Songs That Sound the Same


I was in the gym today, and bless them, they play different musical genres from time to time. They were playing 60's music and an old Tom Jones song, "Delilah" came on. I noticed immediately that most of it sounded amazingly similar to Fastball's "The Way". My kids and I like to find songs that sound similar, such as:

Tom Jones "Delilah" and Fastball "The Way"
Steve Miller Band "Take the Money and Run" and The Spin Doctors "Little Miss Can't be Wrong"
Elvis Costello "Pump it Up" and The Escape Club "Wild Wild West"
Intro to The Cars "Just What I Needed" and The Ohio Express "Yummy Yummy Yummy"
ELO "Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle" and Mott the Hoople "Jerkin' Crocus"
Of course, George Harrison "My Sweet Lord" and The Chiffons "He's So Fine" (Harrison lost a plagarism lawsuit over that one.)
Intro to The Who "Pinball Wizard" and The Shocking Blue "Venus"

I am sure there are many others. Any ideas? Thanks.
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The beginning of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" and Earth Wind & Fire's "Shining Star"
Bachman Turner Overdrive "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" and The Who's Baba Oreily.
I think all of these share similar if not exact elements. I'd bet my car that the first three are the same composer with different lyrics.

Swift's lyrics are too similar to Passenger's, even line by line... as if she was describing the same imagery with her own words. (Compare them line by line)

And they definitely have the same melody and vocal placement.

If it wasn't bought and paid for, we would've heard of at least one law suit.
Don't you agree?

Taylor Swift RED
http://youtu.be/Zlot0i3Zykw
Band Perry IF I DIE YOUNG
http://youtu.be/7NJqUN9TClM
Passenger LET HER GO
  http://youtu.be/RBumgq5yVrA
Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche
http://youtu.be/fEOJQawykD0
Bretton Dennen ain't no reason
http://youtu.be/amwVyRH2B8A
The Connells - '74 '75
http://youtu.be/l-ITv4OBV9c 
Selena Gomez's "Same Old Love" and Camila Cabello's "Havana"
Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" and Madonna's "Express Yourself"
Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" and the Police's "Roxanne"
 
Thx Simao
Pity I cant use spellchecker though... doh, glad you knew who I meant!
We need to reopen this topic. It's great.

A couple off of the top of my head.

Howard Jones - New Song vs. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Santigold - Disparate Youth vs. Drake - Headlines

Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven vs. The Police - Roxanne
The Offspring - Why Dont You Get A Job
sounds like The Beatles - Obladi Oblada
the chorus section in particular.

The Foo Fighters - Times Like These .
sounds like Glen Frey's 80s track - The heat is on.
once again similar tune.

My imagination who knows :)
Nirvana's Come as You Are, sounds like Eighties from Killing joke..or vice versa.
This is a great topic. I hear similarities often, but I can never remember them later. One that comes to mind is that there was a song that was popular on the radio that sounded like a complete rip-off of Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" Can't remember what the song was though. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Regarding George Harrison, I believe the court ruled that, although Harrison did not intentionally plagiarize the Chiffons, he had accidentally written an extremely similar song and was still liable. In an ironic twist, I also believe the Chiffons did a cover version of My Sweet Lord while the suit was pending.
Another is Steely Dan's Rikki Don't Lose that Number and Horace Silver's Song for my Father. According to a book on Steely Dan, this was supposed to be a tribute to Horace. Meh. Not sure I am buying that.
What an interesting post. Your George Harrison/Chiffons analogy is a good one.

The 1975 power ballad 'All By Myself' by Eric Carmen and Sergei Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no. 2 in c minor , opus 18. I didn't find this out until the mid 80's while listening to Rachmaninoff.
Dominic Behans "The Patriot Game" and Bob Dylans "With God on our Side"

Another George Harrison moment --blatant pretty obvious really

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At the moment you've got "Blurred Lines" and Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" in the news due to a pending lawsuit. George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" and half of Jimmy Page's songs were subject to similar legal action. Harrison lost - and IIRC (and it's possible that I might not) Page settled quietly more than once.

My own observation would add Pretender's "Time The Avenger" vs The Outsiders' "Time Won't Let Me" and Deep Purple's "Rat Bat Blue" vs an Allman Bros tune (title eluding me right now) to the list. There are tons more....it's just the nature of rock/pop music.