Other examples of songs sounding (partially or entirely) like other songs?
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 September 2002 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
*obligatory post about Elastica/Wire connection*
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 September 2002 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 9 September 2002 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Monday, 9 September 2002 20:03 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 9 September 2002 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― lou, Monday, 9 September 2002 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
("Girl Like You" was Edwyn Collins, who's not shitty)
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:01 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Charlie, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
You're shitting me. :-)
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
(Sorry. Listening to Sabotage at the moment.)
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
dsico
― dsico (dsico), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
(Not listening to Sab right now.)
― wl, Monday, 9 September 2002 23:31 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― naked as sin, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Charlie, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 04:03 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leee, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:06 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick A., Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jens (brighter), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:49 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:50 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
The resemblance of the chorus of Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" to part of the guitar solo in "Sympathy for the Devil" has always annoyed me greatly.
― ma dmac's fury road (PBKR), Saturday, December 11, 2021 9:13 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh snap
never noticed this before but it's clear as day
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 27 December 2021 18:54 (four months ago) link
Dierks Bentley's "Drunk on a Plane" sounds a lot like countrified New Radicals "You Get What You Give"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Monday, 3 January 2022 19:56 (four months ago) link
Rewatched Michael Mann's "Thief," and it ends with this track by someone named Craig Safan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-cDz6FW62E
1981 movie, moody scene, could it be more obvious that Mann must have given him "Comfortably Numb" as a temp track suggestion?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 January 2022 03:41 (four months ago) link
when I first watched that with my girlfriend I actually thought it was a synth version of Comfortably Numb, and didn't realize until after it was supposed to be a diff song
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 January 2022 03:49 (four months ago) link
I saw Thief recently, and I guess I assumed that this was Tangerine Dream doing a Floyd pastiche (not for the first time).
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 8 January 2022 15:59 (four months ago) link
Moon Taxi "Hometown Heroes" sounds like "Team" by Lorde.
― TruthFairy, Sunday, 6 February 2022 00:06 (three months ago) link
The first line of Darlings by Susanne Sundfør sounds exactly like the first line of Razzle Dazzle Rose by Camera Obscura.
― ledge, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 08:50 (three months ago) link
Guitar solo in Big Log sounds like the melody from Happy Together.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 13:05 (three months ago) link
― kinder, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 16:25 (three months ago) link
the intro riff from slayer's "seasons in the abyss" sounds like "mo bamba"
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Monday, 14 February 2022 20:56 (three months ago) link
close your eyeslook deep in your soulI got hoeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssscalling a young ******'s phone
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 February 2022 21:20 (three months ago) link
Deftones 'Be Quiet And Drive' sounds like 'Monitor' by Siouxie And The Banshees.
― mirostones, Monday, 14 February 2022 21:56 (three months ago) link
Parts of Robert Wyatt's "Heaps of Sheeps" sound a lot like Blondie's "Heart of Glass"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 16:50 (three months ago) link
I also hear a bit of "Shame, Shame, Shame" by Shirley & Company in there
― Josefa, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 17:36 (three months ago) link
gaelle - repetitionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RxOTsUyKtkjanet - emptyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9rIjjGmJhM
― Spottie, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 18:09 (three months ago) link
pointer sisters - "slow hand"todd rundgren - "real man"
― aegis philbin (crüt), Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:56 (two months ago) link
I watched this Slow Hand video, so now it's your turn too: https://vimeo.com/300406625
― pplains, Monday, 21 February 2022 02:31 (two months ago) link
New Riders of the Purple Sage's "Kick in the Head" sounds like "Polythene Pam". Like, a lot.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:58 (two months ago) link
Haha, damn.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 February 2022 15:21 (two months ago) link
Not exact match, but LCD Soundsystem's "Someone Great" sounds a bit like New Order's "The Village".
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 23:41 (two months ago) link
also not exact but the beginning of Lady with the Spinning Head (UV1) by U2 sounds like Everyday Should Be A Holiday by the Dandy Warhols
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 02:23 (two months ago) link
Animal Collective - Prester John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5iJ9wt4paY
Eloy - Horizons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ocq15y7ajw
― obvious, Saturday, 19 March 2022 01:33 (two months ago) link
The basslines for "Sittin on the Dock of the Bay" and "Have You Seen the Rain" are similar no?? For decades now I'd think there was some other version of Dock that I'd heard before the real one, cause my brain was finishing the pattern in a different way then the song actually goes. Eventually I thought nah it must instead be a deja vú type self-recursion false memory. But I've heard both songs in the past week (which prob has never occurred) and pretty sure that's the link my brain was making all these years.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 24 March 2022 08:03 (one month ago) link
Violent Femmes, "Blister in the Sun"
The Shadows, "Little 'B'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1GcHOJGGvo
― Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2022 10:27 (one month ago) link
... a track which renders Ginger Baker's entire career pointless.
― Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2022 10:28 (one month ago) link
Only recently found out that the reason Men in Black and Fastlove sound fairly similar is that they both sample Patrice Rushen's Forget Me Nots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMHsNhQBvI
― groovypanda, Thursday, 24 March 2022 11:00 (one month ago) link
I may be the last one to know about this intro getting lifted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqp2h65BAs8
― pplains, Thursday, 24 March 2022 17:31 (one month ago) link
Has this one been done before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsMdy91B5CA
...sounds like "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
― Josefa, Thursday, 24 March 2022 17:48 (one month ago) link
Lou Reed's Charley's Girl sounds like John Lennon's Bring on the Lucie
― ewoods, Sunday, April 3, 2016 11:06 AM (five years ago)
I don't know that Lennon song – but I realized today that "Charley's Girl" kinda sounds like "Franklin's Tower" by the Grateful Dead
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Thursday, 31 March 2022 18:29 (one month ago) link
The Primitives - Lead Me Astray (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhUaNYwLi88
Even As We Speak - Falling Down the Stairs (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGmuHgmcyc
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Friday, 1 April 2022 02:42 (one month ago) link
This may be a stretch – but the Lou Reed song "Ennui" (from Sally Can't Dance) may sort of be a distant cousin to "Like a Rolling Stone"?
― ass time permits (morrisp), Monday, 4 April 2022 23:36 (one month ago) link
Interesting suggestion! "Like a Rolling Stone" was originally done in waltz-time as well, "Ennui" might well have been vaguely inspired by it structurally and harmonically.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 00:34 (one month ago) link
Lou Reed's Charley's Girl sounds like John Lennon's Bring on the Lucie― ewoods, Sunday, April 3, 2016 11:06 AM (five years ago)I don't know that Lennon song – but I realized today that "Charley's Girl" kinda sounds like "Franklin's Tower" by the Grateful Dead― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Thursday, March 31, 2022 6:29 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't know that Lennon song – but I realized today that "Charley's Girl" kinda sounds like "Franklin's Tower" by the Grateful Dead― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Thursday, March 31, 2022 6:29 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
There's a whole thread about that chord progression, but none of those songs were mentioned:
Songs with the Baba O'Riley Chord Progression
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 00:38 (one month ago) link
...although "Franklin's Tower" might just be a I - IV progression.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 00:39 (one month ago) link
Oh, cool – I didn't realize that was the "Baba O'Riley Chord Progression."
― ass time permits (morrisp), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 00:59 (one month ago) link
i always think of it as the "you ain't seen nothing yet" progression
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 03:08 (one month ago) link
"Charley's Girl" kinda sounds like "Franklin's Tower"
... and both were arguably rewrites of "Walk On the Wild Side".
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 19:08 (one month ago) link
Holly came from Miami F-l-aIf you get confused, listen to the music play
― ass time permits (morrisp), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 19:21 (one month ago) link
Holy shit!:
The main riff of "Franklin's Tower" was partly inspired by the chorus of Lou Reed's 1973 hit "Walk on the Wild Side."[6][6]Browne, David (26 April 2016). "So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead". Da Capo Press – via Google Books.
― ass time permits (morrisp), Saturday, 9 April 2022 03:09 (one month ago) link
Strings in Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat" sound a lot like Peter Murphy's "Cuts You Up"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 16 April 2022 14:56 (one month ago) link
Yes, and both songs revolve around a IV - V - vi progression.
"Low Season" by Bob Mould takes its verse melody and chord progression from "Rocket Man".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 16 April 2022 15:18 (one month ago) link
the teenagers “why do fools fall in love”the teenagers “who can explain”
― k3vin k., Saturday, 16 April 2022 15:19 (one month ago) link
Brian Jonestown Massacre, Take It from the Man!
Straight Up and Down - Waiting for the Man + vocal melody from For What It's Worth (e.g., "what a field day for the heat")
Monkey Puzzle - everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey (in vox at beginning) + the chorus vocals of Nirvana's About a Girl (e.g., "I can't see you every night, free")
Mary Please - Hey Joe
Caress - The Last Time
Who? is a kinks song, i think? i can't put my finger on that one, maybe someone can help.
david bowie i love you since i was six - space oddity
just about every song reminds me more than a little of somethin
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 16 April 2022 19:36 (one month ago) link
monkey puzzle also has the cowbell from the beatles song
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 16 April 2022 19:38 (one month ago) link
"The Wild Wild West" TV series Main Theme"Happy Jack" by The Who
Both repeat the same two-note bass line leading into similar guitar figures.
― Tubesocks Secure (punning display), Saturday, 16 April 2022 21:02 (one month ago) link
Today I heard a song in the wild that was new to me (I had to Shazam it): "Why Do I Lie?" by Luscious Jackson. I kept thinking what does this song remind me of. Finally I realized the answer was "Fantasy" by Earth, Wind & Fire.
Youtube commenters are calling it out too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysqeyKiDlA
― Josefa, Monday, 18 April 2022 20:12 (one month ago) link
“Garden Party” sounds like “If You Gotta Go, Go Now.”
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:53 (three weeks ago) link
The Stone Canyon Band covered the latter and there is even a Dylan quote in the former, but I never noticed this until today.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:55 (three weeks ago) link
listening to "Trash" by Suede yesterday, i noticed a similarity to Morrissey's "First Of The Gang To Die"
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Friday, 29 April 2022 14:35 (two weeks ago) link
Status Quo, "Pictures of Matchstick Men"?
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Friday, 29 April 2022 19:20 (two weeks ago) link