Other examples of songs sounding (partially or entirely) like other songs?
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 September 2002 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
*obligatory post about Elastica/Wire connection*
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 September 2002 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 9 September 2002 19:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 20:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Monday, 9 September 2002 20:03 (twenty years ago) link
"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"
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 9 September 2002 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
― lou, Monday, 9 September 2002 21:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:33 (twenty years ago) link
("Girl Like You" was Edwyn Collins, who's not shitty)
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:44 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:01 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:07 (twenty years ago) link
I'm sure there are several other "Sweet Leaf" rip-offs that I can;t think of right now.
― Dave Beckhouse, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
This is Smoke on the Water: Dun dun DUN, dun dun DUN-DUNNThis is Cat Scratch Fever: Dun dun DUN, dun-dun DUN
And hey, did anyone notice the resemblances between "Ice Ice Baby" and "Under Pressure"?
― My name is Kenny, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Charlie, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
You're shitting me. :-)
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:54 (twenty years ago) link
(Sorry. Listening to Sabotage at the moment.)
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
dsico
― dsico (dsico), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
(Not listening to Sab right now.)
― wl, Monday, 9 September 2002 23:31 (twenty years ago) link
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).
― brian (yournullfame), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:43 (twenty years ago) link
― naked as sin, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 00:28 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 03:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Charlie, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 04:03 (twenty years ago) link
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".
― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:34 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:38 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:40 (twenty years ago) link
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:11 (twenty years ago) link
― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 08:23 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:50 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Stephen Burrows (steveeeeeeeee), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:50 (twenty years ago) link
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).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick A., Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Jens (brighter), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― kate, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:47 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
Butthole Surfers' "Human Cannibal" is "The Rose" by Bette Middler. Sing along. "Some say love..."; it's eerie.
I'm blanking right now....
― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:13 (twenty years ago) link
not songs that sound alike and more songs that have a similar vibe (and are maybe in the same key?)
iggy pop - “neighborhood threat”neil young - “southern man”
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 14 November 2022 18:56 (four months ago) link
No one will care about this - but relistening to Use Your Illusion I a few times, I was struck that:
a) the chorus melody of "Bad Apples" faintly reminds of Royal Trux's "Sewers of Mars"; and b) the acoustic opening verse of the next track ("Dead Horse") sounds a LOT like a solo Hagerty jam... right down to Axl's vocal stylings (at least before his voice gets more recognizably Axl-y in the last few lines).
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Monday, 14 November 2022 19:02 (four months ago) link
Some Funkadelic song - on Cosmic Slop? "March to the Witch's Castle"? sounds like Donald Byrd's version of "Cristo Redentor."― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 19, 2020 10:26 AMWhich is probably the original version, written by Duke Pearson.― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 19, 2020 10:28 AM
― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 19, 2020 10:26 AM
Which is probably the original version, written by Duke Pearson.
― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 19, 2020 10:28 AM
feel like 'cristo redentor' owes an awful lot to 'summertime'
but don't we all, i guess
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 November 2022 00:45 (three months ago) link
"curiosity killed the cat" by curiosity killed the cat sounds to me like a slower version of "hip to be square"
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:32 (three months ago) link
The James song "Low Low Low" is playing quietly in the background, and the chords sound extremely similar to R.E.M.'s "Crush With Eyeliner" (released the following year)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:37 (three months ago) link
Klex - lifting (@ 1'25'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKS-F4nU7bA
John Carpenter - assault on precinct 13 (main title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4hc1a7Vio
― meisenfek, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:56 (three months ago) link
Steve Miller Band 'Big Old Jet Airliner' instrumental chord changes was a carbon copy of the very same chord changes from the Velvet Underground's 'What Goes On'. Don't know if it was a conscious thing or not on Miller's part, but it's the entire song.
― Tomb88, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:00 (three months ago) link
paul pena wrote that song!
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 05:40 (three months ago) link
here to say that greenwich & barry definitely lifted portions of jerry butler and curtis mayfield's "he will break your heart" when they were writing "i can hear music"
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 05:42 (three months ago) link
"I Was Neon* by Julia Jacklin sounds quite like "The Sprawl" by Sonic Youth
― bobot, Saturday, 24 December 2022 01:06 (two months ago) link
“Ghost Town” by The Specials has a part that sounds very much like “In Walked Bud” by Thelonious Monk.― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 03:45 (three years ago) link
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 December 2022 08:42 (two months ago) link
The theme music of The Lady Vanishes sounds like “St. James Infirmary.”
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2023 21:01 (two months ago) link
Petula Clark's "Don't Sleep in the Subway" (melody from 0:37 to 0:52 and again from 1:46 to 2:01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ISX9mW78Dw
... sounds awfully like "Focus III" by Focus (melody from 2:02 to 2:19 and again from 4:55 to 5:12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCqDZMqd4XY
― Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 6 January 2023 18:07 (two months ago) link
The Fall - How I Wrote Elastic ManPavement - Folk JamThe Fall - The ClassicalPavement - Elevate Me Later
― CerebralCaustic, Saturday, 7 January 2023 17:54 (two months ago) link
The Focus one is absolutely a quote, but good catch, never noticed that one before even though I have that CD
― Josefa, Saturday, 7 January 2023 18:19 (two months ago) link
Amy Grant - “Baby Baby” and Talking Heads - “This Must Be the Place”
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:40 (two months ago) link
Ooh, good one. I like to do TMBTP in G (G Am Bm G) throughout. The verse of Baby Baby is G Am. I iii.
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:49 (two months ago) link
george michael might've been listening closely to jeff beck's "cause we've ended as lovers" when he wrote "careless whisper"
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 22:47 (two months ago) link
leonard cohen's "bird on the wire" is just this lefty frizell song from '51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEIcV_rZbfQ
― budo jeru, Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:44 (two months ago) link
Old Dominion "Never Be Sorry" and Graham Parker "Get Started, Start a Fire"
...and Santana "Hold On"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:32 (one month ago) link
I'll be damned if Careless Whisper doesn't sound like Jeff Beck's "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" off Blow by Blow.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 23:47 (one month ago) link
ha i am glad we independently arrived there, somehow never noticed it before he died
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 23:56 (one month ago) link
thank you!
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 26 January 2023 00:01 (one month ago) link
This might be the version of the song that George Michael was listening to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKt-zMH8c3c
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 26 January 2023 00:06 (one month ago) link
Ok, that makes it much more obvious.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 26 January 2023 00:09 (one month ago) link
New P!nk sounds like "Dancing On My On" and Body Talk era Robin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2KE2a5qo0g
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 27 January 2023 20:21 (one month ago) link
The theme music of the Fassbinder movie, "Wildwechsel", by Peer Raben is very reminiscent of the end section of "Odessa (City on the Black Sea") by the Bee Gees. Unfortunately you'll just have to take my word for that as the former is not on YouTube!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 January 2023 23:52 (one month ago) link
checking out the au suisse album and the synth riff from "pain & regret" is basically "teardrops" by womack & womack
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:26 (one month ago) link
I've been listening to My Bloody Valentine's mbv album – in the track "New You," one bit of the repeating organ (or whatever) line keeps reminding me of the keyboard part in Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark."
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:10 (one month ago) link
Has it been mentioned that Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby" and U2's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" share more than a little DNA?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 February 2023 01:22 (one month ago) link
there is a disco song that sounds a bit (maybe a lot) like “rollercoaster of love” by ohio players
i forget who it’s by, someone semi obscure like edwin birdsong or labi siffre. it was sampled by idjut boys for their track “corrective surgery”
ring any bells?
― the late great, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 21:32 (one month ago) link
I’m crazy about the “new you” melody, it has some vague shepard tone esque-ness goin on.
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 22:35 (one month ago) link
Wrong thread. doh, please delete mods :)
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 17 February 2023 21:17 (one month ago) link
but if we delete the mods who will mod
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 February 2023 21:28 (one month ago) link
the rockers, obv(I think I make that same joke every time)
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Friday, 17 February 2023 21:37 (one month ago) link
Rocker request
― after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2023 02:02 (one month ago) link
Came to post Away in the MangerThe Streets of Laredo
― after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2023 02:04 (one month ago) link
the theme song for the Nickelodeon cartoon show Doug sounds like the organ/backing vocal melody from Elvis's "I've Got a Thing About You Baby" (originally by Tony Joe White, but his version doesn't have the doo-doo-doos). I'm guessing a handful of boomer parents (and the one '90s kid in the world who had a deep knowledge of Elvis's early '70s country hits) picked up on the resemblance
― astor pizzarolla (unregistered), Monday, 20 February 2023 00:27 (one month ago) link
Nice find!
As a "Doug" who had those doo-doo-doos sung at me enough times to provoke my ire, this will at least give me something to redirect my mind toward when the Doug theme song inevitably pops into my head again.
― peace, man, Monday, 20 February 2023 00:47 (one month ago) link
lol, you have my sympathy there
― astor pizzarolla (unregistered), Monday, 20 February 2023 00:56 (one month ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157743525/todd-rundgren-on-the-song-that-changed-his-life
Todd draws the connection between Louie Louie, More Than A Feeling, & Smells Like Teen Spirit.
― BrianB, Monday, 20 February 2023 13:54 (one month ago) link
Lady Gaga - Speechless, and Westlife - Swear it Again
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 10:57 (three weeks ago) link
In the pub the other day, shuffle transitioned seemlessly from "All Right Now" by Free to "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads and now my world has been turned upside down
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 10:38 (two weeks ago) link
^ never noticed, and can't unhear now.
― bendy, Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:28 (two weeks ago) link
u2’s “vertigo” is basically suede’s “we are the pigs” at 1.5x speed
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 04:29 (one week ago) link
Is the guitar line from Tortoise's 'TNT' meant to be identical to the melody from Fiction Factory's Feels Like Heaven?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJdv2DGu-qc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQBoeBgb0uk
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Thursday, 16 March 2023 16:58 (four days ago) link
LOL i think there's a plausible deniability. But i'm convinced that the main part of 'Bridge at Iguazu Falls' is ripped from 'Encontro' by Projecto III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obLyHq3gbE
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 16 March 2023 17:05 (four days ago) link
"forbidden doors" by tennis sounds like ll cool j's "i need love" (or if you prefer, necro's "i need drugs")
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Friday, 17 March 2023 01:36 (three days ago) link
What are the chances Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran were listening to Animal Collective when they wrote 'I Don't Care'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSGelSCPGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj-0vMrZJbo
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 20 March 2023 12:16 (four hours ago) link