songs that sound like other songs

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.

That's impossible. If anything than "My iron lung" sounds like "I believe when I fall in love" and not vice versa.

Lol

In the last minute of Grace Jones La Vie en Rose a piano starts playing the Wichita Lineman riff.

No way. Need to listen to that.

Way

Nice spot.

I always wondered by "Run" by New Order sounded strangely familiar. Recently, I read that they were actually sued by John Denver because the melody line was so similar to "Leaving On A Jetplane".

the verse of Morphine's "Sheila" is basically the theme from Ghostbusters

Pink Floyd "Vera"

whenever i hear this song and he sings "Does anybody else in here/feel the way I do?" my mind naturally adds in "About you now?/I said maybe/you're gonna be the one that saves me...."

Just heard a very recent Donnie Fritts song called "Tuscaloosa 1962" which seems to be copping its groove and vocal style from The Band's "Up On Cripple Creek."

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

― beamish13, Friday, September 16, 2016 10:28 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't hear this at all melodically, but the drums are very similar

the drums in the verses of Drain You = the drums in the choruses of Pedestrian at Best

The Internet - "Just sayin" has a melodic hook that's similar to Rolling Stones - Miss You.

So you're telling me that the rising guitar part on Tribe's "Dis Generation" isn't from the intro of Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye"?

by "you" I mean "WhoSampled"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrWNFu7RppE

that's the bass hook from "picture book"!

Christ, just realized that I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives is Alice Cooper's Only Women Bleed.

Just heard a song on the radio "She Sets the City on Fire" that totally ripped off the vocal melody to "Come and Get Your Love." Why do so many songs ripoff "Come and Get Your Love"?