This is a great find by Michael. The jam out riff in Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers‘ 1993 track “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” features a guitar riff very similar to the “chorus chanting” in The White Stripes‘ 2002 “Fell In Love With A Girl”. Check it out!
Submitted by Richard
Diana Ross’ 1975 “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)” became a hit soon after its release in the film Mahogany of the same year. Check out “Here, There and Everywhere” from The Beatles‘ 1966 album Revolver.
Patrick just sent me this article from ChicagoBreakingNews.com
Apprently the Black Eyed Peas are being sued by Songwriter Manny Mohr and singer Ebony Batts (aka Phoenix Phenom) for the similarity of their song “Boom Dynamite” (2008) and the Black Eyed Peas hit “Boom Boom Pow” (2009);
” ‘Boom Boom Pow,’ as a whole, is substantially similar to ‘Boom Dynamite,’ and the hook portions of both songs are so strikingly similar that there can be no other reasonable explanation but that the Black Eyed Peas copied plaintiffs’ song,” the suit states.
Mohr and Batts note that they released “Boom Dynamite” in January 2008 and posted a video to YouTube around the same time. They then submitted the song to Interscope Records, the Peas’ record label, as part of a package intended to get band member Stacy Ann Ferguson, also known as Fergie, to sing on a track with Batts.
The Huffington Post also reports that the, ”lawsuit, filed this week, seeks damages from each of the Peas individually, as well as from Interscope and Universal Music Group. They are also asking for a share of the profits and future songwriting credit.
Here are a few snippets from both tracks:
I made these clips because the chorus breaks in both song are both using an auto-tune/vocoder type of effect:
Submitted by Marte
Wow. Clearly identical vocal melodies. Madonna’s 2008 “Miles Away” sounds so similar to Spice Girl Victoria Beckham’s 2001 solo track “Midnight Fantasy”. Have a listen!
Submitted by Josh.
Jet’s ”Look What You’ve Done” borrows heavily from the The Beatles‘ “Sexy Sadie”. Check out the chorus of both.
Tobin submitted Finger Eleven’s 2007 track “Paralyzer” vs. Skid Row’s 1988 “Youth Gone Wild”. As soon as I heard “Paralyzer” I thought of Franz Ferdinand’s 2004 hit “Take Me Out”. Although I’m not totally convinced of the third Skid Row similarity I thought I would post it anyway cause this track is such a classic.
Submitted by Glynis
I’m a big fan of the television theme comparisons here on the site. Last year British rockers Muse put out a track that contains a hook very much like the theme to the BBC show Doctor Who. Here’s a sample of the original theme from 1963 followed by the 2007 version recorded by the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales .
