songs that sound like other songs

Lonnie Mack’s “Why” sounds a little bit like “St. James Infirmary.”

This is very vague hand waving but “Heroes” is kind of structured like a Roy Orbison song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ym7Mg4yTZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbt59pmT26E
obv both pull from the roberta flack song

both use the chord progression from “hey joe”!

yah i hear that too

totally

that hey joe progression is in a looooot of songs. i think i was on here a few months ago talking about brian jonestown massacre sounding exactly like a kinks song, which turned out to just be hey joe

Yeah I was gonna say... "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" sounds a lot like "Earth Angel," "Blue Moon," Stand By Me", etc.

A lot of "shameless ripoff" accusations resolve into "this is a really common chord progression" - not so much ITT but generally

I heard some weird jazzy song yesterday, and I swear to god, it sounded like Stone Sour "Bother", but it came first, and now I can't remember what it is. i wanna know who Corey Taylor ripped off

The chorus of the Beta Band's "Wonderful" (from their Heroes to Zeros album) sounds like "Candy Says."

Madness's "Keep Moving" (1984) is musically pretty identical to "Twilight Cafe", the 1981 hit for Susan Fassbender who died far too young.

xps Listened to “Bother” by Stone Sour (now that’s an appealing name) for the first time just now and the thing it distantly, faintly reminds me of is “Into the Night” by Benny Mardones

Just listened to 'Spitting off the edge of the world' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and couldn't place what the main 4-note riff sounds like.
It's the 'I will love you till the end of time - I would wait a million years' bit of Blue Jeans by Lana Del Rey.

Every time I listen to Hearts on Fire by John Cafferty (which is a lot these days), I wonder if it somehow inspired the melody to Can You Feel the Love Tonight by Elton John.

Compare the descending melody 0:57 in Cafferty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swo51-CG9Ss

with 1:11 in John

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

Oh hey this thread began on the day I started school, didn't spot that til now.

“The Loco-Motion”
“Mashed Potato Time”

not songs that sound alike and more songs that have a similar vibe (and are maybe in the same key?)

iggy pop - “neighborhood threat”
neil young - “southern man”

No one will care about this - but relistening to Use Your Illusion I a few times, I was struck that:

a) the chorus melody of "Bad Apples" faintly reminds of Royal Trux's "Sewers of Mars"; and
b) the acoustic opening verse of the next track ("Dead Horse") sounds a LOT like a solo Hagerty jam... right down to Axl's vocal stylings (at least before his voice gets more recognizably Axl-y in the last few lines).

Some Funkadelic song - on Cosmic Slop? "March to the Witch's Castle"? sounds like Donald Byrd's version of "Cristo Redentor."

― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 19, 2020 10:26 AM

Which is probably the original version, written by Duke Pearson.

― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 19, 2020 10:28 AM

feel like 'cristo redentor' owes an awful lot to 'summertime'

but don't we all, i guess

"curiosity killed the cat" by curiosity killed the cat sounds to me like a slower version of "hip to be square"

The James song "Low Low Low" is playing quietly in the background, and the chords sound extremely similar to R.E.M.'s "Crush With Eyeliner" (released the following year)

Klex - lifting (@ 1'25'')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKS-F4nU7bA

John Carpenter - assault on precinct 13 (main title)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4hc1a7Vio

Steve Miller Band 'Big Old Jet Airliner' instrumental chord changes was a carbon copy of the very same chord changes from the Velvet Underground's 'What Goes On'. Don't know if it was a conscious thing or not on Miller's part, but it's the entire song.

paul pena wrote that song!

here to say that greenwich & barry definitely lifted portions of jerry butler and curtis mayfield's "he will break your heart" when they were writing "i can hear music"

"I Was Neon* by Julia Jacklin sounds quite like "The Sprawl" by Sonic Youth

“Ghost Town” by The Specials has a part that sounds very much like “In Walked Bud” by Thelonious Monk.

― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 03:45 (three years ago) link

The theme music of The Lady Vanishes sounds like “St. James Infirmary.”

Petula Clark's "Don't Sleep in the Subway" (melody from 0:37 to 0:52 and again from 1:46 to 2:01)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ISX9mW78Dw

... sounds awfully like "Focus III" by Focus (melody from 2:02 to 2:19 and again from 4:55 to 5:12)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCqDZMqd4XY

The Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man
Pavement - Folk Jam
The Fall - The Classical
Pavement - Elevate Me Later

The Focus one is absolutely a quote, but good catch, never noticed that one before even though I have that CD

Amy Grant - “Baby Baby” and Talking Heads - “This Must Be the Place”

Ooh, good one. I like to do TMBTP in G (G Am Bm G) throughout. The verse of Baby Baby is G Am. I iii.

george michael might've been listening closely to jeff beck's "cause we've ended as lovers" when he wrote "careless whisper"

leonard cohen's "bird on the wire" is just this lefty frizell song from '51

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

Old Dominion "Never Be Sorry" and Graham Parker "Get Started, Start a Fire"

...and Santana "Hold On"

I'll be damned if Careless Whisper doesn't sound like Jeff Beck's "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" off Blow by Blow.

ha i am glad we independently arrived there, somehow never noticed it before he died

thank you!

This might be the version of the song that George Michael was listening to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKt-zMH8c3c

Ok, that makes it much more obvious.

New P!nk sounds like "Dancing On My On" and Body Talk era Robin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2KE2a5qo0g

The theme music of the Fassbinder movie, "Wildwechsel", by Peer Raben is very reminiscent of the end section of "Odessa (City on the Black Sea") by the Bee Gees. Unfortunately you'll just have to take my word for that as the former is not on YouTube!

checking out the au suisse album and the synth riff from "pain & regret" is basically "teardrops" by womack & womack

I've been listening to My Bloody Valentine's mbv album – in the track "New You," one bit of the repeating organ (or whatever) line keeps reminding me of the keyboard part in Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark."

Has it been mentioned that Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby" and U2's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" share more than a little DNA?

there is a disco song that sounds a bit (maybe a lot) like “rollercoaster of love” by ohio players

i forget who it’s by, someone semi obscure like edwin birdsong or labi siffre. it was sampled by idjut boys for their track “corrective surgery”

ring any bells?

I’m crazy about the “new you” melody, it has some vague shepard tone esque-ness goin on.

Wrong thread. doh, please delete mods :)

but if we delete the mods who will mod

the rockers, obv

(I think I make that same joke every time)