songs that sound like other songs

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

“I Really Need Love,” by The Bees sounds like Marshall Crenshaw’s “Someday, Someway.”

Hosier take me to church is a rip of helter skelter just slower

https://youtu.be/0wQnqvvIhfU
Part at 1:30 strongly reminds of Siberian Khartu

of Montreal's "Imbecile Rages" has a big melodic lick from "Desolation Row."

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

I mean, really.

It ocurred to me that the chord progression of Landslide has a lot in common with the chord progression of Don't Think Twice It's Alright -- each belonging in the pantheon of breakup songs

Also I just finally heard that Ed Sheeran song that sounds like Let's Get it On -- it's so fucking blatant it sounds like a sample

The Flaming Lips "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" and the drummy instrumental end of "Riding to Work in the Year 2025" both use v similar drum parts

It ocurred to me that the chord progression of Landslide has a lot in common with the chord progression of Don't Think Twice It's Alright -- each belonging in the pantheon of breakup songs

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, February 4, 2018 6:21 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think the chord progression is that similar--stevie likes to use very circular chord progressions and the DTT progression is not as repetitive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrGwjgK2jrM

the song 2:02 into the above Mr. Show "Jeepers Creepers" sketch vs. Pink Floyd "Lucifer Sam"

its got almost the same spy movie guitar riff.

Hey Adam you'd probably appreciate that flaming lips psychiatric explorations is a rip on bluebird by buffalo springfield

foghat's "slow ride" bites achim reichel's "in the same boat" hard

I don't know how I never noticed until just now how similar the synth opening to 'Sunglasses at Night' is to the one in 'Sweet Dreams'.