sum 41...rip-offs??

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 4/7/2005, 5:58 pm

edge 102 has been making fun of sum 41 a lot lately because of their new album, every song on it is a rip off of another bands song. They were calling members of Sum 41 making fun of them live on radio, it got so bad that they were warned not to do it anymore by Sum 41's label EMI. and if the edge continued to do so they would pull Sum 41's songs off the station, so the edge stopped. a guy i know made this site and sent it to the edge. he's going to be on the morning show to discuss it :lol:

http://www.sum-ripoff.tk/

anyways, what do you think? coincidence or rip-offs?

Post by **faninor** » 4/7/2005, 7:11 pm

I don't think all of them are rip-offs. Clearly that website is trying to present them as such, and if the best it can do with several songs is 10 - 20 second clips, which is 5 - 10 seconds of either song, I think he might be stretching a little. Some of the other ones sound like they could be.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 4/7/2005, 7:13 pm

Yeah, some of them definately sound like rip-off (whether intentional or not), but the site stretches things a LOT.

tasha · Post by **tasha** » 4/7/2005, 7:21 pm

i noticed the second i heard the last song on the cd that it sounded SO much like Billy Talent's the Ex. and a part of another song sounds just like linkin park.. and pieces like the scientist........ all i heard was the scientist part on my own, the other 2 i noticed myself

tasha · Post by **tasha** » 4/7/2005, 7:22 pm

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh and motivation. i was like HUH why is sum singing this?! lol.... wow this is strange...

Nimoy · Post by **Nimoy** » 4/7/2005, 9:03 pm

do you know what time the guy will be on tomorrow?

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 4/7/2005, 9:18 pm

not sure, he just told me it was during the morning show.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/7/2005, 10:16 pm

Woah. I knew about the Pieces/The Scientist one, and that one was bad enough.

*listens to the rest*

HOLY GOD they ripped off MxPx BAD.

The only one I REALLY don't agree with is the Limp Bizkit one... that's a real stretch. Some of the others are stretches, too, but not so much that I don't agree.

Man... not that I had much respect for Sum to begin with... but I've lost any bit of it I ever had.

evanw60 · Post by **evanw60** » 4/7/2005, 11:49 pm

That's what you get for respecting them.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/8/2005, 12:05 am

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 4/8/2005, 12:34 am

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 4/8/2005, 1:07 am

Damn that's an embarrassment!

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/8/2005, 1:27 am

Not really... it's true! :lol:

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 4/8/2005, 7:55 am

i meant the whole act of ripping off

Post by **xjsb125** » 4/8/2005, 8:56 am

I hope no one has shown this thread to Kym.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/9/2005, 12:37 am

She'll still love them.

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 4/9/2005, 2:14 pm

I've always thought that "All to Blame" sounded a heck of a lot like Chop Suey.

BGs4ever · Post by **BGs4ever** » 4/13/2005, 3:58 pm

He said Sum 41 ripped off Green Day?

In an older interview, Billie Joe said that on one of their albums was a Sum 41 ripp-off.

And a couple of songs off of Chuck, especially #9, sounds alot like Linkin Park's One Step Closer, like when he screams JUST TAKE THE BEST OF ME!! And it also sounds like another one from them, I just forget which one.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/13/2005, 10:18 pm

How exactly can one of Green Day's albums be a Sum rip-off?

amazon.com wrote:GREEN DAY:
1039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours - Release Date: July 1, 1991
Kerplunk - Release Date: January 17, 1992
Dookie - Release Date: February 1, 1994
Insomniac - Release Date: October 10, 1995
Nimrod - Release Date: October 14, 1997
Warning - Release Date: October 3, 2000
International Superhits! - Release Date: November 13, 2001
Shenanigans - Release Date: July 2, 2002
American Idiot - Release Date: September 21, 2004

SUM 41:
Half Hour of Power - Release Date: June 27, 2000
All Killer No Filler - Release Date: May 8, 2001
Does This Look Infected - Release Date: November 26, 2002
Chuck - Release Date: October 12, 2004

Now... the only Green Day albums that could technically be rip-offs of ANY Sum 41 would be Warning, International Superhits, Shenanigans, or American Idiot. Warning came out only a few months after Sum's first (not exactly well-known) first album, meaning Green Day was finished with it before Sum even saw the light of day. International Superhits is (obviously) a greatest hits album. Shenanigans is simply a compilation of b-sides and rarities. So that leaves American Idiot... which I'm sure everyone will agree is not a rip off of Sum 41... plus you said it was "an older interview", which to me says earlier than late last year.

I'd be interested to see this "older interview".

Dabekk · Post by **Dabekk** » 4/13/2005, 10:51 pm

I would guess that if greenday had actually said this they were joking.