Songs that sound awfully similar.

Like this

Post here your ..."inspired" songs!

I can't stop listening to this

Weezer - Take Control vs. T. Rex - Children Of The Revolution. Granted the chorus section is different, but the main riffs are very similar aside from the Weezer one being played faster.

edited 23rd Oct '10 9:45:25 AM by MikeK

Toadies - Tyler vs. Pixies - Where Is My Mind

That one led to a semi-weird case of Did Not Do The Research I witnessed on songmeanings.net - Someone decided since the song is called "Tyler" and sounds a lot like that song from the end of Fight Club, it must somehow be about Tyler Durden. Thing is, while the Pixies song was still first, both it and the Toadies song came out years before the movie version of Fight Club.

edited 23rd Oct '10 10:04:21 AM by MikeK

Maybe it's just me, but the opening riff from "Burn out Bright" by Switchfoot reminds me of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida".

Wait, that Switchfoot song came out in 2006.

U2's "With or Without You" vs. Linkin Park's "Shadow of the Day". I know the chord progression is common, but it seems to me that LP also borrowed the general vibe from "With or Without You".

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.

"Falling" by Gravity Kills is... "borrowed" from "Head Like a Hole".

Meta Four: There are a lot of songs similar to "Viva La Vida". There have been at least two lawsuits.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

"Time Bomb" by Godsmack sounds a lot like "Last" by Nine Inch Nails

"A Lot Like Me" by the Offspring really reminds me of "Jesus Nitelite" by Eve 6.

and oh yeah, wasn;t one of them Joe Satriani or am I thinking of a different lawsuit?

"Tapping Into The Emotional Void" by Excel sounds ridiculously similar to "Enter Sandman"

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The Foo Fighters' Walk definitely sounds like another song I've heard before, but I can't remember what it was called.

Also, Rick Astley's song Lights Out sometimes sounds kind of like Speed of Sound by Coldplay.

What like this?

Noah And The Whale's "LIFEGOESON" and Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More". They're both equally earwormy, so getting one in my head makes me get the other in my head too.

I only noticed it when both got played in Rock Band in the same night, but "Spaceman" by The Killers and "Thrash Unreal" by Against Me! - not really the whole song, just the "oh oh oh" part in one and the "ba ba ba" part in the other.

edited 27th May '11 1:25:25 PM by MikeK

Spock’s Beard: “June” sounds an awful lot like The Beatles’ “Dear Prudence.” And the guitar intro to 10cc’s “Feel the Benefit” is almost identical to the guitar intro to that aforementioned Beatles song.

Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883!

Threat Signal - Counterbalance

Megadeth - Kick The Chair

Second riff of each.

And while we're on the subject, the choruses of Ensiferum - From Afar (2:15) and Equilibrium - Der Ewige Sieg (2:03) sound kinda close.

edited 25th May '11 10:24:29 AM by BoundByTheMoon

There are snakes in the grass, so we'd better go hunting!

Kelly Clarkson's Since U Been Gone and Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling. Proof that Black Eyed Peas suck at not only rhyming but creating original tunes also.

More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/

In Flames - Take This Life

Disarmonia Mundi - Mind Tricks

At least until the pre-chorus, the similarity is undeniable.

No regret shall pass over the threshold!

Here's a few I found a few years ago:

Bob Dylan - "If Not For You" and Justin Timberlake - "Sexyback"

Tom Petty - "Don't Come Around Here No More" and Steve Miller Band - "The Joker" aka "Space Cowboy"

The Beatles - "Free As A Bird" and Dolly Parton - "I Will Always Love You" aka the theme from "The Bodyguard"

"When I'm Gone" by 3 doors down - the chorus sounds a lot like that of "In a Darkened Room" by Skid Row.

Enchant - Paint the Picture and Rush - Xanadu

Enchant might as well have copypasta'd that main line into the song.

edited 24th May '11 12:40:20 PM by iamathousandapples

"I could eat a knob at night" - Karl Pilkington

The song Party Ghouls from Little Big Planet was probably inspired by a Russian song called Katyusha.

Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.

A weird, and almost certainly unintentional case.

Listen to Ariel Pink's "Gray Sunset".

Now, listen to MGMT's "Electric Feel".

They sound so similar for two songs that sound nothing alike each other.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

Fly in the Ointment - Wire

Line Up - Elastica

Sound suspiciously similar to me.

EDIT: @ xexyzl, I cannot believe I never noticed Soa D's blatant and total homage to Emperor before. That one particularly on the list of riffs stood out, because I love the riff in the original but meh'd it in Revenga, never made the connection somehow and had an oddly different reaction to the same riff. Thanks for the link, it's interesting.

edited 25th May '11 9:06:48 AM by mmysqueeant

I guess Elastica borrow from Wire a lot. A more well known case is "Connection" using the same riff as "Three Girl Rhumba". They apparently actually got sued over that one.

edited 25th May '11 10:26:54 AM by MikeK

Yeah that's my favorite of all of them. People tend to be the most surprised by it.