Aloha !

With the arrival of the internet and music being more available it's also got fans from different bands together. I for one am a fan of the Stereophonics, and I've yet only met 1 person who's a fan of both bands. The internet has made it possible for people to read discussions about various artists, look up songs and suddenly people were able to discuss how they heard another song from a totally different genre in the latest Bon Jovi song.

Here's the list of songs of which I am aware have been (partially) ripped off from other songs:

1. Burning For Love: Living A Lie -Laura Branigan (verses)
2. King Of The Mountain: The Stroke - Billy Squier (partially)
3. Never Say Goodbye: Hearts Of Stone - Southside Johnny
4. Love Is War: Nicked from You Give Love A Bad Name.
5. Keep The Faith: Pain Lies On The Riverside - Live
6. Fear: Inspired by We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals
7. Hearts Breaking Even: Inspired by Cryin' - Aerosmith
8. Damned: Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) - The Rolling Stones (chorus)
9. All I Want Is Everything - Sign O' The Times - Prince (verses)
10. Bitter Wine: Shooting Star - Bad Company
11. Queen Of New Orleans: Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance
12. Janie, Don't Take Your Love To Town: Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
13. Naked: Swallowed (Chorus) - Bush
14. It's Just Me: Pink Floyd - Time
15. August 7, 4:15: Rockin' In The Free World - Neil Young
16. I Don't Want To Live Forever: Local Boy In The Photograph - Stereophonics
17. Rich Man Living In A Poor Man's House: Learning To Fly - Tom Petty
18. Say It Isn't So: Semi-Charmed - Life Third Eye Blind
19. Two Story Town: One Of Us - Joan Osbourne
20. Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars: Stay Young - Oasis
21. Thief Of Hearts: I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
22. Standing: Dig In - Lenny Kravitz
23. Another Reason To Believe: Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) - The Rolling Stones (verses)
24. Why Aren't You Dead: 5:15 - The Who
25. Have A Nice Day: Clavado En Un Bar - Mana
26. Bells Of Freedom: This Ain't A Love Song (chorus only)
27. Who Says You Can't Go Home: Follow You Down - Gin Blossom
28. Last Man Standing: Turn The Page - Bog Seger
29. This Is Our House : Lift U Up - Gotthard
30. We Weren't Born To Follow: Born To Be My Baby (chorus only)
31. Brokenpromiseland: All Along The Watchtower - Bob Dylan (verses only)
32. Backseat Driver: I Don't Want To Be - Gavin de Graw (chorus only)
33. 7 Years Gone: I Wonder - Gotthard (chorus only)
34. Every Road Leads Home To You: Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
35. Because We Can: King Of Emotion - Big Country
36. Beautiful World: How Far We've Come - Matchbox 20 (verses)
37. The Fighter - Prendre Un Enfant - Yves Duteil
38. Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning: Gotta Be Somebody - Nickelback

I know with some of them (Two Story Town) it might be co-incidental. With others (Stay Young) it's a direct rip off that makes me wonder why they haven't been sued yet, though I doubt Noel Gallagher has got any right to sue considering how much he nicked from other artists.

Then there's the obvious list of songs on which you can sing the chorus to It's My Life to:

1. One Wild Night
2. Undivided
3. Bounce
4. Have A Nice Day
5. Complicated
6. We Got It Goin' On
7. Brokenpromiseland
8. etc.

All songs that fit the chorus completely, it's not just the chord progressions but it's the lenght of every bar as well etc.

I'm quite sure there's more out there. To this day I swear I recognize the riff from Naked, along with the drum loop, from another song but I can't say which one. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or come up with more examples of songs they stole from others? I'm sure there's more out there of bands I rarely listen to. I'll edit the list once the suggestions start to come.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan