Intentional or not, I believe we all have some songs that remember another
My first one:
D’espairsRay - Love Is Dead 2010
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 1984
I remember that at the time a lot of people were talking about it. If I’m not wrong Karyuu even admitted that he heard the song in the states and thought it was cool.
Second:
Malice Mizer - 月下の夜想曲 (Gekka No Yasoukyoku) 1998
Wink - 背徳のシナリオ (Haitoku no Scenario) 1991
This one I have no idea if it is intentional or not, but the instrumentals, specially at the beginning…
And my last one:
ＪＵＢＩＬＥＥ - ANOTHER WORLD 2019
There’s no video on YouTube with the song (only live versions with low quality), you can check the preview here:
Moi dix Mois - Neo Pessimist 2007
I think this one is a little trickier to find, but the similarity is there in the back the neo version more than the old one). Mostly in the chorus.
Edit:
It seems that many videos from this thread started disappearing from YT. I would recommend we include the names of the tracks in addition to the embeds.
Well, a lot of the songs by Mercuria, Mother, 優薙, etc (projects by 夕薙), are inspire (or copies) by songs from Syndrome, DAS:VASSER, 弥叉, etc.
I love all these projects by 夕薙, because they are so kotekote shit <3, makes me happy listen these songs (that some of them are covers but without that name xD)
I thought Gotcharocka copied LM.C’s famous one lol
extreme deja vu isn’t it when I heard 4 Minutes For You at first back in the days, I was totally shocked.
luckily, both are great, and I’m a fan of the anime “ぬらりひょんの孫” (Nurarihyon no Mago) originally.
I listen to Radiohead (a little bit) and Plastic Tree (way too much) so I thought I should clear the air on the claims that people make about this, here’s a comment I left on the Pura YT vid:
This isn’t an open cover because the booklet attributes the song composition to Tadashi. Plastic Tree has done an open cover of “Turn, Turn, Turn” by Pete Seeger called 祈り (Inori) (Pete Seeger is properly credited in the booklet) so I’m assuming that people are getting these mixed up. I’m not here to defend Plastic Tree because the verse melody has been obviously lifted from My Iron Lung but considering that Radiohead has lifted in a similar way before (Creep took its verse melody from The Hollies “The Air That I Breathe”) I find the outrage a little hypocritical lmao.
Here’s a lift that’s from one Visual band to another. Arlequin’s
really did try and lift from this Versailles classic
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal”
If you’re an MM fan then you’ve probably heard about this one. The verses on Kozi’s
are a clear homage (or copy if you aren’t feeling generous) to the verses on Mylene Farmer’s
The bassline and tambourine percussion on Kuroyume’s
is very similar to Iggy Pop’s
Though these are just passing similarities, no one can copyright something basic like that!
I’ll let someone else do Greiva and Guniw Tools ones…
零[Hz]-パラフィリア
NETH PRIERE CAIN-Aphrodite
Especially the opening riff, however I think it’s forgivable because there still are differences which is why it works for both bands despite their styles being different. Plus I like both of these songs, they’re fun during lives
Within the same band, Hayato-shi is very fond of reusing things. KARISUMA is basically just an homage to previous コドモドラゴン songs.
I think the only reason Pura hasn’t been sued is that Radiohead doesn’t know them lol. But even if they did know about the song, if Radiohead sent a cease and desist and Pura complied with no complaints (or if they took Pura to court) then they would get the royalties from a song that hasn’t been repressed in over 25 years and live performed in like 23 years… So they would get literally nothing lol. Or even if they sued for damages (ignoring the international issues they may face) despite Pura doing well for themselves they probably wouldn’t get the money they want. Like Vanilla Ice once said, “For someone that goes Gold (certified), it’s not even worth [the plaintiff’s] time to go and get a lawyer…”
The GazettE and Cuartet were both close with eachother, being brother bands, and they bounced a lot of idea off of eachother and share a lot of influences.
as soon as I first heard it, I knew that it sounds similar to… Well, do I even have to tell you guys about this legendary song?
I don’t know if this is a licensed sample or not but I like the homage Prince is a part of my own CD collection too If it isn’t licensed at least cali≠gari is in the clear now, Prince was brutal with copyright stuff
In a case of someone outside of VK copying a VK band’s riff:
SILENT DIFFERENCE - CRIMSON DUST sounds a lot like lynch. - All this I’ll give you
SILENT DIFFERENCE - BELIAL end sounds a lot like Dir en grey - Pink Killer end
Same guy different band. LA KIA’s PRETENCE sounds a lot like Dir en grey - Unknown…Despair…a lost which in turn sounds similar to LUNA SEA’s G (but more of a homage than a rip off in Diru’s case)
Lycaon - INSANITY opening riff comes from System of a Down - Toxicity opening riff
Cat fisT - OBSCURITY sounds inspired by The GazettE - THE INVISIBLE WALL
A (ACE) - Black Butterfly owes its existence to Metallica - Enter the Sandman
and finally E’m～grief～ - Amentia lifts sections of
These two pairs of songs share the same riffs. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard them before, probably in classical music. Does anyone know where they come from? Timestamps included.
Pain after pain by The Thirteen
Opening synth sounds like Obscure MV opening by DEG and beginning riff sounds like the riff from 「溺れる魚」by Dadaroma. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXN7yBVo49I
when I heard 4 Minutes For You at first back in the days, I was totally shocked.
Prince is a part of my own CD collection too 
If it isn’t licensed at least cali≠gari is in the clear now, 
