Musical Dopplegangers

[tea and ease]

 

[BTExpress]

Screw that guy. It's my favorite Christmas song.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Taylor Dayne's "Tell It To My Heart" blatantly rips off Glenn Frey's "The One You Love" in the chorus chord for chord. It was so blatant that he DJ remarked on it the first time I heard it.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

"Werewolves of London" has the same chords as "Sweet Home Alabama" which somehow begat "All Summer Long."

Kid Rock couldn't come up with another word that rhymes with "things?" That's Steve Miller bad, although nothing beats "Take The Money and Run" for egregious lyric fail.

There's nothing better/worse than Bon Jovi's "I'll Be There For You."

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe, I wanna be the air for you
I'll be there for you

Four lines, all ending in you! Of course, I was one of 14 million teenagers who had the tape, so Jon got the last laugh.

And to sort of tie this together, @Junkie alerted me many moons ago that Bon Jovi's "Living In Sin," released two songs after "I'll Be There For You," ripped the **** out of George Michael's "Father Figure." Never heard it until he mentioned it but it's clear as day. Great ****ing video though.

 

[Brian J Walter]

Even Sir Paul grates my editing chops with this one:

"But if this ever changing world
IN which we live IN
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die!"

I always heard that as “In which we’re living,” which he should pretend is how he wrote it, if he didn’t.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

The most amazing thing about Ray Parker Jr. is "Ghostbusters" isn't even his biggest ripoff. A year or so earlier, he had a medium-sized hit with "I Still Can't Over Loving You," which was an anthem for stalkers who thought "Every Breath You Take" was too subtle. He even uses the line "every breath you take, I'll be watching you, girl." I guess Sting was already too busy making gobs of money from the song (I read on Wiki he was making $2K in royalties per day from the song in 2003) to sue him.

But *******, even with Ray basically promising to murder the girl in the last line, it's a perfect early '80s song. Just SOUNDS like the era and is impossibly catchy even with all the caveats. Just don't put it on a mix tape for anyone.

 

[Huggy]

Catch Me Now I'm Falling by The Kinks has a riff directly ripped off - played a tad slower - from Jumpin' Jack Flash and Hair of the Dog by Nazareth is a complete rip of Day Tripper (but is still a banger as the kids say).

 

[MisterCreosote]

Speaking of blatant “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” ripoffs, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention STP’s “Big Bang Baby.”

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

12 notes (natural + flat/sharp notes) in an octave, plus changes in octave, plus time, plus key, plus tempo, plus measures of notes, plus treble or bass clef, plus volume (piano/forte), plus plus plus =

A practically infinite number of musical permutations purely by arithmetic.

 

[garrow]

The Jam's Start....and Taxman

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

The Jam's Start....and Taxman

One man's ripoff is another man's homage.