. to steal, uhm, make that, eh, sample. Verse 3 of 's 'I need your love tonight' sounds similiar to Los Lobos'/Ritchie Valens' 'Come on lets go' verse 3 also sang in the movie 'La Bamba', plus they each have guitar solos after. The opening riff of 'Bein' Friends' from the 1989 NES game Mother sounds kinda like the 1984 Talk Talk song 'It's My Life'.
The similarity isn't to glaring until you hear the Super Smash Bros. To add to that, Steel Panthers used that same opening riff in 'Party All Day'. Murray Gold's 'Love Don't Roam', made for the 2006 Doctor Who Christmas special The Runaway Bride sounds a lot like 'The Snake' by Al Wilson. B.E.R's opening theme is similar to Blondie's However 'Night Begins to Shine' was created to be an 80's tribute.
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sounds like Shaggy. Shaggy's also sounds suspiciously similar to. Miller is credited as a composer on 'Angel'. And the chorus lyrics on 'Angel' are clearly inspired by by Merrilee Rush. Some people will note similarities in the overall structures of 's and The Chain Gang of 1974's.
Midnight City was released in 2011, while Sleepwalking was released in 2013. Even more noticeable: compare 'Midnight City' to ' ', as well as Mike Posner's '. 'Sheer Heart Attack' starts off with a few verses that were copied from the beginning of ' 'I Saw Her Standing There.' .
In the instrumental part of 'Prayers for rain' there is a chord sequence that sounds like the chords for 'Dance with me'. 'Neighbors' by Camouflage sounds a lot like 'New Dress' by. Many were quick to point out that and Kiiara's ' sounds almost exactly like and 's '. song 'Last Time Lover' sounds similar to The Mary Jane Girls' 'All Night Long.' . 'Fade Into You' sounds similar to 'Knocking on Heaven's Door.' .
Also 'Coming Down' by Dum Dum Girls sounds highly similar to 'Fade Into You.' .
's 'All The Way' sounds a lot like 's 'Just Like Heaven.' . Conversely, The Cure's 'The Walk' is similar to New Order's 'Blue Monday.' . Ditto for 'A Honest Mistake' by The Bravery. 's 'My Life' takes its melody from Johnny Rodriguez' 'Love Put a Song in My Heart.' .
His 'This Night' has almost exactly the same tune as Louise Tucker's 'Midnight Blue.' But he's not ripping off 'Midnight Blue,' they're both borrowing from Beethoven (Sonata No. Billy Joel gave Beethoven writing credit.
Ditto for Four Non-Blondes' 'What's Up?' , from Bobby McFerrin's 'Don't Worry, Be Happy.' . The fade-out of ' 'Money for Nothing' from is set to 's 'Don't Stand So Close to Me' — by Mark Knopfler having Sting sing it and giving him co-writing credits.
The fade-in to 'Money for Nothing', with Terry Williams's improvised drum solo, is remarkably similar to end of the middle part of 'Won't Get Fooled Again' by. Safetysuit's 'Stay' sounds incredibly similar to 's 'Meant to Live.' They sound enough alike that most people seem to initially think that 'Stay' is a cover of 'Meant to Live.' . Both ' 'Mr.
Brightside' and 's 'Bulletproof Heart' are reminiscent of 's 'Special K'. MCR even sings 'gravity' in the same way; this may have been done intentionally. Then there's also 's 'Time is Running Out.' It doesn't sound like 'Special K,' but 'Mr.
Brightside' and 'Bulletproof Heart' sound a lot like it. Aiden's entire discography is this to AFI's, but 'I Set My Friends on Fire' and 'The Despair Factor' deserves a special mention. 's 'We're Not Gonna Take It' is derived from the Christmas hymn 'O Come All Ye Faithful'.
Lampshaded when the band did an album with rock covers of Christmas songs, where 'O Come All Ye Faithful' is performed 'We're Not Gonna Take It'. 'I Missed Us' by SWV samples a Suspiciously Similar Version of the Fairy Fountain theme from. One popular example is the obvious similarities between 'Roar' by and 'Brave' by, to the point that the latter only became a hit on the back of the controversy. Despite all this, that. And of course, the similarity between 'Roar' and Delirious?' S 'I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever'.
by has a basically identical verse to the earlier by. Manson has done this more than once: 'I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)' (taken from the heavily -influenced Mechanical Animals) is a dead ringer for Bowie's own 'Fame.' . 'The Fight Song' is quite similar to 's 'Song 2.' .
In a more odd example of this, former guitarist Daisy Berkowitz claimed that the song '1996' stole and sped up his 'She's Not My Girlfriend', an earlier Marilyn Manson song (back when it was Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids), from when Manson wrote only the lyrics, and Daisy wrote the music. The likelihood of this is reduced when you remember that Marilyn Manson (the person) considers 'She's Not My Girlfriend' to be the worst song he ever wrote. 's smash hit 'Centuries' has a chorus with a tune that's nearly identical to 's 'Hate'. The riff to 'Irresistible' is basically copied from part of 's 'Dawn of Victory'. 'Uma Thurman' predominantly features samples from the theme music. Speaking of, their song '(Setting Yourself Up For) Sarcasm' is extremely similar to 'Paralyzed'. Get Scared, another band from Utah, are huge fans of The Used and have cited them as a major influence on their music.
In fact, Get Scared have very much modeled themselves directly on The Used, right down to Nicholas Matthews imitating Bert McCracken's every mannerism and vocal tic. Their first album, Best Kind of Mess, is in fact a Suspiciously Similar Album to The Used's Lies for the Liars. However, they've been quite open about this, and are as such praised as an homage or throwback rather than condemned. 's 'Crazy for You' all but shares its tune with, of all songs, '.'
. Creator/Disney's 1982 exercise album Mousercise features a song called 'Keep on Trying', which also sounds like a Suspiciously Similar version of YMCA. And another Disney album gives an that and sounds an awful lot like 's 'Take a Chance on Me.'
. David Hasselhoff actually made Suspiciously Similar versions of multiple songs.
His song 'Looking for Freedom' sounds like very much like 'Rivers of Babylon' by Boney M. But actually, David Hasselhoff's 1989 version of it isn't the original one.
It was originally done by Marc Seaberg who released it back in 1978 when 'Rivers of Babylon' was still in the charts. Other sound-alike songs by David Hasselhoff are 'Do the Limbo Dance' (sounding like Boney M's 'Hooray!
It's a Holi-Holiday') and 'Hands Up for Rock'n'Roll' (similar to Pia Zadora's 'Let's Dance Tonight.' ).
Taiwanese pop singer Cyndi Wang's 'Honey' is also another 'YMCA' ripoff. 'YMCA' itself was clearly influenced by The Trammps' 'Disco Inferno.' . Brinck's Eurovision 2013 entry was '.' Having the exact same structure and guitar notes as Plain White T's 'Hey There Delilah.' .
did this with the follow-up to 'Waterloo,' 'So Long,' which was intentionally done to ensure another hit. It wasn't as successful. Charlotte Gainsbourg's, composed by, sounds exactly like from. Train's sounds exactly like.
In turn, the title song to Phantom of the Opera nicks its opening melody from 's 'Echoes.' Roger Waters was pissed off at this ('I couldn't believe it when I heard it. It's the same time signature — it's 12/8 — and it's the same structure and it's the same notes and it's the same everything.' ) but commented that 'I think life's too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.' .
Actually, Andrew Lloyd Webber ripped off 'Poisoned Youth' by the obscure UK band England. That song predates 'Phantom' by a few years. The 'Phantom' vocal melody has also been interpolated in by E-Type, by Cynthia, by Rose (of fame), and by BPM. Scooter's Roll Baby Roll featured a sample of ABBA's Arrival which it turned out the band hadn't asked to use. As a result, the rerelease of the album it was on (The Stadium Techno Experience) features a remix of the song called Swinging In The Jungle, which has a Suspiciously Similar version of the Arrival sample. Scooter have done this so much that it has become a sort of trademark to expect certain songs in a particular style on each album. Maria (I Like It Loud) and One (Always Hardcore) are the most notorious and there is one song like them on every album since.
Similarly, Break It Up and Leave In Silence are both techno ballads and have pretty much the same chord progression and laid back feel. tried to do a lyrically less-than-faithful glam rock version of 'Comme d'Habitude,' but Paul Anka took the rights from under him for 'My Way.'
Bowie made some small changes to the tune and chord progression, and the result was 'Life on Mars.' Note Some people think that 'My Way' and 'Life on Mars' have the same chords, but they don't: they depart from each other at the sixth/seventh line of the verse, where 'But more, much more than this' goes in a different direction from 'To the seat with the clearest view'. 'Life on Mars' also has a chorus, while 'My Way' doesn't (it has the 'Yes there were times' section instead of one.) Note that on the back cover of the album the song is parenthetically noted as being 'Inspired by Frankie' — as in Sinatra, who made 'My Way' famous. lifts the majority of. 's ' and 's '.
The opening riff to 's Cochise is pretty similar to Zeppelin's 'The Ocean' too. And, of all things, I'm Broken by!.
Ironically enough, 'Cochise' also sounds like a faster version of the main riff of Soundgarden's 'Get On The Snake'. And Chris Cornell sings both songs!. Another song, Show Me How To Live, lifts the riff from the obscure Rage Against The Machine song 'Producer'. The opening of 's 'Barracuda' was lifted directly from 'Achilles Last Stand'. Going the other way, Page has admitted he took the distinctive 'da-da-da-da-duh' of 'Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You' from 's '25 or 6 to 4'.
Which itself sounds like a speeded-up version of ' 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. These are all examples the (also heard in Green Day's Brain Stew, The White Stripes' Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, and a hundred other songs).
Sean Kingston's 'Me Love' gets it melody from 'D'yer Maker', which ironically got its name from a joke about Jamaica.