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

   July 25, 2011 5:55 pm 29 Comments

   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.

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

   June 19, 2011 5:19 pm 101 Comments

   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.