15 Replies to “Green Day vs. Steve Earle”

1. David July 9, 2011 at 6:27 pm

   ….and Steve Earle’s “Here I am” melody and chord progression sound like “All My Lovin'” by the Beatles? These things just goes full circle…

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2. Chinchi December 6, 2011 at 1:42 pm

   Except that Basket Case was from 1994.
   And that came before 1997, so wouldn’t that make Steve Earl the theft?

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3. Dr. Eric March 31, 2012 at 4:42 pm

   http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/11/axis-of-awesome-4-four-chord-song-with-song-titles/

   This link shows that there are hundreds of songs that all use the same 4 chords in a progression.

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   1. Keith Post authorMarch 31, 2012 at 4:52 pm

      Thanks for the link Dr. Eric!

      Yup, this is a great compilation. Aside from the chord progressions, on ThatSongSoundsLike we can also discuss the vocal melodies and instrumentation that complete the songs. We can compare thousands of songs with the same I-IV-V progression but they don’t always use the same vocal melodies on top – this is where the fun begins on this site. I get a lot of submissions that might just be the same three or four chords but nothing else.

      I like to put myself and other’s minds at ease that they are not crazy because they think they’ve heard something before. 🙂

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   2. Mark Adams June 17, 2014 at 1:48 pm

      Except these songs use more than four chords. When I Come Around is a four chord song, though.

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4. Theolynn Carpenter May 30, 2012 at 8:55 pm

   Hey! I always thought Green Days song sounded Like Charlene’s 1976 song “Never Been to Me”
   That song was before both of those………

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   1. Keith Post authorMay 30, 2012 at 8:58 pm

      Nice! Are you talking about this part? (50 seconds in)
      

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      1. Theolynn Carpenter May 30, 2012 at 10:20 pm

         :)! YES…..

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   2. Mark Adams June 17, 2014 at 1:51 pm

      Yes, but it seems Basket Case was based on Pachelbel’s Canon. And Steve Earle’s sounds even more like Never Been to Me.

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      1. Mark Adams June 17, 2014 at 2:01 pm

         If We Hold On Together from The Land Before Time (1989?) also comes to mind. “Live believing, dreams are for weaving, hold to the truth in your heart.” Plus Sorrento Moon by Tina Arena (1995) and part of Honesty by Billy Joel: “If I wear my heart out on my sleeve.”

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         1. Mark Adams June 18, 2014 at 1:04 pm

            Green Day’s iViva La Gloria! (2009) also sounds like Basketcase, as well as sounding like their own Deadbeat Holiday (2000) and Love Minus Zero/No Limit by Bob Dylan. And Armitage Shanks (1995), which also sounds like Looking Out My Back Door by Creedence (1970). The last four notes of that sequence in Basketcase is a diatonic descending pattern which makes up the melodies of Going to California by Led Zeppelin (1971) and Given to Fly by Pearl Jam, it is in the bass line of Under the Double Eagle by Willie Nelson (2004) and haven’t we all heard that pattern from church bells, like in a movie wedding?

            For another Green Day similarity, When I Come Around (1994) sounds like part of Highwayman by Jimmie Webb. Rainbow in the Dark by Dio (1983) also sounds like a different part of Highwayman.

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         2. Mark Adams June 24, 2014 at 12:36 pm

            And how about Questions of My Childhood by Kansas (Oct 1976)?

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         3. Mark Adams August 5, 2014 at 12:04 pm

            And When I Think About Angels by Jamie O’Neal (Oct 2000) sounds like a combination of these and Shine by Vanessa Amarosi (May ’00).

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5. Andy Tate June 19, 2012 at 11:06 pm

   NOOEEL NOOOEEL NOOOELL NOEL. BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL!

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6. JD April 22, 2015 at 1:24 am

   I always thought that “Basket Case” sounded like Blind Melon’s “No Rain.”

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