10 Rock Bands That Ripped Off Their Own Songs

Almost 99% of the Beatles material recorded before 1966 had to do with relationships. Love has always been an integral part of every facet of the Fab Four's sound, but you can tell why some people claim that the band was verging on boy band territory in the beginning, with every song being about how they love 'you', figurative girl in the audience. There's always a sour side of love, too, and Yes It Is is practically a mirror image of one of their first smashes in the early '60s.

Being influenced by the same Motown sounds he was hearing out of someone like Smokey Robinson, John Lennon actually modeled this song as a rewrite of his classic song This Boy, which was already written as an exercise to see if he could write a song with sweeping harmonies. This is a lot more sour this time around, as John asks his lover not to wear red when they go out tonight because it reminds him too much of his ex and how he doesn't want to have his heart broken all over again.

The whole thing feels much more morose than before, but the ominous feeling is actually a lot more forward thinking, giving people the chills in the '60s but also ushering in the sounds of gothic love songs that would come in the '80s, all while George Harrison gives us little bits of emotion coming out through his pedal steel guitar. The Beatles had a habit of always accidentally inventing other genres, and it wouldn't be surprising if someone like Robert Smith from the Cure took a song like this as his template when writing his own lovelorn ballads.