songs that sound like other songs

Nice to have all these in one place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMaR6ljTK6c

Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

Though It's probably been mentioned. But I can't check all those YouTube links.

Harry Nilsson cover of "Many Rivers To Cross" sounds like the track of "#9 Dream" with the vocal of "Mind Games" and then the outro of "Mother" tacked on.

I mean, I guess JL is on the track but still

Maybe after the "Won't Back Down" / "Stay With Me" fracas no one has a fuck to give about this sort of thing, but.

The ubiquitous Ed Sheeran song "Thinking Out Loud" seems to have the same chord progression and feel as Michael Bolton's "Soul Provider," which itself may owe a debt to the Manhattans' "Shining Star."

Do we have a thread about artists who, consciously or not, rip themselves off? I'm thinking of songs like David Byrne's "Angels" and Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime"

Laid by James is a very cleverly disguised cover of La Bamba

Lou Stathis pointed out that Magazine's "Model Worker" sounds like it's based on the riff from The Capitols' "Cool Jerk".

I've been getting loads of these lately. Some of them are really tenuous. Like this one. I might be imagining it but does:

dEUS - Little Arithmetics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I

share harmonic shades with Material Girl?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSUOFgj97M

And speaking of Madonna, here's a triple chain:

Years & Years - King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_uoH6hJilc

which sounds like Hot Chip - I Feel Better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I

which sounds like La Isla Bonita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqIIW7nxBgc

https://www.facebook.com/rupanbaltv/videos/1053778951299775/

This gets shared a lot on facebook, but parts of it sound remarkably like Hey Mickey by Toni Basil. Anyone know which came first?

There's some terrible new radio song that sounds A LOT like Hungry Like The Wolf.

there's a synth in Orbital's 'Adnan' that sounds strangely similar to the one used on the verses on Irene Cara's 'Fame'. you can hear it particularly well right at the end of Adnans

Dyna-mite by Mud - Peek-a-Boo! by Devo

Grimes' Flesh Without Blood reminds me strangely of Anytime by My Morning Jacket

oh apparently they gave duran duran a writing credit:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6738294/5-seconds-of-summer-sounds-good-feels-good-album-review

Mentors "Peeping Tom" is eerily similar to Quiet Riot's "Look In Any Window". Mentors have a better chorus riff though.

Holy shit, Van's "Almost Independence Day" starts out exactly like "Wish You Were Here"!

for years Take That's 'Let It Shine' has bugged me. Yes it's a thinly-veiled homage to ELO in spirit, but what specific song does it sound like?

and tonight it hit me - it's Stephen Malkkus' 'Jenny & the Ess Dog'

The Travelling Wilburys' Handle With Care is heavily lifted from Curved Air's Desiree. Check out the intro!

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

My sweet lord, that's a rip-off.

I've always been fascinated that Belle & Sebastian's "Family Tree" straight up lifts its melody from Madleen Kane's / Giorgio Moroder's "The Lonely One", yet there's no mention of it in the credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpXOOnRU6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOXgH3vprc

Laid by James is a very cleverly disguised cover of La Bamba

― canoon fooder (dog latin), viernes 25 de septiembre de 2015 18:22 (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd say Twist and Shout rather than La Bamba but yeah I can hear it too.

whaaat that wilbury's source is spot on - could it be coincidence?

"I Wonder" by The Gants sounds like "In My Life."

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8oHHGxrNus

'Together Again' by Janet Jackson came on the radio just now. Apparently I'm not the first person to notice the similarity with the Bridge stage on Sonic the Hedgehog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlMxnhJ3uvk

Learned via intranetz the other day about the similarity between "Another GIrl, Another Planet" by The Only Ones and "The Cowboy Song" by Thin Lizzy.

This is a fun one basically because the artists are so different. The breakdown in "I'm a Cholo" by the Dickies sounds like Treehouse by Arthur Russell.

https://youtu.be/sterLDzYyf0?t=111
https://youtu.be/hZJ9MnXVwaA?t=441

"Take You There" by Weyes Blood sounds a lot like "Starsailor" by Tim Buckley, in the best way.

Learned via intranetz the other day about the similarity between "Another GIrl, Another Planet" by The Only Ones and "The Cowboy Song" by Thin Lizzy.

― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, March 23, 2016 6:40 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well that explains my endless love for both songs

Throbbing Gristle, "What a Day"
Nine Inch Nails, "The Big Come Down"

Lou Reed's Charley's Girl sounds like John Lennon's Bring on the Lucie

TLPD - love puppets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7k-8fL4wQ&t=5m19s

SPCZ - jih
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PhTCYbqpkM

TImmy Thomas' What Can I Tell Her steals the main melody from Rainy Days and Mondays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km3q3UuLTqk

(1 min 17)

Journey - Don't Stop Believing
Courtney Barnett - Depreston

^ Don't really hear that one

no? The vocal melodies are really similar to me.

Compare:

'a singer in a smokey room / the smell of wine and sweet perfume'

'and it's going cheap you say / well it's a deceased estate'

yeah i guess i hear it there, but I don't really hear that in other parts of the melody.

This is obviously a straight up cover, but never credited as such:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsWyYzGn8FA

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

"33" by Smashing Pumpkins sounds exactly like that old disco hit "Doctor's Orders." You can pretty much sing the lyrics of the latter over the melody of the former.

Also, Coldplay totally ripped off the melody for "Clocks" off of the bridge of an old Northern Soul song called "You've Got Your Mind on Other Things" (can't remember the name of the artist).

the s/t Ultimate Painting album so obviously rips off songs that i think it must have been intentional. particularly the vaselines

Mr. Snrub, where? I don't hear that the song has a bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQKx1cpd9O0

@0:49 and 1:47 is what I'm guessing he means

bridge, solo, whatever. i ain't too good at music theory.

just noticed this tonight, but Jerry Jeff Walker's "Wheel" sounds like it borrows from the standard Last Kiss, but I can't seem to find any reference to Jerry Jeff saying he did so intentionally, but i didn't look very hard

@0:49 and 1:47 is what I'm guessing he means

I don't hear a resemblance to the verse, bridge, or coda melody of "Clocks" in this.

I don't hear a resemblance to the verse, bridge, or coda melody of "Clocks" in this

Listen to the instrumental background at 0:49 and compare that to the opening seconds of "Clocks" (before the vocals come in)

OK, so a descending, sequential arpeggio in eighth-notes (patterns of three). But they're not the same chords.

Buffalo Daughter - "New Rock" sounds quite a bit like Sonic Youth's "Bull In The Heather"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MeIA-Pte6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JGBNkLM9_8