Songs that sound like other songs

[phantom_power]

I think it has to be, doesn't it?

I don't know. I didn't see it until it was pointed out. It could be an amazing coincidence

[kngen]

If anyone can find a more disparate, bathetic pairing than Bad Brains and former Levi 501 ad star Nick Kamen's one-hit wonder, I'll lavish all my karma on them. Released in the same year, too, strangely.

EDIT: just did a search to see if anyone else had noticed the similarity, and the first result was me saying the same thing on a CaB post with the same title back in 2010.
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[samadriel]

Rolling Stones - Sway
https://youtu.be/hZ8Bc6jz-W8

The Saints - Messin' With the Kid
https://youtu.be/5RhFhIa_47k

[East of Eden]

These two intros sound the same.

Mr Bungle - Retrovertigo (late 1990s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRyh2cxJCp0

Oasis - Let There Be Love (mid 2000s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TqJa0RZOUc

[holyzombiejesus]

Got the new Wild Nothing album on Friday and the track Japanese Alice is such a rip-off of Wire's Outdoor Miner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJzlrrR3Cyo

[Crabwalk]

I was amazed when I checked the songwriting credits on Kendrick Lamar's 'If These Walls Could Talk' to see no mention of Rod Temperton[nb]Cleethorpes' finest[/nb], who wrote and produced Michael McDonald's 'Sweet Freedom'.

[Captain Z]

Michael McDonald's 'Sweet Freedom'.

Now let's hear that song sung properly...

[Phil_A]

Here's an early Strangelove single, Zoo'd Out, released in 1993.

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

And here's Radiohead's Knives Out from 2000. Hmmm!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ1iMQA0egc

[Steven]

Here's an old one I recall noticing but dunno if I ever articulated it all but Let Forever Be by Noelly G and the Chemical Bros (great video btw) is sort of a Nirvana/Vasalines ripoff.. the main intro/progression is from the Vasalines doing Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam which Noel probably heard Nirvana covering, which makes sense cos the actual verses sounds like a slightly re-jigged All Apologies to me.

[Jockice]

Never really thought of this before but since Finley Quaye's been mentioned in the crap gigs thread, his Your Love Gets Sweeter Every Day IS basically Racey's Lay All Your Love On Me.

Take a listen then try denying it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0qH6lUG0ww


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofDCsRhT57o

[Dr Rock]

Love & Rockets Kundalini Express basically invents the early Oasis sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mnx8jnsYfc

[Steven]

This is one I just remembered I realised in childhood from watching Scrooged I believe. Jackie DeShannon's Put A Little Love In Your Heart is basically The Beatles - Baby You're A Rich Man.

[Steven]

The solo on Love's A House Is Not A Motel always sounded to me like Good King Wenceslas.

[non capisco]

The end of 'Have A Cuppa Tea' by The Kinks is identical to the end of the 'Bullseye' theme.

https://youtu.be/lw6qxDPmOGM?t=3m35s

[Steven]

The end of 'Have A Cuppa Tea' by The Kinks is identical to the end of the 'Bullseye' theme.

Hah. Think you might be mixing them all up together with the end of the Thomas The Tank Engine theme.

[non capisco]

Shit, yes, you're right! That's what it is! Thomas The Tank Engine! I wonder if the narrator minded them ripping off a tune from one of his 60s chart rivals.

[Steven]

Shit, yes, you're right! That's what it is! Thomas The Tank Engine! I wonder if the narrator minded them ripping off a tune from one of his 60s chart rivals.

Curiously George Carlin narrated Thomas The Tank Engine in America, here some wag has edited episodes together with his comedy act.. it sounds like Mike from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul reading bedtime stories for Kaylee

[Steven]

The vocal line from Weezer's Hash Pipe is pretty much copied by Gwen Stefani's What You Waiting For?

[grainger]

Fleetwood Mac:

If you listen to the songs from the eponymous Fleetwood Mac (1974) album and Rumours, grouped by principal writer (e.g. play all the Christine McVie songs from both albums), it's amazing how samey many (but admittedly not all) of them sound. The band usually gets away with it because they space out the tracks written by any given writer, and to be honest, that's not a bad strategy for bands with multiple writers. I have no interest in their other work, so I can't comment on it, so it may well not apply to their other 3000 albums.

[Steven]

The piano in the Kinks' Kentucky Moon sounds a bit Bohemian Rhapsody here, for me. Must be similar chord or arpeggio or sommat.

[DrunkCountry]

We noticed this similarity between Manic Street Preachers & the theme tune from Magnum P.I.: https://audioboom.com/boos/1698504-magnum-street-preachers

I've also thought elements of these were very similar:

Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T4Y75Azi4A

Supergrass - Richard III https://youtu.be/UnXrrOxzZCE

& these

Radiohead - The National Anthem https://youtu.be/YLQ9S5D_mxw

Gomez - Shot Shot https://youtu.be/DtwX9Bmsob8

[jobotic]

Seems I wasn't the first to notice this Cbeebies Primitives thing

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

[greenman]

Beck ripping off everyone's favourite pedo rock...

Beck - Paper Tiger - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VoJMUpzAyI

Serge Gainsbourg - Melody - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwk1MX9wbag

[Steven]

Fucking right Voodoo Child (Slight Return) ripoff.

[Entropy Balsmalch]

Jess Glynne and Lips Inc

I always when I hear the former sing the latter.

Finally slapped them next to each other today and yep - same key and same BPM, give or take a few - didn't do anything other than rough cut the bars.

https://soundcloud.com/brian_shelf/jess-town/s-gheCF

[Entropy Balsmalch]

I'm guessing everyone already knows this one?

Dion - Only You Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0dlPgCjzzU&nohtml5=False

Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX99zjDK-vo&nohtml5=False

[Steven]

Jess Glynne

Sounds like another songsmith `n all:

[Steven]

Chance, the Rapper - Sunday Candy sounds to me like Annie's Hardknock Life.

[Crabwalk]

Allo Darlin' - My Heart is a Drummer

A massive chunk of the chorus is 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' isn't it?

[Steven]

Chance, the Rapper - Sunday Candy sounds to me like Annie's Hardknock Life.

Fucksake, it reminds me of Hardknock Life a bit, but mainly the intro is more something else, literally the first 2 seconds of the intro sound almost exactly like another song and I'm struggling to recall what it is, exactly the same tone to the piano, too. Anyone? I've flitted through a load of stuff from Ben Folds - Army to Mika - Grace Kelly, not either of those I don't think, maybe something by Rufus Wainwright, dunno, this is gonna drive me mad all day.