songs that sound like other songs

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!

My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
ABBA - The Winner Takes It All

Incidental music from My Neighbour Totoro
Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard

Cheri Knight - "Spellbound"

Pinetop Seven - "Finding the Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir"

well, the Cheri Knight song really just sounds like a distillation of every Pinetop Seven song that hadn't been yet recorded, and even her voice has an uncanny Darren Richard quality to it here. or maybe what I'm trying to say is that all alt.country music sounds the same :-/

it's an outrage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PET5rdzeKxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liOA6e4YHyM

this is ridiculous as well - couldn't find the album version of the Grapes of Wrath one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXStlfeL8oI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMyjjeSWak

verse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EsQXaMqcpo

+ chorus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7cZCMCwtRk

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2dPA2dCRNY

Ennio Morricone - alle luce del giorno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYXy-Q33OZw

Planet Funk - chase the sun ("the darts song/hymn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fppvy52FbIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4a8QtvOkBQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wP5W2R0wY

always thought Howard Jones' New Song was derivative of P Gabriel's Solsbury Hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnK83WxJnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fF8wU4Nl9Y

Has Trent Reznor acknowledged the enormous debt that A Warm Place owes to Bowie's Crystal Japan?

Little Peggy March - i will follow him
=
Organbank - banane, zitrone
~
Les Rallizes Dénudés - night of the assassins

Has Trent Reznor acknowledged the enormous debt that A Warm Place owes to Bowie's Crystal Japan?

yah, here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RQCT69y5s

2:05

not sure they sound so terribly alike, but i can never seem to stop myself from singing "Johnny are you Queer" on top of "Telstar"

Little Peggy March - i will follow him
=
Organbank - banane, zitrone
~
Les Rallizes Dénudés - night of the assassins

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Earthling - you go on natural

and back to the original

Franck Pourcel - chariot

danava "one mind gone separate ways" = "achilles last stand"

My phone won't let me open the youtube coupled with the piggy pop dogfood track. Is it Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf"? Because that's what it sounds like to me.

Anyone familiar with Carole King's '70s hit "Sweet Seasons", come sing along with me:

Talkin' 'bout a-sweeeeet seasons on my mind...
She's got a ticket to ride...
She's got a ticket to ri-i-ide...
She's got a ticket to ride, but she don't care...

The identical melody (until the very end) is disguised pretty well by different chords though.

"Girl don't tell me" is "ticket to ride," too.

At least one section of Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over" is "Don't Worry Baby"

and of course "don't worry baby" borrows heavily from "be my baby"

Someone please tell me where the similarities are between "Born This Way" and "Express Yourself." I don't hear it AT ALL.

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This is getting to be like "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" where every song is related to every other song, and eventually we'll find one song that every song is related to, or at least a few degrees of separation from....

Since Wet Willie is currently threading....

"Keep On Smilin'" = "Into the Mystic" (Van Morrison)

Okay, I recently had the revelation that "How You Remind Me" (Nickelback) and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Green Day) are basically the same song. I tried to layer them on top of each other on Youtube and it didn't work. The Nickelback song is at a slightly faster tempo. Given some audio editing software, I could prove it.

hahahaha i can picture how it would sound on youtube doubler, that is hilarious

Rod Stewart - "Do you think I'm Sexy" steals Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben's "Taj Mahal"

that Spirit song (?) -> "Stairway to Heaven" -> that Metallica song (?)

That Offspring song rips of Simon & Garfunk's Cecilia.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 01:58 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dug this up to post Taj Mahal!

Guitar riff from Unrest's "Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl" nicked from 1981 Eurythmics song "Belinda"

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cqrkrcZBEA

been listening to the new Low album & I gotta say: "Nothing but Heart" sounds like any given live recording of "Shine a Light" by Spiritualized, except w/ Neil Young guitars in place of droney synths. Not that this is in any way a problem, mind.

Is it my imagination, or could the bassline from Abba's "One Of Us" fit quite neatly on top of the Beatles' "Yesterday"?

Rod Stewart - "Do you think I'm Sexy" steals Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben's "Taj Mahal"

that Spirit song (?) -> "Stairway to Heaven" -> that Metallica song (?)

That Offspring song rips of Simon & Garfunk's Cecilia.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 01:58 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dug this up to post Taj Mahal!

Jorge Ben actually sued Stewart over the lifted melody:

Ben Jor may be an urban poet, but he's certainly no soft touch. In his celebrated spat with Rod Stewart, Ben Jor successfully sued the Scottish crooner after he 'borrowed' the melody of the Ben Jor song Taj Mahal for the chorus of his hit Da Ya Think I'm Sexy.

Nowadays Ben Jor seems remarkably sanguine about the affair. He explained how the dispute with Stewart had been settled amicably, with the Scottish singer agreeing to donate the profits from his song to UNICEF.

Gotta give props for him for donating what's probably a considerable amount of royalty money to UNICEF.

"having an average weekend", the theme to the kids in the hall, cops it's main riff from betty wright's "bad bad bad"......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMQiqj5uaeA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYSV0qoDCkw

I never noticed that Beastie Boys "Sabotage" is built around the opening of Killing Joke's "The Wait".

Rod Stewart - "Do you think I'm Sexy" steals Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben's "Taj Mahal"

Just found out the strings melody from Bobby Womack "If You Want My Love" was nicked for the synth lead as well. (Do Ya Think adds a note though, I think.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5EgWwDBG3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgBAOP2ud38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWyzyLF87QA

Radiohead's "Lucky" vs. "Journey of the Sorceror" from the old Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, which I somehow never knew is actually an Eagles tune until today?!

Lucky always reminded me of it anyway, as does one Blur song (but can't think of which one at the moment)

I'm sure I've cited it before, but "This Corrosion" by the Sisters of Mercy sounds disquietingly similar to "Are We Ourselves?" by The Fixx.

I haven't read through this thread, but in case no one else has mentioned, the chord structure of fleetwood mac "Go Your Own Way" and the outfield "Your Love" are pretty close..