Similar Sounding Songs

[Answerprancer]

Ok, get it off your chest - I bet there is at least one pair of songs you know of, the second of which made you think "hang on a minute! - that sounds exactly like (insert song title) !"

One of my "rip-off outrage" songs is "jerk it out" by the caesars - the verses of which are a blatant rip-off of Girls On Film. You can literally sing the lyrics to Girls On Film over it.

So to simplify - here's a suggested template:

Jerk It Out by The Caesars/Girls On Film - Duran Duran
Taxman - The Beatles/Start - The Jam (identical bass-line)

(inspired by sallabananas' Up The Junction thread)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdVf8nG0BZg&ob=av3e

[sophie_1003]

I think the Ceasars and Duran Duran have quite different sounds with those songs, can hear the similarity in tune but style sounds completely different to me!

[Answerprancer]

I agree - I was just referring to the melody.

[sophie_1003]

Oh right, yeah they are similar then, love both songs though!

[snags]

Goodbye Mr A by The Hoosiers... or is that Mr Blue Sky by ELO...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcvER1i0fw

[Answerprancer]

That's sad news Butch.
Those two songs also remind me of Dear Prudence (same descending chords).

[Stephen_G]

The Hindu Times by Oasis and Same Size Feet by Stereophonics have very similar guitar riffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sRBABada10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sRBABada10

[mushroom25]

Scissor sisters - laura : mike o'donnell & junior campbell - thomas the tank engine theme

[Answerprancer]

aagh! - that's going to bug me all evening Butch - I almost know - something by the Buzzcocks or the Stranglers I think.

[Answerprancer]

Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant - "Way Back Into Love"
and Mystery Jets - "Young Love"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu0azVdkr_M

[Answerprancer]

Ah yes, but that sounds like an actual sample from Elvis

[jno]

well, the kookaburra won a plagiarism lawsuit, but I don't know...

http://www.youtube.co...-3qGo&feature=related

[factor-fiction]

Two involving Coldplay
Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind sounds like the Scientist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akGhVymWDLM

Coldplay v Joe satriani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvB9Pj9Znsw

[factor-fiction]

The View- Same Jeans v Cornershop Brimful of Asha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLfiJFjDt-8

[ABerrant]

Another ELO track
- Sweet Talkin' Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LnPnbhyjGc

has a similar style and lyric to an earlier track by Huey Lewis and The News
- Do You Believe In Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-EwY4I3o9M

[Answerprancer]

.ohh yes ! bloody rip off merchant - I never really liked pale-green Huey ! far too MOR for my liking.