songs that sound like other songs

I was just reading through "Complex's 50 best songs of the year so far"....

Phosphorescent "Song for Zula" and Miley Cyrus "We Don't Stop" were both included among the few non-rap choices, which I hadn't heard yet... Turns out they're like 90% identical to each other.

R.E.M.'s "Imitation of Life" - "No one can see you cry-y-y-y-y-y-y-y"

The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" - "You are a radio sta-a-a-a-a-a-a-ar"

Eight notes on each

Bad Brains, "At The Movies" - Tom Petty, "Into The Great Wide Open"

Reich's 'Music for 18 Musicians' was mentioned way upthread, but anyway:

'Le Telecabine' by Caia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPv_dP4V4Pc);
'8:07' and '5:23' by Global Communication (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBsVGUTntzE); and
'Low Sun' by Chicane (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw3ghsvFCZI)

are all basically 'Love on a Real Train' by Tangerine Dream, which while not a direct rip of any of '18 Musicians' sections itself, is pretty much a conscious attempt to replicate its style.

I'm surprised that no-one's mentioned the blatant rip-off of Natalie Imbruglia's 'Torn' that is forum favourite ;-) Jessie J's 'Price Tag'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

Myley bridge VS Gotye chorus:

I JUST WANTED YOU TO LEEEEEEET ME IN! BUT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO CUUUUUUUT ME OUT!

Toto - "St. George and the Dragon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puluIv8HinM

Emeli Sandé - "Next to Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nwdjQmc_N8

Flaming Lips' "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" sounds sort of like 10CC's "I'm Not in Love"--parts of the chord progression and production

Did a double take just hearing Stone Roses' Mersey Paradise on Radio 6, a Here Comes the Sun knock-off or I'm Ian Brown.

Been getting into ABBA's Ring Ring LP a lot lately. It's a gorgeous album, but the title track has a vocal melody that is so similar to "Won't Get Fooled Again" that I just sing The Who over top of it. "And the world looks just the same. And history ain't changed. 'Cause the banners they all flown in the last war"

The main synth melody in The Knife's Behind the Bushes is identical to one of the big hooks on Pearl Jam's Black.

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

This is basically "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" but a little more tuneless.

Not that the original is tuneless, I mean they took out the resolution at the end of the verses and just kind of let the notes hang there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MummZBgO3Ek

I've been getting into "The Wall" recently, and can't stop shaking the resemblance between part of this song and part of Oasis's "Wonderwall", particularly the bit where they both sing "Does anybody feel the way I do" with those downward stepping chords. It's basically the exact same part.

sunday by custom kings is very similar to bros by panda bear
p sure they copied pbear

Led Zep thread mentioned Inside Looking Out, which reminded me -

Grand Funk, around the 5.37 mark of this: http://youtu.be/gZM25ZG6ZZU
Kyuss, around the 0.06 mark of this: http://youtu.be/CAXGu81Rk1g

Note that Scott Reeder was in The Obsessed, who covered Grand Funk's interpretation of Inside Looking Out (see around the 4.43 mark of this: http://youtu.be/g7urZY7rnl8).

Is it just me?

Yes's "Roundabout" intro got totally jacked by the Miracles for "Love Machine"

I remember being surprised at how blatantly the Coral's 'Dreaming of You' rips off 'My World Is Empty Without You' by the Supremes, I don't know if it's a 'homage' or whatever.

Wow, hadn't heard that Supremes song before but it's identical.

Someone already mentioned Sam Smith - Stay with Me and Tom Petty - Won't Back Down, right?

http://youtu.be/pB-5XG-DbAA

http://youtu.be/nvlTJrNJ5lA

bread's "mother freedom"...

http://youtu.be/MRNe04kw3Cg

...and some song by nirvana.

"Uncontrollable Urge" and "Misty Mountain Hop."

Neil Young "Harvest Moon" and Everly Brothers "Walk Right Back"

Spoon - Written In Reverse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ILdmIOep0&feature=kp

Swans - A Little God In My Hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2bMsYb9P-k

Trembling Blue Stars' 'What Can I Say To Change Your Mind' and Pet Shop Boys' 'Only The Wind'

does XTC's 'Generals and Majors' sound like 'Sweet Child O' Mine' or is it my imagination?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEN72BQ10bg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T5xWkO56GI

Two from 2014:

Jessie Ware - Tough Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLaOxbd37jc

The Range of Light Wilderness - Perfect
https://soundcloud.com/gnomeliferecords/the-range-of-light-wilderness

Tom Petty totally swiped the Jayhawks' riff from "Waiting for the Sun" and used it in "Last Dance for Mary Jane." (The Jayhawks had just opened for him on tour prior, too.)

Madonna - 'Papa Don't Preach' / Suzanne Vega - 'Luka' / Slowdive - '40 Days'

'Nutted By Reality' was an intentional Jackson 5 pastiche, I think

(which is not to say that it doesn't belong in this thread)

One direction love runs out sounds like love lockdown by kanye I even thought it was a cover.

Tom Petty totally swiped the Jayhawks' riff from "Waiting for the Sun" and used it in "Last Dance for Mary Jane." (The Jayhawks had just opened for him on tour prior, too.)

see also: the phrase "rebel without a clue," which made its way from the replacements' "i'll be you" to petty's "into the great wide open." petty apparently has a thing for swiping ideas from his opening bands.

This conversation sounds like one we've had before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5aq5HcS1A

can someone id what the chorus of this sounds exactly like (from 0.44)? it's really bugging me. i think something from the 90s.
https://soundcloud.com/haertsmusic/no-one-needs-to-know

24-Carat Black - 24-Carat Black theme/Can - Vitamin C

This is quite an intriguing one because they were roughly recorded at the same time although Vitamin C was the first to be released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH1J0msXRm8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5-rdr0qhWk

These two, the first verse of the songs are both exactly the same tune, some of the lines are the same also. The chorusses are different but similar as opposed to exactly the same.

xpost to self: T'pau - China in your hand

figured out why that spoon song was so hated on the tracks poll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT5SBg1Mmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnlTrq6wLf0

I think it sounds like a cross between Pink Floyd 'Us & Them', as covered by Easy Star Allstars and St Vincent's 'Huey Newton'.

There's a little chord progression in Brian Eno's "St Elmo's Fire" that sounds exactly like this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WtA-gVznRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-3djUYgebU
bluuuuue August moooon

i'm pretty sure it's coincidence and not intentional
both songs are great regardless

xxp the beginning of Inside Out sounds like The Simpsons theme.

see also: the phrase "rebel without a clue," which made its way from the replacements' "i'll be you" to petty's "into the great wide open." petty apparently has a thing for swiping ideas from his opening bands.

I'm skeptical that this is such a unique turn of phrase, despite Wikipedia's rather certain but unsourced statements:

Tom Petty took the line "a rebel without a clue" from the 1989 single "I'll Be You" by Minneapolis rock band The Replacements with whom he toured. The term was coined by Jim Steinman, who wrote "Rebel without a clue" for Bonnie Tyler on the 1982 release "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire".

I'm almost certain there are pre-1982 uses of the phrase.

Well, almost almost certain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzMrK-aGCug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NySz4SR-0Q

No Type vs nodezsh

just mixed these over each other. it's uncanny.