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Songs that sound like other songs

Started by East of Eden, December 27, 2015, 06:08:20 PM

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East of Eden

The intro of Blur's 'Girls and Boys' sounds like the intro to the Captain Beefheart song 'I've got love on my mind'

Captain Beefheart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0pmb3B159s
Blur - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDswiT87oo8

Manic Street Preachers' riff in their song 'Girl who wanted to be God' is a sped up version of the rhythm in Pulp's 'Happy Endings'.

Pulp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-OfzGeAcnY
Manic Street Preachers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQinlLj7SV8

This is what Christmas time with the family has driven me to. Any other ones?

Brundle-Fly

I always thought the melody line of the chorus of The Ballad Of Tom Jones by Space ft. Cerys Matthews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9zL9wlMvZE

sounded liked the theme tune to 1970s Anglia quiz show, Sale Of The Century slightly sped up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jPOT4mP8c8

Given, this comparison might not hold much credence because around the same time, I also believed MN8- I've Got A Little Something For You sounded like the voices in my head telling me to pick off and kill the staff of the local branch of Dixons.

Steven

This Doors song sounds like The Kinks' You Really Got Me, with the backing re-arranged a bit to disguise that.

MoonDust

Quote from: Steven on December 29, 2015, 05:43:51 AM
This Doors song sounds like The Kinks' You Really Got Me, with the backing re-arranged a bit to disguise that.

I think it sounds more like All Day and All of the Night by the Kinks. At least the vocals on the verses do.

Steven

Quote from: MoonDust on December 29, 2015, 09:48:04 AM
I think it sounds more like All Day and All of the Night by the Kinks. At least the vocals on the verses do.

That's what I meant, was half asleep obviously when writing that.

While on The Doors there's also the solo on Five To One, appropriated by Kiss and Pearl Jam.

While referencing Kiss and Pearl Jam's Alive, the main riff may have come from Kiss' Love Theme.

And the chordal musings on Pearl Jam's Black sounds rather like The Who's Water.

Let's not even mention PJ's Given To Fly and arch-nickers Led Zep's Going To California.

Steven

Lithuania's Eurovision entry Leituva was pre-dated by..

There She Goes by The La's, which was pre-dated by..

The theme tune to Orm & Cheep sang by Richard Briers.

Icehaven

Someone posted in a similar thread years ago that Orbital's 'Style' sounds a lot like a whiny electronic version of 'Your Silent Face' by New Order.

Steven

Speaking of New Order, Blue Monday was pre-dated by a single out of Manchester ear-marked by Frank Zappa called Gerry And The Holograms, sounds like Frank Sidebottom doing techno.

bushwick

Undertones - Teenage Kicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis

Misfits - Some Kinda Hate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-MQ1OpO1E4

And I'm sure there's a song by the Dead Boys that sounds just like one by the Damned or did I imagine that?

bushwick

How could I forget this, so blatant...

The Fall - Elves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYrhq53SkRQ

The Stooges - Now I Wanna Be Your Dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIqnXTqg8I

Steven

#10
Quote from: bushwick on December 29, 2015, 01:34:55 PM
Undertones - Teenage Kicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis

Misfits - Some Kinda Hate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-MQ1OpO1E4

Also pre-dated by I Will Follow Him, amazing tune.

The middle eight in The Beatles knock-up of Free As A Bird is nicked from The Shangri-La's Walking In The Sand, though I dunno who nicked it, Lennon or McCartney as in Lennon's original demo he certainly follows the chords and lyrics, McCartney definitely hams up the vocals to copy the melody though.

bushwick

And another one:

33 1/3 Queen - Searchin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chHtoWsoZ0I

A Guy Called Gerald - Blow Your House Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3XVE8dPvzM

The 33 1/3 Queen tune has been one of my all-time favourites since it came out, shamefully I only found out last year it's a straight rip-off of the Gerald tune. Common behaviour in the shady world of early house. I still prefer it to the Gerald original though.

Steven

Perhaps the most blatant is sommat like Jimmy Page's White Summer, which is just Davy Graham's arrangement of She Moved Through The Fair almost note for note, and also merges into Black Mountainside, nicked off of Jansch's Blackwaterside, amongst tons of other shite he's blatantly stolen and just changed the name.

DukeDeMondo


Steven

Quote from: DukeDeMondo on December 29, 2015, 02:26:17 PM
Andrew WK loves New York City almost as much as he loves Fun House

I was gonna go along with that because Fun House UK is based on an American show, but it didn't have a theme tune.

Might as well post my Twin Peaks theme nicked from Nilsson's Without You again, since I only figured this out last week.

Steven

Open secret but the Beach Boys' Don't Worry Baby is pretty much Brian copying the Ronettes Be My Baby.

The Stattler Brothers' Flowers On The Wall nicked by the Monkees for Randy Scouse Git.

Radiohead's Karma Police is mainly taken from Sexy Sadie by The Beatles.

Ray Travez

the vocal line of Elvis Costello's anti-Thatcher rant "Tramp the Dirt Down" is the same tune as Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely?". Musical sarcasm.

Steven

That great Little Peggy March tune I Will Follow Him (probably actually about Jesus rather than Teeny-Bopper boys boys boys stuff) was an English re-write of a French song called Chariot recorded the year before by Petula Clark, which was itself based off an earlier instrumental by Franck Pourcel.

Since the original single is B-sided with Georgia (On My Mind) by a Frenchman, I might as well point out Michel Polnareff's Love Me, Please Love Me is just an embellishment on Georgia with some French crooning over the top, still marvellous though.

billyandthecloneasaurus

4 Minute Warning by Mark Owen ripped off When Jokers Attack by BJM.  Or the other way round, dunno which came out first.

Steven

#19
Billy Joel with one of the most blatant pop nicking from classical steals since Andrew Lloyd Webber.. Uptown Girl and Ravel's Bolero.

Other blatant pop steals, Elvis' It's Now Or Never and O Sole Mio.

And there's millions like A Whiter Shade Of Pale and tonnes of others nicking from Bach's Air On A G String.

DukeDeMondo

There are many reasons why someone might find One Direction unlistenable, but the main reason for me is that each song rips off about nineteen others and I end up spendin the whole day tryin to kick whatever it is they're stealin from up out the back of my brain.

Here's one of the more obvious ones, their cover of Pour Some Sugar On Me: https://youtu.be/bkx9kCdaaMg

Bobby Treetops

Quote from: Steven on December 30, 2015, 08:46:09 AM
That great Little Peggy March tune I Will Follow Him (probably actually about Jesus rather than Teeny-Bopper boys boys boys stuff) was an English re-write of a French song called Chariot recorded the year before by Petula Clark, which was itself based off an earlier instrumental by Franck Pourcel.

Since the original single is B-sided with Georgia (On My Mind) by a Frenchman, I might as well point out Michel Polnareff's Love Me, Please Love Me is just an embellishment on Georgia with some French crooning over the top, still marvellous though.

Which was ripped off later Les Rallizes Dénudés[nb]Any excuse to post some Les Rallizes Dénudés [/nb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uog1U_Kemlk

Steven

Quote from: Bobby Treetops on December 30, 2015, 11:45:16 PM
Which was ripped off later Les Rallizes Dénudés[nb]Any excuse to post some Les Rallizes Dénudés [/nb]

Thanks, not heard that one before, certainly a rough and ready recording technique though!

They all remind me of the first two bars of Ben E King's Stand By Me looped though.

Sam Smith recently caught legal shit for plagiarism of Stay With Me, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne got royalties/credit for their single I Won't Back Down.

Really Petty, and Jeffy, but hang on.. that single was pre-dated by George Harrison doing the same melody as I Got My Mind Set On You, which was a cover of a James Ray single from 1963!!! I realised this in 3 seconds, so how are these twats getting away with this shite in court?

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Quote from: Steven on December 30, 2015, 08:37:08 PM
Other blatant pop steals, Elvis' It's Now Or Never and O Sole Mio.

That's not really a steal, as such. It's not pretending to be anything other than O Sole Mio with English lyrics.

Steven

Quote from: Ballad of Ballard Berkley on December 31, 2015, 08:33:48 AM
That's not really a steal, as such. It's not pretending to be anything other than O Sole Mio with English lyrics.

Wiki says Elvis was ripping off Tony Martin's There's No Tomorrow, however, which is a rip off of O Sole Mio, so not quite as straightforward as you'd imagine.. lucky he didn't creep through his farmhouse at night to steal it, though.


Bobby Treetops

Quote from: Steven on December 31, 2015, 08:02:06 AM
Thanks, not heard that one before, certainly a rough and ready recording technique though!

Les Rallizes Dénudés only had a few aborted goes at recording any material in a studio, so most of the albums that have come out since are live or demo recordings, making the sound naturally rough and ready.

Posted this one before, but again any excuse.

Every time I hear the chorus to Led Zeppelin's Living Loving Maid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgRg62NwLX0

I can't help but sing this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXCi2-6Wwo8


Steven

A famous one but Willie Dixon's You Need Love recorded by Muddy Waters, Lane and Marriott nicked it for the Small Faces and put it out as You Need Loving, which obviously Percy Plant heard as his whole vocal style especially on his rip off version named Whole Lotta Love in particular was nicked from Marriott.

The killer is the Yardbirds touring with Jake Holmes who wrote Dazed And Confused, which the Yardbirds started to cover and when Page formed Led Zep just recorded as his own song and Holmes didn't mention it for about 40 years until coming around to the notion of suing.

kngen

I think I posted about this on here before, but a curious one is how similar Mancunian go-nowheres The Dressdown Kids' Tear the Roof Off

https://youtu.be/vcUIUT_tMqU?t=26s

sounds almost too similar to Lady Gaga's Applause to be a coincidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pco91kroVgQ

in terms of the chord progression, and the entire chorus (Tear the Roof Off vs Turn the Lights On).

I became minorly obsessed with this a year or so ago, and I couldn't firm up my suspicions that her writing team had bought the rights for the song entirely, but production team behind The Dressdown Kids are usually dance music producers, and have remixed one of her other songs. And the singer (the only bankable part of that band, IMO, even taking into account his ropey rapping) left the band soon after, and now works at Universal Music Group (owners of Interscope, Gaga's label) in some capacity. Hmmm ...

Steven

I think 23 Daves pointed this one out a while back, but it's so close even to the muffled bassline and surf sound I have to believe there is some connection between Brian Diamond & The Cutters' Shake, Shout, & Go and The B52s' Rock Lobster.