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- The slightly cheesy keyboard riff on Aldo Nova's "Life is Just a Fantasy" and Jefferson Starship's "Jane"?

- The guitar intro to "Gimme Danger" by the Stooges and the guitar intro to "Woodstock" by CSNY?

- The riff of Stan Ridgway's "Drive She Said" and the riff of Killing Joke's "Me or You?"

- The riff of Skid Row's "Slave to the Grind" and the riff to Suicidal Tendencies "You Can't Bring Me Down"?

What other moments of striking similarity are there......?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 March 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Wot, no "80s" and "Come as You Are?"

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 10 March 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

...and no "Louie Louie" or "Gloria" and all the knock-offs they've inspired?

― Charles McCain, Monday, 10 March 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

And this is strictly swiping as opposed to sampling, right Alex?

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 10 March 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

.. and you're just talking moments as opposed to whole songs? (cuz we already have songs that sound like other songs and Name that inspiration)

..
So -

The guitar solo at the beginning of Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" always sounds to me like it came right out of "Badge" by Cream.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 10 March 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Not even necessarily "swiping" so much as plausible coincidence. But sampling's deliberate, so that doesn't count.

Regarding "Eighties" and "Come as You Are" (not to mention "Life Goes On" by the Damned, which pre-dates both), that particular dead horse has been flogged too many times.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 March 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't necessarily ruling out entire songs, but more specifically elements of those songs (riffs, keyboard fills, vocal tricks, etc.)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Fair enough. I've only read the new threads. Was surprised when the KJ/Nirvana connection wasn't made, especially in light of your relentless honoring of the fire.

To make up for it: The bit in the middle of Right Said Fred's "I'm too Sexy" is lifted directly from Hendrix' "Third Stone from the Sun."

But i bet that was discussed to death, too...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 10 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the guitar riff on Free's "All Right Now" vs. the chorus of Kenny Loggins' "Footloose"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 10 March 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

To make up for it: The bit in the middle of Right Said Fred's "I'm too Sexy" is lifted directly from Hendrix' "Third Stone from the Sun."

Direct sample -- it's officially credited. Yes I have the single somewhere. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The chord progression in Moby's "We Are All Made of Stars" is a ripoff of the chord progression in Moby's "Help Me to Believe," right down to the minor chord in the "verse"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 10 March 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World" have the exact same chord progression.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

chord progression shmord progression. TONS of songs use the classic fifties chord progressions (U2's "One" comes screaming to mind) but there are only SO MANY chords.

It's only bad when a complete melody is stolen - like Stone Temple Pilot's Plush and Pearl Jam's Evenflow, for instance.

Or the Yeah Yeah Yeah's godawful "Year to Be Hated" and fucking "Crimson and Clover" - I'm hoping for a pyrotechnics accident

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I think "Clocks" by Coldplay sounds like a slightly more graceful version of "Beautiful Day" by U2.

There's a tiny little moment at the tail end of "Bohemain Rhapsody" where Brian May appears to play the riff from "Strange Magic" by ELO.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

hows about the entire harry potter score from the climactic moments of star wars. john williams seems to have ripped himself off. i kept expecting darth vader to march in and zap another lighting bolt onto harry's head.

― bryan kennedy (bryan kennedy), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Sublime owns this thread.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I realize that chord progressions are unfair, but when an artist steals his own for the ENTIRETY of the song, it's kinda bad.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 10 March 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Boston "More than a Feeling" = Smells Like Teen Spirit
but you knew that

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Damned's "Machine Gun Etiquette" steels a big riff from Gary Glitter's "Rock'n'Roll Part 2"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sublime owns this thread...
Rancid owns the board then.

― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't heard either the Moby or Fatboy track, but
"there are only so many chords"
ranks with
"there are only so many notes"
in the Top 100 Musical Idiocies.
Yes, there are only a few hundred chords.
But there are millions of possible combinations -
actually millions is probably an understatement.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The chorus to the Damned's "Wait for the Blackout" sounds like that 70s ad that goes "I am stuck on bandaid/'cause bandaid's stuck on me."

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

At the very end of "Lonely is the Night" by Billy Squier he goes "lonely lonely, lonely..." exactly like Robert Plant does on "Rock and Roll", and the next song on the alb kicks off just like "In My Time of Dying"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I posted this on another thread, but-

The chorus in Tom Petty's "Running Down a Dream" and the chorus in Juice Newton's "Queen of Heart" (particularly the guitar strum after each vocal line)

Also, the descending guitar line in Magazine's "The Light Pours Out of Me" and Gary Glitter's "Rock & Roll, Pt. 2"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"when i was cruel pt 2" elvis costello...some pretty sly and smooth reference to the ol abba hit "dancing queen".

― bryan kennedy (bryan kennedy), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Pot Kettle Black" on Yankee hotel Foxtrot rips off the beginning of the Cure's "In Between Days", which itself is a kind of New Order tribute song (plus, the Cure wrote a song called "Jumping Someone Else's Train", so I think they were quite conscious of their borrowing habits -- cf. "The Walk").

― David A. (Davant), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and sing "Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name", then sing "Girl, I want to be with you... all day and all of the night".

― David A. (Davant), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

raveonettes "attack of the ghost riders" = swell maps "midget submarines." this is the third time i've said it, so someone go listen to both and tell me i'm right or wrong before i go insane.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The intros to ABBA's "Eagle" and Human League's "Don't You Want Me".

― man, Monday, 10 March 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, "La Bamba" and "Twist and Shout".

― man, Monday, 10 March 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The chorus to "I Wish It Would Rain Down" = the chorus to "Wish You Were Here".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Boston "More than a Feeling" = Smells Like Teen Spirit

b-b-but

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Classic Or Dud?

SLTS: F minor, B-flat minor, A-flat major, D-flat major (which, IIRC, resolves back to F minor 2nd inversion). i-iv-iii-VI(i)

MTAF: G major, C major, E minor, D major. I-IV-vi-V.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 10 March 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The "touch me" parts of U2's "Beautiful Day" and A-Ha's "The Sun Always Shines On TV".

― man, Monday, 10 March 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The intro of Pavement's "Trigger Cut" was nicked from VU's "Coney Island Steeplechase."

The recurring riff in the first song on Blonde Redhead's first album ("I Don't Want U") seems to be direct from the VU's "The Murder Mystery."

The grinding riff that opens one of Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers' songs (I think "Get Off the Phone") is straight from a Yardbirds song (again, can't recall which), only without the chord change midway through (thus making it even more brutish).

I love this topic; I've always wanted someone with a huge record collection to map out hundreds of these.

― Sam Jeffries (samjeff), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(for the record: elastica/wire)

― Sam Jeffries (samjeff), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Shakira "Underneath my Clothes" as strange similarities to The Bangles "Eternal Flame"

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

People think MTAF and SLTS sound alike because (a) the strumming rhythms are nearly identical, and (b) both use four power chords.

That tATu single reminds me of the Cranberries' godawful "Zombie," but I can't quite put my finger on the nature of the resemblance.

Also, clearly, Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity" vs. Simple Minds "Reel to Real Cacophony."

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 11 March 2003 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I swore there was a dirty 3 song that used the melody of "Gloria" (the disco song, not the good one - you know, "gloria / I think they got your number...") - most likely a coincidence though

Bon Jovi's I'll Be There For You and the Beatles Don't Let Me Down

Strokes Last Nite ripping off Tom Petty's American Girl, obviously

"Mr Soul" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" have riffs that sound remarkably similar

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Modest Mouse "Dramamine" vs. Fleetwood Mac "Crystal"

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 11 March 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Beck's "Tropicalia" lifts it's main riff from, um, I think it was an Antonio Carlos Jobim song, some old bossa nova number.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

L7's "Pretend We're Dead" and Suicidal Tendencies' "Your Mommy's Dead" are the same song, as are Judas Priest's "Beyond the Realms of Death" and Motley Crue's "Danger"

― dave q, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead ripped part of "Paranoid Android" from
Scandinavian proggers Atlas.

The "thin white duke" melody in "Station To Station"
reminds me of Cream's "White Room."

But really, this happens so often in pop it's not even
noteworthy.

Most of the time, it's unintentional, I think,
hence forgivable. Often the redo surpasses the original.

Oasis are "masters" at this. I can't be bothered to
look up the song titles, they have

1. A blatant ripoff of the Stooges' "Search And Destroy"
2. A ripoff of Lennon's "Mama, I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier"
3. A ripoff of the Doors' "Roadhouse Blues"

and that's not counting stolen riffs from T. Rex, Beatles,
Mott The Hoople, and anyone else that got in their way.

In contrast, Blur's "End Of A Century" contains a pleasing
resemblance to Pink Floyd's (underrated) "Apples And Oranges."

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

the united states' of america "stranded in time" is SO "eleanor rigby" it's not even funny!

― john fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Move ripped off the riff from Eddie Floyd's "Big Bird" for "Hello Susie."

Conversely, sorta, Eddie Floyd's "Don't Rock the Boat" has a bridge that sounds just like the Band.

― Jess Hill (jesshill), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

the chorus of Mull Historical Society's "Animal Cannabus" always makes me start humming a GbV song (wish i could remember which)...

Is the bridge of No Doubt's "Underneath it All" a moment of mimicry, or does it actually contain a Pixies ("Dig for Fire?") sample?

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

rod stewart "do you think i'm sexy" -> jorge ben "taj mahal"

― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 13 March 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

People think MTAF and SLTS sound alike because (a) the strumming rhythms are nearly identical, and (b) both use four power chords.

Also, the chords in the two progressions are related to each other and have a similar sound when played.

Speaking of No Doubt, "Don't Speak" ==> Aerosmith's "Dream On".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

So spot-on, Dan!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The intro drums to "I Am the Resurrection" by the Stone Roses and likewise in the Pretenders' "Mystery Achievment."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cult's "Wild Flower" basically IS "Rock'n'Roll Singer" by AC/DC.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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Re - Smells Like Teen Spirit vs. More Than a Feeling:

Cobain frigging teased MTaF right before ripping into SLTS at the 1992 Reading Festival. At the least, he was amused by the similarity; at the worst, he was openly acknowledging what he stole from.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 1 August 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

What's going on with The Rapture's "Echoes" and Public Image Limited's "Careering"? Surely that's intentional??

― lou (lou), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

As I Sat Sadly By Her Side vs Re-Offender

― man, Friday, 5 December 2003 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The guitar part for The Byrds' "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" sounds *exactly* like the intro to an old country song I just heard a couple of weeks ago. Does anyone know what song that is?

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mission's "Wasteland" basically is "Over the Wall" by Echo & the Bunnymen.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

the drum parts for oasis' "fucking in the bushes" and prince's "tick tick bang"

― k good, Friday, 5 December 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm ... never heard that Oasis track ... but the Prince song drum track is a sample of "Little Miss Lover" by Jimi Hendrix.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" = minor chords versh of Pixies "Debaser"!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Tori Amos "Cornflake Girl" vs the theme from "Shelley" w/Hywel Bennet

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bill McCai" by The Coral = "These Boots Are Made For Walking"

Also, much has been made in years past, in various circles, of "Waking Up" = "No More Heroes", but I found the track The Stranglers ripped off in the first place for *that* riff. It's a keyboard riff at the beginning of a track on The Essential Pebbles and now it's come to it I can't remember what it's called... it's not "You Treated Me Bad" by the JuJus, is it? (Look for update on this once I get home to check)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Yeah Yeah Yeah's Our Time steals both its structure and its primary melody from The Bangles'/Prince's Manic Monday.

― Dave Vinson (Gaughin), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Just" by Radiohead has always sounded very like King Crimson's "Red" to me, moreso than "Shot By Both Sides", which "Just" is always alleged to have been a rip-off of.

I know every track on Pink Flag is supposed to be a re-cycling of something or other, but I can never tell what, aside from "Feeling Called Love" being "Louie Louie".

― Schwingung (Damian), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The Coup uses the melody of 7th Wonder's "Daisy Lady" (also famously used in Sugarhill Gang's "8th Wonder") on "Everythang". I first thought it was a legitimate loan, since the melody is so well-known in rap, but the album sleeve doesn't give any credit to 7th Wonder. Is this a mistake or a rip-off?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Shot by both sides" -> "Sound of the underground" girls aloud

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Mentioned on another thread: Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier" and the Banana Splits theme!

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The chorus of "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" reminds me of the Chorus from Radiohead's "Bones". The riff reminds me of "Highway To Hell".

― man, Friday, 5 December 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Norah Jones rips off that Charlie Brown xmas special.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm spluttering with confusion and outrage and delight at the SBBS/Sound of the Underground claim, I'm gonna have to check that out

― F. Anthony O'Reilly (Ferg), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" sounds way too similar to "Primitive Love" by Suzi Quatro. Total rip-off.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Interpol's love of that whole Chameleons cymbal-rattling drumbeat thing, and the twin-chorus-delay guitars thing, esp. on 'Leif Erikson', which may as well be a cover of 'The View From A Hill' at the start.

And that one that sounds like This Charming Man.

― F. Anthony O'Reilly (Ferg), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

in "anti-manifesto" by Propagandhi, when he says "by the way i stole this riff," whose riff is it? anyone know?

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

In that vein, there's "Borrowed Tune" by Neil Young ("this borrowed tune I stole from the Rolling Stones"), which is a straight steal of "Lady Jane".

― Schwingung (Damian), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

The riff from Pink floyd's Interstellar Overdrive = theme from Steptoe and Son

― pete s, Saturday, 31 January 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Tin Machine's "Crack City" is "Wild Thing" with the third chord sheared off.

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Saturday, 31 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The bridge in Natalie Imbruglia's version of Torn and the riff in James' She's A Star.

And the opening of Tender (Blur) has always reminded me of the opening of Here (Pavement).

― syntaxfree, Saturday, 31 January 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

Smiths Panic = Metal Guru T Rex

― Bumfluff, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago)

I thought we were talking about intentional quotes... I love how the Dresden Dolls' "Good Day" lapses into "I Will Survive" for a bar or two.

If we're talking ripoffs, however, then I submit R.E.M.'s "The One I Love" as a slightly slowed-down version of Neil Young's "Hey Hey My My."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago)

"I thought we were talking about intentional quotes"

Good god I don't know...you may be right. I was just wanting a
'stuff that sounds like other stuff' thread but frankly the search
process flummoxes me..especially when I'm up late and tired like now blah blah..

― Bumfluff, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago)

"Hey, hey, rock and roll, rock on, ooh my soul" vs. "Hey, kids, rock and roll, nobody tells you where to go, baby"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:24 (twenty years ago)

Hey, if you want to do an all-REM edition, there's always "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" (self-explanatory) and "Hope" (Cohen's "Suzanne") - although in both cases the Southern gentlemen actually give their inspirations a co-writing credit, thus cutting them in on the publishing royalties.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:27 (twenty years ago)

pooh sticks' complete oeuvre to thread.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago)

everyone knows one can sing "sweet child o' mine" perfectly over the verses of the clean's "drawing to a whole."

also, maybe someone here remembers which it was, but i recall a silkworm record from '95 or so which, during the course of one song had a guitar solo that blatantly mimicked a pavement solo, from which tune i can't recall.

and speaking of pavement, the beginning of "silence kit" resembles "everyday" by buddy holly.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)

David Bowie: Red Sails = Harmonia: Monza

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)

The first eight bars of the guitar solo in Matthew Sweet's "Behind the Smile" are almost identical to the same bars in the solo of Badfinger's "Baby Blue." And there's another M. Sweet solo that rips off the "Sweet Child O'Mine" riff, but I can't remember which.

― phil d., Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and the chords for chorus of The Darkness' "Keep Your Hands Off My Woman" are identical to Urge Overkill's "Sister Havana." The melody is completely different, but the chords are played in the same order and rhythm.

― phil d., Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago)

R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" = Sheryl Crow's "Leaving Las Vegas"

I doubt it's intentional or anything, but it's still uncanny.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)

muddy waters "mannish boy" = bo diddley "i'm a man"

the songs are pretty much identical. muddy waters would've made a good pooh stick.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)

the basic drum-and-bass riff from prince's cream is strikingly similar to the basic drum-and-bass riff from talking heads' version of "take me to the river" (and maybe really similar to the al green version too but, damn, it's been so long since i've heard that one).

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Tin Machine's "Crack City" is "Wild Thing" with on less chord.
Like, for real.

Bowie's "Absolute Beginners" is "Memories" from Cats.

Actually, a great deal of Bowie, approrpiately, is someone else.

― i grey, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.thewebshite.co.uk/nickelback.htm

two nickleback songs played simultaneously, one left channel, one right channel.

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Ike Turner's 'All The Blues, All The Time' has him doing great impersonations of all the other great blues guitarists. Eddie Kirchen's 'Hot Rod Lincoln', at least the recording that I have, has him and the band doing impersonations of loads of people, country, blues, rock, punk, all sorts.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

"Songs for a Blue Guitar" by Red House Painters sounds suspiciously like Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 26 September 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

HOLY SHIT, I just realized "I Can't Stop Raving" is a rip from Talk Talk's "Dum Dum Girl"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 8 April 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

speaking only of melodies here...

Sir Douglas Quintet's "Crossroads" = Allman's "Melissa"
Dylan's "Hazel" = Neil's "Ambulance Blues"

and there was one from the other day that was EXACT but i forget now, will remember it and get back to yall

― Branch Dancer, Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

I heard a 60s soul tune today with the exact same bass-line as Booker T. and the MG's "The Hip Hug-Her" -- anyone know what it is?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

Nine Inch Nails' "A Warm Place" was once Bowie's "Crystal Japan".

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

This has been driving me crazy, and a quick Google search turns up nothing, but there is no way this is a coincidence:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAZLmJGQHxc (1982)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVrT5nZuro (1974)

― Wimmels, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 19:46 (nine years ago)

The intros to David Bowie's 'Soul Love' and The Cure's 'The Drowning Man'

― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 23:50 (nine years ago)

six months pass...

Surely I am not the only person to notice this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hW9fADmFrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw

― Wimmels, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:59 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

Don Henley's "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" and Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" are pretty much the same song

― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 30 March 2018 11:15 (seven years ago)

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