Most mind-boggling ripoffs you've heard?

[Palantyre]

The idea for this thread just popped into my mind a minute ago. Not the most profoundly meaningful topic ever, but oh well.

I think Joost will remember this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fjzQ2xiciA

And I'm not even going to mention what it rips off, it should be evident enough for anyone. Seriously though, what the fuck.

[End Of An Era]

somehow i thought of queen.. i wonder why...

[Mackasfour]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97PIOMuemaM

the ripoff is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH4s9ZDGq2o


Sorry for the pain I may of put you through with the second link. But it is a really obvious ripoff.

[t.a.j.]

There was a Gamma Ray song that completely ripped off Priest's Rapid Fire.

[Joost]

The main riff in Papa Roach - Last Resort (from 0:11 onward) is of course a complete ripoff of Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan (from 1:48 onward).


And while we're at it...

Iron Maiden - Prowler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp3TAwOVRw0
Papa Roach - Between Angels and Insects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFv6RwoMRc4

[Joost]

I guess many people will remember this one:

Queen (with David Bowie) - Under Pressure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBBD7eFR6II
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE

Now, you might say, 'hey, this isn't really a rip-off, this is just a sampling/tribute/whatever, Vanilla Ice must have credited Queen with this song'...

...but actually, at first Queen went uncredited completely, and Vanilla Ice did claim that the two songs were unrelated.

(the funny thing about the famous bassline, though, is that nobody actually takes credit for it himself. Brian May and Roger Taylor credit John Deacon (Queen's bassist) for writing it, John Deacon credits David Bowie, and David Bowie credits Queen

There has been some confusion about who created the song's famous bassline. John Deacon said (in Japanese magazine Musiclife in 1982, and in the previously mentioned French magazine) that David Bowie had created it. In more recent interviews, Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor have credited the bass riff to Deacon; Bowie also said on his website that the bassline was already written before he became involved. The September 2005 edition of online music magazine Stylus singled out the bassline as the best in popular music history.

... well, one thing is sure: Vanilla Ice is definitely not the one who wrote it.)

[Gandalf de Grijze]

Iron Maiden - Prowler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp3TAwOVRw0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0bScy8Y0b4

hell yeah.. The Earring heerscht

[Twister]

Papa Roach - Between Angels and Insects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFv6RwoMRc4

Amon Amarth - Cry of the Blackbirds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BXt-g4euqA&feature=fvst

Nice riff anyway

[majesty]

That may sounds ridiculous, but Blind Guardian ripped from their own song. Just listen to Fly and then to Dead Sound Of Misery, they sound similar Sometimes I mix them up.

[TraneDeracs]

Trivium trying to be videogame-pop version of Iron Maiden, more or less.

[thesuicider]

Children of Bodom ripped off riffs from Dissection's Nightblood on the track Lil' Bloodred Ridin' Hood of their Hatecrew Deathroll album

[West Virginia Mule]

Ozzy ripped his own vocal melody off:

Black Sabbath - Megalomania (1975) <--start at 3:50

Ozzy Osbourne - Tattooed Dancer (1988) <--start at 0:18

Heh.

[Zabre]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAfLlFMQLew

this, in my day (like... 5 years ago?) made us go to war with Seraphim...

[OllieS]

The main riff in Papa Roach - Last Resort (from 0:11 onward) is of course a complete ripoff of Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan (from 1:48 onwards).

That's odd, I always belived PR stole that riff from Carcass' 'Death Certificate'. Maybe Carcass stole it from Maiden

[Joost]

The Carcass riff has a more twisted sound and a somewhat different melody. (And therefore isn't a true rip-off of the Maiden riff, but maybe just a tribute) The Papa Roach riff is actually identical to the Maiden riff. (And is a true rip-off of Maiden)

[koz]

Land of Free 2 has a whole assortment of Iron Maiden ripoffs.

Opportunity - The Clairvoyant
Into the Storm - Two Minutes to Midnight
Empress - It's definitely but I can't recall which song
When the World - Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Powerslave
From the Ashes - I can't be sure, but I think the intro is from some Blaze Era song.

There are many more on that album that I can't remember.

Oh and Iron Savior - After the War and Masterplan - After this War lol

[Dreamflight]

The whole Dream Theater's Octavarium.

Now serious, there's a lot on that record that resembles Muse, for instance

- Some parts of These Walls with Time is running out

- Never enough with Stocholm Syndrom

On the other hand, Muse's the Assassin sounds a lot like Panic Attack

Also, in 1995, both Anathema and Moonspell realesed songs with similar riffs

- Anathema - A Dying wish (after the acoustic part) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJT4y0Oa180

- Moonspell - Alma Matter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pC77cuATEQ

Who did the ripoff?

There's also a song by Lacrimas Profundere on the Burning: A wish album, that reminds me a lot of Anathema's Angelica. Can't remember which one is, and dunno where did I put the cd

[Mackasfour]

Iced Earth uses a melody in 2 different songs, at the end of The Coming Curse and The Dimension Gauntlet, not ripoffs, been lifted directly from The Coming Curse... I was wondering why this has been done?

[The Rider Of Rohan]

Wintersun, for ripping off Dimmu Borgirs sound:

- the scandinavian lyrics
- the crappy production
- the acoustic passages
- the contrived melodramatic pianos contrasted with black metal screams
- the lack of fast riffing and blastbeats

[Catanduva]

Two Maiden songs are rip-off of this intro: Wasting Love and Remember Tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GM933y8WzI

[somnia]

Iced Earth uses a melody in 2 different songs, at the end of The Coming Curse and The Dimension Gauntlet, not ripoffs, been lifted directly from The Coming Curse... I was wondering why this has been done?

The Coming Curse is a part of the Something Wicked Trilogy, in Something Wicked This Way Comes. IE's last two albums belong to the same concept and some songs have melodies from that earlier trilogy.

IE has three songs though, that are exactly the same (and two of them are on the same album!): Melancholy, I Died For You and Watching Over Me.

[Mackasfour]

Ahh ok, thanks