songs that sound like other songs

Just heard this song playing in public; no way they didn’t have “Blurred Lines” in mind when they wrote it (which is obv funny for certain reasons).

The intro to Offspring's "The Kids Aren't Alright" is exactly the same intro lick as Belle & Sebastian's "String Bean Jean". Unless they're riffing off another theme, I find this really hard to get my head around

Offspring really nicked a lot of songs over the years

yeah but the Offspring tune came out in 1998 and he B&S in 2000, is dog latin's point i think

sorry google lied to me lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y43XLVqjytQ

There's a whole subset of songs that sound like the Police, but I'd never really processed this one before, which sounds heavily indebted to lots of stuff on "Ghost in the Machine," which came out the year before:

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

Apparently that is Phil Collins doing a respectable Stewart Copeland impression. Huh.

Going from Bonham to Copeland-via-Collins was a good way for Plant to distance himself from Zeppelin.

Another one in the Belle & Sebastian / Offspring / OMD axis is the intro music from Elden Ring. I often get String Bean Jean stuck in my head after playing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R3ouGNcACQ

^ more interesting chord substitutions in this one

Wet Leg’s “I Don’t Wanna Go Out” quotes the guitar hook from “The Man Who Sold the World.”

A1's Caught in the Middle is seemingly built on the intro of Pink Floyd's Dogs

Blur - Coping ("And I'm too tired to care about it / Can't you see this in my face, my face")

Alex Party - Don't Give Me Your Life ("I tried so hard to carry on / But you left me, left me there alone")

I've thought about that too!

Sometimes these things will only come to me once I have already heard the songs innumerable times ever

Haha omg

maybe too obvious for this thread but the “it’s the sing of the times” part of r.e.m.’s “exhuming mccarthy” is basically “low rider”

The Rapture - Echoes / PiL - Careering

No doubt intentional

France Gall - computer nr.3

The Beatles - eight days a week

Smog - To Be Of Use (1997)
Arab Strap - (Afternoon) Soaps (1998)

Loved both songs at the time, but my shuffle algo threw them back to back at me and yeah, the Strap song is a straight cop.

"Spoonman"

"Touch Peel and Stand"

It only struck me the other day how much 'Come To Daddy' is a straight parody of 'Breathe' by Prodigy with a little bit of Marilyn Manson shock-rockery thrown in. Right down to "I want your soul" mimicking Keef's "Come play my game' line

Before the vocals come in on either
"Sex Type Thing"
"Running Down A Dream"

Cyndi Lauper - "All Through the Night"
Alanis Morrisette - "You Learn"

Listened to Swerve by Dub Sex today and was struck by how much it reminded me of Fugazi's Waiting Room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvs5-88DWdg

Joe Walsh - in the city
Robyn Hitchcock - Chinese bones

The Mike Post theme to Hill Street Blues and the intro to "Backstreets" by Bruce Springsteen don't exactly sound alike to me, but they do have a similar vibe I think.

The Cure reuse the main instrumental melody from Lament in A Few Hours After This

Space - Neighbourhood has a lot in common with ABBA's Money Money Money

I realized the melody from 'scatman' sounds like a sped up opus iii 'its a fine day'

I may have even posted this before in this very thread but I just wish someone else would recognize the absurdity in the fact that Night of the Assassins by Les Rallizes Denudes and Me Killa by Bone Thugs in Harmony are basically exactly the same melody.

The main hook from BTS's "Dynamite" is very similar to a recurring melody in "Polaris" by Fearofdark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdZLi9oWNZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMcOINL510Y

Pixies "Where Is My Mind?" (1989)
Eternal "Sleep" (1990)

Thought there was an Eternal pop hit I wasn't aware of, there.

possibly late to the party with this but
Taylor Swift- Lover
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

My God thanks to a YouTube comment on the LRD track I’ve solved it — both Night of the Assassins and Me Killa are ripping from early 60s Peggy March hit “I Will Follow Him”. I figured it must be something like that but didn’t know how I’d ever figure it out.

I Wanna be Sedated and Hang on to Yourself

The beginning is essentially the same!

REM's "The Lifting" and "Summer Turns to High" both somehow sound like the Clean's "Franz Kafka at the Zoo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYXK7J-UxJg

REM's "Everybody Hurts" and "Strange Currencies" also both sound like The Tragically Hip's "Long Time Running"

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

I noticed this one years ago - "Cold Gin" by Kiss seems to have started off as a rewrite of "Sunshine of Your Love". The riff is different pitches but nearly the same rhythm, and the chords in the chorus are the same pitch (going to the dominant chord) but different rhythm.

1992 Drop Nineteens "Kick The Tragedy"
2002 Chemical Brothers "Star Guitar"

Aztec Camera - "Somewhere in My Heart"

New Musik - "Sanctuary"

i have probably already mentioned this - my laptop cannot cope with opening all messages to check - but r.e.m.'s tongue / twentieth century zoo's quiet before the storm

"All I Want For Christmas Is You"
"Don't Stop Me Now"
Especially the intros

my brain just realized Olivia Rodrigo's "Vampire" is the mashup of Radiohead's "Creep" and ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All"

Someone else mentioned “Creep,” I barely hear that… (that said, I was psyched when a random dude on Mastodon said it evokes a Jim Steinman epic; thought my ears were the only ones making that link!)

Many on totp twitter recently pointing out that Robbie Williams' Let Me Entertain You sounds like D:Ream's Shoot Me with Your Love, which itself is clearly a Sympathy for the Devil/Loaded/Freedom '90 derive.

every song with the I-III-IV-iv progression is gonna sound at least a little like “creep”