songs that sound like other songs

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...

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

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'."

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

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.

"warning"

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

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

"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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I was replying to the comment just above yours.

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

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

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

Never thought of that, but yeah!

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star = The ABC Song

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

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

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

^^

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".

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

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

There's a Mastodon song that whenever it comes up on my iPod at first I think it's a Pete Townsend song.

The verse melody in Prince's "1999" is very similar to the verse melody in Bangles' "Manic Monday" (also written by Prince).

The verse melody in Prince's "1999" is very similar to the verse meldy in Bangles' "Manic Monday" (also written by Prince).

Oops, sorry about the double post.

Talking Heads - Heaven / Queen - It's A Kind Of Magic

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star = The ABC Song

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, January 7, 2008 2:30 PM

Which also sounds like "Baa Baa Black Sheep".

B&S's "Dog on Wheels" = Lee Hazlewoods' "Summer Wine"

Gwen S. "What You Waiting For?" equals Weezer "Hashpipe"

Song on Mamoru Fujieda's Patterns of Plants sounds just like Satie's Gymnopedie (1?)

^^^ Even though it is composed by a plant.

The beginning of "I Can't Go For That" reminds me a little of "Billie Jean"

Another Weezer one:

"No Other One" is that one song from Threepenny Opera

Jessie Hill's Naturally equals ODB's career

Ghetto Superstar = Islands in the Stream

Caribou's "Desiree" totally rips off the Beach Boys "Lady" which in turn rips off an old Brian Wilson-produced track by the Honeys called "Pray For Surf"... I don't know if Pray For Surf rips something else off though.

-- the next grozart, Monday, November 26, 2007 5:24 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

ah, actually my MP3 of the Brian Wilson Pet Projects comp is mislabelled. The Honeys song is actually by American Spring and is called "Fallin In Love"

-- the next grozart, Monday, November 26, 2007 5:37 PM (2 months ago)

song was originally released as a Dennis Wilson b-side, Lady/Fallin In Love are the same song, and yes, the caribou thing is very "inspired" by said song

Ghetto Superstar = Islands in the Stream

-- our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 01:57 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

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Well, I just figured that out yesterday, so forgive me for not knowing absolutely everything about music.

I guess the point of this thread is to list songs which bite other songs, not tunes which are acknowledged cover versions, like "Ghetto Superstar" or "Men in Black" or "I'll Be Missing You".

Nick Lowe's "I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll" rips off Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell."

Indeed it does.

This particular thread doesn't seem to mention that "So It Goes" sounds like "Reelin' In The Years"

Hmmm ... indeed it does.
And that reminds me — I need to pick up the expanded version of Jesus of Cool this week.

And "Heart" sounds like "One Fine Day."

"Retreat From The Sun" by That Dog sounds like "Who Loves The Sun" by the Velvet Underground, at least when they sing "Su-u-u-u-un."