It's Friday, and that means it's time for the new installment of Friday Night Ripoffs(?). Every Friday, two songs, where one of them might very well be a gigantic ripoff of the other.

Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott (both of Thin Lizzy, but not a Thin Lizzy song) sounds an awful lot like Kenny Dorham's Latin jazz staple Blue Bossa. Coincidence? Or was Gary Moore aping his jazz records knowing that most of his fans would never know?

Tell us what you think, and leave some suggestions for next week's theft investigation in the comments.

This is the third post in a series called Friday Night Ripoffs(?). Here's the deal: every Friday, two songs, where one of them might very well be a gigantic ripoff of the other.

Commenter Uncle Joe McCarthy and C+L blogger Logan Murphy both piped up about this one. Did Green Day lift the riff for "Brain Stew" from Chicago, or is 5th fret, 3rd fret, 2nd fret, 1st fret, open something that just exists in the air? And what about Papa Roach?

Tell us what you think, and leave some suggestions for next week's plagiarism investigation in the comments.

This is the second post in a series called Friday Night Ripoffs(?). Here's the deal: every Friday, two songs, where one of them might very well be a gigantic ripoff of the other.

Commenter PLH225 came up with tonight's in the discussion of last week's thread. Did Jack White borrow a little too gratuitously from Joe Jackson for The Raconteurs' "Steady As She Goes," or is it just a coincidence?

Tell us what you think, and leave some suggestions for next week's plagiarism investigation in the comments.