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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

Jeff W, Friday, 3 September 2010 17:17 (fifteen years ago)

SAME FUCKING BEAT

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

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 3 September 2010 17:46 (fifteen years ago)

"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.

krakow, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

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

funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

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

krakow, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

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.

funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

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

Arvo Pärty (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

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

JasonC, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:56 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, i hear that!

Kim, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

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?

chromecassettes, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 21:07 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Monday, 27 September 2010 04:03 (fifteen years ago)

^^ AWESOME

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 27 September 2010 13:25 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

lady gagaku (corey), Monday, 27 September 2010 13:44 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

This is just ridiculous:

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

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 05:08 (fifteen years ago)

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

normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 05:29 (fifteen years ago)

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!

dlp9001, Monday, 24 January 2011 01:40 (fifteen years ago)

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

Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 24 January 2011 11:01 (fifteen years ago)

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 :-/

the loneliness of the dexys midnight runner (unregistered), Monday, 24 January 2011 14:07 (fifteen years ago)

it's an outrage!

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

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

Kim, Monday, 24 January 2011 14:40 (fifteen years ago)

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

Kim, Monday, 24 January 2011 14:47 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

herbal bert (herb albert), Saturday, 12 February 2011 14:41 (fifteen years ago)

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

John Lennon, Saturday, 12 February 2011 20:15 (fifteen years ago)

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

meisenfek, Saturday, 12 February 2011 21:36 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 12 February 2011 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

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

Kim, Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:13 (fifteen years ago)

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

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 17:13 (fifteen years ago)

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

ledge, Friday, 4 March 2011 16:37 (fifteen years ago)

2:05

ledge, Friday, 4 March 2011 16:38 (fifteen years ago)

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"

Kim, Friday, 4 March 2011 18:24 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

and back to the original

Franck Pourcel - chariot

meisenfek, Sunday, 27 March 2011 02:09 (fifteen years ago)

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

reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 27 March 2011 03:06 (fifteen years ago)

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.

bamcquern, Sunday, 27 March 2011 04:08 (fifteen years ago)

Anyone familiar with Carole King's '70s hit "Sweet Seasons", come sing along with me:

Talkin' 'bout a-sweeeeet seasons on my mind...
She's got a ticket to ride...
She's got a ticket to ri-i-ide...
She's got a ticket to ride, but she don't care...

The identical melody (until the very end) is disguised pretty well by different chords though.

Lee626, Sunday, 27 March 2011 06:07 (fifteen years ago)

"Girl don't tell me" is "ticket to ride," too.

bamcquern, Sunday, 27 March 2011 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

At least one section of Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over" is "Don't Worry Baby"

Lee626, Sunday, 27 March 2011 06:34 (fifteen years ago)

and of course "don't worry baby" borrows heavily from "be my baby"

nope (absolutely clean glasses), Sunday, 27 March 2011 12:20 (fifteen years ago)

Someone please tell me where the similarities are between "Born This Way" and "Express Yourself." I don't hear it AT ALL.

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 27 March 2011 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

(x-post)

This is getting to be like "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" where every song is related to every other song, and eventually we'll find one song that every song is related to, or at least a few degrees of separation from....

Lee626, Sunday, 27 March 2011 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

Since Wet Willie is currently threading....

"Keep On Smilin'" = "Into the Mystic" (Van Morrison)

Lee626, Friday, 1 April 2011 14:42 (fifteen years ago)

Okay, I recently had the revelation that "How You Remind Me" (Nickelback) and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Green Day) are basically the same song. I tried to layer them on top of each other on Youtube and it didn't work. The Nickelback song is at a slightly faster tempo. Given some audio editing software, I could prove it.

frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:19 (fifteen years ago)

hahahaha i can picture how it would sound on youtube doubler, that is hilarious

hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:35 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Rod Stewart - "Do you think I'm Sexy" steals Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben's "Taj Mahal"

that Spirit song (?) -> "Stairway to Heaven" -> that Metallica song (?)

That Offspring song rips of Simon & Garfunk's Cecilia.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 01:58 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dug this up to post Taj Mahal!

a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 17 April 2011 01:08 (fifteen years ago)

Guitar riff from Unrest's "Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl" nicked from 1981 Eurythmics song "Belinda"

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

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

misty sensorium (Plasmon), Sunday, 17 April 2011 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

been listening to the new Low album & I gotta say: "Nothing but Heart" sounds like any given live recording of "Shine a Light" by Spiritualized, except w/ Neil Young guitars in place of droney synths. Not that this is in any way a problem, mind.

mari$$a marchant (Pillbox), Monday, 18 April 2011 10:58 (fifteen years ago)

Is it my imagination, or could the bassline from Abba's "One Of Us" fit quite neatly on top of the Beatles' "Yesterday"?

Evil Eau (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 09:47 (fifteen years ago)

Rod Stewart - "Do you think I'm Sexy" steals Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben's "Taj Mahal"

that Spirit song (?) -> "Stairway to Heaven" -> that Metallica song (?)

That Offspring song rips of Simon & Garfunk's Cecilia.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 01:58 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dug this up to post Taj Mahal!

Jorge Ben actually sued Stewart over the lifted melody:

Ben Jor may be an urban poet, but he's certainly no soft touch. In his celebrated spat with Rod Stewart, Ben Jor successfully sued the Scottish crooner after he 'borrowed' the melody of the Ben Jor song Taj Mahal for the chorus of his hit Da Ya Think I'm Sexy.

Nowadays Ben Jor seems remarkably sanguine about the affair. He explained how the dispute with Stewart had been settled amicably, with the Scottish singer agreeing to donate the profits from his song to UNICEF.

Gotta give props for him for donating what's probably a considerable amount of royalty money to UNICEF.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 10:47 (fifteen years ago)

"having an average weekend", the theme to the kids in the hall, cops it's main riff from betty wright's "bad bad bad"......

m0stlyClean, Thursday, 21 April 2011 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMQiqj5uaeA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYSV0qoDCkw

jj n° fad (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 06:47 (fifteen years ago)


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