songs that sound like other songs

Beastie Boys' Lighten Up and Ram Lakhan's My name is Lakhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFbslbNRtus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFbslbNRtus&feature=fvw

Woops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO6rZ-_26tA

I just noticed that Pulp's "Common People" rips off "Los Amantes" by Mecano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZcnptl3ZM8

Alice Cooper's "Elected" sounds like Dave Mustaine singing a song written by the Ramones backed by the Quadrophenia-era Who.

Obviously it predates everything but last part.

the pulp/mecano one is amazing !

just me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZvIYU8xf9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PoUcknjdq4

didnt find this one mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1UzPkkuOtU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gBVKc11jCU

ive been trying to spot the chorus to Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun for the past month...

I don't know about the chorus, but it's finally come to mind that what the verses are reminding me of is Wyclef Jean's 'Perfect Gentleman'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0PK2wZEFIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWKyARKudc

("Goodbye Mr. A" is still awesome though)

I don't have the patience to read this whole thread, so maybe these have been mentioned already (or perhaps on the Great Moments of Musical Mimicry thread?) but I can't believe Van Halen didn't sue that dickwad Glenn Frey for "The Heat Is On" (for ripping off "Panama") and why ZZ Top didn't in turn sue Van Halen for "Hot For Teacher" (which is "La Grange," duh)

The Genesis song "Misunderstanding" sounds exactly like an old soul classic on one of the compilations I have but for the life of me I can never remember which song it is until I hear it again. Dang.

The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
and
The Long Ryders - I Had a Dream Last Night

Ram Lakhan's My name is Lakhan

I don't know about the resemblance between that and the Beastie Boys song, but I've been trying to figure out what this song was since MTV2 used to use it in promos. Thanks!!!

Elton John's Tiny Dancer and T-Rex's Cosmic Dancer

maybe a long shot, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUHtJJ1Fgjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1pD7rOVxrE

now I finally know why this is like my favorite song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOIifT5Rfao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBhZAQlOtwg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP6Sm2s3nYM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1T9G_d8RJ4

the bassline of this vibrators song sounds like "54 46 was my number"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFd2rAf0Pr8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjBiZSfM08

In Shakey, Neil Young says of "Ambulance Blues", I always feel bad I stole that melody from Bert Jansch. Fuck. You ever heard that song 'The Needle of Death'? I loved that melody. I didn't realize 'Ambulance Blues' starts exactly the same. I knew that it sounded like something he did, but when I went back and heard that record again I realized I copped his thing...I felt really bad about that."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HkBak9lmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAaNQjgMA8

I've just started to get into Motown and every time I hear the "I'm cryin'" that leads into the chorus of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby" it sounds exactly like John Lennon's in "I Am The Walrus" (or vice versa rather). Anyone else notice this?

Just noticed the overlap between Torn and Frayed and Sweet Home Alabama, which is kind of annoying me while trying to enjoy the former...

The intro of "Last Night" (see initial thread post) is also similar (eerily so, one might say) to the intro of "Hard Road" by Black Sabbath.

Miss The Girl by the Creatures sounds (in parts) just like Jolene by Dolly Parton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAz8uw5a0uM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVhbusBDi4&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-43tlrBoRk

Manic Street Preachers "Design For Life" has distinct similarities to portions of BMX Bandits "Our Time Has Come".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVCYVq305E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfUJWVfxpEo

Boards of Canada, "Chromakey Dreamcoat"
Kanye West, "Addiction"

lol "My Girls":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu8hVn_0Lq4

Whitney Houston - The Greatest Love of All (starting at 1:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZWHxw9ylk&feature=fvst

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train (starting at 0:41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDl3iUo__dY

Good catch!

Was thinking about how much Midlake's "Roscoe" sounds like "Rippin Kittin" by Goldenboy and Miss Kittin.

This is driving me nuts. My friend reckons that "Love Song" by the Dandy Warhols sounds exactly like "Baby Blue" by the Warlocks. I reckon that they're both cops of something really really obvious which I cannot seem to put my mind on right now. Argh! Any ideas?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 25 August 2008 09:33 (2 years ago)

Kate, since no one else ever responded, just listened of both of those and the first song that popped into brain was "Big Decision" by That Petrol Emotion. not sure it sounds the same so much, but there's something reminiscent. have the feeling there are more songs the same though!

but yeah, you know what... there is something else specific that they sound much more like. now it's driving me nuts too.

The intro and linking segments of the new Charlatans single ("My Foolish Pride" - v.g. btw) is remarkably similar to "The Things We Do For Love" by 10cc

SAME FUCKING BEAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36x-S8p4qb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_bq1n7k68

"You Are A Lover" by Tracey Thorn from her 'Love And Its Opposite' solo album really makes me think of RHCP's "Under The Bridge".

Love the TT song though.

"Stuck on You" by Lionel richie sounds a lot like "High flying adored" from Evita

Just read the booklet and googled; I never realised it wasn't her song. Due credit to The Unbending Trees.

Dr. Dre "Fuck wit Dre Day", Snoop Doggy Dogg "Who am I (What's My Name)", Tupac's "Can't C Me", and Above the Law's "Never Missin' a Beat", mostly due to interpolating the same funk track.

There must be another thread about this, because I think I've mentioned this pair before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjRw9Wbc3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbL2lMn34Oo

The Dandy Warhols and The Warlocks tracks sound like this to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PILsUqrg2DI

yeah, i hear that!

Beach House's "Silver Soul" reminds me of Grant Lee Buffalo's "Mockingbirds".
Parts of Beach House's "Norway" rip Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love", no?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title theme for NES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f49OKDTQZwk

Stone Cold Crazy by Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnGaEk0rZdU

^^ AWESOME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuJfhEeCe8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsULZ2dcRIU&feature=fvst

This is just ridiculous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwKawAZk7f4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ5DfCY6kY

george mccrae's "rock your baby" (1974) is like the exact same song as dr. hook's "when you're in love with a beautiful woman" (1978). both owe something to the hughes corporation's "rock the boat" (1973), though the connection there is less direct.

george mccrae:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIr19aoHQI

dr. hook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpYN-NK54Y

hughes corp.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndAXxqJbc0

Kind of weird here. Was reading Iggy's bio and it suddenly hit me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_O2kT3PPYY

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0&feature=player_embedded#!

They're even in the same key!