songs that sound like other songs

This is really minor but I always thought that the line what’s my name in I turned into a Martian by the misfits is a bit of a call out to the clash’s what’s my name...not a rip but a tip of the hat....

loving these contributions.. "Punisher" if that is your real name.

I'd like to hear sund4r weigh in on them

Nah just a nom de guerre....I’m an obsessive music fan who has no one to discuss this stuff in real time....I can’t believe this Board has been around since 2002....

Ok here is one that has always got me....high on you by survivor is the exact same melody as who loves you by Frankie valli...

Speaking of which, swearing to God by valli is a total rip of shaft theme....

Ok there are two songs on the superfly soundtrack that Tito ripped off: I can’t remember the songs but one of them Toto lifted for Rosanna and the other they lifted the percussive intro for Africa....I’d have to go back and check....

Thunder island by jay Ferguson and start me up by the stones...love removal machine by the cult is pretty close to start me up but to be fair, when you are talking about roffis based on chords and especially with suspended fourths, it’s hard to say anyone really steals them...

Play that funky music always reminds me of fire by the Ohio players but they both remind me of thank you by sly and the family stone...this might be more a case of a simple catchy riff that gets passed down the line

is this the only ilm thread you are posting on?
there are so many more!

Lotsa people notice the bass line for another one bites the dust is the same as good Times by chic....but I’m positive Nile Rodgers must have nicked it from who’s making love to your old lady by Johnny Taylor ....that song is more loose and soulful but I think chic tightened it up and then queen basically made it the centerpiece of the song.....

Runaround Sue by dion is a complete lift of quarter to three by Gary US bonds right down to the intro...I usually five pre Brit invasion stuff a pass because there were about five basic chord patterns that all songs used and I think the concept of oroginality and song writing was totally diffent back then ....it was more like hey play the doo wop profession or the one four five and let’s see what we come up with ....but runaround sue is really too blatant to ignore at least to me ....

Sorry for all my typos, I type fast and I make a lot of mistakes

Here is a really weird one for you.....now you’re gone by white snake is very similar to, of all songs, the flashedance theme.....

And while I’m at this, the whole stairway to heaven/Taurus thug is a complete fraud as far as I’m concerned....zep stole a lot but this is a case of, I bet Jimmy heard it when they toured with spirit and said hey that taurus has a good vibe and feel and just played the A minor....at a certain point, it’s not stealing, it’s evoking a theme and a feel....like how many millions of songs copy chuck berry? If you wanna play a certain type of song you’re gonna have to make it sound like that type of song.....if you want to evoke a pastoral Middle Ages British thing, you’re gonna make it sound a certain way....anyone have any thoughts on this?

Here is another one: stray cat strut is similar to blank generation by Richard Hell....BUT....it’s also similar to pink pedal pushers by Carl Perkins......

Don’t get me started on Green Day!! Madonn’!!! There ain’t enough space!!!!!

Ok: the 11th hour by rancid is a direct lift of capitoll radio by the clash ....yes I know that rancid reworks a lot old punk songs and especially the clash but this one is literally the same song ...

Blank generation uses a very common boogie woogie/early rock n roll chord progression—see “hit the road, jack”

True true....but stray cat strut uses a melody close to pink pedal pushers too, which makes sense, genre wise...

The stranglers version of walk on by turns into a said quasi remake of light my fire.....anyone else think so?

punisher you've been paged over on this thread:

songs that are less than 2 minutes

fuck, i meant this thread, sorry:

♫ Your NOMINATIONS for the best songs under 2 minutes poll ♫

Ok Thanks...pardon my ignorance I’ve never been really adept at positing and I’m not sure how to get on other threads....but greatest song under two mikes??? That’s easy....brain eaters by the misfits !!!

i have been punished!!!

Ok here’s another...intro to surfing USA....Duane eddy used it for movin and groovin, I think and it originated with who else but chuck berry in the intro to brown eyed handsome man....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzd6XdBNi8

Arcade Fire def nicked the beginning bit of this early Neil song for "Neighborhood #2"

I've just listened to Pink Floyd's Echoes for the first time in ages and, well, it's the opening to All These Things That I've Done.

The Grateful Dead's "Ripple" has essentially has the same melody as Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Any Dream Will Do", from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Both were written/recorded right around the same time (1969-70)...

Robert Smith’s cover of “There’s a Girl in the Corner” sounds like it’s both a cover of that one and Radiohead’s “All I need”.

At the same time “All I Need” sounds a bit like Roygbiv by Boards of Canada.

Some dude named Thomas Rhett is performing a song on SNL right now with a groove that is highly reminiscent of Prince’s “Alphabet St.”

the chorus of the vaseline's - molly's lips
the verse of herman's hermits - a must to avoid

(xp — sorry, I meant “Kiss.” That acoustic groove.)

I’m playing Mega Man II with my son and we’re on the Flashman stage and I’m singing “Well I’m a man, yes I am, and I can’t help but love you so!”

I heard the opening 30 seconds of Pearl Jam "Corduroy" this morning and thought it was New Order "Ceremony."

bob mould's 'skintrade' has a bit of seam's 'something's burning'

...which is basically "More Than A Feeling" ja?

hmmm that intro reminds me of something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3kZjYIVXH0

'The Masses Against the Classes' by Manic Street Preachers vs. 'A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun' by Manic Street Preachers vs. 'Don't Be Evil' by... Manic Street Preachers!

Wings' "Mamunia" and Jimmie Dale Gilmore's "Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown" both start with the same chord. I can't hear one without hearing the other.

Don’t get me started on Green Day!! Madonn’!!! There ain’t enough space!!!!!

― Punisher, Monday, February 18, 2019 7:58 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Go off Punisher!!!!!

SiriusXM First Wave was playing in the background -- I heard an (I thought) familiar opening beat -- and said, "Why are they playing 'Float On'??" It turned out to be "Sunday Bloody Sunday."

I haven't heard the last, I dunno, 24 Weezer albums, but I heard the song "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" and just couldn't put my finger on what it reminded me of. Smoking Popes?

I see from YouTube comments that this is an oft-heard connection, but the opening to "Outta Mind (Outta Sight)" by Wilco always gets me singing the Sesame Street theme song.

The melody to the first line on the choruses of sundown by gord lightfoot and dont you forget about me by simple minds - lyrics: "sundown, you better take care" and "dont you forget about me" respectively - are pretty similar

I was just listening to 'Copper Blue' by Sugar for the first time in decades and was surprised how similar the chorus of Super Furry Animals' 'Hometown Unicorn' is to the chorus of 'Man On The Moon'.

And of course "If I Can't Change Your Mind" is "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."

Also, the anthemic melody of Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands" is pretty much just the major key version of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by the Animals.

"if i can't change your mind" also reminds me a bit of "if i needed someone"

hmm i don't hear that, which part?

it's not a dead ringer, but the suspended changes in the riffs and the cadence of the melodies have always struck me as similar. the sugar song is obviously faster and multi-tracked to high heaven

I was just listening to 'Copper Blue' by Sugar for the first time in decades and was surprised how similar the chorus of Super Furry Animals' 'Hometown Unicorn' is to the chorus of 'Man On The Moon'.

wow yeah!

Interesting piece on this general topic, in the context of contemporary songwriting (thx to Alfred, who posted another article from the same “series” in another thread):

https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/songwriters-on-song-copying-sampling-interpolation.html