Bands with songs that sound like other bands

[Matt]

The Rolling Stones, "Who's Been Sleeping Here?"

Artist ripped off = Bob Dylan

Just listen to Jagger's "I wanna know!" at the end of every verse. It's uncanny. Good song, though, from one of the kings of co-option.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/n0oa9n

[Vambo]

The Buzzcocks "Harmony In My Head" lifted the guitars right outta Wire's "Champs",

and TV Smith's Explorers' "Tomahawk Cruise" and The Kinks' "Superman" are pretty much identical.

[John Junk]

melody from Pavement's "Silent Kid" is just like that one Buddy Holly song.

[Susannah]

Pretty obvious, but the bassline in the Jam's "Town Called Malice" and "You Can't Hurry Love" by the Supremes...

Maybe I'm crazy, but the bassline in Superchunk's "Out on the Wing" (at the end) and the Jam's "In The City!"

[samir]

Wire and Elastica, as mentioned by the Kid in the past. [5/30/06 -thanks Omar!]

[Ason]

Led Zep's entire first album.

[Sarah]

As I noted in the chat a while back, ABBA's "Waterloo" sounds a lot like "Build Me Up, Buttercup," originally recorded by the Foundations and later covered by many another.

[dave from knoxville]

Lucinda William's "What If" is a dead ringer for Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer", one of the greatest songs ever written, particularly as performed in its original studio version on Zuma, one of the greatest albums ever written.

[A.M. Thomas]

That one Pavement song sounds a lot like that one Fall song.

[A.M. Thomas]

As I noted in the chat a while back, ABBA's "Waterloo" sounds a lot like "Build Me Up, Buttercup," originally recorded by the Foundations and later covered by many another.

This song ("Build Me Up, Buttercup") is so good all around.  More groups should rip it off.

[John Junk]

That one Pavement song sounds a lot like that one Fall song.

Spiral Stairs Kannberg is responsible for a lot of that, imho.

[Ason]

From the Howard Stern show
from March of this year
they blow thru a few

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5405156c477c83/

little bad language etc

[Ason]

From the Howard Stern show
from March of this year
they blow thru a few

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5405156c477c83/

little bad language etc

There's a better segment where they specifically look at Led Zep
I gotta dig up

[TVD]

I know this is pretty well-known, Fight Test by Flaming Lips is pretty much just Father and Son by Cat Stevens.
And Green Day's Warning sounds exactly like the Kinks' Picture Book.
Oh, and that stupid song Stutter by Joe from about a decade back was note for note and word for word a ripoff of ONE LINE of Passin' Me By by the Pharcyde.  And they didn't give credit.  Blech.

[yesno]

C'mon Everybody by Eddie Cochran & Suzy is a Headbanger by the Ramones.

Same riff.