As a Jawbreaker fan I was super pscyhed to hear Jets to Brazil’s 1998 debut Orange Rhyming Dictionary. Although a really great album, I was never able to listen to “I Typed for Miles” without thinking of Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” (1993). Even AMG seems to think so!
The Flaming Lips will split royalties for the song “Fight Test” with Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) according to the terms of an agreement between the two artists’ publishing companies. The settlement stems from the similarity between the Lips’ new single and Stevens’ 1970 song “Father and Son.”
Excerpt from Flaming Lips Avoid Cat Fight on RollingStone.com
Every time I hear one of these songs in a bar I think, “I love this song!” and then it kicks in and I think…”uh, well, I love this song too!”
From Wikipedia:
In Rolling Stone magazine, Petty denied rumors that he planned to sue the Chili Peppers and said, “I seriously doubt that there is any negative intent there. And a lot of rock & roll songs sound alike.” Petty went on to say that The Strokes admitted that they took Tom Petty’s riff for “American Girl” and used it in their song “Last Nite”