Added: 4 years ago
From: Cellardoor1994
Views: 96,966
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (869)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Okay wtf Green Day and Petula Clark are singing the same song, why in the hell would it be different?

  • I'm pretty sure Green Day doesn't rip off songs from Petula clark, lol.

  • @GreenDaysummerify pretty sure you're wrong there bud. sure they probably don't listen to Petula Clark, but her song was super famous back in the day. So Green Day has definitely heard it before. It may have just been subconscious; however, Green Day has ripped off a few bands before. So either Billie goes out of his way to rip off artists or he has a problem of letting his subconscious affect his music.

  • @queerp well, getting inspirations from songs is a common method. its actually can be considered ripping off, but its alright since they actually created a different feel.. thats what green day probably did, but im sure majority of artists has done that b4

  • Why do people make videos that last so long...

  • Who thinks that the John Cafferty song sounds more like "What I Like About You" by the Romantics than the sing this guy claims to?

  • Always thought the Huey Lewis / Ghostbusters similarity to be

    bullshit.

  • what is the neme of neko case´s song?

  • What is the name of No Doubt`s song?

    Sounds cool

  • Here is one that very few people know: Amy Macdonald "This is the life" and Bad Religion "You".

  • More like the kinks vs green day...

    The band the kinks was formed before green day -.-

  • green day is bitch poser vaginas eitherway.

  • @39smoothgreenday Go buy international superhits, learn to read, get back to me

  • Paris Hilton hurt my ears

    Her voice is too high and cracky squeeky and just plain off key

    And the pic of the suicidal tendancies made me laugh, they're so baddass

  • of course Wilco would copy The Cure, they were a very successful band and Blink-182 stated them as one of their main influences i mean, even listen to Friday, I'm In Love, amazing song, and you can hear where Blink-182 got their sound from. plus, Robert Smith's voice is so cool.

  • I found one on my own!(: Orianthi- According to you vs. Guns and Roses- Sweet Child O' Mine! But only the solo part.

  • @misty6543211 i noticed that too, when i first heard that song on the radio. yeah it's like the first 5 notes of the solo, then it goes something like Van Halen style...

  • Comment removed

  • Comment removed

  • The Beatles-Lady Madonna v. Sublime-What I got.

  • ghostbusters versus huey lewis is a bit thin.

  • The Green Day/Petula Clark one's obviously a cover.

  • if this guy knew anything about music he would realise that a lot of these especially the green day ones ... these are VERY COMMON CHORD PROGRESSIONS ..

  • Who you gunna call? GHOST BUSTERS

  • The last one with Semisonic, Green Day and Better Than Ezra i would not count... Thats a popular chord sequence...

  • Saves the Day vs. No Doubt sounds like "Blinded in Chains by A7X

  • Your missing rise and fall - the offspring and american idiot - green day

  • saves the day? the guy in the back looks like the dude from blue clues,annd he got sick of it a murdered himhah

  • look for michael jackson - give in to me and dream theater - endless sacrifice see anything similar ? ;]]

  • Wake Up by RATM and Led Zepplins Kashmir sound the same

  • Why is everybody beefing it's a video no two songs have ever been the same vocally and medolically yet coldplay were sued for copyright on viva la vida by joe satriani i disagreed with that because the satriani version was instrumental not vocal.

  • Nope Green Day and the Kinks don't sound anything alike. Yes, No Doubt did sound similar 

  • @lozer13 The chord progression did...

  • Greenday just remade "Downtown" from the original.

    This is just an excuse to play the blame game!

    Play the music!

    Stop Beefin' about these petty issues! So Childish!

    Grow UP!

  • I could tell no difference between no doubt and saves the day

  • The Chuck Berry/Beach Boys one made a lot of sense, because ska has very deep rock n' roll roots and one of the Beach Boys' main influences was the king or rock himself, Chuck Berry.

  • @yourNAMEhere905 Actually, the record company screwed Chuck Berry out of that one because he was black. The Beach Boys' version was pushed through because they thought it was more "acceptable" from white artists.

  • @yourNAMEhere905 I should also elaborate on this.. while the Berry version WAS released beforehand, the litigation of it was in favor of the Beach Boys because of Berry's race. Should've made that a bit clearer in my previous post. :)

  • @emphaticleech very true. one of the newer Beach Boys that joined the group recently is black though, too. im sure if one of the Beach Boys were black then, that would have pissed EVERYONE off majorly.

  • the last one i think is kind of ridiculous, seeing how almost every artist has used that same chord progression at some point

  • Oh, but the Lush song is actually a remake of an oldies "I wanna be your Boyfriend" by the Rubinoos - THAT'S the song people claim Avril actually ripped off with "Girlfriend".

  • I knew that the Barbie Girl song and "Can't Fight the Moonlight" sounded the same! No one else believed me. haha but I'm glad you put that one in there

  • Whats the big deal, all music now sounds the same, especially mainstream

  • Green Day have said themselves that they ripped off The Kinks in the album Warning... wtf??

  • The Kinks look and sound like wannabe Beatles...

  • @ShatteredPixle

    that was the british style... the who looked like that too. so did the rolling stones

  • Another example: Opening riffs of "Who Says You Can't Go Home" by Bon Jovi and "Love Drunk" by Boys Like Girls.

  • Paris REALLY shouldn't sing.....¬_¬

  • oh come on warning has the chords A - D- G - D -> this is like on of the most used riffs ever! that has nothing to do with plagiaism

  • Green day sounded like better than ezra but Semisonic didn't sound like either

  • you could have put the titles of the songs too.

  • Green Day copied like ALL of their songs.

  • i think Green Day/Petula Clark must be intentional.

  • I always thought that the jet song was a cover

  • CellarDoor. hahahahahahaha I lov it. :P

  • Puddle of Mudd are pieces of shit. Should be sued for stealing that fuckin song.

  • Iggy Pop is a fat joke, Paris obivously has effects and is not even worthy of the title, famous.

  • actually, Avril Lavigne's underground? (not sure of that's the title of that song) is similar to that Greenday and Petula Clark song, OMG what a rip-off of UB40 song, LeAnn Rimes track was great, i really liked that track, Barbie girl was :S, Lush are way better than Avril, lol

  • I keep seeing all these similar sounding songs video's but no one has put up the Jam's that's entertainment and that song by the racountours..I can't remember the name ,but it was the first single. It also sounds like a stones song.

  • @tnn1 Erase that first post, it was the beatles song taxman that sounds like that rac (song) song Steady As She Goes and a Jam song...I just don't kno if it's That's Entertainment.lol

  • Green Day are plagiarist hacks and punk wannabes. No one should be surprised.

  • @kipperfeast hey fuck you

  • you know, that last riff is one of the most frequently used riffs ever. i also found it in Bush's Glycerine, and in take me home, country road's chorus, in Let It Be. and it appears in dozens of pop songs like james blunt's beautiful or Torn by some other girl. no big deal finding another song that uses it

  • Nope, neither Semisonic, Green Day or Better than Ezra invented that riff. It was my dad's band 'Spunky'! They were way before all of these, in the 80s!

    Just look up 'Spunky - Barricades!'

  • green days amazing dude!!!

  • greenday are also very good !

  • 4:24 Someone starts jacking off in the background

  • wow... great vid

    

  • you should put the year of the songs too...just a thought !!!!!!!

    but great job!!!!!!!!

  • First of all, green day is infamous for using very few chords in their songs. Their first album (in the early 90s) people said they'd never make it anywhere since they only used 3-4 chords in the ENTIRE ALBUM. It's pretty funny realy

    Second of all, Led Zeppelin stole LYRICS but not riffs. Led Zeppelin was almost always original in it's riffs.

    Thirdly, Paris Hilton definitely paid UB40.

    Lastly, you must remember there are only so many chords. Old rock 'n roll was nearly ALL on the same chords.

  • Comment removed

  • All of these Youtube videos about song rip-offs are dumb...guys, its ok if people use the same similar tune! OMG SHUT UP YOU HAVE NO IDEA WTF YOURE TALKING ABOUT AND IF YOU DO AND SUPPORT IT, youre dumb...just sayin...

  • lushs song i wanna be your girlfriend is a cover of the rubinoos i wanna be your boyfriend

  • lol at 5:52 and 7:45 same dude.

  • How about the opening intro notes of Ten Years After "I'd Like To Change The World" and Eddie Rabbitt's "Rocky Mountain Music"?

  • The Greenday vs Petula Clark is bullshit, THEY EVEN SAY IN THE ALBUM SLEEVE that its her song, as they even use the lyrics, its a modified cover version, do your homework.

  • Oh, this is some bullshit. I learned a lot about copyright. With music, if the melody or melodic section has been stolen without a single note or beat that's off, then there's a HUGE issue. The underlying chords are not copyright because there are many more songs that use chord progression similar to others. For example, many of those songs that were compared were in different keys. How can you accuse plagarism on that?

  • yeah ur rite ! but theres so many songs & so little chord stucture left, that some of the newer sound a like songs , the writers dont try to copy, its just an idea they didnt know was thought of bfore, unless it was takin from chuck berry! funny u end with vaniila ice rippin queen, he claimed he had an extra chord in there, iggy took that from ,i want u so bad. to go back ,ill walk the line by johnny cash is this land is your land

  • I knew that Jet song sounded familiar. Jesus Christ :P

  • Somebody Told Me By: The Killers

    Love Drunk by: Boys Eat Girls.

  • cloners

  • Does anyone know the name of the Saves the Day song?

  • You can add Bush's "Glycerine" to that last one

  • @drg91884 Good catch. Green Day gave birth to a whole slew of power chord" alt-rock bands.

  • what's the name of the song at 1:21???

  • Closing Time also sounds like "Love Stinks" and "More Than a Feeling" at times

  • You really think that Green Day can rip off a Petula's song ? Oh Please Pff

  • some of these are definitely accidents- others not so much, one of my "first" riffs on my bass that I thought was original I just found out today isn't, in fact it was used in Dream Theater's "Panic Attack", which I only just listened to because it was on my recommended videos page

    TL;DR I'm one sad panda finding out one of my creations isn't a creation, at least it's in a good song!

  • Green Day has ripped off many a song

  • lol at the aqua leann rimes one!

  • Exremely interesting. Where does the border between inspiration and rip off go?

  • 2:30 reminds me of Lipstick by Veal. Seriously. Except Veal obviously came later. YouTube it? (:

  • FYI, Iggy Pops Lust For Life came out before Are you GOnna Be MY GIrl

  • @cheeseppuff FYI, it was a song by the Supremes first. "You Can't Hurry Love"

  • @cheeseppuff FYI, it was a song by the Supremes first. "You Can't Hurry Love" Well, the riff was ripped from a Supremes song anyway

  • and No Doubt song (second in this video) is plagiated from russian band Aria. just type these words in search box "Aria - Without You"

  • you can't blame the beachboys, alot of the songs of the times sounded similar.

  • did anyone else notice that "When we pretend that were dead by L7" also sounds exactly like the puddle of mudd vs suicidal tendencies thing. thats kinda creepy D:

  • I think chuck berry vs. beach boys is the biggest one :O

  • @MissMultimusician Except Chuck Berry is credited as the co-writer of "Surfin' U.S.A."...

  • WTF????????

  • Put the goddamned song of each artist

  • hey dipshit when i come around is from 1994 so Semisonic ripped off green day or Better Than Ezra

  • Ha ha ha, failure. Paris, go back to your mansion and stop ripping off UB40 songs :D

  • no doubt sounded like Rip off the wings of a butterflys chorus

  • Ok a lot of songs sound like the Kinks picture book melody, the second song against Green Day sounded NOTHING like Waiting only the vocals the instruments were completely different, AND Semisonic wasnt even FORMED until after Green Day wrote when I come Around!!!!!!!!!! so Shut up!

  • Nice work! A good TRIO you could add here to top the list is The Chiffons "He's so fine", plagiarised by Harrison's "My sweet Lord" and both further parodied in Jonathan King's "He's so fine" in the style of "My sweet Lord"!... :)))

  • on the last one, the green day riff was actually first, the used it on a song on their first album in 1990, but i guess then decided they didn't like the song, so they "retired" it, (they have never played it since the very early 90s), but they liked the guitar riff, so they re-used it with different bass/vocals/drums to make a new song.

  • hey take care if you talk about The CURE!!! that doesn´t sound anything same at all

  • Shouldn't it be Jet vs Iggy Pop vs The Supremes (Can't hurry Love)?????

  • @beetlebum1990  Yes.

  • most of these are just the same chord progressions, millions of bands use the same chords in their songs.

  • Chuck Berry sued the Beach Boys and won. All their materials including the song would have to state that he wrote it.

  • 1:20 is that ron weasley on the right?

  • @instantsurgery Hahahaha! Made my night!

  • @instantsurgery I thought the same thing but couldn't find a comment to reassure it!

  • what's the kinks song?

  • Lush covered an old song called "boy friend."

  • In Soviet Russia, songs steal...*Shot*.

  • Aside from the whole stealing thing, the boys from The Kinks are cute.

  • Chuck Berry ripped off Benny Be Good, played by Marty McFly. Back to the future 1 and 2 is the proof of it.

  • this video is a ripof...

  • You know there has been so many songs written

    its just people people messing with same chords

    or maybe same scale

    you never know man

  • I just think Green Day should be sued. I don't care why. Just sue them.

  • @MckyMseNTarotCrds as well as paris hilton.

  • @MckyMseNTarotCrds i think u suck

  • @ikefan101 For a brief period, in college. I needed the money.

  • @MckyMseNTarotCrds Green day is awesome

  • @MckyMseNTarotCrds green day rocks u asshole!

  • @MckyMseNTarotCrds just jealous

  • its '' Arcade Fire '' u homo

  • Every Beach Boys song opening riff sounds like the opening riff for Roll Over Beethoven.......o_____________­e

  • the police and puff daddy

  • @chikimocha thats like the same shit as vanilla ice tho i dnt think it was an acciden that shit was on purpose i think

  • Um... The Beach Boys actually obtained permission from Chuck Berry

  • no no no green day not the king of plagiarism,they king of punk!!!

  • @prikitiewboy Bad Religion are the kings of punk

  • @prikitiewboy haha not anymore, today there king of poprock

  • @prikitiewboy yeah! ugh I really am hating this right now! Many artist have inspired in old songs, It doesnt matter!

  • @prikitiewboy punk???? hahahaha pop-commercial-"punk"

  • More like Puddle of Mud AND Suicidal Tendencies vs L7

  • Ummmm actually, "Closing Time" by Semisonic came out AFTER Green Days "When I Come Around," so if anyone stole anything from anyone, Semisonic stole the riff from Green Day.

  • I don't think Green Day intentionally ripped off anyone. They're a punk/alternative rock band, and simple riffs in their songs can show up in many different songs by many genres of bands. Unless there is a notable riff, like Led Zeppelin's Black Dog for example, in another song, i dont think it should be considered real "plagiarism"

  • @AcidBogey they also ripped off Bryan Adams "Summer of 69"

    summer of 69 / Jesus of Suburbia

  • wat about offspring: Rise and fall vs green day: American idiot?

  • nice one, plese make a video about my post let me think of the similar songs in my opinion. Kelly Clarkson's Already Gone versus The Cure's A Letter To Elise. Skye Sweetnam's Number One versus Blink 182's What's My Age Again. Paramore's Pressure versus Avril Lavigne's My Happy Ending.

  • @2:08 It's a cover! -.-'

  • u cant count jet vs. iggy pop because they admitted in an interview that they based "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" off of the song by Iggy Pop

  • @sTUPIfy308 Surely, if they admitted it, then it should be counted even more.

  • @Winterdenni my fault...i just noticed that the name of the video was "similar songs" i came here from recommended videos while watching "song rip offs" if they admit to basing a song off another song then its not ripping off...but it obviously is similar

  • @sTUPIfy308 Well, that sort of depends. If they included Iggy in the song writing credits for the song, then no worries, because that's what determines song royalties. But if they only credited themselves, then it's plagiarism, even if they admit to it.

  • Rihanna S.O.S missed with Tainted Love.

  • Everybody rips off something. There are only so many notes that work in music

  • I really like this video you've made! Makes a good point. :)

    P.S. - Paris Hilton is so...stupid... that she can't even make her own original song.

  • @Xxxsorrow she didn't write the song, like alot of pop "singers". Don't blame that one on her

  • Green Day have sucked since Warning came out to me. Just that nobody really remembers now because of the success of American Idiot they got more angry

  • *lust for life srry

  • Jet vs Iggy The Iggy pop song lust for like was much more distorted before but when they were approched for havin the song in a movie( I forget the title something with a train i think) they cleaned up the song and the riff sounded alot more like jets song but they had a different riff originally

  • In the second one, Lush is actually covering a 1970s song "I wanna be your boyfriend" by The Rubinoos

  • Waiting and The other song aren't that identical, the only thing that is the same is that same note

  • when Green Day realesed their album Warning they ripped off like 7 artists. Guess they ran out of idea's for that album.

  • some of these like the last one with "when i come around" are really just chord progressions. most of them on the other hand are blatant rip offs

  • Comment removed

  • the green day "downtown" one is clearly not plagiarism i'm sure somewhere they give credit cause its like the same

  • Yes!! I really enjoyed it... Excellent job!! I'm impressed... Now, I realized that so many songs hv so much similarities with other songs... I think some of them are coincidences, some are plagiarism, & maybe other songs are made through the inspiration or idea based on the original songs... BTW, that's just my opinion...huhu... :)

  • i think Green Day when they got to Warning they ran out of idea's. Since they ripped of about 6 people on that album. Also you should have done Hold On - Green Day and Should've Known Better

  • @Coolbeanzow 72? billie joes only 38 yrs old. they were not out in 1972! 87 was when they startes

  • @25Jimboslice he said when the members were BORN which is accurate.

  • @Coolbeanzow i kno my facts already u dum idiot. check urs queer..1987 when sweet chirldren started stupid bastard

  • At 5:18 guy on the right is wearing a skirt.

  • Interestingly enough, I've never heard a song that Green Day ripped off that didn't actually sound better than the original.

  • Green Day vs. petula clark is stupid its only similar in the "downtown" part..dummmmm they got ripped off by alota other bands also. just look up Pindrop by asche and spencer vs. bouvld of broken dreams

  • @Coolbeanzow aha wtf theve only been out since 1987

  • Ok, so Green Day have ripped off: The Kinks, Petula Clark, Semisonic, Mott & The Hoople, Jo Young Nam and Oasis, Making them the kings of plagiarism

  • @AcidBogey nooo bro they made theres b4 those others except kinks but they were huge fans of them and the clash

  • @AcidBogey You are my hero.

  • @AcidBogey

    So that means that Avril Lavigne is the queen.

  • @AcidBogey Actually, Green Day's song was released before Semisonic's and a lot of the others are very coincidental. I am not convinced.

  • @AcidBogey No, no, no! Rappers are!

  • @AcidBogey No, rappers are!