10 Rock Songs That Ripped Off Other Songs
6. The Doors Trading Licks With The Kinks - Hello I Love You
The Doors were one of the most incomparable bands to come out of the 1960's counterculture movement. By taking different genres of rock, jazz, and blues, the band created a unique sound that captured all the wonder and terror of American youth during the era of Vietnam War. That being said, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where the inspiration for "Hello I Love You" came from.
This single off the band's third album Waiting for the Sun is a poppy blues romp with a definitive snarl to its sonic delivery. Sound familiar? Well, it's a bit more common than you think. The entire verse chords of the song are lifted from the Kinks garage rock hit "All Day And All of the Night." Sure, the songs may be in different keys, but the groove and overall movement of the chords stands out as a bit too close for comfort.
Given that the Kinks hit had come out only a few years prior, it was pretty bold of the Doors to use the same chord progression so soon after. Even Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones called out the similarities when knicking the riff for the punk thrasher "Submission." The connection is definitely there, but the Doors' aura is so omnipresent that it ends up sounding much different than their British Invasion influence.