This isn't so blatant (it's probably more a case of vaguely similar-sounding songs than plagiarism), but it's the only one I could think of. If you listen closely you can hear that the same melody during the verses is sped up in the latter song;

Is a total rip off of...

I don't really hear it, even if I did, Watch That Man is awesome and I'd take it over Brown Sugar anyday.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

A lot of people I've told about this before say that too. It's probably just me going mad or something. Don't get me wrong, I'm not discrediting Bowie or anything - Watch That Man's still a great song. It's just that to these ears there is a slight melodic similarity with Brown Sugar.

Happy birthday btw :)

Buddy Holly doesn't sound close to Cut Your Hair to me.

Can't believe no one's posted this yet...



Or this...

I'm too lazy to dig up videos right now but Warning by Green Day is totally a rip off of Picture Book by The Kinks.

I still think this comparison is dumb and lazy.

Wow, they're both chromatic descending basslines. That's certainly not something that thousands of folk and rock musicians use all the time... Oh wait, it totally is.

Generic chord progressions have very good odds of sounding like other generic chord progressions.

Case in point.


^ Predates Stairway by a year. Hell even the vocal melody sounds similar.


^ This actually sounds more like Taurus than Stairway does.

MIA a Theaf of The Clash
 

I say YES. I listened to there song Paper Airplane while I was driving in my car and I couldn't help but realize that it seems to close to comfort with the song "Straight to Hell" by The Clash. Well anyways this is what I think let me know if you think I'm right or wrong.