similar sounding songs

[aaaaaaaaaargh!]

Oh Lord, just heard the intro to what I thought was Queen's "I want to break free".  Turns out it was actually "You only live once" by The Strokes.  Sounds like a fucking sample

[chand]

Fergie (from the Black Eyed Peas), has a solo single out called 'London Bridge', which is basically Gwen Stefani's 'Hollaback Girl'. You can sing one chorus on top of the other. If you want. Although why would you?

[Sheriff John Indolent]

Oh Lord, just heard the intro to what I thought was Queen's "I want to break free".  Turns out it was actually "You only live once" by The Strokes.  Sounds like a fucking sample

There's another one off their newest album that has a chorus melody identical to 'Mandy' by Barry Manilow. "You came and you bought me a turkey, on my vacation away from work-ey". Yeah, that one.

The Strokes used to only rip people's sounds off. A little bit of Johnathan Richman here, a little bit of Velvets there. It's whole tunes now. And really fucking well known ones at that.

[Lee]

Anyone else think Shakira sounds like Buggles-era Trevor Horn at times? It's that deep-but-not-that-deep voice she sometimes puts on, apparently to demonstrate her rather pissy vocal range.

[danielreal2k]

Radiohead's There There & Finn Bros Only talking sense.(album version)

[Hairy Chin]

That Jack Johnson one (I think it's 'Sitting Waiting Wishing', but I can't be sure off the top of my head) is just him playing 'Heart and Soul' on a guitar all the bloody way through.

[thepuffpastryhangman]

This is a fairly good one?

The opening of Project X - Frank Zappa/The Mother Of Invention (album - Uncle Meat)

bares more than a passing resemblance to

the opening of Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer (single)

[Marvin]

They are the same, in fact, but to be fair it's just two chords in the same order, and a fairly common two chords in the same order, off the top of my head it's also heard in Hurt by Nine Inch Nails (and Johnny Cash).

[thepuffpastryhangman]

The strumming is rather similar too. Though I realise that's probably a pretty common pattern too. Oh, and the time. I'm no muso...does this mean the chords, the key and the time, as well as the strumming pattern are all identical?

[Marvin]

Listening again, they pretty much are, the timing's a bit different but not much.

[Ghost of Troubled Joe]

"Alfie" by Lily Allen is such a horrific steal of Sandie Shaw's "Puppet On A String", I'm surprised lawyers haven't been involved.

[dredd]

Only just noticed this topic, so I narrowly avoided posting this somewhere less relevant.

 When you were young by the Killers sounds like In the mouth a desert by Pavement.

 I keep hearing it on that advert. I thought it sounded Pavementy, partly (some of) the tune, partly the vocal style, but only narrowed it down to the specific song after a listen of S + E.

WYWY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMR-0QEwsdw&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp8IxSTAY_c&mode=related&search=

ITMAD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX7DXqBm-WQ

[thepuffpastryhangman]

Broken Heart (Japanese version) - Spiritualized

Days Like This Keep Me Warm - The Polyphonic Spree

Not identical, just similar. Bits of their middles mainly, without the vocal, naturally. To me anyway.

[Toad in the Hole]

Dirty Pretty Things' 'Bang Bang You're Dead' is totally ripped off from Brendan Benson's 'What I'm Looking For'.

[Brad]

Ivor Cutler - Bounce Bounce Bounce

sounds like

Jacques Brel - Au Suivant

[rudi]

God, not another Brel/Cutler rip-off.....

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I'm pretty sure that Take That single sounds like something Darius (that popstars one) did a while back. Was it 'Colourblind' or something?

Maybe it's just the singing that sounds identical but the melody also rings a few bells.

[thugler]

Only just noticed this topic, so I narrowly avoided posting this somewhere less relevant.

 When you were young by the Killers sounds like In the mouth a desert by Pavement.

 I keep hearing it on that advert. I thought it sounded Pavementy, partly (some of) the tune, partly the vocal style, but only narrowed it down to the specific song after a listen of S + E.

WYWY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMR-0QEwsdw&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp8IxSTAY_c&mode=related&search=

ITMAD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX7DXqBm-WQ

I don't hear it at all. The killers song sounds more like U2 or something to me.
Good song though (the pavement one).

[The Mumbler]

Heard I Just Called To Say I Love You in a shop this morning. Have only now realised that my least favourite song by Stevie Wonder (perhaps worse than Ebony & Ivory) is cut from the same cloth as Elvis's It's Now Or Never (right down to the "cha-cha-cha" at the end), which is itself adapted from 1929's O Sole Mio.

[trotsky assortment]

The guitar part at the end of The Essex Green's 'All Summer Long' is a dead ringer for Bob Dylan's 'You Ain't Going Nowhere'.

[Jemble Fred]

Heard I Just Called To Say I Love You in a shop this morning. Have only now realised that my least favourite song by Stevie Wonder (perhaps worse than Ebony & Ivory) is cut from the same cloth as Elvis's It's Now Or Never (right down to the "cha-cha-cha" at the end), which is itself adapted from 1929's O Sole Mio.

Yeah, I can kind of hear what you mean â€" ever ever so slightly. A bit of an inspiration for Stevie there perhaps. But it's only slight. It's a great song though â€" as is E&I â€" the only problem with either track being a dated 80s production, oversue of synthesisers etc. On paper (ie in essence, and if covered), they're both classics.

[George White]

https://youtu.be/AL7kdIAHtl8?t=171 The theme to the short-lived Breaking Away echoes the deliberately sitcommy Mrs. Brown's Boys theme.

[itsfredtitmus]

"Alfie" by Lily Allen is such a horrific steal of Sandie Shaw's "Puppet On A String", I'm surprised lawyers haven't been involved.

surely sample?

[itsfredtitmus]

It's Taxman. Or maybe Doctor Robert. Nobody knows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxeOpCIIc60

[itsfredtitmus]

Dukes of Stratosphear - Vanishing Girl is just The Lion Sleeps Tonight

[itsfredtitmus]

Madness - Tomorrow's (Just Another Day) inexplicably sounds like the theme to The Sweeney

[holyzombiejesus]

I got the latest Mick Head album yesterday and I was so convinced that a track from it was a cover. There's no video for the album release online but this old live recording should show what I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKW-X-AIEU

[Phil_A]

I just realised the riff from Several Sins from by the Birthday Party is basically Rock Lobster slowed down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5PTc6CGzAY

[Steven]

I just realised the riff from Several Sins from by the Birthday Party is basically Rock Lobster slowed down.

It's the same scale but not exactly the same I suppose. Though the B52s may have got the riff from the 1964 Shout, Shake & Go by Brian Diamond & The Cutters.

[Steven]

Always thought The Dandy Warhols' Bohemian Like You sounded like a section of The Stones' Brown Sugar, but it's actually closer to part of Little Bitch by The Specials.