Submitted by Mike Has Green Day been sued for this? Check out Green Day‘s 2000 hit single “Warning” and The Kinks‘ 1968 classic “Picture Book”.
Green Day - "Warning" (2000)
The Kinks - "Picture Book" (1968)
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“Warning” sounds so much more like “On the Dark Side” by John Cafferty or “R.O.C.K. in the USA” by John Mellencamp than “Picture Book.”
Steriogram’s “Walkie Talkie Man” also uses that riff
not the first time green day went back to the 60s….check out green days “waiting” and petula clark “downtown” you cant miss it even some of the lyric is the same
Thanks Travis. I thought I had “Downtown” on the site already. Guess I’ll have to add it!
also for these 2 theres 2 others as well..one was already mentioned “walkie talkie man” the other is big and rich “love train”
The Kinks’ song sounds more like Twist and Shout by The Beatles but that’s probably just me.
This one is pretty cool! The feel is almost exactly the same, although the chords are slightly different.
Chord progressions:
The Kinks: I – IV – bVII – bIII
Green Day: I – IV – bVII – IV
This one, then, makes the Kinks progression more original and brings Green Day’s tune into the same group as Mellencamp’s R-O-C-K In The USA (as dxman pointed out), What I Like About You by The Romantics, etc.
Yes, but although the chord progressions are slightly different, the arrangement is much the same, like with Should I Stay or Should I Go and What Makes You Beautiful.
Am I wrong, or does “Stand” by R.E.M. belong here, too?
Perhaps! Also, the Green Day melody is now reminding me of The Bagles “Manic Monday”
Yes, it is reminiscent of Manic Monday, but also of Green Day’s own Walking Contradiction (1995), which sounds like Do it Again by The Kinks.
And the riff from Last of the Steam Powered Trains by The Kinks (1968) sounds like that of Smokestack Lightning. I think the songs are on a similar theme too.
They really were Kinks fans, as demonstrated by this, Alligator, which sounds like You Really Got Me (1964) and Red Tide, which sounds like Tired of Waiting for You (1964), both off of Stop, Drop and Roll in 2008, when they were going by the name: Foxboro Hottubs. That album completely refutes the idea I had of the similarities often being accidental, with 27th Ave. Shuffle sounding like Run Run Run by The Who (I thought it was Baba O’Riley), Sally sounding like I’m Not Your Stepping Stone by The Monkees and Dark Side of Night sounding like Heart Full of Soul by The Yardbirds, it’s a real ’60s-fest.
But I still think if you look hard enough you can find similarities which are accidental, because no one can rip off everyone (except maybe Girl Talk).
Sorry, I’m Not Your Stepping Stone was written by Boyce and Hart and released by Paul Revere and The Raiders in May ’66 before the Monkees released their version in Nov ’66.
And Tired of Waiting for You was in early 1965, my mistake.
And it was My Generation, which Green Day covered, which I thought 27th Ave. Shuffle sounded like, not Baba O’Riley.
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big and rich: love train