Nah... it's not the risqué title of Adam Lambert's new album.
Garfield is to Heathcliff as...
OREO is to Hydrox
As Ice Ice Baby is to Under Pressure
As Fugees' Killing Me Softly is to Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly.
Criteria: An original work is debased and copied somewhat mechanically into a more successful model so much so that it is generally believed and accepted by the public to be the original source of creation.
Heathcliff predated Garfield by at least 5 years.
Hydrox predated Oreo yet is considered the GENERIC rip off version of this cookie style.
Do any of you guys/gals have any other examples of this type of this irony?
This one probably does not work on a Queen site, but anyway...
Queen's Stone Cold Crazy (naturally my favourite) to Metallica's Stone Cold Crazy (better known generally)
noorie wrote:
This one probably does not work on a Queen site, but anyway...
Queen's Stone Cold Crazy (naturally my favourite) to Metallica's Stone Cold Crazy (better known generally)
there's more Bob Dylan that fits this bill:
Mighty Quinn (quinn the eskimo) - Manfred Mann
Make you Feel my Love - Adele
Shelter from The Storm - Manfred Mann's Earth band
A Hard Rain - Roxy Music
Well. I was thinking the criteria of a rip off that is more well known than it's usually superior original
I can see the Jimi Dylan thing both ways. Both are good. Jimi's just happens to be musically better. Therefore it doesn't qualify.
However. ..if (*born in the 80's forgive me) MAC AND ME had outdone E.T. the extraterrestrial then it would qualify.
The Real Wizard wrote:
Since we're on a Queen site, how about Ice Ice Baby?
It's depressing to think about how many people have heard that but not Under Pressure.
Yeah it was in the OP.
For a while there was also EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE
I guess Metallica's Whiskey in the Jar might do as well.Guessing about 3% of the general public in America know who Thin Lizzy are/were
The Real Wizard wrote:
Since we're on a Queen site, how about Ice Ice Baby?
It's depressing to think about how many people have heard that but not Under Pressure.
Yeah it was in the OP.
For a while there was also EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE
I guess Metallica's Whiskey in the Jar might do as well.Guessing about 3% of the general public in America know who Thin Lizzy are/were
As someone from Europe...I have to disagree here :) It simply depends on the age of the person, for Thin Lizzy/ Metallica it's a fifty/fifty the younger may label it as a Metallica song, the older as an Thin Lizzy song...actually it's an old traditional tune.
UP/ Ice Ice..the bassline was composed about 2XX years ago by Gerorg Friedrich Händel.
Not sure about how to rate the sucsess of those songs...just by the sales or finacial aspects ? By common knowledge ?
Just curious: what composition by Händel do you think the bassline was drawn from? Considering how it's just an octave, I do hope you realize the rhythm has to match fairly exactly for your claim to stand up.
musicland munich wrote:
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UP/ Ice Ice..the bassline was composed about 2XX years ago by Gerorg Friedrich Händel.
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thomasquinn 32989 wrote:
Just curious: what composition by Händel do you think the bassline was drawn from? Considering how it's just an octave, I do hope you realize the rhythm has to match fairly exactly for your claim to stand up.
Its Sibelius, 1st Symphony: link
While the melody is very similar, I dont think its a rip-off or inspiration but a coincidence, something like the Astrud Gilberto piano riff that sounds like Smoke on the Water in Maria Moite: link
I would like to add two factors why I belive that tune was an "inspiration"...Händel was/ is very popular in England. And in an interview Roger or Mack ( not sure who it was) tried to label that bass lick as Bowie's idea....a bit like " Hey,look our hands are quite clean"...just in case :)
Sorry for hijacking the original post ... link