songs that sound like other songs

Also, keeping with This Nation's Saving Grace, Magnetic Fields took the riff from "Paint Work" for "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off"

You Belong to Me sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown
Tokyo Storm Warning really sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown

A little help here?

starts off in perfect Jesus and Mary Chain style circa Automatic, complete with lyrics:

"I'm so happy with my feet on the ground
So happy my head spins around" and so on, could be about half the songs on that album

At about the 1:25 mark the guitars start to sound just like the the Raveonettes' much later freakout in "Attack of the Ghost Riders"

And they mix really well together too.

Oasis - 'Cast No Shadow' is a complete rip-off of Moby Grape's 'He'. Just listen to the melody in the verse.

That one White Stripes song has the same "oh-oh-oh-oh" vocal line as "Middle of the Road" by the Pretenders. That band Gaunt had a song which took a similar vocal line from a Naked Raygun song. Melissa Etheridge's voice sounds like Steve Perry's to me. And the list goes on and on.
-- hstencil (hstenci...), September 9th, 2002.

ha! melissa should sing " oh sherrie" she can sing about loving a girl without changing the lyrics
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"Do Ya" = "Fox on the Run."
-- Jody Beth Rosen (edito...), September 9th, 2002.
do you mean sam fox"do tya wanna please me" ? which part ? bridge?

You could do a whole thread on songs Lep Zep ripped off

-- My name is Kenny (khemunso...), September 9th, 2002.
queen/bowie did but vanilla didn't

The first Love albums full of songs that sound like other songs

The Seeds / The Seeds

All The Seeds's songs sound like all the other Seeds's songs - if that makes any sense.

"Holy Water" by Big and Rich reminds me of Babybird's "You're Gorgeous."

Sugababes "Push the Button" has the same melody as "Something Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra.

And then the rest of "Breathe" sounds like "Labour of Love" by Hue and Cry.

-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), January 21st, 2005.

I heard Stevie Wonder's Superstition the other day and thought "Gee, that obviously inspired Trampled Under Foot, but when I tried going throug the Led Zeppelin song in my head I came up with Take Me Out.

So then, Superstition begat Trampled Under Foot which begat Take Me Out. Are there any songs that inspired Stevie Wonder? Any that are direct offspring of Franz Ferdinand? Are there any other three songs that follow a sort of evolutionary flow (this would exclude the countless Sister Ray clones as they are all aping VU and not building off each other).

Surely coincidental, though?

Surely coincidental, though?

I haven't heard the latter song; which part sounds the same? Because about a billion songs have the same chord progression as ITAOTS (but none of them are as good).

Also, "On the Bus Mall" by The Decemberists sounds like "Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right" by The Decemberists.