It's A Riff Off
Posted by Dave C on 27 October 2008 - 3:48pm.
Mick Jagger once said about David Bowie. 'Don't let him know where you bought your new shoes - he steals everything'. He could have a point you know.
Here's Keith Relf with The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds - I'm A Man
Hello Spaceboy - haven't we seen that look somewhere Relf?
Hang on to yourself a minute that riff sounds a bit famil'. And hey isn't that Jeff Beck a'guesting - gadzooks!
Bowie - Jean Genie
Anymore for anymore examples of stealthy sound-a-likes
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Count the spoons when Weller’s around
Paul Weller’s got form as long as his arm on this one.
Start - Taxman
Changing Man - 10538 Overture
Transglobal Express - So Is The Sun by World Column
And it was James Jamerson rather than Bruce Foxton who came up with the bassline for Town Called Malice.
Don’t think it’s a bad thing though. I quite like songs that “quote” other songs. All music is sort of based on other music.
...or was it?
Wouldn't Jamerson been playing from a chart rather than (as we musicians say) 'making it up himself'?
Never Heard that one before
Top digging
Jaysus
Even the dancers couldn't dance in the 60s.
That's such a better song than "Town.."..
..it's not even funny.
It's a mod mod world
Led Zep certainly lent an ear to this - I read in a Small Faces biog' Percy actually apologised to Steve Marriot for this piece of pop-lifting
Wait until the 00:30
And did the Dandy Warhols ever hear this The Specials tune - unlikely but you never know.
Lep Zep are constant offenders really....
Black Mountain Side of LZ1 and Black Waterside by Bert Jansch are pretty much one and the same..
Halleluwah by Can off Tago Mago and Kowalski by Primal Scream are closely related, and I've also thought I'm So Green from Ege Bamyasi must have been heard by the Stone Roses when they were making Fools Gold, more in vide than in actual tunes through...
The Jean Genie
Just do what Andy Scott of The Sweet did (about 2 weeks before Bowie, as it goes) and segue I'm A Man (Yardbirds) into FBI by The Shads and voila...Blockbuster! Bowie may have got to No.2 but the four bricklayers in drag reached No. 1 with the same riff, in the same week.
And throw in a bit of...
The Deviants - I'm Coming Home