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Green Day’s “Warning” sounds like The Kinks’s “Picture Book”
Picture Book (1968): A really great track from the tight concept album “The Villiage Green Preservation Society”
Warning (2000): There is little room for doubt in this case – Green Day clearly copied every element of this song except for the lyrics.
Popularity: 25% [?]
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- The Offspring’s “Why don’t you get a Job?” sounds like The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
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That’s mainstream pop music for you. The entire industry these days is based on ripping of classic songs and hooks and covering everything with Autotune.
I disagree. When you talk about copying a song, you are talking about the melody. The melody of the two songs are different. The riff is similar. If this is copying, then every song in rock is a copy.
Correct Carl. If you listen to some of the earliest rock and roll records, they all have the same basic riffs and chord progression, but a different vocal melody.
Like both of these song (?)
[...] As one of the most frequently ousted bands to recycle old melodies & riffs, I must say Green Day has good taste; Petula Clark’s “Downtown” has always been a favorite of mine. Green Day has also been found to cop a pleasant ascending guitar riff from the Kinks. [...]
FU Tim, how is Green Day Pop?
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Rofl, how is it not. Past Dookie it’s all pop.