Actually, I thought No Doubt’s song sounded more like the beginning to Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America.” I do understand the similarity to Aerosmith’s “Dream On”, though.
“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and “The Alphabet” song is probably one of the oldest examples around. Louie Armstong’s “What a Wonderful World” also has some similarities to these.
The opening to Bon Jovi’s “Let it Rock” sounds like it was taken from Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.”
That’d be the aforementioned Why Don’t You Get a Job (and I’m glad I’m not the only one who hears it!)
Hail To The Chief, not America.
I was going to mention Constant Craving/Has Anybody Seen My Baby, but was beaten to it.
PuffyAmiYumi has several songs that sound like other songs.
Jet Keisatsu’s opening sounds like the Who’s Won’t Be Fooled Again.
Asia no Junshin sounds like Don’t Bring Me Down by…whoever it was by.
The opening of Ai no Shirushi - Captain Funk’s Puffy no Samba mix sounds for all the world like the George of the Jungle theme (I SWEAR).
What the hell do you mean ‘sampling’ does not count? Sampling is an honored tradition in music.
A snippet at the beginnging of the Overture of Mozart’s Don Goivanni becomes Chopin’s famous ‘Funeral March’.
Hungarian dance music inundate Brahms’ work, like Czech dances does in Bartok’s.
Ives is infamous for sampling patriotic songs.
So don’t tell me that sampling is some ‘scourge’ exclusive of rap music.
The “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” ditty came from the French song “Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman”, or “Ah, let me tell you, mamma”. Mozart used the melody for piano variation.
I think sampling doesn’t count because it’s easy. Of COURSE a sampled song sounds like the song it’s sampling - that’s the point.
This thread, I gather, is intended more to be about plaigerism (Accidental or otherwise) (eg: Has Anybody Seen My Baby/Constant Craving), complete coincidence (eg: Why Don’t You Get a Job/Cecelia), or just ‘every song by this performer is the same’ (eg: Chuck Berry).
Sounds like Cecilia, yes, but sounds more like Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Which it should, being a parody of the Beatles’ wankiest hit.
Escalator of Life by Robert Hazard
and
Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson
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[/COLOR][/COLOR] Wow! This is an oldie! I was searching for a specific connection between two songs and came across this thread . . . 12 years after the last post on his topic!!! I think it’s time to revive it NOW, it’s a great topic.
SO - i googled it but saw nobody else posted these two: hasn’t anyone ever noticed the samenessbetween The Beachboys “God Only Knows” and “If I Only Had A Brain” from the original Wizard of Oz? Omg! I happened to notice it just today as i listened to a radio documentary about some oldies music.
Anyone else notice that?
Wow! This is an oldie! I was searching for a specific connection between two songs and came across this thread . . . 12 years after the last post on his topic!!! I think it’s time to revive it NOW, it’s a great topic.
SO - i googled it but saw nobody else posted these two: hasn’t anyone ever noticed the samenessbetween The Beachboys “God Only Knows” and “If I Only Had A Brain” from the original Wizard of Oz? Omg! I happened to notice it just today as i listened to a radio documentary about some oldies music.
Anyone else notice that?
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Nothing to see here! Move along, now!
Is that because u have nothing to offer?
MiM
Would have preferred a rickroll to that tedium.
If your reply is in reply to my link, you know you can press stop before ‘dull’ becomes ‘boring’ before leading to ‘tedium’? I thought the video demonstrated the shallow pool of popular songwriting well, and funnily; ymmv.
MiM
You have obviously reviewed my posting history. Well played! 
Welcome to The Dope!
And since you called me out, I’ll add that Chrissie Hynde (using the name The Pretenders, Oh The Irony!) put out the exact same song as the freakin’ Miami Sound Machine. I hate both and won’t name them, but you all know what I’m talkin’ bout!
I always thought Bad Company’s Can’t Get Enough of Your Love was similar to Some Kind of Wonderful, so I merged the lyrics:
Well I take - a whole lotsa money
I don’t need - I want you
You give me something a man can want
Now tell me - what I can ask for
Now come on, come on and run around
I don’t have to stay out and - do whatcha do
I can’t get a wonderful love
I can’t get a wonderful - lo-o-ove
I can’t get a wonderful love
When I hold you - I want love
Love sets my soul on fire
Yeaah, hang me up in your door way
Gonna hang me up and down my spine
Well my baby - she’s all, “come on dude”
I said “baby, I’m clean out of do whatcha do”
I can’t get a wonderful love
I can’t get a wonderful - lo-o-ove
I can’t get a wonderful love
But can I get a witness?
etc.
To include a song that didn’t yet exist at the time this thread began, the Decemberists’ “Down By the Water” is a dead ringer for REM’s “The One I Love”.
“She Will Be Loved” Maroon 5 and “Spooky” Classics 5. Heck both groups have a “5” at the end of their names.
“Spooky” by the Classics 5 and “Stormy” by the Classics 5 have exactly the same groove.