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....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN9ppIP7Sg8

"You're best I ever had" vs. "Winter is the best time of them all". Busted Neil.

Holy shit it's "Blue Monday"!

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

I seem to remember he got sued for that

Bobby Orlando could be extremely shameless sometimes. There was also that total B-52's rip-off that he did, Barbi and the Kens.

in the second appearance of lionel ritchie's "stuck on you" on this thread, clapton straight up steals the guitar riff for "wonderful tonight"! savage

Fleetwood Mac, "Bright Fire"
Pink Floyd, "Brain Damage"

both released in March 1973

in apple+f'ing to make sure it wasn't mentioned already, i ran across this

for some reason i can't use cmd+F find in this thread, at least when i load all messages, so i'm not sure if this has been pointed out previously:

pink floyd - brain damage (i.e., "if you find the band you're in starts playing different tunes...")
leonard cohen - death of a ladies' man

― Karl Malone, Thursday, January 12, 2017 10:30 PM (four years ago)

forgot about that! so obviously a 3-song sequence in a mixtape needs to be bright fire --> brain damage --> death of a ladies' man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcY3FH208l8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjpF8ukSrvk

Actually that's a really good one!

Is that Jeffrey Tambor? Good catch on the PF, that would've driven me mad.
Couldn't work out what the start sounds exactly like, then realised it's..... Eric Clapton. Which then made me link the intros to Wonderful Tonight and David Bowie - Underground (from Labyrinth).

today’s p4k review of genesis’ duke claims that “misunderstanding” sounds like toto’s “hold the line,” and it does a little, but it’s basically a conscious rip off of the bridge from “hot fun in the summertime,” isn’t it?

Definitely Tambor. And that’s presumably Leland Sklar playing bass, though according to Wikipedia it’s Pino Palladino on the actual track. TS: uber session musician bass players...

Pretty sure both are in this great thread:

The Ubiquitous HIred Gun Session Veteran Shout-Out Thread

I think my brain has subconsciously been trying to figure out the "Roundabout"/"Celebrate" connection my whole life. The mash-up works really well!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2cat4kykzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKFn66dzdz0

it's 30-40 bmp faster but it's undoubtedly a steal.

Was listening to this Animals b-side from 1966 and thought, hey this is kinda like "Breakdown" by Tom Petty, especially the bit at 0:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDX6oSe8hDk

Bang on with Haircut 100/ I Zimbra btw.

the Psychedelic Furs/Electronic comparison upthread reminded me of Ric Ocasek half-inching Into You Like A Train for Jimmy Jimmy, which is if anything even more blatant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr1R1xsHq8Q

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

That Cars' song is, er, not much of a song, is it?

I love Jimmy Jimmmy, the Cars/Ocasek in that moody, synthy mode is one of my favourite things, I can imagine that the Psychedelic Furs feeling a little indignant though

The vocal melodies are very similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1UU_c0_gr0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svitEEpI07E

that's a good one

speaking of genesis, "behind the lines" and the course/character selection music from mario kart 8 have been mashing up in my brain lol. really, they just share a three-chord synth fanfare, not much else

LeRooLeRoo, brace yourself for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N21472M8p9E

Also Genesis - I’m perhaps just momentarily convinced that if you remove the bangin drum drive of Turn it on Again, and make the synths a bit goopier, you end up with Steve Winwood’s Valerie.

Never heard that REM song, but apparently they gave Cohen writing credits cause they recognised the similarities.

Another one for the "Suzanne" pile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iHUjCR497w

I was on a Donna Summer kick recently and noticed a couple of things that Prince did too

The melody of On the Radio verse is Money don’t matter 2nite

When I heard Fairy Tale High from Once upon a Time, I thought that’s Paisley Park sped up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7pjyjaklbg

gorky's zygotic mynci's "mewn" employs a chord change which makes me think it'll morph into outkast's "spread" at any moment

main riff in X "Drunk In My Past" sure sounds like Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix "Octopus"

Just noticed that a few fleeting bits of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" come really close to Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle."

Wow

Listening to The Minutemen's "3 Way Tie for Last" it again occurred to me again how much the tune "No One" sounds like Jane's Addictions "Pigs in Zen" even the guitar solo part.

the youtube premiere countdown theme ('Space Walk' by Silent Partner) is a ripoff of Beach House's Space Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LExKshD32vg

LEMME GO WIIIIIIIIIIIIILD

actually that's not the part it sounds like, should have said

When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out

btw it's "Let me go on"

Was just listening to "Mary, Mary So Contrary" by Can and I found it very amusing to imagine it sung by Anthony Kiedis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8MlhzDHuWI

otm i always thought 'Give It Away' was an intentional Malcolm Mooney homage

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

Believe
All i wanna do is make love to you

I've long been tickled by the fact that "El Bimbo" by Bimbo Jet (1975) sounds in an oblique way like "Atomic" by Blondie (1979). Once I was playing the "El Bimbo" 45 and someone asked me if it was some strange cover version of "Atomic."

ooh, it’s *that* track! remember it from the radio, think some deejay here used it as theme music for their show - and yes, you’re right, it does!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGs6PBgeook
(the Spanish emcee’ing is not part of the (original) recording)

hearing it now seems more than likely that it was a conscious source of inspiration, without “Atomic” being in any way plagiaristic.

it never registered with me att that “El Bimbo” was this big worldwide - apparently it missed the top 30/40 over here two years in a row - and I had no idea about its afterlife:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimbo_Jet

(relevant to the Blondie angle: ”The record reached #1 in the Billboard Disco Singles, #2 in the Hot Dance Club Play and #43 in the Hot 100 charts in the U.S.”)

I’m only now realising that it probably also inspired the sound of a 1977 Dutch pop disco classic that I adore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7oelWcsdK4
Patricia Paay • Who’s That Lady With My Man

(fun fact: this lady would later marry Adam Curry of one-time MTV fame - they were one of the big Dutch celebrity couples of the time)

That "El Bimbo" video is what I call pure entertainment!

I'd never heard the Patricia Paay one - funny and very European sounding,

the Spanish emcee’ing is not part of the (original) recording)

On my 45 one side has a version w/o the emcee but the other side has the "Disco Version" that does feature that emcee!

My daughters have lately taken to doing some sort of mashup of Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" and "Good Morning Baltimore" from the Hairspray musical. Their choruses are interchangeable.

I’ve finally bumped into the song that the “out of touch” verses reminded me of. It was “Tonada Yanomaminista” by Devendra Banhart.

someone on twitter mentioned that the get smart theme is incredibly similar to robert plant's howl from "immigrant song"

My head keeps mashing up "Yellow" and "Linger."