This one was sent in by Nicolas, Jessie and Michael.
The Beatles released “Lady Madonna” in 1968. I’m gonna guess that Sublime was busy shooting heroine heroin and listening to The Beatles while writing their soon to be hit “What I Got”.
That Song Sounds Like
Songs that Sound Like Other Songs (Since 2007)
And Lady Madonna sounds like Bad Penny Blues
There are a finite number of beats and progressions. It’s not possible to write something completely original, there will be parts of every song that sound like others. That’s what “influences” are.
The important thing is doing the whole sound well, and if originality is your goal, doing the same beats or sounds in a new and interesting way.
Every great musician will tell you, stealing isn’t stealing, it’s standing on the shoulders of giants.
Lol it sounds like OPM – Heaven Is A Half-Pipe aswell tbh
you cant copyright a chord progression, you can can only copyright a melody, so its in no way plagiarism, because the melodies are completely different, so much so that ive never thought to compare them because its such a simple two chord progression in otherwise complex songs (or at least complex in the beatles case). i would definitely not say what i got sounds like lady madonna…
@jack
Wow have you even listened to the songs before? The melody in the verse is basically identical to lady madonna. Yes the melody, no one is accusing them of plaigiarism based purely on a chord progression, that would be ridiculous.
As Rob said before, Sublime does this all time. Check out this guy named dj Funktuall on youtube he has 3 video’s of Sublime’s influences, here’s part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HmfG7TsqyU
. He also points out the similarity in the chorus of ” What i got” with Half pint’s “Loving” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyPtaB_Q4Wk