Sounding completely like another act for just one song

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Or pastiches as you may call it. Al Yankovic is a master at this, but leaving comedians out, let's come up with some other examples.

Blur: Fade Away (Specials)
Blur: Entertain Me (Berlin-era Bowie)
Blur: T.O.P. Man (Fun Boy Three)
Blur: Girls & Boys (Duran Duran)
Suede: The Drowners (David Bowie)
David Bowie: Never Let Me Down (Solo John Lennon)
David Bowie: Song For Bob Dylan (obv)
David Bowie: Queen Bitch (Velvet Underground)
Fountains Of Wayne: Supercollider (Oasis)
Cotton Mather: Vegetable Row (Bob Dylan)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

David Bowie: Queen Bitch (Velvet Underground)

Please explain.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

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― Son of Spam (noodle vague), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Wilco: Outta Mind Outta Site---The Replacements
Wilco: Dreamer In My Dreams---Rod Stewart/Faces

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

speakin' of Wilco...

My Morning Jacket: Strangulation (Wilco)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Suede: The Drowners (David Bowie)

Why stop at one?

Todd Rundgren to thread.

― LC (Damian), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I do love Suede.

― LC (Damian), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Black or Blue could be Bowie. Decent shout?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Butthole Surfers "Something (pioughd version)" (The Jesus and Mary Chain)

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ween to thread.

"Let Me Lick Your Pussy" (Prince)
"Old Man Thunder" (Bruce Springsteen)
"Hippy Smell" (early R.E.M.)
"Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)" (Yes)
"Take Me Away" (Elvis Presley)
"Freedom of '76" (The Spinners)
"Buenas Tardes Amigo" (Mexican folk)
anything on 12 Golden Country Greats (Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys/Asleep At the Wheel)
"The Blarney Stone" (Irish drinking songs)
"It's Gonna Be a Long Night" and "Stroker Ace" (Motorhead)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 17 August 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

another Wilco - someone else's song - (Leonard Cohen)
Fugazi - By you (sonic youth.especially in the feedback)
Quasi - ape self prevails...(sonic youth)
Butthole Surfers- johnny smoke - sounds like something else, maybe you can say by who.
shine - new slang (simon and garfunkel)
spoon - The beast and dragon (wilco)
Royal trux - stop (ween)
ny dolls - lonely planet boy (Bowie)
man or astro man - destination venus (guided by voices)

― emekars (emekars), Thursday, 17 August 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Old Man Thunder" (Bruce Springsteen)

uh, Bob Seger, no?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 17 August 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

Adrian Belew reveals his secret crush on Jeff Lynne on "Big Blue Sun"

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Thursday, 17 August 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Tears for Fears - "Sowing the Seeds of Love" (Beatles, says the common sentiment, though I personally feel it's more likely the Turtles would have recorded something like this than the Beatles)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 17 August 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

yeah yeah yeahs, "maps" (the pretenders)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

Osmonds, "One Bad Apple": Do a bit of googling, and you'll find many folks who still believe that this is The Jackson 5!

― Myonga Von Boredom (Monty Von Byonga), Thursday, 17 August 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

Tears for Fears - "Sowing the Seeds of Love" (Beatles, says the common sentiment, though I personally feel it's more likely the Turtles would have recorded something like this than the Beatles)

Bingo!

Or Nirvana (the UK 60s band, that is)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Klaatu: Sub Rosa Subway (They may have been accused of being Beatles-copycats, but really, this is the only Klaatu song that sounds much like The Beatles at all)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

The only other song I heared was "Anus from Uranus" the b-side, which doesn't much, no.

I did see a copy of "Calling occupants" the other day, but resisted.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ween again:

"Squelch the Weasel" (Donovan)

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Jet "Look What You've Done" (Ween)
Kiss "Dirty Livin'" (Patrick Hernandez)

― dave q (listerine), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Judas Priest "Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days" (Wang Chung)

(Geir of all people how could you forget Queen "Sheer Heart Attack" [Damned])

― dave q (listerine), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

>> man or astro man - destination venus (guided by voices)

Um, that's a cover (of the Rezillos). I don't think covers count.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Nirvana - Beans (sounds like Ween)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

yes very good shout. BLACK OR BLUE is very LADY GRINNING SOUL.

they were meant to cover that song for a proposed bowie covers album but it never came off or something.

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Butthole Surfers - "Something" (Jesus & Mary Chain)

― hank (hank s), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

... that's already been posted

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Wings - "Let Me Roll It" (Plastic Ono Band)

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Weird Al Yankovic - Dare To Be Stupid (DEVO)...I recall Mark Mothersbaugh saying somewhere that this song sounded more like Devo than any actual Devo song or something like that.

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jet "Look What You've Done" (Ween)

that does sort of sound like ween, doesn't it? but i always thought "look what you've done" was the closest anyone's ever come to aping the beatles.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 18 August 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

(Geir of all people how could you forget Queen "Sheer Heart Attack" [Damned])

Just one little problem here: "Sheer Heart Attack" was released two years before Damned debuted.

Weird Al Yankovic - Dare To Be Stupid (DEVO)...I recall Mark Mothersbaugh saying somewhere that this song sounded more like Devo than any actual Devo song or something like that.

As I mentioned already in the initial thread, Yankovic is brilliant at this. "Dare To Be Stupid" is probably his best ever pastiche, but he has done other brilliant ones too. "Dog Eat Dog" sounds soooo obviously like Talking Heads, for instance.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Blur: T.O.P. Man (Fun Boy Three)
Why? OK, there's a certain Terry Hallism on the track, but why FB3?

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Bis: Mr Important (Blur)
Sparks: Upstairs (Devo)
Maximo Park: Acrobat (Pulp)
Blur: Trouble In The Message Center (Gary Numan)

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

The song "Saturday Morning" from the new-ish Minders album sounds just about exactly like early acoustic Sebadoh.

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Feelies sound exactly like Tom Petty on "Sooner or Later."

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 20 August 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Hollies - "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" (CCR)

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Why? OK, there's a certain Terry Hallism on the track, but why FB3?

The backing vocals. The drum sound. Damon Albarn himself has admitted in interviews that the song was a homage to Fun Boy Three.

The Terry Hall thing is even more obvious on "Fade Away", which is The Specials anno "More Specials".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

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