songs that sound like other songs

Oh yeah, absolutely. When I watched Twin Peaks for the first time (last summer), I noticed how much of the soundtrack had been covered or aped or imitated or paid tribute to. FFVII also has a piece that's basically note for note Boston's "Foreplay."

https://variety.com/2018/music/news/bebe-rexha-im-a-mess-song-im-a-mess-similar-1997-bitch-song-1202848285/

Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between Felt's 'Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow' and the Cure's 'Just Like Heaven'?

the band that felt ripped off most frequently was themselves, i think! there are so many felt songs where lawrence uses the exact same vocal melody, rhythm, affect, everything

It has come to my attention of late (thanks to shuffle) that Rainmaker by Sparklehorse has virtually exactly the same starting riff as September Gurls.

Also, A Minor Place by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is Everyday People on different drugs.

ELO's "Across the Border" and the Beach Boy's "Heroes and Villains"

― mottdeterre, Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post

Mottdeterre beat me to it by almost ten years.

My wife and I were in Target today; a ringing guitar intro was playing over the PA.
ME: What’s this Strokes rip-off song?
HER: You’re gonna laugh when you realize what it is.
The vocals come in: She was an American girl....
#moded

lmao

Jesus, how has this not been mentioned yet?

Say Hello to the Angels - Interpol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41H4SOkCHwU

This Charming Man - The Smiths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJRP3LRcUFg

It sounds nothing like it dude

oh, come on! love them but the drums & bass are almost identical and the guitars are very similar

another:

Chartered Trips - Hüsker Dü

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

Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51OB2YoC4sg

The beginning of "Weekend Girl" by The S.O.S. band sounds a lot like the beginning of "Hotel California" by The Eagles.

the titans "surfer's lullaby"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2KUk6cEL8I

eileen rodgers "careful careful"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EWmklIIPpk

The Boo Radleys and King Crimson are both very good bands that I would never normally associate with each other, however both bands released very very similar sounding songs in 1995 called 'Wilder' (from Wake Up) and 'Walking On Air' (from Thrak).
Listen to then through and tell me it's not uncanny. Especially the instrumental bridges on each song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKsxO9FfxLg

Cheap Trick "Need Your Love" manages to sound like 3 songs at different points:
- first couple chords sounds like Black Sabbath "War Pigs"
- chorus sounds like Donna Summer "I Feel Love"
- coda from 4:25 to the end sounds like T-Rex "Bang a Gong"

The Rascals, "Love Is a Beautiful Thing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPRS6ABlw2g

Blue Oyster Cult, "Donovan's Monkey"

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

hold my liquor by kanye and beach house drunk in LA seem to have similarities in their guitar tone..both songs mash well

Monoton - "Ein Wort"
Boards of Canada - "Sixtyniner"

go-betweens' "here comes the city" is pretty much talking heads' "life during wartime"

the grateful dead's "here comes sunshine" is basically the beatles' "sun king"

You’re so vein mashes perfectly with Tuesday afternoon

the grateful dead's "here comes sunshine" is basically the beatles' "sun king"

― reggie (qualmsley)

...which in turn is pretty much fleetwood mac's "albatross"!

Almost definitely a coincidence, but the melody of "Golden Brown" by the Strangers sounds very similar to the title track of oddball psych folk weirdo Peter Grudzien's The Unicorn (beginning with the "hoping to find / someone half blind" bit):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymvgh-tcobs

...which in turn is pretty much fleetwood mac's "albatross"!

― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, August 25, 2018 10:28 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isn't there something on a thread somewhere about the whole "floyd's guitar blues" > chuck berry "deep feeling" > santo & johnny > "albatross" > "sun king" thing?

maybe there should be a thread called "the evolution of the lonely wistful slide guitar ballad that evokes walking through an empty airport"

"no explanation" the church (1984) is "pretty in pink" the psychedelic furs (1981) for the most part

https://thetomspowerpop.bandcamp.com/track/why-do-i-care

As much as I <3 all of the 2cd version of The Toms first album and most of their second album, later stuff is a bit disappointing. Luckily the later material must not get much attention because 'Why Do I Care' is a clear ripoff of Foster The People's 'Helena Beat'. I hope Tom Marolda credits them on the physical copy of the album because I can't find any credits on the internet.

Also, the chorus of 'Ugly Love' is very similar to the chorus of Buffalo Daughter's 'Great Five Lakes'.

malkmus's "ramp of death" is the go-betweens' "hammer the hammer" slowed down and mellowed out

So who is referencing who in Abra fruit vs MO? It’s so similar

malkmus's "ramp of death" is the go-betweens' "hammer the hammer" slowed down and mellowed out

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, September 8, 2018 11:10 AM (one week ago)

am very familiar with both songs but not hearing this at all. does any particular phrase stand out to you?

RoD is like a 4-5 chords and a pretty rangy melody line for Malkmus. HtH is like a 2-3 chord minimal raveup that's got like 3 notes in the melody.

i hear it the most in the "you won't change"

jersey al, you were right and i'm a dumb ass. the malkmus/jicks song i meant was "animal midnight". talk about shit for a brain, a crawl up a leech line . . .

Ahhh, I can def hear that one haha!

it is really bugging me which song sweetener by ariana sounds like - it reminds me of a cod wedding-gospel song

“Do Not Feed the Oyster,” by SM & Jicks, could be heard as a rewrite/improvement of Phish’s “Sample in a Jar.”

"janet us johnny" on the real new fall LP is more or less iggy/bowie's "the passenger"

Saturday by the Clientele, beautiful though it is, does sound worryingly like Octopus's Garden.

might've been mentioned upthread but LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" or whatever is a straight lift from the chorus of "Giving Up the Gun" by Vampire Weekend.

Here Today by Paul McCartney sounds kind of like When Two Worlds Drift Apart by Cliff Richard

Saturday by the Clientele, beautiful though it is, does sound worryingly like Octopus's Garden.

haha, at first I was like, no way! but now I'm not sure I can unhear it

Michael Jackson's 'Smooth Criminal' is a shameless ripoff of Yellow Magic Orchestra's 'Music Plans'

and of course someone made a mashup of the two

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

Really ? Listening to the original « Music Plans » makes you think « oh, « Smooth Criminal » is such a rip off! » ?
Because if you hadn’t mentioned it I would have NEVER thought about it !

I don't like "shameless ripoff" being used to mean "two things that both sound cool in similar ways, but one of them was recorded first."

But that's just me

Been watching The Little Mermaid and wondering why I've had 'Somewhere that's green' from Little Shop of Horrors in my head for about a week - it's because 'Part of your world' is essentially the same song!
The internet has also noticed this.

Wastin.. away again in Margaritaville

Don't you know me, I'm your native son....

you bastard.

thank u next uses the same chords as fucking merry christmas mr lawrence

Dudley Moore, "Love Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJH6nEEDYMA

... and parts of this Guided By Voices track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_b4xv9tV4

thank u next uses the same chords as fucking merry christmas mr lawrence

via @hallieandannie ofc

— Owen Myers (@Owen_Myers) November 10, 2018

I just realized Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is the alphabet song

I realized that very recently myself; was kind of a “...” moment.