Sarah. Fucking. McLaughlin. Christ…every song is the same beat, same fucking chords, same vocal patterns. She admitted it herself. She actually SAID, “All my songs basically sound the same.” Give it up, Ms. One-Hit-Wonder. Your ship sailed a while ago.
The link in the OP is hilarious. What’s really great is that the AllMusic Guide’s blurb about “Someday” actually mentions this remix!
With its overheated melodrama, chugging guitars and Chad Kroeger’s half-sung, half-grunted vocals, “Someday” is quintessential Nickelback. Indeed, the alleged similarities between this song and the band’s other big hit “How You Remind Me” caused a small furor when some wag did a mash-up of the two songs and posted an mp3 of the results on the internet. 
I’ve disagreed with most of the nominees so far, actually. Most of the bands named work in one genre, and have definite, unmistakeable styles that show in most of their songs… but that’s a far cry from saying all their songs sound the same.
Of course, some of the artists in question will play along with the joke. When told that a critics had said “AC/DC have made ten albums that all sound alike,” Angus Young is supposed to have said, “Bulls**t! We’ve made TWELVE albums that all sound alike.”
However, one band that actually DESERVES a spot on this list hasn’t been mentioned yet: the Knack! They must’ve re-recorded “My Sharona” under about 10 different titles, starting with “Baby Talks Dirty.”
Man I felt like such a retard when, because my day-time pre-occupation prevents me from getting out on the streets and “keeping it real” per sé, I said to my friend who had Evanescence playing, “Why are you listening to Avril Lavigne?” :smack: “Uhh, it’s Evanescence” … “Like off the Scwheppes ad?” :smack:
Britney Spears; I think those two female “comedians” did it pretty good when they sung “hit me baby one more time” and that other crappy one where she’s on Mars. I think they were the super of wonder somethings. I can’t remember
And Oasis. Tripod did a medley overlaying a lot of their songs over the other, which was genius, pure genius.
Yes it does take someone to actually sing both songs at once to make me see, that hey, these songs are the same! Lay one right on me, I’m rhythmically challenged!
Cheers.
Engine.
Bon Jovi.
GYBRFE, shame on you! You’re only 18, you’re not supposed to be mixing up your Avrils and your Evanescences!
The original and reigning champeen, ladies and gentlemen: Iron Butterfly.
In-a-Gadda-da-Vida took up one side of an album. And also the other side and all the other sides of however many other albums they stamped out before fading into relative obscurity.
Everclear.
Not only do all their songs SOUND the same musically, they are all ABOUT the same thing.
“Wah, wah, I grew up poor and didn’t have a dad and now I’m full of anger and I hate you!” - lyrics to every Everclear song made to date.
This came up just the other day beucase my wife was watching Back to the Future, and I had just heard Power of Love on teh radio - “Huey Lewis and the News” Im trying to think of a song that doesn’t sound the same.
What about Ace Frehley?
During his alleged solo career (between leaving KISS and rejoining KISS), and, hell, even going as far back as KISS’s * Dynasty* album, just about every song he’s done has been about How Much It Sucks To Be Me. And they all sound alike. And Ace really shouldn’t sing, that stuffy-head adenoid voice is really annoying.
Whatever. I’m 21 and I get Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton mixed all the time. Not just songs, but appearance-wise too.
How about John Phillip Sousa? Not exactly a “band,” but with very few execeptions all of his marches run together in my brain like a never-ending Fourth of July parade.
Exactly. When their first album came out, although they were quite clearly taking The Beatles and adding distortion and a guy who couldn’t sing, there wasn’t anything (at least in the British charts) like it, so it seemed original and was pretty damn good. Then others caught on and expanded it. Then Oasis released The Beatles with even more distortion. And then even more distortion. And then… (ad infinitum as long as they keep releasing albums).
My other nomination would be every 90’s/2000’s boy band other than Take That. For example, a Westlife song doesn’t just sound like every other Westlife song, it also sounds like every Boyzone, Backstreet Boys and N-Sync song.
Some of these have been mentioned already, but I’ll toss in my nominations as well:
Jack Johnson- Okay, we get the idea. Now shut up.
Everclear- see whats been said already. And now shut up.
Springsteen- Yes, you’re from New Jersey.
R.E.M.- You shoulda quit after “Fables”.
The Cure- Thank God the 80’s are over!
Lucinda Williams- I like it. Must be because I’m familiar with it.
Collective Soul- I honestly can’t tell thier songs apart! :eek:
And I gotta agree with the OP on Gary Puckett. He plays in the area pretty often and when they run ads on the radio they clip the “hook” from his “hits” (wink, wink) and it is shockingly unimpressive.
I’ve been saying for over twenty years that Devo, Kiss, and The Ramones are just one-trick novelty acts. Ditto the Sex Pistols.
I heard about that. Just imagine - the primary writer/composer from a popular band goes solo, and he writes and composes the same way he did when he was in the band! Who woulda thunk?
Put me in, Coach! I’m ready to play!
Regarding AC/DC: I was reading Amazon.com buyer reviews of Rush’s 2002 CD, Vapor Trails, and there was one review after another with people complaining that it didn’t sound just like 2112 (released in 1976) or Moving Pictures (released in 1981). Finally, somebody said, (paraphrasing) “Look, if you want a band that keeps putting out the same album over and over, go buy some AC/DC!”
Oh, how could I forget the ultimate in self-repetition: RANDY NEWMAN!!!
Every year since time immemorial, he’s rewritten the exact same song for one movie (often a Pixar production) or another, and every year, it’s been nominated for an Oscar.
Since the Academy FINALLY gave the schmuck his mercy Oscar, do you suppose he’ll finally write a new song?
I couldn’t let this thread pass without mentioning the King of Musical Redundancy: Chubby Checker. A few of his top forty hits:
The Twist (1960)
Let’s Twist Again (1961)
The Twist (the exact same recording, re-released in 1961)
Slow Twistin’ (1962)
Twist it Up (1963)
The Twist (again, this time a rap version with the Fat Boys, 1998)
and for a little variety…
Limbo Rock (1962), and
Let’s Limbo Some More (1963)
Hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?
Tsk tsk. You’ll be in trouble when a mod sees that. You’re not supposed to type out the full lyrics to a song, let alone a whole album.
I just remembered that I saw a duo on a comedy show singing two of Britney’s songs at the same time. The songs were “Oops, I Did It Again” and “Baby One More Time”. I hadn’t realised that it was the same song with different words.
Dion. If he did any songs with a chord progression other than I-vi-IV-V, I haven’t heard them.
Anal Cunt, although I guess they did release their “sensitive folk” album.
Wesley Willis, but that’s not enough to make me stop listening.
And most obnoxiously, the Dave Matthews Band. Every one of their songs is hacked out of the same amorphous glob of incoherence. I’ve heard aleatory John Cage compositions with more sense of melody.
I have a disco nominee:
KC and the Sunshine Band
“Shake Your Booty” and “I’m Your Boogie Man” are virtually the same song.
I know, I’m always mixing up my Nappy Roots and my L. L. Cool J Cds :rolleyes: