Singles that sound exactly the same as the one previous...

also this is the second mention of Body in Motion in under a month (I mntioned it in the songs that rhyme with the artist thread), which I wouldn't be surprised were the *only* mentions on ilx

Went to that thread after the post to see if it had already been mentioned. And I'm not even watching the TOTP repeats.

But somehow nobody mentioned Nightcrawlers 'Surrender Your Love' (after 'Push The Feeling On') yet.

Robert Miles 'Fable' maaaybe or may be just different enough from 'Children' to not qualify.

Ann Lee's Voices might count, with regards to being 2 Times

I think there's a group of several 90s dance hits which were ripped off for *a* follow-up except it was someone else doing it. E.g. Red 5's I Love You...Stop! is a lot like DJ Quicksilver's Bellissima, more than DJQ's own follow-up Free (although there were a lot of trance tracks in 96/97 used pizzicato strings and Faithless were the overall model). Or like how Doop is the obvious inspiration for Dorothy's What's That Tune?, or the Grid's Swamp Thing being the inspiration for 2InATent's When I'm Cleaning Windows (except both that and WTT were borrowing familiar source material, unlike Doop and Swamp Thing).

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There's not really much similarity between Sandstorm and Feel the Beat but the latter still makes sure to include a bit of the dududududu as a hook.

Not exactly the same, but I've always felt these were very similar in both sound and meaning:

Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone / Positively 4th Street

Side question... At first glance it seems the vast majority of these soundalike singles are products of the same songwriter or songwriting team. Are there notable cases where that wasn't true, i.e. a different songwriter or songwriting team deliberately aped the style of a hit single they had not been involved with?

- William DeVaughn - "Be Thankful For What You Got"/"Blood Is Thicker Than Water"

came to post these two, but Rev. Hoodoo beat me to it by 15 years. both john davis productions. blood came first, so be thankful is like the refined version i guess.

shirley and company, "shame shame shame" and "cry cry cry"

I wasn't even aware until several years ago that 'Only the Lonely' and 'Suddenly Last Summer' were two distinct songs. I've just always conflated them in my head for some reason. I don't know that they necessarily sound exactly the same but the tempo is consistent and they fit seamlessly together.

And then suddenly
Last summer
It's like I told you
Only the lonely can play

Kinks, "All Day And All Of The Night" is pretty much "You Really Got Me" all over again (though it does add a couple of extra bars going into the guitar solo)

It's the best example in that it's an obvious improvement (imo)

Jackson 5, "I Want You Back"/"ABC" — IIRC the latter was written around an unused portion of the former

'Run to Me', Candi Staton's follow-up to 'Young Hearts Run Free' - different chorus but that's about it.

Brainbug - Benedictus (Nightmare)

good Halloween banger, pizzicato string trance is great for this time of year

Bamboo - The Strutt (Bamboogie)

Maxx - No More (I Can't Stand It) (Get-a-Way)

Dire Straits' "Lady Writer" is virtually a carbon copy of "Sultans of Swing".

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell/Paradise By The Dashboard Light

You can seamlessly mash them up: “Like a bat out of hell, I’ll give you an answer in the morning”

The Pioneers followed up 'Long Shot Kick De Bucket' with a song called 'Poor Rameses' about another Jamaican racehorse who had died the same week as Long Shot. The track also begins with a (slightly different) bugle call.

The group clearly had no qualms about flogging a dead horse.

i lol'd

Dire Straits' "Lady Writer" is virtually a carbon copy of "Sultans of Swing".

i lol'd

The Pioneers had another song about "Long Shot" while he was still a going concern. It is quite similar...