Songs (or bits of songs) that remind you of other songs that you wish they didn't

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I don't mean obvious nods or swiping of riffs, etc., but those odd little echoes that, once perceived, never leave the mind, ruining what might otherwise be decent songs. E.g.:

Boredoms - "Boriginal" sounds an awful lot like the Mekons' "Where Were You." I can't be the only one who's noticed this. "Where Were You" is great and all, but I don't want Mekons in my Boredoms.

Joy Division - "Wilderness": As noted elsewhere, the line "What did you see there?" always calls to mind "Itchycoo Park" -- "What did you do there? I got hiiiigh!" WINCE.

Bowie - I can't recall the exact bit, but parts of "Golden Years" really do sound like "Convoy," the song about truckers and CB radios that was in the U.S. top 40 at the time.

― snazz, Thursday, 7 October 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

>Mekons' "Where Were You." I can't be the only one who's noticed this.

I think the Boredoms noticed it first: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/discographer/mekons/boredoms.html

― (Jon L), Thursday, 7 October 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep feeling that "Down the Dolce Vita" by Peter Gabriel will turn into "Eye of the Tiger". There could be a cocentric groove on some editions where sometimes it does.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Thursday, 7 October 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Urk. Forget I said anything.

xpost

― snazz, Thursday, 7 October 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

During a game, Dawn tried to give a clue by 'la'ing "White Riot". But it sounded exactly the same as the 'la la's from Monday Monday.

So now, the song on the radio goes...

"Monday Monday" (White Riot, I wanna Riot)
"Can't trust that day" (white riot, riotofmyown")

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What game were you playing?

― transparent alias (mark grout), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Scrabble.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason now, the chorus of "Love Comes in Spurts" by Richard Hell & the Voidoids conjures the "BANG BANG - ON THE DOOR, BABY, BANG BANG -- Youre WHAT???" bit of "Love Shack" by the B-52s (despite the fact that the former pre-dates the latter by about twelve or thirteen years). Specifically, the "LOVE COMES.." mirrors the "BANG BANG...", if ya lick what I'm drippin'.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to be a big Soundgarden fan, and there's a riff just before the solo in 'Spoonman' which sounds exactly like the Grange Hill theme tune.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the exact opposite of the question, but I've heard Paul Weller's version of "Wishing On a Star" twice today, and both times I thought, from the first few seconds, that it was "Where Its At" by Beck.

― Richard C (avoid80), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

When I hear the beginning of Non-Alignment Pact, I think of "Partytown" by Glenn Frey.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

For no rational reason I can understand, there's a chord change that I've disliked ever since I was a child. And it's not even ugly or a tritone or something - just something like F-sharp minor to G major. (Wish I knew more about music so I could better describe it.) Anyway, you'll find that change in songs like "You Can't Get What You Want" (Joe Jackson), "Money Don't Matter 2 Night" (Prince), "Heartache" (Kix) and more that I can't think of right now. And I don't like any of 'em, and darned if I know exactly why.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of Bowie, he complained a lot in the press at the time that "Blockbuster" was ripping off his "Jean Genie". Checking into things further, it appeared that if somebody was ripping off somebody else, then Bowie must have been the one ripping off "Blockbuster"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a song by the Left Banke that sounds exactly like the castle-worlds theme in the original super mario brothers. it's uncanny.

― Still doomed, Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Myonga must hate flamenco music with a passion

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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