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It's interesting how subjective all this is. I would never hear Israelites (Desmond Dekker, btw) in Theme from Shaft, or Maggie May in Vicious...

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

― bham, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 08:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

shakiras underneath your clothes reminds me of michael jacksons man in the mirror

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

It appears that about a million years ago, I once started one of these threads too - Too close for comfort?

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

"Orphans" by Teenage Jesus and the Jerks seems to share a riff with "London Calling"...

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:19 (twenty years ago) link

Junior Senior's "boy meets girl" rips off the band's "wheel's on fire" for the verse. i thought that they sampled it at first it's so shameless

― brains (cerybut), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link

Red Blooded Woman by Kylie is so totally Cry Me A River

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 12 December 2003 07:34 (twenty years ago) link

Digital Emotion's "Outside in the Dark" rips the groove from "Billy Jean".

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 12 December 2003 09:00 (twenty years ago) link

Two songs that are alost exactly the same:

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...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 December 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

Andre 3000 'Behold a Lady' = Siouxsie b-side 'I Could Be Again'

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:15 (twenty years ago) link

The guitar riff on last song on the new Strokes album is similar to the chorus of Junior Senior's 'Rhythm Bandits'.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 12 December 2003 11:22 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

Huey Lewis and The News "I want a new drug"=Ray Parker Jr. "ghostbusters"

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.

― Matt Graves, Monday, 24 May 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Huey Lewis and The News "I want a new drug"=Ray Parker Jr. "ghostbusters"

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

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

that fucking stupid uncle kracka song sounds just like "a thing called love" by bonnie raitt. and I hate it.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

radiohead's "subterranean homesick alien" reminds me of nick drake's "parasite"
i always get "freeze frame" and "footloose" mixed up.
that puddle of mudd song "she hates me" = "tell me more" from grease

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Not sure which came first, but the Clash's "Manicifent Seven" and Man Parrish's "Hip Hop Be Bop" are almost identical.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 24 May 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I think we covered it on another thread but I still don't get how "L Dopa" rips off Killing Joke.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Sloan's "She Means What She Says" = The Nazz "Open My Eyes"

=The Who "I Can't Explain"

― phil dennison, Monday, 24 May 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Felt's "The Stagnant Pool" calls to mind The Cure's "Disintegration"; particularly the long guitar play toward the end.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

of course there's always NIN "Down In It"= Skinny Puppy's "Dig It"

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a Decemberists song (I think it's "I Was Meant for the Stage") that has the same melody as Sting's "Fields of Gold"

Also, I was just noticing the other day how Sly Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime" has the same little chord progression as a Led Zep song (maybe "Fool in the Rain" or something from that album) - though obviously Sly came first.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I always mix up "Times Like These" by the Foo Fighters with the beginning of the verse of Manics' "Australia".... It's because of the first "I...", I guess.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 24 May 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

"Flatness" by Uncle Tupelo sounds kinda like "Letter Never Sent" by REM.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 24 May 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

we could also add ALL REGGAE EVER to this thread

― sexyDancer, Monday, 24 May 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

TLC - "Unpretty"

Hanson - "Mmmbop"

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Monday, 24 May 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

"White Light/White Heat" sounds kind of like an early Jerry Lee Lewis song.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 24 May 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Phil Collins' "Sussudio" = Prince's "1999"

The intro to "Breakout" by Swing Out Sisters = PSB "West End Girls"

― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Tom Waits "Such a Scream" = Mystikal "Shake Ya Ass"

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link

The Clash "Wrong 'Em Boyo" = "Sloop John B"

― adgaehg, Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The Faces' "Cindy Incidentally" sounds like Dylan's "I Don't Believe You"

― de, Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Alphaville's "Forever Young" = Pachelbel's Canon

― lkjp, Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Belle and Sebastian "We Rule the School" also = Pachebel's Canon
Also on a B&S theme, "Mary Jo" = "A Winter's Tale" by David Essex.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Marshall Tucker Band "Can't You See" = Velvet Underground "Sweet Nuthin'"

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

The guitar on the Fall's "Rolling Dany" is the same riff as "Smokin' in the Boys Room"

Also, keeping with This Nation's Saving Grace, Magnetic Fields took the riff from "Paint Work" for "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 4 June 2004 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Kasabian 'LSF' and the theme music to Mopatop's Shop

― peter dee (peter dee), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

I can't keep straight all the threads that are like this (shouldn't there be a tracklink uptop to the recent one?) so if this has been mentioned before forgive me

You Belong to Me sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown
Tokyo Storm Warning really sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 21 January 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

the main riffs in "Da Funk" by Daft Punk and "Never Let Me Down Again" by Depeche Mode are fairly similar (that descending thing they both do). Sometimes I'll whistle one then switch to the other.

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link

and both songs are the same tempo, with the riffs separated by like a 5th or something between them.

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Razorlight's "Golden Touch" = The Cure "10:15 Saturday Night".

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Friday, 21 January 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Futurama Theme = Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out = Led Zeppelin, Trampled Underfoot

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Some song by Athlete that i forget the name of sounds just like some song by Avril Lavigne that i forget the name of. And i forgot what they both sound like.

A little help here?

― dmun, Friday, 21 January 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Love and Rockets - "Mirror People"

starts off in perfect Jesus and Mary Chain style circa Automatic, complete with lyrics:

"I'm so happy with my feet on the ground
So happy my head spins around" and so on, could be about half the songs on that album

At about the 1:25 mark the guitars start to sound just like the the Raveonettes' much later freakout in "Attack of the Ghost Riders"

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Is the similarity between the basslines of Queen's "Another Bites the Dust" and Chic's "Good Times" too obvious mention? Anyway, that connection was made explicit on Grandmaster Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel", where Flash mixes both of them.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"I'm Like A Bird" by Nelly Retardo vs "I'm In the Mood for Dancing" by I dunno who.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Not sure which came first, but the Clash's "Manicifent Seven" and Man Parrish's "Hip Hop Be Bop" are almost identical.

And they mix really well together too.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Futurama theme - "Young Livers" by Rocket From The Crypt

― MTA?, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Here's one :

Oasis - 'Cast No Shadow' is a complete rip-off of Moby Grape's 'He'. Just listen to the melody in the verse.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I love that song "He". Kind of a rip off of Buffalo Springfield dontch think?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

roxus intro riff - "stand back" / van halen "jump"

That one White Stripes song has the same "oh-oh-oh-oh" vocal line as "Middle of the Road" by the Pretenders. That band Gaunt had a song which took a similar vocal line from a Naked Raygun song. Melissa Etheridge's voice sounds like Steve Perry's to me. And the list goes on and on.
-- hstencil (hstenci...), September 9th, 2002.

ha! melissa should sing " oh sherrie" she can sing about loving a girl without changing the lyrics
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"Do Ya" = "Fox on the Run."
-- Jody Beth Rosen (edito...), September 9th, 2002.
do you mean sam fox"do tya wanna please me" ? which part ? bridge?

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

icehouse "love in motion"/david essex "rock on"
mel and kim "showing out)get fresh at the weekend/ chic "le freak"
elton john "sorry seems to be the hardest word"/billy joel"honesty"

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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