Jon Bon Jovi and the songs he cleverly stole from others.

Swallowed by Bush (chorus)?
https://youtu.be/Qc4SE7o9Zts

This one is REALLY pushing it...

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I thought the purpose of this thread was commenting on songs that are really similar, not to overthinking in what little piece of a song resembles to another.

Yeah, completely agree with this.

The odd chord can't be counted as 'stealing' .. It's highly unlikely that Jon purposely done that on most songs.

I heard the creator of this site on Entertainment Weekly radio this afternoon.

He said the songwriters who were the worst offenders (though he didn't phrase it that way) were the main writer for One Republic and Avril Lavigne.


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There are some big similarities between "Always" and "Meat Hook Sodomy" by Cannibal Corpse.

Well, the Mana intro to me sounds more like Good Loving than HAND.
The last chord doesn't fit to HAND.

I know, right?!

The album version of always is 5.54.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_(Bon_Jovi_song)

And Meat Hook Sodomy is 5:46.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butchered_at_Birth

The length of both songs is with 8 seconds of each other. Pretty suspicious IMO.

It goes the other way to. Ellen Shipley and Rick Nowels wrote Belinda Carlisle's hit 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth'. I has the same chord structure (a different melody) but essentially its the same song. I recall Jon once said 'That b***c stole our song'.

I'd hope he knows better than that.