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Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun vs The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows

Rigsy - ATL Presenter

One of those rip offs that's so blatant the men in question had no choice but to hold their hands up, no doubt using the words "tribute" and "update" as they released what might as well have been a cover version of one of the Beatle's trippiest moments. Having Noel Gallagher, the king of ripping off riffs (and ripping off the Beatles in general) do vocals though - well, insult - meet injury. That said, it's still an incredible track.

Flaming Lips - Fight Test vs Cat Stevens - Father and Son

Steven Rainey - ATL Contributor

The Flaming Lips have long had a reputation for breaking down boundaries, pushing rock music to a new evolutionary level, and generally just being the most all-round futuristic indie-rock superstars the world has ever seen.



So it was a bit of a surprise when Fight Test (lead track on their 2002 album, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots) sounded just like Cat Steven's 1970 song, Father and Son. Chief Lip, Wayne Coyne, initially protested innocence, but after a lawsuit, the royalties for the song were split between the two parties.

And whilst I'm sure the extra dough isn't causing Cat Stevens to complain, the real positive outcome is that the Flaming Lips spent the rest of the decade making music that sounds like nothing else on earth. Maybe this was precisely the sort of telling-off they needed?

Felix Da Housecat - My Life Muzik vs 5ive - Let's Dance

Paul McClean - ATL Producer

Detroit techno and house aficianado kind of (weird label disputes made it a bit muddle affair) released an amazing album called I Know Electrik Boy under his Thee Madkatt Courtship alias back in 1999. It predated a lot of the electro boom that was to follow, taking its lead from the synth pop of the 1980 and his perennial obsession with Prince.

The whole album, but especially the opening track My Life Muzik was a staple on the ATL Dance show at that time so imagine our chagrin, nay, horror when we heard Let's Dance from a bunch of vacuous merchants called 5ive. Felix himself would have been well within his rights to administer some techno justice for this criminal act but instead he chose to take a high moral path. We will never forget though. 5ive... we're watching you. Well actually no we're not.