that one was mentioned earlier in the thread which is what reminded me. (so it's probable that "fade to grey" sounds like "cuffs" too but i've never heard "fade to grey")
― aaron d.g., Tuesday, 26 August 2008 07:55 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i just checked youtube and yes, all three of these songs are the same, especially "fade to grey" and "one word")
― aaron d.g., Tuesday, 26 August 2008 08:03 (sixteen years ago) link
You know what?
The Strokes' "Last Night" does not sound much like Tom Petty's "American Girl", no more than any other...
Except for "Someday" which sounds a lot like it.
and not one of you mentioned it!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Kula Shaker's "Into The Blue" (from the "K" album) has completely stolen the verse off The Stone Roses' "Bye Bye Badman".
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Bowie's "Suffragette City" IS Alice Cooper's "Under My Wheels"
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Mariah Carey's MY ALL has been reminding me of Toni Braxton's UNBREAK MY HEART
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Belle and Sebastians "If You're Feeling Sinister" is dangerously like Jackson Browne's "These Days"
― res, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
John Barry's - "You Only Live Twice", Robbie Williams' "Millennium" and Goldfrapp's "Time Out Of The World".
― daavid, Thursday, 28 August 2008 05:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"Time Out From The World", sorry.
― daavid, Thursday, 28 August 2008 05:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Er, I think "Millenium" samples "You Only Live Twice", it's no coincidence.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 August 2008 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The bass on "Billie Jean" may have seemed really original and cool and distinctive. And Michael Jackson coined that bassline himself, didn't he?
Or maybe not?
Actually, the bassline of "He Is Sailing" by Jon And Vangelis from 1981's "Friends Of Mr. Cairo" is suspiciously similar to "Billie Jean". A year later, Donna Summer did a cover version of that song. And the producer of that Donna Summer album? Quincy Jones! Hmmmmm.... :)
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 29 August 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm. I mean "State Of Independence", not "He Is Sailing"
Parts of the intro of this song, entitled "Love is Blue" (apparently from the late 60s) sounds a lot like 'the song that will change your life.' (listen in particular to 0:43-0:48)
― Shushtari (res), Friday, 26 September 2008 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I loved 'i want you right now' by mc5 before I read some old lester bangs thing where he mentioned its almost a note for note rip off of the horribly cheesy 'wild thing' by the troggs which makes me think only of the Major League movies and a young Charlie Sheen as Ricky Wild Thing Vaughn.
― Michael_Pemulis, Friday, 26 September 2008 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Ken Boothe's "Lady With The Starlight" sounds exactly like Nat Cole's "Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer"Brentford All Stars's "Greedy G" sounds exactly like James Brown's "Get On The Good Foot"
― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
riffy bit of Franz Ferdinand's 'Do You Want To' eerily similar to Go West's 'We Close Our Eyes'
all three of these songs are the same, especially "fade to grey" and "one word"
Fade to Grey by Visage? = template for every Ladytron song ever*
*hyperbole
― I love a man in chloroform (salsa shark), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link
The Plastic People of the Universe, Okolo okna + The Electric Eels, Bunnies
... OK, you might have to take my word for that one
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i mentioned this on a CT thread the other day, but: cocteau twins 'watchlar' / joni mitchell 'big yellow taxi'
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:58 (fifteen years ago) link
The J.B.'s "Giving Up Food for Funk" and Marvin Gaye's "A Funky Space Reincarnation."
ELO's "Across the Border" and the Beach Boy's "Heroes and Villains"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California" and Tom Petty's "Last Dance with Mary Jane"
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
The theme from Scooby Doo (starting from 0:33) and the middle part of "Ticket to Ride" sound very similar to me.
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
This is a bit of a stretch maybe, but The Jam's "Absolute Beginners" always fools me into thinking I'm hearing "In A Big Country" for a few seconds when it comes on.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Deerhoof - Tears and Music of Love and Free - All Right Now
pretty sure it's a deliberate nod though
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought of this one today when i was playing tennis
"death and the maiden" - the verlaines"box elder" - pavement
― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
don't be jealous just cuz i thought of it first! :p
― Kevin Keller, Thursday, 23 October 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Kiss' "Crazy Crazy Night" has borrowed a thing or two from AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 October 2008 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Wire's "Circumspect" and Magazine's "Vigilance."
― distantfingers, Friday, 24 October 2008 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"San Diego Zoo" by Magnetic Fields and "Shambala" by Three Dog Night
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Friday, 24 October 2008 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone else hears the similarity between LADY MADONNA and WHAT I GOT, by the beatles and sublime respectively?Something about the vocal melody, I swear you could make a convincing mashup out of those. Look at the following, you could even rhyme the opening verses:
Early in the morning risin' to the streetLight me up that cigarette and I strap shoes on my feet -Lady Madonna, children at your feetWonder how you manage to make ends meet
― Moka, Friday, 24 October 2008 06:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I also dont get why Beck isn't paying royalties to Ramsey Lewis for this one:
― Moka, Friday, 24 October 2008 06:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh just doublechecked to be sure and it seems Beck openly admits it was inspired by said track so that last one doesn't count. He only decided to reproduce rather than sample to avoid all the nasty clearance.
― Moka, Friday, 24 October 2008 06:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Inara George - "Fool's Work" sounds quite a bit like the standard "Wild is the Wind".
The melody during these two lines is the same:
"Life can be hard, but it can be good to you"
"Love me, love me, love me, love me,say you do"
especially "good to you" vs "say you do".
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 24 October 2008 06:36 (fifteen years ago) link
the chorus to Aerosmith's "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" is a wholesale ripoff of Cher's "Jesse James"
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Friday, 24 October 2008 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
(listen around 2:40)
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Friday, 24 October 2008 06:44 (fifteen years ago) link
holy shit-- Diane Warren was involved in writing both of those songs. She ripped off her own song.
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Friday, 24 October 2008 06:49 (fifteen years ago) link
And surely not for the first time.
― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 24 October 2008 06:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, and 3DN's aforementioned "Shambala" and B.W. Stevenson's "My Maria."
― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 24 October 2008 06:59 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a Lady Madonna/What I Got mashup out there and it is literally the worst thing of all time. Apparently the whole "make sure both tracks are in the same key" principle was ignored.
eta: here it is: http://hypem.com/track/121678
― ILX MOD (musically), Friday, 24 October 2008 07:19 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a Lady Madonna/What I Got mashup out there and it is literally the worst thing of all time. Apparently the whole "make sure both tracks are in the same key" principle was ignored.eta: here it is: http://hypem.com/track/121678― ILX MOD (musically), viernes 24 de octubre de 2008 08:19 (11 hours ago)
― ILX MOD (musically), viernes 24 de octubre de 2008 08:19 (11 hours ago)
I'm amazed someone did it, and in such a terrible fashion. It just sounds like someone overlapped one song over the other... can't really be considered a mashup, right?
― Moka, Friday, 24 October 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Howling Wolf, Smokestack Lightning / Pentangle, Way Behind the Sun / Kaleidoscope, Beacon From Mars / thousands of others
― Dadaismus (Dada)Just came to post "Beacon From Mars" and "Smokestack Lightning." I guess I'll second it.
― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Five For Fighting, "Superman" * Joan Osborne, "One Of Us" = Beyoncé, "If I Were A Boy"
― Passenger 57 (rogermexico.), Monday, 24 November 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
joe satriani - if i could fly = coldplay - viva la vida
― Michael B, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Cherish - Do It To ItCiara - Oh
― miss precious perfect (musically), Thursday, 11 December 2008 07:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Just realized David Bowie was doing an imo of Howlin' Wolf's trademark "Woo-hoo" vocal in "Jean Genie."
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 December 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Note: "Woo-hoo" is not the name of a song, but the a vocal line used in "Smokestack Lighting."
― Ruudside Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 December 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "The Needle & The Spoon" Sex Pistols - "Submission"
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 December 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
No one has mentioned Jerry Jeff Walker's 'Mr Bojangles' and Pavement's 'Spit On A Stranger'? - Ok I will ...
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Inspired by recent Harvey Danter-related polling activity, I just listened to it & it occurred to me, for the first time, how similar the opening bars of "Flagpole Sitta" are to Cracker's "Teen Angst"
― Cat-Wrangler (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
*Danger - sorry that post is a mess.
Instant Karma / Theme from the Wombles (The Wombling Song)
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link
That'd make a good bootmix.
Anyroad, which J Geils band song was "did you no wrong" Sex Pistols too close to, such that the track got credited to on some versions of the CD single?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link