Lou Stathis pointed out that Magazine's "Model Worker" sounds like it's based on the riff from The Capitols' "Cool Jerk".
― Paul, Friday, 25 September 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
I've been getting loads of these lately. Some of them are really tenuous. Like this one. I might be imagining it but does:
dEUS - Little Arithmeticshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I
share harmonic shades with Material Girl?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSUOFgj97M
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Friday, 9 October 2015 09:18 (eight years ago) link
And speaking of Madonna, here's a triple chain:
Years & Years - Kinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_uoH6hJilc
which sounds like Hot Chip - I Feel Betterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I
which sounds like La Isla Bonitahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqIIW7nxBgc
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Friday, 9 October 2015 09:20 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/rupanbaltv/videos/1053778951299775/
This gets shared a lot on facebook, but parts of it sound remarkably like Hey Mickey by Toni Basil. Anyone know which came first?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
There's some terrible new radio song that sounds A LOT like Hungry Like The Wolf.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, 20 December 2015 05:51 (eight years ago) link
there's a synth in Orbital's 'Adnan' that sounds strangely similar to the one used on the verses on Irene Cara's 'Fame'. you can hear it particularly well right at the end of Adnans
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Sunday, 20 December 2015 11:19 (eight years ago) link
Dyna-mite by Mud - Peek-a-Boo! by Devo
― soref, Sunday, 20 December 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
Grimes' Flesh Without Blood reminds me strangely of Anytime by My Morning Jacket
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Sunday, 20 December 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
oh apparently they gave duran duran a writing credit:http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6738294/5-seconds-of-summer-sounds-good-feels-good-album-review
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 21 December 2015 02:58 (eight years ago) link
Mentors "Peeping Tom" is eerily similar to Quiet Riot's "Look In Any Window". Mentors have a better chorus riff though.
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 02:58 (eight years ago) link
Holy shit, Van's "Almost Independence Day" starts out exactly like "Wish You Were Here"!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
for years Take That's 'Let It Shine' has bugged me. Yes it's a thinly-veiled homage to ELO in spirit, but what specific song does it sound like?
and tonight it hit me - it's Stephen Malkkus' 'Jenny & the Ess Dog'
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 4 January 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
The Travelling Wilburys' Handle With Care is heavily lifted from Curved Air's Desiree. Check out the intro!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHovpHCvT_I
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 01:31 (eight years ago) link
My sweet lord, that's a rip-off.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
I've always been fascinated that Belle & Sebastian's "Family Tree" straight up lifts its melody from Madleen Kane's / Giorgio Moroder's "The Lonely One", yet there's no mention of it in the credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpXOOnRU6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOXgH3vprc
― DanielGr, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
Laid by James is a very cleverly disguised cover of La Bamba
― canoon fooder (dog latin), viernes 25 de septiembre de 2015 18:22 (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd say Twist and Shout rather than La Bamba but yeah I can hear it too.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 08:48 (eight years ago) link
whaaat that wilbury's source is spot on - could it be coincidence?
― niels, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 11:48 (eight years ago) link
"I Wonder" by The Gants sounds like "In My Life."
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 January 2016 11:26 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOGPDAFTLQY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8oHHGxrNus
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 11:56 (eight years ago) link
'Together Again' by Janet Jackson came on the radio just now. Apparently I'm not the first person to notice the similarity with the Bridge stage on Sonic the Hedgehog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlMxnhJ3uvk
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 09:15 (eight years ago) link
Learned via intranetz the other day about the similarity between "Another GIrl, Another Planet" by The Only Ones and "The Cowboy Song" by Thin Lizzy.
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 11:40 (eight years ago) link
This is a fun one basically because the artists are so different. The breakdown in "I'm a Cholo" by the Dickies sounds like Treehouse by Arthur Russell.
https://youtu.be/sterLDzYyf0?t=111https://youtu.be/hZJ9MnXVwaA?t=441
― everything, Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
"Take You There" by Weyes Blood sounds a lot like "Starsailor" by Tim Buckley, in the best way.
― ewoods, Friday, 25 March 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, March 23, 2016 6:40 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well that explains my endless love for both songs
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 25 March 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Throbbing Gristle, "What a Day"Nine Inch Nails, "The Big Come Down"
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 March 2016 10:32 (eight years ago) link
Lou Reed's Charley's Girl sounds like John Lennon's Bring on the Lucie
― ewoods, Sunday, 3 April 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
TLPD - love puppetshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7k-8fL4wQ&t=5m19s
SPCZ - jihhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PhTCYbqpkM
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 11:02 (eight years ago) link
TImmy Thomas' What Can I Tell Her steals the main melody from Rainy Days and Mondays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km3q3UuLTqk
(1 min 17)
― Just can't get Eno, ugh (ledge), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:19 (eight years ago) link
Journey - Don't Stop BelievingCourtney Barnett - Depreston
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link
^ Don't really hear that one
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
no? The vocal melodies are really similar to me.
Compare:
'a singer in a smokey room / the smell of wine and sweet perfume'
'and it's going cheap you say / well it's a deceased estate'
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
yeah i guess i hear it there, but I don't really hear that in other parts of the melody.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
This is obviously a straight up cover, but never credited as such:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsWyYzGn8FA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIfCEnJavrk
― Josefa, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
"33" by Smashing Pumpkins sounds exactly like that old disco hit "Doctor's Orders." You can pretty much sing the lyrics of the latter over the melody of the former.
Also, Coldplay totally ripped off the melody for "Clocks" off of the bridge of an old Northern Soul song called "You've Got Your Mind on Other Things" (can't remember the name of the artist).
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
the s/t Ultimate Painting album so obviously rips off songs that i think it must have been intentional. particularly the vaselines
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
Mr. Snrub, where? I don't hear that the song has a bridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQKx1cpd9O0
― timellison, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 23:44 (eight years ago) link
@0:49 and 1:47 is what I'm guessing he means
― Josefa, Thursday, 14 April 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
bridge, solo, whatever. i ain't too good at music theory.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 14 April 2016 01:07 (eight years ago) link
just noticed this tonight, but Jerry Jeff Walker's "Wheel" sounds like it borrows from the standard Last Kiss, but I can't seem to find any reference to Jerry Jeff saying he did so intentionally, but i didn't look very hard
― kruezer2, Thursday, 14 April 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link
I don't hear a resemblance to the verse, bridge, or coda melody of "Clocks" in this.
― timellison, Thursday, 14 April 2016 04:16 (eight years ago) link
I don't hear a resemblance to the verse, bridge, or coda melody of "Clocks" in this
Listen to the instrumental background at 0:49 and compare that to the opening seconds of "Clocks" (before the vocals come in)
― Josefa, Thursday, 14 April 2016 07:13 (eight years ago) link
OK, so a descending, sequential arpeggio in eighth-notes (patterns of three). But they're not the same chords.
― timellison, Friday, 15 April 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
Buffalo Daughter - "New Rock" sounds quite a bit like Sonic Youth's "Bull In The Heather"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MeIA-Pte6Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JGBNkLM9_8
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUYkHNAtXTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETKeiEcQlac
this kind of floored me. I loved that Records song, but the other song came out years before it and sounds very similar to me.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
what does st. vincent's song "strange mercy" sound like? i recognize the keyboard riff but can't place it.
please help me.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
wait i got it. fleetwood mac seven wonders.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
The Jayhawks song "Trouble" is another one that sounds like The Hollies song "The Air That I Breathe."
― Hang On To Your Evol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
Clio - Faces https://youtu.be/kw3mlykbAfk
Genesis - Scenes From A Night's Dream https://youtu.be/nlvfnJzSJ0o
do these sound kind of reminiscent of one another to anybody else? especially the verse of Faces and the "dragons breathing fire but friendly" part of the Genesis song?
― soref, Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
"Funeral Dress" by Wussy sounds like "Teenage Kicks."
― Blecch Dharmagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 August 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
The bassline to Katy Perry's 'Roar' is something else, but I've been thinking about it for months (ever since my kid got into it) and haven't been able to put my finger on it. There is online discussion about it sounding like a Sara Bareillis song, but this is not it. I feel like there's some indie song or something that uses the same bassline, maybe even including the gliss between notes. Someone want to steer me in the right direction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8
― how's life, Thursday, 4 August 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link