songs that sound like other songs

lol

I have no idea how it never occurred to me until last night, having heard the Jeopardy! theme song thousands of time, but surely I'm not the first to notice its resemblance to "I'm A Little Teapot?"

Just realized that “say what you want” lifts it’s pre-chorus from “sexual healing” mixed with Prince’s “love thy will be done”.

The Texas song that is.

Guitar line also sounds lifted from Al Green “Tired of being alone”.

They even covered “tired of being alone” but smartly decided to remove the guitar line for strums instead so it wouldn’t seem like a direct connection to their own hit.

I have no idea how it never occurred to me until last night, having heard the Jeopardy! theme song thousands of time, but surely I'm not the first to notice its resemblance to "I'm A Little Teapot?"

― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, February 10, 2024 5:24 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think this every single time i watch

I'm a little teapot short and stout
This author created character "Kilgore Trout"

John Martyn - "Over The Hill" (1973)
Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head" (1975)

"Hold On Loosely"
"Just What I needed"

I don’t know which Cure song in particular it reminds me of but Metro Station - “shake it” does a very distinctive Robert Smith copy on vocalizations throughout this song. Specifically on:

“Tonight you're falling in love,
This feeling's tearing me up,
Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?
Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?
Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”

Pavement - "Fillmore Jive" (1994)
Te Vaka - "Loimata e Maligi" (2002) (aka "An Innocent Warrior" in Moana)

same chord progression

Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?
Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?
Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”

I don't know this song but the lyrics are making me think of All Coming Back To Me by Celine Dion, which I always think is a Meatloaf song because it's almost a parody of one, then I googled today and realised Jim Steinman wrote it and his band did it originally

Nobody did bombast better than Jim Steinman

Lol yeah that Celine Dion song is totally a Meat Loaf song.

Song at 4:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ljHhR8XPA

Sarah Brightman & Steve Harley, "The Phantom of the Opera"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBJNCXL9Vg

just occurred to me that Fugs - "The Garden Is Open" is a "Masters of War" rip

I have had "She Blinded Me With Science" stuck in my head for a while, and it always morphs into "Owner of a Lonely Heart."

The chorus of Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" sounds like it was snipped out of "American Pie"

noticing now that there's a bit of melody in the magnetic fields' "sweet-lovin man" ("there's just one kind of love/you can spend your life dreaming of") that strongly evokes big star's "thirteen" ("rock and roll is here to stay")

"Buildings" by an artist called Not Me But Us sounds like a knockoff of Slowdive's "Prayer Remembered".

"Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms and "The Little Black Egg"

"lightning strikes" by YES sounds like a modernized cover of "wallbanger" by GRYPHON

I heard Dick Emery's 1969 single 'If You Love Her', and the chorus sounds a lot like the 'If You Love Her' part from XTC's Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her

I was listening to "Everything is alright when you're down" Jesus and Mary Chain, and the chorus matches the tune of "The story of my life" Michael Holliday.

Just me then...

It's pretty clear to me now that Daft Punk's Nightvision is absolutely inspired by the instrumental intro to 10cc's I'm Not In Love

can't you see i'm trying, i don't even like it -- disarm the settlers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLuq5cEE6T8

the new drunk drivers! just lied to get to your apartment!

The Supremes "You Keep Me Hanging On" and Grass Roots "A Millions Tears"

As pointed out by Yasi Salek on Bandsplain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7lBq0zuSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDK-wsdEhNE

I've been getting into Rush lately, and the opening guitar riff from their Caress of Steel album brought to mind another famous album opener.

Rush - Bastille Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80hamog2uks

X - Your Phone's Off the Hook (But You're Not)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWwcl9JbsBo

is it memorex or stereolab?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVShQi7UtxM

Why can't I get just one kiss?
Wht can't I get just one kiss?
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side

Add It Up + Break On Through

I just re-remembered that the Bangles' "Manic Monday" is Prince re-using "1999" for the verses.

just like Sussudio.

Hell, I feel like "pop songs that sound like a intentional remix of a Prince song" could be its own thread.

like how many millions of songs copy chuck berry?

Uh....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3qXfF7hqE

Sharon Van Etten - “Don’t Do It”
Cranberries - “Linger”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaPF5O9RwWA

seems obvious 'man in a box' by alice in chains was a str8 rip of this melody right ? or is there some common antecedent 'hall of the mountain king' style

The verses of "Longing For Fire" on Scorpions' In Trance from 1975 have a number of similarities to "Fly By Night" from Rush's Fly By Night, released seven months earlier:

- guitar riff using the same syncopation
- very busy melodic bassline, completely atypical for Scorpions but very much like early Geddy Lee
- lyrics that conspicuously mention "flying" and "night"

I thought they were both on Mercury Records at the time, but Scorpions would not sign with them until 1978.

It's taken me so long to realise Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" is basically a tribute to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"

It was pointed out even at the time, but I didn't appreciate until recently how Rachel Stevens' "Some Girls" is essentially a crib of Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine", but with weaker production and a less charismatic delivery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIYgig9maY

Hearteningly the Goldfrapp song has millions of views on YouTube versus merely tens of thousands for "Some Girls". Rachel Stevens was only relevant in a brief temporal window and only in the UK whereas Goldfrapp transcends time and space. Whatever happened to Richard X? He was the Ilxor generation's Mark Ronson.

This all came about from a thread on RYM about the John Lee Hooker "Boogie Chillun" riff. The Goldfrapp song has a little bit of it, "Some Girls" almost none at all.

I'm sure there were Strict Machine/Rachel Stevens mashups floating about in the good old 2000s but it was possibly Sweet Dreams My LAX, rather than Some Girls, even though that would seem more similar!

Speaking of Goldfrapp, Kylie Minogue was definitely inspired by them when she recorded "Two Hearts". Even the video has the same esthetic as "Ooh La La".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQGU-vdXoVE

I remembered it was a Kish Mauve song first, so looked it up to check, and on the Wikipedia article there is a quote from Tom Ewing comparing it to Goldfrapp (among others), ha

the chorus of freez's "southern freez" quotes the opening notes of coltrane's "giant steps"

We finally went to see Hamilton a couple weeks ago and I feel it necessary to report that almost ALL the Hamilton songs sound like other songs - which, I mean, smart move?

Pere Ubu's "Waiting for Mary" and the Velvet Underground's "Lady Godiva's Operation"

^^ And the Stones' "Gomper" has that riff also

“Lust for Life” drums are a slowed down version of those on “Touch Me”

Music doesn’t otherwise sound similar but still