songs that sound like other songs

*obligatory post about Elastica/Wire connection*

"Last" by Nine Inch Nails (on the BROKEN e.p.) recalls Queen's "Fight from the Inside" (down to a stolen riff). Trent's a big Queen fan, allegedly.

The first note of Cheap Trick's "Stop This Game" (on ALL SHOOK UP) is a slow fade-in that is purportedly the last note of SGT.PEPPER's.

The Sex Pistols' "Holidays in the Sun" ripped off The Jam's "In the City"

("Girl Like You" was Edwyn Collins, who's not shitty)

I hear a slight resemblance between the choruses of "Heaven is a Place on Earth" and Starz's "So Young, So Bad." Maybe it's just the chord changes.

I'm sure there are several other "Sweet Leaf" rip-offs that I can;t think of right now.

This is Smoke on the Water: Dun dun DUN, dun dun DUN-DUNN
This is Cat Scratch Fever: Dun dun DUN, dun-dun DUN

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

You're shitting me. :-)

(Sorry. Listening to Sabotage at the moment.)

dsico

(Not listening to Sab right now.)

more terribly, the offspring's "get a job" and "o bla di o bla da" by the beatles have very similar choruses (try singing one over the other sometime, it's horrifying).

Furthermore, for the record: an obvious choice, perhaps, but Pulp's "A Little Soul" and Smokey R. and the M.'s "The Tracks of My Tears".

Other than that, the similarity of the intro to Cast's "Fine Time" and Guns'n'Roses "Paradise City" could be pretty confusing at indie discos in the mid-ninties, just when you're ready to blow the whistle and rock out with Axl, Izzy and Slash you get, "What's it all about? Do you really want to know..."

Shit.

I'm sure that's no accident, given Rick Rubin's appreciation for old school metal.

The Manic Street Preachers' "If You Tolerate This Than Your Children Will Be Next" was alleged to have ripped off the Stranglers' "Duchess," but I find that a bit of a stretch.....and I'm a much bigger fan of the Stranglers than I'll ever be of the Manics.

Then, of course, Nirvana stole the riff from Killing Joke's "Eighties" for "Come as You Are." Little known fact is that my beloved Killing Joke stole that very same riff from the Damned's "Life Goes On" (on the STRAWBERRIES album).

Big Black's "L Dopa" off SONGS ABOUT FUCKING is virtually indistiguishable from Killing Joke's "the Wait".

The Germs' "No God" ripps the opening riff off of Yes' "Roundabout," but that's more willfull desecration rather than theft (despite the fact that guitarist Pat Smear is an unapologetic Yes fan).

Oh, and dancing at Mother to retro-ironic white trash trailer rock last night, I realised that there's a Sloan song which is Foghat's Slow Ride down to a T, but I can't remember which one it is.

Butthole Surfers' "Human Cannibal" is "The Rose" by Bette Middler. Sing along. "Some say love..."; it's eerie.

I'm blanking right now....

Brownstone - If You Love Me
=
Plaid - Manyme

Camila Cabello - "Cry for Me" and The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "All Along the Watchtower"

On Pavement's "Carrot Rope" (1999) Malkmus sings this little melodic lick on the chorus that goes "explaining that you are worthwhile" that sounds like a direct cop of:

Lilys - "Year Of The Monkey", the part that Kurt sings "I could always look a hypocrite baby... Pay no mind".

Although this could be me exposing my rather embarrassing Beatles/Lennon blind spot... sounds like it could be a Rubber Soul/Revolver nick.

Lilys song is from 1994.

also it's the Carrot Rope PRE-chorus...

Thin Lizzy - Waiting for an Alibi
Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl

Only just this week realized that Talk by Coldplay seemed so familiar somehow because I did already know it as Computer Love by Kraftwerk.

dababy - intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce1lTmRtIkM
rick ross - apple of my eye ft raphael saadiq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAThXmJF1ac

https://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/track/runaway

Sounds a lot like Love Will Tear Us Apart

that's a good one, spottie

that apple of my eye beat really a whole different class than the dababy one.

The main melodic line of King Crimson's "Talk to the Wind" is a rip-off of Michelle by the Beatles.

that apple of my eye beat really a whole different class than the dababy one.

― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, November 1, 2019 1:37 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

fun fact friday, the guy who produced that beat currently plays for the cleveland browns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Thomas

the intros of R.E.M.'s "Find the River" and Nick Drake's "Northern Sky"

i'm sure people have noted the similarities between the dukes of stratosphear's 'vanishing girl' and 'the lion sleeps tonight,' but today i was also struck by the fact that the chorus melody bears striking similarity to 'seeing other people' by belle & sebastian

surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet:

Gene Clark's "Strength of Strings" is very, very similar to Neil Young's "Words"

Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW66keO8Iew

Belle and Sebastian - Sleep the Clock Around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mB8V9Lz7u0

Pretenders - I'll Stand By You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAyfcO-X3k

Bonnie Tyler - It's a Heartache

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOy7TPjfkE

Tom Waits' "Fish & Bird" practically quotes the melody of "Somewhere" from West Side Story (the "There's a place for us" part), which Waits had also recorded earlier.

Randy Rhoads' solo on Quiet Riot's "Slick Black Cadillac" is just the intro to "Love -> Building On Fire"!

Sister riffs: Rolling Stones, "It Must Be Hell" / Michael Jackson, "Black or White"

the theme music for the cartoon series Extreme Dinosaurs sounds like 'All She Wants to Do Is Dance' by extreme classic rock dinosaur Don Henley

Godflesh "Mothra" and Helmet "Rude" are at least similar enough to turn into a medley in my head

Christmas song 'In Dulci Jubilo' (Mike Oldfield's version) sounds like the children's nursery rhyme 'One Finger, One Thumb, Keep Moving'

DARE by the Gorillaz is just Fantasy by Mariah Carey slowed down
the chorus of Stupid horse sounds really similar to the theme tune of What's new, Scooby doo?
i dont remember what made me think this, but i feel like Never had the balls by Rex Orange County and Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush could mix real easy

DARE by the Gorillaz is just Fantasy by Mariah Carey slowed down

Can you spell this out? I'm not getting it

The chorus of CCR's "Wrote a Song for Everyone" closely echoes the chorus of "The Weight" in both melody and lyrical structure. So closely that I thought it must be commonly recognized, but I couldn't find any reference to it.

Wrote a song for everyone,
Wrote a song for truth.
Wrote a song for everyone
And I couldn't even talk to you.

Take a load off, Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off, Fanny
And you put the load right on me

Well spotted. I love "Wrote a Song for Everyone" and hate "The Weight" though.

Tortoise - the Suspension Bridge at Iguazu Falls = Projecto III - Encontro

When "Funny Little Frog" by Belle & Sebastian starts I think it's gonna be a version of "Temptation Eyes" by the Grass Roots (other people hear "Death on Two Legs" by Queen)

^Totally

Brian Eno, "The Big Ship"
John Cale & Brian Eno, "Spinning Away"

wow! that's a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSuNycB1KA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-hQK_RcSjc

any number of awesome slowdive jams, especially on side 2 of pygmalion, are pretty much "the eternal" (joy division)

Songs That Sound The Same video series

Fiery Furnaces - Gale Blow (2003)
Lykke Li - Dance, Dance, Dance (2008)

Update on a case discussed at length above (by me): https://variety.com/2020/music/news/katy-perry-dark-horse-reversal-1203537482/

It must have been commented on before but "Sunday Morning" and "Femme Fatale" are the same song from a chord sequence perspective - yes it's true Lou throws in a couple of major sevenths in the verse of the latter, but if you play in the same key they're otherwise exactly the same.

I think there’s one extra minor chord in Sunday morning, but yes, they’re remarkably similar

They both use a bVII as a dominant prep chord in the chorus. The verses are a little different.

Sunday Morning:
I - IV - I - IV
I - vi - V/V - V

Femme Fatale:
I - IV - I - IV
I - IV - ii - V

Sunday Morning chorus:
I - IV - I - IV
ii - ii - bVII - V

Femme Fatale chorus:
I - IV - I - IV
I - IV - ii - ii - bVII - V

So, yeah, they both use that ii-bVII-V for the last cadence.

Both with two measures on the ii chord.

Yeah, don't really know what any of that means tbh. I was trying to play them on piano today - by memory, in my own hamfisted way. I don't believe there is an extra minor in "Sunday Morning" though. Also, while we're talking Velvets, am I completely insane or does the D minor in the verse of "I'm Set Free" become a D major in the chorus and, if so, why does nobody play it that way?

It would make sense because the verse is wistful and melancholic and the chorus is hopeful and uplifting.

... I mean, the "I'm set free to find a new illusion" bit, in case of confusion.

yeah my bad, there's not an extra minor in the sunday morning verse, but as tim points out, it goes to the vi not the ii

Yes on the D major in the "I'm Set Free" chorus. That's a V/V chord, too (like the chord they go to on "It's nothing at ALL" in the "Sunday Morning" chorus).

böc's 'shooting shark' was a prophet foretelling the birth of pink floyd's 'sorrow'