Mike says
The Elec Man theme from the video game Mega Man sounds freakishly similar to both of these. You should check it out.
Brilliant find Mike! Mega Man! And in my travels I also discovered a bit of talk about Journey‘s 1983 power ballad “Faithfully”. Here is all of them:
Mega Man - "Elec Man Theme" (1987)
Journey - "Faithfully" (1983)
R.E.M. - "All the Right Friends" (1983)
Cheap Trick - "Way of the World" (1979)
This is an update to R.E.M. vs. Cheap Trick
This is really close to the “friends” theme song.
The intro of Journey’s song sounds a lot like ABBA’s intro of “The winner takes it all”, doesn’t it?
Hmmmmmmm
Yes! For me “The Winner Takes It All” is the source of this melody, everything else I think is derivative of it (accidentally or not). The Cheap Trick one came earlier, but it doesn’t sound as close to me. Who knows though.
I also think Vanessa Carlton’s “San Francisco” sounds a whole lot like “Winner Takes It All”, along with the Journey and Mega Man stuff.
One Direction – Little Things sounds a lot like these..
Please continue the one Direction post they rip off a lot (the whole world)…