Songs that sound awfully similar.

See, with me, I always think of that song whenever I hear New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle". The synths sound almost exactly the same to me in both of them. I don't know which came first, though, so I can't accuse either of anything.

Here's a good one: Three Days Grace's "Animal I Have Become" and Skillet's "Monster". They're practically the same song, just listen to this mashup:

Eh, they're distinguishable.

The problem is the similar themes and the lack of variety in Post-Grunge.

Post-Grunge has caused my opinion against guitar-based music to steadily worsen over time.

I just did a quick bit of wikipedia research: New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" came out in September of 1986, while Kim Wilde's version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" came out in October of 1986. So I guess it's just... a bizarre coincidence?

edited 19th Feb '12 10:38:31 PM by MikeK

The difference is that Animal I have Become has some truth/emotional value behind it. TDG wrote the song about Adam Gontier's addiction to oxycontin. Skillet wrote Monster because they wanted a pop song.

Besides being rock songs with a similar theme, they don't have much in common.

That's hilarious. I wonder how many people got confused when hearing either on the radio.

A deliberate one:

Compare:

I keep forgetting about this one:

• “XXII° Strada” by the New Trolls
• “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” by Genesis

Both Sides Now and Live to Tell sound similar (the chorus of "Live to Tell" sounds like the verses of "Both Sides Now"). I've heard that "Live to Tell" was supposed to be a rewrite of "Both Sides Now," but I don't know if the source is reliable.

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World vs. XTC - King For A Day

The Tears For Fears track came first, by the way. I especially started noticing this when I worked in a grocery store that was using an "eighties" satellite radio station for muzak and both songs were in rotation.

edited 5th Mar '12 6:57:22 PM by MikeK

Perhaps it's just me, I'd like a second opinion here...

Flunk - Ride vs Echo & The Bunnymen - Drivetime

Seriously makes me wish I had the know how to make a decent mashup.

Undeading this thread for no good reason:

Rage Against The Machine - "Vietnow" vs Led Zeppelin - "The Wanton Song" (specifically the verse riff and rhythm).

The Darkness - "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" vs. Urge Overkill - "Sister Havana". Kind of an interesting comparison because both are kind of viewed as an Affectionate Parody of seventies hard rock.

Every rockabilly song ever.

Seriously, I love rockabilly, but if there ever was a stagnant genre...

See.

edited 20th Sep '13 12:15:01 PM by Grounder

I'm sorry, but the sound was so low quality and the intro so obnoxious that I couldn't stand that video. Can you explain it in text form?

Sesame Street's song Fuzzy and Blue resembles Sonic Chronicles' Metropolis Zone music.

Yeah, I'm just gonna remove the video from this topic.

edited 20th Sep '13 12:23:08 PM by Grounder

More more tolerable, thank you

So, I'm sure they were both inspired by industrial rock, Depeche Mode and 80's goth music, but dear god, Wes Borland's "Lie" (2007) and David Draiman's "Haze" (feat/ M.Shadows) (2013) sound really close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgDkQmsWgp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFbsBIE78uU

At first I though it was just the verse, but the choruses follow a pretty similar pattern too. I suppose Geno Lenardo (Filter) is partially to blame for Haze, since he was the main musical leader behind the Device album.

Maybe that's what happens when nu/alt-metal artists go back to their roots with offshoot bands (Black Light Burns and Device respectively). It kind of makes me wonder what it would sound like if David and Wes did a song together. I'm no Bizkit fan, but Wes has a great tone if I ever heard one.

Here are a couple that seem similar to me:

Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats

Oasis - Wonderwall

Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain

Hiroshi Kawaguchi - Main Theme of "Hang-On"

EDIT: Arrgh, can't get the line breaks right

edited 27th Oct '13 11:42:09 AM by ntico

Black Sabbath - Zero The Hero - 1983

Guns N' Roses - Paradise City - 1987

Iron Maiden - Prowler - 1980

Papa Roach - Between Angels and Insects - 2000

Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan - 1981

Papa Roach - Last Resort - 2000

edited 28th Oct '13 11:32:16 AM by ZestierThanThou

Having not heard the Iron Maiden song before, I kind of wondered how they sounded remotely similar, but then the second section of "Ghengis Khan" kicked in and I definitely saw it. At the time, I also thought "Last Resort" was sort of a ripoff of "Brain Stew" by Green Day.

The Rolling Stones - "Beast Of Burden" (1979) vs. Aerosmith - "Riff & Roll" (1982). Admittedly, the Aerosmith song is an obscure outtake that was only released on the box set Pandora's Box, so maybe part of the reason it wasn't put on a proper album is that the band themselves realized it was too similar.

In the Master System version of the original Sonic The Hedgehog, the Bridge Zone music is one of the most beloved songs there is.

Full House is one of the most (arguably unfairly) reviled television shows of the late '80s/entire '90s, with an incredibly catchy theme song.

Here is my attempt to prove that they are both the same song (or at least reasonably similar to one another):

See also: The guitar solo from Green Day's "21 Guns"

edited 30th Nov '13 12:55:21 AM by Odd1

It sounds more like the music from the L’air du temps perfume commercial to me.