However, The Big Takeover magazine's Jack Rabid reported that Captain Sensible's "Life Goes On", recorded by The Damned for their 1982 album, Strawberries, "features the exact same, extremely unique riff as both 'Eighties' and 'Come as You Are'". The move surprised some Nirvana fans, given Nirvana's past conflict with Killing Joke. More Revelations from Jaz Coleman". If you take the time to listen to people like Paul McCartney and James Jamerson, your ear will be better trained to come up with better basslines. Also, the 7" single was sold with a bonus 7" single of "Let's All Go (To the Fire Dances)". Behind him the flag of the Soviet Union can be seen. [4] Nirvana biographer Everett True wrote that "Come as You Are" was eventually chosen for release as a single because "Goldberg favoured the more obviously commercial song". Nirvana was a trailblazing force of nature, one that came out of the traps at 100mph providing their own unique sounds to the masses—but even Kurt Cobain’s band of merry men found themselves on the receiving end of a plagiarism claim once upon a time. Kurt [Cobain] was nervous about 'Come as You Are' because it was too similar to a Killing Joke song but we all thought it was still the better song to go with. The 7" single exempted the "Serious Dance Mix" and instead, featured "Eighties" as the A-side. A short snippet of "Eighties" was the opening theme to the 2002 sitcom That '80s Show. “Yeah, Dave (Grohl) and I had a few laughs about that over the past year or so,” Raven said. Music has been around for thousands and thousands of years (maybe even millions?). The track, which featured a chorus in which Cobain sang the lyrics ‘daddy’s little girl ain’t a girl no more’, led to many of Nirvana’s early listeners reference similarities to Mudhoney track ‘Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More’. For their next record, Nirvana had moved to a major label and, if they played any other tricks as they did on ‘Negative Creep’, then that goodwill would be replaced with hostility, something that Cobain was only too wary of. Now that you know what a forbidden riff is, I will get right into my top five. ', but the hysterical thing about Nirvana saying they'd never heard of us was that they'd already sent us a Christmas card! Danny Goldberg, head of Gold Mountain, later revealed that "[w]e couldn't decide between 'Come as You Are' and 'In Bloom.' Nine years later, in 2003, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl took a leave of absence from his current band, the Foo Fighters, to record drums for Killing Joke's second self-titled album. And, he was right, Killing Joke later did complain about it". Their performance is intercut with stock footage of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev (with the footage deliberately skipping), Anwar Sadat, Pope John Paul II, Ruhollah Khomeini, Konstantin Chernenko and John DeLorean. I think what you need to do is to spend more time listening to different styles of music and to other bass players. Avoiding legal issues, they decided against taking it any further. 60 in the UK Singles Chart.. A short snippet of "Eighties" was the opening theme to the 2002 sitcom That '80s Show. The Clash recycled the central riff from The Kinks' "The Hard Way" in "Clash City Rockers". [4] However, conflicting reports, such as Kerrang!, have stated differently. You stole the phrase "stolen riff". The studio version was released in April 1984[2] by E.G. Avril Lavigne, the girlfriend you can never ever have, reinvented the world of mainstream … Beatles’ 5 Boldest Rip-Offs From the “Revolution” intro to the “I Feel Fine” riff, here are five times when the Fab Four swiped musical material from their influences In truth, the situation likely only had a lucky escape because the band shared a label with Mudhoney at the time. However, the court that supposedly took the case was not named and many doubted that Killing Joke ever filed a lawsuit against Nirvana.[7]. 5. Aneurysm: Fang - An Invitation(Riff) Token Eastern Song: Green River - Forever Means(Intro) Radio Friendly Unit Shifter: PIL - Annalisa(Riff, Drums) Come As You Are: Killing Joke - Eighties(Riff) Negative Creep: Mudhoney- Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More(Lyrics) Smells Like Teen Spirit: Boston - More Than A Feeling(Riff) For a legal history of the latter see sampling Steve Hoffman Music Forums. It is amazing how you can have two similar songs, one becomes a monster hit, and the other has to be pointed out on a website for people to hear where the monster hit was stolen from. When it came to the release of Nevermind two years later in 1991, Cobain tried his best to persuade the band’s co-manager Danny Goldberg to avoid releasing ‘Come As You Are’, the single chosen to follow the previously released effort ‘Smells Like Teenage Spirit’. … If you look close, you can see where it used to be. "Eighties" is the first single from English post-punk band Killing Joke's fifth studio album, Night Time, produced by Chris Kimsey. Cobain's death in 1994 effectively dissolved Nirvana and the conflict with Killing Joke. It is the third track and the second single from the band's second studio album Nevermind, released in March 1992.It was the band's second and last American top 40 hit, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and second UK top 10 hit, reaching number nine on the UK Singles Chart. A Stolen Country Part 1 01/15/2021 by: John Velisek Source: ... they badger the riff-raff to agree with their pronouncements and ask no questions. An interview with Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker that same year[8] confirmed the possibility of a said lawsuit, thus proving that the claim by Kerrang! However, for Nirvana, some accusations arose around the band’s debut album, a time when listeners spotted alleged plagiarism on their 1989 song ‘Negative Creep’. This was Beck’s only Burst at the time—until it was stolen after the Jeff Beck Group’s gig in Detroit on July 26, 1969. Not filing a lawsuit would be a blessing in disguise for Killing Joke as the nicest man in rock ‘n’ roll, Dave Grohl, would go out of his way to thank them for not potentially sabotaging Nirvana’s career when they easily could have. The song had been premiered during a three track live performance for UK TV show the Tube in December 1983. One main, perhaps, crucial difference between the bands is that while Kurt Cobain practiced whisper-to-a-scream vocal dynamics, Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman was almost always full-on in his approach, with a terrifying growl of a voice that is similar to that of Motörhead's Lemmy. While 'Eighties' unflinchingly displays the band's aggressive punk rock roots — cold and hard to mirror the socio-political message — it also embraces dance-music grooves and a certain sort of melodic sensibility. Foo Fighters' borrowing of Dio's riff seems like more a tribute to the "Pavarotti of heavy metal" than a rip-off. Our publisher sent their publisher a letter saying it was and they went 'Boo, never heard of ya! Another potential reason as to why the band avoided a legal battle is because their song ‘Eighties’ itself has a striking resemblance to The Damned’s 1982 track ‘Life Goes On’. As for those examples, check out the striking similarities between the main riff of Bobby Parker's "Watch Your Step" and the Beatles' "I Feel Fine": Compare Foo Fighters' "Something From Nothing" guitar riff at the 1:29 mark and Dio's "Holy Diver" riff at the 0:48 mark in each video. Did Nirvana really copy the intro to Come as you? Killing Joke "Eighties" (1984) Well, Anubis. At the time, Killing Joke opted not to file a copyright infringement lawsuit, a decision which was dictated by personal and financial implications of taking one of the biggest bands on the planet to court. Nirvana almost didn't release "Come As You Are" as a single because it so closely resembled Killing Joke's "Eighties." 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