songs that sound like other songs

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.

The Shangri-las “I’m Blue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYzt04WsPz0
Monks “We Do Wie Du”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTTWjz2VQo4

doo bee doo bee doo bee doo

Here's the shangri-las embedded (I hope)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaIbfxalGcs

oh duh original is by the Ikettes

Just noticed today: Led Zeppelin - "Going To California" > Tori Amos - "Silent All These Years" > Pearl Jam - "Given To Fly". I don't think I would've noticed the similarities between any two of them without realizing the similarities shared across all three.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI7TV8zk3nE

I encountered this song a couple weeks ago and I've been coming back to it since. I don't speak or read Portuguese, so I have no idea what the lyrics are, but just yesterday it struck me that it sounds like a very slow version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart." I can't tell if it's intentional or not, but now I really can't stop listening to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89JbzIhIwlE

It's the production choice that makes it sound like Joy Division/Jesus & Mary Chain, it's a cover of a song by Ferrer Trindade. The most famous version is by Dulce Pontes which is more akin to Kate Bush:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2fyB4dj4U

Thanks!

Godz "Where"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8TJ3I8YrM

Buffalo Daugher

"Great Five Lakes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA41iuCmex4

Almost think this is an intentional homage but I don't know if Buffalo Daughter had heard of the Godz.

rly can't get over this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dak1ncxiHRo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPqr1nw1imw

Those two are almost the same BPM! Just spent a few minutes playing them at the same time.

Dennis Waterman - 'I Could Be So Good For You (Theme from Minder)
Barry Manilow - 'Mandy'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNwEpX1juTI

super mario world - valley of bowser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAMZq6UjygY

808 state - state ritual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1qSXSOwbi0

The main riff in "Misunderstanding" by Genesis is actually a direct lift from a part in "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and I believe that has been verified by Phil Collins.

― Scott Russell (Sickstring), Friday, June 9, 2006 9:06 AM (9 years ago)

Huh. I was just about to post this connection, but I see it's already been addressed. It never struck me until today, which is mostly my own fault I guess.

http://youtu.be/Ig6vIRmfoNI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Wl2r_VlhA&list=PLcmf5ZQ2fbCVFq1mr8NqD8u6XuZQYIcdq&index=2

https://youtu.be/Ig6vIRmfoNI?t=19m27s

AHEM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ2xPTf8jEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nHBWfmMAIY

Quite possibly one of them challops posts everyone here talks about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ron1PSGI6GI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI8K1R8q3fA

The Cure - M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uij9XyBizgI

Nirvana - About a girl

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

"riiiiiiiide ooooooon looooooooove"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVnNhPFkV3g

vs.

"looooooose yoooooour looooooooove"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1iwQxiHrs

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

And

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6DFLNa6MBA

OMD - Tesla Girls
Boney M / The Creation - Painter Man

These are so similar, I wonder if it was done on purpose.