I was just listening to the new Green Day single “Oh Love” (2012). Check out the chorus with Night Ranger‘s power ballad jam “Sister Christian” (1984).
Night Ranger - "Sister Christian" (1984)
Green Day - "Oh Love" (2012)
Lots more Green Day on this site HERE
Also check out this post I wrote for diffuser.fm:
13 Songs That Sound Just Like Green Day Songs on Diffuser.fm
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I have another one for you all!!! The piano introduction to “We Are The Champions” by Queen and Alicia Keys “Fallin'” sound oddly similar if you listen to them!!! 🙂
They went after Night Ranger now!
I have one that’s INSANELY SIMILAR!!! Try Justin Bieber’s “Never Say Never” and Travis Garland’s “Sexy Together”!!! The similarities are CRAZY!!!!!!
Thanks! Somebody else actually sent this one to me. According to the wikipedia page the song was re-worked and recorded by the producers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Say_Never_(Justin_Bieber_song)
heres 1 im shocked hasn’t made it yet.Rod was actually sued over this.
Brilliant. This will most likely make a post real soon.
Look up “the great pretender” from The Platters. The lyrics of “I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re still around”. This is the real rip off Green Day did with Oh Love. Knew this the first second I heard it. The hook of the song is dead on in that line. Look up the song on youtube.
Here’s a link to The Platters “The Great Pretender” at the time you mentioned:
I’m Wearing My Heart On a Noose (Green Day)
I’m Wearing My Heart Like a Crown (Platters)
To – Night-ite My Hearts on the Loose (Green Day)
Pre-Tend-ing That You’re Still A-Round (Platters)
Same inflections! Painful they got away with this because the second you hear the Green Day song you are instantly flashed back to the Platters. (Sorry I am 47 years old and I had 8 older brothers and sisters. Coupled with I listen to cheap alternative rock stations in the car so any song ever made is probably in my head like all the time.)
Songwriters often use the same rhythms and meters, probably to follow natural speech and this is why, for example, you can sing the Pokémon Theme Song to the tune of The Gilligan’s Island Theme Song and House of The Rising Sun, etc. If you’re saying the melody is similar as well, then that is a valid point, otherwise, it’s likely coincidence.
Having listened to it, I see you’re right, but it’s not the first time they ripped off The Great Pretender, that was probably in Jinx (1997), where it may be a small similarity, but it’s recurring.
That last comment was an understatement on my part.
They also had several songs from their early days with riffs that sound like that of Like Wow! (Wipeout) by the Hoodoo Gurus. I know I’ve posted a few comments today, but I decided to celebrate Green Day Bassist Mike Dirnt’s birthday by listening to nimrod.
And Armatage Shanks (1995) sounds like Looking Out My Back Door by Creedence (1970).
Old Sh!t off of Miranda Lambert’s new album sounds like Oh Love and I suppose Firehouse by Kiss (1974) and Make Me Pure by Robbie Williams (2005).
The Platters also have One in a Million. It doesn’t really matter, but it just helps to make up the number of songs that sound like The Great Pretender. I think that’s five now, including both Green Day songs, that Aerosmith song I commented about somewhere and Save Me by Queen.
“Amazing Grace” works too