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Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 09-08-2010 at 14:02:
Songs that sound like other songs
There's certain songs out there that sound like other songs. Do they sound like these songs intentionally? Or is it just a coincidence? Whatever the reason is, there is more than one song like this.
Examples:
The main riff in U2's I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight sounds alot like Journey's Faithfully.
Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghostbusters sounds like I Want A New Drug by Huey Lewis & The News.
This is just what I know off the top of my head.
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Posted by littlewolf on 09-08-2010 at 16:55:
Kids Rock, (think that's his name, Pamler Andersons EX) his latest song
eg lyric "We were smoking funny things" (just google called "All Summer Long"
everytime I hear the start of it, I start singing "Werewolves of London"
many be it's the start up rift that reminds me
(oh I feel old, tried explaining it to one of the younger people I work with - they looked at me and asked If it had something to do with Twilight or Trueblood - oneday they will rehash or mix Werewolves of London and they will things it's new)
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Posted by amethyst on 09-08-2010 at 17:02:
Oh, LW, NO!
I still get creeped out by what UB40 did to Red Red Wine! And I like Reggae.
I have no desire to hear a rap or modern punk version of Werewolves of London.
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Posted by littlewolf on 09-08-2010 at 17:12:
Oh heavens your right, just had a horrible voice in my head doing a slow version
Harry Conick or worst Buble, a crooners version, or even worst, Barry White (many be... That how I imagine Joes voice , deep and sultry Jones/White mix..Oh I digress)
Ray Parker Jr, Tom Jones
(drum Roll) Glee doing a Werewolve/ vampire episode
Sometimes I think my evil side is winning
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Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 09-08-2010 at 20:28:
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I didn't know Red Red Wine was a cover. Who originally did it? And speaking of bad cover songs, I HATE what those no-talent scum Soft Cell did to Gloria Jones' Tainted Love. They messed it up, and look what happened! Their horrible version is more popular than the original! And it's because of them that now we have more horrible cover versions by PCD and Marilyn Manson among others. But anyway, let's get back on subject. This thread's not about bad cover versions, it's about songs that sound like other songs.
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Posted by amethyst on 09-08-2010 at 21:04:
Allen, Niel Diamond wrote and recorded in the 60's or 70's long before UB40 was around. He also wrote the theme song for The Monkees tv show.
Red Red Wine had a slow morose tempo originally.
Speaking of covers. While Whitney Houston recorded 'I Will Always Love You', Dolly Parton wrote and recorded that song before Houston was recording, and did the better version in my opinion.
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Posted by Madilayn on 09-08-2010 at 21:12:
I actually like Soft Cell's version of Tainted Love.
I wonder about the current craze of "sampling" - where bits of other songs are included in new ones. It's a tribute, of a sorts, but if a songwriter is talented, then they shouldn't need to.
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 09-08-2010 at 22:50:
Sampling's been around for a couple of decades. After a while, it becomes amazing to find a song that someone actually wrote and performed all by themselves.
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Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 09-08-2010 at 23:12:
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This is very true. And that's why I don't listen to most modern music, because most of it is dime-a-dozen punk bands or cookie cutter rappers ripping off older songs. I'll never forgive Jay-Z for what he did to Alphaville's Forever Young in his song "Young Forever". Hey, there we go! Let's invert the title! No one will EVER know it's ripped off now!
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Posted by amethyst on 10-08-2010 at 01:29:
Wasn't Forever Young done by Rod Stewart?
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Posted by littlewolf on 10-08-2010 at 08:22:
What Madona did to American Pie - horrible
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 10-08-2010 at 14:15:
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Different song, same title.
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Posted by amethyst on 10-08-2010 at 15:49:
Ah, thanks TJ! I wondered about but just had to ask anyway.
Madonna did American Pie? I'm kind of glad I missed that.
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 10-08-2010 at 18:54:
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The Rod Stewart song is fun... but the Alphaville version is quite different, musically.
As for American Pie, the best version of it, IMHO, is The Saga Begins....
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Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 10-08-2010 at 19:30:
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The Forever Young songs by Bob Dylan, Alphaville and Rod Stewart are three entirely different songs. The only thing they share is the title. Alphaville's song is just amazing. I can listen to that song thousands of times without ever getting sick of it. It's that good.
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Posted by gatchamarie on 11-08-2010 at 07:08:
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My DH has linked that song with the incoming calls on his mobile from my behalf ... he just knows that I love it and that it's the song that I mostly hum!
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