OK, tracks that sound almost EXACTLY like another band.

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And the small difference between them

e.g.

The Beatles "Rain" sounds exactly like Oasis (esp. the "sunnnshine") and only the backing harmonies make it not Oasis.

It's got to be pretty close, you guys...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Don't Talk Just Kiss" by Right Said Fred sounds exactly like The Divine Comedy, except for the leather t-shirts.

― Huey (Huey), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Radioheard's Creep and The Hollies' The Air that I Breathe...well, the instumental verse at least.

― Jez (Jez), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the Dogs Die in Hot Cars album...all of it.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

is it me or is Stereophonics' "Movie Star" too close to Spirit's "Fresh Garbage" for comfort?

― de, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

neil young "borrowed tune" & rolling stones "lady jane"

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Sad Cafe "My O My" -> rollingstones

(can't remember) "Coming on strong" -> Mick Jagger solo

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Fight Test - Father N Son

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

umm, yeah the songs, but they don't actually sound like Cat Stevens, no?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, my mistake. read the title wrong.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott Walker's '30 Century Man' sounds exactly like Julian Cope's entire solo career.

― Bidfurd, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hollies' "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress" = fake CCR

― mike a, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

30 century man always sounded like a ray davies song, and not just because of that one song from muswell hillbillies whose title is similar.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of the Christ "pylonesque" EP sounds exactly like Boards of Canada.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a track on Technique by New Order that sounds EXACTLY like "In-Between Days" by the Cure. Some say this was their stab at the Cure for allegedly ripping off the New Order sound on "The Walk". Whatever.

By the way, it's not the Beatles sounding like Oasis, it's Oasis sounding like the Beatles. Obviously.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"L Dopa" by Big Black sounds quite a bit like "The Wait" by KILLING JOKE.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of Jawbreaker songs sound like Liz Phair to me.

Also, it's funny how The Knickerbockers sound nothing like Oasis.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Jawbreaker sounds like Liz Phair???!!

Even if that were true, it'd be the other way around, right? Jawbreaker's third record came out the same year as Exile in Guyville.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex must be talking about either "All the Way" or "Loveless". Although aside from the prominence of the acoustic guitar, I don't really hear the close ressemblance.

I can only think of obvious examples -- such as The Stooges "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (particularly the opening riff) = everything on S3's "Sound of Confusion".

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Elastica blah blah Wire blah blah Stranglers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Blake Schwarzenbach sounds like Liz Phair to me especially on songs like "Oyster". I can't think of any Liz Phair songs off the top of my head that sound like Jawbreaker, though. Ain't that sumthin'.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm. That's curious... I never would have thought of that. Then again I don't really listen to Liz Phair much at all, but I've gone through periods where Jawbreaker was the only thing on the turntable for months.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The main riff from Papa Fucking Roach's "Last Resort" is pilfered EXACTLY from the last track on Carcass' "Heartwork" album. Can't remember what it's called. "Microwaved Excrement of Interminably Glutinous Expectorate" or something similar.

― Wooden, Thursday, 22 July 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Maria Mena's "You're The Only One" the new Worst Thing Evah?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I mention... Jet's album 'Get Born'?

We once played at a venue that had the toilet walls covered in pages from street press magazines. Over a Jet advertisement, someone had scrawled 'AC/DC WORTE ALL YOUR SONGS' (sic)

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 22 July 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

This Pitchblende song I heard today sounded just like the Volcano Suns which was awesome.

― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 22 July 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post Re: Jet
I thought they sound more like Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" on the one song I heard. That's funny though.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

neil young "borrowed tune" & rolling stones "lady jane"

confirmed by the fact that one of the lyrics is "I'm singing this borrowed tune / I stole from the Rolling Stones" or something like that.

Yo La Tengo's "Cherry Chapstick" sounds like Sonic Youth.

― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 22 July 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Don't Talk Just Kiss" by Right Said Fred sounds exactly like The Divine Comedy, except for the leather t-shirts.
-- Huey (inf...), July 21st, 2004.

You mean the leather shirts are audible in the song? Rad!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"cat scratch fever" & "smoke on the water"

― teja, Thursday, 22 July 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes" is the Bangles' "Eternal Flame" sideways.

Counting Crows' "Rain King" (ugh) sounds a lot like R.E.M.'s "I Believe."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll counterbalance that with a more obscure selection. Momus's "The Last Communist" sounds like the Auteurs circa How I Learned to Love the Bootboys.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't see how Momus could be considered obscure on ILM.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

touche.

I was just reeling from having typed "Counting Crows" with my own fingers.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

at least Adam Duritz doesn't post here. I don't see how I could possibly try be nice to him, much less flame him off every thread. Stipe I could manage.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

much less not flame him off every thread.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Angie - Rolling Stones
Hotel California - Eagles

Probably not as close as I might think, but every time I try to play Angie on my guitar it comes out, like, way too much like, Hotel California. And I can't take it any more and I'm gettin' real mad!

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i reckon that "godhopping" song by "dogs die in hot cars" sounds just like xtc

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it still count if it's deliberate? Camera Obscura's "Your Picture" is a perfect Leonard Cohen song, right down to the production and the lyrical imagery.

― mikef, Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the fall's 'new face in hell' and pavement's 'conduit for sale!'.

― Andrew Bryant (Andrew Bryant), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: the beatles sound like Oasis, and the 'deliberate' comment above.

It counts more so if its not deliberate. Therefore, the beatles sound like Oasis for that one song i.e. the unknowing might well think it was oasis being played. Its meant to be specific tracks to a band. "Oasis sounds like the beatles" doesn't fall into the remit, this time.

btw, "Don't talk just kiss" -> Divine Comedy = brilliant.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 July 2004 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of the Christ "pylonesque" EP sounds exactly like Boards of Canada.

well, the fact that Christ. was in BoC for a while, up until not long before their first label release, would probably explain that ...

― coco, Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

at the moment: roots' guns are drawn reminds me of cody c (+roots). hah

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ever Strokes song sounds like "Coney Island Steeplechase" by the Velvet Underground.

― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, so translating that into this threadese..

Coney Island Steeplechase VU -> the Strokes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

4th Channel by The Delgados sounds like Pavement. Except for when Emma sings.

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

XTC's Helicopter - Blur's Girls & Boys

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Sugar Ray's song "Rivers" off some soundtrack I don't remember sounds EXACTLY like Weezer. It's weird. Obviously, given the title, it was intentional.

Also Belle and Sebastians "Electronic Renaissance" sounds almost exactly like New Order's "Procession," which is totally bizarre. I'd never otherwise compare those two groups.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Andy Kim's Rock Me Gently sounds exactly like Neil Diamond

― Tim Triveringtalington, Saturday, 23 April 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

Flipper's Guitar (Cornelius's early 90s pop group) made a few singles that deliberately echoed 'sunshine pop'-type British groups:

"Haircut 100" (sic) is identical to The Style Council's "My Ever Changing Moods", "Camera Camera Camera" echoes Roddy Frame, while "Blue Shinin' Quick Star" is REALLY similar to "Elephant Stone".

― darren (darren), Saturday, 23 April 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

nb: And so is "Love Train", right down to the bam-bam-bam drum sound near the end.

― darren (darren), Saturday, 23 April 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Gwen Stefani's "Cool" has to be a conscious lift of Yaz' "Only You"
It's scary- almost down to the note.

― ZionTrain, Saturday, 23 April 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Late 80s Seattle metalcore slobs The Dehumanizers' "Grandma I'm a Drug Fiend" eeriely predates early '90s Seattle grunge gods Nirvana, right down to the raspy yowls and melodic aggression -- let alone being a punk song sung to a grandma, a future Cobain hallmark.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 24 April 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Movin' by REO Speedwagon with Mike Murphy singing sounds like a Doobie Brothers album track down to the backing vocals etc.

― earlnash, Sunday, 25 August 2019 23:51 (six years ago)

Did you know Harry Nilsson spoke Japanese?

― Publicradio (3×5), Monday, 26 August 2019 02:36 (six years ago)

What about Madonna? (The Japanese are the best at this)

― Publicradio (3×5), Monday, 26 August 2019 02:41 (six years ago)

I spent decades thinking that "Baby Come Back" by Player was a Hall & Oates song

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 26 August 2019 11:34 (six years ago)

Holy shit, it’s not!?

― Dan I., Monday, 26 August 2019 13:17 (six years ago)

Todd Rundgren's "If Not Now, When?" is very much a Factory Showroom-era TMBG song

― frogbs, Monday, 26 August 2019 13:41 (six years ago)

Holy shit, it’s not!?

― Dan I., Monday, August 26, 2019 9:17 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

LOL. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that!

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 26 August 2019 13:47 (six years ago)

Larry Gus's With All Your Eyes Look is a pretty blatant Caribou soundalike (it's basically Skunks with Andorra-style vocals)

― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Monday, 26 August 2019 14:12 (six years ago)

1.53 into Pattern Against User by At The Drive In, it turns into a Marion song for about 30 seconds. It's weird how much it sounds like them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrZ7ew8n5SU

― kitchen person, Monday, 26 August 2019 14:18 (six years ago)

Third vote for Baby Come Back being Hall & Oats. Yacht rock standards are so strangely indistinct. "Stumblin In" was a Barry Gibb duet in my mind for years, having nothing to do with Leather Tuscadero. No one has ever noticed the words "Baker Street" in Baker Street.

― bendy, Monday, 26 August 2019 14:36 (six years ago)

Rick Derringer's warping of John Lee Hooker's blues into "Let's Make It" sounds surprisingly more like Devo than you might expect.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:57 (six years ago)

I always have to remind myself that 'Silly Little Thing Called Love' (Queen) and 'One Way Or Another' (Blondie) are actually by the respective bands

― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:03 (six years ago)

I thought "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" was an Elvis song for many years, which is I think what they were going for

― Vinnie, Friday, 30 August 2019 11:17 (six years ago)

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