bgillesp: Ripped Off Riffs and Stolen Sounds

bgillesp 01.21.18	What are your best examples?
Papa Universe 01.21.18	Couldn't find that Ghost song for 15, aye?
Papa Universe 01.21.18	Isn't Creep also a rip-off of All I Need Is the Air That I Breathe by The Hollies?
bgillesp 01.21.18	Eh maybe. I didn't try too hard to make this list
Papa Universe 01.21.18	Again, I don't remember Ghost having that tune... But I might be wrong.
CaimanJesus 01.21.18	Yeah seether have been blatantly stealing a riff per album for the last 2
bgillesp 01.21.18	Like I said Zero, I didn't try that hard. This is by no means comprehensive. Just some that popped in my head at one time or another
Trundle 01.21.18	Electric Wizard - The Chosen Few: Mephistofeles - Kill Yourself. Mephisto blatantly copies EW here,
bgillesp 01.21.18	I'll add yall's tomorrow. Pretty tired right now
bgillesp 01.21.18	That's pretty interesting. Thanks!
bgillesp 01.21.18	I think 4 is my favorite.
Kompys2000 01.21.18	Viva la Vida and that one other 2000s pop song that starts exactly like Viva la Vida
bgillesp 01.21.18	Gimme an exact name an I'll add it
bgillesp 01.21.18	You were good, I meant on the Viva la Vida. Gonna add them all tomorrow
bgillesp 01.21.18	I will zero! Been trying to tell you that like 5 times
SomeGuyDude 01.21.18	Today we look at these stolen songs, these ripped-off riffs, and these lifted licks. But! Hello, you! I'm Guru Larry, and I welcome you to Fact Hunt. 21 Songs that Shamelessly Stole their Melody.
RippingCorpse1986 01.21.18	Metallicunt stole from Excel's Tapping Into the Emotional Void to make Enter Sandman. How could you forget that?
bgillesp 01.21.18	Didn't know. I'll add. That's why I asked for suggestions :)
RippingCorpse1986 01.21.18	Also, Kinks' When Work Is Over (from the Soap Opera album) lifts its main chorus hook from Under the Boardwalk
RippingCorpse1986 01.21.18	Borry for sad English ;(
RippingCorpse1986 01.21.18	Ohhh and let's not forget Dream Theater's fanservice/quote to Muse on Never Enough (it sounds awfully similar to Stockholm Syndrome)
DinosaurJones 01.21.18	Joe Satriani - Just Look Up, Coldplay - Viva La Vida The main guitar refrain and the chorus to Viva La Vida. Pretty sure Satch took them to court over it.
LaughingSkull 01.21.18	Most of those are a stretch, some are coincidences, some are just plain wrong (not similar at all), and probably just a few are intentional steals. overall meh list
DominionMM1 01.21.18	"Overall list is missing Led Zeppelin + Spirit and he refuses to update lol" flynn is randy california's estate lawyer?
DominionMM1 01.21.18	OT: verse riff of stone temple pilots "sex type thing" (core) sounds remarkably similar to danzig's "snakes of christ" (danzig II: lucifuge)
DominionMM1 01.21.18	well it was taken to court and a jury decided it wasn't stolen
SexualManChocolate 01.21.18	I can't name all the bands, but there's this riff that was constantly used during some early metalcore The Opening riff for Attack Attack!'s What If We Can't Check our Myspace When We Get There
BlazinBlitzer 01.21.18	Not ripped off per se, but the intro of "Lateralus" by Tool sounds similar to 1:47-2:52 of Porcupine Tree's "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before it is Recycled".
SexualManChocolate 01.21.18	ahhh nevermind. I'm referring to #3 So, add Attack Attack! to that, and Bullet For My Valentine uses the same riff, I just need to find the track.
SexualManChocolate 01.21.18	haha at 1:27 [Asking Alexandria- Not The American Average] uses the same riff as #3
AlexKzillion 01.21.18	That Unholy Confessions riff truly does rip... not surprised it got stolen so much
SexualManChocolate 01.21.18	Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I swear a lot more bands used it too. Just can't think of them because I don't listen to a lot of random obscure metalcore anymore.
AlexKzillion 01.21.18	"Periphery- Masamune? (Intros sound very similar, probably coincidence)" I swear I've heard someone else use that exact same riff (if you can even call it that), can't remember who though or if it was before or after
RippingCorpse1986 01.21.18	Some are coincidences, agreed skull man. Like that Reaktor song, Pandemonium, whose introductory riff reminds me of Fear of the Dark...
DominionMM1 01.21.18	camel- never let go (s/t): opeth- benighted (still life) nick drake- day is done (five leaves left): opeth- patterns in the ivy II (still day beneath the sun)
DominionMM1 01.21.18	key of a minor with a descending bass line? yeah only two songs ever share those characteristics
DominionMM1 01.21.18	babe I'm gonna leave you has a similar chord progression though
DominionMM1 01.21.18	i have heard taurus and it doesn't sound like stairway at all. just like babe i'm gonna leave you sounds nothing like while my guitar gently weeps
DominionMM1 01.21.18	if zep stole from spirit then every metal band in existence stole from sabbath
swipenet 01.21.18	You could also argue A7X stole Unholy Confessions' main riff from Death's Spirit Crusher. It is definitely pretty similar.
Aerisavion 01.21.18	Weirdly the one that pisses me off the most is fucking Vanilla Ice, what a fucking tool
Papa Universe 01.21.18	isn't Arctic Monkeys - Arabella also a rip off of something?
LaughingSkull 01.21.18	"alternate low E string picking with notes on the higher strings" has been there ever since Kill 'em All, perhaps even earlier. Not sure where people are coming up with the idea that all such riffs must be stolen from each other some way lol
InFlamesWeThrash666 01.21.18	Crawl Through Knives doesn't really sound like Unholy Confessions...A7X probably stole it from Spirit Crusher anyway [2]
theBoneyKing 01.21.18	The main riff of Coldplay’s “Talk” is lifted from Kraftwerk’s “Computer Love”. In this case Coldplay were very forward with it, asking Kraftwerk’s permission and giving them joint songwriting credit.
Aerisavion 01.21.18	Good on them for actually being honest about it and offering credit where credit is due. Plenty just wouldn’t bother.
JamieTwort 01.21.18	Kinda ironic for Led Zeppelin to be on a 'rip off' list as the band being ripped off.
Artuma 01.21.18	every ac/dc song, ripped off by themselves on the next album
PistolPete 01.21.18	Always promised myself I’d listen to Poison the Parish by Seether even though I fucking hate them (it got an ok reception here) and just didn’t for whatever reason. I 100% would have also thought that about Let You Down if I heard it, brutal rip off of my favourite band
onionbubs 01.21.18	alkaline trio - you’ve got so far to go’s bass riff is copy pasted in cat like thief by box car racer
AlexKzillion 01.21.18	Why does the Vanilla Ice one piss people off so much I don't get it
AlexKzillion 01.21.18	Like damn it's not like every other hip hop act from that time wasn't doing the exact same thing
bgillesp 01.21.18	It's because he tried to claim it was completely different in court Alex. I don't think him using it was wrong but claiming he came up with it without reference to Queen is dumb. Will update in a few minutes
MrSirLordGentleman 01.21.18	Green Day's 21 Guns sounds exactly like ELO's Telephone Line
bgillesp 01.21.18	I added the ones I had all the information for. Some suggestions didn't include both songs so I don't know how to add them. I fI got an album wrong its because I didn't care but let me know and I'll fix it.
bgillesp 01.21.18	Also, Zero, I agree it sounds very stolen, but its not nearly the most important part of the song so it doesn't bother me too much. None of these bother me really
InFlamesWeThrash666 01.21.18	Venom - Welcome To Hell Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight Kyuss - Green Machine similar riffs
SpiritCrusher2 01.21.18	A7X probably stole it from Spirit Crusher anyway [3]
SpiritCrusher2 01.21.18	metallica - welcome home (sanitarium) sounds a lot like bleak house - rainbow warrior
InFlamesWeThrash666 01.21.18	Misfits' Helena sounds a lot like Sanitarium too
SpiritCrusher2 01.21.18	oooh just remembered this one, while we already talking about sanitarium: kreator - enemy of god at 4:30. epic song tho.
SpiritCrusher2 01.21.18	also this opeth and gorod mash-up is one of the greatest things I've ever heard, they're perfectly in sync http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBcpCTPCl6M
InFlamesWeThrash666 01.21.18	more Sanitarium: Mastodon's Megalodon
swipenet 01.21.18	Seems like a lot of clean parts resemble Sanitarium, doubt it's intentional in most cases though
SpiritCrusher2 01.21.18	@bgillesp regarding the description for 30, we're talking about the riff at 2:22
AlexKzillion 01.21.18	I don't hear it
AlexKzillion 01.21.18	Like I mean they use the same technique but so do a million and one other metalcore songs. Guarantee Chuck "stole" it from someone else too.
Supercoolguy64 01.21.18	led zeppelin - babe im gonna leave you (chrous) chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 green day - brain stew papa roach - last resort powerman 5000 - free
SpiritCrusher2 01.21.18	nile - unas the slayer of the gods // candlemass - gothic stone/the well of souls behemoth - conquer all // anthrax - be all end all accept - metal heart // tchaikovsky - marche slave
jemaiseyeti 01.21.18	Carcass - This Mortal Coil // Heaven Shall Burn - Like a Thousand Suns
teamster 01.21.18	That progressive insurance commercial ripped off Holy Wars ...I mean big time...
swipenet 01.22.18	I see you added Spirit Crusher at the bottom. Don't know how familiar you are with the song but if you go to 2:22 you can't possibly tell me it doesn't sound like Unholy Confessions.