songs that sound like other songs

I've been convinced for years that Den Harrow's "Mad Desire" sounds like an Alphaville song, chiefly "Big in Japan", but the biggest Alphaville fan I know couldn't hear it so maybe I'm just hearing things. Also, there's this one song that comes on all the time on SiriusXM's First Wave channel that always dupes me into thinking it's Captain Sensible's "Wot" (I want to say it's a song by Malcolm McLaren?) whenever it comes on the radio. I wish I could remember which one it is, but I am always disappointed when I find out it's not "Wot".

not so much "songs that sound like other songs" as "songs that use the same guitar loop"

amaarae - 'leave me alone': https://youtu.be/tT9cCSntOoc
sleepy hallow - 'i get luv': https://youtu.be/h1slju0HReg

Well, when we're talking samples it's kind of a different animal, isn't it?

this is different, it's not a sample. it's an original loop that both songs use.

prob belongs in its own thread, but this is worth a read: https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-loops-are-changing-the-sound-and-business-of-rap-production/

And for producers working with prolific rappers, outsourcing the time-consuming work of writing a melody to a pool of dedicated loopmakers is the most efficient way to keep making hits.

just... lol

that’s interesting. if they are both getting the loop from the same source (“I get luv” is the older track), neither of them is crediting it from what I can see.

there was an issue with Amaarae’s previous single “Like It” btw, presumably to do with an uncleared sample.

xp

"If You Ever Go to Houston," Bob Dylan

"On Top of Old Smoky" (trad.)

just about every good guided by voices song sounds like "hey tonight" (ccr)

"hey tonight" sounds like an amphetamized impression of the byrds' cover of "mr. tambourine man"

mary wells - your old stand by
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfgaZBGlTko

pat lundy - make it for the door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPFXQm8HfWw

and the latter in turn sounds like the template for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a9kOCHYZIw

prince - kiss

(for posterity)

👍🏻

https://images.slideplayer.com/1/16460/slides/slide_20.jpg

good catch tho on the”Kiss” intro

First two lines of Justin Townes Earle's "Midnight at the Movies" is kind of an homage to or pastiche or something of the first two lines of Paul Simon's "Duncan," no?

Not really sounds like but didn't know what other thread to put it on so putting it here.

Earthling - You Go On Natural (1981) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2-wXUUGds
David Bowie - New Killer Star (2003) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwH1g2fW6Pc

Of course Bowie also has an album called 'Earthling', and many Japan connections around early 80s.

Lots of linkage here, starting with...

Buddy Holly (personally written for him by Paul Anka) - "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"(1958):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygBo9Fmq5l4

Everly Bros (written by Sonny Curtis, childhood friend of Buddy Holly as well as member of The Crickets) - "Walk Right Back" (1961):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c048o_KvWsA

Buffalo Springfield (written by Neil Young) - "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong" (1966):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxYFZIDoCdI

Now let's go back to "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" as covered interestingly* by Linda Ronstadt (1974):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTOk1hn0euo

*I say interestingly as it melds many elements of the above songs into one.

Now skipping ahead 11 years to The Replacements - "Swingin' Party" (1985):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8ikJiKWubY

And to tie it all back together with Linda on backing vox... Neil Young - "Harvest Moon" (1992):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs

anyone hearing what I'm hearing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUj5usS_Rhg&t=2s

?

oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUj5usS_Rhg

nailed it

This is why I wake up on Sunday mornings.

Listening to all those songs just made this pop into my head, which had been lurking in the back of my head for decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BqQNjpqUIo

Evita, "High Flying Adored"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dkkeT9ICGk

Lionel Richie, "Stuck on You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhsTB4rq1XU

the main riff of "slim jenkins' place" by booker T and the MGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-yuXPtU0LA

the opening riff of "strange brew" by cream

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

Just noticed that Belle and Sebastian’s “Seeing Other People” is reminiscent of “Linus and Lucy,” but couldn’t find an earlier mention of this.

I suspect that is very intentional. They did do a cover of "Christmas Time is Here".

Apparently they covered "Linus and Lucy" in concert as well. Just never consciously remarked on how close that particular song of theirs got.

idk if it’s an intentional homage but the piano on that one is certainly guaraldi-esque

There’s an interview out there with B&S keyboardist where he talks about covering “Linus and Lucy.”

https://www.totallydublin.ie/music/music-features/music-interview-chris-geddes-belle-and-sebastian/

the opening riff of "burnin' for you" by BLUE OYSTER CULT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipqqEFoJPL4

the opening riff of "disturbance at the heron" house by REM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2-nSCsxyXU&ab_channel=R.E.M.-Topic

danava's "one mind gone separate ways" is pretty much "achilles' last stand" with different lyrics (and maybe better than the original)

hmm yeah, they are exactly the same

xxp !!

Huh... teasing out the R.E.M./BÖC nexus.

― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Saturday, August 3, 2019 4:08 PM (one year ago)

I wonder how many other REM/BOC parallels we can track (maybe deserves a separate thread?)

There's a secret stigma, reaping fear...

As we were talking about The Wonder Stuff on another thread, their "Welcome To The Cheap Seats" is a complete rip off of "The Never-Ending Story" by Pulp

Dennis Wilson - Rainbows

https://youtu.be/zN8DaJbRCrY

and... wait, what does this sound like? so familiar. the vocal line really reminds me of something. I thought it was something off Us and Us Only by the Charlatans or some indie band c1999 but I can't place it and it's driving me nuts

I wonder how many other REM/BOC parallels we can track (maybe deserves a separate thread?)

dog latin - According to youtube* it's Senses
* i.e. it says 'Senses by the Charlatans' in the Rainbows comments, and "Blatant rip of Rainbows by Dennis Wilson" in the Senses comments.

I once spent days trying to figure out what a song I'd seen on Youtube sounded exactly like, only to figure it out, scroll down to the comments to see everyone commenting exactly that. So, Youtube comments are the first place I look now. FOR EVERYTHING

huh, I listened to Senses (and the whole of Us and Us Only which is really a surprisingly good album) and couldn't hear the bit I was thinking of, so clearly I'm going mad. cheers kinder

Sammy Hagar and Joy Division share a riff together...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PJPrpjABYI&list=OLAK5uy_klPJaYuI0y_Mq_xzATv9Nvw1QKMPxTwsU&index=5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHg4jVrbg60&list=RD5BIElTtN6Fs&index=9

im thinking tom waits took some inspiration for 'cemetery polka' from bach's keyboard concerto no. 5 in f minor

not sure I hear it?

the way the lower notes move in bach remind me of the waits melody

the first movement

earlnash, Sammy Hagar and Joy Division, perhaps fittingly, share a black hole together - your YouTube links are not quite coming through.

She's lost control and consequently can't drive 55?

When it's love, love will tear us apart?

For unlawful unknown carnal pleasures?

You forgot to mention the Hagcienda, YMP.