Green day copied nirvana

[@wahtdookie]

I trusted you Green Day

[@CalebA_Guitarist]

Stuff like this can be done on accident, you know that right? It’s 2 in a half decades later

[@RichieWilliams97]

@@CalebA_Guitarist no. Green Day flagrantly plagiarized this COMPLEX musical composition. This is like Beethoven copying Mozart.

[@CalebA_Guitarist]

@@RichieWilliams97 I didn’t find anything that said they plagiarized it on google so I am just confused

[@TankObsessed34]

​@RichieWilliams97 and? Just bc it sounds similar doesn't mean they copied, and so what? Because if in correct, most artists where and are still inspired from canon in d, so doesn't that mean everyone's copying canon in d? So I'd suggest being quiet before you embarrass yourself, because there are a lot of songs that sound similar, and there not the same, I have good ears idk about you but like that sounds nothing like it, there complete different notes and I just, your basically embarrassing yourself lmfao

[@RichieWilliams97]

@@TankObsessed34 I was being sarcastic lol

[@Clara-uo9lj]

Well let's be honest. With how many songs already exist, it's impossible to make a song that would be 100% original

[@elkokoxd315]

There is only 2210 chords so

[@dylanburton4955]

@@elkokoxd315 Music has been around for so long that so much has already done so it’s pretty impossible to make music without it sounding like something else

[@RyansGuitars]

@@elkokoxd315 green day mainly use power chords so narrow that down to like 30 or something.

[@aiko8311]

​@@elkokoxd315But You can't use all of them for a chord progression

[@sirf0xyy]

@kurdtttCobainnn Its not like that Green Day also had songs that are similar to their own, One of my Lies and Basket Case have the same chord progression but are in different keys.
Like you said, it happens all the time in music that songs sound similar or have the same chord progression. Happened to me plenty of times that I noodled around and was like: "sounds hella nice!" Just to find out that it sound like XX song...

[@theharmelodynetwork]

Um, that riff is 84% of all punk songs.

[@Bigchair-l5n]

☝️🤓

[@RandomMan012]

@@Bigchair-l5n🤓👆

[@cypolar_]

@@Bigchair-l5n🤡

[@nettik1288]

Nirvana Isint a punk band 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@theharmelodynetwork]

@@nettik1288 sure

[@frost4730]

I mean stuff like that can happen without even being done on purpose. If you end up with the same chord progression and come up with a great strumming there are chances someone have done it before. It happened to me once, I wrote a song and weeks later I heard a song on Spotify that was literally the exact same guitar playing (I had never heard the song before) so even if it would’ve been 100% the same thing, sometimes it’s literally just life going like "Hmm, I decided your song already exists"

[@tacodealer6409]

happend to me too bro with the initial part of "where is my mind" 😑

[@chelovek-jpeg]

@@tacodealer6409haha, I had the same thing. I was just playing around and came up with the progression C Am Em F. It sounds almost the same

[@derranmcbride1995]

That was me when I thought I came up with something so catchy and original. It ended up being “zombie” by the cranberries 😂😂

[@e3uphoric51]

Happened to me too.
Then a day to remember released "im already gone" off common courtesy

[@Foxikaze]

3 chord chord progressions have become a common trope in punk music. It's like the 4 chords of pop

[@NJGAMER_12]

Without these two bands I would not be where I am today

[@xanatgarcia9241]

Who?

[@itsmecermm]

Green Day and Nirvana

[@chelovek-jpeg]

@@xanatgarcia9241 NJGAMER

[@wahtdookie]

Fr

[@GabrielMacDougall]

Where are you right now

[@sadmanboy3]

These two songs were the first ones I've learned on guitar and they do follow the same notes, except nirvana uses the same three notes in their song while green day uses more notes. Its still cool that they both sound similar

[@Asce0fSpades]

Just because you believe someone copied Nirvana doesn't necessarily mean that it happened. There are only so many notes in the world. One of the first things you learn to play the guitar is how to use power cords, which is all Kurt Cobain used.

[@xeroxeroxero_]

@@wahtdookiewomp womp

[@Dylan-Frost]

So you're just gonna ignore the similarities between "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Christie Rd"

[@greendaycleanlyrics5408]

I know

[@trimlesscoasters]

Yeah but Christie road is literally the better song

[@greendaycleanlyrics5408]

@@trimlesscoasters I guesssssssss, I don't know

[@trimlesscoasters]

@@greendaycleanlyrics5408 it’s not repetitive and boring

[@trimlesscoasters]

@@greendaycleanlyrics5408 and overplayed and overrated

[@Jordan_Velazquez]

Dawg, this chord progression is NOT exclusive to Nirvana OR Green Day. This is literally just 90% of all Punk Songs made from 1970s-Today. I know songs that still use this chord progression. It only sounds similar cuz it's in the same key, but it's stylized completely differently. Bang Bang takes the chord progression and makes it into it's own thing, plus the chord progression changes throughout the song.

[@HoppyRabbit101]

Nirvana was big so alot of bands took inspiration from them.

[@arcusma]

Well even Nirvana has been accused of copying countless times, Come As You Are sounds like Killing Joke’s “Eighties”

[@TheLockdownKidNYC]

It's also just a classic Punk progression. Do you think Nirvana made up A-F-D? Green Day has made an entire (successful) career out of recycling riffs. Any "common" chord progression you've ever heard Green Day has used. 3 times over.

[@THE-CRT]

So what they’re the same chords, a lot of songs have the same chords, it’s all about tempo a strum pattern and all these intricate details which make these two completely different songs

[@spenzix3720]

i think its just a coincidence ive made riffs of my own a few times times and then found out they sound almost identical to some of nirvanas songs even territorial pissing.

[@ashervibez]

Now I need a mashup version

[@epicstudio7185]

Mmm I think it's just regular chord progressions

[@3_outof_4]

Chords aren't really under scrutiny for copyright, otherwise every songwriter in the world would be fucked, case in point the same chords in "territorial pissings" can be heard in "heart shaped box", Nirvana even took the piss out of their own song "Smells like Teen Spirit" sounding very similar to "more than a feeling" at Reading in 1992. Still a funny video to us musicians of course, but in a serious context it wouldn't be taken to court or anything

[@CocaineAndSoda]

That's a reference! Exactly like all the songs in their latest album 😄

[@pedrodocusse2907]

bro it's just chords

[@itsbroiso2893]

if you know anything about any type of music theory you can see that its a very simple chord progression and it just happens to be in the same key, at what point do we stop to realise that its gonna be very hard to make any original songs anymore so we should just cut our artists some slack??

[@theaeronshow2023]

This is like saying Oreo copied the Great Value cookies.

[@riverscuomotoenail]

?? how

[@captainabazor8303]

This a homage to typical rock n roll loops. Nirvana doesn't own that tune, as it's been used many times before.

[@elkokoxd315]

Well, there’s only 2210 chords so

[@notpea]

wdym nirvana invented chord progressions

[@dusty987]

@@notpea Is this a joke? Cuz that’s 100% cap.

[@notpea]

@@dusty987 nirvana invented electric guitar

[@UteroMind]

@@dusty987 nirvana invented chords

[@EliaAl-Nims]

Green days riff has an extra chord at the end. 3 chord riff vs 4 chords. Plus they have very different strumming patterns.

[@trimlesscoasters]

No they didnt

[@antoinepmader]

Bruh, they have 3 chords in common big yikes, what about the thousands of pop songs that use the exact same chord progression

[@BursterMFG]

Nirvana's song was the inspiration for Revolution Radio and Bang Bang, Revolution Radio for the tempo, and Bang Bang for the chords.

[@cypolar_]

Proof?

[@leotmbg.]

nirvana wasn’t the inspiration for those songs at all. there is zero evidence of this.

[@pra6169]

But nirvana stole the "More than a feeling" riff for smells like teen spirit and "eighties" riff for come as you are :u

[@Iron_Void]

Smells like teen spirit sounds like Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult more than the Boston song and Killing Joke stole the riff from the Damned, and Life goes on sounds like Come as you are more than Eighties that's why Killing Joke didn't push their lawsuit further.

[@rockandroll_nathan]

Just chords 😅😅

[@kool_koala_slays_4ever]

Theres only so many chord progressions in this world. Nowadays, its nearly impossible ti make a 100% original song.

[@ryorika]

One Eyed bastard and P!nk “so what?” would suit this title so much better
oh.. it was a year ago… k

[@Peppers19781978]

Nirvana themselves copied many artists though. Kurt even admitted it. Come As You Are was a direct copy of of Killing Joke's song Eighties and even The Damned's Life Goes On. Cobain didnt want it released as a single in fear of a lawsuit.He ended agreeing to release the song because he felt it had huge commerical potential.
"Following the album's release, the band and its management company debated whether to release "Come as You Are" or "In Bloom" as the next single from the album due to Cobain's concerns over similarity of the former with Killing Joke song "Eighties" (1984). After some persuasion by the management company, Cobain agreed to release "Come as You Are" as the second single because of its commercial potential. Killing Joke were upset over the song, and there were rumors that a lawsuit had been filed over the song, though the suit never materialized. Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker was said to be upset about the whole situation, and he felt that Nirvana handled the matter poorly. Similarities between "Come as You Are" and "Life Goes On" by the Damned have also been noted."

[@beauluaders1571]

That is the second time green day used that exact same chord progression, the first is in st Jimmy

[@rique_.leal.]

“good artists borrow, great artists steal” lol

[@DoctorAlright]

“Copied” Omgg 70% of bleach is just songs from bands no one knows

[@aeternal.mp3]

Another similarity I see between songs in Nevermind and Revolution Radio is Drain You and Too Dumb to Die

[@leotmbg.]

the riff shares the first 3 same chords, then green day makes it different immediately after that. they are completely different.

[@MrBooYa-yd5er]

I noticed it right away and subsequently never did a repeat listen.

[@niltheghostman5669]

LOL. You can't "copyright" a chord progression.

[@koopakid715]

This happens all the time there are only so many chord progressions

[@hikoseijurolikessake]

for once nirvana's not the one being accused

[@ltbq]

this is also very close to bullet with butterfly wings it doesn't mean anything

[@AeroZach13]

Bang Bang may start out the same, but it has so many different chord changes throughout the song. Territorial Pissings is literally those three chords…

[@DanielRodrigues-mr7rh]

Ramones today your love, tomorrow the world is also the same cords

[@Swaggest_]

I'm 99% sure that the fucking "smashing windshields" thing in the fiv enights at freddys pizzeria sim had some inspiration from "Htichin' a Ride" I believe it's called by green day. I probably sound schizophrenic but DUDE LISTENT O IT THE RESEMBLANCE TUISA UNREAL WHAT ShT EIUDFFKKC

[@minamialexfrancisdeguchi2904]

I noticed this when this song first came out, finally someone agrees

[@disintegration555]

Damn territorial pissings was a favorite song of mine

[@dimasvillanueva9334]

You can't own chord progressions

[@wahtdookie]

(They sound the same tho)

[@dimasvillanueva9334]

@@wahtdookie That they do!

[@Foxikaze]

​@@wahtdookie They're both punk songs that have a similar chord progression. Of course they're gonna sound similar.

Sing Sing Deathouse by The Distillers.

[@eliasssarg3239]

Prosthetic head sounds very similar to polly's second riff too

[@bricktopian]

Also the penny wise band version 😂

[@superhall911]

smells like teen spirit back wards is basket case

[@paste_k]

So now i understand why its my favorite song from nirvana and green day

[@BeardedBeerMan]

True Green Day fans don’t like Bang Bang. You disappoint me

[@paste_k]

@@BeardedBeerMan Why would true green day fans dont like bang bang ?

[@AmazingJuniorBros]

@@BeardedBeerMan The entire revolution radio album goes hard tf are u talking about

[@myusernamewasinuse]

@@BeardedBeerMan "true green day fans" holy fuck im cringing.

[@daisymanaray302]

This was not actually tht mih similar yeah but what u say has got a point

[@mattsheezy5469]

There’s only so many power chords to choose from… that’s part of the limitations of punk rock.

[@victoralves7543]

All power chords are the same

[@gonzaloalderete2535]

bruh, a same chords progression doesn't means that is a copy, the melody of one song is too diferent compared with the other
you can hear the same armony in literally the 90% of all pop songs

[@bluecheesemints9208]

you could also say this is nirvana copying starship trooper by yes, just faster and in a diff key 🤷🏻

[@alex_le_vrai4452]

Sounds similar, but the guitar picking is completely different, I know what I’m talking about because I am a Guitarist myself.

[@adamkenny5519]

It's not the first time that's happened, though. Check out the similarities between Nirvana's cover of "Molly's Lips" and GD's "She's a Rebel". It's only two chords but you could switch the lyrics between the songs and have the same outcome.

[@Chessepice-cl2lx]

Idiots create, the smart get inspired, and geniuses copy.

[@user-dh4ot6jb1i]

geez i never noticed that

[@P1k0n_0]

Christy road and smells like teen spirit sound very similar too, but it isn't a copy.

[@noko3777]

This slaps

[@wahtdookie]

I agree

[@e3uphoric51]

Its called influence brah

[@moretsua]

It’s not the first time they did so lol

[@spanellaful]

Imagine if they would do this comparisons with roots reggae...

[@marissasmith4708]

Both sound different but Kurt Cobain did love punk rock. U only played the intros which both sound different anyway

[@deniskotelnikov9353]

Да похуй. Они оба божественны!!!

[@user-yg5uc6ro5r]

it feels more like a sample tbh

[@Jason_Andrew_Relva]

And I’m never gonna unhear this

[@SamoLuka_]

0:00 ow my ears

[@ZirahPastel]

you forgot christie road from kerplunk

[@Mrcake0103]

To be fair, the Nirvana one _really_ sounded like a Green Day track.

[@davemac9563]

Nirvana ripped off a lot of songs from other punk bands, so it’s not exactly making a case against Green Day

[@nathanmckerrow9059]

You community guild lines breach!
😒 that’s not how music works! If you’re gonna dissect it like this than no one would ever play the same note cause someone else did.
Bob Dylan had a song that started on a D major so no one can ever play a D major again 🤨 you’re a community guild lines breach!

[@wahtdookie]

Bro this video is not supposed to be that deep

[@lemonhead3994]

Except green day is better 😯

[@wahtdookie]

They are very close

[@Joey-gw3fs]

@@wahtdookie one killed themself and one got one minute

[@wahtdookie]

@@Joey-gw3fs ?????

[@Joey-gw3fs]

@@wahtdookie Ight let me explain it. Kurt Killed himself. And Billie got one minute

[@Iron_Void]

no

[@CreamPupANDFriendsClips]

I don't here a difference and I love BANG BANG

[@ezebkt286]

15 años tiene la persona que hizo este video

[@thanhla7080]

The last chords are not even the same, how tf can this be a copy ? 😅

[@wahtdookie]

It’s just that they sound very similar

[@therealkakitron]

Yes, I hear the same chord progression, but I don't hear them trying to copy Nirvana.

[@petrsotola9717]

Sounds more like Revolution Radio intro to me

[@wahtdookie]

What

[@Gustavo-ee3ne]

I read "gangbang"

[@wahtdookie]

Lol

[@walterfilho9550]

Nah

[@mx4mat]

and nirvana copies the pixies

[@umbra2367]

there are only so many powerchords and movements..

[@ethanwalsh968]

I prefer the green day version
Like it’s not even close

[@justaguyinashed]

And Nirvana copied Green River and Green River copied CCR and CCR copied The Beatles and the Beatles copied Temptations and The Temptations were original unless you count the time they copied Leadbelly....

[@ghozi1718]

Yupp tho , sounds similliar.. cause there's no original in art. Everything recycle , what a great band they are

[@alphadoge8639]

will i get killed if i say green day did it better? the bridge in bang bang is amazing

[@eggyboi6782]

Lets be real here Bang Bang is so much better then territorial pissings

[@wahtdookie]

Nah Territorial Pissings is my favourite Nirvana song

[@LandonAPerson]

Hah is that a joke?

[@eggyboi6782]

@@LandonAPerson Its an opinion why does everyone have to take it so seriously

[@anarchic_ramblings]

Loads of songs use the same chord progressions. In punk rock that's all the more likely.

[@newmystery7753]

Well actually, see everyone stole everything from the major scale or jazz 🤷‍♂️

[@lonsiyd]

nah cuz nirvana changed everything who tf didnt

[@ADP12345]

Thats not even close to the same

[@lee9824]

What about dreaming? That song was made by vanilla muffin a oi band back in 2015 and green day has since not made light to them they are exactly the same song but with mixed lyrics go listen to dreaming by vanilla muffin and then the green day adaptation n

[@autologic1312]

bang bang also copied sailin on by bad brains. all r great songs tho

[@wahtdookie]

You don’t me anymoreeeeeeee so I’ll just walk right out the doorrrrrrrr

[@fuming2094]

Not to far from one of the guitar riffs in the chorus of Depression by Black Flag.

[@wahtdookie]

Depressions got a hold of meeee depressionnnn gotta break free

[@fuming2094]

I think its after he says the line after that (The riff I was referencing)

[@abnormal1152]

i mean i guess but these are two entirely different songs

[@wahtdookie]

Okay

[@TheAtomicPunkLmao]

i love nirvana and like green day, but in this case the green day version of the riff honestly sounds better.