10 Oasis songs that 'Rip Off' other songs
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Published 2024-04-20
Oasis co-frontman Noel Gallagher never made a secret of his use of other classic songs as building blocks in his new tunes. Of course, all songwriters are inspired by the work that came before them, but sometimes this recycling of older songs has got Noel and Oasis into hot water.
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SOURCES:
Have Oasis plagiarised Cliff Richard? The Guardian (2008): www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/06/oasis.accuse…
What you never knew about Definitely Maybe, Telegraph (2019): www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/oasis-definitely…
Why Oasis were sued over the song Whatever (2023), RadioX: www.radiox.co.uk/artists/oasis/whatever-meaning-ly…
The Rutles, All You Need Is Cash (1978): • The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
Oasis star's amazed he hasn't been sued, Gigwise (2006): web.archive.org/web/20220310061358/https://www.gig…
Noel and Burt perform “This Guy's In Love With You” (1996): • Noel Gallagher - This Guy's in Love w...
Noel Gallagher's greatest lifts, MusicRadar (2008): www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/blog-noel-gallaghe…
Interview with Noel Gallagher: • Original Oasis about stealing from ot...
How Oasis ripped off Stevie Wonder for a Britpop classic, FarOut (2021): faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-oasis-ripped-off-stevie-w…
'(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' Track by Track with Noel Gallagher: • Oasis - '(What's The Story) Morning G...
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0:00 Introduction
0:12 Cigarettes & Alcohol vs. T.Rex
0:57 Whatever vs. Neil Innes
2:25 She's Electric vs. The Beatles
3:32 Don't Look Back In Anger vs. John Lennon
4:02 Supersonic vs. George Harrison
5:04 Shakermaker vs. Coca Cola
6:44 GPU Audio
7:30 Half The World Away vs. Burt Bacharach
8:44 Importance Of Being Idle vs. The La's
9:17 Step Out vs. Stevie Wonder
10:19 Don't Go Away vs. The Real People
11:32 Patreo
All Comments (21)
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Noel's ability to give absolutely no shits will never be equaled.
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"You can't do that!" "I can, and I have, and I will...and you'll buy it, so fuck off" 😂😂😂😂😂
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One more for you - Fade Away and Freedom by Wham! Seriously, the first two lines "Every day I hear a different story, people saying that you're no good for me..." sounds exactly like "When I was young I thought I found my own key, I knew exactly what I wanted to be..."
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I’d love to see a video breaking down the techniques Neil Innes used to write such a convincing Beatlesesque catalogue for the Rutles.
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7:50 That is such a common chord progression ("Band on the Run" comes to mind). Herb Alpert may not have sued due to the risk of getting in trouble himself.
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The most surprising thing about the title is that it is only ten .
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I think the legal cases with Noel's songs have been fair, in that where he's lifted too much he's had to share royalties, whereas just borrowing a riff or a couple of introductory chords can be justified as one writer "honouring" another, or "fair borrowing" which all song writers have done.
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When told his song sounded like _____'s song, Noel Galagher was like "Whatever."
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Next up: 30 Led Zeppelin songs that “rip off” other songs
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What ? Only ten of them ? Is this just a top ten ?
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Another 2 obvious ones from Oasis: 1. Waiting For The Rapture - has the same intro as Five-To-One by The Doors 2. Who Feels Love? - the guitar solo halfway through is almost identical to Missunderstood by Motley Crue
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There's one more (maybe smaller one). "All the young dudes" and "stand by me" by Oasis. Both in the chorus have very specific three chords at the end of line and then jump in at odd meter to the next line. Third out of those chords is different but overall it is extremely reminiscent 😀
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Surprised this video doesnt mention The Kinks at all. She's Electric has an entire line lifted from Wonderboy, and TIOBI comes from The La's who in turn got it from The Kinks' Dead End Street. Oasis nicked the videoclip as well, with the pallbearers and all.
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Hey do you think the middle guitar rift in Supersonic after Liam sings “Nobody could see, nobody could ever hear him call” was taken from the song Layla by Derek and the Dominos? Not seen anyone ever mention it before but it sounds identical.
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One I've always noticed is the turnaround after the chorus of Stand By Me is the same as the turnaround in All The Young Dudes by Mott The Hoople, written by David Bowie.
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The initial version of 'Shakermaker' even included lyrics from the cola song. Although they re-recorded the second verse, Liam still sang the original version during early Oasis performances. I find that reference amusing, as the whole song feels like it's coming from a bored working-class lad sitting in front of the TV, flipping through channels.
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Chord patterns in popular music are incredibly overlapping. If you search deep enough with a good ear, you'll find all popular artists "steal" from another
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Small correction. Step Out was included in early promos of WTSMG sent to the press in 1995. It quickly reached Stevie Wonder’s ears and that’s when they got in trouble and took the track out and the album was released the same year. About a year later they included it on the DLBIA single as a b-side. The video says it was the other way around.
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Nice to see the La's mentuoned. Theres also a tape of Lee Mavers talkin about how Oasis knicked his chords for wonderwall.
