For criminal acts and violence on the stage.
For being a brat refusing to act your age.
For all the decent citizens you’ve enraged.
I’m a man, yes I am and I can’t help but love you so.
Well…um, Dee…
Are you…melding with anything in particular?
“Go To Hell” (Alice Cooper) and “I’m a Man” (Spencer Davis Group [ETA: Or Chicago]).
Well then.
This reminded me that:
Bad to the Bone
Mannish Boy, and
I’m Bad
Are all pretty much the same song. I believe I am missing one other obvious one too.
I have heard comments about there being only a few blues songs in all of history, or that after 20 minutes all blues sounds the same, but those three really are similar.
It’s a variant of the same chord progression used for Stray Cat Strut, so I hear them together.
I am enjoying this thread, and I definitely do this, but none are jumping to mind when i try to think about them. I will post then I can relax and let them come to me.
ETA: And, so of course one did!! I can’t hear Kelis’ Milkshake without hearing Cars by Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army. They both use a bangin’ white-noise synth tone as their foundation.
Yep, that’s another good example of the Andalusian cadence. Whenever I hear it, I want to sing “The Cat Came Back” over it, since that song was drilled into us in grade school music class (in Em, so Em, D, C, B7). Also, the first full song I ever remember composing ended up being a variant of this cadence, (except ending on a minor v chord instead of a major V7).
The beginning of The Foo Fighters “The Pretender” makes me want to go into faster version of “Stairway to Heaven” and once the chorus kicks in, I start singing “One of these things is not like the other” from Sesame Street (obviously because of the lyrics “What if I say I’m not like the others” as opposed to any musical similarity.)
There are a whole lot of songs at my church that remind me of classic rock songs, and that tempt me to start singing the rock lyrics.
This is a popular hymn by David Haas, entitled “We Are Called.” But as soon as the piano starts, I can’t help singing, “I’m saaaaiiilinnng awayyyy. Set an open course for the virgin sea.”
Which kind of exemplifies the problem with most Christian pop-rock. Too much of it sounds like a bad attempt at a Styx or Journey AM radio ballad.Led Zeppelin’s “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” often gets me singing the lyrics to Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4.”
Ever since this remix, I can’t hear one of the tunes without immediately morphing into the other.
SOMETIMES, the similarities I see are undoubtedly intended as a tribute rather than as plagiarism. For instance, any time I hear Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven,” I start singing a random Police song, because Bruno sounds a bit like Sting and the guitar sound is very Summers-esque.
But since Bruno acknowledges being a big Police fan, and that he used to do Police covers in his early days, I assume he’s honoring the Police rather than stealing.
Huh. I never noticed that, but you’re 100% right. I do a similar thing every time I hear Gotye’s “Someone I Used to Know,” especially when he goes from the whispering verses to the singing register of his voice. I keep thinking it’s some long lost Police or Sting solo song.
Found it.
Here’s Diana Ross with “Do You Know Where You’re Going To.”
Compare that to “Here, There and Everywhere.”
Just listen to 10 or 15 seconds from where I’ve started the songs.
Pretty similar, right?
Yup - “when you look behind you find there’s no open door” syncs up perfectly with “when if she’s beside me I know I need never care.”
The whole Verve/Andrew Oldham Orchestra/Rolling Stones kerfuffle was interesting - a little bit too faithful a tribute, perhaps.
http://www.feelnumb.com/2011/02/11/the-verve-bittersweet-symphony-stolen-from-the-rolling-stones-the-last-time/
That reminds me. Kelly Clarkson’s “Heartbreak Song” is so close to “The Middle” that Jimmy Eat World got to share songwriting credit.
A more obscure one: Back in high school, I played piano and was musical director for the musical “Pippin.” The opening song, “Magic To Do,” is just drilled into my DNA from the sheer amount of repetition.
Everytime I hear Carole King’s “It’s Too Late,” my brain wants to start singing “Magic to Do.”
These two have almost the same melody in the verse: Lady Madonna, and Sublimes What I Got. Or I should say there was a “consciousness of guilt” in the later song that he made sure it wasn’t identical.
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These two have almost the same melody in the verse: Lady Madonna, and Sublimes What I Got. Or I should say there was a “consciousness of guilt” in the later song that he made sure it wasn’t identical.
Yep! That’s definitely another one. I heard the song on the radio the other day and started singing “Lady Madonna” right over it, like I always do. It’s definitely heavily influenced by it, whether subconsciously or not.
I have often wondered about the relationship between:
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Some Kind of Wonderful - originally by the Soul Brothers Six; covered by Grand Funk Railroad - the SB6 version was released in 1967 - Soul Brothers Six - SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL - YouTube , three years before
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Three Button Hand Me Down by The Faces from 1970: Three Button Hand Me Down - YouTube
Sweet Jane
You Aint Seen Nothin Yet
Department of Youth - Alice Cooper
all share some DNA.