songs that sound like other songs

i thought of this one today when i was playing tennis

"death and the maiden" - the verlaines
"box elder" - pavement

don't be jealous just cuz i thought of it first! :p

Kiss' "Crazy Crazy Night" has borrowed a thing or two from AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"

Wire's "Circumspect" and Magazine's "Vigilance."

"San Diego Zoo" by Magnetic Fields and "Shambala" by Three Dog Night

Anyone else hears the similarity between LADY MADONNA and WHAT I GOT, by the beatles and sublime respectively?
Something about the vocal melody, I swear you could make a convincing mashup out of those. Look at the following, you could even rhyme the opening verses:

Early in the morning risin' to the street
Light me up that cigarette and I strap shoes on my feet
-
Lady Madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet

I also dont get why Beck isn't paying royalties to Ramsey Lewis for this one:

Oh just doublechecked to be sure and it seems Beck openly admits it was inspired by said track so that last one doesn't count. He only decided to reproduce rather than sample to avoid all the nasty clearance.

Inara George - "Fool's Work" sounds quite a bit like the standard "Wild is the Wind".

The melody during these two lines is the same:

"Life can be hard, but it can be good to you"

"Love me, love me, love me, love me,
say you do"

especially "good to you" vs "say you do".

the chorus to Aerosmith's "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" is a wholesale ripoff of Cher's "Jesse James"

(listen around 2:40)

holy shit-- Diane Warren was involved in writing both of those songs. She ripped off her own song.

And surely not for the first time.

Oh, and 3DN's aforementioned "Shambala" and B.W. Stevenson's "My Maria."

There's a Lady Madonna/What I Got mashup out there and it is literally the worst thing of all time. Apparently the whole "make sure both tracks are in the same key" principle was ignored.

eta: here it is: http://hypem.com/track/121678

There's a Lady Madonna/What I Got mashup out there and it is literally the worst thing of all time. Apparently the whole "make sure both tracks are in the same key" principle was ignored.

eta: here it is: http://hypem.com/track/121678

― ILX MOD (musically), viernes 24 de octubre de 2008 08:19 (11 hours ago)

I'm amazed someone did it, and in such a terrible fashion. It just sounds like someone overlapped one song over the other... can't really be considered a mashup, right?

Howling Wolf, Smokestack Lightning / Pentangle, Way Behind the Sun / Kaleidoscope, Beacon From Mars / thousands of others

― Dadaismus (Dada)
Just came to post "Beacon From Mars" and "Smokestack Lightning." I guess I'll second it.

Five For Fighting, "Superman" * Joan Osborne, "One Of Us" = Beyoncé, "If I Were A Boy"

joe satriani - if i could fly = coldplay - viva la vida

Cherish - Do It To It
Ciara - Oh

Just realized David Bowie was doing an imo of Howlin' Wolf's trademark "Woo-hoo" vocal in "Jean Genie."

Note: "Woo-hoo" is not the name of a song, but the a vocal line used in "Smokestack Lighting."

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "The Needle & The Spoon"
Sex Pistols - "Submission"

No one has mentioned Jerry Jeff Walker's 'Mr Bojangles' and Pavement's 'Spit On A Stranger'? - Ok I will ...

Inspired by recent Harvey Danter-related polling activity, I just listened to it & it occurred to me, for the first time, how similar the opening bars of "Flagpole Sitta" are to Cracker's "Teen Angst"

*Danger - sorry that post is a mess.

Instant Karma / Theme from the Wombles (The Wombling Song)

That'd make a good bootmix.

Anyroad, which J Geils band song was "did you no wrong" Sex Pistols too close to, such that the track got credited to on some versions of the CD single?

Felt "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow"
Felt "Dismantled King is Off the Throne"

same album, even!

velvet underground's "sweet jane"
is similar to
tommy james and the shondells' "crimson and clover"

is that song a ripoff?

boston spaceships "ready to pop"
jay reatard "always wanting more"

the lucksmiths' "midweek midmorning" and belle & sebastian's "asleep on a sunbeam" are remarkably similar

velvet underground's "sweet jane"
is similar to
tommy james and the shondells' "crimson and clover"

is that song a ripoff? anyone?

Felt "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow"
Felt "Dismantled King is Off the Throne"

same album, even!

― "80s Baby" (Z S), Tuesday, January 6, 2009 4:50 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg how i love this band! the only geniuses they would ever rip off are themselves! and television!

Sweet Jane and Crimson/Clover are both simple 3-chord (I,IV,V) tunes, and saying they're the same is like saying one blues song is the same as another. Similar yes, ripoff... well, no.

Buffalo Springfield's "Mr. Soul" & "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

"You Can Win If You Want" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" by Modern Talking
"Cheri Cheri Lady" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "You Can Win If YOu Want" by Modern Talking
"Brother Louie" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "Cheri Cheri Lady" by Modern Talking
"Atlantis Is Calling" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "Brother Louie" by Modern Talking
"Geronimo's Cadillac" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "Atlantis Is Calling" by Modern Talking.

Well.... There you go......

=

alphabeat's fascination sounds oddly like the theme music for ducktales

Sweet Jane and Crimson/Clover are both simple 3-chord (I,IV,V) tunes, and saying they're the same is like saying one blues song is the same as another. Similar yes, ripoff... well, no.

No, the other guy is right. Sweet Jane was directly inspired by C&C, Reed's even said so himself.

About 30 seconds in, the Who song "One Life's Enough" from It's Hard sounds like the theme from Cheers, which is odd considering Townshend later wrote a song called "Mike Post Theme."

Joe Satriani sued Coldplay, but I think the folks with a case are Strange Advance. Doesn't that song remind anyone besides me of "We Run"?

Oasis - The Hindu Times
Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now

No, the other guy is right. Sweet Jane was directly inspired by C&C, Reed's even said so himself.

― Cunga, Monday, February 2, 2009 5:02 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

Ahahahahaaha.

opening of pink's 'sober' sounds just like skye sweetnam 'tangled up in me'

the jam's "that's entertainment"

+

arcade fire's "rebellion (lies)"

The Kinks "You Really Got Me"
The Kinks "All Day And All Of The Night"

Just realized that Alone by Ween is a blatant rip of Robyn Hitchcock's The Bones in the Ground.

Also, the verses of Ween's Dr. Rock resemble the verse melody of Heroes and Villains.

I mentioned this above, but now I have youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um4pnvJr07A

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

Iggy Pop, "Funtime"
Liz Phair, "South Dakota"