Bands with songs that sound like other bands

[samir]

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

Rhymefest's cover, with ODB, was fun as aw'hell.

[Sarah]

I shall always remember fondly the Cat's performance of it in Red Dwarf.

[moonshake]

The Mummies - Come on Up = The Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling in Love

[Ason]

Here is that Howard Stern clip from June of this year
where they focus in on the song stealing of Led Zepplin on their first record

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5417309e54fe93/

[octopus volcano]

"So It Goes" by Nick Lowe sounds a lot like "Reelin' in the Years" by you-know-who.

[Gilly]

The Donna's- "Take It Off" and Pretenders "Middle of the Road"

[yesno]

Listening to the 3/2/2004 archive where Tom is debating OCDJ about Smells Like Teen Spirit (about whether it is a ripoff of More Than a Feeling) during the Courtney Love record review.

Wikipedia backs up Tom:
Comparisons between the song have been made to Nirvana's 1991 hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain even noted the similarity. And during a live performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the Reading Festival in 1992, bassist Krist Novoselic sang the chorus of "More Than A Feeling" as a statement that the band were tired of playing it live.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Than_a_Feeling)

[TL]

"So It Goes" by Nick Lowe sounds a lot like "Reelin' in the Years" by you-know-who.

I see where you're coming from with the shuffle beat and the descending riff in the verse and all, but the vibe of each of those songs is SO different - the similarities never even occurred to me until you mentioned it just now.

[Beth]

Speaking of Nirvana, "Come As You Are" and Killing Joke's "Eighties" have the same guitar part. I think there was a lawsuit, actually.

[yesno]

Speaking of Nirvana, "Come As You Are" and Killing Joke's "Eighties" have the same guitar part. I think there was a lawsuit, actually.

There was a lawsuit about George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine," recorded by the Chiffons.

http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/mysweet.htm

George Harrison lost.

[Beth]

I'm so glad he ripped that song off, though.

[scotttsss]

Stereolab
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Neu!
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[Matt]

Neu!
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It's been said before, but that song sounds an awful lot like:

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I like Wilco, but that's straight up highway robbery.

[jane]

Listening to the 3/2/2004 archive where Tom is debating OCDJ about Smells Like Teen Spirit (about whether it is a ripoff of More Than a Feeling) during the Courtney Love record review.

Wikipedia backs up Tom:
Comparisons between the song have been made to Nirvana's 1991 hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain even noted the similarity. And during a live performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the Reading Festival in 1992, bassist Krist Novoselic sang the chorus of "More Than A Feeling" as a statement that the band were tired of playing it live.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Than_a_Feeling)

It's all "Louie Louie"

[KickTheBobo]

alright, this has pissed me off for quite some time, so I think I better weigh in here. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" IS NOT the same chord progression as "More Than A Feeling". Here's how it breaks down (some minor music geekery lay ahead):

Teen Spirit, from what I have always known, if played in the key of F-Minor, with the famous riff using a I-IV-III-VI progression. Now, that key may have been transposed (I dunno, maybe they downtuned) but it is still that progression.

More Than A Feeling's famous riff can be played in the key of G Major, utilizing the chord progression I-IV-VI-V.

Even if they are played in the same key, they are different chords. I admit, there is a similar feeling to both parts, but I think that might have to do with the dynamics of the song (each is somewhat of a release of tension and quite anthemic).