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Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin

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Music is a toppingly various medium — in that respect are thousands of asymptomatic-known and obscure instruments the world over, and there are likely millions of melodies that can cost thought of and put to record. Unfortunately, popular music tends to boil musicianship down to a simpler formula, and as a result, listeners might end up hearing several iterations of the cookie-cutter tune, repackaged slightly differently for consumption.

Within the often-narrow template of pop music, it isn't surprising that the same melody would show u in different songs, but we've compiled a list of some of the pessimum offenders. These are eight hit songs that sound exactly like other songs.

1. "All Summer Lank" by Kid Rock

Tiddler Rock 'n' roll has the scarce distinction of penning a make song that sounds precisely similar not one but two other hit songs. The lyrics repeatedly credit Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama," so it's no surprise that the music does the same at various intervals. But the piano flick upon which Kid Rock's song is well-stacked is exactly the same atomic number 3 Warren Zevon's only classic-rock radio staple, "Werewolves of London." Officially, the song samples some '70s hits, but it's hard to forgive the "samples" when there's barely anything original added to the foundational music.

2. "Yellow" past Coldplay

One of the fan favorite songs from ethereal option rock banding, Coldplay, bears some goodly resemblance to a ballad from "Slanted and Ensorcelled," the debut album of powerful '90s indie rock outfit, Sidewalk. Despite few instrumental differences, the two songs phone almost very but for the communicatory melodies when overlaid on top of apiece other. Just listen to those mellow yet high guitar tones and that studied tempo, and tell me you can't hear it.

3. "Warning" by Green Day

Patc there's no evidence Coldplay consciously ripped off Pavement for "Yellow," you could easy make a type that Green 24-hour interval ripped off The Kinks, simply based on an chancy story of banal material — "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" sounds suspiciously similar to Oasis's "Wonderwall," and the main riff of "American Idiot" is intimately identical to the opening one in "DoubleWhiskeyCokeNoice" by Dillinger Four, for starters. But the worst offender to my mind is their hit Song dynast "Warning" from the 2000 album of the same name, which rides along on the strict same Riff as "Project Book" by The Kinks.

4. "Karma Law" away Radiohead

Yes, one of the most acclaimed bands of the past cardinal decades stole the riff of one of their most illustrious songs off their near known record album, OK Computer. What's more, they didn't barely steal from some nobodies — the song's key piano riffle is undeniably indebted to "Provocative Sadie" by The Beatles, only slightly sped up to distinguish itself. Cipher has go of the ii songs' similarities — dissimilar Radiohead's similarly derived function "Creep," which bears some similarity to "The Air travel That I Breathe" by The Hollies, who sued Radiohead for plagiarisation and North Korean won.

5. "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet

Australian rock-and-roll band Jet seems to have stolen their one and only hit from Iggy Pop, whose vocal "Crave for Life" features an identical rub-a-dub and guitar riff. The band disagrees, claiming the song was actually influenced by early doo-wop tunes — drummer Chris Cester even relation an chance with Iggy Pop wherein both said their songs were inspired by groups like The Supremes. Some they say, it's impossible non to recognize the deuce songs' similarities once you've detected or so the contention.

6. "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Graf Zeppelin

Led Graf Zeppelin fundamentally built a career every bit one of rock's most successful acts by aping blues euphony and adding their possess earth-shattering swagger. That's non a knocking against the lo, but merely a fact of their existence. For proof, look no advance than "Whole Lotta Love," one of Zeppelin's biggest hits, which stole its melody and a overlarge component of its lyrics from blues-man Willie Dixon's "You Need Love." More recent pressings of the record album LED Zeppelin Deuce have attributable Dixon as a co-writer.

7. "Best Song Ever" away One Direction

The Who's "Baba O'James Whitcomb Riley," often mistakenly called "Young Barren," seems to be an obvious inspiration for the single "Best Song Ever," released with a video in 2013 by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelan boy band One Direction. The song's opening synth progression and flick has been named a blatant ripoff and an deliberate homage to the famous pass over, so it's all but impossible to deny the similarities. According to whatsoever sources, Pete Townshend of The Who has even been credited as a co-writer for the track — deservedly so, I might add.

8. "Dani California" by the Red Hot Chili pepper Peppers

Listeners possess called on Tom Petty to sue new artists for songs derivative of hits on leastwise two occasions, though Subordinate refused each time. The Strokes sustain openly acknowledged the inspiration they drew from Petty's bang "American Girl" for their single "Last Nite." Petty later remarked, "It doesn't bother me." A U.S. radio station later called upon Petty to process the Hot dog Chili Peppers for plagiarism, imputable the similarities between their Song "Dani California" and his "Madonn Jane's Last Dance." Again, Petty graciously refused, saying that a shell out of stone songs sound similar. Afterwards composing this name, I find IT severely to argue with that, Uncle Tom.

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