# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/41 "2014-09-22T04:21:09Z")
John Fogerty’s _The Old Man Down the Road_ was similar enough to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s _Run Through the Jungle_ that his former record company [sued him for plagiarizing himself](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogerty_v._Fantasy,_Inc.). ---
**Author:** ![chancetx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@chancetx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chancetx)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/42 "2014-09-23T08:42:42Z")
I was just pondering this topic the other day when I heard U2’s “Vertigo” and realized the chorus sounds exactly the same as the Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On.” Exact same chord progression - you can sing one over the other. U2 also used a chunk of a-ha’s “The Sun Always Shines On TV” for “Beautiful Day.” (Noted on the other thread.) ---
**Author:** ![chancetx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@chancetx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chancetx)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/43 "2014-09-23T08:48:51Z")
Euro dance act DJ Miko had a song in the 90s called “Lovely Lullaby” whose chorus was EXACTLY the same as Pat Benatar’s “Shadows of the Night.” It was so blatant I checked to see if they gave the songwriters credit or if Pat’s version might have been a cover of some European hit. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F7CpsjY4z4Y/hqdefault.jpg "Dj Miko - Lovely Lullaby (USA Remix)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7CpsjY4z4Y) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/44 "2014-09-23T09:48:06Z")
> [@red\_745](#): > > 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 This is, of course, an old thread, on a subject we do anew at least once a year – welcome to the Dope, red, and be sure to enjoy some of this theme’s more recent incarnations! (try searching for “song” “exactly” “sounds”) – but I would like to point out that the descending chord sequence of the songs mentioned here is indeed an old standby, perhaps most directly associated with Spanish flamenco music. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/45 "2014-09-23T11:55:40Z")
Well, since this thread is up, I’d like to ask if I’m the only one who hears Wham!'s Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go whenever Jessie J et al’s Bang Bang comes on. ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/46 "2014-09-23T13:30:19Z")
Sausalito sunrise by diesel is the best Steve Miller song he never wrote ---
**Author:** ![tbpavi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@tbpavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbpavi)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/47 "2014-09-23T16:04:36Z")
Michael Jackson admitted that he lifted the baseline from Hall and Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That” for “Billy Jean” to Daryl Hall. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/48 "2014-09-23T19:43:11Z")
[Another recent thread on the same topic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=705847). One of my posts there didn’t get a response, but the similarity was so striking I would like to post it again. > [@THIS song sound just like THAT song.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/147): > > Tito & Tarantula’s 1996 song “[After Dark](http://youtu.be/cG0qv9s0VNo)” bears a _remarkable_ resemblance to Pere Ubu’s 1978 song “[Over My Head](http://youtu.be/-4vyCsdnCoQ)”. Listen: > > [ul] > [li]same key (C minor)[/li][li]same chords in the same sequence[/li][li]same rhythm[/li][li]same tempo[/li][li]melodic similarity[/li][li]lyric similarity[/li][/ul] > > Compare: > AD: “In her eyes > A distant fire light > burns bright” > > OMH: “In the gas her eyes are imagined > And what she sees cannot be detected” > > AD: “In the dawn > I wake up to find > her gone” > > OMH: “It’s pretty cute the way she tucks me in at dawn” > > It would seem inescapable that Tito must have ripped off Ubu. Unless both songs are imitating an earlier model with that guitar rhythm, chords, and spooky mood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268.md?page=2)