Musical 'inspriations'

Music
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Do rave tracks that borrow riffs from early goth classics count here? Probably not, but I’ll post some anyway.

1980:

1991:

1980:

1990:

1991, and adding a few slightly bum notes to sound a bit different:

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That Neutron really is a straight-up lift from A Forest, isn’t it?! Not heard this before.

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Pretty sure I had that Neutron record without noticing.

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For many years I used to bump into Peggy Gou’s favourite producer, Ed DMX, and he’d thank me for / remind me of the records on the Chill label (out of Luton) I’d sold/given him in the early '90s.

Again, wasn’t aware of the steal.

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The infamous source of a famous rave track:

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Bloody hell! I never even knew!

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Maybe this is already well known to some, but i just heard this on a Jamie Tiller mix and I swear the bass line / melody sequence is the exact same one used on Fatima Yamaha - What’s A Girl To Do

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Which one? Dont keep me hanging?

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I’m sure you know, but here’s the riff in my favourite version:

and the best bit (the voice, then the silence) in my second favourite version:

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1973:

1980:

2002:

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It’s just a simple guitar riff but:

1976:

1979:

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Here’s a reasonably well known one…

This from 1979… :arrow_down:

…is a direct lift from this 1975 version of a traditional Tunisian folk song⬇️

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I don’t know enough about music to be on this forum.

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Other Boney M news from Viz

May be an image of 1 person, beard and text that says 'mom his WHEN body was found, Rasputin's testicles had been crushed flat by his torturers. How he can even have been in the top fifty Russian love machines with flat balls is beyond me. Are any other readers concerned about the accuracy of Boney M's lyrics? Nabisco Jones, Lincoln- on-sea'
May be an image of 1 person, beard and text that says 'mom his WHEN body was found, Rasputin's testicles had been crushed flat by his torturers. How he can even have been in the top fifty Russian love machines with flat balls is beyond me. Are any other readers concerned about the accuracy of Boney M's lyrics? Nabisco Jones, Lincoln- on-sea'328×623 50.2 KB

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Here’s another infamous one that supposedly resulted in an out-of-court settlement

The verse and chorus of this pop-tabulous hit from the early 80’s…

…‘borrowed heavily’ from this ethno-novelty track from the early 60s (which I think is itself a version of a traditional Australian aboriginal song)

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Maybe I’m going a little nuts…

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this one is high profile, but in the event it hasn’t been mentioned:

undoubtedly got an angry phone call from the keith jarrett estate. he ended up with a writing credit. he’s not known for being especially “chill”.

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The Knight Rider theme also nicked some bits from classical music:

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Some amazing musical ‘inspriations’ here, some may also be aspirations.

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Straight lift on the bass.