songs that sound like other songs

The keyboard melody in the theme for Netflix's ”House of Cards" sounds like the keyboard melody in BBE's 1996 trance hit "Seven Days and One Week".

The introductory/verse melody to "My Boo" is "Isn't She Lovely"

New Garland Jeffreys album has a song "Venus" that sounds like Major Lance's "The Monkey Time."

Glen Campbell - Gentle on My Mind (1967)

Connie Francis - The Wedding Cake (1969)

Jacques Brel's "La chanson de Jacky" (1966) sounds like it swipes or adapts the orchestral intro of Frank Sinatra's "Not as a Stranger" (1955) single.

Scott Walker's 1967 version, "Jackie," sounds like it swipes or adapts both the intro and the outro of the Sinatra record.

childish gambino - redbone

isaac hayes - the look of love

Thomas Dolby, "Airwaves" :: Billy Joel, "Goodnight Saigon"

This is not "sounds like other song," this is "another band totally pilferred this song to create their own top 40 hit." Maybe this well known, but I just learned of it today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uqnN3ek2vI

Ooh that's a good one! Wiki tells me the writer, one Robbie van Leeuwen, was 'inspired' by the above track.

Excellent bit of work by Mr. van Leeuwen it must be admitted,

wow!

Prince - 'Erotic City'
The Outhere Brothers - 'Boom Boom Boom'

vague similarity between Easy by Commodores and Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Andreas Dorau - 'Fred vom Jupiter' and Joe Jackson - 'Steppin' Out' share a very similar synth line. Always wanted to hear a mashup of the two.

Belle and Sebastian's "I Don't Love Anyone" and Hootie and the Blowfish "Only Wanna Be With You"

The Banjo Song --- psuedo-Peter, Paul & Mary Mama Cass.

Brian Eno - King's Lead Hat and Amboy Dukes - You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire have similar verse things happening

Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles by the Lips seriously rips Buffalo Springfield Bluebird verse melody

Sweet Jane and Crimson and Clover

I listened to New Order's Technique for the first time last night. The bassline on one of the first few songs reminded me of Just Like Heaven.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 7:24 AM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dhn_iIQXDE
The Cure - Just Like Heaven (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YveC8laqCs
New Order - All the Way (1989)

haruomi hosono's "Living dining kitchen" & status quo's "down, down.."

There's a mention of Carole King's 'Sweet Seasons' upthread but it's the wrong mention because the correct answer is clearly Sonic Youth's 'Winner's Blues'.

The Ed Sheeran song "Thinking Out Loud" has always sounded a lot like Michael Bolton's "Soul Provider" to me. I can annoy my tweenage daughter no end by singing Bolton over Ed.

Both sound a lot like the Manhattans' "Shining Star." Also Atlantic Starr's "Always."

As far as I can tell they don't have identical chord progressions apart from going I (something) IV (something) I. It's more in the groove and melody.

Oh, and the intros to REM's "Find the River" and Lisa Loeb's "Stay" are the same - arpeggiated-then-strummed D.

i've heard so many people say that Arcade Fire "Everything Now" is a ripoff of "Dancing Queen." I don't hear it at all - similar instrumentation, but it's not a melodic ripoff at all.

barbara morgenstern - status symbol has a section similar to West End Girls

Is the similarity between the basslines of Queen's "Another Bites the Dust" and Chic's "Good Times" too obvious mention?
The "Good Times" bassline is also used in The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight".

Neil Young - Don't Cry No Tears > Sheryl Crow - If it makes you happy

"don't fear the reaper" (BÖC) bites the opening of "when i touch you" (spirit) pretty hard

man Spirit really got fucked didn't they

Ariel Pink Another Weekend --> Judy Clay and William Bell Private Number

Nintendo - Wii channel music
sounds like a mixture of
Walter Wanderley - summer samba + Antonio Carlos Jobim - surfboard

"king and country" (television personalities) bites hard from the byrds ("eight miles high"), especially toward the end

which reminds me "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" by the Teenage Filmstars is a straight rip of "Keep On Running" by the Spencer Davis Group.

The intro to 'American Gigolo' by Weezer sounds the same as the intro to XTC's 'Making Plans For Nigel'

whoa, good call on that one^

Polvo - A Link in the Chain
International Harvester - Sommarlåten

which reminds me "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" by the Teenage Filmstars is a straight rip of "Keep On Running" by the Spencer Davis Group.

― Colonel Poo

colin hodgkinson has a co-write on the spencer davis song! damn, i had no idea.

angel pavement's "maybe tomorrow" has a false start of the opening to "25 or 6 to 4".

the fall's "idiot joy showland" sounds like "time and changes" by b.f. trike.

the opening of the library track "fantasy impulses" by john tender has the same sound as the opening to "station to station".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwBe8GX-HU

OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0vHG77NdUk

ELO another heart breaks VS. Kuedo Slow Knife

Intro to "Onie" by the Electric Prunes and "Femme Fatale"

Verses of Ezra Furman's "Teddy I'm Ready" remind me of Stones' "No Expectations."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gWRCfp53jM

Screaming Trees "Grey Diamond Desert" reminds me of 13th Floor Elevators "Rose and the Thorn"

Grant Hart "Caifornia Zaphyr" and Mama Cass "Make Your Own Kind of Music"

"i was the fool beside you" yo la tengo (painful) bites hard on spacemen 3's "rollercoaster" (the perfect prescription) which cover song bites hard on many other major jamz

Brian Eno - King's Lead Hat and Amboy Dukes - You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire have similar verse things happening

― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, July 15, 2017 5:26 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And, I just noticed this morning, The Cars "Shake It Up." The verses are nearly identical.

Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love / song on the first Small Faces album that I can't remember

You've got yearnin' and I got burnin'
Baby you look so ho sweet and cunnin'
Baby way down inside, woman you need love
Woman you need love, you've got to have some love
I'm gon' give you some love, I know you need love

Maybe it's a classic Renaissance figure, I don't know - the descending triad in the melody of the Mamas and the Papas' "Strange Young Girls" reminds me of "Heaven Heath" by Mellow Candle.

That song 'Sign of the Times' by Harry Styles sounds so much like 'Hard To Say I'm Sorry' by Chicago

john williams' "lost in space" theme sounds a whole helluva lot like modest mussorgsky's "ballet of the chickens in their shells"