Songs That Sound A Little Too Similar

[Fossie 32]

And from about 2:30



Chicago1

 

[Fossie 32]

Even my wife could hear this!

 

[Electronic_Renaissance]

Even my wife could hear this!

Whole Lotta Love, you could make a list with that one. Here's one.



I believe this is the origin of it all but stand to be corrected.

 

[Fossie 32]

 

[Interceptor]

From wiki:

After British band Status Quo discovered numerous similarities between the song and one of their own ("Lonely Night"), the two bands reached an agreement in lieu of a lawsuit that saw Status Quo receive royalties from "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again".[11] Status Quo bassist Alan Lancaster was friends with members of the Angels at the time of the incident, and lived next door to John Brewster. In 2015, Brewster recounted having asked Neeson whether the song could've been based on "Lonely Night" and recalls a non-committal response: "I might have heard it at a disco"

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Just the bass line.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Homer Banks, Stax artist





Spencer Davis Group, Gimme Some Lovin'

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Had to settle out of court with Wire

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

A famous one here

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Same chords I think, same tempo, same style. I'm not saying either have been ripped, just that they're similar feeling songs

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Different lyrics, same music ripped off.

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

Different lyrics, same music ripped off.

Have seen far, far less than that end up in court. I played them simultaneously and it was striking.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Have seen far, far less than that end up in court. I played them simultaneously and it was striking.

Go back to post 631 on Henry Thomas and Canned Heat and have a listen to both tracks.

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

Go back to post 631 on Henry Thomas and Canned Heat and have a listen to both tracks.

Cripes. Mirror images basically.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Different lyrics, same music ripped off.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

This quartet.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Plus this one.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

 

[stax on the mull]

I put this Dead Moon song in the covers thread a few weeks ago (as the original version of a cover) but the intro reminds me a bit of the 13th Floor Elevators intro. There's a hard to describe wobbly sound that's present in both, although a bit lower in the mix on the Dead Moon version. The Dead Moon songwriter Fred Cole was in a 60's garage band called The Lollipoppe Shop so perhaps it's not much of a coincidence, more of a homage, but I don't know if anyone else hears it.

 

[stax on the mull]

Similar to the above, I think this might have been more of a deliberate imitation of the intro to The Byrds "Eight Miles High" when The Television Personalities recorded "King & Country".

 

[Purple7x08_24]

W

Ow. I looked up both songs on whosampled and not linked. Blatant rip off

Coldplay and kraftwerk had a legitimate sample between the two

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Thoughts on these. I think it's these two. Unless I'm thinking of another song. That riff from Starship sounds incredibly familiar

1985



1988

 

[TheEscapeClub]

Zeppelin's, Trampled Underfoot and The Doobie Brother with Long Train Running.

 

[Electronic_Renaissance]

I picked up this one recently. Similar guitar riff IMO.

 

[Gough]

Theme tunes to Yes Minister and To the Manor Born.