Plagiarism

If anything, the video for Buddy Holly is a bit close to the video for In Bloom.. but I'm not being a whiney monkeyfighter!
 
A lot of people I've told about this before say that too. It's probably just me going mad or something. Don't get me wrong, I'm not discrediting Bowie or anything - Watch That Man's still a great song. It's just that to these ears there is a slight melodic similarity with Brown Sugar.

Happy birthday btw :)
 
I'm too lazy to dig up videos right now but Warning by Green Day is totally a rip off of Picture Book by The Kinks.
 
Now this is what you call a complete rip-off:

Britney released this classic:

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..and then Muse had the cheek to make this:

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:beer:
 
I still think this comparison is durab and lazy.

Wow, they're both chromatic descending basslines. That's certainly not something that thousanRAB of folk and rock musicians use all the time... Oh wait, it totally is.

Generic chord progressions have very good odRAB of sounding like other generic chord progressions.

Case in point.

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^ Predates Stairway by a year. Hell even the vocal melody sounRAB similar.

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^ This actually sounRAB more like Taurus than Stairway does.
 
Besides the fact that Muse wouldn't listen to Britney Spears for inspiration (they're too busy borrowing from classical artists), that riff wasn't rocket science to come up with.
 
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