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the walkmen "new years eve" quite similar to the beach boys "hang on to your ego/I know there's an answer"

― nicholas jones, Monday, 3 April 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

I always found it kind of suspicious that Bruce Foxton managed to write Smithers Jones having never before been acquainted with a melody. Having heard 'I Can't Reach You' from the Who Sell Out, I know why!

― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 3 April 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

"You and Your Sister" by Chris Bell sounds a bit like "More Thank Words"

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

opening drums to johnny boy's "you are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve" is jesus and mary chains "just like honey," then the vocal line from said song is appropriated for johnny boy's "all exits final"

― TAO (daggerlee), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Help me out... theres a foo fighters track where the drum & guitar during the verse are a direct lift of the Police's "Synchronicity II"... whats the name of that track??

― Vernon Honeycombe, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out = Led Zeppelin, Trampled Underfoot

-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), January 21st, 2005.

I heard Stevie Wonder's Superstition the other day and thought "Gee, that obviously inspired Trampled Under Foot, but when I tried going throug the Led Zeppelin song in my head I came up with Take Me Out.

So then, Superstition begat Trampled Under Foot which begat Take Me Out. Are there any songs that inspired Stevie Wonder? Any that are direct offspring of Franz Ferdinand? Are there any other three songs that follow a sort of evolutionary flow (this would exclude the countless Sister Ray clones as they are all aping VU and not building off each other).

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" (1997) = the Carousel's "My Boy And His Motorbike" (1994).

Surely coincidental, though?

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" (1997) = the Carousel's "My Boy And His Motorbike" (1994).

Surely coincidental, though?

I haven't heard the latter song; which part sounds the same? Because about a billion songs have the same chord progression as ITAOTS (but none of them are as good).

Also, "On the Bus Mall" by The Decemberists sounds like "Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right" by The Decemberists.

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

"Still got the blues" by Gary Moore has same melody as "Hello" by Lionel Ritchie.
Virtually every melody used in Rap (Music ?) is ripped off from real musicians.
Maybe someone can help me out on this one. There's a song I think is called "Superstar" by who knows which is 100% ripped off from "Islands in the stream", written by the Bee Gees & performed by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers.

― Geoff Huggins, Thursday, 18 May 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Happy Mondays - W.F.L. (Vince Clarke Mix) sounds a bit similar (certainly the backing) to the Marcarena.

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Geoff: The only "Superstar" I can think of is a Leon Russell / Bonnie Bramlett tune from the early 70's. The Carpenters hit big with it.

Long ago and oh so far away
I fell in love with you
Before the second show

But I don't make the connection between the two.

A better candidate: Shining Star / Earth Wind & Fire

When you wish upon a star
Dreams will take you very far
When you wish upon a dream
Life ain´t always what it seems

Not sure, but I think it predates IItS.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Jim
Thanks for your feedback. I've probably got the title (Superstar) wrong, but it's a hip hop rubbishy type 21st century thing, if you know what i mean.

― geoff huggins, Monday, 22 May 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Just done some "googling" & have answered my own question. ie. 'Ghetto supastar' by Pras (1998) is a rip off of 'Islands in the stream. Thanks to Jim.

― geoff huggins, Monday, 22 May 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

opening drums to johnny boy's "you are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve" is jesus and mary chains "just like honey,"

Which in turn is taken from The Ronette's Be My Baby

then the vocal line from said song is appropriated for johnny boy's "all exits final"

The melody of the Johnny Boy song is a sped-up version of Elvis Costello's Battered Old Bird from Blood and Chocolate.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Steve Miller's "The Stake" borrows HEAVILY from Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way." Walsh should've sued. (maybe he did?)

― Will (will), Monday, 22 May 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Silver Apples "A Pox on You", probably their best song, is very similar to "Pheromone Smile" off the first Dirtbombs album, and easily beatmatched.

also

Stereolab "Metronomic Underground" --> Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution will not be Televised" --> Antibalas "Si Se Puede".
there's also a Can song on Tago Mago and some other soul or motown song with this same best-ever bassline.

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 22 May 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Prince surely stole Buzzcocks' 'Are everything' for his 'raspberry beret'

Bob Mould returned the Pixies' accolades for Husker Du in Sugar's 'Good Idea' ( Debaser)

More recently, I heard Secret Machines Alone Jealous & Stoned, and I swear, Blondie's Union City Blue is in there.

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Monday, 22 May 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Jim
Thanks for your feedback. I've probably got the title (Superstar) wrong, but it's a hip hop rubbishy type 21st century thing, if you know what i mean.
-- geoff huggins (ronethandgeof...), May 22nd, 2006.

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Are you thinking of Jamelia's 'Superstar'from a couple of years back?

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

"Also, I was just noticing the other day how Sly Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime" has the same little chord progression as a Led Zep song (maybe "Fool in the Rain" or something from that album) - though obviously Sly came first."

-- Josh Love (heaveninrowboat...), May 24th, 2004.

The main riff in "Misunderstanding" by Genesis is actually a direct lift from a part in "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and I believe that has been verified by Phil Collins. What's interesting to me is that "Fool In the Rain" and "Misunderstanding" have very similar, if not identical subject matter. So I'd say that Mr. Love gets an A for effort.

― Scott Russell (Sickstring), Friday, 9 June 2006 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I was in a restaurant, and there was a late 1970s/early 1980s disco song in the background with the vocal hook "I spread some lies in love"(???) and the bassline was EXACTLY IDENTICAL to Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes.

I highly doubt they ever heard this song, just one of life's weird coincedences... it really did cause a "WTF" moment when I heard it though.....

― al dada (JTS), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

The piano on Spoon's All the Pretty Girls Go To the City is a lot like that Edwin McCain song Never Met a Girl Like You Before (is that what it's called?).

YES!!!! I always thought that Spoon piano sounded like that song, I just couldn't recall that McCain lyric.

btw, not sure if that's the title or not, but its a cool song

― marbles (marbles), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

correction: the artist is Edwyn Collins not Edwin McCain.

― marbles (marbles), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Kinda obvious but "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop and "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet are almost twins.

― musically (musically), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

The Motors "Forget About You"
sounds like
The Grassroots "Sooner Or Later"

but I'm not complaining.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
Britney Spears - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

Same chords!!

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Kylie, not Britney.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wyclef Jean and Maya's Ghetto Supastar, is the one that ripped off Islands in the Stream. 1998.

― jona (jona), Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Rihanna's "S.O.S." sounds a lot like that one song by Marilyn Manson. A lot. I think she copied him.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 21 July 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

Belle and Sebastian's 'Photo Jenny' has tips of the hat to 'Wichita Lineman'. 'Beautiful' is a rip of The Smiths' 'Half a Person' = "sixteen clumsy and shy'/'they let lisa go blind'

Lucinda Williams' 'Sweet Old World', at least as done by Emmylou Harris on Wrecking Ball sounds just like 'Four Strong Winds'

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 21 July 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

The verse to Blondie's "Call Me" (...roll me in designer sheets, I just can't get enough...) and that one Fleetwood Mac song, and also the chorus to "I was born for lovin' you, baby" by KISS.

― m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

The drumming in "East Mountain Joint" by MV & EE with da Bummer Road reminds me of Beta Band's "Dry the Rain".
Still, it doesn't take away from it, it's a wonderful song.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

You can hum nearly all of Anna Nalick's "Breathe (2am)" to Doves' "Caught By The River."

― rogermexico., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

My Chemical Romance's "The End" sound suspiciously like David Bowie's "Five Years."
Green Day's "Misery" is a duplication of The Door's "Whiskey Bar."

― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there that Green Day song that rips off "picture book" by the Kinks?

― Drooone, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Warning" I think rips off the Kinks?

― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Catch Me Now I'm Falling" rips off "Jumpin Jack Flash"

― henry s, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

joe jackson breaking us in two vs. badfinger day after day

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Poison Ivy League by Ral Donner and Poison Ivy League by Elvis Presley.

Same title, similar tune, some identical words, same backing band. Different song.

― everything, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

the rapture - 'killing' and a certain ratio - 'do the du'

― 6335, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Bravery, "Time Won't Let Me Go" = Band Of Horses, "Funeral" = Catherine Wheel, "Black Metallic"

― rogermexico., Wednesday, 14 March 2007 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

"Throw Some D's"'s beat sounds like some other popular beat...I first thought it was "Oh Boy" without the 'oh boy's, but I just listened to it again, and that's not right. Anyone know what song I'm talking about?

― Tape Store, Friday, 13 April 2007 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

Queen - I Want to Break Free
Prince - Kiss

(kind of)

― the next grozart, Friday, 13 April 2007 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

If you speaking about nicking the bass from a song that is otherwise completely different, then the similarities between "Can You Feel It?" and "Material Girl" are rather obvious.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

As are those between Air, Sexy Boy, and Muse, Plug in Baby

― ledge, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Children of the Grave" Black Sabbath turned into Blondie's "Call Me"

Sabbath's "Zero the Hero" was totally ripped by Guns n Roses for "Paradise City"

― Bill Magill, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

If you speaking about nicking the bass from a song that is otherwise completely different, then the similarities between "Can You Feel It?" and "Material Girl" are rather obvious.

and the similarities between the basslines of the minutemen's "courage" and madonna's "like a virgin" are rather exact, and on purpose.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Children of the Grave" Black Sabbath turned into Blondie's "Call Me"

dead right - I noticed this only yesterday.

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 (nineteen years ago)

OK so this is weird but it's TRUE!:
meatloaf "I would do anything for love"
and tori amos "crucify"

sing both refrains aloud and you'll see --
"i would do anything for love"
"why do we crucify ourselves"

similar melodies!

― Surmounter, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

"Cleo", from John Cale's first album, reminds me of Bowie's "Sound and Vision" - or the other way round - probably wrongly but there ya go

― Tom D., Thursday, 23 August 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Intro to Jimmy Buffet's "Fins" ~= intro to AC/DC's "Son of a Bitch"

Sloan's "She Means What She Says" = The Nazz "Open My Eyes"

=The Who "I Can't Explain"

=The Clash "Guns on the Roof"

― shanecavanaugh, Friday, 21 September 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

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