songs that sound like other songs

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Chromatics' "I Want Your Love" reminds me of Cat Power- "Keep on Runnin'"/John Lee Hooker- "Crawlin' Black Spider".

lou, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link

christopher cross - arthur's song
elton john - goodbye yellow brick road

inspired by yesterday's music round on university challenge which i sucked at.

I made exactly the same mistake! I'm also rubbish at the intros round on Never Mind the Buzzcoks.

ledge, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link

What is it with all those songs appropriating the opening drums on "Be My Baby"? I seem to hear a a couple of new ones every year.

Jazzbo, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link

"high & dry" by radiohead and "slow love" prince.

AleXTC, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Buzzcocks "Lipstick" and Magazine "Shot by Both Sides." Though I guess that one is one purpose.

hugo, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I probably need to listen to them back-to-back, but I heard u2's "All I Want is You" the other night in a bar and it really brought to mind "Let Me Die in My Footsteps" by Dylan.

will, Monday, 17 December 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Just done some "googling" & have answered my own question. ie. 'Ghetto supastar' by Pras (1998) is a rip off of 'Islands in the stream. Thanks to Jim.

-- geoff huggins, Monday, May 22, 2006 5:02 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

I did some "googling" recently too and apparently "Bittersweet Symphony" is a rip-off of some Stones song!!!

musically, Monday, 17 December 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link

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sexyDancer, Monday, 17 December 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Kinda obvious but "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop and "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet are almost twins.

-- musically (musically), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:46 (1 year ago) Link

I always figured one (or more) of them was closer to 'You Can't Hurry Love' by the Supremes

Popture, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link

notice that a lot of rap songs seem to sound like bits of old songs maybe one or two bars played over and over again, very often the drumbeat, or even sung choruses between the "rapping".

what's all that about?

pc user, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link

And Solomun's "Jungle River Cruise" is essentially the younger (i.e. It came out after, I think) Amazonian cousin of the superior, Pele's "Childhood's End".

mehlt, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" and the theme song to the US version of The Office

Mr. Snrub, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link

Kinda obvious but "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop and "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet are almost twins.

-- musically (musically), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:46 (1 year ago) Link

I always figured one (or more) of them was closer to 'You Can't Hurry Love' by the Supremes

-- Popture, Monday, December 17, 2007 3:01 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I think "Songs that use the bass line from 'You Can't Hurry Love'" could be its own thread (if it isn't already).

musically, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Silver Apples - Program
Folk Implosion -Nothing Gonna Stop

Actually, them cardigan wearin' folk imploders basically plundered Silver Apples for the Kids soundtrack. Us internet music nerds already know this - did the they not expect people to find out?

Chelvis, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" and the theme song to the US version of The Office

-- Mr. Snrub, Monday, December 17, 2007 3:25 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Speaking of which, the first 10 seconds of the Office theme sounds a LOT like the first 10 seconds of "Theme For An Imaginary Western" by Jack Bruce.

musically, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link

When I first heard that dang abnoxious Atari Teenage Riot album I was like "Does nobody else hear Bad Brains and Sham 69 riffs?" Dr. Know is what makes this song good, not some German dudes! There are at least a few Bad Brains samples which built that album...

Chelvis, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Other thread made me think of it. James Brown - It's a Man's Man's Man's World -> Alicia Keys - Fallin'

Popture, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link

to be honest the pre-chorus of Linkin Park's "Breaking the Habit" reminds me of the pre-chorus to Mike and the Mechanics' "The Living Years".

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link

the verse to "High Flying Adored" from Evita and "Stuck on You" by Lionel Ritchie

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link

I heard a Bad Company song today that totally ripped off the intro to "Ozone Baby" by Led Zeppelin.

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Brian Eno - Needles in the Camel's Eye -- Velvet Underground - Waiting for the Man

The Fall - Elves -- Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

S-, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Refrains of:
Alice Cooper, "You and Me"
Partridge Family, "I'll Meet You Halfway"

Riffs of:
Beatles, "It's All Too Much"
Three Dog Night, "Family of Man"

Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 10:52 (sixteen years ago) link

christina aguilera - "beautiful" --> motley crue - "home sweet home"

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Vanilla Ice claims the wrote all of "Ice Ice Baby" even though the riff is strangely similar to the "Under Pressure" intro....

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link

When I first heard that dang abnoxious Atari Teenage Riot album I was like "Does nobody else hear Bad Brains and Sham 69 riffs?" Dr. Know is what makes this song good, not some German dudes! There are at least a few Bad Brains samples which built that album...

Heh no shit, they also sample/take the riff from the Users' Sick Of You, but I don't think they intend for people not to notice this! I mean, they were COVERING Sham 69. I don't think that counts.

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Bon Jovi's "Who Said You Can't Go Home" seems to be an embellishment of Sam Cooke's "Cupid".

Dewey B., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Somebody asked the Knack guy how he came up with such a catchy hook for "My Sharona" and he said "Easy: we just ripped off the bassline to 'Goin' to a Go-Go'."

ellaguru, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Oxia's Domino sounds very much like Patrick Chardronnet's Eve By Day.. (I think I read that here)

mmmm, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Isn't there that Green Day song that rips off "picture book" by the Kinks?

Heard this for the first time yesterday. It's pretty blatant.

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link

"warning"

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link

"Do Ya" = "Fox on the Run."
otm

James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, the Green Day song American Idiot is a pretty solid ripoff of the Dillinger Four song Doublewhiskeycokenoice.

circa1916, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link

"Sunshine of Your Love" / "Funky Town" (hint: those repeating instrumental squiggles, pretty much the same)

Someone mentioned it elsewhere on ILM, but that Ashra Bhonsle song and "Don't Phunk with My Heart." Also Black Eyed Peas to thread in general.

babyalive, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link

"Lonesome Surprise" by Refrigerator is almost identical to "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" by the Velvet Underground.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 19 December 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Glamourous Glue by Morrissey = Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum

Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats = Blank Generation by Richard Hell and the Voidoids

miryam, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Oasis - "The Importance of Being Idle" = Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon"

musically, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link

If those sound alike, then "With a Little Help From My Friends", "Penny Lande" and hundreds of other songs with the same Music Hall-influenced beat do too.

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Dylan's Ballad of the Thin Man pimps the dirgey piano roll from Ray Charles' "Sinner's Prayer",

tremendoid, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link

It's more than just the beat that they have in common, surely.

musically, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link

are you asking me or telling me? i didn't listen to the lyrics on the Ray Charles one, just heard it today, I dunno.

tremendoid, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link

I was replying to the comment just above yours.

musically, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Sean Kingston "Me Love" -> Led Zeppelin "D'yer Mak'er"

Kelly Osbourne "One Word" -> Visage "Fade to Grey

rock_is_dead, Monday, 7 January 2008 06:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats = Blank Generation by Richard Hell and the Voidoids

Never thought of that, but yeah!

Alex in NYC, Monday, 7 January 2008 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star = The ABC Song

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 7 January 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link

Maybe I should have posted that on the Parenting Thread instead.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 7 January 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians - Section VI (track 8)
and
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois - Out Of Egypt... (track 22)

CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Red House Painter's "Song for a blue guitar" is essentially "Fade into You". Both of which are basically "candy says" or something.

akm, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link

^^

yes, plus any number of galaxie 500 songs?

This is probably some kind of sacrilege, but sometimes I confuse Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" with Santana's "I'm Winning".

dell, Sunday, 20 January 2008 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link

some mclusky song(on mclusky do dallas, abt as detailed as i can get right now) sounds a lot like in bloom

johnny crunch, Sunday, 20 January 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Freddie's Dead and the Charlie's Angels theme tune (from the TV show, not the Destiny's Child one).

chap, Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link


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