songs that sound like other songs

(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....

that Spirit song (?) -> "Stairway to Heaven" -> that Metallica song (?)

That Offspring song rips of Simon & Garfunk's Cecilia.

Anyway, Call Me / Blondie = What She Said / Smiths

The Doll "Burning up like a fire"
The Cars "Just what I needed"

Odd as they came out at very similar times and it would be unlikely that one would have heared the other....

Maybe its cuz they are both dull and derivative...

and nelly and justin timberlake have a song over "back in black" by AC/DC how disgusting. the sad fact is that most of the 10-16 year old girls that listen to justin timberlake have no idea o fthe musical travesty that has been committed. but I will admit that it is kinda neat.

huey lewis and the news came first. they sued ray parker for that one.

=The Who "I Can't Explain"

“Solitary Man” has a bit that sounds like “Hawaii Five-O”

when eno's 'on some faraway beach' begins, i expect bob seger to start singing 'still the same'

lol

I have no idea how it never occurred to me until last night, having heard the Jeopardy! theme song thousands of time, but surely I'm not the first to notice its resemblance to "I'm A Little Teapot?"

Just realized that “say what you want” lifts it’s pre-chorus from “sexual healing” mixed with Prince’s “love thy will be done”.

The Texas song that is.

Guitar line also sounds lifted from Al Green “Tired of being alone”.

They even covered “tired of being alone” but smartly decided to remove the guitar line for strums instead so it wouldn’t seem like a direct connection to their own hit.

I have no idea how it never occurred to me until last night, having heard the Jeopardy! theme song thousands of time, but surely I'm not the first to notice its resemblance to "I'm A Little Teapot?"

― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, February 10, 2024 5:24 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think this every single time i watch

I'm a little teapot short and stout
This author created character "Kilgore Trout"

John Martyn - "Over The Hill" (1973)
Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head" (1975)

"Hold On Loosely"
"Just What I needed"

I don’t know which Cure song in particular it reminds me of but Metro Station - “shake it” does a very distinctive Robert Smith copy on vocalizations throughout this song. Specifically on:

“Tonight you're falling in love,
This feeling's tearing me up,
Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?
Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?
Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”

Pavement - "Fillmore Jive" (1994)
Te Vaka - "Loimata e Maligi" (2002) (aka "An Innocent Warrior" in Moana)

same chord progression

Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?
Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?
Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?”

I don't know this song but the lyrics are making me think of All Coming Back To Me by Celine Dion, which I always think is a Meatloaf song because it's almost a parody of one, then I googled today and realised Jim Steinman wrote it and his band did it originally

Nobody did bombast better than Jim Steinman

Lol yeah that Celine Dion song is totally a Meat Loaf song.

Song at 4:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ljHhR8XPA

Sarah Brightman & Steve Harley, "The Phantom of the Opera"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBJNCXL9Vg

just occurred to me that Fugs - "The Garden Is Open" is a "Masters of War" rip

I have had "She Blinded Me With Science" stuck in my head for a while, and it always morphs into "Owner of a Lonely Heart."

The chorus of Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" sounds like it was snipped out of "American Pie"

noticing now that there's a bit of melody in the magnetic fields' "sweet-lovin man" ("there's just one kind of love/you can spend your life dreaming of") that strongly evokes big star's "thirteen" ("rock and roll is here to stay")

"Buildings" by an artist called Not Me But Us sounds like a knockoff of Slowdive's "Prayer Remembered".

"Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms and "The Little Black Egg"

"lightning strikes" by YES sounds like a modernized cover of "wallbanger" by GRYPHON