AMAAW = Plagiate

[jacobus]

the melody of U2s AMAAW is heavy influenced by the George Michael song AMAZING:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJgxGsf5I0
(most listenable from 1:17 - 1:45)
poor U2 i just hope the new album is more creative...

 

[gman]

Only similarity I can hear is both have acoustic guitar out front and both have a middle of the road feel to them

 

[mysterious_jen]

somehow i dont think so.

 

[Aardvark747]

Can't really see it myself. Though I do like the GM song. AMAAW is still my fave off HTDAAB.

 

[last unicorn]

Only similarity I can hear is both have acoustic guitar out front and both have a middle of the road feel to them

Oh yes. That makes a gazillion songs clear plagiats.

 

[Aygo]

Wasn't AMAAW released before "Amazing"?

 

[gareth brown]

A Man And A Woman's a great song.

 

[jacobus]

Aygo: Wasn't AMAAW released before "Amazing"?

no. the George Michael album PATIENCE was released in april 2004.

 

[BVS]

 

[derrick_rossign]

somehow i dont think so.

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

"Plagiate"?

 

[gvox]

Is everyone here on drugs?

 

[Caroni]

^why do yo7u think they call it the blue crack

 

[gvox]

true!

 

[BVS]

Is everyone here on drugs?

I thought it was a requirement...

You mean, some of you are sober?

 

[Addicted To Bad]

... U2 DO NOT need any kind of influence. They have been always on their own...

George Michael influence ?? For God´s sake!!!

(Am I wrong... or deaf??

 

[toscano]

... U2 DO NOT need any kind of influence. They have been always on their own...

Except when they lifted Beatiful Day's chorus of course !

At 1:57

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B1pb1IZcaiQ

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

You mean, some of you are sober?

God, how I wish I wasn't right now...

 

[gvox]

You mean, some of you are sober?

Sadly, I have to be for a bit...

 

[gvox]

Except when they lifted Beatiful Day's chorus of course !

At 1:57

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B1pb1IZcaiQ

You can believe that if you want, I don't. Bono probably heard that tune a million times in the 80s, and sure maybe it subconciously creeped back into his brain when they came up with the melody for BD, but I doubt very much that there was any concerted effort there. They/he probably didn't even realize it until someone pointed it out, and the fact that he used Aha snippets in BD a couple of times live seems to lend itself to that more than the deliberate lift theory, imo.

 

[CTU2fan]

That John Mayer song is a Stuck in a Moment ripoff...and Stuck is a Curtis Mayfield ripoff...

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Everything nowadays is a rip-off of something else… the fax machine is just a waffle iron with a phone attached.

 

[gvox]

Everything nowadays is a rip-off of something else… the fax machine is just a waffle iron with a phone attached.

:sprayscoffeeeverywhere:

 

[Addicted To Bad]

I have no doubt everybody here DO understand much more about "tunes" than me... but I believe there are lots of "concidence" in terms of tunes in music in general.

(or I ´ve been too naïve... )

 

[last unicorn]

Everyone is ripping off everyone these days.

It's just a question of how good you disguise your rip off.

Remember this Gorillaz song that was a rip-off from Staring at the sun? Or the new James Blunt song that sounds very much like In A Little While? Except it's much much worse.

 

[gvox]

Isn't it John Mayer or James Blunt or another one of those annoying guys who also has a song that bites the riff from One?

and the entire beat in UTEOTW = Paid in Full = Ashley's Roach Clip

I think it's logical to hear influences in U2's music. They've done their fair share of clubbing and when you listen to alot of music, you're bound to come up with ideas down the road that sound like something you've heard before. They've got a couple of tunes that sound very Beatles to me, too. It's not a bad thing, necessarily.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

They've got a couple of tunes that sound very Beatles to me, too. It's not a bad thing, necessarily.

WITS comes to mind, especially the guitar...

Can you see Beatles fans getting pissed off everytime some other artist sounded like them? There would be no time for anything else!

 

[LemonMelon]

the melody of U2s AMAAW is heavy influenced by the George Michael song AMAZING:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJgxGsf5I0
(most listenable from 1:17 - 1:45)
poor U2 i just hope the new album is more creative...

1. No.

2. That music video SUCKS.

 

[CTU2fan]

Isn't it John Mayer or James Blunt or another one of those annoying guys who also has a song that bites the riff from One?

Maybe "Walking Away" by Craig David? I think Bono even snippeted that in a performance of One, and there's a One/Walking Away mashup out there that I might still have (I know I did once). But Craig David >>>>> both John Mayer and James Blunt, even if (because?) John Mayer nailed Jessica Simpson.

 

[gvox]

I think Bono even snippeted that in a performance of One,

Well that settles it, Bono copied Craig David