Top Ten Songs You Didn't Know Were Rip-Offs
Original: You Need Love - Muddy Waters
But Led Zeppelin probably ripped off another ripoff: You Need Loving' by The Small Faces.
The Beatles also stole off Chuck Berry with Come Together which was Berry's "You Can't Catch Me"
They also stole You Really got a hold on me from Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
Dazed And Confused is a cover, not a ripoff. It would only be a ripoff/plagiarism if they claimed it was theirs.
Original: Dazed and Confused - Jake Holmes.
Original: In My Time of Dying - traditional gospel song.
Yeah, but some of them are false rip off sues...
for example, Communication Breakdown is absolutely not similar to EC's Nervous Breakdown (just because both of them are Breakdown) or STH not that similar to Taurus' song... but unfortunately my favorite, the Dazed and Confused is a rip off :/
@Swellow - RE "Geez, how many songs did this band plagiarize? ". I know about more than 20 songs.
Original: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - The Plebs.
But Led Zeppelin probably ripped off the Joan Baez cover version.
The riff or the lyrics.cause honestly I only hear this song for the riffs
Sweet Little Sixteen by Chuck Berry. It's the same song with different lyrics
Original is Deep Purple's Flight of the Rat (thanks Metal_Treasure)
Original: The Last Time by The Rolling Stones. A lawsuit awarded all songwriting credit and royalties to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Stevie Wonder allow them to released this.
I loved this song...
Obviously the original is Metallica's Sad But True.
Full copy of Iggy Pop's Lust for Life
She also plagiarized Hips Don't Lie and copied a music video from another artist.
Not a rip off. It's a sample.
The instrumental is from Aha's 1985 released song "Take On Me"
A-ha did NOT rip off Pitbull.
Pitbull rip-offed THEM.
As soon as I heard the guitar play that first verse I knew it was plagiarized. A total rip-off. Although it is still a good song. Really Twenty One Pilots Really
Similar riff to Should I Stay Or Should I Go by The Clash.
Eighties isn't original either. Check out "22 Faces" by Garden of Delight, "Life Goes On" by The Damned, and "Hollow Hills" by Bauhaus.
Original - Eighties by Killing Joke.
The riff is from Picture Book by The Kinks
Ripoff of Skinny Puppy's Dig It.
Straight rip-off of "Papa Oom Mow Mow" by the Rivingtons, though no lawsuits were ever filed.
Okay this sample is easily the worst Guns N' Roses cover I've ever heard. Don't think this is a ripoff though.
This is a rip off?
Rip off of I Love You Like That and the Macarena. Just like she did with Roar which ripped off Brave by Sara Bareilles.