Nirvana: Come as You Are sounds like Killing Joke: Eighties
1 CommentGeordie Walker of Killing Joke agrees:
“We were very pissed off about that, but it’s obvious to everyone. We had two separate musicologists’ reports saying it was [similar]“
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Smash Mouth: Then the morning comes sounds like The Animals: It’s my life
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Madonna: Some girls sounds like Lady Gaga: Born this way
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The Strokes: Last Nite sounds like Tom Petty: American Girl
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Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed” sounds like Spin Doctor’s “Two Princes”
47 CommentsJust skip this intro, and play the samples of the songs below for 5 second or so. Okay, did you do that? Can you believe the similarity between the first couple of seconds of each song? Even the drum fill intros match up!
Both are good songs. The chord progression in both songs is common enough. The vocals are completely different. Still, the vibe between the two songs is definitely close enough to mistake one for the other during certain parts.
Have you noticed this before?
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Three Dog Night’s “One” sounds like The Cowsill’s “I Love The Flower Girl”
29 CommentsI’ve had my car radio stuck on Cleveland’s oldies station 105.7 for, gosh, more than a decade now. So I’ve heard I Love the Flower Girl – aka The Rain, The Park And Other Things. So when a reader emailed me about this track, I was surprised that I hadn’t noticed it already myself. My first thought upon hearing the intro of I Love the Flower Girl was “They must not play this intro on the radio! I haven’t had a chance to confirm my suspicions, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was true.
The Three Dog Night breakout hit One was recorded in 1967, the year that The Cowsill’s (also breakout) hit was released. Although not nearly as world-changing as calculus or evolutionary theory, these two opening riffs were also probably created independently, by two different groups, in a very close window of time.
So here they are – snippets of both songs to satisfy your curiosity.
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Chemical Brother’s “Let Forever Be” sounds like the Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows”
29 CommentsChecked 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.
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David Guetta’s “When Love Takes Over” sounds like Coldplay’s “Clocks”
101 CommentsChecked 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.
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“Werewolves of London” sounds like “Sweet Home Alabama”
67 CommentsWarren Zevon (along with LeRoy Marinell &Waddy Wachtel) had his only top 40 hit with Werewolves Of London
. The theme & title were inspired by the 1935 Stanley Bergerman film “Werewolf of London”, and the music, it seems, inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama
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Sure, it’s a common enough progression. But to be written four or so years after such a chart buster as “Sweet Home Alabama” is sorta ballsy.
Take a listen & let me know what you think.