songs that sound like other songs

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.

or even The Hagçienda

I Can't Drive FAC 51

Lolz

the verses of Far East Family Band's 'Kokoro':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onKCL5MJ5N0
(@0:40)

the verses of The Cardigans' 'Couldn't Care Less':
https://youtu.be/K0Uy7b5UgqY
(@2:05)

second embed should be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Uy7b5UgqY

The drums & bass intro to "Pretty Green" (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GSDQSRNR1s

...has always reminded me of the intro to "Swingtown" (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGYx0hMjM0

Interesting

the canned latin-style music that plays over every arrested development episode credits always reminds me of mr. bungle's "sweet charity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nEIEblY_CA

the part im thinking of starts 50 or so seconds in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldh04Olynrw

aw yeah and the theme from Black Books is so close to a rip off of a particular Tom Waits tune too

The beginning of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIbLVC3C-5g

Really sounds a lot like the beginning of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhIsAZO5gl0

“If I Was Your Girlfriend” sounds like The Brothers Johnson’s “I’ll Be Good To You.”

“Big Tall Wall (Version 1)” outro sounds a lot like “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)”

"when i get low i get high"
"puttin' on the ritz"
"istanbul (not constantinople)"

all three have a way of interchanging when any of the songs is stuck in my head (cf. earworm mashups)

Is "The Joker" a ripoff of "Soul Sister" by Alan Toussaint, or is that just a standard chord progression sequence?