Nirvana is famous for 'Come As You Are' ripping off Killing Joke's 'Eighties'. 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' is constantly pointed at as being a Pixies ripoff, too.
Ever heard of the quote, "there is nothing new under the sun"?
Landon Evans
>Kurt said when he wrote that song he was going for a pixies vibe, that's all That's what the Greta Van Fleet kids say when people compare them to Led Zeppelin. Ripping off a vibe of better bands is still a ripoff, it's definitely not as bad as plagiarism but it's still pretty shit. Nirvana had no vibe of their own.
Adam Hall
People who bitch about rock artists using similar chords/chord progressions/melodies in their songs are unironically brainlets.
Lincoln White
Killing Joke ripped of The Damned so who cares. The Damned are a way better band than Killing Joke
I don't like Greta Van Fleet but this is a hilariously hypocritical argument considering that Led Zeppelin is infamous for shamelessly ripping off blues artists. I don't knock Led Zeppelin for doung it, either, because only retards care about "pure originality" in music (because it doesn't exist, every artist is heavily influenced by the art around them).
Eli Wilson
everyone knows about Oasis's plagarism of The Beatles, T-Rex, Gary Glitter etc, but they also ripped off lesser known shit
Noel would have definitely heard this track at the Hacienda in the late 80s
Ayden Sullivan
Smells Like Teen Spirit is a Blue Oyster Cult ripoff. Billy Corgan called them out back in the day by covering BOC's song to show how extremely similar SLTS was:
smells like teen spirit was a ripoff of Boston's more than a feeling. everyone knows this, what tf are you guys talking about
Jackson Sanders
That's just a common chord progression in rock music. It's also used in songs like More Than A Feeling.
Jason Sullivan
Listen to Godzilla and Smashing Pumpkins cover.
Jackson Baker
You're a retard, dude. The chord progression used in the riffs are similar - the main melodies and overall structure of the songs are completely different. Calling them ripoffs of each other is brainlet shit.