lifted melodies?

[astroglide]

anybody else notice when people use the exact same melodies from others hits in hit songs? i run into it a lot but i think bush is a great example of it because of how recently they borrow:

come down: bass line (main part of the song) is the exact same as bon jovi's "you give love a bad name"

glycerine: 4-note main melody is from green day's "when i come around" is the main melody of the song

everything zen: the end of the song where he's saying "zen...zen...i don't think so" is the same melody at the end of david bowie's suffragette city.

machinehead: this one is a rip too but i can't remember what, i only know bush songs from radio.

anybody have some notable observations of their own?

[Duke]

I thought they called that "sampling."

~D

[Daliman]

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anybody else notice when people use the exact same melodies from others hits in hit songs? i run into it a lot but i think bush is a great example of it because of how recently they borrow:

come down: bass line (main part of the song) is the exact same as bon jovi's "you give love a bad name"

glycerine: 4-note main melody is from green day's "when i come around" is the main melody of the song

everything zen: the end of the song where he's saying "zen...zen...i don't think so" is the same melody at the end of david bowie's suffragette city.

machinehead: this one is a rip too but i can't remember what, i only know bush songs from radio.

anybody have some notable observations of their own?

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Dude, put the Sixteen stone CD down and back AWAY from the bong...

[eric5148]

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anybody have some notable observations of their own?

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Here's an observation: don't listen to that crap in the first place.

[astroglide]

read the post jackasses: i only know bush songs from radio

[Ed Miller]

anybody have some notable observations of their own?

Bush sucks.

[astroglide]

talk to daliman, he's the one that knows their cds. i don't need to defend myself on this one and you're all missing the point of the post. i figured with the musicians in the "genius" thread somebody would have some other notorious bands to point out.

[Ed Miller]

i don't need to defend myself on this one and you're all missing the point of the post.

I wasn't ragging on you. Just saying that Bush sucks, and one reason why is that they are absurdly derivative.

Vanilla Ice swiped the opening from a David Bowie song for Ice Ice Baby.

[astroglide]

"under pressure" was queen's too.

no general bush comments, no sampling comments. ok everybody? i almost added that to my original post and now i wish i had.

[Enon]

There is this one Rage Against The Machine song with this 3 note guitar riff that is almost an exact ripoff of a Stooges song from their album Fun House.

Wish I could be more specific.

[Dantes]

Radio sucks.

[nothumb]

The new Jay-Z song has yet another line lifted from Biggie's "Everyday Struggle." The guy just can't stop biting Big. It's sad, really.

NT

[Lazymeatball]

a lot of blues and jazz songs follow along on the same basic tune. not sure if it's a rhtyhm or a melody as I'm not that into music theory, but it seems to be accepted practice.

[mikech]

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" borrows its guitar riff from "More Than A Feeling."

[astroglide]

yeah but they're more half steps and the 3rd/4th are flipped right? i think they're far enough apparent to be different.

[Schneids]

The most notable one ever /images/graemlins/laugh.gif:

Westside Connection "The Gangsta, The Killer, and The Dope Dealer," lifted from Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt."

[tek]

The grandaddy of all is My Sweet Lord and He's So Fine.

[astroglide]

lifting, not sampling. sampling is a direct, exact copy from the actual source material. lifting/copying is using the same melody. bush didn't actually play a recording of green day or whatever on their songs, they just used the same notes in the same order on their own instruments.

[Schneids]

was that meant for Duke?

[NeverFold]

I'm not giving enough information here, but I recently heard a song on the radio that had the exact riff from Metallica's Sad But True. That's just not right.

[astroglide]

again, that's a SAMPLE. kid rock.