Songs that sound like other songs ...

[Marka Ragnos]

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

[Marka Ragnos]

This is a well-known matching pair ...

 

[Mark Albrighton]

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.

 

[OutByEaster?]

Evan Dando too out of his face to realise he hadn't written this:

 

[sne]

And the mashup

 

[Seat68]

Tom T Halls Old side of Town

George Strait and Alan Jackson's Murder On Music Row

 

[Seat68]

Empty Beer Cans by Jon Pardi

Lady Antebellum's We Owned The Night

 

[Seat68]

Pat Greens Wave on Wave

Midland's Playboys

 

[Seat68]

Shane Smith's All I See (2015)

Aviici Wake Me Up (2013)

 

 

[useless]

Blur - Tender

Pavement - Here

[blandy]

 

[mjmooney]

So far, I'm familiar with precisely ONE of the songs posted in this thread. You can probably guess which one. 

[bickster]

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

[bickster]

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

[chrisp65]

A perfectly good tune in its own right then at 1:44 turns in to a generic Neu! Homage.

 

[OutByEaster?]

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?

 

[blandy]

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

[bickster]

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
 

[bickster]

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

[bickster]

36 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

s their a particular song by Neu! that this sounds like?

All of them