lifted melodies?

[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 [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]:

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.