Songs with elements that rip off other bands

[Don't Damn Me]

I was just listening to the first Vandenberg album. The opening riff to Burning Heart sounds like it's directly lifted from Ready For Love by Bad Company.

That made me think about Get it On by Kingdom Come where the verse sounds like Kashmir.

Then there's Long Stick goes Boom by Krokus that sounds like ACDC but not any one particular song.

And there's a song on Holy Diver with a main riff that sounds just like Lady Strange by Def Leppard (or is it the other way around?)

[RicksPickWrangler]

Roxy Blue "Rock the Cradle" is practically a tribute to "Hot For Teacher"

[Rocker4Real]

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[Rocker4Real]

The Cherry Pie chorus sounds like Rock On.

[Love_Industry]

Roxy Blue "Rock the Cradle" is practically a tribute to "Hot For Teacher"

So is "The Kid Goes Crazy" by Y&T off Contagious....

[Love_Industry]

The Cherry Pie chorus sounds like Rock On.

Or Pour Some Sugar on Me slightly reworked.

[HueyRamone]

The Unforgiven II rips off the first 2 guitar parts of Children of the Damned, but plays them in the opposite order

[DonJuanDeMarco]

The Cherry Pie chorus sounds like Rock On.

Or Pour Some Sugar on Me slightly reworked.

In that infamous interview, Jani mentioned that the record company said “Write a song like Love in an Elevator”
I hear it in the verses.

Speaking of Warrant…

I didn’t know it at the time but Down Boys rips off the Cars Bye Bye Love.

And someone posted a song here that sounded like I Saw Red. I didn’t really hear it though.

[roxxxtar]

Marvelous 3
Every Monday - Space Cowboy

Marvelous 3 Cigarette Lighter Love Song - All The Young Dudes.

[dmbrocker]

The chorus of "Smooth Up in Ya" rips off Billy Squier's "The Stroke".

[Don't Damn Me]

Roxy Blue "Rock the Cradle" is practically a tribute to "Hot For Teacher"

I remember thinking they were trying way too hard to be Van Halen they tried to cover all the bases But ultimately they just weren't as good

[Wiseacre]

Way too many examples to mention for the 100th time. There are lots of videos with tons of examples on YT

[roxxxtar]

Roxy Blue "Rock the Cradle" is practically a tribute to "Hot For Teacher"

I remember thinking they were trying way too hard to be Van Halen they tried to cover all the bases But ultimately they just weren't as good

But still good

[Busch1724]

Hair of the Dog...Day Tripper

[Indy_Rob]

Roxy Blue "Rock the Cradle" is practically a tribute to "Hot For Teacher"

I remember thinking they were trying way too hard to be Van Halen they tried to cover all the bases But ultimately they just weren't as good

But still good

Want Some was a great cock-rock album. I played the fuck out of it my freshman year of college.

[rubysdad]

Into the Fire and Rainbow in the Dark

[cook_jaime]

Always thought the Cherry Pie riff was a dumbed down version of Cult of Personality.

[Hellbound]

Read My Body by Kiss is a laughable attempt at aping Pour Some Sugar On Me.

[Sleek]

LET'S GET TO THE POINT, LET'S ROLL ANOTHER JOINT, SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE, POUR SOME SUGAR ONE ME, BEVERLY HILLS!

[Blotzer's Treehouse]

The riff from T.Rex - 20th Century Boy was used almost note for note on a short lived J-list band put together by a record company, Pleasure Bombs – "Days Of Heaven"

"Tumblin' Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oLSnrLiS8I

Tony Visconti was the producer for both songs.

[Sleek]

Whole Lotta Love uses the vocal line from the Small Faces' You Need Lovin', which is technically a Willie Dixon cover...but does not use Willie Dixon's melody or arrangement. https://youtu.be/0aw1V9AwKHY

When people say Zeppelin lifted the Willie Dixon tune, I am always like nawwwww. That's a Small Faces lift.

Conversely, the Small Faces first hit "Whatcha Gonna do about it" borrows heavily from Solomon Burke's Everybody Needs Somebody to Love but also uses a different melody and lyric.

Solomon Burke: https://youtu.be/7OKAlBC-XWQ

Small Faces: https://youtu.be/DD3VK14QK-g

[Bono Nettencourt]

Dr. Feelgood - Night of the Long Knives

[Wednesday 13 Fan]

Red Hot by Mötley rips off Overkill by Mötörhead

[JizzySynatra]

Dr. Feelgood = Love Like Blood by Killing Joke
Come as You Are = The 80's by Killing Joke
Sex Type Thing - War Machine by Kiss
Paradise City - Zero the Hero by Black Sabbath

[Tommy]

Last Resort is basically Brain Stew.

[Van Ailin']

Everything I Do (I Do It For You) completely takes from Mayhem's "Funeral Fog."

[keyofgee]

too many to list but "Sweet child of mine" is a blatant ripoff of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqreCG0htQ

[Gibsonite]

too many to list but "Sweet child of mine" is a blatant ripoff of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqreCG0htQ

[Wild Obsession]

The Cherry Pie chorus sounds like Rock On.

Or Pour Some Sugar on Me slightly reworked.

Or "Lovin Every Minute of It" by Loverboy

[LurkingAtWork]

Heard Edge of Seventeen today and I thought it was Eye of the Tiger there for awhile.