Songs that sound awfully similar.

Anvil's Scenery is almost note-for-note to the chorus of Crazy Train.

Haha, I had no idea. Guess that's why my Dad always used to shout "THIEVES!" at the speakers when they came on.

EDIT: Having listened to Three Girl Rhumba now, I prefer Connection. I really don't care if they stole the basic riff. What they do with it and add to it is still pretty primitive but it's more interesting to me than the original, and I hate the bassline of the original, but love that WORRRRR that comes in at about the same time in Connection. I guess it has that sparse and spare early art-rock thing going on for it, though, I can imagine liking it if I listened to music for different reasons than I actually have. Also if I'd heard TGR before Connection maybe.

edited 26th May '11 12:12:51 PM by mmysqueeant

Didn't the lead singer of Elastica date one of the members of Radiohead?

I think Pantera copying RHCP of all people was the one that surprised me the most.

Unless she dated someone from Radiohead too and I didn't know about it, you're probably thinking of her going out with Damon Albarn of Blur. The Blur album 13 was sort of a Creator Breakdown album about their splitting up.

'Hey Man, Nice Shot' by Filter vs. 'Keep Away' by Godsmack. It's nice to see that Sully Erna and co. don't keep their theft exclusive to Alice in Chains.

Speaking of "Hey Man Nice Shot", here's one that's sort of interesting because there's actually a justified reason for it happening: "Hey Man Nice Shot" has a guitar part in the chorus that sounds exactly like part of Stabbing Westward's "Ungod" (the riff in question first kicks in about 3 minutes into the latter). It turns out this is just because the same guitarist worked with Stabbing Westward and then Filter, and he apparently thought he could get away with reusing the riff (or genuinely forgot he already used it for something else a few years ago).

edited 26th May '11 11:39:25 PM by MikeK

Norther - Nothing / Machinae Supremacy - Nova Prospekt

Sinergy - Lead Us To War / Norther - No Way Back

Scar Symmetry - Oscillation Point / Firewind - Embrace The Sun

I've got a few more, if I can remember them.

edited 29th May '11 7:21:27 PM by BoundByTheMoon

Green Day - Warning vs. The Kinks - Picture Book.

Pearl Jam - Spin The Black Circle vs. Husker Du - Beyond The Threshold

The Vines - Get Free vs. Nirvana - Negative Creep (not as obvious as the rest, but try singing the lyrics to one over the other)

Silverchair - Suicidal Dream vs. Alice In Chains - Bleed The Freak (taken straight from The Jimmy Hart Version page, but man are these ridiculously similar).

edited 28th May '11 9:35:46 AM by MikeK

Thanks Mike, I couldn't remember which artist. I was thinking one of the members of Radiohead for some reason.

I was listening to Pyromania earlier on, and I noticed that "Foolin'" and "Coming Under Fire" are basically the same song.

Further, I imagine it's down to the involvement of Mutt Lange that there are a few songs on Waking Up the Neighbours that sound quite like songs from Hysteria.

Damn, I was listening to this

And then it came to me that the intro sounded quite a bit like this.

edited 29th May '11 6:25:27 PM by NEO

Get this: Think of the tune to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Then think of the opening melody of the song "What a Wonderful World." They have the same notes! The rhythm's a bit different, but they sound like the same tune, at least for the first few lines of each song.

Katy Perry's "California Girls" and Cascada's "San Francisco".

Oh wait, my bad. They're not awfully similar.

They're exactly the same.

edited 9th Jun '11 6:53:46 AM by Catfish42

Razormaze's Karma In/Karma Out is, ahem, "heavily influenced" by Slayer's Raining Blood.

So this doesn't really count, because Coldplay got permission from Kraftwerk and credited them with co-writing the song (and thus they're getting paid for it), but it's awfully weird to compare the two nevertheless: Talk vs. Computer Love

edited 14th Jun '11 9:43:57 AM by MikeK

Why don't you get a job? by The Offspring —— Ob la di ob la da by The Beatles

Chris Brown's Yeahyeahyeah (Yeah 3x) sounds dang near exactly like I'm Not Alone by Calvin Harris.

The drums on Loreena Mck Kennit's "All Soul's night" are very similar to Steve Earle's "Copperhead road". The intros are also eerily identical.

I can't find the first song on Youtube, but "Cracks of Tomorrow" by Amen has the EXACT same continuous riff as "Waiting for the Turning Point" by Superjoint Ritual. Both songs came out around the same time too, although the Amen one was part of a rare album.

Now that I've worked out embedding, just LISTEN to the CHEEK of Gravity Kills and their song "inspired by" Head Like a Hole

Gravity Kills - Falling

edited 16th Jun '11 5:36:09 AM by Jonny0110

Destroy Destroy Destroy - The Wretched Forest / Kalmah - Bullets Are Blind

edited 18th Jun '11 5:53:09 PM by BoundByTheMoon

To go into the realm of video game music, I always thought that a part of Yoshis Island's "Underground" music is very similar (but not identical) to a part of Toto's "Africa".

It bears mentioning that the same guy produced both songs.