songs that sound like other songs

Nobody did bombast better than Jim Steinman

Lol yeah that Celine Dion song is totally a Meat Loaf song.

Song at 4:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ljHhR8XPA

Sarah Brightman & Steve Harley, "The Phantom of the Opera"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBJNCXL9Vg

just occurred to me that Fugs - "The Garden Is Open" is a "Masters of War" rip

I have had "She Blinded Me With Science" stuck in my head for a while, and it always morphs into "Owner of a Lonely Heart."

The chorus of Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" sounds like it was snipped out of "American Pie"

noticing now that there's a bit of melody in the magnetic fields' "sweet-lovin man" ("there's just one kind of love/you can spend your life dreaming of") that strongly evokes big star's "thirteen" ("rock and roll is here to stay")

"Buildings" by an artist called Not Me But Us sounds like a knockoff of Slowdive's "Prayer Remembered".

"Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms and "The Little Black Egg"

"lightning strikes" by YES sounds like a modernized cover of "wallbanger" by GRYPHON

I heard Dick Emery's 1969 single 'If You Love Her', and the chorus sounds a lot like the 'If You Love Her' part from XTC's Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her

I was listening to "Everything is alright when you're down" Jesus and Mary Chain, and the chorus matches the tune of "The story of my life" Michael Holliday.

Just me then...

It's pretty clear to me now that Daft Punk's Nightvision is absolutely inspired by the instrumental intro to 10cc's I'm Not In Love

can't you see i'm trying, i don't even like it -- disarm the settlers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLuq5cEE6T8

the new drunk drivers! just lied to get to your apartment!

The Supremes "You Keep Me Hanging On" and Grass Roots "A Millions Tears"

As pointed out by Yasi Salek on Bandsplain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7lBq0zuSM

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

I've been getting into Rush lately, and the opening guitar riff from their Caress of Steel album brought to mind another famous album opener.

Rush - Bastille Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80hamog2uks

X - Your Phone's Off the Hook (But You're Not)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWwcl9JbsBo

is it memorex or stereolab?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVShQi7UtxM

Why can't I get just one kiss?
Wht can't I get just one kiss?
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side

Add It Up + Break On Through

I just re-remembered that the Bangles' "Manic Monday" is Prince re-using "1999" for the verses.

just like Sussudio.

Hell, I feel like "pop songs that sound like a intentional remix of a Prince song" could be its own thread.

like how many millions of songs copy chuck berry?

Uh....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3qXfF7hqE

Sharon Van Etten - “Don’t Do It”
Cranberries - “Linger”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaPF5O9RwWA

seems obvious 'man in a box' by alice in chains was a str8 rip of this melody right ? or is there some common antecedent 'hall of the mountain king' style

The verses of "Longing For Fire" on Scorpions' In Trance from 1975 have a number of similarities to "Fly By Night" from Rush's Fly By Night, released seven months earlier:

- guitar riff using the same syncopation
- very busy melodic bassline, completely atypical for Scorpions but very much like early Geddy Lee
- lyrics that conspicuously mention "flying" and "night"

I thought they were both on Mercury Records at the time, but Scorpions would not sign with them until 1978.

It's taken me so long to realise Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" is basically a tribute to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"

It was pointed out even at the time, but I didn't appreciate until recently how Rachel Stevens' "Some Girls" is essentially a crib of Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine", but with weaker production and a less charismatic delivery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIYgig9maY

Hearteningly the Goldfrapp song has millions of views on YouTube versus merely tens of thousands for "Some Girls". Rachel Stevens was only relevant in a brief temporal window and only in the UK whereas Goldfrapp transcends time and space. Whatever happened to Richard X? He was the Ilxor generation's Mark Ronson.

This all came about from a thread on RYM about the John Lee Hooker "Boogie Chillun" riff. The Goldfrapp song has a little bit of it, "Some Girls" almost none at all.

I'm sure there were Strict Machine/Rachel Stevens mashups floating about in the good old 2000s but it was possibly Sweet Dreams My LAX, rather than Some Girls, even though that would seem more similar!

Speaking of Goldfrapp, Kylie Minogue was definitely inspired by them when she recorded "Two Hearts". Even the video has the same esthetic as "Ooh La La".

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

I remembered it was a Kish Mauve song first, so looked it up to check, and on the Wikipedia article there is a quote from Tom Ewing comparing it to Goldfrapp (among others), ha

the chorus of freez's "southern freez" quotes the opening notes of coltrane's "giant steps"

We finally went to see Hamilton a couple weeks ago and I feel it necessary to report that almost ALL the Hamilton songs sound like other songs - which, I mean, smart move?

Pere Ubu's "Waiting for Mary" and the Velvet Underground's "Lady Godiva's Operation"

^^ And the Stones' "Gomper" has that riff also

“Lust for Life” drums are a slowed down version of those on “Touch Me”

Music doesn’t otherwise sound similar but still

Never occurred to me before, despite Iggy’s acknowledged debt to Jimbo.

not to mention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsZa3diYZg

!

There's a moment about 25 seconds into this (and then again a few times throughout) that sound just like For You Blue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlLlwVk9eI

Some pretty intensive Talking Heads cosplay from Martha & The Muffins (in 1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrXQ31dGlB8

I know their previous three and their next two albums, but not this one, though the video for the title track is one of my favourites. Their shift into dance-oriented rock was somewhat at the expense of their strong melodic sensibilities, but basically hip Toronto bands had to sound like this in 1983 - the alt-country revival movement hadn't taken hold yet.

Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party" and Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone"

I was gonna say the second half of Sabbath's Symptom of the Universe and PWEI's Familus Horribilus until I learnt the former is a sample on the latter

I can't listen to 'Doctrine' from Autechre's debut album without getting 'If we ever get out of here' bit of Wings - Band On The Run stuck in my head

Dome Patrol - The Cutting Edge
Chumbawamba - Rappaport’s Testament: I Never Gave Up

The Smithereens "I Don't Want To Lose You" guitar coda sounds like replicates the solo on the Byrds "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better".

kind of a niche case but prince's solo on the 1982 rehearsal version of "i would die 4 u" reminds me of the solo on "hurdy gurdy man", paul leary's moreso than the guitarist on donovan's version (who i guess may or may not be jimmmy page)

When you think about it, every guitar player may or may not be Jimmy Page.