Songs that sound alike

demanufactured · 07-09-2014 11:36PM

Dolbert wrote: »

The Stunning's Brewing Up A Storm is a total rip-off of Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4l9QsjcemA

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

Again....no.

Yamanoto · 07-09-2014 11:38PM

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

vs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDaMzpdkp9Q

RikkFlair · 07-09-2014 11:43PM

LCD Soundsystem "Drunk Girls" = Velvet Underground "White Light White Heat"

Irish Guitarist · 07-09-2014 11:46PM

Paint box by Pink Floyd and A Day In The Life by The Beatles.

Turpentine · 07-09-2014 11:47PM

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmm14g4cAFc

is quite similar to:

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

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve9Y-dl40sQ

is quite similar to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

Turpentine · 07-09-2014 11:50PM

RikkFlair wrote: »

LCD Soundsystem "Drunk Girls" = Velvet Underground "White Light White Heat"

Ha! Forgot about that one.

Here they are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdRaf3-OEh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ckXALWn1M

bnt · 07-09-2014 11:50PM

Wikipedia has a list of songs that use the same I–V–vi–IV chord progression: it's quite long.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwlogyj7nFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4isv_Fylg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRX4tYPo84

AnonoBoy · 07-09-2014 11:53PM

demanufactured wrote: »

Again....no.

Cobain himself thought it was too much like it to be the first single off Nevermind.

the groutch · 07-09-2014 11:57PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbXTnoP5lkw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Yc3HhSl1Q

and also

4 minutes in:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuKkcX1uKA

08-09-2014 12:07AM

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nCy5CITc8

Turpentine · 08-09-2014 12:14AM

SilverScreen wrote: »

The main riff in Come as You Are by Nirvana is basically a slowed down version of the main riff in Eighties by Killing Joke.

Add a bit of this to the mix and you've got a stew going on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDbMZlN2Pg

DonnieScribbles · 08-09-2014 12:17AM

Listening from 02:30 on will probably remind you of a much played song of 12 months or so ago....

Call Me Jimmy · 08-09-2014 12:20AM

Chord progressions aren't songs for jesus out loud!

08-09-2014 12:23AM

I can't remember which ones they are, but I do recall a few years back that there was a Jessie J song which sounded like a total rip-off of a Katy Perry one.

abbir · 08-09-2014 12:27AM

and

breakfasttime · 08-09-2014 12:55AM

That first photo of Tom Petty.

breakfasttime · 08-09-2014 12:58AM

SilverScreen wrote: »

The main riff in Come as You Are by Nirvana is basically a slowed down version of the main riff in Eighties by Killing Joke.

Yeah, they buried the hatchet and foo fighters did a cover of requiem and used it as a b-side to one of their singles.

breakfasttime · 08-09-2014 01:01AM

DazMarz wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94

Riff was ripped off by Nirvana for:

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

PLL · 08-09-2014 01:28AM

one of my favourite songs:

Modest Mouse - Float On: http://youtu.be/CTAud5O7Qqk

being completely ripped off by this:

Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On: http://youtu.be/Rmp6zIr5y4U

Joekers · 08-09-2014 01:48AM

Everyone ripping off poor old Tom Petty it seems

Absoluvely · 08-09-2014 02:11AM

"Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men copies "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Duggy747 · 08-09-2014 02:17AM

Huey Lewis was asked to write the theme to Ghostbusters but instead went with Back To The Future.

Ray Parker Jr. then came out with the theme which was fairly similar to Huey's song:

Huey was pissed and sued where the case was settled out of court until he mentioned the payment on a VH1 Behind The Music episode in 2001 where Parker got to sue him back for breach of confidentiality :pac:

accountname · 08-09-2014 02:48AM

Chorus of "Don't Stop" seems a copy of "Everybody Talks", no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKfzMOC19Fc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5G9tIe84lE

Also, an unlikely one; One Directions "Midnight Memories" is very reminiscent of Def Leppards "Pour Some Sugar On Me"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIB9Y4OFPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkx9kCdaaMg

Antar Bolaeisk · 08-09-2014 08:45AM

Coldplay - Gravity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLNttSV53Q

Coldplay - Proof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt8uxJrg5Ic

Say Your Number · 08-09-2014 02:21PM

Heard this song earlier and thought...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWYA9BvxMso

The guitar riff sounds like this

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

And the chorus reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR30knJs4Xk

Harry Palmr · 08-09-2014 02:31PM

Footloose (1984) by Kenny Loggins clearly borrowing from Funk 49 by The James Gang for the chorus hook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltrMfT4Qz5Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qHU_6Ofc0

Harry Palmr · 08-09-2014 02:34PM

Deep Purple borrowed *cough* from Its a Beautiful Day for Child in Time refrain. Back then everyone was cool and relaxed so no one got sued, IaBD simply borrowed a Purple tune by way of payback in bit later.

Bombay Calling IaBD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEKg9qyEQmw

Child In Time Deep Purple

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

Dolbert · 08-09-2014 02:44PM

demanufactured wrote: »

Again....no.

No, nothing alike at all, apart from the same riff, song structure, melody etc.

Here's another, Katy Perry's ET and All The Things She Said by Tatu

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

Tokyo · 08-09-2014 03:05PM

Every single Nickelback song. Ever. The same paint by numbers “write the same song as many times as possible until people stop buying our records” formula applies to everything they have ever released.

RikkFlair · 08-09-2014 03:20PM

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdKu5T9zM6I

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