Same song, different name

[Dead Soon]

The Kinks/Green Day - Picture Book/Warning

Status Quo - Matchstick Men/Black Veils of Melancholy

[greenman]

Posh prog bands surely are the masters?

Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe Eugene/Come in No. 51/Beset by Creatures of the Deep/Murderistic Woman/Explosion

Pink Floyd - Echoes, Nothing Parts 1-24, Looking Though the Knotholes In Grannies Wooden Leg

[armful]

The Kinks (All day and All Of The Night)
The Doors (Hello I love you )

Ray Davies said he wouldn't sue the Doors if they  admitted  they lifted his song idea, which they did apparently. I think the Kinks background team sued anyway.

[armful]

I have read a few times the guitar riff on (Smells like Teen Spirit) is a rip off of ( U mass) by the Pixies.  Nirvana have been quoted as saying Teen Spirit is just a pixies song. The albums both these  songs are from  Tompe Le Monde and Nevermind  came out at the same time, so  not sure if this song was Nirvanas inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN4V5XjyR6s      Pixies





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg   Nirvana

[TheMonk]

It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
HEYYY MACARENA!

[Steven]

I have read a few times the guitar riff on (Smells like Teen Spirit) is a rip off of ( U mass) by the Pixies.  Nirvana have been quoted as saying Teen Spirit is just a pixies song. The albums both these  songs are from  Tompe Le Monde and Nevermind  came out at the same time, so  not sure if this song was Nirvanas inspiration.

I think it came from Kurt messing around with the chords from Boston's More Than A Feeling, to the extent they would jam around on it before slipping into Smells Like Teen Spirit.

[Serge]

CAN - Moonshake
CAN - Don't Say No

Pinch - Qawwali
Pinch - Brighter Day

To be fair, in the case of the Pinch track, it's because his debut album exists in two versions, one with vocals and the other instrumental, so the version of Qawwali with vocals was presumably renamed for that reason.

Similarly, PiL retitled 'Death Disco' as 'Swan Lake' on 'Metal Box' (not sure if this was for legal reasons as they'd borrowed the melody from SL for DD anyway....)

[Dr Syntax Head]

Shake the Dope out-Warlocks
Boys Better-Dandy Warhols
White light white heat-Velvets

[phantom_power]

This is a lyrical rather than musical one, and I am sure I am the last to know this but Leaves That Are Green by Simon and Garfunkel begins with the words:

"I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long".

Sound familiar?

[Captain Z]

Oasis - Wonderwall and Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjZt_8PLe3M

[poodlefaker]

I Can't Explain / The Who
Clash City Rockers / The Clash
When the Kingdom Comes / Primal Scream

[jenna appleseed]

This is a lyrical rather than musical one, and I am sure I am the last to know this but Leaves That Are Green by Simon and Garfunkel begins with the words:

"I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long".

Sound familiar?

Billy Bragg (or Kirsty MacColl) - New England.

[buzby]

The Other Two - Reportage theme/New Order - World In Motion
The JAMs - Hey Hey We Are Not The Monkees/The KLF - Justified And Ancient
The KLF - Go To Sleep/Last Train To Trancentral
Air - Les Professionels/All I Need
Siouxsie & The Banshees' Peek A Boo is built from reversed samples of their cover of John Cales' Gun
Sisters Of Mercy - Dominion/Mother Russia
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence/Precious

[New Jack]

I have read a few times the guitar riff on (Smells like Teen Spirit) is a rip off of ( U mass) by the Pixies.  Nirvana have been quoted as saying Teen Spirit is just a pixies song. The albums both these  songs are from  Tompe Le Monde and Nevermind  came out at the same time, so  not sure if this song was Nirvanas inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN4V5XjyR6s      Pixies





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg   Nirvana

Monkey Gone to Heaven is the generally assumed song.

I think Kobane was referring more to the Pixies's dynamics and sound though.

[Norton Canes]

Another source of inspiration for Nirvana...

Killing Joke - Eighties

[Dr Magus]

Beatles obla Di Obla Da and The Offsprings Get A Job Shit

[Steven]

Another source of inspiration for Nirvana...

Killing Joke - Eighties

More like The Damned which predates Killing Joke by a few years.

[Captain Z]

TLC - Creep / Texas - In Our Lifetime

[Better Midlands]

Inspired by Busby above - KLF What Time Is Love? = Jesus Christ Superstar

https://youtu.be/g-voeq7Cebo

[buzby]

Inspired by Busby above - KLF What Time Is Love? = Jesus Christ Superstar

https://youtu.be/g-voeq7Cebo

The reprise in Judas' Death is even more similar to WTIL?:
https://youtu.be/OZNj4UGjvSU?t=2m54s
I think this is more for the 'Your plagiarism suspects' thread - my examples where all cases where artists had recycled their own work. To be fair to the KLF, when it was put to him in a 1991 interview Bill said they had never heard the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack.
http://cardhouse.com/x07/klf.html
He wasn't asked if they had ever heard Anne Clark's 1984 single Into Darkness though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OguHIyNNblM
Regardless, even if it wasn't a coincidence, it's one of the few things they didn't get sued for during their career. The only sample on '1987' that they didn't get sued for was from The Fall's 'Totally Wired', and as a result King Boy D namechecks MES in The Prestwich Prophets Grin on Who Killed The JAMs?

[Better Midlands]

Great reply Busby - the Judas Reprise is even closer

Our Darkness was a big influence on New Beat and techno/house - well established on Ron Hardy''s playlist at the Music Box

[Better Midlands]

I'm a double posting twat.

[PaulTMA]

NOTBBC 2001/Cookdandbombd every week until the end of time