songs that sound like other songs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sorry

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

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.

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

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

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

New Order "We All Stand"
Traffic "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys"

Phoebe Bridgers "Scott Street"
Zwan "Cast a Stone"

this one is more ambiguous/elusive than a straight melodic similarity

why does the chorus of Suede's 'Saturday Night' sound so much like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight'? is Brett Anderson an asshole?

Also 'song for guy' by Elton John, but think that's already been the subject of another ILX thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbNVx9Y28rk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvQ-te2CBFM

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

dead ringer for hella good by no doubt

The Smiths "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" ("Still they don't believe me") = Lit "My Own Worst Enemy" ("Sleeping with my clothes on")

the end of Elvis Costello's "Party Girl" sounds like the end of "You Never Give Me Your Money". the part where they sing "One two three four five six seven all good children go to heaven".

^An oldie but goodie. There is also Eddie Palmieri's "Una Rosa Española" with a section that is a Spanish language version of that ending. Was going to say it was from his White Album, but I misremembered, it is really from The Sun of Latin Music.

some things just stick in your mind by vashti bunyan is a total rip of how many roads by dylan