songs that sound like other songs

Faith No More's Evidence sounds like Ghetto Heaven. And maybe something else.

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another one: the guitar solo in faith no more's 'evidence' incorporates the intro lick from sam'n'dave's 'soul man'.
― m the g, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:54 (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

interestin'...

The first several bars of Paul McCartney's "If You Wanna" (on Flaming Pie) sound like a slightly faster version of the first several bars of PJ Harvey's "Good Fortune."

Ba-ba-ba-baaa-ba/You know this/Love is/TRUE!/Ain't nothing but a heartache/(Tell me why)

ledge - yes!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEwah8Tvw0k

http://soundcloud.com/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=bap+what+the+hell

I didn't get any help on the prince thread for this...listen to the "rap" in the middle section and then play INXS's "Mediate" (will post it next). Too close to be a coincidence, right?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFUEgFdP5zE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DRggfF-Nlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkxeu7mCXz0

I just keep waiting for the Style Council song to burst into "turkey hungry, chicken free!" but thankfully it doesn't.

"God Save the Queen" sounds just like "America."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht0zsE9GPrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4HygPI9lA

the intros to the neil diamond and billy joel songs above. billy basically flips the two lines of neil's intro, so he's playing B-A-B-A to neil's A-B-A-B.

The main piano riff in the Vijay Iyer Trio's "Village of the Virgins" reminds me a lot of Stereolab's "Captain Easychord":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPXc_4qxNSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ9z0Puurgk

Oh wait, hold the phone, "Virgins" is a Duke Ellington piece that Stereolab must've ripped off.

I'm sure many before me have enjoyed the way The Residents cheekily stuck the baseline of "Billie Jean" into their cover of Hank Williams' "Kaw-liga".

The Who's "Don't Let Go The Coat" and Indigo Girls' "Tried To Be True" start out pretty much identically. They diverge pretty quickly, but still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3QcZ_1g-HI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaCf_d8M3VY

The Who's "Don't Let Go The Coat" and Indigo Girls' "Tried To Be True" start out pretty much identically.

Likewise, the Who's "I Can't Explain" and Nazz' "Open My Eyes" (which i recall Todd Rundgren says was intentional)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhuL79iEWDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erC9qkaOHnk

Didn't see this one upthread. So incredibly blatant I need not mention the track its in debt to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMw6lN9Fe3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rEDIEEE7io

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

tempo and yelpings

hm looks like this one wasn't mentioned yet...

We're Not Making Love No More = Never Had A Dream Come True
they're like fucking the exact same song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKyNGSPX_8g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7idn3PcKBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGPC-ZKrrtY

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

"Johnny's Gonna Die" by The Replacements sounds like "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac

First time I heard this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE

I immediately thought of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCH1IlOfDTM

I like that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGthv-dJp4

Get a Job, Silhouettes
No One Knows, Queens of the Stone Age

Just the very beginning of these two songs -- I always wonder how Bryan Adams got onto my ipod for 0.1 second before I remember what it is
North by North - Bats
Run to You - Bryan Adams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GumfkPsrLF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF5LaVkDhyk

more specifically, the first 8 seconds of each song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAcXP6LMYWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_7NDQxfSqc

i feel bad calling out merchandise because i like them a lot, but their new song has the same guitar lick from "Crash" by the primitives.

was trying to recall an early 90s house tune that lifted the gtr lick from "happy house" note by note and made it the main synth motif. any ideas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXK0Ejzin4c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

Maybe, XD. This one is more definite (speaking of Pump Up the Jam on the 77 top tracks of 2012 thread):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHryLkF5Jw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avcS0aYJ2a8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_EQ6yKeEQg

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

(xp) For me, "Gangnam Style" usually leads to "Pump Up the Jam" getting stuck in my head.

In fact, I'm bummed no one's mashed those 2 yet.

We have another thread for this. Why are there two? Anyway.

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Darn!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qQ0N4cBqXM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-qO3sPMjc

Squeeze's "If I Didn't Love You" and Hum's "Ms. Lazarus" always blur into the same song when I remember either one (which is often; they're great)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p9sPVXGa1Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hxjMw9PmS4

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

This one's pretty obvious.

oh i don't know. this is still ilm

the biggest No. 2 hits that never topped the Hot 100

It's taken me this long to notice how similar QOTSA's "No One Knows" is to Radiohead's "Electioneering".

"Driver 8" sounds like "Don't Fear The Reaper."

Official title "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"

My kids play a lot of Green Day at the moment. They pointed out to me the similarity between the choruses of 21 Guns and ELO's Telephone Line. Uncanny....

"Driver 8" sounds like "Don't Fear The Reaper."

hmm, I never noticed that before. I feel like they both must descend from Zouzou's 'Puisque tu es revenu'.

Wow.

Boney M's "He Was a Steppenwolf":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0p0HOrn69c

...has pretty much the same chorus as The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk":

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

They even stole the doo-wop vocal arrangement from The Drifters!

Don't know if it's ever been noted on this thread or on this board that David Bowie's "1984" has a similar groove to Isaac Hayes's "Theme from Shaft."

those intros:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qWxumrIU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZVC6lNjOmY