NancyJohnson Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 (edited) I'll wager this is something that you will probably not have seen or heard before. I'm a big powerpop fan and for some time have loved a Californian band called Tsar (who have spawned a few other bands, despite them still being more or less together). First album came out in 2000 and contained the song 'Kathy Fong Is The Bomb'. A couple of days ago I had Spotify going at it threw up a track called Baby Talk by a band from Massachusetts called Loose Lips. Pretty much identical musically [EDIT here] and while the lyrics are different, the delivery of the lines thereon is also pretty much identical. The Loose Lips album was released in October 1999, the Tsar album mid-2000, but Jeff Whalen (Tsar front man) said the song was about 'a cool Japanese woman [I] worked with before Tsar got signed'. Have a listen! Edited August 14, 2023 by NancyJohnson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 Interesting. Loose Lips were from California too, according to this, and their singer was in another band called The Rip-Offs 🤷🏻♂️ http://grunnenrocks.nl/bands/l/looselips.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 The classic example is of course “Shot By Both Sides” by Magazine and “Fast Cars” by The Buzzcocks. Less well known, but apparently using the same backing track is “Ca Plane Pour Moi” by Plastic Bertrand and “Jet Boy, Jet Girl” by Elton Motello. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 20 minutes ago, BigRedX said: c Less well known, but apparently using the same backing track is “Ca Plane Pour Moi” by Plastic Bertrand and “Jet Boy, Jet Girl” by Elton Motello. that's the one that sprung to mind with me as well, apparently they used the same backing track,the Damned covered Jet Boy Jet Girl as well 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 12 hours ago, BigRedX said: The classic example is of course “Shot By Both Sides” by Magazine and “Fast Cars” by The Buzzcocks. Less well known, but apparently using the same backing track is “Ca Plane Pour Moi” by Plastic Bertrand and “Jet Boy, Jet Girl” by Elton Motello. Was it not "Lipstick"? Devoto and Shelley had been working on some songs and Pete gave him the riff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky L Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Crusoe said: Was it not "Lipstick"? Devoto and Shelley had been working on some songs and Pete gave him the riff. Yes, it's Lipstick. The Damned's "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" heavily leans on that riff too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 My mistake - Fast Cars reuses the Boredom riff. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 And both songs in the OP owe not a little bit to "Hellraiser" by The Sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Lo Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 Can we talk about how Transvision Vamp fully stole "I want your love" from the Misfit's "Skulls" and inexplicably did not get sued by Glenn Danzig ib the process? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harps Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 Here’s one. Song written by guitarist Stone Gossard, recorded on the original demo tape sent to Eddie Vedder before Pearl Jam formed who did his thing and made Footsteps. At the same time, Temple of the Dog was being recorded so Chris Cornell put his mark on it for Times of Trouble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 Chuck Berry did sue, successfully, the Beach Boys over Surfin USA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 On 12/08/2023 at 22:52, BigRedX said: The classic example is of course “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin and “Taurus” by Spirit Fixed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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