Bands with songs that sound like other bands

[jane]

I dunno, KTB, I hear it at the 51 second mark.  Yeah, the cords are slightly different, but they both serve the same function:  "heavy riff hook".  I repeat, both children or "Louie Louie". 

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[KickTheBobo]

I dunno, KTB, I hear it at the 51 second mark.  Yeah, the cords are slightly different, but they both serve the same function:  "heavy riff hook".  I repeat, both children or "Louie Louie". 

well, if we are gonna get all reductionist here, Louie Louie is a simple I-IV-V-IV progression. I would wager to say that a good 85% of (Popular) Western music is based around that same (or minor deviations of) that pattern. Dem blues? all I-IV-V.

As far as More Than A Feeling goes: I cannot contest that it "kinda feels/ sounds like Teen Spirit". I was just pointing out that as far as theory is concerned, they are two different progressions, regardless of key. The "similar feeling" most likely has to do with the first tonic to sub-dominant (I - IV) chord change. This same chord change can also be heard in the popular tune "Here comes the Bride".

[jane]

ew boy.

[Joe Rogaine]

The piano part on Wilcos song "On and On" off Sky Blue Sky is a note for note ripp off of an old psychedelic song from the 60's. I just wish I could remember which one it was.

[ben]

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

I hear this all the time, but have never really heard it in the music.  That story where Mark E. Smith is played 'Two States' and told it's an old b-side of his and believes it, that MUST be apocryphal? 

Does any one have any specific song comparisons so I can understand what this is all about?  I'm not a Fall completist by any stretch but I have four or five albums and a couple compilation, so I know a bit about them.

[Rainer]

I don't own "Bright Ideas" by Portastatic, but did listen to it a fair bit when it was streaming on the Merge Records site.  There is this one song on that album that has three descending power chords that sound exactly like a bit in a Chicago song (one of the hits -- it contained Peter Cetera singing "good times I remember").  When I hear the Portastatic song, I half expect to hear a blast of brass during that part.

Also, the stairstep melody in REM's "Fall on Me" -- where Stipe sings "feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air" -- always reminds me of Macca's "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey"  -- "but there's no one left a home and I believe it's gonna ra-ain."

[dave from knoxville]

While the chords are slightly different, the meters/rhythm patterns are identical.

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

Good call.  The only way it could have been more obvious is if they'd literally sampled it.

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Heard this song "Halcyon Daze" by Local H the other day and felt it sounded like a total knockoff of Queens of the Stone Age's "Feel Good Hit of the Summer".

Just looked it up on wiki and it sounds like the two songs were flukes that happened concurrently:

In the linear notes, Lucas says that "Halcion Daze" was, quote: "all set to be the closing track to Here Comes the Zoo." While recording this album, however, Queens of the Stone Age released "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" on their 2000 album Rated R. Lucas felt the two songs were too similar (both musically and lyrically) and scrapped this idea. The song was later re-written into "Halcyon Days (Where Were You Then?)" as the closing track to Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?.

Weird.

[benadian]

Also, the stairstep melody in REM's "Fall on Me" -- where Stipe sings "feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air" -- always reminds me of Macca's "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey"  -- "but there's no one left a home and I believe it's gonna ra-ain."

I never realized that before, but yes, it makes complete sense!  And then the chorus of "You" on Monster is kind of a rehash of that melody, again.

And continuing on the subject of REM, how about "Stand" and "La Bamba"?  The melody of "Stand in the place where you live," in particular, is the same as the guitar line at the beginning of t'other.

[Matt]

As long as we're talking similar melodies/instrumental passages, I'll note that the descending guitar in Elvis Costello's "Two Little Hitlers" (when he sings "I will return") is a "Rebel Rebel" knockoff.

[Stupornaut]

"The Jean Genie" vs. "Block Buster": FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

[Man Machine]

Yo La Tengo's "Straight Down to the Bitter End" (Electr-O-Pura) references Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire" in the chorus.

[Gilly]

Vampire Weekend's Oxford Comma sounds like something straight out of Rent particularly Light My Candle.

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Also seem to recall that Chokebore had a song that was very similar to "Do ya think I'm sexy", almost like they were covering it, but not.