I started this thread on a different site I visit 5 years ago! And it's one that keeps coming back again every few months. So I'd thought I'd try it on here now as well.

You know when you suddenly hear similarities between 2 songs? Be it the 'melody' the 'vocal structure' or the 'music' I certainly do. Here's the many I found over the 5 years.



Gomez - Get Myself Arested
Robbie Williams - Let Love Be Your Energy

Audioslave - Cochise
Skunk Anansie - Yes Its F...... Poltical

Skunk Anansie - Selling Jesus
System Of A Down - Toxicity

Oasis - The Hindu Times
Sterophonics - Same Size Feet

Drugstore & Thom Yorke - El President
R.E.M - E-Bow The Letter
Gene - Where Are They Now?

B*Witched - C'est La Vie
Busted - Year 3000

Guns N Roses - You Could Be Mine
Bloodhound Gang - Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny

Free - All Right Now
Barenaked Ladies - One Week

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence

Super Fury Animals - Golden Retriever
Supernaturals - The Day Before Yesterday's Man

Feeder - Come Back Around
Snow Patrol - Spitting Games

Cast - Walkaway
Verve - The Drug's Don't Work

Manic Street Preachers - The Love Of Richard Nixon
Rolling Stones - Out Of Time

Green Day - American Idiot
Idlewild - A Modern Way Of Letting Go

Oasis - Wonderwall
Travis - Writing To Reach You

Underworld - Born Slippy
Killers - Mr Brightside

U2 - Vertigo
Vines - Get Free

Green Day - Hoilday
Dandy Warhols - Get Off

Corrs - Breathless
Duran Duran - Ordinary World

Killers - All These Thing's I've Done
Idlwild - Goodbye

Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle
Travis - U16 Girls

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Feeder - Save Us

Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah
Chesney Hawks - I Am The One And Only

Snow Patrol - Run
Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)

Garageland - Beelines To Heaven
Weezer - Island In The Sun

Oasis - Half The World Away
Roddy Frame - Small World

Green Day - Hitchin A Ride
Tweenies Theme Tune

Depeche Mode - It's No Good
Doctor Who Teme Tune

Didn't Travis admit to nicking the chords to Wonderwall for that track? I know the lyrics refer to it ('The radio keeps playin' all the usual, and what's a Wonderwall anyway?')

Here's a notorious example:

Sweet Talkin' Woman ~ Electric Light Orchestra (1978)
Do You Believe In Love ~ Huey Lewis & The News (1982)

...particularly interesting as two years later, HL&TN successfully sued Ray Parker Junior because of the similarities between their I Want A New Drug (issued earlier in 1984) and his Ghostbusters Theme.

2 more

Sleeper - Rameo Me
Geneva - Into The Blue

Boyzone*/Cat Stevens - Father & Son
Aerosmith - Hole In My Soul

*The similarity is more apparent in the Boyzone cover.

New Song - Howard Jones
Salsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

These songs are very similar. The last Howard Jones gig I went to, it was an acoustic one, he started to play the chords for New Song, but started to sing the lyrics to Salsbury Hill; even he's aware of the similarity and is willing to joke about it - bless..

All the songs on Cascada's 1st and 2nd albums

Hear'Say - Pure & Simple

to both

All Saints - Never Ever
and
Oasis - All Around The World

Take a listen to this Chris Moyles parody here - http://chrismoyles.net/soundvault/pa...on=file&id=969 - it clearly demonstrates the way the Hear'say track perfectly fits the All Saints and Oasis lyrics.

He's So Fine - The Chiffons
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison

These are virtually identical.

Oasis - Wonderwall
Girls Aloud - Life Got Cold



Am I the only one who thought there was something very similar between these songs?

One often mentioned is "Forget About You" by the Motors, and the Grandstand theme.

Hearsay-Show Me The Way To Your Love
Celine Dion-Thats The Way It Is.

I've always thought they both sounded the same.

The Beatles - Taxman
The Jam - Start

I put the songs I think came first at the top and the similar song at the bottom:


Corey Hart- Sunglasses at night
Miley Cyrus- See You Again



Arctic Monkeys- Certain Romance (The part at 3:52)
The Killers- Shadowplay (The part at 3:08) The Killers obviously got the lyrics from Joy Division but that part at 3:08 wasn't in the original "shadowplay" song but it is in Arctic Monkeys "certain romance" song

Fratellis - Whistle for the choir
Bon Jovi - Someday I'll be Saturday night.

Please someone tell me they can hear this as nobody will agree with me and it's driving me insane!

Oasis - Sally can wait (I think thats the title)
John Lennon - Imagine

Alphabeat - Fascination
Kenny Loggins - Foot Loose

Family Fortunes theme tune (Vernon Kay version)
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

S Club 7 'Don't stop moving' blatantly ripped off Bille Jean!

theres even a mashup on the internet entitled 'don't stop this sounding like billie jean' If i remember correctly

Another song that sounds similar is both by Justin Timberlake:

Justin Timberlake - What comes around goes around
Justin Timberlake - Cry me a river

kinks - Lazing on a sunny afternoon
Oasis- importance of being idle

The importance of being idle is a 'tribute' to the Kinks' Dead End Street - including the videos!

The Kinks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WPC-N3UYE
Oasis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv0_bFpeLI8

The Jam - A Town Called Malice
Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love

911 - The Journey
Michelle - All This Time

Relish - Rainbow Zephyr
Westlife - Hey Whatever

Radiohead - Creep
Hollies - The air that I breathe

Oasis - Wonderwall
Greenday - Boulevard of broken dreams(?)

Its the most obvious rip-off in modern history! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RCsledgOU4

The Beautiful Occupation - Travis
White Shadows - Coldplay

Thats a mash up of the two songs,genius. They don't sound the same on there own.

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Sweet - Burning

Are pretty much similar.