Songs that sound awfully similar.

The chorus to My Chemical Romance's Planetary (GO!) is practically identical to that of Powerman 5000's When Worlds Collide.

John Lennon's "Watching the Wheels" and Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" remind me of each other.

The intros of "Up the Wolves" by The Mountain Goats and The Eagles' "Take It Easy" sound kind of similar.

edited 20th Apr '15 6:13:49 AM by FirstSnow

Sara Bareilles' Brave and Katy Perry's Roar?

Thought that was a fairly prominent mainstream one.

I can hear the similarities if I pay attention, but usually they don't occur to me.

Shawn Hook's "Sound of Your Heart" sounds a lot like Naughty Boy's "La La La".

edited 7th May '15 6:15:59 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77

FUN have gotten some flack for Some Nights sounding like Cecelia by Simon and Garfunkel, which breaks my heart and shakes my confidence daily.

Less related, I used to think Sia was Rihana. :/

Slightly odd example: To me, "Sally's Song" in A Nightmare before Christmas sounds a lot like "Call from the grave" from Threepenny Opera.

x 5: For a while, the station that's frequently on at my work had both in heavy rotation - at first, I could never tell if I was hearing "Roar" or "Brave" until it hit the chorus. What's sort of interesting to me is that there's even some slight overlap in subject matter: "Brave" is about encouraging someone who is timid to speak their mind and stand up for themselves, while "Roar" is about someone who used to be timid learning to stand up for themselves on their own. If they weren't released so close to each other for it to be impossible, you could interpret one as an Answer Song to the other.

edited 2nd Jun '15 8:41:12 PM by MikeK

One I noticed today: The melody in the chorus to Queen's "Breakthru" sounds very similar to the melody in the chorus of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer". I'm a fan of the "Breakthru" and I've heard "The End of Innocence" at least once before, but I didn't notice the similarity until I heard the latter song on the radio today.

I know it's not the most complex riff in the world, but does the riff for "Doctor Alibi" (2010) by Slash featuring Lemmy Kilmister sound really similar to "Main Man" (1992) by The Ramones? Even both guitar solos seem to have the same basic pattern at the beginning.

edited 28th Jul '15 5:22:40 AM by Alucard

John Denver - The Ballad of Richard Nixon and Boards of Canada - Magic Window

:3

"Huge Wonder" by Redd Kross is very blatantly based around the instrumental outro to "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath.

edited 29th Sep '15 11:05:20 PM by MikeK

Is it just me, or do "U Remind Me" and "When You're Mad" sound incredibly similar?

The beginning to Slayer's "Repentless" sounded familiar, then I realized it's similar to the bass-line of the castle theme from Super Mario Bros.

Wish You Were Here and Wild Horses. I can't really tell the difference in the intros until Mick Jagger's groaning.

edited 20th Sep '15 11:31:45 PM by FirstSnow

The intro to Teenager by Def Tones and the intro to Turned Off by Death Grips.

edited 22nd Sep '15 11:55:04 AM by BILLYMAYS!!!!

Deteriorot's "In Ancient Beliefs" has a very similar riff to the one used by Absu in "Descent to Acheron (Evolving into the Progression of Woe)"

0:49 for Absu.

Right at the beginning for Deteriorot.

The Absu track appears on a 1992 demo as well while for Deteriorot it appears the earliest in 1993.

edited 22nd Sep '15 6:14:57 PM by StillbornMachine

The main riff of Overkill's "Bring Me the Night" is basically the same as the riff at 3:12 into Helpless by Diamond Head, with some slight alterations, plus a more thrashy guitar tone that's closer to the Metallica cover.

edited 24th Sep '15 8:07:33 PM by djbj

Paw - "Jessie" (1993) vs. Helmet - "Unsung" (1992). Especially the beginning, but the "Unsung"-like riff pops up throughout the song.

Demi Lovato has a new song called "Confident"… and it sounds almost identical to "Keeps Gettin' Better".

The James Bond song "The World is Not Enough" is pretty much a badass take on "Superstar" (made famous by The Carpenters).

I get the chorus of Boston's More Than a Feeling mixed up with the chorus of Pixies' Gigantic.

Heart's "Never" and Stardust's (the Daft Punk side-project) "Music Sounds Better With You".

edited 26th Apr '16 10:17:31 AM by WaxingName

I think it sounds more like Sister Sledge - One More Time.

edited 29th Apr '16 3:38:04 AM by PhysicalStamina