songs that sound like other songs

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.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1lfsmtre1yuc21x/no%20type%20vs%20nodezsh.mp3?dl=0

Fuckin' Nick Lowe again... compare "Cracking Up" with CCR's "Run Through the Jungle"

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbI0cMyyw_M

Peter Thomas - papierblumenmörder @yt
Peter Thomas - moonflower q70 @yt
Andreas Dorau - menschenschicksale @spotify

correction:
Peter Thomas - papierblumenmörder

Fuckin' Nick Lowe again... compare "Cracking Up" with CCR's "Run Through the Jungle"

An even more blatant Nick Lowe CCR rip: "Stick It Where the Sun Don't Shine" and "Green River"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xfxQPYImc

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

oh man, that's egregious

George Ezra - Cassy O'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubztYMkI3fY

Elvis - Don't Be Cruel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViMF510wqWA

The term was coined by Jim Steinman

What about Wagnerian Rock?

Pharrell Williams - Gust of Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSRtPTmRr4

Living Colour - Cult of Personality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

I always thought Gust of Wind was just a rewrite of Rock Your Body but with strings and robot vocals.

The guitar solo on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDAiZ0bLPSU

Reminds me of the intro to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VJ1flRKjqQ

I heard Kelly Clarkson's "Heartbeat Song" in a store yesterday. Complete and total ripoff of Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle." It's not even subtle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4_6N-k5VS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKsxPW6i3pM

Yes that one is a pretty blatant ripoff, overheard it yesterday and without paying attention to the lyrics I thought it was a cover at first.

I keep thinking that Lunchmoney Lewis' Bills sounds like Bassment Jaxx's Do Your Thing, if Cee Lo Green had been hired to do vocals for it.

xp yeah! I thought it was a cover at first too, but the words were different so I was just really confused about it.