Thread: Why is it okay for the band to rip off Soul Asylum but not others?
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Old 01-20-2014, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Alphavictim View Post
1. The theft was nowhere near as blatant.
2. Saturday Night is a good song.3
3. Saturday Night emapncipated itself from the source since it became a huge song itself and got its own identity. The Fighter is the last track on WAN, the one that ripped off Civil Wars. It's not a live classic, it's not a fan favorite, it's just an album track that has very little distinct features or identity.
I hear what you're saying. To me I can't separate what makes a song good and what doesn't as I really enjoy both songs. Saturday Night was always going to be a single whereas The Fighter wasn't so knowing more people would hear the first than the latter makes it an odd choice to lift from another song for the sake of an album track. I don't think it becoming big gives it its own identity or makes people forget though. It could very well be the same situation with both Saturday Night and The Fighter. Jon heard a song he really enjoyed and wanted songs that sounded like it. One became a big single, one was for "him". I'm having trouble seeing why one is okay and the other is shameful.

I agree that it's not as blatant. The demo however is far more close to the original source. Does anyone have the original quote from the engineer of Saturday Night? I can scan it later if not.
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