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I'm blown away. I didn't acknowledge the COB-IF: CLayman ripoff, OR the Tool ripoff of Iron Maiden. I feel so used :(
Some of them are **** close, others not at all. Most can easily be chalked up to pure coincidence.
Iiiiii dunno. I think you're giving them less credit than they deserve.
I listened to a handful of them and some, idk, just didn't seem all that close. Some I heard where just standard riffs and intros.
for the most blatant, look at the Europe vs Ozzy Ozzborne one. Wylde ripped that solo off in every sense
Haha, oh wow. Yeah, that's a definite rip-off.
But yeah, I think my favourite is Darkthrone and Metallica. Just because it's funny to think about the latter ripping off the former
I dunno. The Darkthrone had such bad sound quality that I just couldn't hear it.
The Boston vs. Nirvana one was close, though. So was the Tool vs. Dream Theater.
Nirvana's song "Come As You Are" uses the same chords as "Eighties" by Killing Joke, but way slowed down. Listen to that. Apparently, they wanted to sue Kurt Cobain, but Dave Grohl agreed to play drums on one of their albums.
Also, "Hate To Feel" by Alice In Chains features a riff that is a rip-off of "Dazed And Confused" by Led Zeppelin. Layne Staley, who wrote the part, admitted it.
All I could hear was "zxzxzxhzxhxzhzhxhzhxhzxhzhxhzhxhhzxhzhxhhzx"
You're deaf then. It's horrible quality, no doubt, but you can easily hear the music. Or maybe I'm just terribly used to it... idk anymore.
Wow, listen to #9, Kreator vs. Exodus. It's exactly the same!
The Iron Maiden v Papa Roach sounds pretty similar, but the Iron Maiden version one is a bit faster. Very good find.
The Led Zeppelin "Kashmir" versus Rage Against The Machine "Wake Up" one was also pretty accurate.
haha, but there's no way that's a ripoff, considering in wake up, one guitar is hammering on the same power chord over and over while another just strums fast between two notes, as opposed to kashmir's different style :s
I posted a bunch more today, and a ton more since this thread was made. Out of the most recent ones, I personally like the Beatles / Sublime one (77), Budgie / RHCP (76), anything that Green Day steals from, and the Dictators / KISS (64) which could almost merge into Danzig / STP (74).
If you know anymore, I'll research and post them if they're decent enough...
Best one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=l8AvaQjq5ys
Holy crap. I hate SoaD even more now.
Someone should do an edit to splice the chorus riff from Incubus' "Megalomaniac", vs the verse riff from Soft Cell's (or Marilyn Manson's) "Tainted Love". I noticed that one immediately.
I think I'll put a few up once I get round to cropping/editing the tracks, but here is one which really catches my ear:
In Flames - "Clay Man" (2000)
Dark Tranquillity - "The Treason Wall" (2002)
The keyboard riff in "The Treason Wall" is almost identical to the main guitar riff in the In Flames one.
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Also, I *REALLY* hate to do this, but...
In Flames - "Swim" (2000)
Dream Theater - "In The Presence of Enemies Pt 1" (2007)
Listen to 00:12 - 00:25 in "Swim" and 00:04 - 00:20 in the DT song.