songs that sound like other songs

And then the rest of "Breathe" sounds like "Labour of Love" by Hue and Cry.

-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), January 21st, 2005.

I heard Stevie Wonder's Superstition the other day and thought "Gee, that obviously inspired Trampled Under Foot, but when I tried going throug the Led Zeppelin song in my head I came up with Take Me Out.

So then, Superstition begat Trampled Under Foot which begat Take Me Out. Are there any songs that inspired Stevie Wonder? Any that are direct offspring of Franz Ferdinand? Are there any other three songs that follow a sort of evolutionary flow (this would exclude the countless Sister Ray clones as they are all aping VU and not building off each other).

Surely coincidental, though?

Surely coincidental, though?

I haven't heard the latter song; which part sounds the same? Because about a billion songs have the same chord progression as ITAOTS (but none of them are as good).

Also, "On the Bus Mall" by The Decemberists sounds like "Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right" by The Decemberists.

Long ago and oh so far away
I fell in love with you
Before the second show

But I don't make the connection between the two.

A better candidate: Shining Star / Earth Wind & Fire

When you wish upon a star
Dreams will take you very far
When you wish upon a dream
Life ain´t always what it seems

Not sure, but I think it predates IItS.

Which in turn is taken from The Ronette's Be My Baby

then the vocal line from said song is appropriated for johnny boy's "all exits final"

The melody of the Johnny Boy song is a sped-up version of Elvis Costello's Battered Old Bird from Blood and Chocolate.

also

Stereolab "Metronomic Underground" --> Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution will not be Televised" --> Antibalas "Si Se Puede".
there's also a Can song on Tago Mago and some other soul or motown song with this same best-ever bassline.

Bob Mould returned the Pixies' accolades for Husker Du in Sugar's 'Good Idea' ( Debaser)

More recently, I heard Secret Machines Alone Jealous & Stoned, and I swear, Blondie's Union City Blue is in there.

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Are you thinking of Jamelia's 'Superstar'from a couple of years back?

-- Josh Love (heaveninrowboat...), May 24th, 2004.

The main riff in "Misunderstanding" by Genesis is actually a direct lift from a part in "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and I believe that has been verified by Phil Collins. What's interesting to me is that "Fool In the Rain" and "Misunderstanding" have very similar, if not identical subject matter. So I'd say that Mr. Love gets an A for effort.

I highly doubt they ever heard this song, just one of life's weird coincedences... it really did cause a "WTF" moment when I heard it though.....

YES!!!! I always thought that Spoon piano sounded like that song, I just couldn't recall that McCain lyric.

btw, not sure if that's the title or not, but its a cool song

but I'm not complaining.

Same chords!!

Wyclef Jean and Maya's Ghetto Supastar, is the one that ripped off Islands in the Stream. 1998.

Lucinda Williams' 'Sweet Old World', at least as done by Emmylou Harris on Wrecking Ball sounds just like 'Four Strong Winds'