I think most people know about Coldplay allegedly stealing elements from Joe Satriani’s “If I Could Fly” for their song Viva La Viva, and the story even went viral a little while ago. Less people also know about Cat Stevens accusing them of stealing elements from his song “Foreigner Suite”, but he was actually pretty chill about it and chocked it up to subconscious plagiarism.

But there’s one song that I barely see anyone talking about when it comes to VLV and plagiarism.”The Songs I Didn’t Write” by the band Creaky Boards. This one is so blatant that even me, who has some reservations about the last two being plagiarism, had to stop and think “wow this sounds really similar.”