songs that sound like other songs

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xp it's close to Cheap Trick - Hello There

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKjs4qoSZ0c

llurk, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 12:51 (two years ago) link

I've never heard that song so that's not what I'm thinking of.

Apologies to any lip readers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link

It’s a little bit like the Sex Pistols cover of Something Else.

mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 14:09 (two years ago) link

is it "ca plane pour moi"? different key, but i still get the vibe

in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link

"New Rose" opens with drums, then a four chord riff, but then it settles in into the hook/riff like that Neil Diamond intro.

Jaqueline Kasabian Oasis (bendy), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link

I always thought the "New Rose" riff was the "Raw Power" riff backwards (and sped up)!

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 02:46 (two years ago) link

Is it Suspect Device by Stiff Little Fingers?

kinder, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link

I think it might well be! I'm sure there are Los of songs with similar intros but I had on a Neil Diamond compilation and when that song stated up I had to check it was still Neil I was listening to

Apologies to any lip readers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:29 (two years ago) link

hooray! that's what it reminded me of, then when I went to listen to SLF I thought it was maybe too generic.

kinder, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link

“Suspect Device”, now there’s a blast from my past. SLF were my favourite band in the world for a couple of months.

and Jake Burns letting himself be inspired by his parents’ record collection, I love it.

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link

Didn't Montrose complain that "Suspect Device" sounded too much like "Space Station #5"? It has a similar rhythm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxUgW5CLk18

The AV Club also points out that The Men used a similar riff in "Turn it Around":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7XmQzlxMoE

I have to say that's quite a stylistic evolution from "I Don't Depend on You".

Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link

Tom D. it also reminds me of this one by Jeff Lynne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRsYbb8rWoE

Kim, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link

As a father of a 5 month old kid, I have recently discovered that I’m unable to whistle a verse of ‘Hush Little Baby’ without segueing into the chorus of ‘Mary’s Boy Child’ by Boney M

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link

am i alone in thinking that hank williams' "why don't you love me" sounds like it was based on "turkey in the straw"?

budo jeru, Monday, 8 August 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link

The opening melodic phrase of the Mexican song "María Elena" is almost exactly the same as the opening melodic phrase of the American standard "Dream a Little Dream of Me." Interesting that the two songs were written in 1932 and 1931 respectively.

Josefa, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link

The chorus of George Ezra's "Green Green Grass" and the opening lines of Joel Corry & MNEK's "Head & Heart" have the same melody, in the same key.

mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 10:42 (two years ago) link

Love, Signed DC / Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin
The Beatles, Eleanor Rigby / Love, Robert Montgomery
Tom Jones, It's Not Unusual / Love, Nice to Be
Bob Dylan, Times They Are a-Changin' / Love, Gather Round
The first Love albums full of songs that sound like other songs

Also "Can't Explain" by Love is an obvious rip of "What a Shame" by the Rolling Stones.

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 August 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link

I may never forgive myself for voluntarily listening to 15 seconds of that George Ezra song

f.m. corndog (unregistered), Thursday, 11 August 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link

Also, while Love's "Signed D.C." may or may not have inspired "Nights in White Satin", its melody is indebted to "House of the Rising Sun".

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 August 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link

It's a stretch, but I remember the first time I heard "Frozen Faces" by Propaganda the melody of the second part kept reminding me of "Mad World" by Tears for Fears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40r6r-pJ3UQ

Specifically the "all around me are familiar faces" bit. They have very little in common otherwise and it's probably coincidence, although the Props - did Propaganda have a Smash Hits nickname? Der Props? - Poppyganda were making demos of A Secret Wish at around the same time "Mad World" came out.

According to Smash Hits, circa March 1984, "Suzanne’s a freelance goldsmith. Claudia’s hard at it doing the German equivalent of A-levels, Ralf works in a bank and Andreas is a DJ, although he’s currently out of work", which raises the question of how you can be an out-of-work DJ. It's like being an unemployed non-stop dancer. I can conclude that Smash Hits didn't have a comedy name for Propaganda. It seems that the magazine barely ever covered them, which is a shame.

Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 11 August 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link

Whenever I hear Ernest Ranglin's "Surfin'" I start to sing Steve Miller's "Abracadabra"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuyrY--vs3U

...Kinda wonder if Miller at least subconsciously pilfered it.

Jaqueline Kasabian Oasis (bendy), Friday, 19 August 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link

the verse groove from the charlatans’ “the only one i know” reminds me a hell of a lot of “hush” by deep purple

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link

The verse of "Showdown" by ELO owes rather a lot to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 26 August 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link

I remember John Lennon saying that on the radio when he was a guest DJ on WNEW-FM.

I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2022 10:44 (two years ago) link

Greats minds...

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 August 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link

Sorry, didn't mean to overwhelm your original post.

I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link

“Spanish Moon” by Little Feat and Roy Buchanan’s “I’m a Ram”

Heez, Sunday, 28 August 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Never thought about this before but “Little Sister” sounds quite a bit like “Lucille.”

Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 September 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link

Both were performed at the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, maybe I noticed it back around that time but forgot.

Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 September 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link

Stereolab - ‘Going Out Of My Way’ is pretty blatantly appropriated from Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers’ ‘Roadrunner’

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Monday, 12 September 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link

michael jackson - rock with you
teddy pendergrass - close the door

budo jeru, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link

Kinks - How are you? & Beck - Puttin' it Down: IV-V alternation using the same sort of easy strum rhythm as basis for almost the entire song. I think Beck's melody tries to imply the V as the root, while the How are You melody implies the IV is the root, but both resolve to the I on the chorus.

mig (guess that dreams always end), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link

ok so ritchie blackmore def stole the "smoke on the water" riff from astrud gilberto's song "maria quiet" (on an album called look to the rainbow! very clever ritchie)

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 September 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link

nabihah iqbal 'zone 1 to 6000'

sounds like

st etienne 'finisterre'

johnny crunch, Sunday, 18 September 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link

Costello's New Lace Sleeves has a similar rhythm to John Martyn's Outside In. Classics both.

you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link

Lonnie Mack’s “Why” sounds a little bit like “St. James Infirmary.”

Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 14:13 (two years ago) link

This is very vague hand waving but “Heroes” is kind of structured like a Roy Orbison song.

Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 September 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ym7Mg4yTZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbt59pmT26E
obv both pull from the roberta flack song

Spottie, Friday, 30 September 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link

both use the chord progression from “hey joe”!

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 September 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link

yah i hear that too

Spottie, Friday, 30 September 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link

totally

that hey joe progression is in a looooot of songs. i think i was on here a few months ago talking about brian jonestown massacre sounding exactly like a kinks song, which turned out to just be hey joe

Karl Malone, Friday, 30 September 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link

Yeah I was gonna say... "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" sounds a lot like "Earth Angel," "Blue Moon," Stand By Me", etc.

A lot of "shameless ripoff" accusations resolve into "this is a really common chord progression" - not so much ITT but generally

the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 30 September 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link

I heard some weird jazzy song yesterday, and I swear to god, it sounded like Stone Sour "Bother", but it came first, and now I can't remember what it is. i wanna know who Corey Taylor ripped off

stank viola (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 September 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link

The chorus of the Beta Band's "Wonderful" (from their Heroes to Zeros album) sounds like "Candy Says."

Linkin Bio (morrisp), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 05:02 (two years ago) link

Madness's "Keep Moving" (1984) is musically pretty identical to "Twilight Cafe", the 1981 hit for Susan Fassbender who died far too young.

houdini said, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link

xps Listened to “Bother” by Stone Sour (now that’s an appealing name) for the first time just now and the thing it distantly, faintly reminds me of is “Into the Night” by Benny Mardones

Josefa, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link

Just listened to 'Spitting off the edge of the world' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and couldn't place what the main 4-note riff sounds like.
It's the 'I will love you till the end of time - I would wait a million years' bit of Blue Jeans by Lana Del Rey.

kinder, Monday, 17 October 2022 09:33 (two years ago) link


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