songs that sound like other songs

fievel is glauque would become the biggest band in the world!

My next song's chord progression will be I IV€ vii(dim) ii¤ IX X XI V(sus)

Gawd – it turns out there are still two more pending lawsuits over Sheeran's song, filed by Structured Asset Sales LLC, a firm which owns a portion of the Townsend estate's rights in "Let's Get It On."

I recently picked up Al Stewart's "Time Passages" and the opening of The Palace of Versailles is reminding me of Foxygen's Shuggie
(not the melody so much as the overall vibe... Al Stewart should get in touch with Ed Townsend's legal team)

Helloween's "Forever and One (Neverland)"'s chorus sounds very similar to "Lost in the Darkness" from Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde.

Somehow I spent a significant chunk of my life never having heard "Islands In The Stream". And so for years I thought "Ghetto Supastar" was based on "It Must Have Been Love" by Roxette.

Here's another copyright infringement suit currently being litigated – Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (and Disney) are defending a claim that this Frozen II song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS2hfKN9b7Y

...rips off a 1999 song that a guy uploaded on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7NM8B9B2mY

quite a stretch there

That's just the way it is

Some things will never change

um that song above sounds like Jill Sobule's "I Kissed a Girl"

(the riff, that is)

like the song above is so facelessly generic I'd be wary of suing anybody

The guy says in his complaint that when he saw the movie in the theater, his daughter turned him and said – “Dad, Disney took your song”…

Star witness

what if this could lead to pop songwriters being forced into only using convoluted, lawsuit-safe chord progressions and everyone just gets acclimated to it?!!

― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Thursday, May 4, 2023 3:29 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

My next song's chord progression will be I IV€ vii(dim) ii¤ IX X XI V(sus)

― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, May 4, 2023 4:05 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

fucking bring it on imo, i'm here for this

Honorable Judge Hongro presiding

hey

What if to release a song you had to get government approval like when submitting for a patent

i take your point, just sayin i'd love it if more pop songs were written with unusual chords and progressions.

i'd love it if *most* pop songs were written with unusual chords and progressions, even.

i wouldn't make a federal case out of it tho.

Nah. I think I vi IV V and I V vi IV still have potential for good, even awesome, songcraft.

Taylor Swift recorded "All Too Well" twice and it's still a better and catchier song than anything Frank Zappa ever did, fuiud

ooh you know what, i'll also take pop songs with no chords and pop songs with one static chord the whole way through.

zappa is a low blow

Oh lol Deflatormouse I was in no way calling YOU Geir oh heck no. That was a non-sequitur

Deflatormouse, you say that but in an alphabetical list of famous musicians, Zappa is normally one of the last to be mentioned.

xp oh lol i thought that was directed at me but took it in a playful spirit!

Neil Young - Too Far Gone sounds like The Rolling Stones - "Dead Flowers".

Turning back to the copyright issue – for the interested, Justice Kagan's (blistering) dissent in Warhol v. Goldsmith contains a two-page discussion of copying in music (pp. 28-29); including a long footnote on Dylan, and a block quote from the blog of "songwriter Nick Cave (he of the Bad Seeds)".

I just realized today how much Black Eyed Peas' Where is the Love sounds like Des'ree's Life.

ben harper's "steal my kisses" seems to borrow a lot from william onyeabor's "fantastic man"

"As It Was" by Harry Styles owes a lot to "California" by Delta Spirit

― daavid, Monday, June 20, 2022 1:15 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

And "Late Night Talking" sounds like Robyn's "Keep This Fire Burning"

I heard Miranda Lambert's "Me and Charlie Talking" in a Sporting Goods store

seems like “Shoot to Thrill” has some resemblance to “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

jump into my mouth and breathe the stardust by black moth super rainbow has the same guitar line as there she goes by the la's.

Miranda Lambert's "Safe" and Kurt Vile's "Air Bud"

bob marley's "baby we've got a date" is basically "ring of fire"

King Crimson's "The Sheltering Sky" sounds a lot like Jean-Luc Ponty's "Ethereal Mood."

I heard Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy" on the radio last night, and it reminded me that I always hear it and Clapton's "Let It Rain" melting together in my head.

Same chord changes in the same key. Apparently Clapton played on an early take of the Ringo song around the time he was recording his first solo album. Both obviously owe a lot to George Harrison.

lol yeah, chords for the first part of both are D, Am, C, G, D

I often hear a double-time "It Don't Come Easy" when I play this, also in D although the changes are different.

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

For years I carried around this vague memory of a song I heard in my childhood that has a chorus sort of like Bon Jovi's "Runaway," but with a different second half. Eventually I resigned myself to believing that I must have just been misremembering "Runaway" and my brain had completely made up that other part. Then last week Eddie Rabbitt's "Drivin' My Life Away" came on the radio and I flipped out: that's the song!!

Just came here to post this only to be beaten by LL by over a decade:

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

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, February 8, 2013 1:18 PM (ten years ago)

Das Damen "Spider Birds" and Pavement "Summer Babe"

I've always felt DD were sort of an underappreciated foreshock (or maybe divergent-evolution cousin, to mix metaphors) of '90s indie rock

...oh wow, just learned about this: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/das-damen-announce-first-shows-in-30-years-1986-keeps-me-wild-reissue/

Yes...more on this thread or this one

Cool, thx! I missed the ILM thread

Look Blue Go Purple's 'In Your Favour' is awesome and sounds a lot like R.E.M.'s 'Radio Free Europe':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DwTHbNtIW4