Davidizer13 wrote:I love how "Komm, susser tod" can't make up its mind whether it's going to rip off of Hey Jude or Let it Be, so it does both.
You will find some arrangement choices that are similar between Hey Jude and KST-b, but in the end KST-b is two chords (VII-I-VII-I) while Hey Jude's runout (HJ-b, if you will, which is the only part of the song that is similar) is a more 4-bar pop-based I-VII-IV-I. Also, KST-b is ascending while HJ-b is descending. But if you want to look at the song's construction in a superficial manner, they are similar in arrangement choices - but handclaps hardly make them identical. No one's going to take a plagiarism case seriously just because of some hand-claps. And KST-a contains the exact same chord structure of P's Canon in its verse anyway.
As for "Let it Be", "Let it Be" is one of the many songs (See also: Aerosmith's Cryin' (it might be most painfully obvious here), Green Day's Basket Case, Kylie Minogue's I Should Be So Lucky, Tunnel of Love by Dire Straits, With You or Without You by U2 etc. etc. etc. ) that rip off Canon's Pachelbel (Remember that P's Canon has the same chord structure of KST-a) and that is why you think it sounds kinda the same. (Given the fact that Komm Süsser Tod is basically Pachelbel's Kanon In D made pop.)