Songs that sound similar

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Does anyone know any songs that sound similar, or the same as eachother?
Two very obviously similar songs here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkKX035484[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA[/youtube]

"Sexual Healing" by E-Rotic
"Ninja Tattoo" by Shanadoo

"Daddy DJ" - Daddy DJ
"DotA" (and its English version, "All I Ever Wanted") by Basshunter

Mary Jane's Last Dance-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers(1993)
Dani California-Red Hot Chili Peppers(2006)

refugee - tom petty
run to you - bryan adams (same kinda beat)


the one i love - r.e.m.
(what's the story) morning glory - oasis (guitar chords the same)


boys better - dandy warhols
incense and peppermints - strawberry alarm clock (similar lead synth)


i can't explain - the who
going out of my head - fatboy slim (i suspect fbs sampled the guitar and pitch shifted it)


dark and long - underworld
electric places - alex gold (same lead synth pattern)




what does everybody else think of my choices?
i might only hear the similarities in my head due to the fact that i listen to each song like 2000+ times (according to iTunes anyway)...

I think Incense And Peppermints (or at least the intro & the bit 2 minutes in) also inspired Born Of Frustration by James.

Re-Education (Through Labor) - Rise Against
Start A Fight - John Pregler

"Pump It Up," Elvis Costello

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpprOGsLWUo[/youtube]

"Wild Wild West," Escape Club

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0XZx_a7Y8[/youtube]



"Polaroids," Shawn Colvin

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqYOR0BwAxA[/youtube]

"Put a Little Love in Your Heart," Jackie DeShannon

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMj7UcjPZ0U[/youtube]

A pair off the top of my head. (HSH came first)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEDnsKrWYg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_OUqukBHT0[/youtube]

Oh, and of course all of these wonderful videos...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0LZcpSiE6s[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TMs9DdTRFo[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkGPngDRv74&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly-3jIrlkYQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7bqwvFEShE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dim9Mw6M9Ps[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr2U3VU2e9s[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmREUSra-Ng[/youtube]

You get the picture.

there are a relatively limited number of musical intervals to be cribbed from. so infringment is going to be more and more common, intentional and otherwise- just hop in the WABAC machine and ask george harrison ["my sweet/he's so fine"] all about his $250,000 "accidental" experience in this regard.

Porcupine Tree - "Time Flies" and Pink Floyd - "Dogs" and "Sheep": I read somewhere that Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree was consciously influenced by Animals when writing "Time Flies" because the song was largely about his memories of childhood, and Animals was his first album.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEWlSTQ1RI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HxHwuiDPgk[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvq514YOng[/youtube]

Filter - "Hey Man Nice Shot" and Stabbing Westward - "Ungod": Both use the exact same guitar line during each song's chorus, due to both bands using the same guitarist for their debut albums.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpWlatljaI0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoKQSywJbU[/youtube]

"Rikki Dont Lose That Number"- by Steely Dan, and "Song for My Father" by Blue Note Jazz pianist Horace Silver ( they both seem to be in the same key and both have that boom-ba-boom baseline).

"Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice, and "Under Pressure" by Queen with David Bowie.

"Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum, and "When Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge, AND "Sleepers Awake" by Johann Sebastian Bach. The first is said to be a ripoff of the second which is said to be a ripoff of the third. They all sound somewhat alike, and all three are awesome.

the intro to "soul man" [blues brothers all-star band version] is cribbed note-for-note from the intro to betty wright's "clean-up woman."
the key and tempo of steely dan's "do it again" locks into a tight groove when mashed up with michael jackson's "billy jean." in fact, there was a professional mash-up done of those two songs- they fit together hand in glove, in a magnificently countrapuntal marriage of two varieties of music, like coffee and milk mixed together.

Last edited by auntblabby on 17 Feb 2011, 9:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Try these two for size:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ8gMQK4-BQ[/youtube]

and

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dUV4VAr9lk[/youtube]

Betty Wright did the song "Clean Up Woman".

I think you mean "Medley", not "mashup".
When musicians mix two songs its called a 'medley", if a deejay mixes two recordings its called a "mashup".
Two seperate adhoc bands of studio musicians did medleys of the aforementioned Steely Dan and Micheal Jackson songs (one under the moniker of "Hot House" and the other as "Slingshot")both got airplay in the eighties. It is an extremely cool concept. The rock hit from 1973 wedded to dance hit of 1983. As you said the two songs are both in the same key and have the same baseline. Even the two storylines in the lyrics seemed to go together somehow.
Im sure deejays have done mashups of the two songs in recent years though I couldnt find any on the web when I looked sometime ago.

thank you for the correction. but i blame the alphanumeric streaming readout on my HD radio which displayed the name of the wrong betty.



you know a lot about these things.