25
Jul

Chemical Brother’s “Let Forever Be” sounds like the Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows”

Checked the SoundsJustLike email today and found piles & piles of awesome suggestions from all of you. Thanks! I chased down most of the leads & have a long list of posts to push out.

This sound-a-like comes from Fernando; thanks, man! As soon as I heard these two songs next to each other I was excited to post this. The atmospheric effects, runaway bassline, and loopy drum beat of “Let Forever Be” definitely owes a lot to “Tomorrow Never Knows”. Sometimes my stomach turns over with disgust at these sound a likes, but that’s not the case with these two songs. The Chemical Brothers seem to be paying a beautiful tribute to the quirky Beatles tune, and to my ear, they did a great job.

The Beatles: “Tomorrow Never Knows” (’66)

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Chemical Brothers: “Let Forever Be” (’99)

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19
Jun

David Guetta’s “When Love Takes Over” sounds like Coldplay’s “Clocks”

Checked the SoundsJustLike email today and found piles & piles of awesome suggestions from all of you. Thanks! I chased down most of the leads & have a long list of posts to push out this summer.

Here’s the first one pointed out by a reader: An odd similarity between a French DJ and a British pop singer. I say odd because my gut says that the Coldplay track “Clocks” is the newer of these two songs. My gut is wrong. “When Love Takes Over” was recorded in 2008-2009 in Paris, six years after the Coldplay tune.

The intros are the most obviously similar part of these two songs. Have a listen.

Coldplay: “Clocks” (2002)

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Guetta: “When Loves Takes Over” (2009)

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