Marka Ragnos Posted August 26, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 26, 2023 (edited) I'm not saying these would necessarily be instances of copyright infringement or the intentional stealing of songs -- but I'm not saying they're not that, either. What are some pairs of songs that --- as you hear them -- sound coincidentally similar to you? Here's a pair of songs that share some improbably similar passages of melody: WARNING: ULTRAVOX VID IS NSFW. Edited August 26, 2023 by Marka Ragnos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted August 26, 2023 Author VT Supporter Share Posted August 26, 2023 This is a well-known matching pair ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted August 26, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 26, 2023 I remember thinking I was going crazy that seemingly it was only me who thought The Kids Aren’t Alright by The Offspring bore a passing similarity to the theme tune to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I remember my mates were all dismissive about it. Since then I’ve found some like minded souls on the internet but I needed them to back me up 20+ years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted August 26, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 26, 2023 Evan Dando too out of his face to realise he hadn't written this: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 And the mashup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Tom T Halls Old side of Town George Strait and Alan Jackson's Murder On Music Row Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Empty Beer Cans by Jon Pardi Lady Antebellum's We Owned The Night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Pat Greens Wave on Wave Midland's Playboys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Shane Smith's All I See (2015) Aviici Wake Me Up (2013) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Blur - Tender Pavement - Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 27, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 27, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 27, 2023 So far, I'm familiar with precisely ONE of the songs posted in this thread. You can probably guess which one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 27, 2023 Moby has a history of theft, he's a grade A word removed Ripped off The Passage's Drugface with absolutely no credit among others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 27, 2023 I'd post that The Beatles ripped off the Jam's Start years before Paul Weller wrote it but you all know that one anyway surely. Then there was ELO ripping off Paul Weller's The Changingman years before he wrote that too I mean how unlucky can Weller be to have all these people writing his songs before he did 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 A perfectly good tune in its own right then at 1:44 turns in to a generic Neu! Homage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted August 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 27, 2023 52 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: A perfectly good tune in its own right then at 1:44 turns in to a generic Neu! Homage. Imma Mooney on this one - is Neu! an artist? I don't know this song, is their a particular song by Neu! that this sounds like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 27, 2023 1 hour ago, bickster said: Moby has a history of theft, he's a grade A word removed Ripped off The Passage's Drugface with absolutely no credit among others Yeah, you've told that story before. On this one though, he was the first and charlatans 4 years later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 27, 2023 21 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: is Neu! an artist? How to say I know feck all about music without saying it out loud German Experimental Electronic Music, AKA Krautrock So you’ve heard of Kraftwerk, well out of the same scene came… Neu! Can, Popul Vuh, Cluster, Tangerine Dream and a whole bunch of others who have had an extremely influential effect on modern music. The influence started with Bowie, Eno and Iggy Pop when they buggered off to bohemian West Berlin in he 70s which is where Bowie Berlin trilogy came from and Eno went on a wild ambient trip that continues to this day. Since then the motorik beat and the electronic rhythms have spread their influence far and wide and pretty much underpin most European electronic music to this day. Radiohead, Depeche Mode, U2 and work your way downwards from there through Portishead…. Trance, rave, all of it, it all starts with the German Experimental scene in the 70s 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 27, 2023 5 minutes ago, blandy said: Yeah, you've told that story before. On this one though, he was the first and charlatans 4 years later Yeah I figured but he deserves it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted August 27, 2023 36 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: s their a particular song by Neu! that this sounds like? All of them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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