# Soundalike Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268 "2003-05-01T01:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![riserius1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@riserius1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/riserius1)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/21 "2003-05-01T16:44:20Z")
Two more worth mentioning: 1. The descending bassline in both Brain Stew/Jaded by Green Day and Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground by the White Stripes are rip-offs of “25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago 2.The verse part of “Cumbersome” by Seven Mary Three is identical to the chorus of Hey Jude by the Beatles, right down to the key and tempo. Whenever Cumbersome used to come on the air I’d immediately start singing “Naaa-Naaa-Naaa,NaNaNaNaaaa…” Chris W ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/22 "2003-05-01T17:06:53Z")
Elvis Presely’s “It’s Now or Never” is eerily similar to the Italian Standard “O Sole Mio”. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/23 "2003-05-01T17:33:07Z")
_My Country 'Tis of Thee_ and _God Save the Queen_. Listen carefully and you can hear the similarities. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/24 "2003-05-01T17:44:32Z")
The similarities abound…_To Anacreon In Heaven_ and _The Star-Spangled Banner_… ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/25 "2003-05-01T17:47:41Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. The descending bassline in both Brain Stew/Jaded by Green Day and Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground by the White Stripes are rip-offs of “25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago Curses! Foiled. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/26 "2003-05-01T19:29:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PVenkman \* > \*\*What’s the new Fleetwood Mac song that got a little airplay recently? I didn’t much care for it but noticed the chorus sounds a LOT like the chorus from Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome” (to the point I started singing the words to “Kodachrome” over the top of whatever the real words are). > \*\* Holy Cats, I was just about to post this exact same thing! That song IS “Kodochrome”, and I have indeed sang the “Kodachrome” lyrics over the chorus to prove it to my wife. “Kodachroooo-oooo-ooome…they give us those niiiiiice bright colors…” Fleetwood Mac ripped off Kodachrome just about note for note on their new single. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/27 "2003-05-01T20:41:56Z")
Another Belle and Sebastian one: B&S evidently borrowed the flute part from Love’s “She Comes in Colors” for the piano part of “Seeing Other People” (my favorite Belle and Sebastian song, too!) Speaking of “She Comes in Colors,” it evidently “inspired” “She’s Like a Rainbow” by the Rolling Stones. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/28 "2003-05-01T21:14:46Z")
> [@](#): > > When Joe Jackson’s “Night and Day” LP came out someone pointed out that the song “Breaking Us In Two” sounded like another song. Anyone know what that other song is?IIRC it was a well-known song. I’ve always thought that the first four notes sounded identical to the Badfinger classic “Day After Day”. \*\*\*“Don’t you feel like \*\*trying something new… Don’t you feel like breaking out or breaking us in two” vs. \*\*"I remember \*_finding out about you… Every day my mind is all around you"_ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/29 "2003-05-01T21:22:46Z")
I remember hearing the opening guitar riff of _Johnny B. Goode_ and then being surprised when the Beach Boys chimed in with _Fun, Fun, Fun_. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_poop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@blue\_poop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_poop)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/30 "2003-05-01T21:37:13Z")
I always thought that Natalie I’s song “TORN” and A1’S song “CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE” sounded exactly the same especially at the start. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/31 "2003-05-01T21:42:27Z")
Rudy Vallee’s “I’m Just a Vagabond Lover” sounds suspiciously similar to “Why Won’t my Dreams Come True?” by the Coon & Sanders Night Hawk Orchestra. Also, the first few notes of the Norwegian national anthem are the same as the beginning of “Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly.” ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/32 "2003-05-01T22:09:42Z")
I’ve always admired **The Kinks** for having two different hits with the same song, _You Really Got Me_ and _All Day and All of the Night_. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/33 "2003-05-01T22:34:19Z")
The Beach Boys “Surfin’ USA” sounds so much like Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen” that I believe they had to give him their royalties. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/34 "2003-05-02T00:23:47Z")
OK, the Coldplay song is apparently called “Clocks”, and it reminds me of the Bronski Beat song “Small Town Boy”. The new Fleetwood Mac single that sounds like “Kodachrome” is called “Peacekeeper”. It is the song which seems to have a rooster on background vocals. It has gotten pretty good airplay in the Boston area. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/35 "2003-05-02T04:33:01Z")
Any song done by Rick Astley sounds the same to me… ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/36 "2003-05-02T06:17:22Z")
“Stairway to Heaven” sounds suspiciously like “Taurus” by Spirit, an obscure song by an obscure band that predates “Stairway” by a few years. [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000027K9/ref=m\_art\_li\_5/102-6074420-1521730?v=glance&s=music](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000027K9/ref=m_art_li_5/102-6074420-1521730?v=glance&s=music) It only plays a short bit of the intro, but the song is basically variations of that acoustic appreggio with some woodwindlike sounds (an early Moog?) in the background. Also David Lee Roth took “Walk this Way” and remade it “Hammerhead”. Also, and I am not sure who came first, but the Sir Douglas Quintet’s “She’s About A Mover” and the Beatles “She’s a Woman” sound very much alike. [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SW67/qid=1051856452/sr=2-3/ref=sr\_2\_3/102-6074420-1521730](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SW67/qid=1051856452/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/102-6074420-1521730) ---
**Author:** ![red\_745](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c5a1d2/32.png) [@red\_745](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_745)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/37 "2014-09-22T02:28:25Z")
Paul McCartney’s song “Listen to what the man said” sounds like the Fats Domino song “Walking to New Orleans”. And the middle part of Paul McCartney’s song “Live and Let Die” sounds like the Sugarloaf song “Green Eyed Lady.” Prince’s song “Little red corvette” sounds like The Supreme’s song “Up the ladder to the roof.” ---
**Author:** ![red\_745](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c5a1d2/32.png) [@red\_745](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_745)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/38 "2014-09-22T02:32:16Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#): > > Some Barry Manilow song – time has mercifully blotted the title from my mind – swiped the saxophone hook from the Stylistics’ “Rock ‘n’ Roll Baby” > > Ray Parker, Jr., wrote a song that was heavily modeled, if not outright stolen, from the Police’s “Every Breath You Take.” I believe Huey Lewis also accused Parker of plagiarizing “I Want a New Drug” for Parker’s “Ghostbusters.” The songs I want a New Drug and Ghostbusters sound like the song Pop Musik by M. ---
**Author:** ![red\_745](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c5a1d2/32.png) [@red\_745](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_745)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/39 "2014-09-22T02:42:25Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > Curses! Foiled. The Chicago song “25 or 6 to 4” sounds like the Led Zeppelin song “Babe I’m gonna leave you.” ---
**Author:** ![red\_745](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c5a1d2/32.png) [@red\_745](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_745)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/40 "2014-09-22T02:57:04Z")
The Chicago song “25 or 6 to 4” sounds like the Led Zeppelin song “Babe I’m gonna leave you” which sounds like The Beatle song “As my guitar gently weeps” which sounds like the song “keep the ball rollin’” by Jay and the Techniques. lol [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268.md?page=3)