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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Related Sound-A-Likes:
- The Offspring’s “Why don’t you get a Job?” sounds like The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
- Led Zeppelin’s “Babe I’m gonna leave you” sounds like Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4″
- Green Day’s “Warning” sounds like The Kinks’s “Picture Book”
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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.