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Post by lasvegaskid on May 22, 2015 11:39:32 GMT -5
Aerosmith: Last Child> Joan Jett: Little Liar
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Post by Michael1973 on May 29, 2015 9:02:46 GMT -5
Just listened to the obscure song "Just Can't Win 'Em All" by Stevie Woods last night. I thought it sounded a lot like Boz Skaggs, though not any particular song.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 30, 2015 18:02:04 GMT -5
Andy Grammer's "Honey, I'm Good." sounds like "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex.
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Post by chrisinmi on Jul 5, 2015 18:17:24 GMT -5
The verses to "Half-Breed" by Cher and "Life's Been Good" by Joe Walsh have more than a passing melodic similarity to me.
"Girlfriend" by Pebbles (AT40 #5, 1988) and "Cold Hearted" by Paula Abdul (CT40/AT40 #1, 1989) are virtually the same song.
Regarding vocal similarities, I thought Gwen Stefani sounded A LOT like Cyndi Lauper on No Doubt's first hit, "Just A Girl."
And Todd Rundgren's "I Saw The Light" sounded like a deliberate Carole King imitation.
Some more similarities that have hit me regarding recent hit songs:
- Mark Ronson f/Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk" > Rick James "Give It To Me Baby"
- Kelly Clarkson "Mr. Know It All" > Milli Vanilli "Blame It On The Rain" (melodically in the refrain)
- Kelly Clarkson "Heartbeat Song" > Jimmy Eat World "The Middle"
- Taylor Swift "Shake It Off" > Elton John "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" (again, in the refrain)
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Post by retroguy on Jul 5, 2015 19:17:36 GMT -5
"Come and Get it" by Badfinger sounds like the Beatles.
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Post by artsmusic on Jul 5, 2015 19:53:11 GMT -5
Regarding Uptown Funk, a songwriting credit has been added to that song for the five writers behind the Gap Band's song "Oops Upside Your Head."
So legally I guess they acknowledge it as well!
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Post by mkarns on Jul 5, 2015 21:21:50 GMT -5
For years I thought Marvin Gaye's Got to Give It Up was KC and the Sunshine Band and JD Souther's Only Lonely was Jackson Browne, who did backing vocals. Which leads us to one of the most obvious examples: "Got To Give It Up">Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". The courts even say so. Take the guitar riff from "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", replace it with synthesizer, and you pretty much have the instrumental hook for Laura Branigan's "Gloria". "Oh Well" was actually a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song from 1970, predating "Black Dog". And speaking of Fleetwood Mac, the keyboard riff from "Seven Wonders" always reminded me of Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes". |
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Post by at40nut on Jul 6, 2015 4:25:34 GMT -5
Bruno Mars's "Locked Out Of Heaven" sounds a lot like The Police's "Spirits In A Material World" or maybe even "Message In A Bottle."
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 2, 2015 22:00:46 GMT -5
De La Soul: Me Myself & I>Tone Loc: Funky Cold Medina
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Post by at40nut on Aug 3, 2015 3:00:39 GMT -5
"It Ain't over Til It's Over" by Lenny Kravitz sounds a lot like "Baby Come Back" by Player. Both songs had a similar subject matter also!
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Post by matt on Aug 5, 2015 13:43:03 GMT -5
"Come and Get it" by Badfinger sounds like the Beatles. So did "The Air That I Breathe" by the Hollies...both are great songs IMHO though. I guess it's not a big surprise--the Beatles had more than their share of imitators during that time. |
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Post by matt on Aug 5, 2015 13:46:12 GMT -5
For years I thought Marvin Gaye's Got to Give It Up was KC and the Sunshine Band and JD Souther's Only Lonely was Jackson Browne, who did backing vocals. Which leads us to one of the most obvious examples: "Got To Give It Up">Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". The courts even say so. OK, so here's my question about "Blurred Lines". Did that song sample "Got To Give It Up"? Or did they just copy it too closely? The first time I heard the song, my immediate thought was that the song sampled both "Got To Give It Up" and Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"... |
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Post by vto66 on Aug 6, 2015 1:39:57 GMT -5
"It Ain't over Til It's Over" by Lenny Kravitz sounds a lot like "Baby Come Back" by Player. Both songs had a similar subject matter also! The Lenny Kravitz song always reminded me of Earth, Wind and Fire's "That's the Way of the World" with a little Smokey Robinson thrown in. |
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Post by at40nut on Aug 8, 2015 4:34:23 GMT -5
Diana Ross's "Pieces Of Ice" sounds a lot like "Torture" by The Jacksons.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 8, 2015 13:36:49 GMT -5
In spring of 1983, Mac McAnally just missed the top 40 with the excellent #41 Minimum Love. I think it missed the top 40 because it sounded like it could have been the new single by James Taylor and by this time MTV was on its way in meaning acts like JT were on their way off of the radio.
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