Stone Temple Pilot’s “Interstate Love Song” sounds like Jim Croce’s “I Got a Name”
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Like Monday’s Sound-a-Like, today’s involves a 90s rock song and a classic track now heard on Oldies stations around the country.
Wikipedia calls the guitar riff from Interstate Love Song
The note-for-note similarity is not really that surprising once you know that the music for “Interstate Love Song” was written by STP bassist and harmony vocalist Robert DeLeo. Clearly he was familiar with the line from Croce’s tune. The riffs are in the same key and similar tempo. Luckily, you don’t have to take my word for it. I’ve created a mashup to let you hear just how uncanny the similarity is.
The mashup begins with the chorus to “I Got a Name”, then plays the chorus again with the guitar riff from “Interstate Love Song” overlaid on top. Finally, the riff from “Interstate Love Song” plays in it’s full copycat glory.
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another one that I never thought of until I hear them side by side
It was finding out that the STP Riff was ripped off from Jim Croce that helped me become a Jim Croce fan. Not really such a bad thing.
I’m a huge STP fan. This morning my mother was listening to an old Jim Croce cassette tape she had lying about, and I heard “I got a name” and was amazed at how similar the two riffs were.
It’s a tribute not a ripoff, and a great tribute I might add
And Jim Croce is singing about the highway right before the riff and the STP song is called “Interstate” love song. So there is influence in the lyrics also.