songs that sound like other songs

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
What? Oh I see

was listening to this the other day and was wondering whether there were antecedents to the turnaround that first comes in at 00:18 and is repeated several times throughout the song -- james brown evidently lifted it for "please, please, please" (and famously covered the A side, "think"). it's a pretty ingenious hook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY8a5ulFtAg
The 5 Royales - I'd Better Make A Move

WOW at that Furs / Electronic side-by-side.

I knew both songs well but never made the connection and yup.

The comparison is not good for Bernard. Butler brings so much more (as always) - like that cigarette growl he can turn on and off at will.

Has Sumner (or anybody) ever stated that it was intended as a quote or hommage?

Whenever "Getting Away With It" pops into my head, I end up immediately singing the Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way." Am I the only one who does this? I mean, the chorus is almost identical, even down to the slight variation (C instead of A on the Electronic song, not sure about the Furs) of the second note the second time they sing the hook (compare the second "all my life" to "I follow")

sorry, that was nerdy, but if ever there was a forum on which to express such a thing, it is here

Would have voted "Patience Of A Saint" but missed the poll

― Wimmels, Sunday, January 15, 2017 11:12 AM (three years ago)

Can't believe I never noticed that similarity between the songs before. From now on, I'm sure my brain will make the substitution

― Vinnie, Sunday, January 15, 2017 1:35 PM (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSBiBXh0DCQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-pittee9sM similar basslines!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYhQVrXBgxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHRabky4Ajc similar beats and bassline!

Just noticed that the main hook of Kool & the Gang's "Celebrate" is kinda the same cadence and chords as what I guess is the chorus of Yes's "Roundabout."

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwx7HwAtDBg

and several years before that:

Yes's "Roundabout" intro got totally jacked by the Miracles for "Love Machine"

― arid banter (Noodle Vague), vrijdag 6 juni 2014 9:54

I mean, no kidding

the bassline from madvillain's "meat grinder" (whatever the sample is) always makes me think of "tom sawyer"

Old Dominion "Never Be Sorry" and Graham Parker "Get Started, Start a Fire"

i can't believe it's taken me this long to realize that jimmy reed's "ain't that loving you baby" is just a reworking of amos milburn's "bad, bad whiskey" !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX4sVYTVx7A

The first line of this mellow yacht-ish jazz tune? “The city is crowded, my friends are away, and I’m on my own”

"Spooky" by Classics IV

Or "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama

There's a disco song that I feel would fit in with those too, and it's on the tip of my tongue and driving me crazy.

Cruel Summer for sure

"Cruel Summer" and a little VMorrison "Moondance" as well.

fIREHOSE - "In Memory of Elizabeth Cotten" (1987)

Bruce Springsteen - "I'm On Fire" (1985)

fIREHOSE - "In Memory of Elizabeth Cotten" (1987)

Bruce Springsteen - "I'm On Fire" (1985)

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli)

Add to that list:

Wet - Old Bone ( Jim E Stack remix)

There's a disco song that I feel would fit in with those too, and it's on the tip of my tongue and driving me crazy.

― peace, man, Monday, January 25, 2021 8:10 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

While pondering this, Copacabana came to mind. It isn't what I was looking for, but almost works too: "music and passion were always the fashion..."

A distant echo of "In My House" by Mary Jane Girls is what comes to mind in the disco-ish area

That's what I was thinking of - thank you!

evelyn king's "back to love" is so similar to michael jackson's "rock with you" that i actually checked the writer credits to see if it was technically a cover of it.