songs that sound like other songs

Nah. I think I vi IV V and I V vi IV still have potential for good, even awesome, songcraft.

Taylor Swift recorded "All Too Well" twice and it's still a better and catchier song than anything Frank Zappa ever did, fuiud

ooh you know what, i'll also take pop songs with no chords and pop songs with one static chord the whole way through.

zappa is a low blow

Oh lol Deflatormouse I was in no way calling YOU Geir oh heck no. That was a non-sequitur

Deflatormouse, you say that but in an alphabetical list of famous musicians, Zappa is normally one of the last to be mentioned.

xp oh lol i thought that was directed at me but took it in a playful spirit!

Neil Young - Too Far Gone sounds like The Rolling Stones - "Dead Flowers".

Turning back to the copyright issue – for the interested, Justice Kagan's (blistering) dissent in Warhol v. Goldsmith contains a two-page discussion of copying in music (pp. 28-29); including a long footnote on Dylan, and a block quote from the blog of "songwriter Nick Cave (he of the Bad Seeds)".

I just realized today how much Black Eyed Peas' Where is the Love sounds like Des'ree's Life.

ben harper's "steal my kisses" seems to borrow a lot from william onyeabor's "fantastic man"

"As It Was" by Harry Styles owes a lot to "California" by Delta Spirit

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And "Late Night Talking" sounds like Robyn's "Keep This Fire Burning"

I heard Miranda Lambert's "Me and Charlie Talking" in a Sporting Goods store

seems like “Shoot to Thrill” has some resemblance to “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

jump into my mouth and breathe the stardust by black moth super rainbow has the same guitar line as there she goes by the la's.

Miranda Lambert's "Safe" and Kurt Vile's "Air Bud"

bob marley's "baby we've got a date" is basically "ring of fire"

King Crimson's "The Sheltering Sky" sounds a lot like Jean-Luc Ponty's "Ethereal Mood."

I heard Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy" on the radio last night, and it reminded me that I always hear it and Clapton's "Let It Rain" melting together in my head.

Same chord changes in the same key. Apparently Clapton played on an early take of the Ringo song around the time he was recording his first solo album. Both obviously owe a lot to George Harrison.

lol yeah, chords for the first part of both are D, Am, C, G, D

I often hear a double-time "It Don't Come Easy" when I play this, also in D although the changes are different.

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

For years I carried around this vague memory of a song I heard in my childhood that has a chorus sort of like Bon Jovi's "Runaway," but with a different second half. Eventually I resigned myself to believing that I must have just been misremembering "Runaway" and my brain had completely made up that other part. Then last week Eddie Rabbitt's "Drivin' My Life Away" came on the radio and I flipped out: that's the song!!

Just came here to post this only to be beaten by LL by over a decade:

Just the very beginning of these two songs -- I always wonder how Bryan Adams got onto my ipod for 0.1 second before I remember what it is
North by North - Bats
Run to You - Bryan Adams

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, February 8, 2013 1:18 PM (ten years ago)

Das Damen "Spider Birds" and Pavement "Summer Babe"

I've always felt DD were sort of an underappreciated foreshock (or maybe divergent-evolution cousin, to mix metaphors) of '90s indie rock

...oh wow, just learned about this: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/das-damen-announce-first-shows-in-30-years-1986-keeps-me-wild-reissue/

Yes...more on this thread or this one

Cool, thx! I missed the ILM thread

Look Blue Go Purple's 'In Your Favour' is awesome and sounds a lot like R.E.M.'s 'Radio Free Europe':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DwTHbNtIW4

also lol at p4k praising a mishearing of LGBP's "eloquent lyrics":

Perhaps because of its spare compositions, for the first time the band’s eloquent lyrics are placed in the limelight. “I’m a fool to believe in love and its channels/I’m a fool to believe in it at all,” Griffin sings on “In Your Favour.”

(it's "love and its chattels")

This Croatian song starts by quoting Booker T. & the M.G.'s "Time Is Tight" for some reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8tV4GwkXsw

xp Thanx for sharing, I hadn’t heard of LBGP… that is an awesome song (never seen a band that looks quite like that, either!)

Not so much the melody (at all) – but the crunchy little riff in the chorus of Soda Stereo's "Ojo de la Tormenta" reminds me of Pavement's "Rattled by the Rush" – and considering the songs came out just a few months apart, the similarity feels like a nice little like-minded convergence:

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

Cool. That reminds that over the weekend I noticed that Charly Garcia borrowed the drum outro of “Strawberry Fields Forever” for one of his tunes. Let me see if I can find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkRAkAxSbJY
Also a little touch of “Dear Prudence” in there.

“Eleanor Rigby” as well.

It's "Within You Without You" that first popped out at me!

Ha! I knew I hadn’t quite put it all together, thanks.

Just heard this song playing in public; no way they didn’t have “Blurred Lines” in mind when they wrote it (which is obv funny for certain reasons).

The intro to Offspring's "The Kids Aren't Alright" is exactly the same intro lick as Belle & Sebastian's "String Bean Jean". Unless they're riffing off another theme, I find this really hard to get my head around

Offspring really nicked a lot of songs over the years

yeah but the Offspring tune came out in 1998 and he B&S in 2000, is dog latin's point i think

sorry google lied to me lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y43XLVqjytQ

There's a whole subset of songs that sound like the Police, but I'd never really processed this one before, which sounds heavily indebted to lots of stuff on "Ghost in the Machine," which came out the year before:

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

Apparently that is Phil Collins doing a respectable Stewart Copeland impression. Huh.

Going from Bonham to Copeland-via-Collins was a good way for Plant to distance himself from Zeppelin.

Another one in the Belle & Sebastian / Offspring / OMD axis is the intro music from Elden Ring. I often get String Bean Jean stuck in my head after playing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R3ouGNcACQ

^ more interesting chord substitutions in this one

Wet Leg’s “I Don’t Wanna Go Out” quotes the guitar hook from “The Man Who Sold the World.”