10 Rock Bands That Ripped Off Their Own Songs

There was already a bit of a stench coming off Green Day's Father of All before it was even released. Although the band seemed to be playing fine and dabbling in certain elements of glam rock, the criminally short runtime and them hyping it up as their last record on a major label made the whole thing seem more like a desperate attempt to get out of their contract, than some actual artistic statement. And if you needed any confirmation that they were running low on ideas, just look at some of the deep cuts here.

While the title track is certainly a trip with Billie going into falsetto, Sugar Youth puts us on much firmer territory, with the same crunchy guitars left over from Revolution Radio and Billie actually sounding like himself. When you hit the chorus though, the whole thing seems to be a little bit of deja vu, with the vocal melody of the line "and it's dangerous" being taken directly from She's a Rebel off of American Idiot. This wasn't even the last time that the band would pull from their past on this record, with Stab You in the Heart taking the same guitar lick from F**k Time from Dos.

Looking at most of the tracks on here, this just feels like more of a Foxboro Hottubs record that the band needed to get out of their system. They may have been hyping this up as their bold new vision for the next phase of their career, but they might also be saving all of their good material for when they finally get out of their record deal.