The Verve's defense.
It was disgustingly greedy by the mangers. ''I'm out of whack here, this is serious lawyer shit. If the Verve can write a better song, they can keep the money.''
If I remember correctly, it was Allen Klein - the record label executive that owned the rights to the Stones songs, that sued Ashcroft for Bittersweet Symphony. I don't think the Stones had anything to do with it (other than receiving a crap-ton of money from the royalties).
@@gregwalker1913 A lot of their songs from 1964-65 sounded alike... I always heard the instrumental "Revenge" as a faster take on this very riff, for example.. Luckily, they overgrew this period and went on to release some of the best music of the 1960's!
Absolutely. I always thought the first song that set the Kinks apart from those Kingsman "Louie Louie" type riffs was A Well Respected Man. Funnily enough, a bigger hit in America than in England it really set them apart from all the other British Invasion bands.
Led Zeppelin stole TONS of songs. Easily still one of my favourite bands, but they did steal a ton of songs. However, I think that some people need desperately to understand this: certain music genres are made iconic by certain riffs, chord changes, and styles. To say that La Grange is stealing from Boogie Chillen is pretty redundant. A TON of blues riffs sound exactly like that, it's what makes blues what it is.
***** The problem is if a band does acknowledge a particular artist as their source - then the original band (or just their lawyers) are gong to come knocking on your door expecting royalties. Or they file a copyright suit.
Shrap Nelface That depends entirely on what you mean by "storylines". Pull enough of the details out, and you get the basic plot conflicts found in fiction, which are finite because the universe is finite, man is finite, and there are only a certain number of conflicts we can envision. Pull out the foundational issues and you can say there's only ONE movie script: Conflict. But add in a few more details, and the number of available script expands rapidly.
Anyone notice that most nursery rhymes are sang the exact same with different words A B C D E F G twinkle twinkle little star ba ba black sheep have you any wool sing em all to yourself
Monica, i don't think it goes like that, they don't ask before copying, so it is the same as stealing. Imagine you made something and someone is making money out of it without any effort
Some people are mixing up the terms "riping off" with "sampling". Ice Ice baby isn't a rip-off of Under Pressure, it just sampled the bassline, kind of like how rapper's delight uses the bassline from good times.
***** It isn't a rip off because they didn't try to "copy" the song, they took the original audio of the song and used it in their song, and they acknowledged that the backing track was extracted from good times.
actually, ice ice baby was a rip off because it was an uncredited copy, the way Vanilla Ice tried to get out of it was by saying that there was one beat different which according to him is enough.
@@madenabennett I met Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle) at an airport in Frankfurt in 2015. He was very nice, and took pictures with our entire group. I asked him about his real estate ventures and he lit up and loved talking about it. He was a genuine, nice guy. He doesn't belong in the music industry.
@@madenabennett He/she is jokingly referring to an interview that was shown on VH1's Behind the Music, in which he gave an ultra lame explanation for the "difference" between the songs (which was then immediately contradicted by his manager, who flat out admitted to the theft 😂).
Their song is like "dun dun dun dada dun dun, dun dun dun dada dun dun" And ours is like "dun dun dun dada dun dun DUN, dun dun dun dada dun dun" I just don't see the similarity. .. but What do I know I'm just Vanilla Ice BABY! -- Vanilla Ice
HappyGilmore i heard theyd got it back now. The credit on wikipedia has changed back to just Ashcroft. It wasnt ever the Stones behind the lawsuit anyways, it was Allen Klein.
Queen & David Bowie's "Under Pressure" and Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby"? Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" and The White Stripes' "I Can't Wait"? You'd think they'd be in the list somewhere...
In a lot of these kind of cases, these happen by coincidence, music is strange like that. For instance: you hear a tune in the radio and 10 years later when you write a song, a part of that tune re-surfaces and you just go with the flow.
its not just music its just anything creative/art. you sense things and enjoy it. it influences you, even if you don't realize it or think about it a lot and later it comes to you naturally, even though YOU "thought" of it, it was heavily influenced by someones work. law and art should be parallel to each other, never touch.
So Back to the Future features a scene where Marty plays a Chuck Berry song which was never heard before, which Chuck Berry then, according to the movie, steals for his own song, even though Chuck fought the Beach Boys for plagerism. Meanwhile the movie also features music and a cameo from Huey Lewisand the News, whose own song was used as the basis for the theme of another '85 movie produced at the same time. Said cameo of Lewis involves him calling his own music "too darn loud." SO MANY LAYERS!
Everyone is ripping off everyone. From the wiki for Fun, Fun, Fun (Beach Boys) The opening electric guitar introduction of the original version of the song was based on Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode", which in turn was based on the intro of Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman (They'll Do It Every Time)".[9][10] The track's punctuated drum fills were inspired by the work of Phil Spector.[1] Philip Lambert noted that the song's verses follow the same chord progression as Spector's "Da Doo Ron Ron".[11]
A lot of these songs aren't even remotely similar. Here is the process of ripoffs in the modern day. 1. Write a song 2. The song becomes a minor hit. 3. 20 years later another song becomes a major hit which has 2 chords that where in the older song and has similar beat with nothing else in common. 4. The original song writer jealous that his song didn't become a hit but other peoples with some similar chords and beats have. 5. Original song writer sues claiming it is a complete ripoff of the original. 6. New song writer either admits he had some minor inspiration from original or denies knowing about the song. 7. Judge hears 2 songs decides they sound nothing a like and dismisses the case.
+RatedCG13 Excuse me Chuck Berry's Sweet Little Sixteen in one of his biggest hits and who gives a fuck about the beach boys or whoever the fuck were the dicks that stole his song
LOL. But WOW...To all who don't know ROCK origins ...study...The American Theme song was a rip off rom a Black guy...WOW! And back then....when we couldn't use the same bathroom or schools. #...
The Who's Baba O Reilly vs. One Direction Best Song Ever. Complete rip off. Also, What Makes You Beautiful also by One Direction sounds really similar to Summer Lovin from Grease.
complete rip off is a too strong word. 10sec after the intro a whole different song starts and develops into sth whole different. it's always the intro that sounds similar in one direction songs. the rest not so much, or should I say at all.
kjoto2 ok, maybe complete rip off is a strong word, but one direction's songs have been criticised for sounding similar to many other songs. These are just a few that I know of. And actually, What Makes You Beautiful is very similar to the Summer Lovin' beat the whole way through the song.
Robifyer Exactly. I disliked how they treated the death of their founder - Brian Jones - but this lawsuit made me despise them... *Also Fck You Led Zeppelin*
totally agree. they were always original in their style and approach. kudos to ray davies, both for lyric and song. the band was always fresh over a 20 year period.
Ice-Ice Baby sounds like Queen ft David Bowie: Under Pressure. Justin Bieber "Die In Your Arms" copied The Jackson 5 We've Got A Good Thing Going (Michael Jackson.)
Jackie Marquez he didn't copy Michael Jackson if he did he would have been sued he is just trying to keep his reputation is memory like Chris Brown's she ain't you
Jackie Marquez Chris brown was wearing clothes like Michael Jackson and in the video he seemed like he was trying to do Michael Jackson moves the lyrics may not be similar to Michaels but the clothes and dancing was
Jackie Marquez lol yeah the clothes are similar and the song was dedicated to Michael Jackson but I don't know how it was dedicated to him if he was talking about a girl kinda weird but yeah I think Justin is just trying to help people not forget the king of pop
Ahh geez I don't know if that's true. Wha-wha-wha-what if , you know, they're the same person or something, you know ? Mor- bluuuueeeech - morty, don't be a dumbass.
@@barrocaspaula yes, he died in 1706 so his work is PD as hell...they could redo the original note for note and claim it's all them and from a legal standpoint, they're good.
Had an entire class on this the other day (introducing my students to classical in a less traditional way) ... this was one of the selections and comparisions that blew their minds...
Actually, people probably sang along a lot. However, as that is a dynamic mic, which doesn't take up any sound that comes from further away than a few centimetres, the crowds won't register in the mic. Had he used a condensator mic, I'm sure we'd hear a lot of crowds shouting "SURFING IN THE USALDF LÖAKSDF LÖASKD" and shit, but we'd also hear every step the singer would take, as well as every background noice on stage and so on and so forth. =)
The one that really bothers me is the claim against the Verve. It's not like the Verve were trying to escape giving credit. The Rolling Stones have more than enough money without financially decimating a decent band, The Verve. Jaggar the Jerk!
I agree i was so pissed off by that...The Verve didnt have any intention of plagiarizing and the fact that the Rolling Stones wanted 100% royalties and songwriting credits is just low and cruel....i dont care...in my mind and in my heart, bitter sweet symphony is written by the Verve and the Verve only!
Like the song says "It´s all´bout the money", not justice or writers´ due credit. And this is one of the (if not THE) worst ever. If plagiarizing is stealing, what do you call getting 100% of royalties for 3 seconds in a 5 minutes song PLUS FULL writing credits? Not justice, not settlement, not in the dictionary
@stephen dwyer BTW, I am not a musician, and you seem to have a lot more knowledge than me. However, those guys are dead. I did recently see something about some descendants of long dead artists still collecting royalties?
@stephen dwyer A good attorney costs a lot of money, I know. However, a bad one due to, poor representation or total lack thereof, can be more expensive down the road, jail time, reputation, loss of job, etc. Then you have to hire the expensive one that will have to undo the damage done. If you live in a small town DO NOT HIRE an attorney there.
It's sampling. They pay for the rights to use the music, it's an extremely common music thing. Sampled songs are not included on this list, they say that at the beginning of the video.
I am surprised the record company didn't sue The Hollys for the 1971 song Long Tall Woman in a Black Dress. I bet there are a lot of people who never realized that that's not CCR because it is spot on the same style and sound (not song).
No wonder the man was bitter, between having to deal with the other band members and his old record label and then not being able to legally perform his old Credence songs for years, songs that he wrote! And to make matters worse, one of the other band members was his own brother.
The Chiffons did their own version of "My Sweet Lord" and added a final line that let everybody know who REALLY owned that song (and you can find it on YT)
There is also a rare rerecording by The Chiffons of He's So Fine with the ARRANGEMENT of My Sweet Lord. I can not provide a link to it, but it was on one of my oldies albums from the early '80's in which NONE of the songs were the real recordins, but instead, phony new dime store like recording b the original artist, or by one or more members of the original group.
+Valentina G. Live While We're Young sounds like Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash What Makes You Beautiful sounds like Summer Night by Grease Best Song Ever sounds like Baba O'Riley by The Who (Not to mention that the music video is a rip-off of Sum 41's Still Waiting music video Rock Me sounds like We Will Rock You by Queen Midnight Memories sounds like Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard.
Fragonborn Entertainment okay, first of all, rock me doesn't sound as we will rock you at all, just because it has a similar name. Live while we're young doesn't sound as the clash song either. And yes, I've listened to them. The other songs do sound like these because they payed for it!!! If they wouldn't have paid for them, those bands that they "stole" or their families would have denounce them already but guess what? They didn't. Because they got the rights to do the rip off or sample the songs. It's not like they copied the whole songs anyway, they only used the intro and they payed for it. And at the end of the day, the original songs are and always be better so what's the problem? They have the copyright to their songs and everyone knows that those two songs are rip off. Many other songs have been sampled too and nobody says anything
MrRezRising Bullshit. That would mean that "Zombie" by the Cranberries, "21 Guns" by Green Day, "Lost" by Coldplay, the bit of soundtrack (after they leave Moria) from The Fellowship of the Ring, "When I Come Around" by Green Day, "Someone Like You" by Adele, "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt, "Head Over Feet" by Alanis Morisette, "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga and so on would all be considered plagiarized works of one another. Every last one of those songs has 8 sequential chords in common.
Yup Even though I love their albums Jimmy Page is one big douche. Though many of these are settled with credits but I seriously feel bad for Bert Jansch. JP straight up ripped off Black Mountain Side from him.
ElvisChrist6 Sampling was only admitted by Van Winkle after his first defense, that the song was different from" Under Pressure," fell apart in court. He was forced to pay and, now, Queen and Bowie have songwriting credit (thus most of the royalties from the song).
After hearing One Direction "Best Song Ever" and The Who "Baba O Riley" I was pretty shocked about how 1D was so clearly ripping off the Who. It wasn't the ENTIRE song, but the beginning was nearly identical. Sad when I heard a teenager say "Wow. They totally ripped off One Direction" when they heard Baba O Riley...
number 3 the rolling stones vs the verves: Talk about greedy Rolling stones, you agreed for him to sample the song in the first place in return for half of the royalties. Then changed your mind because it became a success and claimed 100% royalties and song writing credit. The claim they used to much sounds really weak, it was just greed.
Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne wrote I Won't Back Down copied by Sam Smith Stay with Me. Sam Smith has been paying royalties to Tom Petty and ELO’s Jeff Lynne, both of whom penned 1989 hit “I Won’t Back Down”.
I just remember him in interviews, explaining that his tunes had an extra 'ting' at the end to differentiate between their songs but maybe he just added his own style after paying for the rights!! If that's the case, I suppose it's not a rip off then... just not an original sound!!
What about The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go" vs One Direction's "Live While We're Young?" Or anything from One Direction, really. They also copied Green Day and The Who.
The biggest music Thieves on that list by far is, Robin Thicke & Pharrell Williams. A deaf man can hear the identical comparison between the two songs. Robin Thicke should be down right ashamed of himself to sue Marvin Gaye when he's STEALING other people's music and claiming it as his. Next up is Nirvana. Clearly they took pieces of another song and made their own version without giving credit or paying. There are more on the list, but Robin Thick's create music like he creates marriages..Very badly! wait wait wait... Come to think of it, Robin Thicke has been ripping Marvin Gaye's music off from even his FIRST ALBUM. don't believe me, go take a listen and get back to me on that one. He also tries his damn hardest to sound like Prince over marvin gay's music. Again, to sue another man for wanting whats rightfully his is some dirty shit! Thats like Lance Armstrong suing people for speaking the truth about him.
Charlie Briggs Or...and I know this is a craaaaaaazy thought...you could create your own art before calling yourself a fucking artist! For fuck's sake, if all you're gonna do is copy others, then it's pretty obvious you're not in it to express yourself, nor accomplish anything but making money and/or getting famous. By all means, admit it and pay up--don't add theft to your list of offenses!--but don't then call yourself a musician and expect to be treated as such. If someone stole your life's work and profited from it, you wouldn't think it petty. I know, it's hard to think of music that way, since the "work" of today's popular "artists" is by and large such crap. But imagine putting your heart and soul into something, being really proud of it, then watching some asshole steal it and not only get away with it, but be praised and rewarded for *your* work! Not only that, but you don't even have a right to complain, because that asshole made a deal with some other asshole to buy something of yours that you were never sellng?!
No Ice Ice Baby vs. Under Pressure? Superfreak vs. Can’t touch this? Rock Lobster vs. Don’t threaten me with a good time? Tom’s Diner vs. Centuries? Clocks vs. David Guetta? Damn I could make my own list right here right now
Oooh,look at all these songs One DIrection ripped off! Summer Nights vs. What Makes You Beautiful Shoud I Stay Or I Should I Go vs. Live While We're Young Good Riddance vs. More Than This Where The Streets Have No Name vs.Loved You First Pour Some Sugar On Me vs. Midnight Memories. Baba O Riley vs Best Song Ever
Daniel Sanchez Because it is a sample of Under Pressure, they openly said in the beginning of the video that none of the songs on the list involved sampling.
Actually considering that Vanilla Ice was SUED in court by Queen and won by having a slightly different hook in it you can't consider it a sample. Besides they had the Verve and Rolling Stones here and that was a clear sample and they SAID SO IN THE VIDEO. Thus breaking their own rules. No that should be number one.
There are two that were missed and should've been on the list. a. Ice Ice Baby ripping off Under Pressure b. One Thing (by one direction) ripping off I Want It That Way
I'm playing several instruments and never thought of myself as being tone deaf. But in some of these songs I can't hear even the slightest similarity, neither in melody nor in rhythm. 🤷♀️
Stop showing off, I only play a couple,...the triangle is an instrument as well as a shape. Have to get a song in the top 100......something with 3 major chords or less. and make a killing off the law suits. EAB EDA..... Helen Wheels......AAAAA
Dead Or Alive - "You Spin Me Round" Flo Rida - "Right Round" than there is O-Zone- "Numa Numa" Rihanna - "Live Your Life" another is Gloria Jones- "Tainted Love"(now this song has been redone a bunch of times, but most of them credit the original) Rihanna-"SOS" There are many more, but I don't want to listen to the really bad new music to find it. There is one that Drake has that is stolen from Bob Marley, and a few others off the top of my head.
They might well have already been mentioned, but two sets of songs that sound similar to me are: Working Class Hero (Lennon) and Thinking of You (Edgar Broughton Band), and the big one, We Used to Know (Jethro Tull) and Hotel California (Eagles).
My bands have songs that sounded very similar to others by other bands though neither bands had ever heard each other. There are only so many chord progressions, etc, some similarities are bound to occur. Plagarism does exist though. And fuck the greedy Rolling Stones.
Pony Fight The Phobes The Misery Makers Mimi Loco and Project Applesauce The Aquadogs Karma Sharks Platinum Slugs Tongue And Groove Pinko Cerberus Factories Of Air The Psychonauts The SubMensas Asbestos Rockpyle and a bunch more that noone has ever heard of either.
i have heard bith song and frankly i think queen shoukd be ashamed of themselves for ruining nice rhymes. queen sound pathetic because they just dont get what the music is. vanilla ice actually got the music
Unfortunately, WatchMojo got it mostly wrong. The guy who sued The Verve was their old manager, Allen Klein. The Stones themselves barely got involved in the case.
Anybody who knows anything about Blues knows that tunes have been repeated and copied from one song/singer to the next since Blues began. So some bands ripped off Muddy Waters but Muddy Waters ripped off Robert Johnson.
@@skat0rzZzz worded it poorly. Old time blues and jazz very often used some of the same riffs and melodies over and over, made it easy to get a tune going in the club if you could just tell the guys to play such and such riff and you just freelance it off that. This meant much of the work in those genres sounded similar, so anybody drawing any inspiration from earlier work were gonna sound similar as well.
@Mightycat Creations, True! I agree, if only Chuck had done the same good in turn with his iconic and one of the most recognizable songs in the history of music? Because "Johnny B. Goode" is essentially a note-for-note blatant rip-off of Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman" (1946), played by guitarist Carl Hogan. I mean if we're throwing stones, let's make sure we hit everyone involved. Right? Just saying....
DBX Niker Nope, only 12. You're talking about frets, and that's not the same. Notes repeat, but in different octaves, so, i/e C is C no matter in which octave (or on which fret) it is.. [EDIT] Actually it's 8 + 4 semi
Music is the language of the soul, and people are bound to express the same idea in the same way. That being said, some artists do plagurise others for monetary gain without consent or givin credit, and that is wrong. However, we must ask ourselves how does one own a certain pattern of soundwaves? You can't copyright an expression of emotion.
As a composer, it can be a pain expressing something different, since there are so many songs and chord progressions that it is not anymore an joke creating completely original content. Im still trying and training to get the best of the least as an electronic composer, but it does anger me that some random fools try copying an song intentionaly and claim that they made it without giving the necessary credits of the original author (timbaland comes to mind, can't believe that people defend him for his dishonorful acts).
I know most people are complaining about the lack of creativity, but I actually find that reused songs are quite interesting and creative in itself. It's funny how you can take a Queen, rock song "under pressure" and turn it into a hip-hop smash "Ice Ice baby". The inspiration is what music is all about. Many artists today continue to use MJ's style, and though it may be a "copy" I find it carries the legacy of old singers or songs, and tweaks it for a newer generation. It's like recycling: the product was great at the start, and after being recycled, it's still quite cool to see the transformation. So long as the artists get permission, I feel it's entirely acceptable (also as long as the artists are NOT copying the same lyrics or the same style of singing the song- otherwise that'd simply be a cover.)
Yer I agree here. I think that any song should be able to be Re-used / Re-Cycled after it has NOT been in the top 100 for a period of same 10 years. The older music is great but it doesn't fit in with today's music. This is what recycling does. Covers are also good, though most don't live up to the original but some times some are better then the original. The Sweet "Ball Room Blitz" is way much better then the original.
I agree. The woman who got burned by McDonald's coffee had a better case than Huey Lewis. The only similarities those two songs have is that they both sound like the 80s.
Bret Wengeler you seen like your one of those people who listen to songs for 30 seconds than changes if you can’t notice the similarities. The similarities start about a minute in. Actually listen to both of the songs fully and you should definitely notice a difference.
It is incorrect to state that the Rolling Stones sued the verve. It was Allen Klein, the stones former manager, and the worst man in music history, who did this and also conned his way into a lot of the Rolling Stones royalties years before
Some of these aren't 'stolen' they're just 'influenced' by other bands and songs. Just people trying to make more money by suing in my opinion. The parts of these songs that are stolen are mainly just arpeggios and simple chord progressions that music itself is BUILT around. They're the fundamentals of music, so there are songs out there that are bound to sound similar.
Jeff Spain The criteria stated in video specifically said "Not Counting Sampling"...Vanilla Ice used a SAMPLE of Under Pressure...I know, I like weed and music, too...but we have to pay attention to adult conversation.
I've made music influenced by others, but didn't realize it. - People can't help having a tune in their subconscious. - There just aren't that many arrangements in musical notes to be totally original.
The Stones old manager from the '60s, Allen Klein, still owns the publishing rights to "Last Time" (along with many other '60s Stones songs). He's the one who sued the Verve, not Mick & Keith. David Whitaker, the guy who wrote the string arrangement for the Andrew Oldham Orchestra version of "Last Time," is the one who truly got screwed. It's Whitaker's string arrangement that really makes that version of the song memorable- and he didn't get any royalties for it.
Yeah. 40 years from now nobody will even know who The Verve is. Why would the Stones want to rip them off? Not saying they didn't, just doubt millions of their fans lost respect even though hundreds of Verve fans might have.
I love em both. I didn't mean my first comment as a smash on the Verve, I love their song. I don't have you guys musical ear, but it sounds original to me. Hope I didn't offend anyone. Peace and love y'all. 😘💞
Justin Liu , only "doesn't count" if the sample was paid for. Vanilla Ice didn't pay for the sample, actually tried to pass it off as his own original work, and got sued for it by Queen. I was certain that it was going to be #1 too.
Vanilla Ice; The most ridiculous A&E biography ever. He is shown in the interview doing the rhythm of the 2 songs with his voice, follows up his own version with one extra note to an otherwise exact match and claims it is totally different.
i am surprised Katy Perry is not on this list.. multiple times. She was sued in 2013 because her song Dark Horse was suspiciously like Flame's 2008 rap song, Joyful Noise. A LOT Of people still think Katy Perry ripped off the Sara Bareilles' tune, "Brave", which Katy turned into "Roar." Katy Perry's song E.T. sounds a lot like t.A.T.u's song, All the things she said. Katy Perry's song, California Gurls sounds almost exactly like Ke$ha's song, TiK ToK - and then Cascadia basically stole California Gurls and remade it as San Francisco. Basically you could do an entire video about Rip-off songs involving Katy Perry!
these folk definitely leave out many things. They have some pretty obvious lies on these videos. They often totally ignore obvious example based on the elite political climate. Are you kidding me ? Mention the mind control sex kitten pop princess in the same sentence as plagarism? Nah. Don't hold your breath. Do your own research . These guys aren't too trustworthy.
I couldn’t believe that Flame didn’t win! Even starts with the same words, has the same type of auto-tuned interjection at about the same part... just a different tempo and pitch. I like “Dark Horse,” but won’t buy it on principle, because of what seems to be clear theft... if the Hollies get a credit on Creep, for crying out loud...
@Basic_Assumption No one in this thread even mentioned Taylor Swift before you just did. - Katy Perry HAS been taken to court for plagiarizing music, and your effort to change the subject is meaningless. time.com/2955390/katy-perry-dark-horse-lawsuit/
@Basic_Assumption i will say this for you, you certainly live down to your TH-cam name. i am no fan of Taylor Swift, and What i wrote about Katy Perry was true - how the law suits ended up does not change the fact that she has been involved in more music scandals than any of the people mentioned IN the video. Regarding the rest of your masturbatory rant... it is your own words that are discrediting you, exposing your own bias as well as your inability to accept the truth when it disagrees with you.
And yet, parts of the basic melody of Huey Lewis & the News' "Do You Believe in Love" sounds very similar to ELO's 1977 hit, "Sweet Talking Woman". Jeff Lynne, if you are reading this, check it out.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a rip off song that should be on the list should be Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby" as it has nearly the exact same rhythm as Queens "Under Pressure"
what about twinkle twinkle little star and the abc song?? theyre literally the same omg
so basic they’re both just Mozart’s first ever piece
I never thought of it before........my god.
They're both a split song like "We Will Rock You /We Are The Champions" by Queen. 😂
Or bah bah black sheep
Raffi's version is a rip off of Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender"
Ya gotta include "London Bridge is Falling Down" copying "Mary had a Little Lamb!" That's straight up plagiarism!!!....Word!!!
Alex Docker 😂😳
And Twinkle twinkle little star!
I thought they settled that already in London vs Lamb
@@Saberguy13 yea abcd song and twinkle2 little star
the alphabet/baa baa black sheep/twinkle twinkle little star also
Any 80% of Pitbulls songs
Problem is, his results suck so bad no one wants to admit that noise is theirs.
How bout 100%?
@@orlandorios9617 Fireball is saved by John Ryan and Timber by a half naked Ke$ha.
@@ldolphin34 dfcghbjnhg
The dude samples more than Camila Cabello
I came here to see Under Pressure vs Ice Ice Baby
Same
I didn't know there was music under water but OK
Do you even know what sampling is?
@@janosvinklovic5217 its copying but trying to make it not look to obvious
Vanilla ice sampled under pressure he did not steal it
0:50 Kinks vs. Doors
1:50 Led Zeppelin vs. Muddy Waters
3:05 Coldplay vs. Creaky Boards vs. Joe Satriani vs Cat Stevens(?)
4:20 Kinks vs. Other Garden vs. Green Day
5:32 Huey Lewis vs. Ray Parker Jr.
6:41 CCR vs. John Fogerty (how ironic)
7:45 Marvin Gay vs. Robin Thicke vs Funkadelic
8:50 Stones vs. Verve
10:01 Chiffons vs. George Harrison
11:21 Honorable Mentions
12:30 Chuck Berry vs. Beach Boys
Thanks!
Thanks!
WHERES ICE AND UNDER PRESSURE?????
Rebecca Sturzl that was sampled. The video said at the beginning they aren’t including songs that featured samples.
@@marjoriemorris5849 Respectfully Marjorie, I think you might be wrong. That has been a highly publicized example of a rip-off and successful lawsuit and eventual contrition by Vanilla Ice and the producers. I'm not an expert, but I think sampling is done in very short spurts, and that baseline was throughout the "Ice Ice Baby" song. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Summary: basically just about everyone ripped off the Kinks.
But, did the kinks ever rip off Chuck Berry.
@@TheAvailable43 Just about to say the same thing !! until I clicked on "reply" and saw this ;-)
*black sabbath
and they ripped of the black community.
Everyone ripped off my nigga Crog from the stoneage
What about Justin Bieber stealing the whale mating song in Boyfriend
You just made my day! HAHAHAHA
I agree lol. :P
Actually, what about Justin Bieber - Love me vs. The Cardigans - Lovefool?
RebelBowie It's a joke don't ruin it plz...
+RebelBowie come on man you kinda just killed the joke
As of May 2019, The Verve recently got the rights of Bittersweet Symphony back from the Rolling Stones
Good! I think they deserve it after all this time!
Stones are cunts. Ask Carter USM
the stones had a roasting cheek, as everything they did was based on a blend of american underground psychedelia which didnt get much radio play so everyone thought the stones were ''original'' (which they were really), and from black R&B guys from the 1920s onwards....
Even country Joe and the fish ''up the country'' was an older R&B hit from a few decades before they had their hit..
big deal i say... music for for and by everyone!
AYeah that was good. Surely it's not like Mick, Keith and the boys really need the Verves royalties. They musta made a packet by now [and still are]. So they made themselves look good by giving it back to the Verve [their only really big hit].
Huh. So The Verve never got the royalties while the song was up in the charts. The Stones robbed them alright. Old greedy geezers.
The CCR vs John Fogarty thing was seriously ridiculous. Fantasy Records was seriously reaching, considering John wrote almost all of CCR's music. Glad he beat that.
There are only so many chord progressions and riffs possible, of course there are going to be similarities in songs. Although there is a difference between being inspired and completely stealing.
Gigantickookie well said, my friend
With the way music is composed, it's pretty hard to 'own' musical patterns unless you've drawn attention to a claim of being the first. I think eventually there'll be so many things similar that no one will be able to own these patterns. The only thing you'll be copyrighting is the measurable waveform which accounts for any unique tonal qualities, everything else about the melodies and chord patterns you can't own.
Joe Satriani and Cat Stevens sued Coldplay for the same song. I wonder why Cat Stevens didn´t sue Joe Satriani for the same song as well.
yup, people tend to forget there are only 12 different pitches heard in western music
Cat Stevens is a fucking bellend! You can see it on his face that he's a dickhead! Nothing similar to his crappy song I hadn't even heard and the other two
I thought 100% that ice ice baby and Under pressure would be #1
where is danny black Vanilla Ice used a *sample* of under pressure, he didn't plagiarize. Sampling is legal as long as you credit the original artist.
he was found guilty of plagarism. it was not a case that settled in his favor on those grounds...
Me too
where is danny black me too! For sure. It's so obvious I figured it'd be number 1 or at least make it on the list. This channel lost a little credibility leaving that out.
+Party Sword Perhaps, unlike myself, you're too young to remember this. Vanilla Ice actually denied it was the same. I actually saw him in an interview doing a ridiculous job of explaining the difference. "Queen's song goes bum bum bum ba da bum bump, and mine goes bum bum bum ba da bum ba bump." It was silly. If you're going to be a one-hit wonder, make the one hit original! If he had just given them credit, and admitted to sampling, he could have avoided the lawsuit.
I would give anything to see a video of John Fogerty's guitar in hand breakdown in court.
Brilliant move on his part. Would have love to have seen it that day.
Try to write a riff and you'll see how often you end up with something similar to another song.
i've been there before
Legit wrote an entire song with the exact chord progression and strum pattern as "Last Kiss". I had never heard the song before until my uncle noticed I was playing the tune to my song and he played last kiss. It's a pain in the ass honestly
@@laneboydston4971 Just use a different vocal melody, it's not like there's an infinite number of chords.
@@BrooklynAvenue oh the vocal melody is completely different
Exactly. A guitar only has a certain number of playable notes (like any instrument) So it's impossible to not sound like something
Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda" is a total rip-off of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back"
Yea but he's in it, meaning there isn't a copyright issue
It's a sample meaning Nicki Minaj bought half (or a part) of the rights to the song and she payed a pretty large price for it too. Please educate yourself!
It's still plagiarism, sweeties! ;*
Maximiliano Boderone Oh I know, it's just that she didn't get threatened or given a lawsuit like the ones on this list.
Maximiliano Boderone Plagiarism: The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
No it is not plagiarism because she didn't pass it off as her own she gave credit to Sir-Mix-A-Lot.
>Coldplay
>Rockers
That's the funniest thing you guys have ever said.
Greatest thing I've read all day!
+Steam Junky hahahahahhahaahhahahahahahah
+Steam Junky I didn't realize this was a comedy channel, either.
+David Veldman lol
Rock doesn't need to be hard hitting.Coldplay has created original and consistent music.
(10) The Kinks - all day and all of the night vs The Doors - Hello I love you
(9) Muddy Waters - you need love vs Led Zeppelin - whole lotta love
(8) Joe satriani - If I Could Fly vs Coldplay - viva la vida
(7) The kinks - picture book vs The other garden - never got a chance vs Green Day - warning
(6) Huey Lewis and The News - I want a new drug vs Ray Parker jr - ghost busters
(5) CCR - run through the jungles vs John Fogerty - the old man down the road
(4) Marvin Gaye - gotta get it up vs Robin Thicke - blurred lines
(3)The Rolling Stones- the last time vs the Verve - Bittersweet symphony
(2) The Chiffons - he’s so fine vs George Harrison - my sweet lord.
(which I completely disagree with)
(1) Chuck Berry - sweet little sixteen vs The Beach Boys - surfin’ USA
Why do you disagree with No. 2?
Coitus Interruptus because George is not the kind of person to steal a melody and be dishonest about how it came to him
@@lovelyrita7108 It was called by the judge as an "unconcious plagiarism" and that's exactly what it is. So it is a rip-off. I love the Beatles too btw
It's the same song!!!!!
1) Leon Haywood-I Wanna Do Something Freaky. /. Dr. Dre-Nothin but a G Thang
What about twinkle twinkle little star and the ABC song?!
Don't forget 'Bar Bar Black Sheep'
Barney ripped off Give A Dog A Bone, as well. I suppose they're all way lower priorities than a fourth-hand to sue, though.
C'mon guys, what about the song "Monsterena" from Sesame Street and "Macarena"?
Lmfao
Who wrote Happy Birthday? he needs to sue the shit out of everyone and their families
ACDC should sue themselves for composing the same song for the past 30 years.
LOL! I thougth the same thing but about Motörhead and the Ramones XD... I love them all btw.
There music is amazing!!!!!
+JUNTEX laughed so hard, couldn't agree more.
***** that's based on your opinion, not that I listen to pop music. I'm more of a metalhead
+JUNTEX HERESY!
The bittersweet symphony one was ridiculous. The Rolling Stones should be ashamed for how greedy they were/are.
I know. My opinion of the band, management or anybody associated with them dropped like a three ton brick when this happened. Not even funny because even if the Stones themselves didn't do this, they could've spoken out in The Verve's defense.
Agreed ,I mean cant they just let the Verve have their ONE hit song?? Don't even hear much sameness.
@@Blueboy-zf9js you think the Rolling Stones had only 1 hit song?!? Lmao 😱
It was disgustingly greedy by the mangers. ''I'm out of whack here, this is serious lawyer shit. If the Verve can write a better song, they can keep the money.''
If I remember correctly, it was Allen Klein - the record label executive that owned the rights to the Stones songs, that sued Ashcroft for Bittersweet Symphony.
I don't think the Stones had anything to do with it (other than receiving a crap-ton of money from the royalties).
Lotsa people ripped off The Kinks. They were geniuses
THEdjpluto there were a few similarities in the 10 spot but it really was very different.
Including The Kinks! You Really Got Me heavily influenced All Day and All the NIght. BTW, I'm a huge Kinks fan.
@@gregwalker1913 A lot of their songs from 1964-65 sounded alike... I always heard the instrumental "Revenge" as a faster take on this very riff, for example.. Luckily, they overgrew this period and went on to release some of the best music of the 1960's!
Absolutely. I always thought the first song that set the Kinks apart from those Kingsman "Louie Louie" type riffs was A Well Respected Man. Funnily enough, a bigger hit in America than in England it really set them apart from all the other British Invasion bands.
Ray Davies was the genius. There was a few passengers in that band.
Led Zeppelin stole TONS of songs. Easily still one of my favourite bands, but they did steal a ton of songs.
However, I think that some people need desperately to understand this: certain music genres are made iconic by certain riffs, chord changes, and styles. To say that La Grange is stealing from Boogie Chillen is pretty redundant. A TON of blues riffs sound exactly like that, it's what makes blues what it is.
Agreed, everyone in an art steals from everyone. I heard there are really only 14 storylines for movie scripts.
***** The problem is if a band does acknowledge a particular artist as their source - then the original band (or just their lawyers) are gong to come knocking on your door expecting royalties. Or they file a copyright suit.
Zeppelin I wouldn't say stole but they did borrow. They wrote most of their stuff though.
Shrap Nelface
That depends entirely on what you mean by "storylines". Pull enough of the details out, and you get the basic plot conflicts found in fiction, which are finite because the universe is finite, man is finite, and there are only a certain number of conflicts we can envision.
Pull out the foundational issues and you can say there's only ONE movie script: Conflict.
But add in a few more details, and the number of available script expands rapidly.
i wouldn't say that led zep stole songs, they simply made them better and more memorable
Anyone notice that most nursery rhymes are sang the exact same with different words
A B C D E F G
twinkle twinkle little star
ba ba black sheep have you any wool
sing em all to yourself
+TheMetaMiner err we are on a video of songs that sound a like doy
Just spreading awareness, jeeeez I'm not commenting about my favourite superheroes
it took me 20 years and this comment for me to realize this
I don't know how you sing ba ba black sheep and twinkle twinkle little star but they don't sound anything alike to me
C C G G A A G or in the case of Ba ba black sheep, chuck another A B C before the last G. They're basically still the same.
*Can I copy off of you?*
*Sure but don't make it too obvious*
Monica, i don't think it goes like that, they don't ask before copying, so it is the same as stealing.
Imagine you made something and someone is making money out of it without any effort
The verve mate, the verve.
The Beach Boys clearly failed at that
I didn’t hear the similarity in viva la vida and Cat Stevens
Kalisto Zenda saaameee tho
I hear it
How do you not hear it? :/
There wasnt. Cat Stevens is just a dick.
@@lachazaroony It quiet obvious there is a similarity.
Some people are mixing up the terms "riping off" with "sampling". Ice Ice baby isn't a rip-off of Under Pressure, it just sampled the bassline, kind of like how rapper's delight uses the bassline from good times.
***** It isn't a rip off because they didn't try to "copy" the song, they took the original audio of the song and used it in their song, and they acknowledged that the backing track was extracted from good times.
actually, ice ice baby was a rip off because it was an uncredited copy, the way Vanilla Ice tried to get out of it was by saying that there was one beat different which according to him is enough.
***** oh well, ice ice baby is a rip off then. Sorry Vanilla Ice, i failed you lord of the freshness.
On that note (pun unintended), another song that sampled good times: "All for You" by Janet Jackson.
So did MC Hammer's "You Can't Touch This" sample Rick James' bassline for Superfreak, or was it plagiarism?
Can you imagine this video being taken down for copyright infringements. That's be super ironic.
Me too.
This channel was actually taken down at some point.
Good thing Vanilla Ice explained how his song was different from Queen's in that interview.
by interview I assume you mean in court when he lost his last shred of decency (yet that was always in shreds)
@@madenabennett I met Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle) at an airport in Frankfurt in 2015. He was very nice, and took pictures with our entire group. I asked him about his real estate ventures and he lit up and loved talking about it. He was a genuine, nice guy. He doesn't belong in the music industry.
@@madenabennett He/she is jokingly referring to an interview that was shown on VH1's Behind the Music, in which he gave an ultra lame explanation for the "difference" between the songs (which was then immediately contradicted by his manager, who flat out admitted to the theft 😂).
Their song is like "dun dun dun dada dun dun, dun dun dun dada dun dun"
And ours is like "dun dun dun dada dun dun DUN, dun dun dun dada dun dun"
I just don't see the similarity. .. but What do I know I'm just Vanilla Ice BABY! -- Vanilla Ice
Lol
Verve were so cheated out of Bittersweet Symphony, the stones just wanted more money when they saw it was getting successful
HappyGilmore i heard theyd got it back now. The credit on wikipedia has changed back to just Ashcroft. It wasnt ever the Stones behind the lawsuit anyways, it was Allen Klein.
Such a beautiful tune.
It wasn't the stone's fault. It was all that crook Klein
@@Cieln0va apparently he’s dead
@@jpbdude4223 good
Queen & David Bowie's "Under Pressure" and Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby"?
Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" and The White Stripes' "I Can't Wait"?
You'd think they'd be in the list somewhere...
I thaught they were the same song
Ice Ice Baby samples the beat from Under Pressure its different
they had mentioned that in the begining of the video that they were leaving the "sampling" off the list.
pspenny36 Yeah vanilla ice claims it was an original, not a sample..
pspenny36 He claimed it was original at first, and pointed towards a slight difference in one or two notes.
In a lot of these kind of cases, these happen by coincidence, music is strange like that.
For instance: you hear a tune in the radio and 10 years later when you write a song, a part of that tune re-surfaces and you just go with the flow.
its not just music its just anything creative/art. you sense things and enjoy it. it influences you, even if you don't realize it or think about it a lot and later it comes to you naturally, even though YOU "thought" of it, it was heavily influenced by someones work. law and art should be parallel to each other, never touch.
So Back to the Future features a scene where Marty plays a Chuck Berry song which was never heard before, which Chuck Berry then, according to the movie, steals for his own song, even though Chuck fought the Beach Boys for plagerism. Meanwhile the movie also features music and a cameo from Huey Lewisand the News, whose own song was used as the basis for the theme of another '85 movie produced at the same time. Said cameo of Lewis involves him calling his own music "too darn loud." SO MANY LAYERS!
Johnny B Goode
Everyone is ripping off everyone.
From the wiki for Fun, Fun, Fun (Beach Boys)
The opening electric guitar introduction of the original version of the song was based on Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode", which in turn was based on the intro of Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman (They'll Do It Every Time)".[9][10] The track's punctuated drum fills were inspired by the work of Phil Spector.[1] Philip Lambert noted that the song's verses follow the same chord progression as Spector's "Da Doo Ron Ron".[11]
GREAT SCOTT!!!! lol
Who knows you one play small riff, your guna get sued...lol
bustedsim Dying! Great observation. lol
No.1 should be copyright claims vs TH-camrs breathing
TH-cam is runned by libtarded pussies.
Satriani vs Coldplay I get. I don't hear that Cat Stevens song in it though :s
ThaTyger cat Stevens is a bit doolally, I wouldn’t take anything he thinks as fact.
I agree 100%
they did not use the part that sounded somewhat like the two songs. Why did watchmojo fail at doing that is beyond me?
I agree
They played the wrong part of cats song. His song is 18 minutes, the last part if the song is where it comes from
A lot of these songs aren't even remotely similar. Here is the process of ripoffs in the modern day.
1. Write a song
2. The song becomes a minor hit.
3. 20 years later another song becomes a major hit which has 2 chords that where in the older song and has similar beat with nothing else in common.
4. The original song writer jealous that his song didn't become a hit but other peoples with some similar chords and beats have.
5. Original song writer sues claiming it is a complete ripoff of the original.
6. New song writer either admits he had some minor inspiration from original or denies knowing about the song.
7. Judge hears 2 songs decides they sound nothing a like and dismisses the case.
James Keeling Lol!!! Ok thats like saying whitney houston's I will alway's love you sounds nothing like dolly partons.
YEAH RIGHT!
+James Keeling It has the same lyrics -.-
Sum0fNothing Oh... I feel like a idiot now, never thought about the lyrics.
+RatedCG13 Cool assessment, dude! I'm sick of music sharks out to devour each other in courtrooms!
+RatedCG13 Excuse me Chuck Berry's Sweet Little Sixteen in one of his biggest hits and who gives a fuck about the beach boys or whoever the fuck were the dicks that stole his song
Dang that was a dick move The Rolling Stones...........
My thoughts exactly...Apparently their millions weren't enough
I always thought that the Stones song sounded like "In the hall of the mountain king"
Mia Moore. That's because they are a bunch of dicks.
LOL. But WOW...To all who don't know ROCK origins ...study...The American Theme song was a rip off rom a Black guy...WOW! And back then....when we couldn't use the same bathroom or schools. #...
I hope you're not that fucking stupid.
Wouldn’t it be great if all of these were just weird al yankovic
One Direction's opening tune "What Makes You Beautiful" is very similar to Grease's "Summer Nights". In 3..2..1..
That's what I said
I always think about this
I keep telling everyone this, but they won't listen, dammit.
Everyone just never wants to hear the truth because they love 1D
I actually do like One Direction, but the tune does sounds similar..
The Who's Baba O Reilly vs. One Direction Best Song Ever. Complete rip off. Also, What Makes You Beautiful also by One Direction sounds really similar to Summer Lovin from Grease.
Also, Tenacious D's concept of Greatest Song in The World.
Who cares about one direction
John nichols I'm making a point that the they've ripped off loads of songs.
complete rip off is a too strong word. 10sec after the intro a whole different song starts and develops into sth whole different. it's always the intro that sounds similar in one direction songs. the rest not so much, or should I say at all.
kjoto2 ok, maybe complete rip off is a strong word, but one direction's songs have been criticised for sounding similar to many other songs. These are just a few that I know of. And actually, What Makes You Beautiful is very similar to the Summer Lovin' beat the whole way through the song.
Quite ironic what The Stones did considering the meaning of Bitter Sweet Symphony. "You're a slave to money, then you die."
only stones seem not to die
Robifyer
Exactly.
I disliked how they treated the death of their founder - Brian Jones - but this lawsuit made me despise them...
*Also Fck You Led Zeppelin*
It wasn't the stone that sued, it was their manager.
the things is its nearly impossible to make a song that is 100% original.
I agree
But this is a list for not even 10% original songs
Goofy uuurrmm bohemian raphsody
There’s always an influence. Intended or not. Riffs may sound like something familiar. Be proud you’re a positive influence!
Billy Joel Piano Man
The Kinks are the most underrated rock band in history.
Totally true
How can a legendary band that everyone knows about and respects be underrated?
@@jaekn Not everyone knows about them. I'm willing to argue that.
totally agree love the Kinks
totally agree. they were always original in their style and approach. kudos to ray davies, both for lyric and song. the band was always fresh over a 20 year period.
Ice-Ice Baby sounds like Queen ft David Bowie: Under Pressure.
Justin Bieber "Die In Your Arms" copied The Jackson 5 We've Got A Good Thing Going (Michael Jackson.)
Jackie Marquez he didn't copy Michael Jackson if he did he would have been sued he is just trying to keep his reputation is memory like Chris Brown's she ain't you
"Is memory like Chris Brown's she ain't you"
WTF are you talking about.
Jackie Marquez Chris brown was wearing clothes like Michael Jackson and in the video he seemed like he was trying to do Michael Jackson moves the lyrics may not be similar to Michaels but the clothes and dancing was
Oh that. I knew about that but were not talking about clothes, we're talking about songs.
Although that did make me hate Chris Brown even more.
Jackie Marquez lol yeah the clothes are similar and the song was dedicated to Michael Jackson but I don't know how it was dedicated to him if he was talking about a girl kinda weird but yeah I think Justin is just trying to help people not forget the king of pop
chuck berry ripped off marty mcfly
lol
Son Goku yeah wtf
The Hell he didnt asswipe
Relax people, it's a joke about Back to the Future.
Ahh geez I don't know if that's true. Wha-wha-wha-what if , you know, they're the same person or something, you know ?
Mor- bluuuueeeech - morty, don't be a dumbass.
Johann Pachelbel “Canon in D” vs Maroon 5 “memories”!
Pachslbel is comon domain, isn't he?
@@barrocaspaula yes, he died in 1706 so his work is PD as hell...they could redo the original note for note and claim it's all them and from a legal standpoint, they're good.
@@barrocaspaula yes also used by the Farm in All together now , wonderful piece of music though
Had an entire class on this the other day (introducing my students to classical in a less traditional way) ... this was one of the selections and comparisions that blew their minds...
13:48 it's hilarious when someone holds their microphone up to the crowd like that and they just don't sing.
Actually, people probably sang along a lot. However, as that is a dynamic mic, which doesn't take up any sound that comes from further away than a few centimetres, the crowds won't register in the mic. Had he used a condensator mic, I'm sure we'd hear a lot of crowds shouting "SURFING IN THE USALDF LÖAKSDF LÖASKD" and shit, but we'd also hear every step the singer would take, as well as every background noice on stage and so on and so forth. =)
i think they do that when they forget the words
Emil Wallgren you just destroyed Bradley's joke. lol
The one that really bothers me is the claim against the Verve. It's not like the Verve were trying to escape giving credit. The Rolling Stones have more than enough money without financially decimating a decent band, The Verve. Jaggar the Jerk!
Well, Jagger did major in Finance way way back when...Keith is the true Rolling Stone.
I agree i was so pissed off by that...The Verve didnt have any intention of plagiarizing and the fact that the Rolling Stones wanted 100% royalties and songwriting credits is just low and cruel....i dont care...in my mind and in my heart, bitter sweet symphony is written by the Verve and the Verve only!
Could be the stones manager or the record label, not the stones themselves. I don't know that for a fact though.
The violin part sounds almost exactly like a section of Pachelbels- Canon
Like the song says "It´s all´bout the money", not justice or writers´ due credit. And this is one of the (if not THE) worst ever. If plagiarizing is stealing, what do you call getting 100% of royalties for 3 seconds in a 5 minutes song PLUS FULL writing credits? Not justice, not settlement, not in the dictionary
Next do 'Top 10 Top 10 TH-cam Channels That Ripped Off Other Top 10 TH-cam Channels'
Yes please, so I can do a Reaction video.
Cool, I'll find a top comment to copy n' paste.
You forgot MC-Hammer’s “can’t touch this” ripping off Rick Jame’s “Super Freak”
It's hard to defend your rights while in jail.
@stephen dwyer BTW, I am not a musician, and you seem to have a lot more knowledge than me. However, those guys are dead. I did recently see something about some descendants of long dead artists still collecting royalties?
@stephen dwyer A good attorney costs a lot of money, I know. However, a bad one due to, poor representation or total lack thereof, can be more expensive down the road, jail time, reputation, loss of job, etc. Then you have to hire the expensive one that will have to undo the damage done. If you live in a small town DO NOT HIRE an attorney there.
It's sampling. They pay for the rights to use the music, it's an extremely common music thing. Sampled songs are not included on this list, they say that at the beginning of the video.
@stephen dwyer her brother Michael ripped off her sing "Rhythm Nation" with the song "Ghosts" Listen to both songs.
#5 is so great....Fogerty got sued...for sounding like FOGERTY....
Wayne Kerr Thatzs what happens when you sign a shitty publishing deal,when you're young and hungry.
That’s when you need to stop smoking 10 joints a day.
Hilarious. Only matched by Geffen suing Neil Young for making records which 'weren't characteristic of Neil Young'.
I am surprised the record company didn't sue The Hollys for the 1971 song Long Tall Woman in a Black Dress. I bet there are a lot of people who never realized that that's not CCR because it is spot on the same style and sound (not song).
No wonder the man was bitter, between having to deal with the other band members and his old record label and then not being able to legally perform his old Credence songs for years, songs that he wrote! And to make matters worse, one of the other band members was his own brother.
One Direction - Best Song Ever
The Who - Baba O'Riley
the riff at the beginning is almost exactly the same
also:
One Direction - Midnight Memories
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Yes! Someone else who's made the link!
you missed one
One Direction- all of their fucking song
Tiny Tim- Living in the Sunlight
Omg! Watched too many CSI: NY episodes to not notice this -_-
One direction is amazing just shut up
There is a comfort in being a modern-day musical artist. Nobody wants to copy you.
So true....why copy no talent shit
@A Fury Turns out it's really hard to claim ownership over ideas. The problem is how IP law currently deals with this in the USA.
Ouch! LMAO So true!
Lol. But look at this year’s Cardi B’s Bodak Yellow and compare it with Kodak Black’s freestyle 4 years ago.
It is the exact same rap.
true, nobody wants to copy crap.
The Chiffons did their own version of "My Sweet Lord" and added a final line that let everybody know who REALLY owned that song (and you can find it on YT)
There is also a rare rerecording by The Chiffons of He's So Fine with the ARRANGEMENT of My Sweet Lord. I can not provide a link to it, but it was on one of my oldies albums from the early '80's in which NONE of the songs were the real recordins, but instead, phony new dime store like recording b the original artist, or by one or more members of the original group.
.How could Watch Mojo over look HALF of one directions songs! they sound just like sooo many classic rock songs!
+Ally does cinnamon rolls what the hell are you talking about? it was only one song and they got the rights.
***** which songs? They also wrote songs with some of them so of course they sound similar but they never stole anything
I actually believed the What makes you beautiful track had the same intro as Grease- Summer Night
+Valentina G. Live While We're Young sounds like Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash
What Makes You Beautiful sounds like Summer Night by Grease
Best Song Ever sounds like Baba O'Riley by The Who (Not to mention that the music video is a rip-off of Sum 41's Still Waiting music video
Rock Me sounds like We Will Rock You by Queen
Midnight Memories sounds like Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard.
Fragonborn Entertainment okay, first of all, rock me doesn't sound as we will rock you at all, just because it has a similar name. Live while we're young doesn't sound as the clash song either. And yes, I've listened to them. The other songs do sound like these because they payed for it!!! If they wouldn't have paid for them, those bands that they "stole" or their families would have denounce them already but guess what? They didn't. Because they got the rights to do the rip off or sample the songs. It's not like they copied the whole songs anyway, they only used the intro and they payed for it. And at the end of the day, the original songs are and always be better so what's the problem? They have the copyright to their songs and everyone knows that those two songs are rip off. Many other songs have been sampled too and nobody says anything
Some of these are just ridiculous. You can't own a chord progression.
Most of these*
But people just need to sue each other because... 'murica!
***** many of these artists were English
Seven chords and or notes in a row, yes, you CAN own them. Thats the line in plagerism court cases.
MrRezRising Bullshit. That would mean that "Zombie" by the Cranberries, "21 Guns" by Green Day, "Lost" by Coldplay, the bit of soundtrack (after they leave Moria) from The Fellowship of the Ring, "When I Come Around" by Green Day, "Someone Like You" by Adele, "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt, "Head Over Feet" by Alanis Morisette, "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga and so on would all be considered plagiarized works of one another. Every last one of those songs has 8 sequential chords in common.
GlassMufasa exactly!
Ice Ice Baby vs Under Pressure. How could they possibly forget that one?!
Vanilla Ice sampled Under Pressure for Ice Ice Baby. It was legal.
+McKinley Strausbaugh yet queen still gets royalties from ice ice baby
Of course they do. It's partly their song.
Like the woman said samples don't count. BTW who is Watch Mojos spokeswoman? She has a pleasant voice.
it was a sample not a ripp off
This video could be made up of entirely Led Zeppelin songs. lol
Yup
Even though I love their albums
Jimmy Page is one big douche.
Though many of these are settled with credits but I seriously feel bad for Bert Jansch. JP straight up ripped off Black Mountain Side from him.
Go back to schoolin' kids
What about "Pressure"-Queen, and "Ice, Ice baby"? Or "Halo" and "Jar of Hearts"
its "Under Pressure" by Queen
***** Queen & David Bowie actually
Ice, Ice Baby was sampling Under Pressure as far as I know.
ElvisChrist6 No Queen sued and won.
ElvisChrist6
Sampling was only admitted by Van Winkle after his first defense, that the song was different from" Under Pressure," fell apart in court. He was forced to pay and, now, Queen and Bowie have songwriting credit (thus most of the royalties from the song).
After hearing One Direction "Best Song Ever" and The Who "Baba O Riley" I was pretty shocked about how 1D was so clearly ripping off the Who. It wasn't the ENTIRE song, but the beginning was nearly identical. Sad when I heard a teenager say "Wow. They totally ripped off One Direction" when they heard Baba O Riley...
Plus, their logo in one of their videos is a BLATANT rip-off of The Ramones logo.
Another one of there songs is a rip off of Def Lepard too
Mrmightyturtle Just googled it. Wow. That is so lame.
JoRdOguitarman1 Which one? It's sad that originality is rare these days.
And they ripped off the starting of Should I stay or should I go, by The Clash.
To quote The Beastie Boys, "There are only 12 notes a man can play."
that's false. Look for micro tonal music.
Charlie Angel oh yeah, all those microtonal riffs in modern music and rock
I haven't heard too much microtonal rock music. But there are just scales too.
Charlie Angel it was sarcasm. You must be really smart. (Not sarcasm)
Aphex Twin and Metal microtonal music. and eastern music, and modern music.. and
I love the John Foggarty /CCR suit- lmao
number 3 the rolling stones vs the verves: Talk about greedy Rolling stones, you agreed for him to sample the song in the first place in return for half of the royalties. Then changed your mind because it became a success and claimed 100% royalties and song writing credit. The claim they used to much sounds really weak, it was just greed.
Good call. Like the Rolling Stones need more money.
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice vs. Queen/David Bowie Under pressure
+Cameron Ely Yes, that one obviously ripped off and settled out of court.
i've waited for that song to be the #1
+Cameron Ely It's called sampling idiot.
+Cameron Ely vanilla ice added one extra note in order to dodge the claim, but it didn't work out lol
+Style Havoc It was not an authorized sampling though.
Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne wrote I Won't Back Down copied by Sam Smith Stay with Me. Sam Smith has been paying royalties to Tom Petty and ELO’s Jeff Lynne, both of whom penned 1989 hit “I Won’t Back Down”.
Jason Aldean opened SNL the week Petty died and sang I Won't Back Down as a tribute. Ironically the musical guest that night was Sam Smith.
Do you see a similarity to Fleetwood Mac's "Go Insane"?
I think Tom Petty plays harp now and is into Christian music. :)
How sad is it when you write both songs and get in trouble for stealing your own shit? PLEASE SOMEONE EXPLAIN!
I'm surprised not to see Queen's 'Pressure' Vs. Vanilla Ice's 'Ice Ice Baby' on this list!!!
I think ice paid for the rights before he released the song
I just remember him in interviews, explaining that his tunes had an extra 'ting' at the end to differentiate between their songs but maybe he just added his own style after paying for the rights!! If that's the case, I suppose it's not a rip off then... just not an original sound!!
ihaveblackfriends000
He was taken to court for it but eventually paid Queen and David Bowie the song writing rights they deserved.
Ya it know right
His explanation for the whole situation was literally the funniest shit ever lok
What about The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go" vs One Direction's "Live While We're Young?" Or anything from One Direction, really. They also copied Green Day and The Who.
That really doesn't count b/c it only sampled the "de-na-na-na chek chek chek" part but other than that the songs are different else where so. :/
They also copied Def Leppard.
The biggest music Thieves on that list by far is, Robin Thicke & Pharrell Williams. A deaf man can hear the identical comparison between the two songs. Robin Thicke should be down right ashamed of himself to sue Marvin Gaye when he's STEALING other people's music and claiming it as his. Next up is Nirvana. Clearly they took pieces of another song and made their own version without giving credit or paying. There are more on the list, but Robin Thick's create music like he creates marriages..Very badly! wait wait wait... Come to think of it, Robin Thicke has been ripping Marvin Gaye's music off from even his FIRST ALBUM. don't believe me, go take a listen and get back to me on that one. He also tries his damn hardest to sound like Prince over marvin gay's music. Again, to sue another man for wanting whats rightfully his is some dirty shit! Thats like Lance Armstrong suing people for speaking the truth about him.
Charlie Briggs listen to Trouble Man by Marvin Gaye and Million Dollar Baby by Robin Thicke...
Charlie Briggs
Or...and I know this is a craaaaaaazy thought...you could create your own art before calling yourself a fucking artist!
For fuck's sake, if all you're gonna do is copy others, then it's pretty obvious you're not in it to express yourself, nor accomplish anything but making money and/or getting famous. By all means, admit it and pay up--don't add theft to your list of offenses!--but don't then call yourself a musician and expect to be treated as such.
If someone stole your life's work and profited from it, you wouldn't think it petty. I know, it's hard to think of music that way, since the "work" of today's popular "artists" is by and large such crap. But imagine putting your heart and soul into something, being really proud of it, then watching some asshole steal it and not only get away with it, but be praised and rewarded for *your* work! Not only that, but you don't even have a right to complain, because that asshole made a deal with some other asshole to buy something of yours that you were never sellng?!
breadboyplaysguitar Yo i played the songs side by side in 2 windows, it's crazy how in sync they were lol
but, but he-he-heeey
I agree 100%!
No Ice Ice Baby vs. Under Pressure?
Superfreak vs. Can’t touch this?
Rock Lobster vs. Don’t threaten me with a good time?
Tom’s Diner vs. Centuries?
Clocks vs. David Guetta?
Damn I could make my own list right here right now
Oooh,look at all these songs One DIrection ripped off!
Summer Nights vs. What Makes You Beautiful
Shoud I Stay Or I Should I Go vs. Live While We're Young
Good Riddance vs. More Than This
Where The Streets Have No Name vs.Loved You First
Pour Some Sugar On Me vs. Midnight Memories.
Baba O Riley vs Best Song Ever
(some blink 182 song I don't remember) vs. Heart Attack
Because they're unoriginal pricks, that's why.
plus.google.com/u/1/wm/4/107280656485265979437/posts/4vfck3YvZPR
ChemicalAssassin64 hmm. Heart Attack doesn't sound like any blink song I know. I still hate 1D though>:)
Cry2SumBlink4182 lyrics, not the sound.
queen-under pressure vs vanilla ice-ice ice baby
That's probably the biggest rip-off in history and somehow this dang biased channel didn't manage to get it on here.
it's a sample
Daniel Sanchez Because it is a sample of Under Pressure, they openly said in the beginning of the video that none of the songs on the list involved sampling.
Actually considering that Vanilla Ice was SUED in court by Queen and won by having a slightly different hook in it you can't consider it a sample. Besides they had the Verve and Rolling Stones here and that was a clear sample and they SAID SO IN THE VIDEO. Thus breaking their own rules. No that should be number one.
phreak811 Yeah, I also think Ice Ice Baby/Under Pressure deserves a spot on this list.
There are two that were missed and should've been on the list.
a. Ice Ice Baby ripping off Under Pressure
b. One Thing (by one direction) ripping off I Want It That Way
Thank you, one person thinking the same thing.
Austin Mahone's " What about love" ripping off NSYNC's "bye bye bye"
Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that one.
I also forgot about One Direction "Best Song Ever" stealing the melody from the who
I'm playing several instruments and never thought of myself as being tone deaf. But in some of these songs I can't hear even the slightest similarity, neither in melody nor in rhythm. 🤷♀️
Not only you. I also play music and I couldn’t spot the similarities in some of these
Stop showing off, I only play a couple,...the triangle is an instrument as well as a shape.
Have to get a song in the top 100......something with 3 major chords or less. and make a killing off the law suits. EAB EDA.....
Helen Wheels......AAAAA
You forgot Twinkle Twinkle, ABC and Ba Ba Black Sheep. They sound very similar.......
Those three ARE the exact same song with different lyrics.
SWLinPHX Shhh....
The government didn't want us to know that...
I Am Eating Pizza Choosing This Username. Carry On. LOL, I had already posted that comment yesterday (scroll down).
SWLinPHX Too bad lol
GERARRRRRRD...i mean... cool profile picture...
half of one directions songs are rip offs of classics, surprised at least one of them didn't appear here
eg ; best song ever - the whos baba o'riley
rock me - queen we will rock you
eg
iseult maire ni fhoighil what makes you beautiful to the clash's should i stay or should i go
theres even one that sound exactly like an one piece opening...
sayanskywolf13 really? :O which one?
April Sunshine we are! - she is not afraid
Dead Or Alive - "You Spin Me Round"
Flo Rida - "Right Round"
than there is
O-Zone- "Numa Numa"
Rihanna - "Live Your Life"
another is
Gloria Jones- "Tainted Love"(now this song has been redone a bunch of times, but most of them credit the original)
Rihanna-"SOS"
There are many more, but I don't want to listen to the really bad new music to find it. There is one that Drake has that is stolen from Bob Marley, and a few others off the top of my head.
These are called samples...
W it r735w6wt
As Kimberly L already said, those are samples. Also, it's Dragonsta Din Tei, not "Numa Numa"
charmaine wilks hdghm
And like everything by pitbull XD
They might well have already been mentioned, but two sets of songs that sound similar to me are: Working Class Hero (Lennon) and Thinking of You (Edgar Broughton Band), and the big one, We Used to Know (Jethro Tull) and Hotel California (Eagles).
My bands have songs that sounded very similar to others by other bands though neither bands had ever heard each other. There are only so many chord progressions, etc, some similarities are bound to occur. Plagarism does exist though. And fuck the greedy Rolling Stones.
What bands have you been in?
Pony Fight
The Phobes
The Misery Makers
Mimi Loco and Project Applesauce
The Aquadogs
Karma Sharks
Platinum Slugs
Tongue And Groove
Pinko
Cerberus
Factories Of Air
The Psychonauts
The SubMensas
Asbestos Rockpyle
and a bunch more that noone has ever heard of either.
Darrylizer1 I can tell.
i have heard bith song and frankly i think queen shoukd be ashamed of themselves for ruining nice rhymes. queen sound pathetic because they just dont get what the music is. vanilla ice actually got the music
Darrylizer1 sounds like ska from the names
🔴So the rolling bones can steal songs . But when someone samples a few notes its 100% royalty. 🔴
Unfortunately, WatchMojo got it mostly wrong. The guy who sued The Verve was their old manager, Allen Klein. The Stones themselves barely got involved in the case.
R Linders C’mon Wikipedia
@@eemgee9185 They're greedy pieces of shit, or at the bare minimum their manager is. Fuck that shit.
@@rlinders9972 - Exactly. This was an ABKCO case - not one brought by The Rolling Stones.
I think I read it was mostly out of there hands I'm not 100% sure, it was there former manager, he was a snake when it came to money
Anybody who knows anything about Blues knows that tunes have been repeated and copied from one song/singer to the next since Blues began. So some bands ripped off Muddy Waters but Muddy Waters ripped off Robert Johnson.
An apostrophe and an "s" could make that so much more sinister.
@@lachlan1971 You've got a sick mind.
So ripping off is justified then?
@@skat0rzZzz worded it poorly. Old time blues and jazz very often used some of the same riffs and melodies over and over, made it easy to get a tune going in the club if you could just tell the guys to play such and such riff and you just freelance it off that. This meant much of the work in those genres sounded similar, so anybody drawing any inspiration from earlier work were gonna sound similar as well.
I have to say #1 The Beach Boys and Chuck Berry. Way to similar. Good on Chuck to get the rights.
@Mightycat Creations, True! I agree, if only Chuck had done the same good in turn with his iconic and one of the most recognizable songs in the history of music? Because "Johnny B. Goode" is essentially a note-for-note blatant rip-off of Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman" (1946), played by guitarist Carl Hogan. I mean if we're throwing stones, let's make sure we hit everyone involved. Right? Just saying....
The judge just recently dismissed the Led Zeppelin/Spirit case.
They did...good.
Thank you for that info. Didn't know. They never sounded exactly the same to me.
Not to mention that playing a minor chord progression over a descending bass line goes back to classical music.
you have a really bad music theory teacher
Yeah thank god that songs dope it's like da fuck
There are only 12 musical notes. Shit will happen.
Only 12 notes to a minority of dull- witted folk.
... and almost 480mil combinations using all 12 ...
dpending on what guitar you have there are 84 notes
DBX Niker
Nope, only 12. You're talking about frets, and that's not the same. Notes repeat, but in different octaves, so, i/e C is C no matter in which octave (or on which fret) it is..
[EDIT] Actually it's 8 + 4 semi
millosh is correct here.
Goes to show "The Kinks" are awesome.
Totally agree....one of the best bands ever, ever and ever.
C Jenison and they stole their share of songs in their day.
Destroyer under rated
Also the Gorillaz' Feel Good Inc. borrows heavily from the Kinks' Sunny Afternoon.
or they all suck just a little bit more?
There is an update 2 the Rolling Stones v The Verve controversy. The Stones gave back all the rights 2 "Bitter Sweet Symphony" back 2 The Verve.
Lmao cat Stevens was reaching
GOAT WHITE they played a part of the song that didn't sound like it. Other parts do.
GOAT WHITE they played a part of the song that didn't sound like it. Other parts do.
They played the wrong part of the song. It's an 18 minute song. The last 3 minutes is where it is similar.
This is the part th-cam.com/video/8lWjg_xlVxg/w-d-xo.html
Music is the language of the soul, and people are bound to express the same idea in the same way. That being said, some artists do plagurise others for monetary gain without consent or givin credit, and that is wrong.
However, we must ask ourselves how does one own a certain pattern of soundwaves? You can't copyright an expression of emotion.
Woah... Deep.
Yes, you can copyright that.
As a composer, it can be a pain expressing something different, since there are so many songs and chord progressions that it is not anymore an joke creating completely original content. Im still trying and training to get the best of the least as an electronic composer, but it does anger me that some random fools try copying an song intentionaly and claim that they made it without giving the necessary credits of the original author (timbaland comes to mind, can't believe that people defend him for his dishonorful acts).
But if that "expression of emotion" costs millions of dollars then that idea goes out the window and into an incinerator.
You can damn well copyright an expression of emotion.
I know most people are complaining about the lack of creativity, but I actually find that reused songs are quite interesting and creative in itself. It's funny how you can take a Queen, rock song "under pressure" and turn it into a hip-hop smash "Ice Ice baby". The inspiration is what music is all about. Many artists today continue to use MJ's style, and though it may be a "copy" I find it carries the legacy of old singers or songs, and tweaks it for a newer generation. It's like recycling: the product was great at the start, and after being recycled, it's still quite cool to see the transformation. So long as the artists get permission, I feel it's entirely acceptable (also as long as the artists are NOT copying the same lyrics or the same style of singing the song- otherwise that'd simply be a cover.)
Yer I agree here. I think that any song should be able to be Re-used / Re-Cycled after it has NOT been in the top 100 for a period of same 10 years. The older music is great but it doesn't fit in with today's music. This is what recycling does. Covers are also good, though most don't live up to the original but some times some are better then the original. The Sweet "Ball Room Blitz" is way much better then the original.
Wasn't it David Bowie's "Under Pressure"?
@@sacman68 No. It was Queen AND David Bowie's tune.
@@lorcan1504 Oh, ok!
I honestly never heard the "I Want a New Drug" and "Ghostbusters" similarities
There's definitely similarities.
Listen to the base line
I agree. The woman who got burned by McDonald's coffee had a better case than Huey Lewis. The only similarities those two songs have is that they both sound like the 80s.
Bret Wengeler you seen like your one of those people who listen to songs for 30 seconds than changes if you can’t notice the similarities. The similarities start about a minute in. Actually listen to both of the songs fully and you should definitely notice a difference.
@@bretwengeler5977 actually ray parker heard the want a new drug rift and ripped i t off
It is incorrect to state that the Rolling Stones sued the verve. It was Allen Klein, the stones former manager, and the worst man in music history, who did this and also conned his way into a lot of the Rolling Stones royalties years before
Some of these aren't 'stolen' they're just 'influenced' by other bands and songs. Just people trying to make more money by suing in my opinion. The parts of these songs that are stolen are mainly just arpeggios and simple chord progressions that music itself is BUILT around. They're the fundamentals of music, so there are songs out there that are bound to sound similar.
How about Soft Cell's cover that became 90% of S.O.S...
Monica Pyle -would you like your face on a product.....and not get paid....?
Finally, someone who understands music
That's because music influences music. Not all the time they are rip offs tho.
DayneJW: Fun Fact; most lawsuits are engaged by managers & agents without the artists knowledge... Or consent!
Umm Vanilla Ice, Ice Ice Baby and Queen's Under Pressure?
Jeff Spain I could have sworn that was going to be in there before i started watching.
CyberKnight IKR? I thought it would be number 1
Jeff Spain I was really surprised that this one wasn't even an honorable mention! I thought it would be number 1.
I think a lot of us did.
Jeff Spain The criteria stated in video specifically said "Not Counting Sampling"...Vanilla Ice used a SAMPLE of Under Pressure...I know, I like weed and music, too...but we have to pay attention to adult conversation.
I've made music influenced by others, but didn't realize it.
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People can't help having a tune in their subconscious.
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There just aren't that many arrangements in musical notes to be totally original.
If they dont put 5SOS stealing Fall Out Boy's Sugar We're Going Down I'm gonna flip.
also 5sos stealing from Duran Duran
And 5SOS stealing Teenagers from My Chemical Romance and the list just goes on and on
and 5sos stealing from all time low
Dang, they've stolen a lot more than I realized.
5sos stealing green days album covers...
Bitter Sweet Symph.... is so much more beautiful than the Stones hit.
it's so haunting!!
It's a black Mark on the stones that they destroyed the Verve. And for that ONE move, they lost a mountain of our respect.
The Stones old manager from the '60s, Allen Klein, still owns the publishing rights to "Last Time" (along with many other '60s Stones songs). He's the one who sued the Verve, not Mick & Keith.
David Whitaker, the guy who wrote the string arrangement for the Andrew Oldham Orchestra version of "Last Time," is the one who truly got screwed. It's Whitaker's string arrangement that really makes that version of the song memorable- and he didn't get any royalties for it.
Yeah. 40 years from now nobody will even know who The Verve is. Why would the Stones want to rip them off? Not saying they didn't, just doubt millions of their fans lost respect even though hundreds of Verve fans might have.
I agree. Just very greedy.
I love em both.
I didn't mean my first comment as a smash on the Verve, I love their song. I don't have you guys musical ear, but it sounds original to me.
Hope I didn't offend anyone.
Peace and love y'all. 😘💞
Wow, no Ice Ice Baby? That's one of the most famous rip-off songs of all time, lol.
this video specifically said that sample tunes DO NOT COUNT, you dumbasses...
That's what I thought would be #1, Ice Ice Baby vs Under Pressure
Justin Liu , only "doesn't count" if the sample was paid for. Vanilla Ice didn't pay for the sample, actually tried to pass it off as his own original work, and got sued for it by Queen. I was certain that it was going to be #1 too.
Richcelt No one sued anybody... they got paid for the sample once it was a hit. No one took it to court. Don't assume.
Ice Ice Baby was not a rip-off. Vanilla Ice paid for the right to use Under Pressure, and gave the due credit to David Bowie and Queen.
The Rolling Stones just recently return the credits for the song back to the Verve and a portion of the royalties.
lol how could you forget the infamous incident of 'Ice Ice Baby' totally ripping off 'Under Pressure'?
I loved how Ice tried to play it off like he'd never heard Under Pressure before
Absolutely! It was probably the worst.
yep that's a good one,... I mean its is bad!
Vanilla Ice; The most ridiculous A&E biography ever. He is shown in the interview doing the rhythm of the 2 songs with his voice, follows up his own version with one extra note to an otherwise exact match and claims it is totally different.
I was waiting for it. I thought it would be number one. I can't believe it's not on here
i am surprised Katy Perry is not on this list.. multiple times.
She was sued in 2013 because her song Dark Horse was suspiciously like Flame's 2008 rap song, Joyful Noise.
A LOT Of people still think Katy Perry ripped off the Sara Bareilles' tune, "Brave", which Katy turned into "Roar."
Katy Perry's song E.T. sounds a lot like t.A.T.u's song, All the things she said.
Katy Perry's song, California Gurls sounds almost exactly like Ke$ha's song, TiK ToK - and then Cascadia basically
stole California Gurls and remade it as San Francisco.
Basically you could do an entire video about Rip-off songs involving Katy Perry!
these folk definitely leave out many things. They have some pretty obvious lies on these videos. They often totally ignore obvious example based on the elite political climate. Are you kidding me ? Mention the mind control sex kitten pop princess in the same sentence as plagarism? Nah. Don't hold your breath. Do your own research . These guys aren't too trustworthy.
I couldn’t believe that Flame didn’t win! Even starts with the same words, has the same type of auto-tuned interjection at about the same part... just a different tempo and pitch. I like “Dark Horse,” but won’t buy it on principle, because of what seems to be clear theft... if the Hollies get a credit on Creep, for crying out loud...
@Basic_Assumption No one in this thread even mentioned Taylor Swift before you just did.
- Katy Perry HAS been taken to court for plagiarizing music, and your effort to change the subject is meaningless.
time.com/2955390/katy-perry-dark-horse-lawsuit/
someone here sure doesn't like Katy Perry xD
@Basic_Assumption i will say this for you, you certainly live down to your TH-cam name. i am no fan of Taylor Swift, and What i wrote about Katy Perry was true - how the law suits ended up does not change the fact that she has been involved in more music scandals than any of the people mentioned IN the video. Regarding the rest of your masturbatory rant... it is your own words that are discrediting you, exposing your own bias as well as your inability to accept the truth when it disagrees with you.
And yet, parts of the basic melody of Huey Lewis & the News' "Do You Believe in Love" sounds very similar to ELO's 1977 hit, "Sweet Talking Woman". Jeff Lynne, if you are reading this, check it out.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a rip off song that should be on the list should be Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby" as it has nearly the exact same rhythm as Queens "Under Pressure"
Sample from what I know.
@@dubbingsyncSample bullshit. He should've made own original stuff