songs that sound like other songs

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

ELO another heart breaks VS. Kuedo Slow Knife

Intro to "Onie" by the Electric Prunes and "Femme Fatale"

Verses of Ezra Furman's "Teddy I'm Ready" remind me of Stones' "No Expectations."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gWRCfp53jM

Screaming Trees "Grey Diamond Desert" reminds me of 13th Floor Elevators "Rose and the Thorn"

Grant Hart "Caifornia Zaphyr" and Mama Cass "Make Your Own Kind of Music"

"i was the fool beside you" yo la tengo (painful) bites hard on spacemen 3's "rollercoaster" (the perfect prescription) which cover song bites hard on many other major jamz

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

― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, July 15, 2017 5:26 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And, I just noticed this morning, The Cars "Shake It Up." The verses are nearly identical.

Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love / song on the first Small Faces album that I can't remember

You've got yearnin' and I got burnin'
Baby you look so ho sweet and cunnin'
Baby way down inside, woman you need love
Woman you need love, you've got to have some love
I'm gon' give you some love, I know you need love

Maybe it's a classic Renaissance figure, I don't know - the descending triad in the melody of the Mamas and the Papas' "Strange Young Girls" reminds me of "Heaven Heath" by Mellow Candle.

That song 'Sign of the Times' by Harry Styles sounds so much like 'Hard To Say I'm Sorry' by Chicago

john williams' "lost in space" theme sounds a whole helluva lot like modest mussorgsky's "ballet of the chickens in their shells"

I've said this before, but Petty's "Breakdown" and Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" are two sides of the same awesome coin

Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFcFZ3BIEic

fireman sam theme tune / police "i can't stand losing you"

hot line bling sounds like dots n loop era stereolab, partic. refractions in the plastic pulse

'My Breathing' by Gary Numan is essentially the middle 8 of Bowie's 'It's No Game' stretched out to 6 minutes, with some ranting about how Radio One won't play his records anymore and are sabotaging his career thrown in the mix.

LA Trance off the new Four Tet is just killing me - it reminds me very vividly of another song (or maybe two or three - it's melodic progression feels very familiar) but I can't place it. Anyone have the same feeling?

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'.

― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Thursday, August 10, 2017 9:30 AM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always assumed this was an intentional homage; I mean it even borrows some of the "Sweet Seasons" lyrics.

McCartney's Coming Up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wCPfqyVbg

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

Hmm...

"Winterlong" by the Smashing Pumpkins vs. "It Gets More Blue" by Girlpool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDComu7uDVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PRIyi8OIgI

LA Trance off the new Four Tet is just killing me - it reminds me very vividly of another song (or maybe two or three - it's melodic progression feels very familiar) but I can't place it. Anyone have the same feeling?

― octobeard, Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:40 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not an answer - but exactly the same for another track. The chord sequence in Lindstrom's Tensions - the one that comes in around 2:38 - is exactly like something very familiar but I can't for the life of me figure out what.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtW2oERTig

Papa Won't Leave You Henry by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds keeps reminding me of Young Guns Go For It by Wham.

Rolling Stones - 'Angie' vs Eagles 'Hotel California'
Olly Murs - 'Dear Darlin'' vs Flaming Lips 'Do You Realize?'

Ummm, not one specific Kate Bush song, it does have the weird choppy vocal effect from Waking The Witch, but damn...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYxWZS975e0

At least I can't pin it down to just one, perhaps I'm wrong.

octo, i can't pin down la trance but it heavily reminds me of autechre

xp sounds more like sparks to me