Update 1/30/2010: Check out “CatrianiPlay: The Most Used Melody In Pop Music”
http://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2012/01/30/the-most-used-melody-in-pop-music/
This is an update to this post
Submitted by Jim
Any more of these out there??
Jim points out the hook in Survivor‘s 1984 hit “I Can’t Hold Back”. I included the beginning of the guitar solo at the end of the sample because it also incorporates the melody. Here’s all of them again!
Survivor – “I Can’t Hold Back” (1984)
Cat Stevens – “Foreigner Suite” (1973)
Joe Satriani – “If I Could Fly” (2004)
Coldplay – “Viva la Vida” (2008)
Creaky Boards – “The Songs I Didn’t Write” (2008)
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lets add weezers the good life too please and i believe that came before both
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You can also add Alizée’s “I’m fed up / j’en ai marre” to the list
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwsEiFoRtE&feature=related
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Keith Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Great find Sanglyon!
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I posted about this recently elsewhere, but the Coldplay song seems to me like a pretty direct rip of The Tear Garden’s “Romulus and Venus”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8IUl8lVms
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Keith Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Great find J!
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And add “Frances Limon” by Los Enanitos Verdes, they actually came out before Satriania’s song…
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Keith Reply:
April 13th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Great find! Ill be sure to add ANOTHER update!
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I cant believe Joe Satriani lost the law suit ! its exactly the same melody !
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The survivor sample u have sounds like britney spears hold it against me chorus.
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Keith Reply:
February 14th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Excellent! AND it also sounds like Cutting Crew – “(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight”
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The survivor sample also sounds like rihanna unfaithful chorus.
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Keith Reply:
February 14th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Another great one. I’ll be sure to post as an update.
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Cat Stevens should get money from everybody !!
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I first time I heard Lady Antebellum’s ‘Need You Now’ it totally reminded me of The Alan Parsons’ Project and ‘Eyes in the Sky’.
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Keith Reply:
February 16th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Great! I will definitely add this.
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Keith Reply:
February 16th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Here it is!
http://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2011/02/16/lady-antebellum-vs-the-alan-parsons-project/
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sodapop Reply:
February 18th, 2011 at 1:23 am
Keith, love the site and thanks for posting. I’ll send some musically inclined friends by to see if we can come up with some others. Glad to see you have Matthew and Son and Mad World listed. As much as I love Cat Stevens, Tear for Fears took the best part of the song and made something great.
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Keith Reply:
February 18th, 2011 at 1:28 am
Thanks!
I think those who point the finger at these guys are so damn stupid…do you have any idea about how much you have to work as an artist?..just shut the f*** up f***!you are just couch potatoes that only drive your car to the nearest fastfood and criticise people that really work!!!
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How about Britney Spears’s “Hold It Against Me” – its chorus sounds totally similar to the melody in these songs, particularly the first two.
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Keith Reply:
July 19th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Thanks Benjy! A few other users pointed this similarity out as well. I’ve been meaning to post that. It also reminds me of Cutting Crew’s “(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight”): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua26qTEK25U. Of course this is all no surprise considering the Spears track is yet another Dr. Luke creation. Look for my upcoming Dr. Luke post.
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how about this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgshGIOtvVI
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Keith Reply:
January 22nd, 2012 at 12:04 am
Wow. I am actually working on another update to this post. I have two other other songs to add to this.. and now THIS!!
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dont agree with this one??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240S04eCCC0
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Keith Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Another one?!! The backing track is pretty close! Hey Travis, I just made a new updated to this post containing your other suggestion. I’m calling it “CatrianiPlay”
http://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2012/01/30/the-most-used-melody-in-pop-music
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Travis Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
saw that…comments closed on it???
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Keith Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Oops! Try now!