which was the B side of
"Harmony in My Head"
by the Buzzcocks in 1979
"North
American Scum" is the first single
from LCD Soundsystem's second album, Sound of Silver. It was released on February 26, 2007
from LCD Soundsystem's second album, Sound of Silver. It was released on February 26, 2007
Out of the Blue from Country Life (1974)
(I should
mention that I really, really like this song). Surely the best guitar
phasing effects since the Small Faces' Itchycoo Park and Nirvana's Rainbow Chaser?
Assault and Battery from their 1975 album Warrior on the Edge of Time
(I should mention that I'm not a
big fan of this song.
Unlike most others on this page this coincidence
was first spotted by the delectable Anne.)
Unlike most others on this page this coincidence
was first spotted by the delectable Anne.)
then
Charlie Haden, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Billy Higgins
Change of the century
then...
Sex & Drugs & Rock&Roll
Ian
Dury comes clean about the baseline from their truly
transcendental single.
Bass line stolen from Charlie, in turn stolen from a
Cajun folk tune.
Maybe there is a good reason to steal tunes after all...
10538 Overture
An old favourite that I thought was the B-side of Rollover Beethoven, but I may be wrong...
Changing
Man on the 1995 album Stanley Road
When
I first heard this in 1998 I immediately recognised 10538
notes. According
to WIKI it was co written by Jeff Lynne, with might make
it self-plagiarism
Raw Power (1973)
Penetration
I was just pouring an espresso and catching up with some Joy Division tracks I don't seem to have on CD, and it just jumped out (I'd been revisiting my original copy of Raw Power recently) ...that's The Stooges surely!!!!!
Still
Glass
Here is a short
mp3 sandwich of the two with crossovers at
42.5 seconds and 68.5 seconds, so you can judge.
Taurus (released January 22, 1968)
Wow!
what a polarising issue this became. I will
avoid taking sides and analyse instead the
implications of the ruling. I can now rip-off
all the neat tunes I want to create my own stairway
to heaven (slow, slow) or highway to hell
(quick, quick) or road to nowhere
(slow). I can obfuscate and annihilate any
legal copyright claim by separating the underlying
structure from the written chord sequence and
rebuilding with different chords. I can use
this wonderfully inventive and creative software
(Cognitone's Harmony
Navigator) to help. Watch this
space______
Stairway to Heaven (released 8 November 1971)
The
LA federal court jury was not allowed to listen to a
comparison of
the two songs in question. That would
have biased their interpretation; apparently.
Anyway legal copyright boils down to the sheet music
it seems.
"...defence
witnesses testified that the chord pattern used in the
intro to Stairway was so commonplace that copyright
didn't apply." Essentially Led Zeppelin convinced
the jury that the the first 2 minutes of their 8 minute
opus are really nothing special! Led Zeppelin may
or may not have deliberately copied Spirit's tune
without due credit, but nobody (legally at least) cares.
