songs that sound like other songs

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.

NIN's 'A Warm Place' is basically an unacknowledged cover of Bowie's 'Crystal Japan'.

Trent Reznor: There was one point when we were doing the record that I came up with this melody and I thought, "this is really good," and that I couldn't have written it myself. So I played it for Flood and he said "that's really good," and I said "that's gotta be somebody else's song."

David Bowie: It's from a gin advert I did in Japan!

Trent Reznor: So I played it for a couple other people and said "I think this is something off Low, this just sounds familiar...I don't know what it is." So we did it, record's out, & one day I was talking on the phone and I got Scary Monsters, which came out on Rykodisc finally. And so I put that on and it's got bonus tracks at the end. And I'm listening and this song comes on that, to my horror, it's the same...Crystal Japan.

The main riff of the Minutemen's "Nature Without Man" sounds quite a bit like a sped up version of the intro/bridge to Black Sabbath's "After Forever" \

"After Forever"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mznunlg2nw

"Nature Without Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEMjzhtABo0

And that's that weird Black Sabbath song that sounds like it's about to take the last train to Clarksville.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtzlFO19m3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h874BPSnbWc

Carpenters - Yesterday Once More / Belle & Sebastian - Fox In The Snow

But this is probably intentional

Etta James "Somethings got a hold on me" Loads of recogniseable sample sources, but that end of the chorus payoff line is definitely feeding Bob Dylan's "Hard Rain's gonna fall"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wxFn74Kr8M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H2Vvfg0d3k

FEDER - Goodbye (feat. Lyse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mptdcx36qZU

Der Dritte Raum - Swing Bop (Acid Pauli's Kosmik Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3D9oCH4zsc

two via my spotify discovery playlist:

The Tindersticks, My Sister/Pulp, David's Last Summer. Pulp's take somewhat cheerier (although hard not to crack a smile at the former's unremitting tale of woe).

Joe Jackson, Fools in Love/Elvis Costello, Watching the Detectives. More than just the standard cod reggae thing going on here.

Nice to have all these in one place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMaR6ljTK6c

Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

Though It's probably been mentioned. But I can't check all those YouTube links.

Harry Nilsson cover of "Many Rivers To Cross" sounds like the track of "#9 Dream" with the vocal of "Mind Games" and then the outro of "Mother" tacked on.

I mean, I guess JL is on the track but still

Maybe after the "Won't Back Down" / "Stay With Me" fracas no one has a fuck to give about this sort of thing, but.

The ubiquitous Ed Sheeran song "Thinking Out Loud" seems to have the same chord progression and feel as Michael Bolton's "Soul Provider," which itself may owe a debt to the Manhattans' "Shining Star."

Do we have a thread about artists who, consciously or not, rip themselves off? I'm thinking of songs like David Byrne's "Angels" and Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime"

Laid by James is a very cleverly disguised cover of La Bamba

Lou Stathis pointed out that Magazine's "Model Worker" sounds like it's based on the riff from The Capitols' "Cool Jerk".

I've been getting loads of these lately. Some of them are really tenuous. Like this one. I might be imagining it but does:

dEUS - Little Arithmetics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I

share harmonic shades with Material Girl?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSUOFgj97M

And speaking of Madonna, here's a triple chain:

Years & Years - King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_uoH6hJilc

which sounds like Hot Chip - I Feel Better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I

which sounds like La Isla Bonita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqIIW7nxBgc

https://www.facebook.com/rupanbaltv/videos/1053778951299775/

This gets shared a lot on facebook, but parts of it sound remarkably like Hey Mickey by Toni Basil. Anyone know which came first?

There's some terrible new radio song that sounds A LOT like Hungry Like The Wolf.

there's a synth in Orbital's 'Adnan' that sounds strangely similar to the one used on the verses on Irene Cara's 'Fame'. you can hear it particularly well right at the end of Adnans

Dyna-mite by Mud - Peek-a-Boo! by Devo

Grimes' Flesh Without Blood reminds me strangely of Anytime by My Morning Jacket

oh apparently they gave duran duran a writing credit:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6738294/5-seconds-of-summer-sounds-good-feels-good-album-review

Mentors "Peeping Tom" is eerily similar to Quiet Riot's "Look In Any Window". Mentors have a better chorus riff though.

Holy shit, Van's "Almost Independence Day" starts out exactly like "Wish You Were Here"!

for years Take That's 'Let It Shine' has bugged me. Yes it's a thinly-veiled homage to ELO in spirit, but what specific song does it sound like?

and tonight it hit me - it's Stephen Malkkus' 'Jenny & the Ess Dog'

The Travelling Wilburys' Handle With Care is heavily lifted from Curved Air's Desiree. Check out the intro!

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

My sweet lord, that's a rip-off.

I've always been fascinated that Belle & Sebastian's "Family Tree" straight up lifts its melody from Madleen Kane's / Giorgio Moroder's "The Lonely One", yet there's no mention of it in the credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpXOOnRU6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOXgH3vprc

Laid by James is a very cleverly disguised cover of La Bamba

― canoon fooder (dog latin), viernes 25 de septiembre de 2015 18:22 (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd say Twist and Shout rather than La Bamba but yeah I can hear it too.

whaaat that wilbury's source is spot on - could it be coincidence?

"I Wonder" by The Gants sounds like "In My Life."

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8oHHGxrNus

'Together Again' by Janet Jackson came on the radio just now. Apparently I'm not the first person to notice the similarity with the Bridge stage on Sonic the Hedgehog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlMxnhJ3uvk

Learned via intranetz the other day about the similarity between "Another GIrl, Another Planet" by The Only Ones and "The Cowboy Song" by Thin Lizzy.

This is a fun one basically because the artists are so different. The breakdown in "I'm a Cholo" by the Dickies sounds like Treehouse by Arthur Russell.

https://youtu.be/sterLDzYyf0?t=111
https://youtu.be/hZJ9MnXVwaA?t=441

"Take You There" by Weyes Blood sounds a lot like "Starsailor" by Tim Buckley, in the best way.

Learned via intranetz the other day about the similarity between "Another GIrl, Another Planet" by The Only Ones and "The Cowboy Song" by Thin Lizzy.

― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, March 23, 2016 6:40 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well that explains my endless love for both songs