"Inspiration" - where does music find it?

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

己龍-化猫 (The awesome bass walk at 00:16)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dxnBmjtOgY

 

Baiser - Damage

 

[Pretsy 1343]

@DogManX: It's an alter-ego act, sry to blow your bubble

 

also:

 

Buck-Tick - National Media Boys (1990)

(post-solo part)

 

Kuroyume - Autism -Jiheishou- (1994)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK7A8QcrQ0g&t=2m35s (post-solo part)  

 

I guess variants of that part have been overused in many solos...

[melmo382 9]

The end of Dir en Grey's Mazohyst of Decadence  (

) is similar  to Buck-tick's Kirameki no naka de  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwbKQUb_5Zw)

[DogManX 179]

@Rez DUH

 

The intro theme sounds like the intro of cannibal corpse's "sentenced to burn"

[Pretsy 1343]

http://youtu.be/Zwn0MefXCK8?t=1m55s

Malice Mizer - Illuminati

 

http://youtu.be/jbV7-6Giy5I?t=2m30s

X Japan - Love Replica

 

Both have orgy/BDSM-ish themes in PVs, also the way those "naked" people gather around Gackt is similar to those of Hide's

 

 

[keyinjpop 89]

Jaejoong's Mine sounds like it ripped off L'Arc~en~Ciel's Daybreak's Bell (and some other rock bands).

 

Jaejoong's Mine

 

L'Arc~en~Ciel's Daybreak's Bell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1m3-yMcVJs

[YuyoDrift 1540]

Ok.

 

So my brother and I were browsing some Visual kei PV's and stumbled across a PV from Daisystripper called "Uso to Kagero"

 

Now I KNOW the background music in the chorus is from another song, but for fucks sake we can't remember the damn song!

 

Calling all VK OG's! Help us find the damn song they took that music from.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp9xx8PALuU

 

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[TheBistroButcher666 228]

I've definitely heard that opening melody before. Otherwise not any help at all.

Ohhh and that venue seems to be a common place to film PVs.

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

as for opening and chorus instrumental part, it sounds very, very power-metal-ish. something that galneryus would do.

i've heard it before too, but i'm not very familiar with galneryus's discography, but i'd start searching there first...

[YuyoDrift 1540]

Now, just for the record, I am not accusing them of plagiarism.

I know it's hard to come up with or even enter a new genre of music without being accused of ripping off some other bands' style or melody. 

 

I love the song BTW. It's just that the melody the plays along after the chorus has been eating away at me all night. So I haven't rested much.

 

I know I have listened to it before, or else why even bring it up? I can't (for the 10+ years of listening to Japanese music) pinpoint the exact band this melody came from.

 

I feel like a newbie....

[Lestat 2167]

I have a good one for you. This entire song by the Piass is built up of songs that already existed.

 

 

 

Anything familiar in here? There certainly is.

 

New York Dolls/Johnny Thunders - Great Big Kiss

Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy
Def Leppard - Blood Runs Cold
Roxx Gang/Poison - Ball and Chain
The Clash - Hate & War
Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
The Who - My Generation
Mötley Crüe - Wild Side

Motörhead - No Class
AC/DC - Shot Down in Flames
Iggy Pop - Search and Destroy
MC5 - Kick out the Jams
Sex Pistols - Silly Thing
Ramones - Hey Ho, Let’s Go!
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
Tiny Bradshaw/The Yardbirds/Aerosmith - Train Kept-A Rollin’
Faster Pussycat - Don’t Change that Song
Generation X/Billy Idol - King Rocker
Michael Monroe - Not Fakin’ It

Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Aerosmith - Last Child
Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare
The Doors - Light My Fire
David Bowie - All the Young Dudes
Alice Cooper - School’s Out
Generation X - Wild Youth
Skid Row - Livin’ on a Chain Gang
The Damned (?) - I Feel Alright
KISS - Rock and Roll all Nite

White Lion - Till Death do us Part
T.Rex - Electric Warrior
The Stranglers - No More Heroes.
The Damned - Smash It Up

[Zeus 7997]

I'll periodically be merging topics that go along the lines of "this melody sounds familiar" into this one. Makes life easier and then maybe someone can help out.

[Pretsy 1343]

the Gazette's FADELESS sounds too much like Luna Sea's Sweetest Coma Again in many parts.

 

So yeah, appropriate place for this post.

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

Dear Bitch - "-Keeping SecreT-" <---> Kuroyume - "カマキリ"

[elias 178]

"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."

 

hey Seraphim, that melody is a traditional japanese folk song called "Sakura Sakura" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_Sakura)

 

 

 

Ruellia also used it:

 

[Pretsy 1343]

"original"

 (2007)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuIh0MNXhOc (2012)

 

You will notice it during choruses

 

Oh, and the bassline in both songs seem to be lifted off Iggy Pop song? Hahaha.

[Wonrei 108]

^here

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj2KV2ETO3g

the actual original

 

a really famous ripoff

[Pretsy 1343]

^ I was pretty sure that GD wouldn't rip off some basic oshare song. So yeah, I can hear the source for both.

 

Makes sense in overall

 

Oh, and as I mentioned, Kuroyume's "Happy Birthday" bassline is pretty much "Lust for Life" as well

[LIDL 692]

Them touring travelling around Europe and USA usually might spark something out too

 

 

But most probably they got their inspiration from video games and ultraman lol

 

 

 

[Pretsy 1343]

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6p4iN3T2Hg

 

The Gazette's Agony has a drumbeat that is way too similar to Korn's Wicked cover, also: the excessive usage of similar whammy-high guitar parts.

 

You might call it "an influence" but I gotta post it anyway. 

[Zeus 7997]

I found another song that uses a very similar riff to Luna Sea's G. It's more subtle than Dir en grey's attempt but I still had a deja vu moment sitting on the bus listening to this song.

 

-OZ- - S.I.N

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

[Muma 97]

The bass at the beginning of Alice Nine's Heavenly Tale

 

Reminds me a lot of the bass at the beginning of Between the Buried and Me's Informal Gluttony

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

 

Was this taken from somewhere? After listening to another one of their songs, I'm really surprised a relatively no-name 90s vkei band wrote songs with as complex a structure as they did.

[Lestat 2167]

Not really VK, but the intro riff is just a classic rip-off.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfemU_9UYE

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAzqSYQ9X9U

[Bear 1817]

Rosenfeld - B/Crows in Black

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAqT-KHO7Ro

 

X Japan - Blue Blood

 

Pretty similar, isn't it? They were both active around the same time in the 80's, both being early VK and stuff so I wouldn't be surprised if X Japan heard Rosenfeld first, and either intentionally or unintentionally wrote a very similar riff. It's a great riff and I would written the same if I could.