#beatles ripoff

[carbuckety]

telling them about rubber soul

[plexiglassonion]

MONKEES FAN-SCRIPT: "A Cuppa Monkees"

Summary: Club owner Eugene “Gene” Henderson takes the Monkees back to London with him so they can perform at his Grotto Club- Gene's regular group The EarWygs, however, are less than pleased about this.

Warnings: Kidnapping

[Full script under the cut]

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[queensboro]

really enjoying this Motorhead song summary

[turnleftaticela]

so far for my fake 60s-pop-but-in-my-made-up-world band i have 3 songs

straightforward early beatles type thing

little show tune ballad

12 bar blues chuck berry cover ripoff

where should i go next

[anthonycrowley]

i wasn’t into goncharov tbh not because it was bad really just people got annoying and my personal fandom misinfo Event will always be tim wiederman (who IS real). and we were also riding the coattails of volcano shake em up which ALSO got fucking annoying if you were in the mcr fandom. so like i have no dog in the ‘zapotha is a ripoff of goncharov’ fight like yeah which was a ripoff of volcano shake em up who gives a shit. who cares. but at least those two Events people fucking had FUN and actually CREATED SOMETHING THAT COULD THEORETICALLY EXIST IN NATURE (*with the restrictions we were given as my friend stelle pointed out the description we were given by that shoe did not make a lot of sense). meanwhile tiktok is creating a horror movie when it appears no one on tiktok has Ever watched a horror movie. have you people watched. god. not even indie or niche movies no one has ever heard of. just. for a dollar name a horror movie from the 80s. why would you create a movie in a genre you know nothing about. it would be like if tumblr said let’s make a fake beatles song as the dadrock fans screamed in the background and everyone else trampled over every single song convention. seeing Anything it feels like tiktok threw every horror trope in a blender and i for one am looking forward to some opportune studio to make it and thus create the telephone of horror films. It Will Be So Bad.

[jewishbarbies]

"Hell, her lyrics show she doesn’t even like when they listen to other music." I know there’s that lyric you posted, she was mad at jake menthol for liking indie too, her and fans are mad at Joe for liking the Beatles now apparently, didn’t like how ratty liked acid rock, I’m sure she fumed whenever they listened to other female artists too. I think her current bfs mom said something about liking Earth Wind and Fire and that caused a frenzy. Not a single moment can be about someone else.

It makes me wonder who she listens to bc it seems like nobody and that’s why all of her music sounds like it’s just a ripoff of itself. RIP art

just imagining taylor walking from one side of her mansion to the other listening to her own music like:

[synthfagz]

i have this underground album recommendation. it's called nevermind by nirvana, you probably haven't heard of it

there's this super underrated upcoming band called the beatles they have one monthly listener on spotify. i think these kids might be onto something but they're a total oasis ripoff

[princessmo]

love that when people said the monkees were a beatles ripoff, the monkees were like "no, no. they're successful brits and we're american losers. they're rich and we STRUGGLE"

[elexnorislingtxn]

oh boy what if like diamante just idk became a vampire n disappeared n took the place of that awful beatles ripoff story

[scary-ivy]

I found my radio station's collection of old Elvis Costello and the Attractions records and I'm going to share pictures of them because there's so many cool details

First up, Goodbye Cruel World

The radio station uses these stickers to highlight recommend songs, but the DJs love to put in funny little comments as well. Usually these stickers are written on right when the album came out, so they provide a snapshot into what contemporary listeners though of the records. Apparently the DJs of the time liked Goodbye Cruel World, but what does (Don't Ya Wish He Really Meant It?) mean?

Having only seen this album cover at really low resolutions on streaming, I was surprised to discover who those indistinct figures were

Really cool art on the back of Goodbye Cruel World, once again we never get to see this stuff with streaming :/ love the blatant political message of "nuclear ban now"

Lots of weird little in-jokes in the credits to this one. Maurice Worm is one of Steve Nieve's aliases.

Really interesting radio promo copy of Spike featuring an hour-long interview, I have to check if it's been uploaded online before. It also promises "This Town (The Bastard Mix)", which might be the censored version of This Town where "bastard" was replaced with "sweetheart" that I was looking for online but couldn't find. Or maybe it's the other way around?

Recommend songs off Punch the Clock. I'm surprised because none of these are what I would consider the "big hits" of the album.

The back of Punch the Clock. I'm noticing the other Attractions often wind up on the back of these records.

Probably my favorite detail out of everything is the title of "The Invisible Man" being written to look like it's becoming invisible (It's not just faded like Boxing Day above it).

Very green Veronica single. I believe it's just the same version of Veronica on both sides. These weird radio promo vinyls are the ones I'm most excited about because they so rarely see the light of day after their release...I just realized since Paul McCartney was involved with this one I can play it on the Beatles show!

Get Happy!! without the iconic worn-out ring on the cover? I guess the vinyl can just get worn out on it's own...I believe the 7/25/83 might be the date the vinyl was acquired, or perhaps the date it was supposed to be deemed "old" and thrown out (can you imagine?)

The back features this nice art of the Attractions

The song order of side one and side two is reversed from how the album is presented in streaming. Is this an error, or have I been listening to it in the wrong order this whole time??? Also the song is apparently supposed to be called "5ive Gears in Reverse".

Really cute letter from Nick Lowe promising that the audio quality has not been compromised for the length of the album. It's so fascinating to learn about these types of technical limitations that no longer exist. Like if it released today it would just go to streaming and then probably get a double vinyl release to wring more money out of collectors.

The American "paint-splatter" Armed Forces album cover features the Elephant cover on the back. I already knew this but it was still cool to see.

This Years Model! This record features one of the alternate cover photos (probably my favorite one), and it is a genuine demo record complete with a label from Columbia.

They put the runtimes and little recommendation check boxes for the sake of the DJs, but it looks like every song got checked and stared multiple times (except for Little Triggers :/)

Glowing reviews...it's so exciting to imagine being a young DJ in 1978 hearing This Years Model for the first time and correctly calling it a masterpiece.

"Martial more consistent throughout than My Aim Is True" lol.

I can't really read the cursive, but I it's interesting how they called Pump It Up a mixture of old styles (immediately picking up on the Dylan ripoff), and I wonder what the scribbled over parts say?

The back cover, which I'm seeing now for the first time. Love that 70s bedroom.

The Only Flame In Town single has this really striking artwork of a illustrated woman in a real scene. It's dated 12/4/84.

Pump It Up version? I'll have to listen to it. Also glad someone else loves this version of Baby It's You.

Nothing interesting here I just think it's funny they decided The Only Flame In Town deserves to be on a greatest hits compilation.

A collection of Almost Blue era songs, including a note from Elvis.

That's all I was able to photograph this week, but there's still about 5 Elvis Costello /the Attractions records I haven't looked at yet, I will update this next week!

[dogboyliamgallagher]

#what if i finally blew my brains out. #actually fucking enraged at this post i do not care if it is a joke. #calling oasis beatles ripoffs is fucking insane. you have never listened to the beatles. #and you probably haven't listened to oasis either #and dont even get me started on the football hooligan shit i'm going to beat you to death with my bare fucking hands. #im ripping my own intestines out and eating them #im gonna kill everyone on the fucking planet

[plexiglassonion]

a small section of my script, doodled (poorly)

[donnerpartyofone]

The biggest ripoff in the world is Kiss. They dress like perverts from outer space, they were a focal point of the satanic panic, they printed comics with their own blood in the ink--they did all this stuff that makes it seem like they should be out there for freaks and weirdos, but then all their music is just jock jams. It's always boring when you find out that your favorite modern rock or metal musician's favorite band is The Beatles or Led Zeppelin or something so extremely basic, but when it turns out to be Kiss, that's just a slap in the face.

[lacebird]

Azerbaijan are so cute but it’s so obvious they did a Beatles ripoff bc they are in Liverpool

[fob4ever]

i have no gossip. i do have a hot take. i’ve never liked panic. ever. no not even afycso or pretty odd. idk what it is but they have just done Nothing for me, forever. like the only good thing is that i write sins is a great karaoke song but that is. It. sorry if this isn’t what you were looking for

that is so fair i don’t really like afycso either ngl it’s just held in such high regard due to nostalgia/it being panic’s debut record/the age at which they recorded it at… the record as a whole has a horrible mix, is really pretentious and is just downright annoying at times lol. i enjoy pretty odd but i understand the argument that it is a beatles ripoff and it isn’t very subtle about it either… i like ryan’s lyrics on it a lot but i feel like sometimes it does feel like its verbose just for the sake of being verbose

[klapollo]

I try to defend Ryan Ross from the Beatles ripoff allegations but if I didn't know anything about the Beatles and you told me these were lyrics from a scrapped pretty odd demo id probably believe you