(if you are talking about my post) Actually, what I said was that all EVERCLEAR songs sound the same, before making the Offspring/Beatles connection:)
As a fan of Alice (and someone who’s father listens to Steve Miller,) I have to disagree. In fact, I’m listening to “Heaven Beside You” right now, and just listened to “Keep on Rockin’ Me, Baby” and I just don’t hear it.
Anyway, if Jerry Cantrell was going to borrow a guitar line from someone, I don’t think Steve Miller would be high on the list.
Personally, I think 3 Doors Down’s song “When I’m Gone” sounds a lot musically like Metallica’s “Unforgiven II.”
A couple from the US:
“Frosty the Snowman” (1950) is a ripoff of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949). It’s easy to start singing one and end up singing the other.
It appears that other people feel the same way.
A couple of “simulriffs” from the UK:
(from this site).
As is that song about spendthrift ways having a [sup]ahem[/sup] slight resemblance to some song by Pink Floyd, replete with cash register effects, albeit in 4/4 time rather than 7/4.
The guitar on The Strokes “Last Night” and Tom Petty’s “American Girl” - when Last Night used to be on the radio all the time, I used to get all excited thinking they were finally playing Tom Petty on the radio!
Seems we must love changing lyrics around the good ol’ US of A, as our National Anthem only had it’s lyrics written by Mr.F.S. Key. He stole the tune from an old drinking song.
Don’t ask me for the originals though, it’s like asking for the second or third verse of America the Beautiful. They exsist, but rarely seen.
Someone already mentioned the similarity between Robbie Dupree’s Steal Away and the Doobie Brothers’ What a Fool Believes. I just listened to Steal Away, and noticed that the bridge sounds exactly like a song that was also on the Doobie Bros. Minute By Minute album, Open Your Eyes. And, that sounds suspiciously like Michael McDonald on backing vocals.
[sup]Another thing that may sound the same (and may cause similarity in itself) between certain 1970’s songs is the snare drum. The Ludwig Supraphonic was quite the workhorse in the studio throughout this decade, and its punchy, versatile sound is recognizable in many recordings.[/sup]
Y’know, I just did a check on this and they don’t sound all that much alike. WoL is “dink-doo, dink-doo, dum dum dum-dum”, SHA is “dum-dum, a-dum-dum, a-dum-dum, dibbydibbydibbydibby”. The only connection is that they use the same instruments.
“Feel Like Makin’ Love” by Bad Company and “Higher” by Creed sound an awful lot alike to me, especially the beginning parts, before the majestic, tortured rock-guy chorus.
I somehow avoided hearing Creed when their first album was out, but got more than my fill when “Higher” got played on the local radio station all the time. I always thought it was “Feel Like Makin’ Love” until I heard the chorus.
This is my main reason for hating Creed so much - I really hate FLML, and for anyone to rip that song off makes them utterly horrible and irredemible in my book.
The Yardbirds’ version of “I’m A Man” and The Count Five’s “Psychotic Reaction”
David Bowie’s “Fame” and James Brown’s “Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)”
The openings of The Who’s “I Can’t Explain” and the Nazz’s “Open My Eyes”
“Back On My Mind Again” By Ronnie Milsap borows the melody from Octopus’s Garden By the Beatles.
“Spiral Architect” by Black Sabbath sounds very similar to Material Girl by Madonna.
“Run To You” by Bryan Adams can be sung over Refugee by Tom Petty.
Like wise, when the opening chords to “Cumbersome” by Seven Mary Three start, I can’t help singing “Naaa,naa-naa,na-na-na-naa,na-na-na-naaa,Hey,Jude”
And if you want a really cool segue/fade/mix, the ending chord of “Come Down” by Bush is damn near Identical to the one at beginning of Spinning Wheel by Blood Sweat and Tears
I concur.
I heard a song on the '80s station the other day that borrowed a lot from Harold Faltermeyer’s “Axel F”, except it was a song by some lame band.
…which was then ripped off by the Sex Pistols’ “Sub Mission” only to be ripped off again … by the Kinks with “Destroyer.”
Also…take Paul McCartney’s “ahhhhhhh…ahhh…ahhh…ahhhhhhh…” part from the symphonic bit in the midde of “A Day in the Life,” speed it up, make 'em “nahhs” instead of “ahhs” and…PRESTO!..“Hush” by Deep Purple.
Matchbox Twenty’s song Push reminds me of The Captain and Tenille’s Love Will Keep Us Together. Both feature the lyrics “Well I will, Well I will…”
McCartney’s “ahhhing” is at a much slower pace and to a different tune. I don’t think this counts.
The Rolling Stones “Has Anybody Seen My Baby” is EXACTLY the same as k.d. lang’s “Constant Craving”
She was ‘flattered’ when this came out, meanwhile, they were total pricks when it came to “Bittersweet Symphony” by Verve.
She wasn’t just flattered. Didn’t she get a songwriting credit?
You’re not the only one. It was only about a year ago that I realized that they were two separate songs. I think I was listening to “No Particular Place to Go” while waiting to be seated at a restaurant, and I kept waiting for Berry to belt “Hail Hail Rock’n’Roll!” I had heard both songs before, but I never made the distinction before then.
I know the Oasis-ripping-off-the-Beatles issue has been discussed ad nauseum, but the piano in “Don’t Look Back in Anger” is nicked note-for-note from John Lennon’s “Imagine”.
Yep. The Stones said the similarities were an accident, but they gave her a credit all the same.
Good peoples.