admit it. you know what i'm talking about.. taking lyrics and chords from other songs and making them your own... who was the last person or band you stole from? i just now finished a song, the opening line is "you can say what you want but you wont get a thing out of me"... i do believe its the exact same as the opening line from the early version of "let there be love," "its a crime." thanks, noel. :H
hahahaha i thought i was the only fucking one nah, it doesnt happen often, but i wrote bass riff once, played it for my tutor and he informed me that it was just one note different to a kasabian song...its so annoying when you do it and dont mean to, especially if it sounds badass
Once I stole a chord progression from a blues guitar site... Then I found out it was just a chord family. That's it tho. I heart yew anyhow Chuckles.
lol. Reminds me of the 1st time I saw the symphony. They opened with the most haunting chord, and I was like man I gotta figure out that chord! Turns out they were just tuning up :& Everyone steals, tho. The person you steal from probably stole it in the first place, etc. But maybe you can be classy about it, like the 19th century composers, and call it "Variations on Oasis in Em".
yeah, but i do believe noel was the first to actually come out into the open and say "i stole from insert artist here".. led zeppelin did it a lot, but were assholes and claimed that they wrote all their music. _see_: who gives a damn, kasabian blow anyway one thing i do a lot is just browse song titles, and then my song will have the same title of another song that ive never heard... i do that chord stealing thing, but mostly from songs ive never heard either... works for me.
I used to rewrite classic hits all the time... by accident. For example, I once composed Neil Young's The Needle and the Damage Done for the second time in rock history. I'd never learned the song before and worked on it all day (this was about ten years ago) and I was showing it to a bandmate and he was like, dude... that's almost exactly like that neil young song... lol.... I sometimes accidently take a chord progression from another song, and someone will catch it... usually I just shrug it off though... there's always somebody out there who's done the exact same thing anyways. I don't intentionally steal though... I will take a vibe... or maybe a better word is to steal the structure of another song... but that's not even stealing, really...
i rewrite old songs too... i mean hell, it made brian wilson's fame continue in the late 60s, even if it was nearly non-existant at that point anyway. but im a better writer than brian. except for "a day in the life of a tree".. that song is fucking genius. one of the greatest pop songs of all-time.
i dont think it was either. but i dont see what all the fuss about them are... theyre not that damn good, i dont understand why they get all the publicity that they do... but hey, theres hundreds of musicians that get more publicity than they should. hmm.. what i think i meant was that you could do better with that bassline than they ever could. however, i do like that song "processed beats"
I wouldn't call it stealing in my case, like I often find chord progressions or melody lines that I like, but by the time I've finished with it it sounds way different than the song I got it from. When I start with an idea for a song, that idea usually evolves and can turn into anything in the end. I "stole" Neil Young's Tonights The Night for my song Cabin In The Woods, but go to my website and listen to Cabin In The Woods and I think you'll agree it sounds nothing like Tonights The Night.
I could tell, a little. Haha, I just wrote this song, granny, but it sounds so much like a John Fogerty song.
i once was up real late writing this great song and then in the morning i realized it was the same as "the rover". that was annoying.
i had a dream once that one of my favorite songs that i've written was actually the theme song to a tv show, and since i was stoned i wrote the song down but thought it was mine, and everybody laughed at me... what a dream.
i just take a line, here or there, from various songs. nothing serious. i can't quite think of one at the moment, except for that i used two titles of fleetwood mac songs, as two lines in one of my songs. "love will keep us alive" and "i can't tell you why."
its not like the rock n roll of the 50's/60's wasnt jsut the same chords played with different vocal line
Yeah, alot of them songs were all the same....like the Jailhouse Rocks and Johnny B Goods....they are still all great to listen to though.
