It's very similar to one of the slow songs...haven't listened to the album for so long that I find it hard to say which one sicne they were so interchangeable, but I guess it was either The Fighter or Not Running Anymore...

Yep! "The Fighter" wins! The first 5 or 7 first notes (the basic melody) are the same, well, that's not much, it could be incidental.

A more obvious ripp-off that I mentioned months ago but I don't remember if it was in this thread:
Big Country - King Of Emotion - 1988
https://youtu.be/7_P0s-yICcE

Bon Jovi - Because We Can
https://youtu.be/chXJFjrl-Q4

Actually, all the rockers on the WAN album including WAN are reminiscent of Big Country songs because of the E Bow (the electronic lighted device that you can see in Bobby's right hand during the live shows). That gizmo made BC's signature sound, this stuff makes guitars sound like bagpipes or violins.

Because we can reminds me of Fun's Some nights. Buts its probably just the singing in the chorus.

Updating time! :)

We Don't Run / Gotta Be Somebody by Nickelback

You surely mean Satuday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning / Gotta Be Somebody :D

errr... Yes! So many songs sound alike that I'm losing track!
Actually it was a test just to see if my post would be read! :p

i dont think its mentioned all i want is everything - sign o' the times by prince...
the verses are identical and probably thats the reason why this song was only a bonus track...listen to it...i was in a bar yestaerday and princes song started playing and it hit me...
i am not one of the guys that tries to find a resemblance between every song and i realise as a musician my self that certain chords and chords progressions dont belong to anyone but this is the same...anyway nice song from prince..
https://youtu.be/gE14j7M1JCw

Last night I was listening to some David Bowie live when it suddenly hit me! :o

David Bowie "Heroes" - Bon Jovi "That's What The Water Made Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjB...=RDAsNTmjlf1vI


It's even more obvious live when Bobby B. is allotted more space to play the solo with the E-bow.
https://youtu.be/p2q4COA1qnU?t=19m33s

Mana - Clavado en un bar (Intro) // Have A Nce Day (Intro)

Seems Have A nice Day Intro. In 2002-2003, Jon in a promo interview spoke about Mana music. Interesting.

I don't hear this one. Where exactly in the song does it sound like Bowie? I listen to Bowie a lot and 'Heroes' is one of my favs as is 'That's What The Water Made Me' but I have never thought of them two being alike in any way.

Bon Jovi have copied some bits from Bowie in other songs, though.

Rolo, that's a good one.

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.

She Don't Know Me, okay, not composed by Jon, but is other case of Rip off in a bon jovi song.

I don't think this is a "rip off". It's the same music and same lyrics. Maybe there was some kind of agreement betweem them before releasing it on BJ? You can't just "cover" someone and put it on your disc!

True. But it's so funny. Here other version.

John Bongiovi And The Wild Ones- She Dont Know Me (Demo)

This one doesn't really apply as its the one song Jon didn't write! It may be a cover or stolen by Avsec, but Jon is not guilty on this one.

https://youtu.be/SWV12Pg2gZk Chapel Song by We are Augustines

VS

Beautiful Day by JBJ

Haha, even the key is the same :P

Jon didn't write this song.

But it sounds so JBJ, right?. It could have been included in BB. ;)

You're obsession with this song being included on a BJ album is astonishing :p

Yes, of course he didn't. I couldn't find any other place to submit this comparison so I chose here!

The intro of Semi charmed life by Third Eye Blind (1997) is similar to Say it isn't so (2001)

The intro von Gin Blossom's Follow You Down reminded me quite a bit of Who Says:

Aloha !

Yeah, great find! Sounds a bit too similar, both the guitars and the little fiddle in between the drums. The entire vibe is the same. It even has the word "go" in it. :)

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Just heard this today while I was having dinner at my grandma. It was a bit weird because i left her house humming Rich Man Livin In A Poor Man's House and I couldn't realise why.

Anyone else thinks I Got The Girl and Crazy Love were diluted from Tom Petty's Here comes my girl? Listen to the breakdown in Tom Petty's song, right down to "watch her walk..."

I heard a Nirvana song on the radio today and found myself singing JBJ's Naked along with it. Unfortunately I can not remember the name of the Nirvana track! I'll post it when I remember....

Lithium? Sounds a bit similar

Rape Me...

Haha nice guess! Lithium was actually the correct one.

Woohoo, I win! :D

Vibes of Starting All Over Again: