songs that sound like other songs

the bassline of this vibrators song sounds like "54 46 was my number"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFd2rAf0Pr8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjBiZSfM08

In Shakey, Neil Young says of "Ambulance Blues", I always feel bad I stole that melody from Bert Jansch. Fuck. You ever heard that song 'The Needle of Death'? I loved that melody. I didn't realize 'Ambulance Blues' starts exactly the same. I knew that it sounded like something he did, but when I went back and heard that record again I realized I copped his thing...I felt really bad about that."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HkBak9lmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAaNQjgMA8

I've just started to get into Motown and every time I hear the "I'm cryin'" that leads into the chorus of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby" it sounds exactly like John Lennon's in "I Am The Walrus" (or vice versa rather). Anyone else notice this?

Just noticed the overlap between Torn and Frayed and Sweet Home Alabama, which is kind of annoying me while trying to enjoy the former...

The intro of "Last Night" (see initial thread post) is also similar (eerily so, one might say) to the intro of "Hard Road" by Black Sabbath.

Miss The Girl by the Creatures sounds (in parts) just like Jolene by Dolly Parton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAz8uw5a0uM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVhbusBDi4&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-43tlrBoRk

Manic Street Preachers "Design For Life" has distinct similarities to portions of BMX Bandits "Our Time Has Come".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVCYVq305E

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

Boards of Canada, "Chromakey Dreamcoat"
Kanye West, "Addiction"

lol "My Girls":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu8hVn_0Lq4

Whitney Houston - The Greatest Love of All (starting at 1:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZWHxw9ylk&feature=fvst

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train (starting at 0:41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDl3iUo__dY

Good catch!

Was thinking about how much Midlake's "Roscoe" sounds like "Rippin Kittin" by Goldenboy and Miss Kittin.

This is driving me nuts. My friend reckons that "Love Song" by the Dandy Warhols sounds exactly like "Baby Blue" by the Warlocks. I reckon that they're both cops of something really really obvious which I cannot seem to put my mind on right now. Argh! Any ideas?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 25 August 2008 09:33 (2 years ago)

Kate, since no one else ever responded, just listened of both of those and the first song that popped into brain was "Big Decision" by That Petrol Emotion. not sure it sounds the same so much, but there's something reminiscent. have the feeling there are more songs the same though!

but yeah, you know what... there is something else specific that they sound much more like. now it's driving me nuts too.

The intro and linking segments of the new Charlatans single ("My Foolish Pride" - v.g. btw) is remarkably similar to "The Things We Do For Love" by 10cc

SAME FUCKING BEAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36x-S8p4qb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_bq1n7k68

"You Are A Lover" by Tracey Thorn from her 'Love And Its Opposite' solo album really makes me think of RHCP's "Under The Bridge".

Love the TT song though.

"Stuck on You" by Lionel richie sounds a lot like "High flying adored" from Evita

Just read the booklet and googled; I never realised it wasn't her song. Due credit to The Unbending Trees.

Dr. Dre "Fuck wit Dre Day", Snoop Doggy Dogg "Who am I (What's My Name)", Tupac's "Can't C Me", and Above the Law's "Never Missin' a Beat", mostly due to interpolating the same funk track.

There must be another thread about this, because I think I've mentioned this pair before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjRw9Wbc3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbL2lMn34Oo

The Dandy Warhols and The Warlocks tracks sound like this to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PILsUqrg2DI

yeah, i hear that!

Beach House's "Silver Soul" reminds me of Grant Lee Buffalo's "Mockingbirds".
Parts of Beach House's "Norway" rip Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love", no?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title theme for NES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f49OKDTQZwk

Stone Cold Crazy by Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnGaEk0rZdU

^^ AWESOME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuJfhEeCe8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsULZ2dcRIU&feature=fvst

This is just ridiculous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwKawAZk7f4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ5DfCY6kY

george mccrae's "rock your baby" (1974) is like the exact same song as dr. hook's "when you're in love with a beautiful woman" (1978). both owe something to the hughes corporation's "rock the boat" (1973), though the connection there is less direct.

george mccrae:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIr19aoHQI

dr. hook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpYN-NK54Y

hughes corp.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndAXxqJbc0

Kind of weird here. Was reading Iggy's bio and it suddenly hit me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_O2kT3PPYY

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0&feature=player_embedded#!

They're even in the same key!

My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
ABBA - The Winner Takes It All

Incidental music from My Neighbour Totoro
Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard

Cheri Knight - "Spellbound"

Pinetop Seven - "Finding the Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir"

well, the Cheri Knight song really just sounds like a distillation of every Pinetop Seven song that hadn't been yet recorded, and even her voice has an uncanny Darren Richard quality to it here. or maybe what I'm trying to say is that all alt.country music sounds the same :-/

it's an outrage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PET5rdzeKxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liOA6e4YHyM

this is ridiculous as well - couldn't find the album version of the Grapes of Wrath one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXStlfeL8oI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMyjjeSWak

verse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EsQXaMqcpo

+ chorus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7cZCMCwtRk

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2dPA2dCRNY

Ennio Morricone - alle luce del giorno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYXy-Q33OZw

Planet Funk - chase the sun ("the darts song/hymn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fppvy52FbIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4a8QtvOkBQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wP5W2R0wY

always thought Howard Jones' New Song was derivative of P Gabriel's Solsbury Hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnK83WxJnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fF8wU4Nl9Y

Has Trent Reznor acknowledged the enormous debt that A Warm Place owes to Bowie's Crystal Japan?

Little Peggy March - i will follow him
=
Organbank - banane, zitrone
~
Les Rallizes Dénudés - night of the assassins

Has Trent Reznor acknowledged the enormous debt that A Warm Place owes to Bowie's Crystal Japan?

yah, here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RQCT69y5s

2:05

not sure they sound so terribly alike, but i can never seem to stop myself from singing "Johnny are you Queer" on top of "Telstar"

Little Peggy March - i will follow him
=
Organbank - banane, zitrone
~
Les Rallizes Dénudés - night of the assassins

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Earthling - you go on natural

and back to the original

Franck Pourcel - chariot

danava "one mind gone separate ways" = "achilles last stand"

My phone won't let me open the youtube coupled with the piggy pop dogfood track. Is it Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf"? Because that's what it sounds like to me.