Most blatant tune stealing you have heard?

[johnman]

Now in music its inevitable that you will get songs that have similar beats, lyrics and themes. Artists are inspired by other Artists and try to replicate a similar sound, but every now and then you discover a song which that is pretty much a copy paste of another.

For example : Listen to the first 30 seconds of these two songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2N4sTa4Ymg (Men without Hats- The original tune)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoYDJDiY6U (The Darkness)

So are there any songs that you have heard and immediantly thought, "Hang on a minute! I've heard this before!" ?

 

[ProfessorLayton]

The Flo Rida Go Down song. The worst part is, most people don't even know that it was an 80's song in the first place. If that's not a sign that society hasn't reached a new low, nothing is.

Oh, wait! I know a sign! That someone who named himself "Flo Rida" is popular nonetheless not in a mental institution.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Spoiler

That's the worst.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

-snip-

No, I actually think Vanilla Ice said that it was different because Under Pressure goes "bah dah dah dah dah dah duh. Bad dah dah dah dah dah duh." and his song goes "bah dah dah dah dah dah duh, ba bah dah dah dah dah dah duh."

Yeah...

 

[LewsTherin]

I hear many a "remake" on the radio that uses a guitar line or chorus from a popular song, but has a completely different (read: worse) song attached to it.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvB9Pj9Znsw
The Coldplay/Satriani thing.

 

[Samoftherocks]

Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" was ripped almost completely from Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life"...

 

[khaimera]

Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" was ripped almost completely from Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life"...

I knew that song sounded familiar. Thanks

To answer the qquestion, most songs on the radio rip off other music. Only now its called sampling to make it sound legit. What sucks is when the new version becomes way more popular than the old and usually better version.

 

[Kyoufuu]

Wassup by Da Muttz, and Can't Touch this by MC Hammer

Also Bloody Tears by Army of the Pharaohs heartlessly ripped from the much better Bloody Tears in many Castlevania games.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

The Flo Rida Go Down song. The worst part is, most people don't even know that it was an 80's song in the first place. If that's not a sign that society hasn't reached a new low, nothing is.

Oh, wait! I know a sign! That someone who named himself "Flo Rida" is popular nonetheless not in a mental institution.

This person has summed up everything I wanted to say and more.

Seriously though, I don't think there's any shred of originality with that Flo Rida guy. Everything is from somewhere else with him!

 

[happysock]

Does anyone else think they sound similar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht4pRP5zTIU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WObfcDIf6lY

 

[Bigeyez]

The Flo Rida Go Down song. The worst part is, most people don't even know that it was an 80's song in the first place. If that's not a sign that society hasn't reached a new low, nothing is.

Oh, wait! I know a sign! That someone who named himself "Flo Rida" is popular nonetheless not in a mental institution.

Flo Rida (god I live in florida and even I think his name is retarded) only has two popular songs and both of them are rips off of older music. Whats funny is that yeah most kids have no idea those are older songs and think he's the hot ish for making them.

 

[Ultrajoe]

I remember seeing a comparison of two videos, showing they had the exact same tune.

The funny part? One was a rap video about slapping women, or something, and the other was the Thomas the Tank Engine themesong.

I wish I could remember/find it.

 

[joe182]

KID ROCK.
Stupid, annoying man who copies everything.

 

[inflamessoilwork]

Superfreak and Can't Touch This

 

[George Palmer]

Oh man...I'm now old enough to have heard 3 decades of music (been around for 4) and I can tell you they keep writing the same songs over and over and over. They just change the lyrics to fit the current days slang.

And all of them are stealing the chord changes from Bach. Ahh well.

Such is the way of pop music in its various forms.

 

[The Rockerfly]

That new Kid Rock song and Sweet Home Alabama
I can't believe they are getting away with it too

 

[El Poncho]

It might just be my lack of rhythme or anything to do with music but doesn't the start sound like rockin all over the world aswell.

 

[barryween]

The guitar in New Divide by Linkin Park is a rip off of the older Offspring song, Gone Away.
yeah.