Songs that sound alike

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I can sing the chorus to The Monkees' 'Valleri' over the top of The B-52's 'Private Idaho' -- same ascending 4 chords.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

"When the World is Running Down" by the Police and "Sentimental Man" by the Dismemberment Plan. I always think, wtf? Dismemberment Plan on the radio? whenever I hear the Police song come on.

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

The bass riffs of Queen's "A Kind Of Magic" and Harold Melvin's "The Love I Lost" are one and the same.

I did hear that John Deacon loved old R&B records!

― ZionTrain, Friday, 4 March 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Fountains of Wayne's "Red Dragon Tattoo" sounds like the entire early '70s Steve Miller catalog.

― ZionTrain, Friday, 4 March 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Doesn't one of the tracks on Blonde Redhead's Misery Is A Butterfly sound a lot like "Deadlock" by Can?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 28 March 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

David Bowie - "Sound and Vision"
Nick Lowe - "(I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass"

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Monday, 28 March 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

The Strokes - Reptilia & Wire - Champs

― sixteenblue20, Monday, 28 March 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

B-52's - Private Idaho
Felix Da Housecat - Rocket Ride

― zeus, Monday, 28 March 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

muse - uprising
christina aguilera - keeps gettin better

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Prince - Lady Cab Driver Youtube
Ready For the World - Oh Sheila Youtube

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Thursday, 13 May 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link

The Cure - Just Like Heaven & New Order - All the Way

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit & Slowdive - When the Sun Hits (nearly identical structure, particularly in the chorus--although very different execution).

― Pete Baumann, Friday, 14 May 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link

Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
T. Rex - Get It On

such a blatant rip it's sad.

― kelpolaris, Friday, 14 May 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Pet Shop Boys - Heart
Aqua - Turn Back Time

Rush - Spirit Of Radio
Sebadoh - On Fire

Bee Gees - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out

― PaulTMA, Friday, 14 May 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link

u2 - vertigo
supremes - you keep me hanging on

― hobbes, Friday, 14 May 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link

only if we could consildate the threads on this topic

― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 15 May 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link

Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
Velvet Underground - Oh Sweet Nothin'

― Snop Snitchin, Saturday, 15 May 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Holy shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajy1xNB-LkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzHRGoKca0

(original sample for second one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EGiMLnJdnA)

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Saturday, 2 March 2013 02:59 (eleven years ago) link

oh, interne says Tears for Fears also sampled the Pekka tune, although it doesn't sound like an actual sample to me

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Sunday, 3 March 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link

only if we could consildate the threads on this topic

otm

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2013 04:46 (eleven years ago) link

Nena - Kino
The Human League- Seconds

― OutdoorFish, Sunday, 3 March 2013 06:38 (eleven years ago) link

Human League- Darkness
Linkin Park - Crawling

― g simmel, Sunday, 3 March 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link

sorry if mentioned already, but I always think Joe Jackson's Breaking Us in Two bears resemblance to Badfinger's Day After Day.

― dan selzer, Sunday, 3 March 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link

Great idea for DJ Shadow, if hasn't already done this -- scratch "DJ's the man we love the most" over Midnight in a Perfect World.

Does anyone know how to get in touch with him?

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 March 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link

I've been using this other thread for the past several years; songs that sound like other songs

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 March 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah the internet is wrong on that. Though it is interesting given the fact that Midnight in a Perfect World also samples a song called "Sower of Seeds".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zFhsViLAjY

― MarkoP, Monday, 4 March 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link

I've been using this other thread for the past several years; songs that sound like other songs

― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, March 3, 2013 8:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oddly i didn't see this one in search even though that's what I thought the thread was called

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 March 2013 01:36 (eleven years ago) link

bob seger - still the same : brian eno - on some faraway beach

― illegalblues, Monday, 4 March 2013 05:22 (eleven years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Anyone else think this Hedley song sounds like a knock off of a very popular song from last year?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N24HLSsoWlY

― MarkoP, Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

This might be a stretch, but it just occurred to me that King Floyd's 'Groove Me' and the Rolling Stones' 'Tumbling Dice' have a fairly similar verse structure.

― Stop licking your fingers. It's sick. (Old Lunch), Monday, 14 September 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link

five years pass...

Robyn "Dancing on My Own", Wire "Ahead" don't start entirely dissimilarly.

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 29 April 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link

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