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Indestructible Vs. Cry

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Anyone here know the song Cry by Simple Minds? You know, the same band that did that Breakfast Club song Don't You Forget About Me?

 

If you don't know it, download it, and it's unmistakable that these two songs (Indestructible and Cry) have the very same chorus riff.

 

Looking at release dates, Underdogs was released in 1998, while Simple Minds' album Cry was released in 2002.

 

Has Matt Good been given credit for this stolen riff?

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granted I know very little about musical theory, but remember there is going to be a finite set of riffs that can be produced, and even less that are going to sound harmonious and such. SO theres bound to be similiarity at some point.

 

 

but having said this I'll go listen to both songs when I get home, assuming I can find cry.

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granted I know very little about musical theory, but remember there is going to be a finite set of riffs that can be produced, and even less that are going to sound harmonious and such. SO theres bound to be similiarity at some point.

 

 

but having said this I'll go listen to both songs when I get home, assuming I can find cry.

but producing the exact same lick and bass line?

 

either way, I'm sure this topic has been covered before, with all the same questions.

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Same thing with this song by a band called Soundrak.

 

 

I'm sure none of you have ever heard of them, but if you look up their song "Available Memory" (which might be very hard to find), and is also a rocking song, the end sounds like a Matthew Good riff, but I can't pick out just which one yet.

 

That is all.

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That is wild the similarity. I wonder if MG got some money from that one of if being given credit was enough. I think about Echos by Pink Floyd and Lloyd Webber's Phantom. Another example of a stolen riff, but never pursued.

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