songs that sound like other songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os_ewEA-BP4

sorry

the intro of "a surgeon" by st. vincent is a play on "you only live twice"

Rolling Stones "Monkey Man" intro
Damien Jurado "Magic Number"

And I'm into it because the Monkey Man intro is great and I could listen to it forever.

“Government Center,” by The Modern Lovers sounds like “I Think We’re Alone Now,” by Tommy James and the Shondells. D’oh!

Don’t know why Rubinoos cover version didn’t tip me off decades earlier, maybe their arrangement is different

Faust "Liebeswehen 2"
Belle and Sebastian "Sleep The Clock Around"

New Order "We All Stand"
Traffic "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys"

Phoebe Bridgers "Scott Street"
Zwan "Cast a Stone"

this one is more ambiguous/elusive than a straight melodic similarity

why does the chorus of Suede's 'Saturday Night' sound so much like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight'? is Brett Anderson an asshole?

Also 'song for guy' by Elton John, but think that's already been the subject of another ILX thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbNVx9Y28rk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvQ-te2CBFM

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

dead ringer for hella good by no doubt

The Smiths "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" ("Still they don't believe me") = Lit "My Own Worst Enemy" ("Sleeping with my clothes on")

the end of Elvis Costello's "Party Girl" sounds like the end of "You Never Give Me Your Money". the part where they sing "One two three four five six seven all good children go to heaven".

^An oldie but goodie. There is also Eddie Palmieri's "Una Rosa Española" with a section that is a Spanish language version of that ending. Was going to say it was from his White Album, but I misremembered, it is really from The Sun of Latin Music.

some things just stick in your mind by vashti bunyan is a total rip of how many roads by dylan

“I Really Need Love,” by The Bees sounds like Marshall Crenshaw’s “Someday, Someway.”

Hosier take me to church is a rip of helter skelter just slower

https://youtu.be/0wQnqvvIhfU
Part at 1:30 strongly reminds of Siberian Khartu

of Montreal's "Imbecile Rages" has a big melodic lick from "Desolation Row."

Bob Seger - Still the Same VS. Brian Eno - On Some Faraway Beach

I mean, really.

It ocurred to me that the chord progression of Landslide has a lot in common with the chord progression of Don't Think Twice It's Alright -- each belonging in the pantheon of breakup songs

Also I just finally heard that Ed Sheeran song that sounds like Let's Get it On -- it's so fucking blatant it sounds like a sample

The Flaming Lips "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" and the drummy instrumental end of "Riding to Work in the Year 2025" both use v similar drum parts

It ocurred to me that the chord progression of Landslide has a lot in common with the chord progression of Don't Think Twice It's Alright -- each belonging in the pantheon of breakup songs

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, February 4, 2018 6:21 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think the chord progression is that similar--stevie likes to use very circular chord progressions and the DTT progression is not as repetitive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrGwjgK2jrM

the song 2:02 into the above Mr. Show "Jeepers Creepers" sketch vs. Pink Floyd "Lucifer Sam"

its got almost the same spy movie guitar riff.

Hey Adam you'd probably appreciate that flaming lips psychiatric explorations is a rip on bluebird by buffalo springfield

foghat's "slow ride" bites achim reichel's "in the same boat" hard

I don't know how I never noticed until just now how similar the synth opening to 'Sunglasses at Night' is to the one in 'Sweet Dreams'.

Also I just finally heard that Ed Sheeran song that sounds like Let's Get it On -- it's so fucking blatant it sounds like a sample

"Thinking Out Loud"? It's also "Soul Provider" and not unlike the Manhattans' "Shining Star." Common vamps, all of them, but yeah. In feel and tempo

C Em F G
I've been really tryin, baby

C Em F
I wanna be your soul provider

C C/E F G
So honey now, Take me into your loving arms

cate le bon's "no god" may as well be galaxie 500's "king of spain"

The opening riff of Television's "Elevation" and The Cardigans' "Lovefool".

Both lovely songs in their own right but I don't like the fact I now associate one with the other.

"Tonight's the Night" and "Proud Mary". the riffs both have that stop-start jumping up and then downward thing (D-C-A-G-F-E). the songs are in the same key too, a D drone. if you slow down "Proud Mary" to .75 with youtube it sounds pretty dope.

The opening riff of Television's "Elevation" and The Cardigans' "Lovefool".

Ha. Always thought Lovefool sounded like something, but could never work it out. That's it!

Al Green's Sha La La (Make Me Happy) and Wings' Silly Love Songs

For years I had been trying to identify a song that sounds kind of like Silly Love Songs, but isn't Silly Love Songs. Turns out, it was the Al Green song.

oneida's "cockfight" echoes zeppelin's "wearing & tearing"

john cale 'dying on the vine': madonna, dress you up

siouxsie and the banshees - trophy cribs the james bond theme

also this happens in stereolab - excursions into a-oh

The verse melody of Caspar Babypants's "I'm a Nut" [I have kids] sounds very similar to "Walking in Your Footsteps" by The Police.

Yesterday, I heard Hall & Oates "I Can't Go For That", and I was struck by how much the funk riff in Calvin Harris' "Feels" sounds like the verse part in the H2O song.
Specifically the keyboard stabs that step up to the turnaround in both songs.
(I love both of these songs unabashedly, fwiw)

oh my god i heard poison by bell biv devoe from a passing car yesterday and my fucked up brain can't stop looping "that girl is pooooisonnnnnnn / I KNOW YOU WANT IT" from Blurred Lines :(

What's the story about sister midnight by iggy pop (1977) and Bowies rip "red money" from lodger. Bowie didn't even credit pop? The songs are identical

Bowie wrote Sister Midnight

Lol yeah just realized that

the sound of locking the screen in Windows 7 sounds like a Nina Kraviz track.. Taxi Talk I think

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7571952.stm

bob marley buffalo soldier and the theme from the banana splits show are extremely similar

the psychedelic furs "should god forget" is pretty much the sequel to sabbath's "NIB"

hadn't heard 'feels' before but yeah it sounds strongly inspired by that H&O song. always thought Chairlift 'take it out on me' had 'i can't go for that' vibes but in a totally different way.

The intro to 'I Got You' by Split Enz = 'Alice What's the Matter' by Terrorvision.