"Inspiration" - where does music find it?

[Zeus 7997]

We had something like this before so I'm bringing it back.

Here's the name of the game: you find a song that borrows elements from another song by a different artist. One of the artists has to be visual kei. The element could be a riff, a vocal line, the entire song, etc.

Here's a good example:

SILENT DIFFERENCE - CRIMSON DUST

sounds a hell of a lot like:

lynch. - All this I'll give you

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

lynch. came first BTW.

Also:

SILENT DIFFERENCE - BELIAL

near the end sounds like

Dir en grey - Pink Killer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDak5Kd03AQ

You can't tell me you don't hear that.

[Tokage 5930]

Deathgaze - Forsaken = Breaking Benjamin - Diary of Jane

Deathgaze - SINNER = Trust Company - The War is Over

some other old Deathgaze song is Slipknot's Surfacing

[Manabu 144]

Old Gazette-New Gazette

HAHAHAHA, but really

Alice nine's Kiseki (from the mirrorball single) has almost the exact same opening riff as Blink 182's dysentry Gary

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HRKHJysO7U

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjBtvP75DLc

 

Edit: Listening to both of these, despite copying the riff Alice nine have done a lot better with it

[Tokage 5930]

Pride of Mind ripped off Michael Jackson's Billy Jean btw

[Eraser 66]

Lament's new single sounds a LOT like an old 12012 b-side, especially the chorus:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4frVhxB6zhM

 

[Eraser 66]

(Sorry for the new post, can't embed more than 2 videos for some reason)

 

lynch's Ambivalent Ideal PV was highly "inspired" by an Argentine band's music video:

 

 

[Eraser 66]

Well, this one is so obvious I don't have to say anything else. Not sure if it was meant to be a D'espairsRay cover or just a pure ripoff:

 

 

[nick 10212]

One more from SILENT DIFFERENCE
 

 
Original: Dir en grey - Unknown... Despair... a Lost

 
 
This is not VK but still J-Rock related.
 
ELLEGARDEN - Alternative Plans
 

Original: Green Day - Basket Case

 

^ Don't know why the last 2 embed videos above turned out to be just normal text.

[Tokage 5930]

It's because you can only embed 2 vids per post.

Also

 

Guniw Tools - Looser Sugar is Yo La Tengo's Sugarcube.

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

Litchi Hikari Club's "Dark Knight"'s guitar solo sounds a hell of a lot one I've heard in a Dream Theater song before (still trying to find the song).

 

lynch.'s 'Quarter Life' has a few melodic lines that are in a different key from Emmuree's an「acute」.

 

[_Vani;lla]'s "ゥソつき,"  V-LAST.'s "彩恋-sairen-," and And's "恋スル@BOY" all have more or less the same riff thing going on with slight variants, presumably stolen from somewhere in an irrelevant GazettE single from who knows when.

 

Megaromania's 'Bloodshed' is Rhapsody of Fire's "Dawn of Victory." E'm~Grief~'s 'Amentia' is Dimmu Bugir + some gross Cradle of Filth song mixed together (Yuuze had a severe lapse of judgement in 2009, please forgive him). 

 

Missa's '奇櫻の宴,' The Piass' 'G-Gas~,' and another song by The Kiryu (I can't remember which, for the life of me) have this same oriental melody to it. I've been dying to know where it comes from.

 

Likewise, the Kiryu's 'Another Side' has the theme from Tetris in it (which came from a Russian folk song itself).

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

Also, lololololol forever at the South American rap group that sampled Diru's "Cage." So many tears.

[Zeus 7997]

Lycaon - INSANITY

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NSOOj1s7SE

Compare the introduction with:

System of a Down - Toxicity

 

Homage? Tribute? I have no idea.

[Biopanda 2675]

Like everything from Antikythera's HAZEL album is a Guniw Tools song.

[TheBistroButcher666 228]

Mejibray - Die Kusse

The Gazette - Filth in the Beauty

 

Ru:natic - Everything made in the 90s ever (by La:sadies and Madeth gray'll/DAS:VASSER more or less)

[Eraser 66]

This Cat fisT single was most likely inspired by THE INVISIBLE WALL. Although I think both songs are great on their own, there are a lot of similarity between them:

 

 

[Tokage 5930]

Plastic Tree is pretty good at the plagiarizing game too.

Andro Metamorphose is basically Mew's Comforting sounds, Fujunbutsu is REALLY similar to Smells Like Teen Spirit and Rira no Ki is basically My Iron Lung

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

A (Ace) - Black Butterfly took quite a lot of "inspiration" from

Metallica - Enter Sandman

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaR11exHIpo

[Zeus 7997]

Just to clarify on Peace's post earlier, E'm～grief～'s Amentia lifts sections of

Progenies of the Great Apocalypse by Dimmu Borgir
Shat Out Of Hell by Cradle of Filth
Honey and Sulphur by Cradle of Filth
The Promise of Fever by Cradle of Filth

This wins the award of "worst plagiarization ever".

Also obligatory comparison here:

Dir en grey - Unknown...Despair...a Lost

Luna Sea - G

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA_17rexecI

[nekkichi 6043]

> presumably stolen from somewhere in an irrelevant GazettE single from who knows when.

 

Piisu calling matina gazette singles irrelevant, what's going on here

[Rize 1593]

MEJIBRAY - 【worms】

 

is like.....

 

Diaura - Terrors (Like the intro, but MEJIBRAY are using some electro elements in it)

 

 

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MEJIBRAY - 偽りの仮面/じさつのうた 

 

sounds like... (the Intro part)

 

Royz - eve:r

 

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MEJIBRAY - Chameleon YUMMY

 

sounds like

 

The GazettE - SLUDGY CULT

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GlhmIv5ds

[ryoustyle 0]

Matenrou Opera's GLORIA sound very alike Rhapsody's Emerald Sword

 

 

 

And their Boukyaku celluloid has some similiar riffs in the intro like Children of Bodom's Are you dead yet.

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

also,

MUCC - Sanbika

 

is instrumental-wise an almost identical copy to

 

the Eagles - Hotel California

 

miya didn't even bother to change the key they're playing

[Pretsy 1343]

the GazettE - Sludgy Cult <> SADS - Because

the GazettE - Vermin <> X JAPAN - Scars

the GazettE - Shiver <> Luna Sea - End of Sorrow

the GazettE - Defective Tragedy <> Luna Sea - FEEL

the GazettE - Before I Decay <> Slipknot - Before I Forget (do I have to go on this...?)

the GazettE - DISTRESS AND COMA <> Zilch - Psyche

the GazettE - Ogre <> various Slipknot riffs off Iowa

 

Dir en grey - Reiketsu Nariseba <> Slipknot -  People = Shit (Breakdown <> intro riff)

Dir en grey - I'll <> Kuroyume - Miss Moonlight x D=SIRE - Nostalgia (?)

Nightmare - Believe <> Luna Sea - Rosier

Dir en grey - Akuro no Oka <> Luna Sea - Millennium (listen to choruses)

Lycaon - Pierrot <> SADS - Finale

Lynch. - Sleepy Flow <> Prodigy - Spitfire

Lynch. - Shadowz <> Slipknot Before I Forget (...)

Versailles - Revenant Choir <> X Japan - Silent Jealousy

12012 - Hesitation <> Limp Bizkit - Take A Look Around (some riffs) x Dir en grey - Repetition of Hatred

D'espairsray - Love is Dead <> Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round

Kuroyume - Faster Beat <> some Dead Kennedys' song off their first album...

Alice Nine - The Beautiful Name <> U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name

L'arc-en-Ciel - In the Air (sans chorus) <> U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name

Plastic Tree - Ruisen Kairo <> Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Blue Train

Plastic Tree - Ghost <> Slipknot - Duality

Plastic Tree - Thirteenth Friday <> My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

Kuroyume - Love Song <> Luna Sea - Image (acoustic riffs)

Luna Sea - G. <> X Japan - Miscast

 

...Basically most of D-major-based songs in highly pop/early vk-related bands' repertoire are similar in one way or another to U2's pre 1990-repertoire 

[Tokage 5930]

√eight - Illational of the People = Zilch - Electric Cucumber

√eight -名も亡き神の行進 = Zilch - Psyche

[sai 868]

the GazettE's BEFORE I DECAY quite resembles lynch.' SHADOWZ. Not entirely sure which one came first, but I think SHADOWZ was released before BID. I seem to recall their release dates were very close to eachother, so I doubt there was any inspiration there considering BID was probably a DIM leftover.

 

Then of course there's Unknown Despair a G (which beautifully ripped off the main riff). I vaguely recall hearing a VK song once that nearly had the exact same drumming pattern as Genesis' Driving The Last Spike, though the roll of the drums were less apparent in that one. I wish I remembered which one it was.