Chris Brown “Say Goodbye” to me sounds just like Usher’s “U Got it Bad”
We’ve done this before. My contribution last time was Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant vs. Jimmy Buffet’s Pencil Thin Moustache.
The choruses have the same chord progression and can be played interchangeably. I can play both, and sometimes weird people out by switching mid-song.
Nickelback song and other Nickelback song.
And Boston song and the other Boston songs. Although I have more respect for Boston after “playing” some of their songs on Rock Band.
The chorus to Rod Stewart’s “The Killing Of Georgie”
is a blatant rip-off of “Don’t Let Me Down”
by the Beatles. In fact, John Lennon said in an interview that he came thisclose to suing Stewart but was talked out of it by the lawyers.
In fact, there’s a book out there, ‘Sounds Like Teen Spirit,’ that is full of songs that ripped off other songs. (I’d give you the author but my copy is loaned out at the moment.)
If i could fly by Joe Satriani and Coldplays viva la vida are basically the same song. Here’s an actual mashup thats basically both songs played on top of each other.
Last time this subject came around I mentioned “Eighties” by Killing Joke and “Come As You Are” by Nirvana.
The songs are so close I think Kurt Cobain wrote “Come As You Are” by telling Dave and Kris, “OK, you guys play “Eighties”, and I’m going to sing about guns.”
And Submission by the Sex Pistols sounds like both those.
Bolero and Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl.
“In the Year 2525” by Zager and Evans and
“Runaway” by Del Shannon.
I’d listen to Why Don’t You Get A Job and think-- what’s that song? I know that song from somewhere.
How did I not immediately identify it? It is EXACTLY the same damn thing. Perhaps it’s on purpose, like their Feelings of the same album.
A friend of mine once pointed out that the same five note sequence – BDBGA – not only forms the basis of Sing, Sweet Nightingale from Disney’s Cinderella AND figures prominently in the Pie Jesu from Lloyd Webber’s Requiem, but is also the melody for Monty Python’s song about traffic lights.
I still haven’t forgiven him for that.
The opening of Sublime’s “What I Got” is the same as The Beatles “Lady Madonna”. Here’s a mash-up of the two.
There are two songs on Neil Young’s album Ragged Glory that sound very much the same like other, earlier released songs:
Days that Used to Be = My Back Pages by Bob Dylan
*Mother Earth * = Van Diemens Land by U2
Neil did it before with Borrowed Tune (= Lady Jane by the Rolling Stones) from Tonight’s the Night, but at least admitted in the lyrics that he was
Both great albums, though.
Oh, wow. This one goes even deeper than that. Here is a comparison between Satriani and Los Enanitos Verdes, a famous spanish rock band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znrHzefl8cM&feature=related
Both are using the tune of an English/Scottish traditional, “The Water’s Wide” (O Waly, Waly). Here’s Karla Bonoff singing it.
Christopher Cross’s “Sailing” and “Ride Like The Wind” and almost the same is his Arthur’s Theme (Caught Between The Moon And New York City)
He was on Jimmy Fallon so I thought I’d play his songs and realized I couldn’t separate them.
The opening bars of Steve Miller’s Jet Airliner are a direct steal from the opening of the Free’s All Right Now
Everclear song and all other Everclear songs. I went to see them with a friend (hey, free tickets) and we sang along to each song- only we sang the lyrics to the previous song, without changing anything. In nearly every case you wouldn’t have been able to tell we were doin’ it rong.