songs that sound like other songs

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
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Organbank - banane, zitrone
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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..

Though it's not quite James Brown's "Hot" (= Bowie's "Fame") this is a pretty blatant rip of an entire arrangement:

The original

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

The rip-off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtIwNL5s648

To be fair, the writers of the latter song did add a changeup in the verse and a part "B" for a chorus, where the original is the same groove for 8 minutes (it's a good groove, though). Incidentally, I've always heard "Shake Your Body" as the first in a sequence that continues with "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and ends with "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'". MJ had a real knack for those synth-bass dance hooks.

"I'm goin' take my clothes off" (Hot in Here - Nelly) is a nod to "I'm goin' take my shoes off" (Agony of Defeet - Parliament). Just a nod though, not a lift.

@Kim, I thought that Fastball guitar riff came from here:

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Pray for Me came out three years before Fire Escape, Miles Zuniga from Fastball is a documented fan of the Jayhawks, etc etc. But the Grapes of Wrath song sounds more similar, actually. What's really blowing my mind right now is that Chris and Tom Hooper from Grapes of Wrath (an actual brother band!) are rocking the exact same look as Gary Louris from the Jayhawks (a psuedo brother band).

Whoops, don't need HTML to embed Youtube links.

Once more with feeling:

@Kim, I thought that Fastball guitar riff came from here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN5F576Rn1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMyjjeSWak

Pray for Me came out three years before Fire Escape, Miles Zuniga from Fastball is a documented fan of the Jayhawks, etc etc. But the Grapes of Wrath song sounds more similar, actually. What's really blowing my mind right now is that Chris and Tom Hooper from Grapes of Wrath (an actual brother band!) are rocking the exact same look as Gary Louris from the Jayhawks (a psuedo brother band).

"pray for me" is such a great song

toto's "hold the line" and manfred mann's cover of the boss's "for you" start out exactly alike and stay pretty similar throughout

This sounds A LOT like Shine On You Crazy Diamond, including some of the guitar licks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqI81Xa2mFk

And I guess it predates the Floyd tune by a lot, so

I can't believe nobody mentioned that Wuthering Heights has nearly the same chorus as Mandy. Also the Strokes song mentioned in the OP sounds to me more like a ripoff of Lust for Life.

Paul Revere & The Raiders' Kicks = Monkees' Not Your Stepping Stone

Paul Revere & The Raiders recorded Stepping Stone before the Monkees!

Also, Steal Away and What a Fool believes have a similar groove and arrangement, but the songs are totally different.

U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" = the chorus of Led Zep's "The Rover"

two of my favourites from this year:
1. Radiohead - Bloom (that intro loop) vs Washed Out - Clap Intro

2 Britney Spears - Criminal vs Destroyer - Suicide Demo For Kara Walker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h46u-2aBi-A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFb5z3kUSQ