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Songs that sound too much like other songs

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Foreign Jackass

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Let's try and make up a list of songs that are annoyingly similar to other songs.

I'll go with :

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc . -----------> U2 - Staring at the Sun
Pearl Jam - Given To Fly ------------> Led Zeppelin - Going to California
 
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LakeEarth

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Although they sound nothing alike, When I Come Around by Green Day has the exact same guitar riff as Glycerine by Bush. Mix the fact that the two songs came out at relatively the same time makes it one hell of a coincidence.

When I was younger I was messing around with my guitar and figured out Glycerine, which isn't very hard. I was silly and played it really fast and I'm like, holy crap, When I Come Around :lol
 
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LakeEarth said:
Although they sound nothing alike, When I Come Around by Green Day has the exact same guitar riff as Glycerine by Bush. Mix the fact that the two songs came out at relatively the same time makes it one hell of a coincidence.

When I was younger I was messing around with my guitar and figured out Glycerine, which isn't very hard. I was silly and played it really fast and I'm like, holy crap, When I Come Around :lol
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Haha! Same happened to me. Actually, a couple of songs have those exact same chords with different rhythms, but these two were the first two I found.
 
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Foreign Jackass

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Sholmes said:
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby ---> Queen/Bowie - Under Pressure :lol
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Yeah, he tried to license it, wouldn't get it for a good price, just took out ONE single bass note. I can't even hear the difference.
 
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The Take Out Bandit

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Anything by Creed really.

Hell, any of those other popular bands that sound like cut rate Pearl Jam past it's prime. Y'know the folks that provide the soundtrack for more summer blockbusters and Bruckheimer films. :p
 
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Lambtron

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"We Both Go Down Together" by The Decemberists & "Losing My Religion" by REM

Foreign Jackass said:
What's Hava Nagila?
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Hahaha, my friend was obsessed with this song. And also terrible techno remixes. And he found a techno remix of it. It was basically the song played on a synth plus a horrible 4/4 bass beat. I pretty much explained exactly what was going to go down before he played it. It was pretty horrible.
 
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Star Power

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The Strokes - Last Nite -----> The Smiths - This Charming Man
Nirvana - Come As You Are -----> Killing Joke - Eighties


tons of others I can't think of at the mo....
 
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MC Safety

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Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. over "Ghostbusters," as he claimed it was identical to "I Want a New Drug."

Also, didn't REM do "Strange Currencies," which is the same song as "Everybody Hurts" (also by REM)?
 
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Ponn

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For awhile there every rap, hip hop and p-diddy song I heard on the radio or tv were all sampled 80's songs.
 
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WrenAndroid

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The first minute of Coldplay's ''Twisted Logic''(the guitar)' sounds exactly like Radiohead's ''You Never Wash After Yourself'' and ''Wolf At the Door''.
 
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B-B-Bomba!

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That Gorillaz tune from the Ipod commercial = that new Moby one about it's raining again. You could do quite a fancy mix with those two, although both are horrible songs so it'd be pointless.
 
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Hitman

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Star Power said:
The Strokes - Last Nite -----> The Smiths - This Charming Man
Nirvana - Come As You Are -----> Killing Joke - Eighties


tons of others I can't think of at the mo....
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Wtf.. which was first Come as you are or Eighties?
 
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Flizzzipper

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Killing Joke sued Nirvana and lost some how on that one. They're cool though cause I know Dave played drums for them not to long ago for a show or album or something.
 
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Do The Mario

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Rick James – Super Freak and M.C Hammers Can’t Touch This

Will Smith - Getting Jiggy With it and Sister Sledge's - He's The Greatest Dancer.
 
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DDayton

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"Make 'em Laugh" (from Singing in the Rain) and "Be a Clown" (from The Pirate).

The tunes are essentially identical, and the lyrics are just about the same. Cole Porter wrote be a clown... the story is that when MGM was producing Singing in the Rain, the music writer was told they needed a song "like Cole Porter's 'Be a Clown'" for one of the scenes... so they just took the song and changed the lyrics a bit.
 
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Rorschach

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The Donnas "Fall behind me" blatantly rips off of Foo Fighters' "Times Like These" riff

Weezer "Beverly Hills" = Joan Jett's "I love Rock n Roll"

There was this song they played on the radio all the time (haven't heard it in a month or two) that straight ripped off the song that the nerds from RotN played at the end of the movie.

Oasis' "Lyla" sounds an awful lot like RS' "Street Fighting Man" and another song I can't quite place put together. Then again, there are a lot of Oasis songs that remind me of other songs...
 
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OpinionatedCyborg

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Put Hit Me Baby One More Time on top of You Drive Me Crazy.

If I recall correctly, they have the same baseline, and actually sound decent when sung together. I saw two comedians do it, while flipping through the channels, on one lonely friday night, as a glob of ice cream migrated down my chin to join its brethren in an ice cream lake on my chest.
 
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Syckx

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Flizzzipper said:
Killing Joke sued Nirvana and lost some how on that one. They're cool though cause I know Dave played drums for them not to long ago for a show or album or something.
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If I recall correctly the court ruled that you cannot copyright a riff, only an entire song. I may be wrong/ Correct me if I am.
 
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djtiesto

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Darude - Sandstorm, Cosmic Gate - Exploration of Space, and Lautsprecher - Omnibus
 
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Jill Sandwich

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The Beatles - Taxman = The Jam - Start
Herbie Hancock - Rockit = Daft Punk - Short Circuit
The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar = Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
 
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MadFuzzy

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I said it in another thread but: Kelly Osbourne - One Word = Visage - Fade To Grey, only with different words.

I think there's a bit of confusion in here about when something "sounds like" something else, when it's actually sampled (Will Smith, MC Hammer, etc). Puff Daddy is the most guilty of the trick of sampling a hook from a very popular song and mumbling over the top of it (and therefore selling shitloads), to hide an actual lack of talent. Down with that sort of thing.
 
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djtiesto

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MadFuzzy said:
I said it in another thread but: Kelly Osbourne - One Word = Visage - Fade To Grey, only with different words.

I think there's a bit of confusion in here about when something "sounds like" something else, when it's actually sampled (Will Smith, MC Hammer, etc). Puff Daddy is the most guilty of the trick of sampling a hook from a very popular song and mumbling over the top of it (and therefore selling shitloads), to hide an actual lack of talent. Down with that sort of thing.
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Oh man, another sample hater... some of the most interesting music of the past decade or two were made by selectively cutting up and distorting and looping all sorts of samples.
 
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Litigation Manuel

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Flaming Lips- Fight Test and Cat Stevens- Father and Son. The vocal melody was the same, Stevens (or the people behind Stevens) tried to sue the Lips, but they admitted the song was an influence and it was settled out of court I believe.
 
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MadFuzzy

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djtiesto said:
Oh man, another sample hater... some of the most interesting music of the past decade or two were made by selectively cutting up and distorting and looping all sorts of samples.
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Absolutely not. :)

I'm against *lazy* sampling, which is often done by people with not a lot of talent to back it up. I personally rate creative sampling very highly (I'm a huge fan of DJ Shadow/RJD2/turntablism in general), it's just a lot of creatively bad people get away with using a big famous sample as an excuse to sell shedloads of records.
 
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enjoy bell woods said:
The similarity between Stevens's song and Fight Test was uncanny. That was kind of sad.
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Yeah. Noticed it from the get-go too. I was kinda like "why the hell is this getting rave reviews?". Then I got to the next song, and then the next, and then In the Morning of The Magician, and well, Summertime, and... well, Fight Song didn't really matter by that point.
 
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