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One Direction Admit Copying… The Clash?

You know, this famous intro, this guitar riff followed by this scratching noise, yes it sounds so close it can’t be a coincidence. Of course after these first seconds, the songs have nothing in common, but this was enough to irritate the punk band’s fans, and me included

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Randy Blythe 'Bail Denied'

This is just some heavy metal singer in a B level band don’t lose any sleep over it. Imagine revisiting a country you had been to a couple years ago, getting off the plane and being cuffed and carted off for a crime you didn’t even know happened

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Scalping Springsteen

So you see it’s a matter of persisitance. Both he and I were kicked out with error for the Izod show yet we just kept trying. C’mon we cant stop scalpers, heck in some cases we need them but really lets not pretend its not obviously a blip on the screen.

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Grohl On Rock: 2012 Is 1991

“The late ’80s was full of over-produced pop that kids had nothing to grab hold of – they had no way of connecting to this hair metal band singing about strippers in a limousine on Sunset Boulevard.”

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Big Time Rush, Cursing To Children

Now I’m all for bands using bad words in songs to express a strong emotion. But this band is sponsored by Nick- a children’s channel. They’re supposed to be setting an example and in all of the other versions of the song, it isn’t censored.

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