Stuff that bands borrowed from other bands.

[Daedalus12]

Ice Ice Baby's bass line should be quite familiar to a lot of you here.

 

[Pingfah]

Furthermore, the actual hook, the bit you hum, is a violin melody over the top of a 4 four chord progression. The 4 chord progression is the original sample, the bit you hum is Ashcroft's work. So he wrote the hook, not Oldham.

After listening to the Oldham song on YouTube carefully, it's pretty obvious that the percussion on Oldham's track is what inspired the violin hook. Without the Oldham track, the Verve song simply wouldn't exist, at all. The Verve are no more deserving of songwriting credit than Mariah Carey was for adding new lyrics and melody to "Genius of Love".

Oh what a load of bunk. Now you can't take inspiration form other artists without being accused of plagiarism? Clearly you have never tried to write a piece of music in your life

And since when did a piece of percussion dictate a melody? Melodies have, you know, notes and stuff

Every artist takes inspiration from other works, it's almost impossible not to. Get a clue.

 

[voggmo]

Vanilla Ice, Queen's Under Pressure. Though he's not a band.

Black Sabbath's N.I.B is a bit like Cream's Sunshine of Your Love. The 1st bass part.

Rudolph Schenker of Scorpions mentioned Krokus began copying them, but figured they could make more money copying AC/DC. I'm not entirely convinced about that.

& everyone knows Devo copied the Spotnicks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAc1Mfy_lTM

Hee hee. Kidding, you have to wonder though a bit.

 

[I Grok Spock]

The Beatles borrowed Rory Storm and the Hurricanes' drummer.

 

[Zeppster]

Tribute by Tenacious D uses the final riff of Led Zepp's Stairway to Heaven. Thus indicating that "the best song in the world" is in fact Stairway.

Neat-O!

The opening guitar for Stairway was borrowed from a Spirit song called Taurus.

 

[voggmo]

Pete Townsend smashed his guitar, then Hendrix did it, then Ritchie Blackmore did it, then BOA did it,then Paul Stanley did it, then Ingwie Malmsteen did it.