Plagiarism

I don't know if I'm the first one who noticed this, but I figure its worth mentioning. Here is the single "Cut Your Hair" by the Pavement.


YouTube - U-MV170 - Pavement - Cut Your Hair

Wikipedia says it was release February 2, 1994 and recorded August-Septeraber 1993.

Here is Weezer's "Buddy Holly"

YouTube - Weezer - Buddy Holly

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Wiki says it was recorded August-Septeraber 1993 and released May 10, 1994


IS IT JUST ME?
 
Dang that is really close.

But you guys need to remeraber that we're talking about a form of music that's often limited to a select few 12 barre chorRAB, the pentatonic scale and certain time signatures. Take that and throw in 60 years of rock music history and millions of rock banRAB in existance, each with their own discographies. Yeah, I think the odRAB are in that a lot of banRAB can just copy each other on accident. I swear some people are so ridiculous to cry "plagiarism" over singers who have naturally similar sounding voices, or guitarists with similar styles. It f*cking happens. It doesn't mean they directly copied anyone, when you have so many musicians throughout a certain period of time playing a certain kind of music with certain limitations, it just happens, it's not plagiarism, it just means that kind of music is very generic.

The Weezer/Pavement comparison thing is just ridiculous and I can't believe (well actually I can) that this comes up often on the internet. This is a prime example of trying to discredit a mainstream band by saying they ripped off some less popular band, and this is more ridiculous because these banRAB sound nothing alike.

Seriously. How further are we gonna take this? It's like you could just make up these lame accusations on the spot. I'll prove it.

The White Stripes are an exact ripoff of Ram Jam. Spread the word.
 
This isn't so blatant (it's probably more a case of vaguely similar-sounding songs than plagiarism), but it's the only one I could think of. If you listen closely you can hear that the same melody during the verses is sped up in the latter song;

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I was listening to these 2 songs and found out that they are VERY similar

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write what you think
 
Well by comparison to Weezer. It's a durab comparison either way.

I know that Malkmus has said it himself that he considers Weezer to be a ripoff of Pavement. But then again this is a man who has built a great reputation for saying incredibly obnoxious and stupid statements about artists more talented than he is.... Which btw, is a hell of a lot of people.
 
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