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** Taiwanese pop singer Cyndi Wang's "Honey" is also another "YMCA" ripoff.
* [[David Bowie]] tried to do a lyrically less-than-faithful glam rock version of "Comme d'Habitude," but Paul Anka took the rights from under him for "My Way." He changed the tune slightly (but not the chord progression), and the result was "Life on Mars." Note that on the back cover of the album the song is parenthetically noted as being "Inspired by Frankie" -- as in Sinatra, who made "My Way" famous.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1raCtM3UGk "She's a Rebel" by Green Day] lifts the majority of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37dBq_4TsZI "Boxcar" by the little-known but influential Jawbreaker].
* [[Rage Against the Machine]]'s "[http://youtube.com/watch?v=B1T8xgHdMEM Wake Up"] and [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "[http://youtube.com/watch?v=tTaOvzZKRxA Kashmir"].
** The opening riff to [[Audioslave]]'s Cochise is pretty similar to Zeppelin's The Ocean too. And I'm Broken by [[Pantera]]!
*** Ironically enough, Cochise also sounds like a faster version of the main riff of Soundgarden's Get On The Snake. And Chris Cornell sings in both songs!
* [[Iron Maiden]]'s opening riff to The Wicker Man does sound an awful lot like Running Wild by [[Judas Priest]]...
** Similarilya few of their songs' intros do this. on ''The X Factor'', "Fortunes of War" and "Look for the Truth'' have a very similar chord progression. "Blood Brothers" from ''Brave New World'' and "Face in the Sand" from ''Dance of Death'' open with the same four chord progression, with the latter being slightly more upbeat.
** Also; The Pilgrim's intro and When The Wild Wind Blows middle section have a similar Celtic sounding part, Brighter Than A Thousand Sunsmiddle section and The Legacy's exunt have similar four chord progressions.
* Australian musical comedy group Tripod have, on occasion, included a version of the [[MASH]] theme in their concerts. When the concert was being recorded to be put on DVD, the song had to be changed - the last note of every phrase goes in a different direction (the final note in the first line, for example, goes up rather than down.)
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** Apparently they did get the rights for the song anyway- a later performance has them telling the audience that the final stage was sending their version off to the guy who wrote it for his approval, so they wrote a song about ''him''. Hunt it down, it's good fun.
* [[Linkin Park]]'s "Shadow of a Day" was rather heavily criticized for its uncanny resemblence to U2's "With or Without You".
** [[Older Than They Think|Then shouldn't it also be criticized for its uncanny resemblence to "All the Small Things" and "Canon in D"?]]
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHBVnMf2t7w Don't even get started with this.]
**** One which isn't mentioned often is the sheer similarity between the intro of "No More Sorrow" and the last 30 seconds of Megadeth's "Silent Scorn". They even use similar 'military' drums. Of course, they may well have sampled it up, rather than outright copied it, but it still sounds like a Jimmy Hart version.
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* [[Keith Richards]] has claimed that the guitar riff for [[The Rolling Stones]]' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" came to him in a dream in a Florida hotel room. But listen to Martha and the Vandellas' "Nowhere to Run" and tell me if that notion holds water.
** [[Neil Young]] then swiped the same riff for Buffalo Springfield's "Mr. Soul" a couple years later.
** The chorus of The Rolling Stones' "Anybody Seen My Baby" sounds a lot like kd lang's "Constant Craving": It's reportedly a coincidence, and since this came to the band's attention before ''Bridges To Babylon'' was released, they actually credited lang (and ''her'' co-writer, Ben Mink) as co-writing the song to help prevent any kind of lawsuit.
* "Still Take You Home" by The Arctic Monkeys borrows a riff from "Out On Patrol" by [[The Offspring]]. They probably don't need to worry about getting caught, as "Out On Patrol" appeared only on the Offspring's first album, which was so terrible that no-one remembers it.
* One of the [[The Residents]]' songs share the bass line of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean". Which one? Their cover of Kaw-Liga. Funnily enough, The Residents usually avert this so hard that their [[Cover Version|covers]] usually only share the lyrics and the basic rhythm of the original song.
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* MOD/demoscene example: Purple Motion's "Fracture In Space", one of his earliest songs, was a Jimmy Hart version of Dr. Awesome's "Space Deleria".
* Three 6 Mafia's "Late Night Tip" song sounds an awful lot like Lisa Fischer's "How Can I Ease The Pain". They never mention whether it was sampled or not.
* Many cheaper compilations during the nineties were full of Jimmy Hart versions. One label (Mecado) is credited with ''[[Genre Killer|killing an entire genre of music]]'' by over saturating the market with subpar copies in the Netherlands and was succesfully sued over misleading customers.
* The tune most commonly used for the Christmas song "Away in a Manger," typically called "Mueller", was written by James R. Murray. Some hymnals also use the less-familiar "Cradle Song" by William J. Kirkpatrick, which sounds much like a Jimmy Hart version of "Mueller". (Both tunes are in F major and 3/4 time with virtually identical phrasing, and both even end on the same four notes.) This is yet another example of this trope being [[Older Than Radio]].
* [[Vocaloid|Hatsune Miku]]'s version of "Ievan Polkka" has a ''very'' similar opening to [[The Beatles]]' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da".
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* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO-Ol1JQjcc Dreamin']" by KISS compared to "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNF2KNcRm-U I'm Eighteen]" by Alice Cooper. It went to court when Cooper's old record label with the rights to the song sued with KISS settling out of court. This might have also been yet another point of argument against those who claim KISS copied Alice Cooper's makeup, too.
* First, PM Dawn sampled Spandau Ballet's "True" in "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss", then later, did a self-JHV of that titled "Faith in You".
* [[Lady Gaga]]'s new song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4a8QtvOkbQ Born this Way]" sounds an awful like Madonna's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsVcUzP_O_8 Express Yourself]" Also, when
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D39Lm_HRfOs Informer]" by Snow compared to "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR46C0XoQm4 Chori Chori]" by Indian artist Aneela
* The bass line of Bobby Brown's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDLZqe735k My Prerogative]" compared to The Time's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FflxnqzxDnw Jungle Love]", both of which JHV'd it from Michael Jackson's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U84_w4Sm9UA Thriller]''.
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** The Intro to "Just What I Needed" sounds similar to "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by the 1910 Fruitgum Co.
** And, as noted above, "Moving In Stereo" is a slower version of Golden Earring's "Mad Love's Coming"
* The chorus riff to "Hey Man Nice Shot" by Filter is exactly the same as the chorus riff of Stabbing Westward's "Ungod". However, this is because guitarist Stuart Zechman was working with both bands at the same time and used the same riff twice for some reason. The bands mutually agreed not to sue over it, and Stabbing Westward pretty much stopped playing "Ungod" live after "Hey Man Nice Shot" became a hit single.
* This troper mistook "Wonderwall" by [[Oasis]] for "Jumper" by [[Third Eye Blind]].
* [[Lady Gaga]]'s ''Bloody Mary, Heavy Metal Lover'' and ''Electric Chapel''sound alot like most of [[Madonna]]'s Confessions On A Dancefloor album, Isaac and Get Together is particular.
* [[VNV Nation]]'s "Control" steals the bass riff from [[Judas Priest]]'s "You've Got Another Thing Comin'".
* [[ACDC]]'s "Rocker" is so much like [[Little Richard]]'s "Tutti Frutti", this troper can almost hear the "Wop-Bop-A-Loo-Lop A-Lop Bam Boo" in the AC/DC song.
* ''Can't Help Falling in Love With You" (Elvis Presley) has basically the same melody as the French folk song "Plaisir d'Amour", but the rhythm is slowed down and syncopated.
** The tune was sped up and slightly tweaked for the happy hardcore song "Techno Wonderland".
* Joss Stone's "You Had Me" is pretty heavily inspired by Stevie Wonder's "Superstitious".
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* The [[Dastardly Whiplash|Victorian-melodrama villain]]'s theme in the [[Show Within a Show]] in ''Show Boat'' sounds like the Russell Bennett version of [[Standard Snippet|Mysterioso Pizzicato]].
* In an [[Older Than Radio]] example, "With Catlike Tread" from ''[[Gilbert and Sullivan|The Pirates of Penzance]]'' cribs substantially from the Anvil Chorus in Verdi's ''Il trovatore''.
** This troper feels duty bound to disagree with this example (and I am a slave to duty!); whilst "With Catlike Tread" is a clear pastiche of Verdi, that's rather different to saying it's basically cribbed from the Anvil Chorus. Sullivan earlier did a fantastic pastiche of Handel in Trial by Jury, but again there's not a piece it's basically the same as, which is what this trope is surely getting at.
* Used to dark comic effect in "My Psychopharmacologist and I" from ''[[Next to Normal]]'', where a litany of antidepressant medications (and their [[Side Effects Include|side effects]]) is sung to the Jimmy Hart Version of "My Favorite Things" from ''[[The Sound of Music]]''.
* [[Kit And The Widow]] show us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXsYNf1l5Y here] how to do this and make great deals of money in the West End, all while taking unsubtle shots at [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]].
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