or perhaps parts of songs that remind you of other songs.

I was listening to George Harrison's 'I Dig Love' today, after devoting a great deal of time to Lou Reed's BERLIN album, and i noticed the drum fills at the beginning of 'I Dig Love' and 'How Do You Think It Feels' are rather similar. In fact i even think the melodies/song structure in these two songs in places are very alike, too. Maybe the similarity isn't explicit in the most obvious sense, because the mood of these two songs are very different, but i do feel there's a link. Maybe Lou had been listening to George on the sly, and lifted a few ideas. Or maybe his drummer had a few ideas of his own, which also related to George's song. Or maybe i'm reading a little too much into something that's perhaps tenuous at best! I'm not sure! What do you think?!










Do you have examples, of songs/parts of songs, that sound rather similar to each other? I'm not talking of the most notorious examples, like the Jam's 'Start' and The Beatles 'Taxman', or the BBC Grandstand theme and 'Forget About You' by the Motors, necessarily, but ones that perhaps are a little less obvious, too.

A few famous examples:

"Theme from Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr. sounds like "I Want a New Drug" by Huey Lewis & the News. Both were big hits of 1984, but as "I Want a New Drug" was recorded in 1983, Ray's song is the copycat. Huey sued Ray, but then Ray retaliated after Huey discussed the details of the outcome on "Behind the Music."

And speaking of George Harrison, his "My Sweet Lord" sounded like the Chiffons' "He's So Fine." The Chiffons got a piece of their pie during the outcome by covering Harrison's tune. Harrison responded by writing "This Song."

~Ben

The riff of Jumpin` Jack Flash and `Catch Me Now I`m Falling` by the Kinks.

Actually, JJF sort of rips Satisfaction off.

Most Chuck Berry songs

Beyond Here Lies Nothin' by Bob Dylan and All My Love by Otis Rush / John Mayall's Blues Breakers springs to mind.

Opening riffs of The Stones versions of Shake Your Hips and ZZTop's La Grange.

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The riff of Jumpin` Jack Flash and `Catch Me Now I`m Falling` by the Kinks.

Actually, JJF sort of rips Satisfaction off.

The Jumpin' Jack Flash riff and Dire Straits' Money for Nothing riff.

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction and Buffalo Springfield's Mr. Soul

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The riff of Jumpin` Jack Flash and `Catch Me Now I`m Falling` by the Kinks.

Actually, JJF sort of rips Satisfaction off.

The Jumpin' Jack Flash riff and Dire Straits' Money for Nothing riff.

The "I want my MTV" vocal line IS the "Don't stand so close to me" line. Pretty sure Sting got a writers credit for that.

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Mr DJA

The opening to this song sounds exactly like Hitch-Hike:

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I would say the guitar riff is the same

are these the same songs with different lyrics:

Same guitar riff

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What about Live With Me and Bitch?

James Brown - Soul Power Parts 1-2 & 3



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As you well know...

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Every subsequent Stones song with a "riff beginning" I've wondered if they were consciously trying for another catchy riff like Satisfaction, whether in Hearts for Sale or Driving Too Fast. But maybe it's not done consciously.

The intro riff to Brown Sugar, the one at the start that's repeated 4 times before going into the main body of the song is taken from a Bill Haley instrumental break.

I was driving along one day when I heard the song on the radio & right in the middle, quite unmistakeable, was the riff, a fair bit slower than Brown Sugar. The announcer only back-announced Bill Haley as the performer but not the song I've been searching for 20 years to prove I wasn't halucinating, but to no avail



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Louis Jordan's guitarist Carl Hogan was a big influence on Chuck Berry, enough for Berry to copy Hogan note for note.

I wouldn't be surprised if Mick and Keith had a good listen to this one, before they wrote Connection - listen to the verses.

Television -- Little Johnny Jewel - Parts 1 & 2



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Paul Weller Changing Man and ELO 10538 Overture

How about the riffs on these?












then there's this:





from this






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And of course the verse vocal melody on this






comes from the chorus vocal melody of this






Of course, Oasis were as good as Zeppelin at "repurposing"











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Opening riffs of The Stones versions of Shake Your Hips and ZZTop's La Grange.

and hundreds of others with that standard blues riff. On the Road Again, Spirit in the Sky . . . .

Gimmee Shelter
Under My Thumb
Almost hear you Sigh

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I wouldn't be surprised if Mick and Keith had a good listen to this one, before they wrote Connection - listen to the verses.

Undeniable influence there, guess they returned the favour with a nod and a wink with David Watts.