Ever found yourself listening to a brand new song and racking your brain as it sounds so familiar? Me too…..
Radiohead – Creep sounds like The Hollies – The Air That I Breathe
Reverend And The Makers – Silence Is Talking and The Moldy Peaches – Jorge Regula
both sound like War – Low Rider
The Killers – When You Were Young sounds like Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
Foo Fighters – Monkey Wrench sounds like Elton John – Whipping Boy
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit and Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy both sound like
Boston – More Than a Feeling
Huey Lewis & The News – I Want a New Drug is totally like Ray Parker, Jr. – Ghostbusters
Weezer – Undone - The Sweater Song is like Pixies – I Bleed
Weezer – Hash Pipe and The Strokes – Juicebox and Cyndi Lauper – SHE BOP all sound like
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra And Chorus – Peter Gunn
Nirvana – Come as You Are sounds like Killing Joke – Eighties
Elastica – Connection is a lot like Wire – Three Girl Rhumba
The Doors – Hello, I Love You is very like The Kinks – All Day and All of the Night
Finger Eleven – Paralyzer is like Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
The Offspring – Why Don’t You Get A Job? Sounds like Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Run Through the Jungle is like John Fogerty – The Old Man Down the Road (John Fogerty had to prove there was a difference in court…and both are his!)
Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place On Earth is like Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a Prayer
The Flaming Lips – Fight Test is like Cat Stevens – Father and Son
George Harrison – My Sweet Lord is very like The Chiffons – He’s So Fine
Warrant – Down Boys is like The Cars – Bye Bye Love
The Strokes – Last Nite is like Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – American Girl
Girls Aloud – Sound Of The Underground sounds like The Knack – My Sharona which sounds like
Motion City Soundtrack – Everything Is Alright
Green Day – Warning is like The Kinks – Picture Book
Silverchair – Leave Me Out is like Black Sabbath – Sweet Leaf
The Raconteurs – Steady, As She Goes is like Joe Jackson – Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Tramp the Dirt Down is like Stevie Wonder – Isn’t She Lovely
The Decemberists – Summersong is similar to Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Breakdown
Semisonic – Singing in My Sleep sounds like The Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) is a bit like Kansas – Dust in the Wind
Fountains of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom sounds like The Cars – Just What I Needed - LP Version
ZZ Top – La Grange is like The Rolling Stones – Shake Your Hips
The Rolling Stones – Satisfaction sounds like Buffalo Springfield – Mr. Soul
The Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It) is like T. Rex – Bang a Gong (Get It On) which is like ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man which is like Sammy Hagar – 20th Century Man
MC5 – I Want You Right Now sounds like The Troggs – Wild Thing
The Clash – Clash City Rockers is like The Who – I Can’t Explain and also like The Clash – Guns on the Roof
The View – Same Jeans is like Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
Ted Nugent – Cat Scratch Fever is like Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Rifles is like Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls
JP said:
Awesome stuff. Keeps me entertained at work… Cheers for pointing out some very obvious similarities in some very obscure sides of the musical spectrum!
August 5th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
esther said:
no problem
there’s heaps and heaps more - I might even do a part 2!
August 5th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Arne H said:
yeah! Cool…
Have you ever heard Muse - Knights of Cydonia…. It saounds a lot like
Pixies - Cecilia Ann…
Just listen to both of them…
Pixies:
spotify:track:0mjB1LNY9TS6lOXbyoARls
and Muse: spotify:track:3HuDfd8QMwCLQRixFHT4MG
August 5th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
esther said:
blimey - Muse totally ripped the Pixies off!
Worst offenders are Green Day and Coldplay by far - am so surprised they haven’t been dragged to court by someone
August 6th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Arne H said:
yeah… Muse, practically took the same song, they just put in a new txt… The song is still good though…
Green Day and Coldplay are thiefs, nothing more… Green day covers and steal everything… Theyr “most” famous song, “Bouleward of broken Dreams” is just the same as another song, by “The Old Men Is Rising In The West”- “Road of broken dreams”, te txt is practically identical….
August 6th, 2009 at 10:08 am
NowhereMan said:
I love this list!!!
August 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
heartsumbrella said:
“Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place On Earth is like Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a Prayer”
There is a cracking mix of this somewhere. Oh to find it…
August 6th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
esther said:
Thanks NowehereMan
Part 2 is coming very soon. It’s so scary how many there are out there!
August 6th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
exliontamer said:
Cool list, and good choice of artwork.
John Lennon once said “All music is rehash. There are only a few notes, Just variations on a theme.”
A fair few of these soundalikes are based on similar chord progressions.
I think I may try making a play list where all the songs are based on one type of chord progression. Oh yes
August 6th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
esther said:
thanks exliontamer - poor old Lennon has been rehashed himself by the Gallaghers - shame there’s no Beatles or Oasis on Spotify as could have done one on those exclusively!
August 7th, 2009 at 8:56 am
exliontamer said:
Ain’t that the truth. Oasis are hacks. Good songwriting should be about combining your ‘influences’ artfully fo sho.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Sami Siukola said:
…uncanny
August 8th, 2009 at 9:47 am
posv said:
i like it - voted 5 “ring things” :]
August 10th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Nettys said:
A fantastic list. I like Radiohead, Creep - a fantastic song. VOTED 5*! Bye from rainy Wales.
August 12th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Robinho Bassmeister III said:
Well done for this playlist, some of them are VERY similar, they’re bordering on plagurism !!!, they’ve probabley only got away with it because you don’t work for a record company!!
Good work Momma, (and a good playlist on its own merits)
Bring on part 2.
August 12th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
esther said:
Wow - thanks guys
Part two is a-go-go
The text part went a bit wonky after submission but each song follows on to its soundalike
Enjoy!
http://sharemyplaylists.com/totally-sounds-like-2/
August 13th, 2009 at 9:09 am
newbornbantam said:
Good idea for a playlist!
Lostprophets managed to completely rip off the All-American Rejects song ‘I’m Waiting’ with their song ‘Cant Stop, Gotta Date With Hate’. The pre-chorus of both songs is very similar, while the chorus is pretty much exactly the same!
Original - http://open.spotify.com/track/6mf0KJ2PWC0UfRH9Kg4unH
Lostprophets copy - http://open.spotify.com/track/7zxdSKF9hIWY6B1w3Wk8FF
August 13th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
gassor said:
Superb list. Your knowledge is very impressive and the links are spot on - some are even “wow I kinda knew that”, but didn’t have the brains to work it out.
Don
August 15th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Tim said:
It would be fairer to say Ghostbusters sounds more like I want a new drug, since Huey Lewis successfully sued Parker for copying, I believe …
August 23rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
P. said:
hahaha!totally love this list!
September 4th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
szlampy said:
Amazingly Clever playlist - love it
September 10th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Ceredwen said:
I just found this by googling “songs that sound alike,” because this was on my mind too =)
Oh My Gosh by Basement Jaxx sounds like She Wants to Move by N.E.R.D.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:09 am
xtina said:
Fun and amusing playlist, I like it a lot!
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:48 am
nickf said:
Have a listen to (Television - Marquee Moon and Dallas Crane - Come Clean), and (Television - Prove It and Dallas Crane - Open To Close).
December 8th, 2009 at 3:14 am
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January 2nd, 2010 at 6:23 pm
reservoll68 said:
RESPECT…Can’t wait to spot the likenes..
February 7th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
reservoll68 said:
U2 “Beatiful day” have stolen some parts from A-ha “The sun always shines on TV”
February 7th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
reservoll68 said:
Check this out…
The chorus of Anastacia Paid My Dues is very close to Bad Religion track Raise your voice
http://open.spotify.com/track/4XpTUIDy9qivzKQGyc2Wi0
http://open.spotify.com/track/1K8vjZW0PKT4l09g3h7mZU
February 8th, 2010 at 10:56 am
koningwoning said:
great idea - too bad that the execution is so sloppy - if you would just pick the music that actually had the same chord schemes or the same riffs…. this is just “hey… this text sounds like this one” - or “I hear two songs which have a bleep in them… total ripoff”
a bit more groundwork could have made the list a LOT better.
February 10th, 2010 at 6:05 pm