came across this song called soul finger. doesnt it sound eerily like the ghostbusters theme? i lost a little respect for the ghostbuster franchise to be honest

Actually the Ghostbuster theme was a ripoff of a Huey Lewis song I want a New Drug.

These similarities caused Ray Parker Jr to get the shit sued out of him. I guess that's the Power of Love hehe corny joke.

then huey lewis was a rip off of soul finger, soul finger was from 1967

or maybe this one?



Huey's and Ray's do sound alike, but the one I posted and soul finger, I thing is going to far... there ought to be a lot of convergence in a field like music, where a bazillion songs already exist.

I can hear similarities in the bass line but I don't really feel it's a rip-off. Many songs sound alike, within reason, and as more songs are created, there's nothing but the past from which to draw inspiration. Sampling was created in the 80s, and it's very possible that either Ray Parker Jr. or Huey Lewis heard this song. I don't feel as though three seconds of one layer on a song, looped, can truly be owned, as it's already been reduced to a simple note sequence, separated from the other elements, and there are only so many notes to work with.

Some of you might find this video interesting. It explains how one drum riff from 1969 has shaped numerous musical genres to this day. It demonstrates that this sort of repetition is quite commonplace and can't legitimately be considered theft.

i was actually coming to post this video.

I remember when I found out a good amount of Streets of Rage 2 music was taken from other songs:



Also a lot of the other songs in that game are also very close to other songs I've found. Funny thing is is that Yuzo Koshiro was in the UK at the time, and this comes from a UK band! So were many other matches I found.

The best Ghostbusters was this version.

What years was that cartoon ran?  I faintly remember that.  At least the car and a few other things in it.  Holy nostalgia! 

Music is imitation of inspiration, of course with Ray Parker Jr. and Huey Lewis, it's a blatant ripoff. Very, very few things are original these days, and chances of a riff or set of notes being different than some other piece of music in history is rare.

Then again, we also have Dream Theater "stealing" a Metallica riff....




DT is full of Metallica fans, so it's probably homage to the Gods of Metal.

I will fight you >

The way it's used today, maybe, yeah, but sampling was something being done way back in the 50s.  Destroy All Monsters did it in the 60s and 70s too.  As it became easier it was more widespread, but lots of musicians (many underground like Harry Smith) were doing this stuff long before.