Petula Clark's "Don't Sleep in the Subway" (melody from 0:37 to 0:52 and again from 1:46 to 2:01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ISX9mW78Dw
... sounds awfully like "Focus III" by Focus (melody from 2:02 to 2:19 and again from 4:55 to 5:12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCqDZMqd4XY
― Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 6 January 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
The Fall - How I Wrote Elastic ManPavement - Folk JamThe Fall - The ClassicalPavement - Elevate Me Later
― CerebralCaustic, Saturday, 7 January 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
The Focus one is absolutely a quote, but good catch, never noticed that one before even though I have that CD
― Josefa, Saturday, 7 January 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
Amy Grant - “Baby Baby” and Talking Heads - “This Must Be the Place”
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
Ooh, good one. I like to do TMBTP in G (G Am Bm G) throughout. The verse of Baby Baby is G Am. I iii.
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:49 (one year ago) link
george michael might've been listening closely to jeff beck's "cause we've ended as lovers" when he wrote "careless whisper"
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link
leonard cohen's "bird on the wire" is just this lefty frizell song from '51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEIcV_rZbfQ
― budo jeru, Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
Old Dominion "Never Be Sorry" and Graham Parker "Get Started, Start a Fire"
...and Santana "Hold On"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
I'll be damned if Careless Whisper doesn't sound like Jeff Beck's "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" off Blow by Blow.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
ha i am glad we independently arrived there, somehow never noticed it before he died
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 23:56 (one year ago) link
thank you!
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 26 January 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
This might be the version of the song that George Michael was listening to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKt-zMH8c3c
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 26 January 2023 00:06 (one year ago) link
Ok, that makes it much more obvious.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 26 January 2023 00:09 (one year ago) link
New P!nk sounds like "Dancing On My On" and Body Talk era Robin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2KE2a5qo0g
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 27 January 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
The theme music of the Fassbinder movie, "Wildwechsel", by Peer Raben is very reminiscent of the end section of "Odessa (City on the Black Sea") by the Bee Gees. Unfortunately you'll just have to take my word for that as the former is not on YouTube!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 January 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
checking out the au suisse album and the synth riff from "pain & regret" is basically "teardrops" by womack & womack
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link
I've been listening to My Bloody Valentine's mbv album – in the track "New You," one bit of the repeating organ (or whatever) line keeps reminding me of the keyboard part in Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark."
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
Has it been mentioned that Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby" and U2's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" share more than a little DNA?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 February 2023 01:22 (one year ago) link
there is a disco song that sounds a bit (maybe a lot) like “rollercoaster of love” by ohio players
i forget who it’s by, someone semi obscure like edwin birdsong or labi siffre. it was sampled by idjut boys for their track “corrective surgery”
ring any bells?
― the late great, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
I’m crazy about the “new you” melody, it has some vague shepard tone esque-ness goin on.
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
Wrong thread. doh, please delete mods :)
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 17 February 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
but if we delete the mods who will mod
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 February 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
the rockers, obv(I think I make that same joke every time)
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Friday, 17 February 2023 21:37 (one year ago) link
Rocker request
― after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2023 02:02 (one year ago) link
Came to post Away in the MangerThe Streets of Laredo
― after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link
the theme song for the Nickelodeon cartoon show Doug sounds like the organ/backing vocal melody from Elvis's "I've Got a Thing About You Baby" (originally by Tony Joe White, but his version doesn't have the doo-doo-doos). I'm guessing a handful of boomer parents (and the one '90s kid in the world who had a deep knowledge of Elvis's early '70s country hits) picked up on the resemblance
― astor pizzarolla (unregistered), Monday, 20 February 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
Nice find!
As a "Doug" who had those doo-doo-doos sung at me enough times to provoke my ire, this will at least give me something to redirect my mind toward when the Doug theme song inevitably pops into my head again.
― peace, man, Monday, 20 February 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
lol, you have my sympathy there
― astor pizzarolla (unregistered), Monday, 20 February 2023 00:56 (one year ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157743525/todd-rundgren-on-the-song-that-changed-his-life
Todd draws the connection between Louie Louie, More Than A Feeling, & Smells Like Teen Spirit.
― BrianB, Monday, 20 February 2023 13:54 (one year ago) link
Lady Gaga - Speechless, and Westlife - Swear it Again
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 10:57 (one year ago) link
In the pub the other day, shuffle transitioned seemlessly from "All Right Now" by Free to "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads and now my world has been turned upside down
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
^ never noticed, and can't unhear now.
― bendy, Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
u2’s “vertigo” is basically suede’s “we are the pigs” at 1.5x speed
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 04:29 (one year ago) link
Is the guitar line from Tortoise's 'TNT' meant to be identical to the melody from Fiction Factory's Feels Like Heaven?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJdv2DGu-qc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQBoeBgb0uk
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Thursday, 16 March 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
LOL i think there's a plausible deniability. But i'm convinced that the main part of 'Bridge at Iguazu Falls' is ripped from 'Encontro' by Projecto III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obLyHq3gbE
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 16 March 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
"forbidden doors" by tennis sounds like ll cool j's "i need love" (or if you prefer, necro's "i need drugs")
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Friday, 17 March 2023 01:36 (one year ago) link
What are the chances Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran were listening to Animal Collective when they wrote 'I Don't Care'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSGelSCPGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj-0vMrZJbo
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 20 March 2023 12:16 (one year ago) link
there's a guy who makes short videos on youtube, i'm guessing it's tik tok content originally. anyway, he talks about samples and interpolation a lot. sort of blew my mind that the horrible portugal the man song is just a riff on "please mr. postman", so much so that they have to pay royalties to brian holland.
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 March 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link
I don't think they ever tried to hie that. Think Holland had a songwriting credit from the very start?
There's obviously lots of mash ups out there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuGfkfmet0o
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 07:26 (one year ago) link
Whenever I hear U2’s Hold Me Thrill me (etc) it always reminds me of T Rex, Children of the Revolution
― Kim, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
The Crystals: "He couldn't stand to hear me say / That I'd been with someone new."
The Beatles: "It's only love and that is all / Why should I feel the way I do?"
― budo jeru, Thursday, 30 March 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
Thee Oh Sees "The Dream"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZqGxkYOFY
Just like Mötley Crüe's "Kickstart My Heart".
― pplains, Thursday, 30 March 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
I just realized that the acoustic guitar in Rosalía's Dolerme was making me think of The Legendary Pink Dots' Our Dominion, which is probably very far-fetched for a rather generic melody, but that was the association.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuUa9ZQL28w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAieVpqGYbo
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 12:23 (one year ago) link
Felt - Red IndiansThe Metallica song
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 11:39 (one year ago) link
gord's "carefree highway" and scott walker's "get behind me"
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
anyone have opinions on the ed sheeran/"let's get it on" lawsuit? the case seems dangerous because it surrounds the chord progression (please don't copyright chord progressions), but there are distinct melodic similarities imo
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
I've been reading about the court proceedings (and listened to his song), but I'm neither a musicologist nor expert on music law so I can't evaluate the strength of the claims. I admit his song does sound similar, and my layman's reaction is less "get outta here!" than it was with, say, the "Stairway to Heaven" claim; but Sheeran's side argues it's a common chord progression and there are key melodic differences after that, etc. (It's interesting/"fun" to read how he played the two songs on a guitar on the witness stand; addressed the point about him performing a medley of the two songs in concert; etc.)
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
(for the record, he said - "If I had done what you're accusing me of doing, I'd be an idiot to stand on a stage and do (the "Let's Get It On" mash-up) in front of 20,000 people.")
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
he is definitely correct that there are significant differences in the melody–the minor-key pre-chorus does not show up anywhere in the gaye song–but there are also parts where the melodies match up very very closely.
"If I had done what you're accusing me of doing, I'd be an idiot to stand on a stage and do (the "Let's Get It On" mash-up) in front of 20,000 people."
the george harrison case from a zillion years ago established that you don't have to consciously sit down and copy a song to violate copyright. maybe he was playing with fire when he played that mashup lol
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
Yeah, my understanding is that, beyond establishing a certain degree of similarity, the claimant just needs to demonstrate “exposure” to the prior work… and it’s sure not hard to do that with such a famous song!
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link