Republica "Ready to Go" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous".
― Dewey B., Monday, 7 January 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
TECHNOTRONIC
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Britney following up "Baby One More Time" with "Oops I Did It Again"
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
You Really Got Me / All the Day and All of the Night
― sonofstan, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Nickelback for the win!
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
That woman who did 'It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To,' didn't she do another two songs about crying?
I don't recall two, but Gore certainly did one -- "Judy's Turn to Cry." But her other big hit was the quite different / quite awesome "You Don't Own Me," so it's not like there was any running out of steam here!
― nabisco, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Rick Dees - "Disco Duck" and "Discorilla"
― henry s, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Mr. Snrub, Monday, January 7, 2008 4:00 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
lead singles from two consecutive albums, but there were 3 or 4 other singles between them.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Dis-Gorilla, but yeah.
― Mark G, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost - "Judy's Turn To Cry" was actually a sequel of sorts, so it comes by its sonic similarity honestly.
Honourable mention (since the former was the Jacksons & the latter was Michael solo): "Shake Your Body (Down To the Ground)" and "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough".
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" are not exactly identical, but follow a very similar formula.
― chap, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Surely early Beatles qualifies too then.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Modern Talking did this for all of their 80s career, although most notably with "You Can Win If You Want" following "You're My Heart, Your're My Soul".
Lots of 90s Eurodance: DJ Bobo: "Somebody Dance With Me"/"Keep On Dancing" Haddaway: "What Is Love"/"Life" Whigfield: "Saturday Night"/"Another Day" Technotronic: "Pump Up The Jam"/"Get Up (Before The Night is Over)"
"Johnny Don't Do It" was 10cc's second single, wasn't it? It isn't exactly very different from "Donna".
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, didn't notice Whigfield had been mentioned before.
Four Tops did the same thing once more later, when "Reach Out I'll Be There" was followed by "Standing In The Shadows Of Love"
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Roy Orbison's best singles usually were always about the same subject. Musically though, Bo Diddley's songs all had a similar sound, as listening to "His Best" in one sitting will attest to.
― Belldog, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Gary Glitter/Sweet/Slade pwn this thread
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Milli Vanilli - "Girl You Know It's True" and "Baby, Don't Forget My Number"
Robin S - "Show Me Love" and "Love For Love"
Ace Of Base - "All That She Wants" and "The Sign"
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Every single by K7
― rock_is_dead, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Which early Beatles songs sound the same?
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
everything before rubber soul imo
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
but srsly Please Please Me, From me To You, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Can't Buy Me Love, A Hard Day's Night, I Feel Fine, Ticket to Ride are all nose-bleedingly similar.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
NONE OF THESE ARE EXACTLY THE SAME
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
TS opinion vs fact
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
There's no opinion about it. None of these songs are exactly the same.
They have different song titles and different notes. Not exact.
Or do you mean TS hyperbole vs. fact?
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah.
You could be so pedantic as to render the entire thread useless, really.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Sounds good to me!
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Coldplay - "Clocks" and "Speed of Sound" are horridly alike
― Davey D, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Early '80s ELO: Hold On Tight and Rock 'N' Roll is King
― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:11 (sixteen years ago) link
The Honey Cone - Want Ads/Stick Up (not sure which one came first) The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There/Come Go With Me
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Chubby Checker - "The Twist" and "Let's Twist Again" (not sure if there was anything in between)
― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
ahaha I always thought they were the same song.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Ides of March "Vehicle" and "Superman".
And though there's nearly a decade separating them, Spinal Tap's "Hell Hole" and "Bitch School" (either a parody of bands repeating themselves, or they were actually repeating themselves).
― drench, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 05:04 (sixteen years ago) link
The Troggs' "Anyway That You Want Me" is nearly identical to "Wild Thing."
― pgwp, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Mr. Snrub, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:00 (Yesterday) Link
really should be "Oops!" followed by "Lucky"
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 06:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I agree that they have similar lyrical content, and in terms of texture they're pretty samey as they didn't have much at their disposal. But on the whole I think each of those songs has its own distinctive identity, although they're certainly all neatly within the same genre.
I don't think early Beatles stuff generally sounded much samier than late Beatles stuff did, except that as time went on they had a much wider palette available in terms of instrumentation and studio effects.
I did think of Happy Together and Eleanor by The Turtles, though. And both of those songs are great.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 06:24 (sixteen years ago) link
The Knack: My Sharona and Baby Talks Dirty. From follow-up album.
― smurfherder, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 07:06 (sixteen years ago) link
'hip to be square' and 'power of love'. don't know and couldn't give a shit if they were successive
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link
The Honey Cone - Want Ads/Stick Up (not sure which one came first)
"Want Ads."
Happy Together and Eleanor by The Turtles
Separated by several singles, but "Elenore" was self-consciously written in the "Happy Together" mold.
To add to the list:
Disco Tex, "I Wanna Dance Wit Choo" (followed "Get Dancin'")
Soul Survivors, "Explosion (in Your Soul)" (followed "Expressway to Your Heart")
Edwin Starr, "Stop the War Now" (followed "War")
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Carl Douglas "Dance the Kung Fu"
I'll leave you to discover the previous single.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 09:48 (sixteen years ago) link
In the meantime, they had released "Twilight" and "Ticket To The Moon" and it'd be a bit weird to claim that they sounded anything like "Hold On Tight".
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
They weren't. Huey Lewis did a lot of rewrites of his earlier hits. "Stuck With You" is "If This Is It" part 2.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Ever noticed how every Housemartin's greatest hist collection is non-chronological?
"Happy Hour" and "Sheep" for one. "Me and the Farmer" and "Five get overexcited" for two.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 09:57 (sixteen years ago) link
They released "Happy Nation" in-between those two.
Not that that one (or debut single "Wheel Of Fortune" for that matter) sounds very different from the others though....
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"I Want You Back"/"ABC"!!!
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
The entirety of the Dance To The Music album by Sly & The Family Stone is an attempt to do DTTM in as many different ways as possible.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i was aghast to read on wikipedia that 'The Speed Of Sound' is an attempt by Coldplay to recreate 'Running Up That Hill'!
― blueski, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
well, originally - guess it ended up as something totally different and shit
― blueski, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, Talk was an attempt to recreate Kraftwerk. By stealing the melody. Because melodics are the key thing to Kraftwerk's aesthetic. Chris Martin's just not very bright.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Killing Joke Remasters Part DEUX!
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 8 February 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Kevin Rudolf: Let It Rock/Welcome to the World
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
McCoys, "Hang On Sloopy"/"Fever"
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 06:25 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, heard that one...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 06:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Another Rickroll here because "Never Gonna Give You Up" was actually followed by "Whenever You Need Somebody". But you could easily make that three successive very similar singles had it not been for the fact that the not particularly similar sounding "When I Fall In Love" had been released for Christmas in the UK.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 09:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I was sure this thread had been revived for "Just Dance" and "Poker Face".
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
What about...
Lou Bega - I Got a Girl (Mambo No. 5)PPK - Reload (ResuRection)Lieutenant Pigeon - Desperate Dan (Mouldy Old Dough)DJ Aligator Project - Lollipop (Blow My Whistle Bitch)Procol Harum - Homburg (Whiter Shade of Pale)The Applejacks - Like Dreamers Do (Tell Me When)Petula Clark - I Know a Place (Downtown)Keith West - Sam (A Teenage Opera)Tony Di Bart - Do It (The Real Thing)Sister Bliss - Oh! What a World (Can't Get a Job Can't Get a Man)DJ Sakin & Friend - Nomansland (Protect Your Mind)
Some of those more than others, admittedly
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 21:24 (seven months ago) link
first thing that came to mind was that Lou Bega song. man, the audacity.
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs following "Wooly Bully" with "Ju Ju Hand", I mean it's basically the same song. in fact pretty much all their early singles were identical.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 21:31 (seven months ago) link
Although I can barely remember 'Do It' I do remember having a weird insistence (to no-one but myself) at the time that it was better than 'The Real Thing'. Not sure the thread really gets into such situations but it's funny when 'we' do this.
As mid-90s Eurodance really owns the thread, Atlantic Ocean's 'Body In Motion' was basically 'Waterfall' one key up and with added vocals iirc
And the Candy Girls ft. Sweet Pussy Pauline 'Fe Fi Fo Fum' and 'Wham Bam' are pretty similar - again tho I think I slightly preferred the latter.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 21:36 (seven months ago) link
Oh wow, I actually had Wham Bam on my list but I took it off for thinking the whole WHAT AM I SAYING thing set it quite apart (from memory anyway). But it probably doesn't, that much.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 21:38 (seven months ago) link
also this is the second mention of Body in Motion in under a month (I mntioned it in the songs that rhyme with the artist thread), which I wouldn't be surprised were the *only* mentions on ilx
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 21:42 (seven months ago) link
Went to that thread after the post to see if it had already been mentioned. And I'm not even watching the TOTP repeats.
But somehow nobody mentioned Nightcrawlers 'Surrender Your Love' (after 'Push The Feeling On') yet.
Robert Miles 'Fable' maaaybe or may be just different enough from 'Children' to not qualify.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 21:49 (seven months ago) link
Ann Lee's Voices might count, with regards to being 2 Times
I think there's a group of several 90s dance hits which were ripped off for *a* follow-up except it was someone else doing it. E.g. Red 5's I Love You...Stop! is a lot like DJ Quicksilver's Bellissima, more than DJQ's own follow-up Free (although there were a lot of trance tracks in 96/97 used pizzicato strings and Faithless were the overall model). Or like how Doop is the obvious inspiration for Dorothy's What's That Tune?, or the Grid's Swamp Thing being the inspiration for 2InATent's When I'm Cleaning Windows (except both that and WTT were borrowing familiar source material, unlike Doop and Swamp Thing).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 21:58 (seven months ago) link
using*
There's not really much similarity between Sandstorm and Feel the Beat but the latter still makes sure to include a bit of the dududududu as a hook.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 21:59 (seven months ago) link
Not exactly the same, but I've always felt these were very similar in both sound and meaning:
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone / Positively 4th Street
― henry s, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 12:46 (seven months ago) link
Side question... At first glance it seems the vast majority of these soundalike singles are products of the same songwriter or songwriting team. Are there notable cases where that wasn't true, i.e. a different songwriter or songwriting team deliberately aped the style of a hit single they had not been involved with?
― Josefa, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:48 (seven months ago) link
- William DeVaughn - "Be Thankful For What You Got"/"Blood Is Thicker Than Water"
came to post these two, but Rev. Hoodoo beat me to it by 15 years. both john davis productions. blood came first, so be thankful is like the refined version i guess.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:36 (seven months ago) link
shirley and company, "shame shame shame" and "cry cry cry"
― andrew m., Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:39 (seven months ago) link
I wasn't even aware until several years ago that 'Only the Lonely' and 'Suddenly Last Summer' were two distinct songs. I've just always conflated them in my head for some reason. I don't know that they necessarily sound exactly the same but the tempo is consistent and they fit seamlessly together.
And then suddenlyLast summerIt's like I told youOnly the lonely can play
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 16:23 (seven months ago) link
Kinks, "All Day And All Of The Night" is pretty much "You Really Got Me" all over again (though it does add a couple of extra bars going into the guitar solo)
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 16:34 (seven months ago) link
It's the best example in that it's an obvious improvement (imo)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 16:34 (seven months ago) link
Jackson 5, "I Want You Back"/"ABC" — IIRC the latter was written around an unused portion of the former
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 16:50 (seven months ago) link
'Run to Me', Candi Staton's follow-up to 'Young Hearts Run Free' - different chorus but that's about it.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 16:55 (seven months ago) link
Brainbug - Benedictus (Nightmare)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:27 (six months ago) link
good Halloween banger, pizzicato string trance is great for this time of year
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 28 October 2023 13:49 (six months ago) link
Bamboo - The Strutt (Bamboogie)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 15:04 (four months ago) link
Maxx - No More (I Can't Stand It) (Get-a-Way)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 24 December 2023 04:35 (four months ago) link
Dire Straits' "Lady Writer" is virtually a carbon copy of "Sultans of Swing".
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Sunday, 24 December 2023 08:19 (four months ago) link
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell/Paradise By The Dashboard Light
You can seamlessly mash them up: “Like a bat out of hell, I’ll give you an answer in the morning”
― Siegbran, Sunday, 24 December 2023 09:42 (four months ago) link
The Pioneers followed up 'Long Shot Kick De Bucket' with a song called 'Poor Rameses' about another Jamaican racehorse who had died the same week as Long Shot. The track also begins with a (slightly different) bugle call.
The group clearly had no qualms about flogging a dead horse.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 24 December 2023 10:39 (four months ago) link
i lol'd
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 24 December 2023 12:10 (four months ago) link
― brimstead, Monday, 25 December 2023 02:48 (four months ago) link
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 December 2023 13:00 (four months ago) link
The Pioneers had another song about "Long Shot" while he was still a going concern. It is quite similar...
― Mark G, Monday, 25 December 2023 16:48 (four months ago) link