songs that sound like other songs

*obligatory post about Elastica/Wire connection*

"Last" by Nine Inch Nails (on the BROKEN e.p.) recalls Queen's "Fight from the Inside" (down to a stolen riff). Trent's a big Queen fan, allegedly.

The first note of Cheap Trick's "Stop This Game" (on ALL SHOOK UP) is a slow fade-in that is purportedly the last note of SGT.PEPPER's.

The Sex Pistols' "Holidays in the Sun" ripped off The Jam's "In the City"

("Girl Like You" was Edwyn Collins, who's not shitty)

I hear a slight resemblance between the choruses of "Heaven is a Place on Earth" and Starz's "So Young, So Bad." Maybe it's just the chord changes.

I'm sure there are several other "Sweet Leaf" rip-offs that I can;t think of right now.

This is Smoke on the Water: Dun dun DUN, dun dun DUN-DUNN
This is Cat Scratch Fever: Dun dun DUN, dun-dun DUN

And hey, did anyone notice the resemblances between "Ice Ice Baby" and "Under Pressure"?

You're shitting me. :-)

(Sorry. Listening to Sabotage at the moment.)

dsico

(Not listening to Sab right now.)

more terribly, the offspring's "get a job" and "o bla di o bla da" by the beatles have very similar choruses (try singing one over the other sometime, it's horrifying).

Furthermore, for the record: an obvious choice, perhaps, but Pulp's "A Little Soul" and Smokey R. and the M.'s "The Tracks of My Tears".

Other than that, the similarity of the intro to Cast's "Fine Time" and Guns'n'Roses "Paradise City" could be pretty confusing at indie discos in the mid-ninties, just when you're ready to blow the whistle and rock out with Axl, Izzy and Slash you get, "What's it all about? Do you really want to know..."

Shit.

I'm sure that's no accident, given Rick Rubin's appreciation for old school metal.

The Manic Street Preachers' "If You Tolerate This Than Your Children Will Be Next" was alleged to have ripped off the Stranglers' "Duchess," but I find that a bit of a stretch.....and I'm a much bigger fan of the Stranglers than I'll ever be of the Manics.

Then, of course, Nirvana stole the riff from Killing Joke's "Eighties" for "Come as You Are." Little known fact is that my beloved Killing Joke stole that very same riff from the Damned's "Life Goes On" (on the STRAWBERRIES album).

Big Black's "L Dopa" off SONGS ABOUT FUCKING is virtually indistiguishable from Killing Joke's "the Wait".

The Germs' "No God" ripps the opening riff off of Yes' "Roundabout," but that's more willfull desecration rather than theft (despite the fact that guitarist Pat Smear is an unapologetic Yes fan).

Oh, and dancing at Mother to retro-ironic white trash trailer rock last night, I realised that there's a Sloan song which is Foghat's Slow Ride down to a T, but I can't remember which one it is.

Butthole Surfers' "Human Cannibal" is "The Rose" by Bette Middler. Sing along. "Some say love..."; it's eerie.

I'm blanking right now....

that Spirit song (?) -> "Stairway to Heaven" -> that Metallica song (?)

That Offspring song rips of Simon & Garfunk's Cecilia.

Anyway, Call Me / Blondie = What She Said / Smiths

The Doll "Burning up like a fire"
The Cars "Just what I needed"

Odd as they came out at very similar times and it would be unlikely that one would have heared the other....

Maybe its cuz they are both dull and derivative...

and nelly and justin timberlake have a song over "back in black" by AC/DC how disgusting. the sad fact is that most of the 10-16 year old girls that listen to justin timberlake have no idea o fthe musical travesty that has been committed. but I will admit that it is kinda neat.

huey lewis and the news came first. they sued ray parker for that one.

=The Who "I Can't Explain"

Also, I was just noticing the other day how Sly Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime" has the same little chord progression as a Led Zep song (maybe "Fool in the Rain" or something from that album) - though obviously Sly came first.

=

Hanson - "Mmmbop"

The intro to "Breakout" by Swing Out Sisters = PSB "West End Girls"

Also, keeping with This Nation's Saving Grace, Magnetic Fields took the riff from "Paint Work" for "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off"

You Belong to Me sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown
Tokyo Storm Warning really sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown

A little help here?

starts off in perfect Jesus and Mary Chain style circa Automatic, complete with lyrics:

"I'm so happy with my feet on the ground
So happy my head spins around" and so on, could be about half the songs on that album

At about the 1:25 mark the guitars start to sound just like the the Raveonettes' much later freakout in "Attack of the Ghost Riders"

And they mix really well together too.

Oasis - 'Cast No Shadow' is a complete rip-off of Moby Grape's 'He'. Just listen to the melody in the verse.

That one White Stripes song has the same "oh-oh-oh-oh" vocal line as "Middle of the Road" by the Pretenders. That band Gaunt had a song which took a similar vocal line from a Naked Raygun song. Melissa Etheridge's voice sounds like Steve Perry's to me. And the list goes on and on.
-- hstencil (hstenci...), September 9th, 2002.

ha! melissa should sing " oh sherrie" she can sing about loving a girl without changing the lyrics
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"Do Ya" = "Fox on the Run."
-- Jody Beth Rosen (edito...), September 9th, 2002.
do you mean sam fox"do tya wanna please me" ? which part ? bridge?

You could do a whole thread on songs Lep Zep ripped off

-- My name is Kenny (khemunso...), September 9th, 2002.
queen/bowie did but vanilla didn't

The first Love albums full of songs that sound like other songs

The Seeds / The Seeds

All The Seeds's songs sound like all the other Seeds's songs - if that makes any sense.

"Holy Water" by Big and Rich reminds me of Babybird's "You're Gorgeous."

Sugababes "Push the Button" has the same melody as "Something Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra.

And then the rest of "Breathe" sounds like "Labour of Love" by Hue and Cry.

-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), January 21st, 2005.

I heard Stevie Wonder's Superstition the other day and thought "Gee, that obviously inspired Trampled Under Foot, but when I tried going throug the Led Zeppelin song in my head I came up with Take Me Out.

So then, Superstition begat Trampled Under Foot which begat Take Me Out. Are there any songs that inspired Stevie Wonder? Any that are direct offspring of Franz Ferdinand? Are there any other three songs that follow a sort of evolutionary flow (this would exclude the countless Sister Ray clones as they are all aping VU and not building off each other).

Surely coincidental, though?

Surely coincidental, though?

I haven't heard the latter song; which part sounds the same? Because about a billion songs have the same chord progression as ITAOTS (but none of them are as good).

Also, "On the Bus Mall" by The Decemberists sounds like "Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right" by The Decemberists.

Long ago and oh so far away
I fell in love with you
Before the second show

But I don't make the connection between the two.

A better candidate: Shining Star / Earth Wind & Fire

When you wish upon a star
Dreams will take you very far
When you wish upon a dream
Life ain´t always what it seems

Not sure, but I think it predates IItS.

Which in turn is taken from The Ronette's Be My Baby

then the vocal line from said song is appropriated for johnny boy's "all exits final"

The melody of the Johnny Boy song is a sped-up version of Elvis Costello's Battered Old Bird from Blood and Chocolate.

also

Stereolab "Metronomic Underground" --> Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution will not be Televised" --> Antibalas "Si Se Puede".
there's also a Can song on Tago Mago and some other soul or motown song with this same best-ever bassline.

Bob Mould returned the Pixies' accolades for Husker Du in Sugar's 'Good Idea' ( Debaser)

More recently, I heard Secret Machines Alone Jealous & Stoned, and I swear, Blondie's Union City Blue is in there.

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Are you thinking of Jamelia's 'Superstar'from a couple of years back?

-- Josh Love (heaveninrowboat...), May 24th, 2004.

The main riff in "Misunderstanding" by Genesis is actually a direct lift from a part in "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and I believe that has been verified by Phil Collins. What's interesting to me is that "Fool In the Rain" and "Misunderstanding" have very similar, if not identical subject matter. So I'd say that Mr. Love gets an A for effort.

I highly doubt they ever heard this song, just one of life's weird coincedences... it really did cause a "WTF" moment when I heard it though.....

YES!!!! I always thought that Spoon piano sounded like that song, I just couldn't recall that McCain lyric.

btw, not sure if that's the title or not, but its a cool song

but I'm not complaining.

Same chords!!

Wyclef Jean and Maya's Ghetto Supastar, is the one that ripped off Islands in the Stream. 1998.

Lucinda Williams' 'Sweet Old World', at least as done by Emmylou Harris on Wrecking Ball sounds just like 'Four Strong Winds'

"Cleo", from John Cale's first album, reminds me of Bowie's "Sound and Vision" - or the other way round - probably wrongly but there ya go

Intro to Jimmy Buffet's "Fins" ~= intro to AC/DC's "Son of a Bitch"

Sloan's "She Means What She Says" = The Nazz "Open My Eyes"

=The Who "I Can't Explain"

=The Clash "Guns on the Roof"

As unlikely as it sounds, I'm starting to become possessed of the conviction that either Paul Simon or producer Eno ripped off Lilys' "High Writer At Home" for Simon's "How Can You Live in the Northeast".

"There She Goes Again" by The Velvet Underground adds a few notes to the opening riff of "Hitch Hike" - most noticable on The Rolling Stones' version.

"Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple also adds some notes to the guitar riff from "Loose" by The Stooges.

Birthday Party's "Dull Day" totally rips off (or pays tribute) to Can's "Vitamin C".

Caribou's "Desiree" totally rips off the Beach Boys "Lady" which in turn rips off an old Brian Wilson-produced track by the Honeys called "Pray For Surf"... I don't know if Pray For Surf rips something else off though.

ah, actually my MP3 of the Brian Wilson Pet Projects comp is mislabelled. The Honeys song is actually by American Spring and is called "Fallin In Love"

The first time I head that first Jewel song, "You Belong To Me" it was obvious to me that the verse took the melody from "Needle and the Damage Done" and the chorus was "Danny's Song" ("in the morning when I rise...") from Loggins and Messina.

People say "Mr. Brightside" sounds like Placebo but to me it sounds more like the coda of "Between Planets" by the Jesus and Mary Chain. But JAMC probably stole that from someone else anyway.

"Sweater Song" by Weezer is a scarily accurate ripoff of "I Bleed" by the Pixies. Sing along and see!

christopher cross - arthur's song
elton john - goodbye yellow brick road

inspired by yesterday's music round on university challenge which i sucked at.

"Sweater Song" by Weezer is a scarily accurate ripoff of "I Bleed" by the Pixies. Sing along and see!

uhh its also: Wild Thing, Louie Louie, Here I Go Again on My Own, Hey Now You're an Allstar and Beverly Hills (Weezer)

cant forget Hang on Sloopy

I've always thought Abba's "Waterloo" borrows quite liberally from "Build Me Up Buttercup". Compare the two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ45_kvgyq4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgyq0adAIhE

Just done some "googling" & have answered my own question. ie. 'Ghetto supastar' by Pras (1998) is a rip off of 'Islands in the stream. Thanks to Jim.

-- geoff huggins, 22. toukokuuta 2006 15:22 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

The Gibb brothers are credited as cowriters of "Ghetto Supastar" though, so it's more like a "I'll Be Missing You"/"Men In Black" type of reworking than a rip-off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy3ILuDwAXA

As for another very obvious reworking, here's DJ Bobo's "Somebody Dance With Me", which takes the chorus from "Somebody's Watching Me". I'm not sure if Rockwell was actually even credited for this.

The chorus of 'Black Coffee' by All Saints sounds a lot like the chorus of 'Got A Feelin'' by The Mamas and the Papas.

sublime's "what i got" rips off beatles' "lady madonna".

hoosiers new tune has ELO's goodbye mr blue all over it.

There's a descending progression in British Sea Power's "Atom" which is just like Buzzcocks "Everybody's Happy Nowadays".

I was just saying on the thread about Pure Prarie League's "Amie" how much it cops from "Christine's Tune (Devil in Disguise)" by the Flying Burrito Brothers.

Only recently occurred to me that "The Great Annihilator" by Swans is very reminiscent of "Tomorrow Never Knows" by ye olde Beatles. kinda (it's all in the percussion).

Chromatics' "I Want Your Love" reminds me of Cat Power- "Keep on Runnin'"/John Lee Hooker- "Crawlin' Black Spider".

christopher cross - arthur's song
elton john - goodbye yellow brick road

inspired by yesterday's music round on university challenge which i sucked at.

I made exactly the same mistake! I'm also rubbish at the intros round on Never Mind the Buzzcoks.

What is it with all those songs appropriating the opening drums on "Be My Baby"? I seem to hear a a couple of new ones every year.

"high & dry" by radiohead and "slow love" prince.

Buzzcocks "Lipstick" and Magazine "Shot by Both Sides." Though I guess that one is one purpose.

I probably need to listen to them back-to-back, but I heard u2's "All I Want is You" the other night in a bar and it really brought to mind "Let Me Die in My Footsteps" by Dylan.

Just done some "googling" & have answered my own question. ie. 'Ghetto supastar' by Pras (1998) is a rip off of 'Islands in the stream. Thanks to Jim.

-- geoff huggins, Monday, May 22, 2006 5:02 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

I did some "googling" recently too and apparently "Bittersweet Symphony" is a rip-off of some Stones song!!!

http://photos10.flickr.com/12257835_e98b844cf5.jpg

Kinda obvious but "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop and "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet are almost twins.

-- musically (musically), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:46 (1 year ago) Link

I always figured one (or more) of them was closer to 'You Can't Hurry Love' by the Supremes

notice that a lot of rap songs seem to sound like bits of old songs maybe one or two bars played over and over again, very often the drumbeat, or even sung choruses between the "rapping".

what's all that about?

And Solomun's "Jungle River Cruise" is essentially the younger (i.e. It came out after, I think) Amazonian cousin of the superior, Pele's "Childhood's End".

Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" and the theme song to the US version of The Office

Kinda obvious but "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop and "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet are almost twins.

-- musically (musically), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:46 (1 year ago) Link

I always figured one (or more) of them was closer to 'You Can't Hurry Love' by the Supremes

-- Popture, Monday, December 17, 2007 3:01 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I think "Songs that use the bass line from 'You Can't Hurry Love'" could be its own thread (if it isn't already).

Silver Apples - Program
Folk Implosion -Nothing Gonna Stop

Actually, them cardigan wearin' folk imploders basically plundered Silver Apples for the Kids soundtrack. Us internet music nerds already know this - did the they not expect people to find out?

Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" and the theme song to the US version of The Office

-- Mr. Snrub, Monday, December 17, 2007 3:25 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Speaking of which, the first 10 seconds of the Office theme sounds a LOT like the first 10 seconds of "Theme For An Imaginary Western" by Jack Bruce.

When I first heard that dang abnoxious Atari Teenage Riot album I was like "Does nobody else hear Bad Brains and Sham 69 riffs?" Dr. Know is what makes this song good, not some German dudes! There are at least a few Bad Brains samples which built that album...

Other thread made me think of it. James Brown - It's a Man's Man's Man's World -> Alicia Keys - Fallin'

to be honest the pre-chorus of Linkin Park's "Breaking the Habit" reminds me of the pre-chorus to Mike and the Mechanics' "The Living Years".

the verse to "High Flying Adored" from Evita and "Stuck on You" by Lionel Ritchie

I heard a Bad Company song today that totally ripped off the intro to "Ozone Baby" by Led Zeppelin.

Brian Eno - Needles in the Camel's Eye -- Velvet Underground - Waiting for the Man

The Fall - Elves -- Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

Refrains of:
Alice Cooper, "You and Me"
Partridge Family, "I'll Meet You Halfway"

Riffs of:
Beatles, "It's All Too Much"
Three Dog Night, "Family of Man"

christina aguilera - "beautiful" --> motley crue - "home sweet home"

Vanilla Ice claims the wrote all of "Ice Ice Baby" even though the riff is strangely similar to the "Under Pressure" intro....

When I first heard that dang abnoxious Atari Teenage Riot album I was like "Does nobody else hear Bad Brains and Sham 69 riffs?" Dr. Know is what makes this song good, not some German dudes! There are at least a few Bad Brains samples which built that album...

Bon Jovi's "Who Said You Can't Go Home" seems to be an embellishment of Sam Cooke's "Cupid".

Somebody asked the Knack guy how he came up with such a catchy hook for "My Sharona" and he said "Easy: we just ripped off the bassline to 'Goin' to a Go-Go'."

Oxia's Domino sounds very much like Patrick Chardronnet's Eve By Day.. (I think I read that here)

Isn't there that Green Day song that rips off "picture book" by the Kinks?

Heard this for the first time yesterday. It's pretty blatant.

"warning"

"Do Ya" = "Fox on the Run."
otm

Also, the Green Day song American Idiot is a pretty solid ripoff of the Dillinger Four song Doublewhiskeycokenoice.

"Sunshine of Your Love" / "Funky Town" (hint: those repeating instrumental squiggles, pretty much the same)

Someone mentioned it elsewhere on ILM, but that Ashra Bhonsle song and "Don't Phunk with My Heart." Also Black Eyed Peas to thread in general.

"Lonesome Surprise" by Refrigerator is almost identical to "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" by the Velvet Underground.

Glamourous Glue by Morrissey = Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum

Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats = Blank Generation by Richard Hell and the Voidoids

Oasis - "The Importance of Being Idle" = Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon"

If those sound alike, then "With a Little Help From My Friends", "Penny Lande" and hundreds of other songs with the same Music Hall-influenced beat do too.

Dylan's Ballad of the Thin Man pimps the dirgey piano roll from Ray Charles' "Sinner's Prayer",

It's more than just the beat that they have in common, surely.

are you asking me or telling me? i didn't listen to the lyrics on the Ray Charles one, just heard it today, I dunno.

I was replying to the comment just above yours.

Sean Kingston "Me Love" -> Led Zeppelin "D'yer Mak'er"

Kelly Osbourne "One Word" -> Visage "Fade to Grey

Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats = Blank Generation by Richard Hell and the Voidoids

Never thought of that, but yeah!

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star = The ABC Song

Maybe I should have posted that on the Parenting Thread instead.

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians - Section VI (track 8)
and
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois - Out Of Egypt... (track 22)

Red House Painter's "Song for a blue guitar" is essentially "Fade into You". Both of which are basically "candy says" or something.

^^

yes, plus any number of galaxie 500 songs?

This is probably some kind of sacrilege, but sometimes I confuse Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" with Santana's "I'm Winning".

some mclusky song(on mclusky do dallas, abt as detailed as i can get right now) sounds a lot like in bloom

Freddie's Dead and the Charlie's Angels theme tune (from the TV show, not the Destiny's Child one).

There's a Mastodon song that whenever it comes up on my iPod at first I think it's a Pete Townsend song.

The verse melody in Prince's "1999" is very similar to the verse melody in Bangles' "Manic Monday" (also written by Prince).

The verse melody in Prince's "1999" is very similar to the verse meldy in Bangles' "Manic Monday" (also written by Prince).

Oops, sorry about the double post.

Talking Heads - Heaven / Queen - It's A Kind Of Magic

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star = The ABC Song

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, January 7, 2008 2:30 PM

Which also sounds like "Baa Baa Black Sheep".

B&S's "Dog on Wheels" = Lee Hazlewoods' "Summer Wine"

Gwen S. "What You Waiting For?" equals Weezer "Hashpipe"

Song on Mamoru Fujieda's Patterns of Plants sounds just like Satie's Gymnopedie (1?)

^^^ Even though it is composed by a plant.

The beginning of "I Can't Go For That" reminds me a little of "Billie Jean"

Another Weezer one:

"No Other One" is that one song from Threepenny Opera

Jessie Hill's Naturally equals ODB's career

Ghetto Superstar = Islands in the Stream

Caribou's "Desiree" totally rips off the Beach Boys "Lady" which in turn rips off an old Brian Wilson-produced track by the Honeys called "Pray For Surf"... I don't know if Pray For Surf rips something else off though.

-- the next grozart, Monday, November 26, 2007 5:24 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

ah, actually my MP3 of the Brian Wilson Pet Projects comp is mislabelled. The Honeys song is actually by American Spring and is called "Fallin In Love"

-- the next grozart, Monday, November 26, 2007 5:37 PM (2 months ago)

song was originally released as a Dennis Wilson b-side, Lady/Fallin In Love are the same song, and yes, the caribou thing is very "inspired" by said song

Ghetto Superstar = Islands in the Stream

-- our work is never over, Thursday, 7 February 2008 01:57 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

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Well, I just figured that out yesterday, so forgive me for not knowing absolutely everything about music.

I guess the point of this thread is to list songs which bite other songs, not tunes which are acknowledged cover versions, like "Ghetto Superstar" or "Men in Black" or "I'll Be Missing You".

Nick Lowe's "I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll" rips off Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell."

Indeed it does.

This particular thread doesn't seem to mention that "So It Goes" sounds like "Reelin' In The Years"

Hmmm ... indeed it does.
And that reminds me — I need to pick up the expanded version of Jesus of Cool this week.

And "Heart" sounds like "One Fine Day."

"Retreat From The Sun" by That Dog sounds like "Who Loves The Sun" by the Velvet Underground, at least when they sing "Su-u-u-u-un."

Oh yeah, "Love So Fine" sounds like "Ruby Baby."

4nonblondes' "what's goin' on" and "don't worry be happy"...

Steve Miller's "The Stake" and Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way"...

david bowie - "stay" and Supergrass - "moving"

There is an ABBA song that sounds a lot like "I'll Stand By You" (or should I say "I'll Stand By You" sounds like this one ABBA song)...anyone know which one I am thinking of?

Mouse - A Public Execution and Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone

Also: Otis Redding - For Your Precious Love and Righteous Brothers - Ebb Tide

JJ Fad's "Supersonic" and Fergie's "Fergalicious".

Bit different I know but Judas Priest - You've got another thing coming, sounds very much like a modern song.

Not sure if it's a cover or just similar, although I can't put my finger on it. All I can say is the first riff of the Priest song is much more prominent in the modern song.

Hoep you guys can help!It's killing me!

Clinic "The Return of Evil Bill" = Paul McCartney & Wings "Bip Bop"

"spoilt victorian child" by the Fall seems to borrow heavily from "earth is not room enough" by the groundhogs.

This should be embarassingly obvious, but what does 'Fat Cat' by Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts sound like?

"The Beat Goes On" and "Killer Joe"

The Fall "Rowche Rumble" / The Stooges "Shake Appeal"

I've always thought Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy" and Laura Branigan's "Self Control" were very similar. I'm also concerned that I noticed.

"Time Is Tight" and "Theme from A Summer Place" have the same first four notes.

"Sound Chaser" by Yes and "Take Me I'm Yours" by Squeeze have the same burbling bass run.

To me "Hang 'Em High" sounds like "A Taste Of Honey" combined with the theme from "Gilligan's Island."

'why can't i touch it' buzzcocks is an homage to 'kandy korn' captain beefheart

since you been gone by kelly clarkson has the same guitar solo as maps by the yeah yeah yeahs AND I NOTICED THIS BEFORE TED LEO DID AND NO ONE BELIEVES ME

Finger Eleven's "Paralyzer" sounds so much like "Take Me Out" that I can't believe Franz Ferdinand didn't sue.

LCD Soundsystem "North American Scum" == Pete Shelley "Homosapien"

Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" sounds like Alizee's "J'en ai Marre".

The bridge to "Free As a Bird" by the Beatles sounds EXACTLY like "Remember Walking in the Sand" by the Shangri-las. Not only do they both sound exactly alike, but one lyric goes "Whatever happened to the life that we once knew?" and the other goes "Whatever happened to the boy that I one knew?" It's ridiculous.

The chorus of Jimmy James' "A Man Like Me" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWDAdvNthNU sounds very much like "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners.

the pre-chorus of 'science' by monkey swallows the universe is melodically lifted from the pre-chorus of keep feeling fascination. nicely done

"Suffering Jukebox" by the Silver Jews sounds a lot like "Range Life" by Pavement

Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time" is a near-wholesale lift from Eddie Money's "I I Could Walk On Water"

This is driving me nuts. My friend reckons that "Love Song" by the Dandy Warhols sounds exactly like "Baby Blue" by the Warlocks. I reckon that they're both cops of something really really obvious which I cannot seem to put my mind on right now. Argh! Any ideas?

mc5 "kick out the jams" & the stooges "loose"

kelly osbourne "one word" & zeigeist "cuffs"

the beatles "free as a bird" & elton john "i want love"

Blur's "There's No Other Way" sounds like a baggy version of Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play", as Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt points out in his book.

hahaha, it sort of does!

I'm sure I've mentioned here before that REM's 'The One I Love' sounds like it was copped from the Minutemen's 'Stories' ('I heard one today about the one I love...').

Is the Jody Rosen I just saw in my local bookshop/music paper/Private Eye the same as ILX's Jody Beth Rosen?

The "oh-oh-u-oh" parts in Byrne & Eno's "Life Is Long" remind me of the same kind of parts in that Aicha video from the deep chasms of the internet.

"Time Is Tight" and "Theme from A Summer Place" have the same first four notes.

As do "O Tannenbaum" and "The Wedding March". (And just like that other pair, one is in 4/4 time and the other in 3/4.)

kelly osbourne "one word" & zeigeist "cuffs"

What about "Fade To Gray"!

that one was mentioned earlier in the thread which is what reminded me. (so it's probable that "fade to grey" sounds like "cuffs" too but i've never heard "fade to grey")

haha i just checked youtube and yes, all three of these songs are the same, especially "fade to grey" and "one word")

You know what?

The Strokes' "Last Night" does not sound much like Tom Petty's "American Girl", no more than any other...

Except for "Someday" which sounds a lot like it.

and not one of you mentioned it!

Kula Shaker's "Into The Blue" (from the "K" album) has completely stolen the verse off The Stone Roses' "Bye Bye Badman".

Bowie's "Suffragette City" IS Alice Cooper's "Under My Wheels"

Mariah Carey's MY ALL has been reminding me of Toni Braxton's UNBREAK MY HEART

Belle and Sebastians "If You're Feeling Sinister" is dangerously like Jackson Browne's "These Days"

John Barry's - "You Only Live Twice", Robbie Williams' "Millennium" and Goldfrapp's
"Time Out Of The World".

"Time Out From The World", sorry.

Er, I think "Millenium" samples "You Only Live Twice", it's no coincidence.

The bass on "Billie Jean" may have seemed really original and cool and distinctive. And Michael Jackson coined that bassline himself, didn't he?

Or maybe not?

Actually, the bassline of "He Is Sailing" by Jon And Vangelis from 1981's "Friends Of Mr. Cairo" is suspiciously similar to "Billie Jean". A year later, Donna Summer did a cover version of that song. And the producer of that Donna Summer album? Quincy Jones! Hmmmmm.... :)

Hmm. I mean "State Of Independence", not "He Is Sailing"

Parts of the intro of this song, entitled "Love is Blue" (apparently from the late 60s) sounds a lot like 'the song that will change your life.' (listen in particular to 0:43-0:48)

I loved 'i want you right now' by mc5 before I read some old lester bangs thing where he mentioned its almost a note for note rip off of the horribly cheesy 'wild thing' by the troggs which makes me think only of the Major League movies and a young Charlie Sheen as Ricky Wild Thing Vaughn.

Ken Boothe's "Lady With The Starlight" sounds exactly like Nat Cole's "Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer"
Brentford All Stars's "Greedy G" sounds exactly like James Brown's "Get On The Good Foot"

riffy bit of Franz Ferdinand's 'Do You Want To' eerily similar to Go West's 'We Close Our Eyes'

all three of these songs are the same, especially "fade to grey" and "one word"

Fade to Grey by Visage? = template for every Ladytron song ever*

*hyperbole

The Plastic People of the Universe, Okolo okna + The Electric Eels, Bunnies

... OK, you might have to take my word for that one

i mentioned this on a CT thread the other day, but: cocteau twins 'watchlar' / joni mitchell 'big yellow taxi'

The J.B.'s "Giving Up Food for Funk" and Marvin Gaye's "A Funky Space Reincarnation."

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

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California" and Tom Petty's "Last Dance with Mary Jane"

The theme from Scooby Doo (starting from 0:33) and the middle part of "Ticket to Ride" sound very similar to me.

This is a bit of a stretch maybe, but The Jam's "Absolute Beginners" always fools me into thinking I'm hearing "In A Big Country" for a few seconds when it comes on.

Deerhoof - Tears and Music of Love and Free - All Right Now

pretty sure it's a deliberate nod though

i thought of this one today when i was playing tennis

"death and the maiden" - the verlaines
"box elder" - pavement

don't be jealous just cuz i thought of it first! :p

Kiss' "Crazy Crazy Night" has borrowed a thing or two from AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"

Wire's "Circumspect" and Magazine's "Vigilance."

"San Diego Zoo" by Magnetic Fields and "Shambala" by Three Dog Night

Anyone else hears the similarity between LADY MADONNA and WHAT I GOT, by the beatles and sublime respectively?
Something about the vocal melody, I swear you could make a convincing mashup out of those. Look at the following, you could even rhyme the opening verses:

Early in the morning risin' to the street
Light me up that cigarette and I strap shoes on my feet
-
Lady Madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet

I also dont get why Beck isn't paying royalties to Ramsey Lewis for this one:

Oh just doublechecked to be sure and it seems Beck openly admits it was inspired by said track so that last one doesn't count. He only decided to reproduce rather than sample to avoid all the nasty clearance.

Inara George - "Fool's Work" sounds quite a bit like the standard "Wild is the Wind".

The melody during these two lines is the same:

"Life can be hard, but it can be good to you"

"Love me, love me, love me, love me,
say you do"

especially "good to you" vs "say you do".

the chorus to Aerosmith's "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" is a wholesale ripoff of Cher's "Jesse James"

(listen around 2:40)

holy shit-- Diane Warren was involved in writing both of those songs. She ripped off her own song.

And surely not for the first time.

Oh, and 3DN's aforementioned "Shambala" and B.W. Stevenson's "My Maria."

There's a Lady Madonna/What I Got mashup out there and it is literally the worst thing of all time. Apparently the whole "make sure both tracks are in the same key" principle was ignored.

eta: here it is: http://hypem.com/track/121678

There's a Lady Madonna/What I Got mashup out there and it is literally the worst thing of all time. Apparently the whole "make sure both tracks are in the same key" principle was ignored.

eta: here it is: http://hypem.com/track/121678

― ILX MOD (musically), viernes 24 de octubre de 2008 08:19 (11 hours ago)

I'm amazed someone did it, and in such a terrible fashion. It just sounds like someone overlapped one song over the other... can't really be considered a mashup, right?

Howling Wolf, Smokestack Lightning / Pentangle, Way Behind the Sun / Kaleidoscope, Beacon From Mars / thousands of others

― Dadaismus (Dada)
Just came to post "Beacon From Mars" and "Smokestack Lightning." I guess I'll second it.

Five For Fighting, "Superman" * Joan Osborne, "One Of Us" = Beyoncé, "If I Were A Boy"

joe satriani - if i could fly = coldplay - viva la vida

Cherish - Do It To It
Ciara - Oh

Just realized David Bowie was doing an imo of Howlin' Wolf's trademark "Woo-hoo" vocal in "Jean Genie."

Note: "Woo-hoo" is not the name of a song, but the a vocal line used in "Smokestack Lighting."

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "The Needle & The Spoon"
Sex Pistols - "Submission"

No one has mentioned Jerry Jeff Walker's 'Mr Bojangles' and Pavement's 'Spit On A Stranger'? - Ok I will ...

Inspired by recent Harvey Danter-related polling activity, I just listened to it & it occurred to me, for the first time, how similar the opening bars of "Flagpole Sitta" are to Cracker's "Teen Angst"

*Danger - sorry that post is a mess.

Instant Karma / Theme from the Wombles (The Wombling Song)

That'd make a good bootmix.

Anyroad, which J Geils band song was "did you no wrong" Sex Pistols too close to, such that the track got credited to on some versions of the CD single?

Felt "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow"
Felt "Dismantled King is Off the Throne"

same album, even!

velvet underground's "sweet jane"
is similar to
tommy james and the shondells' "crimson and clover"

is that song a ripoff?

boston spaceships "ready to pop"
jay reatard "always wanting more"

the lucksmiths' "midweek midmorning" and belle & sebastian's "asleep on a sunbeam" are remarkably similar

velvet underground's "sweet jane"
is similar to
tommy james and the shondells' "crimson and clover"

is that song a ripoff? anyone?

Felt "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow"
Felt "Dismantled King is Off the Throne"

same album, even!

― "80s Baby" (Z S), Tuesday, January 6, 2009 4:50 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg how i love this band! the only geniuses they would ever rip off are themselves! and television!

Sweet Jane and Crimson/Clover are both simple 3-chord (I,IV,V) tunes, and saying they're the same is like saying one blues song is the same as another. Similar yes, ripoff... well, no.

Buffalo Springfield's "Mr. Soul" & "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

"You Can Win If You Want" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" by Modern Talking
"Cheri Cheri Lady" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "You Can Win If YOu Want" by Modern Talking
"Brother Louie" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "Cheri Cheri Lady" by Modern Talking
"Atlantis Is Calling" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "Brother Louie" by Modern Talking
"Geronimo's Cadillac" by Modern Talking sounded exactly like "Atlantis Is Calling" by Modern Talking.

Well.... There you go......

=

alphabeat's fascination sounds oddly like the theme music for ducktales

Sweet Jane and Crimson/Clover are both simple 3-chord (I,IV,V) tunes, and saying they're the same is like saying one blues song is the same as another. Similar yes, ripoff... well, no.

No, the other guy is right. Sweet Jane was directly inspired by C&C, Reed's even said so himself.

About 30 seconds in, the Who song "One Life's Enough" from It's Hard sounds like the theme from Cheers, which is odd considering Townshend later wrote a song called "Mike Post Theme."

Joe Satriani sued Coldplay, but I think the folks with a case are Strange Advance. Doesn't that song remind anyone besides me of "We Run"?

Oasis - The Hindu Times
Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now

No, the other guy is right. Sweet Jane was directly inspired by C&C, Reed's even said so himself.

― Cunga, Monday, February 2, 2009 5:02 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

Ahahahahaaha.

opening of pink's 'sober' sounds just like skye sweetnam 'tangled up in me'

the jam's "that's entertainment"

+

arcade fire's "rebellion (lies)"

The Kinks "You Really Got Me"
The Kinks "All Day And All Of The Night"

Just realized that Alone by Ween is a blatant rip of Robyn Hitchcock's The Bones in the Ground.

Also, the verses of Ween's Dr. Rock resemble the verse melody of Heroes and Villains.

I mentioned this above, but now I have youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um4pnvJr07A

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

Iggy Pop, "Funtime"
Liz Phair, "South Dakota"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6LyqtAHX4U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egAse8_8dgg

^^^ wow, that's almost parody

"Dirty Diana" by Michael Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdjqcSCObuc

"Mother" by Danzig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFL2CxlI5k&feature=related

White Stripes "You're pretty good looking for a girl" morphs into the Schoop Schoop Song by Cher in the middle 8.
I have Zeigeist "Cuffs", Kelly Osbourne "one word", Visage "Fade to Grey" and Holly Valance "State of Mind" next to each other in my itunes playlist because they all sound the same and if I hear one I need to hear all of them...

Rebel Son "Redneck Piece of White Trash" = Elton John "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"

Jimi Hendrix "All Along the Watchtower"
Andrea True Connection "What's Your Name, What's Your Number"

Both from 1994;

Pulp - Disco 2000

Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You

WHICH CAME FIRST?

can I just hop on the which came first train with one I posed in another thread:

Rick James' "Love Gun" vs Donna Summer's "Bad Girls". Both released in 1979.

Also, the verses of Ween's Dr. Rock resemble the verse melody of Heroes and Villains.

A good call!

David Bowie - Rock'n'Roll With Me
Quiet Riot - Thunderbird

yung joc - "it's goin down"
gorilla zoe - "i'm dumb"

The Walker Brothers-"Make It Easy On Yourself"
Ash- "Candy"

Julian Cope - "Safesurfer" is a rip of Roxy Music's "If There Is Something" (starting at the 1:40 mark of the later)

Grizzly Bear - Southern Point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXrqDogitqs

Fleet Foxes - English House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGpmDw2cyE

More in feel/vibe/atmosphere/arrangement than exact melody, but there are a lot of similarities.

David Bowie, Fame
James Brown, Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved)

Ian Brown - Year 2525
Supremes - Automatically Sunshine

it's not like one rips off the other but steely dan's "do it again" and quicksilver messenger service's "fresh air" are pretty similar

Polarkreis 18 - Allein Allein
Shakira - Did It Again

eels - hey man now you're really living
twisted sister - we're not gonna take it

Dvorak New World Symphony slow movement horn theme
Oh Susannna

"My Sharona" _ The Knack : "Girl U Want" _ DEVO

"More Than a Feeling" _ Boston : "Teen Spirit" _ Nirvana

"Three Girl Rhumba" _ Wire : "Connection" _ Elastica

Parts of Joy Division's "Means To An End" sound a lot like "The True Wheel" by Brian Eno.

Michel Legrand's A Pain of Twins = Charles Mingus's GG Train

both the pistols and the ramones have songs that have the same guitar bit as "i'm so bored with the u s a ", not sure which came first.....

At around the 6 minute mark, Mogwai's "2 Rights Make 1 Wrong", starts to sound a lot like "Dance Tonight" by Lucy Pearl. I know how that sounds, but try it...

Always thought this track sounded like about 4 different Julian Cope songs (from the St Julian era) melded into one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijuLuITgS4

Carl Carlton "She's a Bad Mamma Jamma" = Johnny 'Guitar' Watson "Strike on Computers"

This sounds an awful lot like Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1yiCyCvW4g&feature=player_embedded#

I can't believe I never noticed that before, but I don't mind it. Parts of it sound like The Wipers. Later on it sound like a different Zeppelin song.

James Gang were pretty damn early though.

Noticed that Can's "Uphill" sounds a bit like (bits of) Pink Floyd's "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" - the bassline really

I listened to New Order's Technique for the first time last night. The bassline on one of the first few songs reminded me of Just Like Heaven.

There's a track off of the new Animal Collective "Fall Be Kind" EP where I expect them to break into "No More Lonely Nights" by Paul McCartney.

'blue ridge mountains' by fleet foxes sounds like 'billy jean'

Paul Revere & The Raiders' Kicks = Monkees' Not Your Stepping Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP8G4clUJBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKC3EgKjL9o
(best I could find)

The Statler Brothers' Flowers on The Wall = Monkees' Randy Scouse Git

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s8nRL2bPCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slhaPMYiJ2g

that new MBV track made me think of joe jackson's steppin' out after I first heard it. not exactly a match but whatever

oops.. I mean new portishead track. sorrys

wowzers. someone else called that already in the portishead thread, so I wasn't the only one to think that

it's like steppin' out...gone portishead!
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, December 9, 2009 11:40 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

De-phazz - anchorless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3VEyCz0u7M

Four80East - waterline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVQlhavzDNY

Air - Venus
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Romance of the Telescope

noticed similarities between Eyes Without a Face and Don't Come Around Here No More

Chris Brown - Forever
Jay Sean - Do You Remember

Lady Gaga - Just Dance
Jason Derulo - In My Head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd1YXmARftQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hxvrinRbvs

Ummm.... you do know the Descendents didn't write "Wendy," right?

oh wait, I get it .... sorry. excuse snarky comment, please.

Fergalicious by Fergie and Supersonic by JJ Fad. Same beat, rhythm, and how the words are emphasized

Beastie Boys' Lighten Up and Ram Lakhan's My name is Lakhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFbslbNRtus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFbslbNRtus&feature=fvw

Woops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO6rZ-_26tA

I just noticed that Pulp's "Common People" rips off "Los Amantes" by Mecano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZcnptl3ZM8

Alice Cooper's "Elected" sounds like Dave Mustaine singing a song written by the Ramones backed by the Quadrophenia-era Who.

Obviously it predates everything but last part.

the pulp/mecano one is amazing !

just me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZvIYU8xf9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PoUcknjdq4

didnt find this one mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1UzPkkuOtU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gBVKc11jCU

ive been trying to spot the chorus to Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun for the past month...

I don't know about the chorus, but it's finally come to mind that what the verses are reminding me of is Wyclef Jean's 'Perfect Gentleman'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0PK2wZEFIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWKyARKudc

("Goodbye Mr. A" is still awesome though)

I don't have the patience to read this whole thread, so maybe these have been mentioned already (or perhaps on the Great Moments of Musical Mimicry thread?) but I can't believe Van Halen didn't sue that dickwad Glenn Frey for "The Heat Is On" (for ripping off "Panama") and why ZZ Top didn't in turn sue Van Halen for "Hot For Teacher" (which is "La Grange," duh)

The Genesis song "Misunderstanding" sounds exactly like an old soul classic on one of the compilations I have but for the life of me I can never remember which song it is until I hear it again. Dang.

The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
and
The Long Ryders - I Had a Dream Last Night

Ram Lakhan's My name is Lakhan

I don't know about the resemblance between that and the Beastie Boys song, but I've been trying to figure out what this song was since MTV2 used to use it in promos. Thanks!!!

Elton John's Tiny Dancer and T-Rex's Cosmic Dancer

maybe a long shot, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUHtJJ1Fgjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1pD7rOVxrE

now I finally know why this is like my favorite song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOIifT5Rfao

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP6Sm2s3nYM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1T9G_d8RJ4

the bassline of this vibrators song sounds like "54 46 was my number"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFd2rAf0Pr8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjBiZSfM08

In Shakey, Neil Young says of "Ambulance Blues", I always feel bad I stole that melody from Bert Jansch. Fuck. You ever heard that song 'The Needle of Death'? I loved that melody. I didn't realize 'Ambulance Blues' starts exactly the same. I knew that it sounded like something he did, but when I went back and heard that record again I realized I copped his thing...I felt really bad about that."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HkBak9lmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAaNQjgMA8

I've just started to get into Motown and every time I hear the "I'm cryin'" that leads into the chorus of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby" it sounds exactly like John Lennon's in "I Am The Walrus" (or vice versa rather). Anyone else notice this?

Just noticed the overlap between Torn and Frayed and Sweet Home Alabama, which is kind of annoying me while trying to enjoy the former...

The intro of "Last Night" (see initial thread post) is also similar (eerily so, one might say) to the intro of "Hard Road" by Black Sabbath.

Miss The Girl by the Creatures sounds (in parts) just like Jolene by Dolly Parton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAz8uw5a0uM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVhbusBDi4&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-43tlrBoRk

Manic Street Preachers "Design For Life" has distinct similarities to portions of BMX Bandits "Our Time Has Come".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVCYVq305E

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

Boards of Canada, "Chromakey Dreamcoat"
Kanye West, "Addiction"

lol "My Girls":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu8hVn_0Lq4

Whitney Houston - The Greatest Love of All (starting at 1:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZWHxw9ylk&feature=fvst

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train (starting at 0:41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDl3iUo__dY

Good catch!

Was thinking about how much Midlake's "Roscoe" sounds like "Rippin Kittin" by Goldenboy and Miss Kittin.

This is driving me nuts. My friend reckons that "Love Song" by the Dandy Warhols sounds exactly like "Baby Blue" by the Warlocks. I reckon that they're both cops of something really really obvious which I cannot seem to put my mind on right now. Argh! Any ideas?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 25 August 2008 09:33 (2 years ago)

Kate, since no one else ever responded, just listened of both of those and the first song that popped into brain was "Big Decision" by That Petrol Emotion. not sure it sounds the same so much, but there's something reminiscent. have the feeling there are more songs the same though!

but yeah, you know what... there is something else specific that they sound much more like. now it's driving me nuts too.

The intro and linking segments of the new Charlatans single ("My Foolish Pride" - v.g. btw) is remarkably similar to "The Things We Do For Love" by 10cc

SAME FUCKING BEAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36x-S8p4qb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_bq1n7k68

"You Are A Lover" by Tracey Thorn from her 'Love And Its Opposite' solo album really makes me think of RHCP's "Under The Bridge".

Love the TT song though.

"Stuck on You" by Lionel richie sounds a lot like "High flying adored" from Evita

Just read the booklet and googled; I never realised it wasn't her song. Due credit to The Unbending Trees.

Dr. Dre "Fuck wit Dre Day", Snoop Doggy Dogg "Who am I (What's My Name)", Tupac's "Can't C Me", and Above the Law's "Never Missin' a Beat", mostly due to interpolating the same funk track.

There must be another thread about this, because I think I've mentioned this pair before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjRw9Wbc3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbL2lMn34Oo

The Dandy Warhols and The Warlocks tracks sound like this to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PILsUqrg2DI

yeah, i hear that!

Beach House's "Silver Soul" reminds me of Grant Lee Buffalo's "Mockingbirds".
Parts of Beach House's "Norway" rip Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love", no?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title theme for NES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f49OKDTQZwk

Stone Cold Crazy by Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnGaEk0rZdU

^^ AWESOME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuJfhEeCe8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsULZ2dcRIU&feature=fvst

This is just ridiculous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwKawAZk7f4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ5DfCY6kY

george mccrae's "rock your baby" (1974) is like the exact same song as dr. hook's "when you're in love with a beautiful woman" (1978). both owe something to the hughes corporation's "rock the boat" (1973), though the connection there is less direct.

george mccrae:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIr19aoHQI

dr. hook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpYN-NK54Y

hughes corp.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndAXxqJbc0

Kind of weird here. Was reading Iggy's bio and it suddenly hit me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_O2kT3PPYY

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0&feature=player_embedded#!

They're even in the same key!

My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
ABBA - The Winner Takes It All

Incidental music from My Neighbour Totoro
Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard

Cheri Knight - "Spellbound"

Pinetop Seven - "Finding the Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir"

well, the Cheri Knight song really just sounds like a distillation of every Pinetop Seven song that hadn't been yet recorded, and even her voice has an uncanny Darren Richard quality to it here. or maybe what I'm trying to say is that all alt.country music sounds the same :-/

it's an outrage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PET5rdzeKxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liOA6e4YHyM

this is ridiculous as well - couldn't find the album version of the Grapes of Wrath one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXStlfeL8oI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMyjjeSWak

verse:

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

+ chorus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7cZCMCwtRk

=

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2dPA2dCRNY

Ennio Morricone - alle luce del giorno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYXy-Q33OZw

Planet Funk - chase the sun ("the darts song/hymn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fppvy52FbIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4a8QtvOkBQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wP5W2R0wY

always thought Howard Jones' New Song was derivative of P Gabriel's Solsbury Hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnK83WxJnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fF8wU4Nl9Y

Has Trent Reznor acknowledged the enormous debt that A Warm Place owes to Bowie's Crystal Japan?

Little Peggy March - i will follow him
=
Organbank - banane, zitrone
~
Les Rallizes Dénudés - night of the assassins

Has Trent Reznor acknowledged the enormous debt that A Warm Place owes to Bowie's Crystal Japan?

yah, here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RQCT69y5s

2:05

not sure they sound so terribly alike, but i can never seem to stop myself from singing "Johnny are you Queer" on top of "Telstar"

Little Peggy March - i will follow him
=
Organbank - banane, zitrone
~
Les Rallizes Dénudés - night of the assassins

~
Earthling - you go on natural

and back to the original

Franck Pourcel - chariot

danava "one mind gone separate ways" = "achilles last stand"

My phone won't let me open the youtube coupled with the piggy pop dogfood track. Is it Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf"? Because that's what it sounds like to me.