10 Oasis songs that 'Rip Off' other songs
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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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Have Oasis plagiarised Cliff Richard? The Guardian (2008): www.theguardian.com/music/200...
What you never knew about Definitely Maybe, Telegraph (2019): www.telegraph.co.uk/music/art...
Why Oasis were sued over the song Whatever (2023), RadioX: www.radiox.co.uk/artists/oasi...
The Rutles, All You Need Is Cash (1978): • The Rutles: All You Ne...
Oasis star's amazed he hasn't been sued, Gigwise (2006): web.archive.org/web/202203100...
Noel and Burt perform “This Guy's In Love With You” (1996): • Noel Gallagher - This ...
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Interview with Noel Gallagher: • Original Oasis about s...
How Oasis ripped off Stevie Wonder for a Britpop classic, FarOut (2021): faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-oasi...
'(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' Track by Track with Noel Gallagher: • Oasis - '(What's The S...
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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
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Great vid, and is the reason I never respected this band of rubbish. Blur may have borrowed sounds, ut not to the extent these morons did.
Noel Gallagher should be in jail for his flagrant copyright infringement!
"You can't do that!" "I can, and I have, and I will...and you'll buy it, so fuck off" 😂😂😂😂😂
Gotta love that quote
There are a lot of people who'd like you to think they don't give a shit, but Noel is truly a no fucks given scenario. Absolute legend
"You can't do that" Wow, he even ripped off a Beatles song in his response
That quote is about as childish and pathetic as it gets...and is pretty much the norm for a big child like Noel. Only a man with some deep insecurities could so often come out with statements that reminds us of a schoolboy trying to convince the rest of the boys in the playground that he's a big tough guy eV though he always runs away whenever it looks like a fight is gonna break out. Haha he ought to grow up. Just shows you can't buy a bit of sophistication.
@@paulhamj6175 Cry us a river
Noel's ability to give absolutely no shits will never be equaled.
he's just honest
This is the only comment needed. End of thread.
@@gasparucciox9706 And lacking talent to come up with his own tunes.
He has to just to admit to it when he reaches that level of plagiarism.
@@jackmurphy6864 no i don't think so, he wrote great songs with great choruses that everybody knows, everybody steal in pop music the harmonic structures of the songs are always the same from Vivaldi to Ramones, so it's automatic to "steal", sometimes you do it without even realizing it as Noel says in the video, that's how it is! we have thousands of melodies in our heads that, when you compose, they comes in your mind , it's inevitable
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.
I think it's mainly the Electric Piano outro that mainly sounds like TGILWY. It's not mentioned here
@@joedurantguitar1447 Yeah I should have mentioned that actually! Good catch
@@joedurantguitar1447 The outro leaves no doubt, indeed.
Reminded me of season of the witch
When told his song sounded like _____'s song, Noel Galagher was like "Whatever."
“When Noel Gallagher was questioned about his plagiarism, he denied it, using the smokescreen of “attitude “.
@@g1lly1421 "You can't do that! I can, I will, I have. And you'll buy it, so fuck off." 🤣 The balls on this guy.
plagiarism implies intent. People who don't play/write music usually can't grasp how this happens as often as it does. Eric Claptons song Let it Grow is the same progression as Stairway to Heaven is a fun example of how this happens all the time unintentionally. That being said.. I'm not partial to Oasis either way but Noel is hilarious and I see no reason not to believe him. musicians spend more time playing than listening by nature if they're professionals.
That's funny, because my reaction to the Gallagher brothers is just that; "Whatever"
Interesting thing to be impressed by. If you were burgled and when the burglar was caught (in fantasy land...) he just said 'whatever', how impressed would you be?
I remember when one of the Gallaghers worked at the IMO along Stockport Rd., Longsight. They should have never gone beyond that.
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.
Doesn't that song also rip off lyrics from Monty Python's "Traffic Lights"? ^_^
i hear the same tune in she's electric that i hear in that coca cola song, id like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.oasis pretty much ripped off everything they ever did
I was always amazed they didn't get sued for that one. It's so blatant I knew the song the first time I heard the opening verse, and it's from a mega corp that you'd think wouldn't hesitate to be litigious.
I always saw Oasis as just a Beatles tribute combo, but seems here they actually ‘borrowed’ from lots of artists.
Such a weak take. All bands build off from their influences. Oasis was no different
@@TheSunTheSea There are 'influences', and then there's such blatant ripping off that it amounts to copyright infringement and your reputation is in the gutter.
The most surprising thing about the title is that it is only ten .
@@743lplkp wtf?
This could be an on-going series.....through pretty much all of Oasis's albums....and I would watch every one of them laughing lol
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.
Thank you for adding that info!
I see you went for ears, rather than... You know what, nevermind.
@@keithws2779 to be fair I'd say Noel wishes it had reached him through...another method, he'd have saved himself a decent load of cash
Wtf do WTSMG and DLBIA stand for? Unfortunately us mere mortals don't carry "Crystal Balls" around with us so are completely baffled!
@@terrytt5067 what’s the story morning glory and don’t look back in anger
I’d love to see a video breaking down the techniques Neil Innes used to write such a convincing Beatlesesque catalogue for the Rutles.
Neil Innes and Eric Idle are unsung lyrical and melodic geniuses when it comes to parody/satire songs.
Douglas Adams was asked 'Are Oasis as good as The Beatles?" Adams replied 'They're not even as good as The Rutles!' Anyone with half a brain could hear the rip offs going on with Oasis - the less educated didn't.
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 😀
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.
yeah its a very complex issue, people tell it like is just that, noel said it as he's saying he lift it but even he knows that he really is not "lifting" a song and some cases even the riff (like in cigarettes and alcohol) coz I think we want to prove a point that no music its truly 100% original when "borrows, lifts, steals,etc" he's really just using some inspiration to create something new.. sometimes is really tiny sometimes is goes over like in the case of Step out.
True. There is no clear line between a passing homage and a cynical steal. If it were that easy, ofc, loads more bands would be able to write better songs, but they can't. Film makers are an interesting comparison, like Tarantino, who constantly inserts little nods and homages and outright steals to other directors.
@@goodyeoman4534 also the fact that oasis/noel is in everybody mouth coz they were so successful but all the other millions doing the same without success nobody care/knows..
Besides the intro to Don't look back in anger being taken from imagine, the verse is essentially Let it be. Part of the Queue is very reminiscent of Golden Brown.
I mean you could make these sort of cases for every band ever. A song will always sound similar to another song. It’s just whether the song is well known enough for people to care.
True. But Let It Be uses a ridiculously common chord progression that had been used countless times before that song. DLBIA uses the E major rather than Em to give the verse a bit of a twist.
the main riff from the one i love by r.e.m. can be heard pretty clearly on morning glory. same timing as well, both songs are based around the riff. i also happen to love both for completely different reasons
No it doesn't and no they don't
@@jwilloughby6175also rem kicks oasis ass
@@gordoncockfield Never compare a band as shit as REM to Oasis, cheers!
@@BeigeCoyote or the Beatles ay.. cheers
@@gordoncockfield In English? Cheers
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.
Noel used the chorus melody of All the Young Dudes in Don’t Look Back in Anger. Listen to the guitar in the background in the last chorus. And he also used it as a riff in his cover of Mind Games by John Lennon.
That's a pretty cliche thing , I wouldn't call it plagiarism
@@ale14zoppiA lot of the examples in this video aren’t plagiarism. 2 chord vamps from Half the World Away and Don’t Look Back In Anger certainly aren’t
@@baboon1233 That All the Young Dudes melody is almost inaudible in the CD version of the track. I didn't hear it until I played the song in the Rock Band video game, which made that guitar line a lot more prominent.
Interesting what influenced some of Jeff Lynne's compositions. Eg. "Turn To Stone" (Four Tops), "Stange Magic" ("Ups And Downs", Eddysons), all released about 1967-68 when Idle Race were vying for the charts but never made it. "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" must have a comparison somewhere, also "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" (Brown Sugar), Lynne's "Come With Me" actually quotes "Love Is Blue" in the lyrics! And one more - "Telephone Line" ("Hello How Are You" - Easybeats), also 1968!!
And "Across The Border" ripped off The Beach Boys "Heroes and Villains". There's a case to be made for Jeff Lynne being the 70s equivalent of Noel Gallagher, though he appears a bit more modest about his work.
The line from dlbia "you said the brains i had went to my head" is a quote from john lennon.
Got to respect Noels upfront admittance of his writing style: " I'll take the same song you already know-- re-write it, re-record it, re-package it--and you will go out and fooking buy it..." Cheers, Noel (pronounced like "knoll")! 👍🎉👌🤟
knoll?????
How do you respect that? It's extremely rude, just for the sake of being rude. Have better values than that mate
Lol Tarantino does it, so everybody can do it. What fucked up logic. I hope that was a pisstake comment
Even his response is a Lennon rip-off (his interview style.)
When performing shakermaker in the 90s (glastonbury 94 for instance), they sung some lyrics from Teach the world to sing in the last verse
He stole Rockin' Chair and Columbia from Chris Griffith as well. Chris actually got a writing credit on Rockin Chair.
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.
Right! I kept waiting for Wonderboy. He needs to do a follow-up video! Ray Davies is so underrated.
Even Green Day ripped off the Kinks
I was about to post this lol "AND I SEE YOU, AND YOU SEE ME"
I have heard so much music in my life that I can never be sure not to copy anything somebody already wrote before. A great part of music just "happens" while writing the voicing. I hope and pray that I will always evade the nightmare of being sued for unwanted copyright infringements.
Nice to see the La's mentuoned. Theres also a tape of Lee Mavers talkin about how Oasis knicked his chords for wonderwall.
Nicked their drummer too, yeah?
Yeah he also said Noel nicked the chord change D to Bm of one of his b-sides for Some Might Say. I remember the interview "not even in classical music you find a D to Bm change!!" 😂 Lee had more than a couple of loose screws, unfortunately.
Funny because they predate Lee and were in Mad World. You can’t own a chord progression
@@badgasaurus4211 in fairness to Lee, he didn't know it was being recorded, he said it half jokingly like if I remember correctly 'Noel must have heard the tape' or something like that. He didn't go trying to sue him or anything, and heck he may be right that Noel did hear the tape and use the chords. Lee, on that occasion, wasn't insisting he owned them or anything.
@@bosco7837Bm is the relative minor of D so its would fit together very easily
I understand that sometimes people have similar ideas, but how many of these 'similarities' does it take before it's just stealing haha. As a big Oasis fan, I loved the video!
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
wow never heard this song by motley crue, but I can definitely I can hear that lil riff similar too at the end of Who feels love. I cant hear the solo being almost identical tho
I would be pretty confident in saying Noel has never listened to one motley crue song start to finish in I think this one is coincidence. I see more dear prudence in who feels love
OMG when you're copying Motley Crue, you're really scraping the barrel.
there’s a lot of similarities between Wonderwall and Serge Gainsbourg Bonnie and Clyde, the mood and the end are the same
Don't look back in anger has the exact same melody as Pink Floyd's "Vera" on the line "does anybody else in here feel the way I do?".
The irony is that Noel seems to think he's the most brilliant musician who ever lived.
he still is one of the best from the last couple decades, not an easy thing to do, especially this impactful
Song writer and musician are two separate things
He’s really not
how you can possibly know what he really thinks?..
He’s definitely one of the best.
I don't remember the name of the song but the guitar solo from Don't Look Back in Anger is almost identical with the one of song from Screamadelica by Primal Scream.
The overall arc is similar but the notes played and phrases are wildly different.
More like imagine at the start
Probably is the song named "Damaged"
@@brunosouza8802 haha thanks. i was too lazy to find it by myself. it's just 100% rip-off lol
I don’t know if anyone noticed it but I’ve always found a similarity between Paul and George’s part (chord progression) on Free As a Bird and the bridge sung by Noel on Let There Be Love. Cheers :)
This proves that to be a successful pop artist you have to have a loose grasp your own memory but a very strong grasp of how that memory sounded so you never realize you're ripping off a song you've already heard. But this also shows why so many of their worst singles sound like generic pop songs... because they are.
Next up: 30 Led Zeppelin songs that “rip off” other songs
Green Day songs that "rip off" their older songs
More like 50
He already did one but yeah I imagine there’s plenty more Led Zeppelin songs that do that
10 led Zeppelin songs that DON'T rip off other songs
@@Toto.Reyes16 Incomprehensible.
There's a story about Oasis from the early days when they used to rent a communal rehearsal space in Manchester to work on their first album. According to the story, other bands that rented the complex would stop and hear Oasis rehearse the same ten songs over and over again, and after a while it became obvious to them that their songs were blatant rip offs of other well known songs. This led to one of the band members that used the facilities to go over to Oasis' rehearsal room door, and posting a note that read: "Get your own riffs!"
they did also lend themselves to the real peoples sound, go listen to a song called window pain, its painfully obvious
8:03 the ending bit of half the world away actually features the same exact synth-ish sound and progression of bacharach’s tune… so the ending is much more similar to it than the beginning included here
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.
Not to mention the similarities in the chord progression for All Around the World. It's basically the same as Eight Days a Week, just in a different key. "All round the world / tell em what you heard" "Ooh I need your love, babe / guess you know it's true" Or the sheer abundance of Beatles lyrics that appear in their songs. I mean, they literally have a line in a song that's "Fool on the hill and I feel fine."
Or "You can ride with me in my yellow submarine"
Or "Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon"
There nothing alike and you don't understand music do you? I can't think of any band or solo artist who doesn't reference other songs, it's called folk music and this is how folk music works, it's how bands get remembered
@@dondamon4669 This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Thank you for the morning hilarity.
@@WindupchronicA lot of the time with the Beatles referenced in the lyrics it was homage to the Beatles what’s wrong with that ? Do you take yourself and music that serious? Oasis changed peoples lives they never claimed to be great musicians or pioneers at the start. It was party music look if we can do it anyone can there was a great message to them. They also developed as they got older first single supersonic to last single falling down couldn’t be any different.
More time has passed between She's Electric and now than has passed between While My Guitar Gently Weeps and She's Electric 😢
That's fucking outrageous.
To be fair, the entire Beatles catalogue was based on earlier music as well.
They ripped off loads of American blues and rhythm acts from the 50s, but Beatleites don’t like hearing that….
Maybe, but we are talking about Oasis here, which is not even a tenth of the Beatles´ left nut.
This is just how music works, we have only 12 notes to chose from, there's a limited number of ways to arrange those 12 notes so that they sound good, we need to fit them in a 4/4 grid, and we write in a recognizable style, a genre. That actually leaves very little space to be truly original. Music is about building on the shoulders of giants.
@@mikeanaro Oasis in mine and many other's eyes are better than The Beatles. It's all down to personal preference, which people like you don't seem to understand.
@@BeigeCoyoteyou don't know what good music is then
There is a lyric in Don’t look back in Anger “….cos the brains I had went to my head”😊 is actually a Lennon quote.
Thats not ripping off though😭 they've quoted the Beatles members many times
Isn’t it? Using a quote from Lennons audio memoirs is a direct rip from another writer, speaker. There’s allusion, quotation and reference. Allusion is indirect and requires cultural knowledge, quotation requires attribution, reference requires the listener/ responder to be able to know the source and the quote may only be similar to the original. It’s a rip. Lennon did it too.” Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans” is Betty. Talmadge.
@@nickdryadlet’s here your songs then?
@@MrBillyboyroge “hear” not “here”. Yeah I’d love to play them for you but I don’t have a record deal yet and I won’t put them on KZhead or whatever.
@@nickdryad So by that logic, Freddie Mercury was ripping off Marie Antoinette (which she can be classified as a Speaker) when he used her quote "let them eat cake" - What Noel wrote was still technically a reference as we are having this conversation, people caught on and recognised it thus making it a reference. I wouldn't classify it as a rip, musicians and writers take from each other all the time. Just look at today's music... everyone is sampling something from the 60s onwards.
I think that there's two Oasis songs inspired by All The Young Dudes, written by Bowie and played by Mott The Hopple. First one being Don't Look Back in Anger, which feels like the same song but more rock, and Stand By Me, both doing the same quite peculiar chord progression in the end of every chorus line.
Doesn't Don't Look Back in Anger have the All The Young Dudes melody buried right down in the mix?
@@TheGalwayFarmer yeah, in the last chorus the melody is played with the guitar
the thing is, you play what you listen to. it comes out naturally sometimes.
KZhead is reading my mind. A few days ago, I was looking for easy piano songs to learn FROM MY MIND, and ... I learned the chords to "Don't Look Back in Anger". And I thought to myself, "hmm, that's odd, doesn't it sound a lot like _imagine_?" Why yes, yes it does.
One of their songs, I can’t remember which one was stolen from a 1970’s kids cartoon show song. I think the song was something like “think about”.
The one that slips under everybody's radar is in she's electric, it's the latter part of the chorus. Utube The BBC's childrens Show from the 1970's titled You and me, listen to the intro song and then try to tell me that you can't hear it, it's a brilliant piece of thievery. I'm the same age as Noel and I can certainly imagine him coming home from school as a 7 year old and watchin the children's hour on TV as we all did, Reworking a kids shows theme tune into a classic rock song is his best to date
I just commented this, then saw youd beaten me to it. Lyrics and melody are very obviously taken from the TV theme. I'm a certain age too and I'll always remember the very first time I heard "she's electric" and thought "Hey! Hold on a minute...!"😂
@@FoxBox72Get it on by T-Rex = cigarettes and alcohol, thieves...
'You and me, me and you, lots and lots for us to do, lots and lots for us to see, me and you, you and me...' noticed it the first time I heard She's Electric and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere until seeing your post.
@@BigSlinky7 yep, it slips under the radar, but I love the thought of little Noel running home from school in his short pants, clutching onto his satchel then sitting down in front of the telly nodding his little head from side to side along to the Me and You theme tune and then all those years later laugh his little head all the way to the bank
I hear "Dead end" by the kinks in importance of being idle.
Definitely, they even copied the video
Yep
I read in one interview with Noel that he loves The Wall by Pink Floyd and particularly Nobody's Home - and actually you can hear its influence in a lot of his songs, in particular Don't Look Back in Anger.
Dave, Dont Look Back In Anger and the Step Out B-side came out in like Feburary 1996; 4 months after the album came out. The decision to omit it from What the Story Morning Glory was made the summer before albeit Stevie Wonder might be the reason it was missed off
# I’d like to teach, Liam to sing , in perfect harmony
Omg…so funny….
@@johnycat7373it is
I love the Rutles. Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry. Great band!
"All You Need is Cash"...and so forth...
I always thought that solo from Supersonic certainly had the same vibe as the instrumental theme song of Taggart (1985) the guitar solo certainly did 🙂 I guess they both got influenced by My Sweet Lord. Hale And Pale Oaday still makes me laugh. The songs are so funny
No-one mentions the theme tune to 1970s children's TV series "You and Me", the lyrics and melody of which were utilised in the chorus of "She's Electric".
Correct. First time I heard it I heard she's electric I new he'd pinched it off me and you. I'm 6 months older than N Gallagher so he would have been watching kids TV same time as me
There's a version of Shakermaker somewhere, sung by Noel, where he actually sings: "and nooooow we all drink Pepsi". 😂
There are loads missed off. One was a Wham tune, "When I was younger I had my own key" is same as "Every day I hear a different story". Loads more.
Someone: “What I love about Oasis is that the first time you hear their music it feels like you’ve heard it before …” Noel: “ 😐 “
Another one: Waiting For The Rapture (Dig out your soul Album) is very similar to "Five to one", by the doors.
On the same album is "The Turning" which sounds almost identical to the start of "Devil Woman" by Cliff Richard. :D
2:06 The cello part reminds me of the Beatles' song "I Am The Walrus".
Which Oasis has covered
The 12-bar blues part Bonehead's playin in Shakermaker sounds also familiar to The Beatles' song "Flying", I wonder if Noel as a huge Beatles fan was also inspired by that. On the other hand it's a 12-bar blues, so who knows
There’s a Status Quo song called Lonely Man from their album Quo, released in 1974. Anyone who here’s Lonely Man whenever I’ve played it, all ask if it’s an Oasis song.
Full name of the band now is Oasis of Plagiarised Songs aka Oops
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I miss these videos 😮😃 One thing to also note is that She’s Electric also borrowed from the song called ‘I’d like to buy the world a coke’ And so did their song Shakermaker. As you just showed in this video. And when Noel was sued for it all he had to say was ‘eh we drink Pepsi now.’ And that’s not the only song Shakermaker borrowed from! The guitar melody (or at least the first two notes of that melody) may have been inspired by Anthem by Ringo Starr.
didnt coca cola literally copy "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)"
@@thesaltwastaken I thought they parodied it. Maybe I’m mistaken
The lyric, “Cause I’ll be you and you’ll be me” does fit quite well with “I’d like to teach the world to sing” - but I’m not sure it’s close enough to say it was borrowed from that song.
Same. That's why I subscribed.
@@Speedbird9L i meant the melody. i see what you mean though. Could've just been influence rather than plagiarism
That song by Stevie Wonder towards the end, I think Dancing in the Streets sounds more like it than Step Out does. But yeah. Great vid man :)
Obviously the little snippet of Image at the start of "Don't Look in Back in Anger" is not so much an attempt to build the song around it (it lasts about 10 seconds), but more a joking reference to everyone saying they copy the Beatles too much.
Music evolves through history because we musicians are inspired by something we heard someone else play or sing. Chord progressions are repeated, lyrical ideas rehashed, and musical tones recreated. I’d like to hear anyone write music in a complete inspirational vacuum.
exactly
Lol, one thing is to be influenced and another thing is a disgusting copy almost note by note, same tempo and most time the same chord progression. Those Rip-Offs are not making music ¨evolve¨, on the contrary they are rewarding mediocre artists for making 0% creative effort. All about money and dumb casual music fans.
yeah bro but in this case is not only that they use the same chord progressions, they are copying pretty much everything... Is like a cover but with different lyrics (sometime even the lyrics are the same!!). And is not only one particular song, is 10 and probably there are a couple more that they missed on this video. I'm huge Oasis fan and you have to recognize that they put in the style, but after watching this is evident that Noel is just clever, not really a creative artist.
@@mikeanaro honest question, have you ever written a song yourself?
Live Forever is almost the exact same chord progression as This Charming Man by The Smiths.
It's a fairly common chord progression, though, so it's hard to say where Noel actually got it from.
Which you can't tell from the sonng, only when Marr played it with his loop pedal
@@TheGalwayFarmer Until I saw that video of Marr playing it a few months back I had no idea they were so similar.
I always thought Shakermaker was deliberately taking the p out of the coke ad?
Another one that's been mentioned by Noel himself is how "Some Might Say" is based on "Fuzzy", by Grant Lee Buffalo. The initial notes on both songs opening verses are basically the same.
Wow really? Fuzzy is one amazing song
Yeah, I love it too. No wonder Some Might Say's one of my favorite Oasis songs. I saw Noel talking about it in an interview a while back.
oof..i mean thats the thing, its so small ..he uses so many small things from what he hears and in his head they all get mixed and the end product is something new and all these lil bits
I mean when a song just happens to use one same chord at the beginning Is it really a rip off?
The cigarettes and alcohol intro is also identical to Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress by the hollies...this came out the same year and t-rex song...but is even more similar to the oasis track. I'd be interested to find out what came first.
T-Rex should sue, Get it On was ripped off and made in Cigarettes and Alcohol
@@andrewdavy9921 its a basic blues riff
Noel is genius - I didn’t realise he had so many diverse conscious and subconscious influences
Reminds me of an album review of one of Oasis's albums, all it said was "The trouble with Oasis is that they've run out of other people's ideas"
The first time I ever heard Oasis on the radio I genuinely thought they were a cover or tribute band. I couldn’t believe what they got away with. Not making this up…. All of their songs are (clever) 1960’s and 1970’s rip offs. Smart move to fill their pockets but it also guaranteed their eternal absence on any list of influential bands or artists.
their lack of talent and originality will never be matched by a band of their stature
As a side note, The La's borrowed the Clean Prophet sequence from The Kinks
The Kinks could def have sued a lot of people 😂
Clean Prophet sounds exactly like London Calling.
"David Bennett Music" will tell people what you're about & not deter non-pianists
I agree with this
With most pop stars nowadays it is like all of their songs are made by other people. They don't write their songs, they don't play their music, they don't produce anything. They just have a brief idea in their minds and other people turn them into hits with the help of a shitload of money for promotion.
I was hearing an old classic rock song the other day on the radio (can't recall the band or artist but it might had been Jimmy Hendrix) and I kept thinking 'this sounds quite similar to f*cking in the bushes'... After watching this I have no doubt that it was not a coincidence 🤣
He’s made millions and won’t care, but artistically it’s pretty naff. There’s always that age-old debate about how many songs can you really write and how close do they really sound yada yada, but some of these are very obvious rip-offs, and any way you slice it that’s just not a good look. I was a huge Oasis fan in their pomp, but I very rarely listen to them any more. I wonder if their sheer derivativeness is subconsciously why I find them uninteresting in retrospect.
At least they're not acting like they wrote them
I’m surprised you didn’t mention that the coca cola line was originally part of the lyrics to Shakermaker. Hardly a surprise they sued! You also stated that Step Out was supposed to appear on the upcoming Morning Glory album after being a b-side, but the album was out 1st, it only became a b-side later as it wasn’t on the album.
Here's another one I never see get mentioned. Listen the verses in *Fade Away* ("When I was young I thought I had my own key...") Sounds a lot like the verses from *Freedom* by Wham! One of the Wham! verses even has a line that ends in "key" as well.
Another example Same Sized Feet - Stereophonics and The Hindu Times
Chorus from don't look back is similar to pretty flamingo too
Yes, I knew Id heard it somewhere before😁
I think I’m going to cancel my preorder of Noel’s 5th Symphony. 🤭
The "So Sally can wait..." bit in "Don't look back in anger" always reminds me of "Pretty Flamingo".
They are not the most original composers but give them a break. It's RnR. Some of these are just 2 chords combination or a 5 seconds section. Dont look back in anger intro has nothing to do with the rest of the song. It's like doing an "Eric Clapton rips off" or "Zeppelin" video. They play blues, what do you expect?
Another is Up in the Sky sounds almost identical to Seagull by Ride
almost identical?.. the chords ?
I always thought the chord progression from 'Whatever' was nabbed from the opening of Bob Dylan's 'Is Your Love In Vain?'
What about Some Might Say & Fuzzy?
Never rated Oasis.
I'm old enough to have sung along to the Coke/New Seakers ad as a child!
me too!
I'm not SO old, but I regularly sing on this song because it's in one of my 70's "playlist" (actually, compilation).
I've always thought that the "'Cause I'll be you and you'll be me/there's lots and lots for us to see" section of 'She's Electric' sounded more like 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing' than 'Shakermaker'.
Sounds more like "But i see you and you see me" from the kinks song Wonderboy
@@diegovalencia4127 Absolutely.
You forgot to mention the Kinks twice. "She's Electric" steals not only the music, but the lyrics of "Wonderboy". It's so evident that it's more a homage than a rip-off. Also, "The Importance of Being Idle" is so reminiscent of "Dead End Street", that they even replicated the video's imagery.
Only 10? 🤨😅
Oh my, it’s worse than I thought.
If you are older and enjoy listening to music then it is almost impossible to listen to an Oasis album. All that keeps jumping out at you is the tracks he's stolen from. It's that bad. If you are younger, not that bright, not really into decent music and follow the crowd, in an 'Emperors New clothes' sort of way, it's 'Orr, mate, bangin' innit mate, best tune me ever heard mate, sooooorted' As you were! (If you know what I mean?) Mate.
@@ramalama9650 you sound fun. best song writer of a generation. lennon stole plenty a song people dont shit on him for that same with led zepplin. great artists steal.
@@ramalama9650 Womp Womp
Also the Solo on don't look back in anger and Damaged by Primal Scream
Oasis also sang "I'd like to teach the world to sing" in place of the "Mr. Sifter" verse at live performances
Only 10?!
so flagrant and unabashed. . .perhaps one reason they ground my gears, even subconsciously