songs that sound like other songs

I just realized today that ELO's "Showdown" is basically "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"

John Lennon pointed that out to me decades ago as an FM guest DJ.

Oh wait, that was a different song, "Tightrope."

"Higher Love" OTM

Thanks for all the ideas! So I think I've finally figured out what I must have been thinking of. It's not quite the same, but it's the closest I can get. The end of this live version of Portobello Belle, starting around the 4-minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj4HLd81Z18

was listening to the second howlin' wolf record and it struck me just how blatantly marc bolan lifted the beginning of "you'll be mine" for "jeepster"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hao0yqLAICU

Love that Woof song

"do you believe in rapture" by sonic youth has a strikingly similar melody to "beast of burden" by the stones.

I heard what I assume is the new Foo Fighters song on the radio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1G6-RUz3OA

And after a few seconds was disappointed it was not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daeqb6f7GrY

am also disappointed that most bands on the radio are not big country.

otm

Didn't realize until now that the Anthrax song I'm The Man is based off a sample or interpolation of that Big Country song.

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I'm not sure if this track, "Retour sur Adonia" from the 1978 album "Adonia" by Ose (with heavy involvement by Richard Pinhas/Heldon), is meant to sound like "Kometenmelodie 2" by Kraftwerk... but it does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAQODJBj7s4

Actually the synth solo in the middle sounds like another Kraftwerk song, so I'm sure they knew what they were doing.

Please help. I’ve been obsessed all day with “Out of Touch” by Hall & Oates and the vocal melody in the verses keeps reminding me of another song and I can’t remember which one.

the answer is "I Can Dream About You" by Dan Hartman.

that part of "Out of Touch" sounds a bit like the verse of the Four Tops' "It's the Same Old Song" to me

Thank you! Those two are very accurate! I was thinking of another song but those two are helpful in what I meant. The Four Tops in particular has the same sort of descending before ascending melody in the vocal.

yeah, they're very similar. weirdly, although I LOVE the Four Tops, I like the H&O song way more than theirs.

Bridge of “Superman” sounds like “Hold Me Tight.”

itt song titles that sound like other song titles

What does the vocal phrase at 3:52 remind me of? It's been bugging me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEqPX-Z833Y

I bet if you listen to enough U2/Radiohead tunes you may find at least a few.

paranoid android my instant first thought, somewhere around the 'from a great height' bit in the middle.

hmm, I do kind of hear that although I don't think it's what I was thinking of

I think it's something that has a similar melody but maybe not a similar sound/vibe, whereas Paranoid Android has a similar vibe/sound and overall harmonic sense but I don't think there's a part where the melody quite does that thing that goes (I think) C# - C# - F# - E - D - C# - E - D-C#-D

I feel like it's something in a different style, and I'll get it in about two weeks when I'm doing the hoovering...

I also feel like it's something in a different style. In fact my mind weirdly went to the Bangles but I don't think that's it.

I kinda hear Hated Because of Great Qualities by Blonde Redhead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5v-ytQ9GaQ

the end of the chorus of The Kinks' 'Come Dancing' sounds like the end of the chorus of Mary Hopkin's 'Temma Harbour' (@1:45):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3o-k0ZB0pU

and they both have faux calypso vibes/arrangements

the guitar riff that runs through “one at a time” by trash can sinatras = “jingle bell rock”

In the song "One Minute You're Here," from Springsteen's new album, there's a bit where he sings "on the muddy banks I lay my body down, this body down," and on "this body down" the melody sounds intensely familiar to me. Today it finally dawned on me that what it sounds like is "Lili Marlene," which explains why I took so long to place it.

Simmy - Emakhaya sounds a lot like the chorus on Bob Sinclar’s World Hold On

Lots of '00s Green Day upthread, to which I'll add that "Holiday" sounds like Cafe Tacuba's "Rarotonga."

track 12 of 14 here,

Simmy - Emakhaya sounds a lot like the chorus on Bob Sinclar’s World Hold On

the 12/14 thing doesn’t belong there, apols

I found this:

There is also a strong sense throughout of wearing one’s influences on one’s sleeves. This is noticeably on display in tracks like “Stay With You”, the Black Motion featuring track which takes vocal inspiration from Malaika’s classic hit “Destiny”, or the Da Capo & Sun El Musician featuring “Emakhaya” whose hook is an homage to Bob Sinclar’s “World Hold On”. “Vocal sampling is one of my favourite things to do, and I love being able to celebrate an influence or inspiration in a proper way,” she explains.

https://www.redbull.com/za-en/simmys-story-continues-to-mature-on-tugela-fairy-made-of-stars

It makes sense it’s deliberate. I like the song a lot but the Bob Sinclar interpolation makes me not love it. As creative and tasteful as the “homage/sample” sounds, the Sinclar song is way overplayed and a tad annoying for me.

I hadn't heard "World Hold On" in ten years or something, so I'm fine with it myself.
Thanx for that link btw, there's more stuff on the South African (and beyond) scene there, quite useful.

The 1975 - "People" / Dismemberment Plan - "Pay for the Piano"

Not only is there a repeated lyrical echo ("People like people" in the former, "People my people" in the latter), but both feature a distorted rap-like vocal over a driving beat and chugging guitars.

The solo section from Pet Rock by Teenage Fanclub and the solo section from Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet.

Cabin fever by dawn of the replicants sounds like someday by sugar ray

“Time” by the Alan Parsons Project sounds exactly like Floyd’s “Us and Them”

^^^ decades-long artistry but this is too much

i fucking see you, brownie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGD9i718kBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSfjtdnUsls

Can't see what the first song is in my country.

"Love My Way" by PsychFurs

I've seen enough: Total ripoff

Must have only known the title of that song but never heard it before because yeah.

even the same marimba sound is used and stings cousin bernard can not sing either as he also butchered the songs he did for 808 state and the chemical brothers too so he needs to stick to his twanger from joy division days!

stings cousin
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