songs that sound like other songs

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and eh, *Armatrading

I always thought Slowdive's Souvlaki Space Station sounded like Art of Noise's Moments in Love.

xps opening piano of Sesame Street is strongly evoked by whichever is the slower jauntier version of "Outta Sight Outta Mind" or "Outta Mind Outta Sight" on Wilco's Being There

my mum recently claimed "like a hurricane" was a rip-off of "ruby tuesday" and i sort of hear it

Westbam feat. Nena - Oldschool Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7puT1EkWVZM

Bicep - Rever

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

that one guitar riff in tribe’s “dis generation” always reminds me of the intro to jeff buckley's “last goodbye”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0fpWz0wznw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt75y38J00s

It's not just me, right?

opening chord sequence of Breathe's "How Can I Fall" is basically "Purple Rain"

Good catch!

The guitar solo apes it for a second too.

God, I must have heard this song 1000 times in dentist offices or whatever, but I've never known the name of the band or seen the video. The singer dude is wearing the type of vest that my sixth grade girlfriend wore to the spring fling in 1990. Why did we never bring that back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwZ4erdJZRA

I probably heard it for the last time in 1991 or something, and then one night at karaoke, my friend Mark decided to sing both this and "Hands to Heaven" two weeks apart. both have randomly been on my Spotify since.

now who wants to revive Jack Wagner?

That would be all we need

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avHsepGWgZ4

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

"Gone away" by the offspring sounds like "mad world" by tears for fears, it's not at all subtle, i hope they sued.

Are there any Offspring songs that don't sound like other songs?

Hearing The Mission's "Severina" for the first time in about three decades makes me realise it sounds very much like Led Zep's "Achilles' Last Stand" if LZ couldn't play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEbrziO-pxo

Faces - Ooh La La sounds like You Can't Always Get What You Want

Mashup? "You Can't Always Get What I Know Now" "I Wish That I Could Get What I Want" etc

Late to the party, but "Stacy's Mom" and "Just What I Needed." Found some mentions of this from 2004 on other threads
The Cars - C or D/S&D
Pazz, Jop

More connections here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy%27s_Mom#Music_video

Listening to "This Nation's Saving Grace" for the first, it struck me that "Paintwork" sounded familiar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxT6a0PavTo

Could it be Edwin Birdsong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AKrwna2C8

low - "laugh" and radiohead - "lucky"

oh wait i mean "the tourist" lol

speaking of 'the tourist':

"Horses" by Sea Oleena

Black Flag - police story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocKObK7QetM

逆鱗 - FISH STORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGzIOs4jjVk

Dunno if it's been posted, but isn't the bassline of Neil Young/Crazy Horse's "Down By the River" a dead ringer for James Brown's "Cold Sweat"?

posted this on the Charli XCX thread but "good ones"

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

reminds me a lot of Stefy - Chelsea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1RMCuIUB9c

spirit's "looking into darkness" is basically jimmy cliff's "sitting in limbo"

This was clearly written with Katy Perry's "Roar" in mind:

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

This is more 'blimey, they totally lifted that!' but Survivor totally pinched the riff for 'Eye of the Tiger' from Roxy Music's Manifesto.

Tapes 'n' Tapes "Insistor" is Leonard Cohen's "The Future"

It occurs to me that "Venus in Furs" goes really well with "Heart of Gold":

Kiss the boot
Of shiny shiny leather
Keep me searching for a heart of gold

In the long tradition of New Order and The Cure ripping each other off, I realised yesterday that "Crystal" is essentially "A Forest".

"This Time of Night" is also basically "A Forest".

This isn't a full song that sounds like another song, but since you brought up The Cure, one thing that hit me a few years back and I haven't been able to quite shake is that the synth line in Homesick sounds a lot like Led Zeppelin's All of My Love. It comes in slightly earlier, but is most noticeable around 4:00, right after "inspire in me the desire in me to never go home."

The Descendents - weinerschnitzel (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6AHjEYX7YI

Clown Core - mcdonalds (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KDdbzUyepA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7S6EgSlCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSoYzzhm04

That TMBG song sounds more like "Lay, Lady, Lay" to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npeYMJIbY8o

Karma police
And bring your friends

Ed Sheeran's "Overpass Graffiti" and Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer"

You know, for the longest time I thought this was Billy Bragg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs1qBJ7QEPs

The chorus of Chic's "26" and the coda of Sir Elton's "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" get blended up in my head sometimes

Chris Spedding - Plain Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_6gr03cjJg
Crazy Horse - I Don't Want To Talk About It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBz_2EqJ5wI

Good one

The intro (at least) sounds like a rewrite of Jesus Lizard's 'Mouthbreather'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJnGl51lR4k

The resemblance of the chorus of Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" to part of the guitar solo in "Sympathy for the Devil" has always annoyed me greatly.

Can't stop hearing the old R&B classic "Fortune Teller" in New Order's "Blue Monday." I can even hear Sumner singing the lyrics.

"...the next day I discovered, the fortune teller told me a lie..."

all felt songs sounds like other felt songs

Decades ago I heard "Girl of My Dreams" by Bram Tchaikovsky, a minor new-wave hit in 1979. It was only when I reheard it recently that I realized that I had been superimposing the riff of that song over the hook of "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen in my head - they are the same chord changes at the same tempo with a similar arrangement, bu slightly different rhythmic emphasis.