10 Perfect Rock Songs That Were Inspired From Another Band

10. Given to Fly - Pearl Jam

In the words of Stone Gossard, most of the Pearl Jam catalog was constructed to be a throwback to the glory days of rock and roll. And it's not hard to see why either, considering the Paul Rodgers-sounding delivery of Eddie Vedder or Mike McCready pulling a lot of his sound from Jimi Hendrix's playbook. Every so often though, you can make a song that hits a little too close to your influences.

On their 1998 album Yield, McCready hit on a pretty melody that he thought resembled riding a wave in terms of how the dynamics worked. Though the actual song Given to Fly ended up becoming one of the few comeback hits for PJ around this time, the similarities are a little too close to Led Zeppelin's Going to California for the more seasoned rock fans in the audience.

This isn't like a carbon copy though. Even with the similar grooves and chord structures, McCready did create something very much his own, with the whole thing rolling in a unique way that's completely different from Robert Plant pining for a girl with a flower in her hair. As much as as they want to be respectful of their past, this is one of the few songs from Pearl Jam's glory days that may have gotten a few confused looks from the elders of grunge rock.