songs that sound like other songs

I have no idea how it never occurred to me until last night, having heard the Jeopardy! theme song thousands of time, but surely I'm not the first to notice its resemblance to "I'm A Little Teapot?"

― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, February 10, 2024 5:24 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think this every single time i watch

I'm a little teapot short and stout
This author created character "Kilgore Trout"

John Martyn - "Over The Hill" (1973)
Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head" (1975)

"Hold On Loosely"
"Just What I needed"

I don’t know which Cure song in particular it reminds me of but Metro Station - “shake it” does a very distinctive Robert Smith copy on vocalizations throughout this song. Specifically on:

“Tonight you're falling in love,
This feeling's tearing me up,
Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?
Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?
Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”

Pavement - "Fillmore Jive" (1994)
Te Vaka - "Loimata e Maligi" (2002) (aka "An Innocent Warrior" in Moana)

same chord progression

Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?
Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?
Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”

I don't know this song but the lyrics are making me think of All Coming Back To Me by Celine Dion, which I always think is a Meatloaf song because it's almost a parody of one, then I googled today and realised Jim Steinman wrote it and his band did it originally

Nobody did bombast better than Jim Steinman

Lol yeah that Celine Dion song is totally a Meat Loaf song.

Song at 4:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ljHhR8XPA

Sarah Brightman & Steve Harley, "The Phantom of the Opera"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBJNCXL9Vg

just occurred to me that Fugs - "The Garden Is Open" is a "Masters of War" rip

I have had "She Blinded Me With Science" stuck in my head for a while, and it always morphs into "Owner of a Lonely Heart."

The chorus of Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" sounds like it was snipped out of "American Pie"

noticing now that there's a bit of melody in the magnetic fields' "sweet-lovin man" ("there's just one kind of love/you can spend your life dreaming of") that strongly evokes big star's "thirteen" ("rock and roll is here to stay")

"Buildings" by an artist called Not Me But Us sounds like a knockoff of Slowdive's "Prayer Remembered".

"Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms and "The Little Black Egg"

"lightning strikes" by YES sounds like a modernized cover of "wallbanger" by GRYPHON

I heard Dick Emery's 1969 single 'If You Love Her', and the chorus sounds a lot like the 'If You Love Her' part from XTC's Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her

I was listening to "Everything is alright when you're down" Jesus and Mary Chain, and the chorus matches the tune of "The story of my life" Michael Holliday.

Just me then...

It's pretty clear to me now that Daft Punk's Nightvision is absolutely inspired by the instrumental intro to 10cc's I'm Not In Love

can't you see i'm trying, i don't even like it -- disarm the settlers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLuq5cEE6T8

the new drunk drivers! just lied to get to your apartment!