songs that sound like other songs

You're shitting me. :-)

(Sorry. Listening to Sabotage at the moment.)

dsico

(Not listening to Sab right now.)

more terribly, the offspring's "get a job" and "o bla di o bla da" by the beatles have very similar choruses (try singing one over the other sometime, it's horrifying).

Furthermore, for the record: an obvious choice, perhaps, but Pulp's "A Little Soul" and Smokey R. and the M.'s "The Tracks of My Tears".

Other than that, the similarity of the intro to Cast's "Fine Time" and Guns'n'Roses "Paradise City" could be pretty confusing at indie discos in the mid-ninties, just when you're ready to blow the whistle and rock out with Axl, Izzy and Slash you get, "What's it all about? Do you really want to know..."

Shit.

I'm sure that's no accident, given Rick Rubin's appreciation for old school metal.

The Manic Street Preachers' "If You Tolerate This Than Your Children Will Be Next" was alleged to have ripped off the Stranglers' "Duchess," but I find that a bit of a stretch.....and I'm a much bigger fan of the Stranglers than I'll ever be of the Manics.

Then, of course, Nirvana stole the riff from Killing Joke's "Eighties" for "Come as You Are." Little known fact is that my beloved Killing Joke stole that very same riff from the Damned's "Life Goes On" (on the STRAWBERRIES album).

Big Black's "L Dopa" off SONGS ABOUT FUCKING is virtually indistiguishable from Killing Joke's "the Wait".

The Germs' "No God" ripps the opening riff off of Yes' "Roundabout," but that's more willfull desecration rather than theft (despite the fact that guitarist Pat Smear is an unapologetic Yes fan).

Oh, and dancing at Mother to retro-ironic white trash trailer rock last night, I realised that there's a Sloan song which is Foghat's Slow Ride down to a T, but I can't remember which one it is.

Butthole Surfers' "Human Cannibal" is "The Rose" by Bette Middler. Sing along. "Some say love..."; it's eerie.

I'm blanking right now....

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

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

Anyway, Call Me / Blondie = What She Said / Smiths

The Doll "Burning up like a fire"
The Cars "Just what I needed"

Odd as they came out at very similar times and it would be unlikely that one would have heared the other....

Maybe its cuz they are both dull and derivative...

and nelly and justin timberlake have a song over "back in black" by AC/DC how disgusting. the sad fact is that most of the 10-16 year old girls that listen to justin timberlake have no idea o fthe musical travesty that has been committed. but I will admit that it is kinda neat.

huey lewis and the news came first. they sued ray parker for that one.

=The Who "I Can't Explain"

the new drunk drivers! just lied to get to your apartment!

The Supremes "You Keep Me Hanging On" and Grass Roots "A Millions Tears"

As pointed out by Yasi Salek on Bandsplain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7lBq0zuSM

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

I've been getting into Rush lately, and the opening guitar riff from their Caress of Steel album brought to mind another famous album opener.

Rush - Bastille Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80hamog2uks

X - Your Phone's Off the Hook (But You're Not)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWwcl9JbsBo

is it memorex or stereolab?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVShQi7UtxM

Why can't I get just one kiss?
Wht can't I get just one kiss?
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side

Add It Up + Break On Through

I just re-remembered that the Bangles' "Manic Monday" is Prince re-using "1999" for the verses.

just like Sussudio.

Hell, I feel like "pop songs that sound like a intentional remix of a Prince song" could be its own thread.

like how many millions of songs copy chuck berry?

Uh....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3qXfF7hqE

Sharon Van Etten - “Don’t Do It”
Cranberries - “Linger”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaPF5O9RwWA

seems obvious 'man in a box' by alice in chains was a str8 rip of this melody right ? or is there some common antecedent 'hall of the mountain king' style

The verses of "Longing For Fire" on Scorpions' In Trance from 1975 have a number of similarities to "Fly By Night" from Rush's Fly By Night, released seven months earlier:

- guitar riff using the same syncopation
- very busy melodic bassline, completely atypical for Scorpions but very much like early Geddy Lee
- lyrics that conspicuously mention "flying" and "night"

I thought they were both on Mercury Records at the time, but Scorpions would not sign with them until 1978.

It's taken me so long to realise Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" is basically a tribute to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"

It was pointed out even at the time, but I didn't appreciate until recently how Rachel Stevens' "Some Girls" is essentially a crib of Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine", but with weaker production and a less charismatic delivery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIYgig9maY

Hearteningly the Goldfrapp song has millions of views on YouTube versus merely tens of thousands for "Some Girls". Rachel Stevens was only relevant in a brief temporal window and only in the UK whereas Goldfrapp transcends time and space. Whatever happened to Richard X? He was the Ilxor generation's Mark Ronson.

This all came about from a thread on RYM about the John Lee Hooker "Boogie Chillun" riff. The Goldfrapp song has a little bit of it, "Some Girls" almost none at all.

I'm sure there were Strict Machine/Rachel Stevens mashups floating about in the good old 2000s but it was possibly Sweet Dreams My LAX, rather than Some Girls, even though that would seem more similar!

Speaking of Goldfrapp, Kylie Minogue was definitely inspired by them when she recorded "Two Hearts". Even the video has the same esthetic as "Ooh La La".

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

I remembered it was a Kish Mauve song first, so looked it up to check, and on the Wikipedia article there is a quote from Tom Ewing comparing it to Goldfrapp (among others), ha

the chorus of freez's "southern freez" quotes the opening notes of coltrane's "giant steps"

We finally went to see Hamilton a couple weeks ago and I feel it necessary to report that almost ALL the Hamilton songs sound like other songs - which, I mean, smart move?

Pere Ubu's "Waiting for Mary" and the Velvet Underground's "Lady Godiva's Operation"

^^ And the Stones' "Gomper" has that riff also

“Lust for Life” drums are a slowed down version of those on “Touch Me”

Music doesn’t otherwise sound similar but still

Never occurred to me before, despite Iggy’s acknowledged debt to Jimbo.

not to mention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsZa3diYZg

!

There's a moment about 25 seconds into this (and then again a few times throughout) that sound just like For You Blue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlLlwVk9eI