Non Led Zeppelin Rock and Metal Songs that Were Ripped Off from Another Artist
Format:The song we know - Artist we know (The source song - Artist)
Led Zeppelin are excluded because:
1) I made two lists about their plagiarism (Top 10 Songs That Led Zeppelin Ripped Off, Top 10 Led Zeppelin Songs That Were Ripped Off From Another Artist)
2) if I include Led Zeppelin, they will take the Top 10 spots because nobody else ripped off whole songs with lyrics and song titles (multiple times). The guys on this list are more modest - they stole mostly riffs and did it only once (hopefully).
I love the fact that since Led Zeppelin ripped-off a lot of songs, you had to exclude them from the list. Lol!
Brian Wilson openly and knowingly used Chuck Berry's big hit. It's basically the same song with different lyrics.
Sorry, Petsounds but maybe you already knew this.
Plus this song isn't even close to being one of their best ones because its like a boring poppier version of Skeletons of Soceity.
Cirice won the Metal Grammy for 2016. Wow!
But Cirice riffs are versions of the riffs to these 2 Slayer songs. LOL.
Just give a listen to the songs and compare.
But is it fair? Nirvana song has 144 091 038 YouTube views, the original - only 2 176 851.
IronSabbathPriest, I know they won a Grammy for another song (Cirice). But their Grammy winning song isn't free of plagiarism either - the riffs to Cirice are composed of 2 well known riffs by Slayer: Skeletons of Society and a close variation of the intro to Raining Blood.
So I added Cirice to this list. It's good to have a Grammy winner on this list you know
The symphony of destruction riff is awesome. But ghost really just built off of it. It's a very common technique in rock/metal
Avenged Sevenfold ripped off Metallica and the correct item title should be:
This Means War - Avenged Sevenfold (Sad but True - Metallica)
Actually, it's the other way around.
The Verve biggest song is bittersweet to the band and singer Richard Ashcroft after a lawsuit awarded all songwriting credit and royalties to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Wow! You are right! I know that Kurt C. liked the early extreme metal bands of the early 80s. His fave was Celtic Frost but if he listened to Celtic Frost, most probably he listened to Venom, too.
Hm, both Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are were rip offs?
Ritchie Blackmore is a riff master and you can hear clearly his riff in the intro to "Panic Attack" and many times throughout the entire song. "Spotlight Kid" is a very obscure song that only die hard Rainbow fans know.
Eh. I don't know. You can kind of hear Spotlight Kid in Panic Attack, but I think that a song such as Ritual is a more obvious "ripoff" of Symphony of Destruction.
Also the Dream Theater song "This Dying Soul" has a riff part that sounds a lot like Sevendust's "Praise"; this is coming from a Dream Theater fan by the way.
Yep, Ritchie Blackmore is very good.
The riff. Yes, the Kinks have incredible riffs.
It's the riff. Dawn of Victory is at #2 on the list "Best Rhapsody (of Fire) Songs". I will never understand if people who vote are deaf or don't know the metal legacy (Judas Piest), or just don't care if the band/song is original or generic.
Bon Jovi liked the awesome riff to this metal song. Savatage is a great but lesser known metal band.
They sound too similar with both lyrics and sound. Plus Animal I Have Become was released in 2006 Monster was released in 2009. It's pretty obvious which one is the ripoff.
I can't be very hard on Diamond Head because when several bands started the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in the late 70s, they didn't have many examples of how to make metal music.
Not only Shepherd of Fire, Hail to the King has some similarity to Enter Sandman, though This Means War is worse.
While not technically a ripoff (Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, did write a letter to Kraftwerk asking for permission to use the riff and was granted it), it still uses the very same riff present in the Kraftwerk song.
It's the main riff (in the intro and later). Tesla song came out in 2004, Savatage song - in 1995.
They're similar but I wouldn't say Tesla ripped it off
The Kinks are riff masters and Green Day wasn't the only band that "borrowed" this Kinks' riff.