songs that sound like other songs

Bob Seger - Still the Same VS. Brian Eno - On Some Faraway Beach

Beginning of Boz Scaggs's "It's Over" just faked me out that it was "Sooner or Later" by The Grassroots

Stereolab's "Mass Riff" outro sounds like "Do It Again" by Steely Dan.

Right, this is driving me crazy... What is this song basing itself on? It sounds so familiar. The only thing I can think of is 'Bow Down Mister' by Boy George and Jesus Loves You, but I'm sure there's something closer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27BOR09vnsw

for some reason i can't use cmd+F find in this thread, at least when i load all messages, so i'm not sure if this has been pointed out previously:

pink floyd - brain damage (i.e., "if you find the band you're in starts playing different tunes...")
leonard cohen - death of a ladies' man

I'm sure I said this but having similar issues to the Mailman, but try singing Lionel Richie's "Stuck on You" over Evita's "High Flying Adored" and it works

you're having similar issues? i thought i might be the only one. i posted on the moderator request thread that it looks like there might be some more of malware on this thread - don't know what it is, but when i try to view all posts, the adblocker goes absolutely crazy with activity.

yeah the thread literally just crashed my Chromebook and then I realized this was the thread you posted about in MRF. I couldn't CTRL+F at alllll

there's a certain kind of alarm you physically experience when you realize you can't command+f in a big thread. it's not dangerous but it is noticeable

teenage fanclub "hang on"
nirvana "school"

i listened to Thirteen for the first time a bit ago, and what a strange way to lead off the album! it's not only a direct rip of school, but it was released in 1993, when you could still go watch nirvana play the much better original version

Dawn Richards "'86" and Tornado Wallace "Voices" both sound like homages to "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel.

The keyboard melody in the theme for Netflix's ”House of Cards" sounds like the keyboard melody in BBE's 1996 trance hit "Seven Days and One Week".

The introductory/verse melody to "My Boo" is "Isn't She Lovely"

New Garland Jeffreys album has a song "Venus" that sounds like Major Lance's "The Monkey Time."

Glen Campbell - Gentle on My Mind (1967)

Connie Francis - The Wedding Cake (1969)

Jacques Brel's "La chanson de Jacky" (1966) sounds like it swipes or adapts the orchestral intro of Frank Sinatra's "Not as a Stranger" (1955) single.

Scott Walker's 1967 version, "Jackie," sounds like it swipes or adapts both the intro and the outro of the Sinatra record.

childish gambino - redbone

isaac hayes - the look of love

Thomas Dolby, "Airwaves" :: Billy Joel, "Goodnight Saigon"

This is not "sounds like other song," this is "another band totally pilferred this song to create their own top 40 hit." Maybe this well known, but I just learned of it today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uqnN3ek2vI

Ooh that's a good one! Wiki tells me the writer, one Robbie van Leeuwen, was 'inspired' by the above track.

Excellent bit of work by Mr. van Leeuwen it must be admitted,

wow!

Prince - 'Erotic City'
The Outhere Brothers - 'Boom Boom Boom'

vague similarity between Easy by Commodores and Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Andreas Dorau - 'Fred vom Jupiter' and Joe Jackson - 'Steppin' Out' share a very similar synth line. Always wanted to hear a mashup of the two.

Belle and Sebastian's "I Don't Love Anyone" and Hootie and the Blowfish "Only Wanna Be With You"

The Banjo Song --- psuedo-Peter, Paul & Mary Mama Cass.

Brian Eno - King's Lead Hat and Amboy Dukes - You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire have similar verse things happening

Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles by the Lips seriously rips Buffalo Springfield Bluebird verse melody

Sweet Jane and Crimson and Clover

I listened to New Order's Technique for the first time last night. The bassline on one of the first few songs reminded me of Just Like Heaven.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 7:24 AM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dhn_iIQXDE
The Cure - Just Like Heaven (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YveC8laqCs
New Order - All the Way (1989)

haruomi hosono's "Living dining kitchen" & status quo's "down, down.."

There's a mention of Carole King's 'Sweet Seasons' upthread but it's the wrong mention because the correct answer is clearly Sonic Youth's 'Winner's Blues'.

The Ed Sheeran song "Thinking Out Loud" has always sounded a lot like Michael Bolton's "Soul Provider" to me. I can annoy my tweenage daughter no end by singing Bolton over Ed.

Both sound a lot like the Manhattans' "Shining Star." Also Atlantic Starr's "Always."

As far as I can tell they don't have identical chord progressions apart from going I (something) IV (something) I. It's more in the groove and melody.

Oh, and the intros to REM's "Find the River" and Lisa Loeb's "Stay" are the same - arpeggiated-then-strummed D.

i've heard so many people say that Arcade Fire "Everything Now" is a ripoff of "Dancing Queen." I don't hear it at all - similar instrumentation, but it's not a melodic ripoff at all.

barbara morgenstern - status symbol has a section similar to West End Girls

Is the similarity between the basslines of Queen's "Another Bites the Dust" and Chic's "Good Times" too obvious mention?
The "Good Times" bassline is also used in The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight".

Neil Young - Don't Cry No Tears > Sheryl Crow - If it makes you happy

"don't fear the reaper" (BÖC) bites the opening of "when i touch you" (spirit) pretty hard

man Spirit really got fucked didn't they

Ariel Pink Another Weekend --> Judy Clay and William Bell Private Number

Nintendo - Wii channel music
sounds like a mixture of
Walter Wanderley - summer samba + Antonio Carlos Jobim - surfboard

"king and country" (television personalities) bites hard from the byrds ("eight miles high"), especially toward the end

which reminds me "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" by the Teenage Filmstars is a straight rip of "Keep On Running" by the Spencer Davis Group.

The intro to 'American Gigolo' by Weezer sounds the same as the intro to XTC's 'Making Plans For Nigel'

whoa, good call on that one^

Polvo - A Link in the Chain
International Harvester - Sommarlåten

which reminds me "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" by the Teenage Filmstars is a straight rip of "Keep On Running" by the Spencer Davis Group.

― Colonel Poo

colin hodgkinson has a co-write on the spencer davis song! damn, i had no idea.

angel pavement's "maybe tomorrow" has a false start of the opening to "25 or 6 to 4".

the fall's "idiot joy showland" sounds like "time and changes" by b.f. trike.

the opening of the library track "fantasy impulses" by john tender has the same sound as the opening to "station to station".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwBe8GX-HU

OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0vHG77NdUk