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Horrendous rip-offs of other people's songs thread

patheticrebellion [Edit] [Delete] 15:10, 12 February '11

Jesus Christ, I don't like to take the familiar DIS route of knocking down a media darling band as soon as they become popular, but as well as the recent furore about the Vaccines' Post Break Up Sex copying "The KKK Took My Baby Away", here's another

Best Coast - Crazy for You - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzz8SojS3D8

and this (I know it wasn't his song but this is probably the version '90s kids like me will be most familiar with) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMTLDKbmlEs

2011 and from both sides of the Atlantic we get chronically uninspired songwriting. Also, though I've never been into women who go on about their pet cats and have lame tattoos anyway, there's just something about Bethany Cosentino which suggests she has chronic BO.

On a better note about the Vaccines, a band who are already making me sometimes utterly loathe them, "If ya Wanna" is actually a great pop song. I was slightly disappointed they didn't cover this though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_LwUZW0Gcs


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