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  • Hey Tiger, would've thought The Kinks' song was sampled by The Hives with Hate To Say I Told You So.

  • good ear good comparisons

  • Pink Floyd- Echoes vs. Phantom of the Opera theme (Andrew Lloyd Weber) its to obvious!!!!

  • stairway to heaven....is...not....real....­? 

  • its a good thing gwen stefani riped off that song they sounded terrible, the first guys. gwen was good

  • @player12345ification dude weezer is 10 times better than gwen stefani + her bitch ass ripped em off

  • Smells Like Teen Spirit vs Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla

  • I read that spirit opened up for led zep prior to them making such a similar song and quite a few of their songs are similar to bands who opened up for them.

  • The chili peppers one is nothing like tom petty. The Rythme pattern sounds a bit like it, but no comparison. Chili's are the shit.

  • btw...i think the 1st one....mick jagger and keith richards along wid the verve guy wrote bittersweet symphony....i guess they knew

  • that Sum 41 pieces version is from a live concert, the original one is without the piano and with two guitars

  • Yes, as discardedbard said, the reason that "The Last Time" doesn't sound like "Bittersweet Symphony" is because The Verve actually sampled a different version of "The Last Time, as performed by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra. If you listen to the Oldham version and then "Bittersweet Symphony," they sound quite alike.

  • this is a great video

  • FREAKIN' GREAT COLLECTION...

  • Spirit and Led Zeppelin have gone to court recently over this very issue- phooey for the statuetes of limitation, or someboby would be a VERY wealthy man- research the story and draw your own conclusions.. I won't say rip off, but I might say a complete and total lack of professional courtesy made MILLIONS for a band that can't write their own music... also check their other records- blues rip-offs from the Old-Timers... Led Zeppelin is a fraud on almost all accounts!!!

  • Wtf? the Rooling Stones song and The Verve sound NOTHING alike!

  • @birdy47 errrr the melody line is fairly close!

  • Stones vs Verve - not even close.

  • The Rolling Stones' "The Last Time" sounds even more like "Bittersweet Symphony" when it was performed by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra. Look it up on YouTube, you'll see what I'm talking about.

  • i should have known better (beatles) and hold on (green day)

  • spirit-Taurus

    led zeppelin -stairway to heaven

    Ouch...:(

  • "The scientist" is not similar to "pieces" but to the refrain of "empire state of mind".

  • oh no i heard the barbie girl again and yeah it sounds like leann stole it :O I know dont look back in anger has the piano beginning as Lennons imagine but they got the ok to use it so its not plagerism :D

  • I know there are a lot of similarites between these songs, but think about it: maybe the artists who "stole" the tune heard the song before and didn't know where, so they just used it.

    And also, George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" is much prettier than that "He's So Fine", "Du-lang, du-lang, du-lang" stuff

  • Raconteurs- Steady as she goes

    Joe Jackson- Is she really going out with him

  • HAHAHA.... very great

  • to be fair, bitter sweet symphony was written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards from The Rolling Stones

  • You can add "Pretend that We're Dead" by L7 to the Suicidal Tendencies and Puddle of Mudd comparison.

  • The guitar riff in the Beatles' "If I Needed Someone" is taken straight from the Byrds' "The Bells of Rhymmey" (foregive the spelling).

  • Some more that aren't here....Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms sounds remarkably like Snowy White - Bird of Paradise. Morrissey - Certain People I know has the same guitar riff as T-Rex - Ride a White Swan

  • I believe the Jayhawks also copied "Mary Jane's Last Dance." The drums from "Here Comes My Girl" sound like the drums in "Walk This Way." "Break on Through" by the Doors sounds like a Harry Belefonte song whose name I can't remember (The Crawdad Song?). Roger McGuinn admitted that the rhythm guitar in the Byrd's version of "Mister Tambourine Man" was inspired by "Don't Worry Baby" by the Beach Boys.

  • Bootylicious by beyonce and stupid girls by pink. No seriously

  • I love Oasis, but if you listen to the track "The Masterplan" it too bears a striking resemblance "Spirit" by Taurus lol.

  • About the Spirit song and Led Zeppelin, Taurus clearly goes from High notes to Low notes and Stairway goes from low to high so really no arguement aboutthat

  • I love the Stones and the Verve.

    But those two songs sound NOTHING alike.

  • it's not the original stones version, its the instrumental one that sounds suspiciously similar lol

  • no if you slow down the guitar riff of last time. they sound strangly alike

  • The Verve song was entirely based on a cover of "The Last Time" by Andrew Oldham Orchestra, so that's the connection.

  • The verve credited the stones right of the bat so there was never any issue with that song.

  • in your next, add, "Daikenkai - DDR" and, "Soulja Boy - Crank Dat"

    they work!

  • "The Last Time" (1966) by The Andrew Oldham Orchestra off their album "The Rolling Stones Songbook" (re-released and remastered in 2004 on CD), sampled by The Verve for their song "Bitter Sweet Symphony", available on their album "Urban Hymns". use the youtube extension of watch?v=cVuh1Ymve2I

  • Haha! Sum 41 is a complete rip-off. George Harrison got sued and lost by the Chiffons, deservingly. Save the Day also completely ripped off no doubt. Puddle of Mudd are known for ripping people off, I think. RHCP is innocent. Page's subconscience = Stairway

    I've always been aware of the similarities betweent "Hello I Love You" and "All Day and All of the Night" (both great songs, btw), but Morrison's song was based on the vocal melody while the Kinks' song was all about the guitar riff.

  • I love these videos of yours!!

    and i was wondering what the song is in the very beginning when you give the "warning" about the video. i've heard it somewhere before but i can't rememeber! what's it called?

  • Thanks!

    The song in the beginning is "Hello Zepp", from the SAW movie series.

  • @tiger7128816 what do u think about Guttermouth "That's Life" vs. Lady GaGa "Pokerface" if u gather enough for another vid put that in ;)

  • ummm... Weezer's Beverly Hills is the almost the same chord change as the Sweater song. Is Weezer ripping off Weezer? Nobody's copying anybody. write a chord change down and I'll find you 20 bands who did it too. Bowie and the Village People weren't ripping off Pachelbel, I swear.

    Some of these songs are very compelling and I daresay, some people are copying others, but not for the reasons stated.

    Avril Lavigne didn't write her own songs. So what? Nobody did until about 1965.

  • Led Zeppelins Stairway To Heaven sounds like the intro to the Foo Fighter's The Pretender

  • Haha, I always catch myself singing "Hello, I love you" by the doors everytime I hear All day and all of the night by the kinks.

  • @lxa9466 - nevermind, i totally didnt see it on the list lol

  • Probably all coincidence. Most pop/rock songs are only 4 chords and there are only so many sequences you can pick from. The exception might be the Verve - who used a loop from the Rolling Stones on the Urban Hymns album, But they did pay royalties to Jagger/Richards in the end.

  • Under Pressure vs Ice Ice Baby.

    There was actually a lawsuit from Queen on this.

    California Dreamin vs Losing my Religion

  • with last dance with mary jane and dani california i've noticed that melanie c's aka sporty spice's song carolyna the beginning sounds just like them. listen to them back to back you'll see what mean

  • led zeppelin and spirit do sound alike, but zeppelin made it awesome

  • The stairway to heaven one is eerie. What if it turns out that arguably the greatest hard rock song of all time is actually a ripoff?

  • stand by me and beutiful girls

  • How about The Smashing Pumpkins-Today and Bif Naked's-Daddy's Getting Married, they copied the whole frickin song!

  • The sum 41 one was a live version.. the studio version is very different.

  • Another coincidence was The Chiffons supporting The Beatles prior to Geo coming up with My Sweet Lord!

  • i mean, that verve song is a sample from something else with a drum beat. the drum beat isn't the same. and it's not bouncy. what the hell?

    i did hear they used the sample without permission.

  • hmm...when I'm listening to tom Petty's "Mary Jane's last dance" i think it sounds like incubus' "drive"...or not?

  • The George Harrison one was actually a copyright infringement case where the judge found against Ol George. I wonder how many of the others have gone to court.

  • there is only one song writer(its me) and EVERYBODY copies my shit

  • LOL!! So you must be damn old...!!

  • Hell yea lol

  • the checks in the mail.

  • its not really plagarism, its called sampling

  • the kinks were extremelly influential, maybe the most underated band in that aspect. many artist have confess to write music based on their cords

  • neither "the scientist" or "pieces" sounds like the actual versions for some reason

  • uuuu im afraid

  • The verve sampled the rolling stones.

  • fucking the chiffons and George Harrison are the same song...oh my goodness

  • The reason why songs sound the same is they are all influenced by satan

  • the drummer 4 RHCP(red hot chilli peppers) looks like Will Farrel

  • @Tarheelfan4lyfe97 yeah we know

  • Heheheheyyyy!!! don't mess up with George!!! No se metan cn George Harrison!!!!!

  • The Stones did give KD Lang a writers credit for that particular song...so I'm guessing it was purposful.

  • Shortly before Bridges To Babylon was released, The Stones noticed that this sounds a lot like K.D. Lang's 1992 hit "Constant Craving." With a major publicity push and tour for the album on the way, they wanted to avoid a lawsuit, so they listed Lang and her "Constant Craving" co-writer Ben Mink as composers along with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. This ensured that Lang received royalties, for which she was grateful.

  • heres the thing there are 12 notes in music AA#BCC#DD#EFF#GG# so there are some that are bound to sound the same, and there are always simple chord progressions that millions of bands use

  • With Tom Petty and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, you could have gone even further into the song. Even the phrasing of the lyrics is the same, just a little faster tempo in Dani, California.

  • Wait, somebody ripped off Coldplay? I thought it always went the other way! (and this doesn't come close to the rip on Satch.

  • the verve used andrew oldham orchestra's version of "the last time" not the original rolling stones song. of course the original rolling stones one is similar but the andrew oldham orchestra version is basically the same as bittersweet symphony

  • woah.=I

  • 1:09 Add REM Stand between Suicidal Tendencies and Puddle of Mudd... I've tried to add these comments a few times so sorry if repeats.

  • George Harrison ftw XD

  • The chorus from "One Fine Day" by the Offspring and "Hanamaru Sensation" are so similar, It's hilarious. XD

  • Hello!

    Here is four songs that you can include in you next similar songs video.

    Beatfreakz - Somebody's Watching Me

    VS

    dj bobo- somebody dance with me

    and

    Marija Serifovic - Molitva

    VS

    Soni Malaj - Ndarja

    I'm not sure if they're in one of the videos, but I hope not :)

  • Somebody's Watching Me is by Rockwell with Michael and Jermaine Jackson doing some of the vocals. Beatfreakz just remixed it.

  • the kinks all day and all night sounds more like the sex pistols sub mission

  • and the pxndx plagirism?

  • "she hates me" reminds me of "pretend we're dead" of l7

  • listen to the eurythmic's sweet dreams and then listen the ozzy's crazy train.

    hear the similarities?

  • Um, no, I really don't. Listen to the opening riff on Hollywood Undead's song "Undead" and tell me if you hear any similarities to Crazy Train.

  • You're a dumbass. Hollywood Undead uses a credited sample from Crazy Train. Don't put stuff on the internet if you don't know what you're talking about.

  • Fuck you

    stcolreplover  Gwen Stefani rox!

  • beat

  • thats a diff version of pieces.

  • Fuck Gwen Stefani

  • Bruce Springsteen- Radio Nowhere

    Tommy Tutone- 867-5309.

    I noticed the similarity immediately after I heard the intro.

  • Here's another: Oasis's Wonderwall- Green Day;s Boulevard o f Broken Dreams

  • Haha these videos are brilliant! No one is safe from you are they :P

  • that last one is the hardest to take in...disappointed. lol

  • you mean from led zep???

    jimmy page said that he took the riff from spirit

  • What's the name of that song what's in SAW? in the beginning..

  • There are some songs here which have nothing similar...

    Mary Jane - Dani California, C'mon man, I mean, what am I missing here.

  • You are missing musicality.

  • your ears

  • it has the same tune but a bit faster

  • They have a similiar beat. Listen closely again, it took me a minute to figure it out.

  • Listen close at 5:30

  • STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN MY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!! Even so, Led Zepplin still wins because that's the one everyone knows.

  • coldpays one sounds like other one

    of brandi charlie

  • Interesting. One I can think of is 'Lady Madonna' by the Beatles (1968) and 'What i got' by Sublime (1997), both great songs, but listen for yourself - the tune to the first verse is identical.

  • For the coldplay and sum41, add in Zombie by the Cranberries, and Face down by Red Jump Suit Apparatus....(and the song that it basically rips off The kids aren't alright by the offspring).

    Both face down and "kids" have "punkified" versions of the same melody.

  • the coldplay and sum 41 songs aren't even the same chord progressions--yea they may sound the same, but they definitely aren't.

    Most of these songs are just common chord progressions that artists use. You could compare thousands of songs like this...

  • oasis have a song that look alike too at taurus from spirit. the song is called the masterplan

  • whats the dark like tune at the very start of the video?

    please tell me lol :(

  • It's "Hello Zepp", from the Saw series.

  • Just to tell that stairway to heaven was taken by page, he even admitted himself along time ago...come on people spirit was their major influence.

  • i believe the chiffons actually sued george harrison and he admitted to accidental plagarism

  • you should put in there hawethorne heights vs hawethorne heights because the intro to 'pens and needles' and 'this is who we are' are pretty much the same

  • Has anyone peeped the beginning song of this video is from the Saw movies?

  • yes

  • heres two:

    1. Just Dance- Lady Gaga + Sunday Bloody Sunday- U2

    2. in this one, when its Tom Petty vs. Red Hot Chili Pepers, add in The Sun By Maroon 5

  • the verve sampled an orchestras version of the rolling stones song, but mick jagger said they used "to much" of the sample and filed a lawsuit against them. The rolling stones now own all the royalties to bittersweet symphony

  • i fuckin hate the stones i always have. the verve got fucked over by old assbags. p.s., the doors are the best! like to see someone copy "the end" and get away with that

  • and every fan of good rock hates you you little faggot, the little ass sissys the verve got what they deserved.

  • Actually the Stones don't own the rights to their abkco music. Allen Klein does. He filed the lawsuit.

  • werewolf in londen by ? and all summer long by kid rock

  • its by warren zevon and its not a similarity its a sample. it is the same thing

  • Can't forget Sweet Home Alabama in that same song.

  • some of these dont even sound alike

  • 4:14 that is the gayest looking band ever. And There is a mile of difference between Stairway and Tuarus. The just have similiar chord progression.

  • I think there's a kink in the door lol

  • Wow... The Led Zeppelin copying stairway...shame shame...

  • chad smithe = will ferrel

  • Woa! Didn't know Stairway To Heaven Was a ripoff! Amazing!

  • Try comparing the opening riff to Boston's "More Than A Feeling" with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" some time....

  • ......

  • umm i dont see the similarity ... :[

  • Here's the thing with guitar/ general music- it can't be patented, and the combination of lyrics and the soundtrack is what is copy righted. So, a band CAN take the basis of a song and write new original lyrics, change a couple things to it, and it is a new and legal song, because music has been around so long there are only so many combinations. So, yes there are similarities, but it isn't a copy right issue.

  • Compare anything by ELO (especially Don't Bring Me Down) to the Beatles (You Can't Do That)!

  • not that similar, the verve got fucked. THe two songs have completey different feelings. And leave it to the stones to bitch about being ripped off when they ripped off about every blues man in America. Just fucked up

  • The Last Time by the Stones was not the song in dispute. Check out Andrew Oldham's orchestral version of the song - it's a blatantly obvious that The Verve copied the whole thing, cleaned it up and added some lyrics. The thing is... they made it better. So even more bad vibes to the Rolling Stones for suing The Verve for a track that sounds nothing like the original version of the Last Time.

  • it was a sample, they never denied that

  • WIN and they complained about LIL WAYNE for taking playing with fire.... its just a black man trying to get back at a band who took a bunch of blacks and made money off it...

  • WTF the verve song and the stones song have a very simlar chord progression but so does all rock n'roll. The two songs create a completely different feeling this was just major douchebaggery on the part of the stones.

  • i would have done the red hot chilli peppers with sweet home alabama

  • no cuz the guitar chords and vocals are different

  • This is a good one. U could do it Neil Young-Southern man then sweet home alabama which was a reply song to southern man then go to tom petty then RHCP.

  • thanks for posting these videos. very fun.

  • abba - gime gimme gimme (original)

    madonna - hung up

  • madonna had permission to use their melody. :D

  • Intentional...Madonna purposely sampled ABBA for her song. Artists do that all the time.

  • Spirit (original)-LedZeppelin

    wow i cant even tell the transition that they were different songs.

  • Sum 41 didn't steal Pieces, it was on their 2004 album Chuck, the lead singer Deryck had orginally written it on piano, but for Cuck, recorded it using guitars and shit

  • How has Puddle of Mudd not been sued yet? That is so blatant it's not funny. Suicidal Tendencies should get some major coin from that.

  • Another commonly discussed one: Cat Stevens "Father and Son" and The Flaming Lips "Fight Test"

  • Coldplay - Vida la Vida

    Joe Satriani - If I Could Fly

    Satrini has taken Coldplay to court for that one

    Theory of a Deadman - Bad Girlfriend

    The Cult - Fire Woman

  • the first one has no similarities!

  • the Stones still successfully sued the Verve over that song. Maybe thats just not the right part of the Stones song?

  • huh? isn't 'the first one' stones vs verve? r u tone deaf? they're similar arrangements of the same melody!

    this was negotiated sampling, by verve, of stones, but things turned sour when stones claimed verve had used too much sample.

    from memory, they all headed for court, but verve settled, and the rights (for the entire song, including verve's lyrics o_O ) reverted to the rolling stones.

  • The stones had nothing to do with the lawsuit. I guy by the name of Klein owned the rights to all the stones songs from the 60's and he's the one to sue. And his suit is based on a version by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra. Check it out and you'll see how they are virtually the same.

  • meh some of them are stretched.. like the sum 41 and coldplay.. i can sorta see tho lol

  • Some more.Lady Madonna by the Beatles came before What I Got by Sublime. Domino by Van Morrison came before Rosalita by Bruce Springsteen.

  • Damn, I hope the guys from Suicidal Tendencies see this, that Puddle of Mudd tune is just a little too similar.

  • It was the late 60s. Music of that time was really long just by virtue of the fact that the bands would just play random stuff forever. They could easily have stolen a little solo and added another 7:50 to it. I'm not agreeing that they DID, I'm just saying it's not impossible.

  • Very very true, and it could be possible, with all the crap they smoked back then.

  • And mary janes last dance and dani california is also similar to 'sweet home alabama' by 'lynyrd skynyrd'

  • The little kid band 'The naked brothers band's song 'fishing for love' copies 'dani clifornia' also.

  • sum 41 sucks, especially their band name. Sum 41??? they are ripoffs...

  • Wrong version of "Last Time" you should have used The Andrew Oldham Orchestra - The Last Time version.

  • Just to let you know, "He's So Fine" is from 1963, not 1966.

  • Man, Led Zep totally lifted thei ntro for Stairway To Heaven from that last song.

    I didn't know they'd done that.

    I think Tom Petty's Mary Jane's Last Dance sounds like a Neil Young track.

  • Goerge Harrison had to pay out for "My Sweet Lord".

    The dumbest payout was for silence. A guy called John Cage had written a 4:30 piece of silence back in the 50's. Mike Batt wanted to put some silence between electric and acoustic tracks on an album so he put a minute's silence as a track and credited it to Batt/Cage as a joke. So Cage's publishers sued him and won. Who said Judges don't have a sense of humour?

  • Wow...some of these are quite eerie! Thanks for opening my eyes (and ears!)

  • How bout similarities in blues

  • More like Puddle of Mudd and Mudhoney/Nirvana.

  • what about shakira´s "estoy aquí" and the pretenders´s "i'll stand by you" they are close even in the titles but just in a diferent language jaja check it out!!

  • They were talking about the Springsteen/KISS rip off on the radio and the Stones/KD Lang one came up - apparently Mick's daughter noticed it first and Mick promptly called his record company saying "we have a problem". The story is a cheque was cut for KD Lang immediately, before anyone else even noticed it!