songs that sound like other songs

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'.

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

"Thinking Out Loud"? It's also "Soul Provider" and not unlike the Manhattans' "Shining Star." Common vamps, all of them, but yeah. In feel and tempo

C Em F G
I've been really tryin, baby

C Em F
I wanna be your soul provider

C C/E F G
So honey now, Take me into your loving arms

cate le bon's "no god" may as well be galaxie 500's "king of spain"

The opening riff of Television's "Elevation" and The Cardigans' "Lovefool".

Both lovely songs in their own right but I don't like the fact I now associate one with the other.

"Tonight's the Night" and "Proud Mary". the riffs both have that stop-start jumping up and then downward thing (D-C-A-G-F-E). the songs are in the same key too, a D drone. if you slow down "Proud Mary" to .75 with youtube it sounds pretty dope.

The opening riff of Television's "Elevation" and The Cardigans' "Lovefool".

Ha. Always thought Lovefool sounded like something, but could never work it out. That's it!

Al Green's Sha La La (Make Me Happy) and Wings' Silly Love Songs

For years I had been trying to identify a song that sounds kind of like Silly Love Songs, but isn't Silly Love Songs. Turns out, it was the Al Green song.

oneida's "cockfight" echoes zeppelin's "wearing & tearing"

john cale 'dying on the vine': madonna, dress you up

siouxsie and the banshees - trophy cribs the james bond theme

also this happens in stereolab - excursions into a-oh

The verse melody of Caspar Babypants's "I'm a Nut" [I have kids] sounds very similar to "Walking in Your Footsteps" by The Police.

Yesterday, I heard Hall & Oates "I Can't Go For That", and I was struck by how much the funk riff in Calvin Harris' "Feels" sounds like the verse part in the H2O song.
Specifically the keyboard stabs that step up to the turnaround in both songs.
(I love both of these songs unabashedly, fwiw)

oh my god i heard poison by bell biv devoe from a passing car yesterday and my fucked up brain can't stop looping "that girl is pooooisonnnnnnn / I KNOW YOU WANT IT" from Blurred Lines :(

What's the story about sister midnight by iggy pop (1977) and Bowies rip "red money" from lodger. Bowie didn't even credit pop? The songs are identical

Bowie wrote Sister Midnight

Lol yeah just realized that

the sound of locking the screen in Windows 7 sounds like a Nina Kraviz track.. Taxi Talk I think

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7571952.stm

bob marley buffalo soldier and the theme from the banana splits show are extremely similar

the psychedelic furs "should god forget" is pretty much the sequel to sabbath's "NIB"

hadn't heard 'feels' before but yeah it sounds strongly inspired by that H&O song. always thought Chairlift 'take it out on me' had 'i can't go for that' vibes but in a totally different way.

The intro to 'I Got You' by Split Enz = 'Alice What's the Matter' by Terrorvision.

"Blake's Got a New Face" by Vampire Weekend & "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel.

which part?

first four chords

Ok but "In the Aeroplane" is I vi V IV (C Am F G), which is like the most common chord progression in existence.

"Stand by Me," "Blue Moon," "Earth Angel," "Where Have all the Flowers Gone," "Heart and Soul," "True Blue," "Stir it Up," "Eternal Flame," "Last Kiss," and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50s_progression

crud, I mean I vi IV V why do I even ever type things, fuck

Aeroplane chords are G - Em - C - D but yeah it's not the whole VW song, just the intro.

OPO: songs with the G-Em-C-D progression, or some variant

the VW song also uses a mutated version of the 50's progression. instead of going to the V, it goes to the ii.

The vocal melody on the first two lines of 'The Hell Song' by Sum 41 vs. the very same on 'How You Remind Me' by Nickelback. Clearly, it's not just Avril Lavigne that Whibley and Kroeger have in common.

thank you for reminding me of The Hell Song, what a killer fucking song. that main riff is so sad

The verses of Lorde’s “Liability” sort of sound like “All the Young Dudes” to me (esp. the Bowie version)... maybe same chords or something?

The Flaming Lips' "The Spiderbite Song" and Jens Lekman's "Tram #7 to Heaven"

Interesting thing in the Guardian today about how MJ confessed to stealing the Billie Jean groove from Hall & Oates "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)":
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/02/hall-and-oates-how-we-made-i-cant-go-for-that-no-can-do-interview

Noticed yesterday the resemblance between the choruses of "Parasite" by Kiss and "Rock and Roll Rebel" by Ozzy

Also said this on the musical mimicry thread, but Don Henley's "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" and Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" are pretty much the same song

how have i never noticed that "Let's Go Crazy" is basically "Slip Kid" by The Who (done a lot better, but whatever)

omanko by sky ferreira sounds a lot like stereolab's olv 26

Gabor Szabo and Bernard Purdie in 1966 sure sound a lot like Can in 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciz45ps-E58

Not really hearing that tbh. Gabor Szabo is always worth listening to though.

This has probably been pointed out before somewhere else but the verses of Katy Perry's Hot 'n' Cold and Diddy Dirty-Money's Ass on the Floor are very similar. I only realized that yesterday when Hot 'n' Cold came on in the car radio for the first time in forever

The drums on Ray Charles' 'What'd I Say' = the drums on The Beatles' 'I Feel Fine'

to morris upthread, the chorus of Green Day's "21 Guns" has, I think, the same intervals as "All the Young Dudes."

there's a bit of "Wake Me Up When September Ends" that sounds very much like "Promises Promises" as well

Otm about 21 Guns and All the Young Dudes, those songs get mashed up in my head a lot. ”1, 21 guns / carry the newwwws”

Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between Felt's 'Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow' and the Cure's 'Just Like Heaven'?

Most obviously in the bassline, but there's even a part at the end of the album version of 'Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow' where Lawrence even repeats ". . .just like a dream" the same exact way Robert Smith does in 'Just Like Heaven' at the end of the first chorus.

Actually, I should say that Robert repeats that phrase the way Lawrence does, as 'Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow' came first.