songs that sound like other songs

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

Throbbing Gristle, "What a Day"
Nine Inch Nails, "The Big Come Down"

Lou Reed's Charley's Girl sounds like John Lennon's Bring on the Lucie

TLPD - love puppets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7k-8fL4wQ&t=5m19s

SPCZ - jih
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PhTCYbqpkM

TImmy Thomas' What Can I Tell Her steals the main melody from Rainy Days and Mondays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km3q3UuLTqk

(1 min 17)

Journey - Don't Stop Believing
Courtney Barnett - Depreston

^ Don't really hear that one

no? The vocal melodies are really similar to me.

Compare:

'a singer in a smokey room / the smell of wine and sweet perfume'

'and it's going cheap you say / well it's a deceased estate'

yeah i guess i hear it there, but I don't really hear that in other parts of the melody.

This is obviously a straight up cover, but never credited as such:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsWyYzGn8FA

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

"33" by Smashing Pumpkins sounds exactly like that old disco hit "Doctor's Orders." You can pretty much sing the lyrics of the latter over the melody of the former.

Also, Coldplay totally ripped off the melody for "Clocks" off of the bridge of an old Northern Soul song called "You've Got Your Mind on Other Things" (can't remember the name of the artist).

the s/t Ultimate Painting album so obviously rips off songs that i think it must have been intentional. particularly the vaselines

Mr. Snrub, where? I don't hear that the song has a bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQKx1cpd9O0

@0:49 and 1:47 is what I'm guessing he means

bridge, solo, whatever. i ain't too good at music theory.

just noticed this tonight, but Jerry Jeff Walker's "Wheel" sounds like it borrows from the standard Last Kiss, but I can't seem to find any reference to Jerry Jeff saying he did so intentionally, but i didn't look very hard

@0:49 and 1:47 is what I'm guessing he means

I don't hear a resemblance to the verse, bridge, or coda melody of "Clocks" in this.

I don't hear a resemblance to the verse, bridge, or coda melody of "Clocks" in this

Listen to the instrumental background at 0:49 and compare that to the opening seconds of "Clocks" (before the vocals come in)

OK, so a descending, sequential arpeggio in eighth-notes (patterns of three). But they're not the same chords.

Buffalo Daughter - "New Rock" sounds quite a bit like Sonic Youth's "Bull In The Heather"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MeIA-Pte6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JGBNkLM9_8

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

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

this kind of floored me. I loved that Records song, but the other song came out years before it and sounds very similar to me.

what does st. vincent's song "strange mercy" sound like? i recognize the keyboard riff but can't place it.

please help me.

wait i got it. fleetwood mac seven wonders.

The Jayhawks song "Trouble" is another one that sounds like The Hollies song "The Air That I Breathe."

Clio - Faces https://youtu.be/kw3mlykbAfk

Genesis - Scenes From A Night's Dream https://youtu.be/nlvfnJzSJ0o

do these sound kind of reminiscent of one another to anybody else? especially the verse of Faces and the "dragons breathing fire but friendly" part of the Genesis song?

"Funeral Dress" by Wussy sounds like "Teenage Kicks."

The bassline to Katy Perry's 'Roar' is something else, but I've been thinking about it for months (ever since my kid got into it) and haven't been able to put my finger on it. There is online discussion about it sounding like a Sara Bareillis song, but this is not it. I feel like there's some indie song or something that uses the same bassline, maybe even including the gliss between notes. Someone want to steer me in the right direction?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8

it also sounds kinda like "ho hey" but not b/c of the bassline.

"I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys and "Atlantic City" by Bruce Springsteen. Of course I heard the BSB song years before I heard Nebraska, so my brain fills in the gaps in the line "Take me down to Atlantic City...tell me whyyy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xxmg4vFMZk

i was not expecting to hear the "heaven on their minds" riff there.

I know I've heard some people compare the bassline of Roar to Outro by M83.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DJ3-BVMjOs

That does sound similar, but I hadn't heard it before.

Of course I heard the BSB song years before I heard Nebraska, so my brain fills in the gaps in the line "Take me down to Atlantic City...tell me whyyy."

There's a Spandau Ballet song that has a part that sounds exactly like the "tell me whhhyyyy" part. About 4:19 into this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr2b1AS4p2c

I feel like there's some indie song or something that uses the same bassline, maybe even including the gliss between notes.

Is it especially in the way it goes from the tonic note up to the second scale degree before the glissando down to the vi chord? Because that sounds familiar to me, too.

That use of the second scale degree is really distinctive because it's a non-chord tone.

"Estranged" by GNR basically lifts the end of Stairway

holy mother of god I just listened to "Macarena" and realized the synth in the beginning sounds just like "Dance Yrself Clean" and also the beats are similar too

spinners 'rubberband man' : stephen stills 'love the one yr with'

The Isley Brothers cover of the latter is the missing link

Flo Rida's "Good Feeling" and Kesha's "Die Young" are basically the same song with different vocals. They came out the same year too.

Both songs were produced/engineered by the same malevolent person to make children want to destroy their lives iirc