The Guide To Bands That Rip-Off Other Bands

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

There's a difference between an influence and plain ripping off.

Dummy.

Fuck off, none of the bands you listed sound exactly like, or have copied exactly the bands you say they ripped off. There are laws.

 

[Iam]

Eminem
> Cage

Which way round is that?

 

[akirajoel]

Fuck off, none of the bands you listed sound exactly like, or have copied exactly the bands you say they ripped off. There are laws.

Well... bands that rip off other bands exactly already have a name - thats "covers bands."



I'm happy to admit that some of the bands I've listed might be there wrong - but the fact of the matter is - there are loads of bands that consist entirely in ripping off other bands that came before them. Like. Fact.

Deal with already.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Deal with already.

Baby.

 

[akirajoel]

Oh no! He said "baby"!

Your brillant powers of wit and observation have mortally wounded me.. etc.




For fucksakes urban - you really need to start rasing your game... Is this the best that you can do?

 

[ChrisFilter]

You do make me laugh AkiraJoel.. it is like conversing with a 12yr old Is it an act, or is it real?

 

[hungry 4 kicks]

Ok people. We all know that there are loads of bands that rip-off other, (mostly) better bands that came before them.

So. I thought it might be a good idea to compose a small database of which bands rip-off which other bands - so that instead of people paying attention to the rip-off merchants they can go and listen to the bands that started things off.

The only thing to keep in mind is that there is a difference between ripping off and being influnced by. It may be blurry and hard to tell - but you know - they're not the same thing.

All contributions welcome.
All entries open to debate.




Antony and the Johnsons
>Nina Simone

A.R.E. Weapons
>Suicide

Battle
>The Cure

Babyshambles
>The Clash

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
>The Jesus And Mary Chain

Coldplay
>Echo And The Bunnymen
>Depeche Mode
>U2

The Darkness
> AC/DC
> Queen

Dead 60s
>The Clash
>The Specials

The Donnas
> The Ramones

Editors
>Joy Division

Elastica
>Wire

Franz Ferdinand
> A Certain Ratio
> Hardcut 100

Garbage
>Curve

Gram Parsons
>The Rolling Stones

Hard Fi
>The Clash
>The Specials
>The The

Kasier Chiefs
>Blur

Les Rythmes Digitales
> Daft Punk

M83
>My Bloody Valentine
>Mogwai

Mono
>Mogwai

Mystery Jets
>XTC

Nine Black Alps
>Nirvana

NOFX
>The Misfits

Oasis
>The Beatles
>Slade

Ordinary Boys
>The Jam
>Madness

Primal Scream
>Rolf Harris

The Rolling Stones
>Northern Soul

Sex Pistols
>New York Dolls

Secret Machines
>Pink Floyd

The Strokes
>Blondie
>Television

Teenage Fanclub
>Big Star

The Vines
>The Kinks
>Nirvana

White Stripes
>Led Zeppelin

Wolf Parade
>Modest Mouse
>Pixies

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
>The Boredoms

Snoop Doggy Dog ripping off Slick Rick...

Lenny Kravitz and Jimmy Hendrix....

 

[akirajoel]

You do make me laugh AkiraJoel.. it is like conversing with a 12yr old Is it an act, or is it real?

well... I'm 16 next week. So I do pretend a little bit....

 

[noodles]

Les Rythmes Digitales
> Daft Punk

Nah

 

[Flashman]

Larrikin Love
> Pete Doherty

 

[Iam]

well... I'm 16 next week. So I do pretend a little bit....

And there was me thinking you were in your early 20s.

*withdraws kisses*

 

[Glosoli]

Along the theme of young boys...

Mcfly
>Busted

 

[akirajoel]

And there was me thinking you were in your early 20s.

*withdraws kisses*

well.thats the beauty of the internet... i can pretend to be any age i want...

(next week i'm gonna be 40+)

heh.

 

[Iam]

I'm 93 you know!

 

[Flashman]

Gogol Bordello
>The Wedding Present

 

[Flashman]

.

 

[Glosoli]

Elastica
>Wire

 

[Orang Utan]

Gogol Bordello
>The Wedding Present

The Ukrainians surely?

 

[exosculate]

How about individual songs

God Save the Queen
The Floral Dance

 

[Flashman]

The Ukrainians surely?

Yeah just being silly.

 

[maya]

* Ruins: ripping off a Magma riff.

*strokes non-existing beard*

 

[akirajoel]

How about individual songs

No songs.

Just bands.

 

[akirajoel]

I've never heard any Wolfmother.

But from what I've read - they sound like rip-off merchants too.

 

[chico enrico]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
>The Boredoms

errr... a mistake surely...

you meant -

Yeah yeah Yeahs
= Boredom

(give me Eye's glorious band over that pile of new york fashion rock shit with their ugly pig singer any day!!

Dubversion:
kaiser Chiefs = XTC !! hadn't thought of that (cos ui had thankfully blanked xtc out of my mind for past qtr century) but you are totally right!! and, fuck i hated xtc just as much back then as i fuckin hate the kaiser chiefs now.

and though they're not exactly my fave band i'd have to take issue with 'clash = babyshambles' the clash had tunes. more accurate would be 'babyshambles - merton parkas/leighton buzzards studio demos that didnt even make it on as b-sides'

 

[chico enrico]

Franz Ferdinand
>A Certain Ratio

sorry, but have you ever heard ACR? that's like saying ;

Girls Aloud
>Merzbow

 

[jammer]

then there was the beatles ripping off the jams start

 

[Meerkat]

Garbage
>Curve

Yeh shame on you Butch Vig. Curve where before their time and had an edge that Garbage didn't.

 

[May Kasahara]

Also, Curve weren't irredeemably shit.

 

[kained&able]

Niofx = misfits???? ummm really?

How you figure that one chief?

Rancid
rip off
the clash(but do it better)

bush
rip off
every grunge band ever

capdown
rip off
bad brains

ja rule
used to rip off
dmx


dave(original entirely)

 

[Silva]

Interpol
> Kitchens of Distinction
> The Chameleons

She Wants Revenge
> Depeche Mode

Raveonettes
> The Jesus and Mary Chain