songs that sound like other songs

I've always thought Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy" and Laura Branigan's "Self Control" were very similar. I'm also concerned that I noticed.

"Time Is Tight" and "Theme from A Summer Place" have the same first four notes.

"Sound Chaser" by Yes and "Take Me I'm Yours" by Squeeze have the same burbling bass run.

To me "Hang 'Em High" sounds like "A Taste Of Honey" combined with the theme from "Gilligan's Island."

'why can't i touch it' buzzcocks is an homage to 'kandy korn' captain beefheart

since you been gone by kelly clarkson has the same guitar solo as maps by the yeah yeah yeahs AND I NOTICED THIS BEFORE TED LEO DID AND NO ONE BELIEVES ME

Finger Eleven's "Paralyzer" sounds so much like "Take Me Out" that I can't believe Franz Ferdinand didn't sue.

LCD Soundsystem "North American Scum" == Pete Shelley "Homosapien"

Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" sounds like Alizee's "J'en ai Marre".

The bridge to "Free As a Bird" by the Beatles sounds EXACTLY like "Remember Walking in the Sand" by the Shangri-las. Not only do they both sound exactly alike, but one lyric goes "Whatever happened to the life that we once knew?" and the other goes "Whatever happened to the boy that I one knew?" It's ridiculous.

The chorus of Jimmy James' "A Man Like Me" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWDAdvNthNU sounds very much like "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners.

the pre-chorus of 'science' by monkey swallows the universe is melodically lifted from the pre-chorus of keep feeling fascination. nicely done

"Suffering Jukebox" by the Silver Jews sounds a lot like "Range Life" by Pavement

Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time" is a near-wholesale lift from Eddie Money's "I I Could Walk On Water"

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?

mc5 "kick out the jams" & the stooges "loose"

kelly osbourne "one word" & zeigeist "cuffs"

the beatles "free as a bird" & elton john "i want love"

Blur's "There's No Other Way" sounds like a baggy version of Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play", as Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt points out in his book.

hahaha, it sort of does!

I'm sure I've mentioned here before that REM's 'The One I Love' sounds like it was copped from the Minutemen's 'Stories' ('I heard one today about the one I love...').

Is the Jody Rosen I just saw in my local bookshop/music paper/Private Eye the same as ILX's Jody Beth Rosen?

The "oh-oh-u-oh" parts in Byrne & Eno's "Life Is Long" remind me of the same kind of parts in that Aicha video from the deep chasms of the internet.

"Time Is Tight" and "Theme from A Summer Place" have the same first four notes.

As do "O Tannenbaum" and "The Wedding March". (And just like that other pair, one is in 4/4 time and the other in 3/4.)

kelly osbourne "one word" & zeigeist "cuffs"

What about "Fade To Gray"!

that one was mentioned earlier in the thread which is what reminded me. (so it's probable that "fade to grey" sounds like "cuffs" too but i've never heard "fade to grey")

haha i just checked youtube and yes, all three of these songs are the same, especially "fade to grey" and "one word")

You know what?

The Strokes' "Last Night" does not sound much like Tom Petty's "American Girl", no more than any other...

Except for "Someday" which sounds a lot like it.

and not one of you mentioned it!

Kula Shaker's "Into The Blue" (from the "K" album) has completely stolen the verse off The Stone Roses' "Bye Bye Badman".

Bowie's "Suffragette City" IS Alice Cooper's "Under My Wheels"

Mariah Carey's MY ALL has been reminding me of Toni Braxton's UNBREAK MY HEART

Belle and Sebastians "If You're Feeling Sinister" is dangerously like Jackson Browne's "These Days"

John Barry's - "You Only Live Twice", Robbie Williams' "Millennium" and Goldfrapp's
"Time Out Of The World".

"Time Out From The World", sorry.

Er, I think "Millenium" samples "You Only Live Twice", it's no coincidence.

The bass on "Billie Jean" may have seemed really original and cool and distinctive. And Michael Jackson coined that bassline himself, didn't he?

Or maybe not?

Actually, the bassline of "He Is Sailing" by Jon And Vangelis from 1981's "Friends Of Mr. Cairo" is suspiciously similar to "Billie Jean". A year later, Donna Summer did a cover version of that song. And the producer of that Donna Summer album? Quincy Jones! Hmmmmm.... :)

Hmm. I mean "State Of Independence", not "He Is Sailing"

Parts of the intro of this song, entitled "Love is Blue" (apparently from the late 60s) sounds a lot like 'the song that will change your life.' (listen in particular to 0:43-0:48)

I loved 'i want you right now' by mc5 before I read some old lester bangs thing where he mentioned its almost a note for note rip off of the horribly cheesy 'wild thing' by the troggs which makes me think only of the Major League movies and a young Charlie Sheen as Ricky Wild Thing Vaughn.

Ken Boothe's "Lady With The Starlight" sounds exactly like Nat Cole's "Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer"
Brentford All Stars's "Greedy G" sounds exactly like James Brown's "Get On The Good Foot"

riffy bit of Franz Ferdinand's 'Do You Want To' eerily similar to Go West's 'We Close Our Eyes'

all three of these songs are the same, especially "fade to grey" and "one word"

Fade to Grey by Visage? = template for every Ladytron song ever*

*hyperbole

The Plastic People of the Universe, Okolo okna + The Electric Eels, Bunnies

... OK, you might have to take my word for that one

i mentioned this on a CT thread the other day, but: cocteau twins 'watchlar' / joni mitchell 'big yellow taxi'

The J.B.'s "Giving Up Food for Funk" and Marvin Gaye's "A Funky Space Reincarnation."

ELO's "Across the Border" and the Beach Boy's "Heroes and Villains"

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California" and Tom Petty's "Last Dance with Mary Jane"

The theme from Scooby Doo (starting from 0:33) and the middle part of "Ticket to Ride" sound very similar to me.

This is a bit of a stretch maybe, but The Jam's "Absolute Beginners" always fools me into thinking I'm hearing "In A Big Country" for a few seconds when it comes on.

Deerhoof - Tears and Music of Love and Free - All Right Now

pretty sure it's a deliberate nod though

i thought of this one today when i was playing tennis

"death and the maiden" - the verlaines
"box elder" - pavement

don't be jealous just cuz i thought of it first! :p

Kiss' "Crazy Crazy Night" has borrowed a thing or two from AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"

Wire's "Circumspect" and Magazine's "Vigilance."

"San Diego Zoo" by Magnetic Fields and "Shambala" by Three Dog Night