Similar Sounding Songs

[Answerprancer]

Ok, get it off your chest - I bet there is at least one pair of songs you know of, the second of which made you think "hang on a minute! - that sounds exactly like (insert song title) !"

One of my "rip-off outrage" songs is "jerk it out" by the caesars - the verses of which are a blatant rip-off of Girls On Film. You can literally sing the lyrics to Girls On Film over it.

So to simplify - here's a suggested template:

Jerk It Out by The Caesars/Girls On Film - Duran Duran
Taxman - The Beatles/Start - The Jam (identical bass-line)

(inspired by sallabananas' Up The Junction thread)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdVf8nG0BZg&ob=av3e

[factor-fiction]

Wrong way round isn't it ABerrant? Huey Lewis's track was a single in 1980. ELO's track was around 1977/78

[factor-fiction]

Just checked:

1982 for Huew Lewis
http://en.wikipedia.o...o_You_Believe_in_Love

ELO 1978
http://en.wikipedia.o...Sweet_Talkin%27_Woman

[yinyang]

ELO seem to be very popular for ripping off. Paul Weller seems to think the intro for 10538 Overture was so good he hardly bothered to change it at all -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC02EnshI5U


And the ripped off version -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v9WhRpQw8E

[VHG]

Steely Dan with Rikki Dont Lose that number

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA

has the same opening bass line as Horace Silver with Songs for my father

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLdm1yuoU_Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA

Steely Dan - Rikki

[VHG]

A 1960s group called Love had an anti drug song called Signed DC

http://www.youtube.co...epeHA&feature=related

This is VERY VERY similar (at least the "tune") as Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsrTtHepeHA&feature=related

Love - Signed DC

[snags]

Not forgetting 'Hotel California' by The Rolling Stones... and 'Angie' by The Eagles

;-p

[ABerrant]

Hands up - I misremembered part of the "Do You Believe In Love" history...

I recalled that it was a cover of an earlier song written by "Mutt" Lange but confused myself, thinking the original was recorded before ELO's "Sweet Talkin' Woman", whereas the original by Supercharge did not appear until 1979.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUqmt7phVQ

[Everhelpful]

Every "Status Quo" songs sound the same.

[mushroom25]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_CqMFKak1c
vs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55wL_0PutJs

(they don't actually sound all that alike, but they have the same "feel")

[Answerprancer]

Bloody ell ! Tons of em, yikes AOG this is where the world's "seriously folks - what's going on" stuff is going on" !! Some scarey plagiarism going on.
WOW!!!

[Answerprancer]

Blimey VHG - those two passed me by !

[Answerprancer]

(those two *PAIRS* of rip-offs!!!)

[Answerprancer]

Here are a couple of corkers...
http://www.youtube.co...v=pL2_PZwKDPg&ob=av2e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRUJci2YjvI

[sg]

This was doing the rounds a few months ago. Very similar, although I didn't twig this at the time that the RATM song came out..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yieWHbsvu98

[mollykins]

I can't remember the names of the songs but Madonna did a recentish one that sounds like an ABBA song . . . .

[karenmac60]

I always thought Oasis's Don't Look Back in Anger was very like Sowing the Seeds of Love by Tears for Fears

[blackeyed]

the opening of half of my heart by john meyer sounds a lot like lady antebellum's need you now

[sophie_1003]

Yep- see my post in Music about Alexandra Burke, but perhaps that was sampled because it sounds very very similar!