songs that sound like other songs

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

"The Way to There" by Au Revoir Simone includes a section that is very similar to "Ode to My Family" by The Cranberries.

The opening verses to 'Venus' (Bananarama etc) and Bon Jovi's 'Livin On A Prayer' are almost identical.

I still think Livin' On a Prayer is West End Girls when it comes on for the first five seconds.

oh wow, a three-way mashup would be interesting to hear.

Whistle's Right Next to Me and Michael Jackson's I Just Can't Stop Loving You

a fun thing to do in a crowd, preferably intoxicated, is to sing from the top of your lungs OOH BABY DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT'S WORTH - WOOAAAAAOOAH LIVIN' ON A PRAYER

It was pointed out to me yesterday that the theme to Jim'll Fix It is God Only Knows.

The verses of 'Otherside' by Red Hot Chili Peppers = 'Time Waits For No One' by the Stones

'Satan' by Teenage Fanclub clearly the inspiration for 'Richard III' by Supergrass.

"I Believe When I Fall in Love" by Stevie Wonder sounds - at least until the chorus - remarkably like something off OK Computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H--_-gPX3Nw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkJt5sxomM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfCHwsp9bSc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjTs9balD9o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUc9IzANpRE

and probably many other "coincidences" by the same band

"The Way to There" by Au Revoir Simone includes a section that is very similar to "Ode to My Family" by The Cranberries.

― Ross, Wednesday, August 24, 2016 10:48 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

More like 'when you're gone' by the Cranberries imo

Shakira's first single 'Estoy Aqui' was a massive hit in latin america. Released 1995:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJHH026X0c

Verse sounds exactly like the Pretenders 'I'll Stand By You' released a year before. No idea if they sued for this one but they should have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpmj059JFA

Shakira's chorus is way catchier though or maybe its my nostalgia googles since it was one of those songs everyone in my generation heard non-stop. 90's production is very distracting though.

The Monkees' "Birth of an Accidental Hipster," written by Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher, has a melodic snippet from "Mathilda Mother."

Courtney Barnett's "Pedestrian at Best" is a doppelgänger of Nirvana's "Drain You"

"I Believe When I Fall in Love" by Stevie Wonder sounds - at least until the chorus - remarkably like something off OK Computer

i think it's because the guitar tone sort of sounds like "My Iron Lung"

Yeah, that sounds right. Sounds like similar chords too.