songs that sound like other songs

Bowie's "Suffragette City" IS Alice Cooper's "Under My Wheels"

Mariah Carey's MY ALL has been reminding me of Toni Braxton's UNBREAK MY HEART

Belle and Sebastians "If You're Feeling Sinister" is dangerously like Jackson Browne's "These Days"

John Barry's - "You Only Live Twice", Robbie Williams' "Millennium" and Goldfrapp's
"Time Out Of The World".

"Time Out From The World", sorry.

Er, I think "Millenium" samples "You Only Live Twice", it's no coincidence.

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.... :)

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)

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.

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"

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

The Plastic People of the Universe, Okolo okna + The Electric Eels, Bunnies

... OK, you might have to take my word for that one

i mentioned this on a CT thread the other day, but: cocteau twins 'watchlar' / joni mitchell 'big yellow taxi'

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"

The theme from Scooby Doo (starting from 0:33) and the middle part of "Ticket to Ride" sound very similar to me.

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.

Deerhoof - Tears and Music of Love and Free - All Right Now

pretty sure it's a deliberate nod though

i thought of this one today when i was playing tennis

"death and the maiden" - the verlaines
"box elder" - pavement

don't be jealous just cuz i thought of it first! :p

Kiss' "Crazy Crazy Night" has borrowed a thing or two from AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"

Wire's "Circumspect" and Magazine's "Vigilance."

"San Diego Zoo" by Magnetic Fields and "Shambala" by Three Dog Night

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 street
Light me up that cigarette and I strap shoes on my feet
-
Lady Madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet

I also dont get why Beck isn't paying royalties to Ramsey Lewis for this one:

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.

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".

the chorus to Aerosmith's "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" is a wholesale ripoff of Cher's "Jesse James"

(listen around 2:40)

holy shit-- Diane Warren was involved in writing both of those songs. She ripped off her own song.

And surely not for the first time.

Oh, and 3DN's aforementioned "Shambala" and B.W. Stevenson's "My Maria."

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

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)

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?

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.

Five For Fighting, "Superman" * Joan Osborne, "One Of Us" = Beyoncé, "If I Were A Boy"

joe satriani - if i could fly = coldplay - viva la vida

Cherish - Do It To It
Ciara - Oh

Just realized David Bowie was doing an imo of Howlin' Wolf's trademark "Woo-hoo" vocal in "Jean Genie."

Note: "Woo-hoo" is not the name of a song, but the a vocal line used in "Smokestack Lighting."

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "The Needle & The Spoon"
Sex Pistols - "Submission"

No one has mentioned Jerry Jeff Walker's 'Mr Bojangles' and Pavement's 'Spit On A Stranger'? - Ok I will ...

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"

*Danger - sorry that post is a mess.

Instant Karma / Theme from the Wombles (The Wombling Song)

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?

Felt "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow"
Felt "Dismantled King is Off the Throne"

same album, even!

velvet underground's "sweet jane"
is similar to
tommy james and the shondells' "crimson and clover"

is that song a ripoff?

boston spaceships "ready to pop"
jay reatard "always wanting more"

the lucksmiths' "midweek midmorning" and belle & sebastian's "asleep on a sunbeam" are remarkably similar