Songs that sound awfully similar.

I like them well enough, but I kind of feel like one really only needs one, maybe two ACDC albums in one's life ^note  If it's just one, it should be Back In Black. If it's two it should be Back In Black and any of the Bon Scott albums. On the other hand, I can see the fact that they never change being part of the appeal for a diehard fan - whenever you buy a new album of theirs, you know exactly what you're getting, and the only variable is whether they've come up with an album's worth of good riffs or not this time around.

edited 17th Feb '14 9:42:46 PM by MikeK

The way I see it, music should be taken as a balanced meal: that includes listening to comfort food bands.

The only AC/DC song you ever need is "Big Balls".

I would argue that much like cholesterol, you don't actually need any AC/DC

(you might actually need cholesterol I'm not a doctor)

Actually.

Like I said, a complete meal. Since they influenced most of my favorite bands, as an ingredient, I'd be starving without them.

I've realized there's a chord sequence about 1:23 into the Silent Hill theme that has an unlikely similarity to the James Bond theme.

I am Mason. Harry Mason.

"L's theme" from Death Note is quite similar structurally to Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells", used as the theme for The Exorcist.

• U2 - With or Without You vs Robbi Robb- In Time. For a while I thought they were the same song, but then I hadn't seen Bill & Ted in a long time.

• Karl Bartos- I'm the Message vs The Sandopolis Zone theme. Similar background beats. Of course, you could go on and on about songs that sound like Sonic the Hedgehog BGM, this is just one I don't think anyone else has thought of. I eagerly await the DJ Yuzoboy mash-up.

edited 25th Feb '14 12:29:26 AM by Surenity

"Best Day of My Life" by American Authors sounds an awful lot like "It's Time" by Imagine Dragons.

Has anyone mentioned the similarity between one part of "Echoes" by Pink Floyd and the main theme from "Phantom of the Opera" yet in this thread?

Never mind, it came up already. Still a good example though.

Also, I like the early AC/DC albums (from the beginning up until For Those About To Rock). There's something to be said for consistency, after all. And they didn't only write one song, they wrote three or four, thank you very much- a slow, really bluesy one, maybe two mid-tempo ones and slightly faster one...

The most common claim about "21 Guns" sounding suspiciously similar to another song I've heard has been regarding "All The Young Dudes". So maybe both Green Day and the composers of the music from Pokemon Diamond And Pearl got it from the same source.

See also: the chorus of Electric Light Orchestra's "Telephone Line" (which sounds a lot more like it than "All the Young Dudes")

The guitar riffs and "whoa oh"s on Billy Currington's "We Are Tonight" sound uncannily like a less aggressive version of "The Adventure" by Angels & Airwaves.

I've heard that "Silent All These Years" by Tori Amos and "What If" by Emilie Autumn sound similar. I can sort of hear it...

I'd be more willing to forgive if I didn't have such a love-hate relationship with Autumn and her music.

By the by, comparison links for both: We Are Tonight, The Adventure

Dream Theater's intro riff to Honor Thy Father sounds awfully similar to the main riff of Pantera's Pre-Hibernation song used in a Spongebob episode.

I only know the former song thanks to it's inclusion on an early reggae box set, but the verse melody to Tyrone & Bruce's "I Am A True Believer" is pretty similar to "Walk Away Renee" The Left Banke. Although it actually could be considered to be a little more similar to the Four Tops version of the latter.

I would just like to say that I (guiltily) love modern mainstream songs that sound awfully similar to older songs.

Like One Direction's "Best Song Ever" to The Who's "Baba O'Riley" or Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" to Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give it Up". Just because it reminds me that those older songs will NEVER DIE!

For stuff that aren't that mainstream hits, Ellie Goulding's (cover of) Hanging On is kinda similar to Daft Punk's Contact.

Upon listening to the songs again, it doesn't quite sound as exact as I'd thought before, but...I dunno, listen to the bass on Big Daddy's cover of "Lovely Rita", and then listen to the bass on the menu music from Pokemon Colosseum.

Who does the original version of that song?

edited 2nd Apr '14 5:22:11 PM by Odd1

I've realized the wordless chorus of The Nails' 88 Lines About 44 Women is similar to "A Summer Song" by Chad & Jeremy.

There is no getting around it—the opening part of the Butter Building arrangement from Kirbys Epic Yarn is Green Hill Zone.

I could have sworn that Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" sounded just like a song from the first Sly Cooper game. I couldn't find it, though. Every time I hear that song, I think of that game now.

I guess continuing on this string of video game music-related stuff here, the melody in the opening of Jellyfish's "Joining a Fan Club" is totally almost the same as that of the Sonic The Hedgehog 2 ending music.