songs that sound like other songs

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man Spirit really got fucked didn't they

flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link

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

by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 15:56 (seven years ago) link

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

meisenfek, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:48 (seven years ago) link

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

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 7 September 2017 12:44 (seven years ago) link

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, Thursday, 7 September 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link

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

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 7 September 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link

whoa, good call on that one^

flappy bird, Thursday, 7 September 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link

Polvo - A Link in the Chain
International Harvester - Sommarlåten

obvious, Sunday, 10 September 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link

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".

bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 September 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link

ELO another heart breaks VS. Kuedo Slow Knife

Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 04:38 (seven years ago) link

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

timellison, Friday, 15 September 2017 05:10 (seven years ago) link

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

Jazzbo, Friday, 15 September 2017 11:50 (seven years ago) link

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

Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 16 September 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link

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

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 17 September 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link

"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

reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 18 September 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link

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.

Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 12:48 (seven years ago) link

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

the small faces song is "you need loving" and the original is by willie dixon and it is called "you need love". his name is even included on the credits of "whole lotta love" now. there is a resemblance (the riff is similar) but it is not too strong, i find. led zeppelin elevated the song to unprecedented heights. the lyrics sound like a precursor of the "whole lotta love" lyrics though. apparently plant's phrasing is very similar to that of the small faces singer marriott and page and plant attended several smnall faces gigs and spoke to marriott about their interest in the song.

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

Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 28 September 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link

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.

timellison, Monday, 2 October 2017 01:43 (seven years ago) link

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

Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 2 October 2017 08:41 (seven years ago) link

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

reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link

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

bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link

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

DPRK Nowitzki (lpz), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link

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

massaman gai, Friday, 6 October 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link

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

Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link

'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.

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link

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, 11 October 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link

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.

Lee626, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link

McCartney's Coming Up?

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

MaresNest, Monday, 23 October 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link

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

Hmm...

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 October 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link

"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

flappy bird, Monday, 23 October 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link

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

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 12:58 (seven years ago) link

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

giraffe, Monday, 6 November 2017 09:19 (seven years ago) link

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

Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Monday, 6 November 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link

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

MaresNest, Monday, 6 November 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link

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

MaresNest, Monday, 6 November 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link

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

Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 6 November 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link

xp sounds more like sparks to me

kinder, Monday, 6 November 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link

Dua Lipa - New Rules vs Jennifer Paige - Crush

The opening verses for both songs sound the same. Every time I hear the Dua Lipa one, the crush verse gets stuck in my head.

This guy makes a mashup even so guess I’m not the only one hearing it: https://youtu.be/HbfLUJfSL6E

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 6 November 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link

It only works for the opening verse tho, the choruses are very different to work.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 6 November 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link

Verses remind me of Eno's "Baby's on Fire"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA6YdABmSDY

Josefa, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 06:52 (seven years ago) link

opening of "i believe" by mbv is a great tribute to "i wanna be your dog"

brimstead, Sunday, 12 November 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link

or yknow they're 'taking it a 'nother level'

brimstead, Sunday, 12 November 2017 01:05 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvs20Ez_cr8&list=PLDFB01201DA196DE4

.34 onwards I get this mashed with "Los Ageless" in my mind

Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:08 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os_ewEA-BP4

sorry

Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:09 (seven years ago) link

the intro of "a surgeon" by st. vincent is a play on "you only live twice"

Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 17 November 2017 06:00 (six years ago) link

Rolling Stones "Monkey Man" intro
Damien Jurado "Magic Number"

And I'm into it because the Monkey Man intro is great and I could listen to it forever.

The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 26 November 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link

“Government Center,” by The Modern Lovers sounds like “I Think We’re Alone Now,” by Tommy James and the Shondells. D’oh!

Modern Zounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link

Don’t know why Rubinoos cover version didn’t tip me off decades earlier, maybe their arrangement is different

Modern Zounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link

Faust "Liebeswehen 2"
Belle and Sebastian "Sleep The Clock Around"

Woon... Doopee Time (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link


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