Every brilliant artist forms his own individual style under the influence of many good musicians, and it's okay if he releases an original song that traces t...
Most of those „rip offs“ are just pretty basic chord progressions that are quite common.
The rest i would maybe call „inspired by“ instead of rip offs.
Nirvanas songs are often simple and repetitive (not a bad thing!) and that leads to many possibilities for finding parts of songs from other bands that sound similar.
Their texts however struck a nerve during their time. That’s why they became a phenomenon.
I know. I just found this glorious as its full of other bands I love (and was basically raised by). A band without influences is destined to have no influence.
Most of those „rip offs“ are just pretty basic chord progressions that are quite common.
The rest i would maybe call „inspired by“ instead of rip offs.
Nirvanas songs are often simple and repetitive (not a bad thing!) and that leads to many possibilities for finding parts of songs from other bands that sound similar.
Their texts however struck a nerve during their time. That’s why they became a phenomenon.
I know. I just found this glorious as its full of other bands I love (and was basically raised by). A band without influences is destined to have no influence.