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Belle and Sebastian "We Rule the School" also = Pachebel's Canon
Also on a B&S theme, "Mary Jo" = "A Winter's Tale" by David Essex.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Marshall Tucker Band "Can't You See" = Velvet Underground "Sweet Nuthin'"

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The guitar on the Fall's "Rolling Dany" is the same riff as "Smokin' in the Boys Room"

Also, keeping with This Nation's Saving Grace, Magnetic Fields took the riff from "Paint Work" for "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 4 June 2004 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Kasabian 'LSF' and the theme music to Mopatop's Shop

― peter dee (peter dee), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

I can't keep straight all the threads that are like this (shouldn't there be a tracklink uptop to the recent one?) so if this has been mentioned before forgive me

You Belong to Me sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown
Tokyo Storm Warning really sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 21 January 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the main riffs in "Da Funk" by Daft Punk and "Never Let Me Down Again" by Depeche Mode are fairly similar (that descending thing they both do). Sometimes I'll whistle one then switch to the other.

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

and both songs are the same tempo, with the riffs separated by like a 5th or something between them.

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Razorlight's "Golden Touch" = The Cure "10:15 Saturday Night".

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Friday, 21 January 2005 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Futurama Theme = Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Some song by Athlete that i forget the name of sounds just like some song by Avril Lavigne that i forget the name of. And i forgot what they both sound like.

A little help here?

― dmun, Friday, 21 January 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Love and Rockets - "Mirror People"

starts off in perfect Jesus and Mary Chain style circa Automatic, complete with lyrics:

"I'm so happy with my feet on the ground
So happy my head spins around" and so on, could be about half the songs on that album

At about the 1:25 mark the guitars start to sound just like the the Raveonettes' much later freakout in "Attack of the Ghost Riders"

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the similarity between the basslines of Queen's "Another Bites the Dust" and Chic's "Good Times" too obvious mention? Anyway, that connection was made explicit on Grandmaster Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel", where Flash mixes both of them.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm Like A Bird" by Nelly Retardo vs "I'm In the Mood for Dancing" by I dunno who.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Not sure which came first, but the Clash's "Manicifent Seven" and Man Parrish's "Hip Hop Be Bop" are almost identical.

And they mix really well together too.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Futurama theme - "Young Livers" by Rocket From The Crypt

― MTA?, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's one :

Oasis - 'Cast No Shadow' is a complete rip-off of Moby Grape's 'He'. Just listen to the melody in the verse.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that song "He". Kind of a rip off of Buffalo Springfield dontch think?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

roxus intro riff - "stand back" / van halen "jump"

That one White Stripes song has the same "oh-oh-oh-oh" vocal line as "Middle of the Road" by the Pretenders. That band Gaunt had a song which took a similar vocal line from a Naked Raygun song. Melissa Etheridge's voice sounds like Steve Perry's to me. And the list goes on and on.
-- hstencil (hstenci...), September 9th, 2002.

ha! melissa should sing " oh sherrie" she can sing about loving a girl without changing the lyrics
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"Do Ya" = "Fox on the Run."
-- Jody Beth Rosen (edito...), September 9th, 2002.
do you mean sam fox"do tya wanna please me" ? which part ? bridge?

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

icehouse "love in motion"/david essex "rock on"
mel and kim "showing out)get fresh at the weekend/ chic "le freak"
elton john "sorry seems to be the hardest word"/billy joel"honesty"

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

icehouse "love in motion"/david essex "rock on"
mel and kim "showing out)get fresh at the weekend/ chic "le freak"
elton john "sorry seems to be the hardest word"/billy joel"honesty"

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the middle 8 of happy mondays "wrote for luck / beatles "ticket ride"
the happy mondays"i had to crucify some brother today" sounds like
the beatles i think i'm going away i think it's todaaaaaay yeah"

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Howling Wolf, Spoonful / Captain Beefheart, Gimme Dat Harp Boy
Howling Wolf, Smokestack Lightning / Pentangle, Way Behind the Sun / Kaleidoscope, Beacon From Mars / thousands of others

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love / song on the first Small Faces album that I can't remember

You could do a whole thread on songs Lep Zep ripped off

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

And hey, did anyone notice the resemblances between "Ice Ice Baby" and "Under Pressure"?

-- My name is Kenny (khemunso...), September 9th, 2002.
queen/bowie did but vanilla didn't

― manhattan man, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

foo fighters "monkey wrench"(one in ten) / elton jon "whipping boy"

― manhattan man, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

foo fighters "monkey wrench"(one in ten) / elton jon "whipping boy"

― manhattan man, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Love, Signed DC / Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin
The Beatles, Eleanor Rigby / Love, Robert Montgomery
Tom Jones, It's Not Unusual / Love, Nice to Be
Bob Dylan, Times They Are a-Changin' / Love, Gather Round

The first Love albums full of songs that sound like other songs

The Seeds / The Seeds

All The Seeds's songs sound like all the other Seeds's songs - if that makes any sense.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

"Waiting" by Deana Carter feat. Dwight Yoakam sounds like it got its melody "A Space Oddity."

"Holy Water" by Big and Rich reminds me of Babybird's "You're Gorgeous."

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 20 March 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Nancy Sinatra has a song called "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'" that sounds exactly like "These Boots Were made For Walkin'". Same intro and backing drum beat, same musical structure, and the song is written as Nancy talking to some guy.

― musically (musically), Saturday, 25 March 2006 01:57 (twenty years ago)

The White Stripes "Denial Twist" sounds a lot like Barbra Streisand's "Queen Bee" from the A Star Is Born soundtrack.

Sugababes "Push the Button" has the same melody as "Something Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra.

― They Call the Wind Howchamagowcha (Arthur), Saturday, 25 March 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)

nick lowe - sound of breaking glass
david bowie - sound + vision

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 25 March 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)

jayhawks - stick in the mud
richard & linda thompson - calvary cross

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 25 March 2006 05:53 (twenty years ago)

Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Sonic Youth: 100% (it even has a drum solo!)

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Always thought the guitar in Donovan's "Jersey Thursday" and Nick Drake's "Things Behind The Sun" were very similar.

― tenbuck, Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Sheryl Crow: "All I Wanna Do" = Stealers Wheel "Stuck In The Middle With You"

― Vg (1411), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

T-Rex "Hot Love" = Norman Greenbaum "Spirit in the Sky"

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Phats N Small "Turn Around" = Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You"

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

The first first few lines of Toploader's "Breathe" is identical to Julian Lennon's "Saltwater"

And then the rest of "Breathe" sounds like "Labour of Love" by Hue and Cry.

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

The oi oi oi bit in buffalo soldier = theme tune from banana splits.
goodnight by the beatles = edelweiss
recent-ish coldplay single = cinnamon girl

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

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)

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