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Have a listen to the verse of Steely Dan‘s “Barrytown” (1974) next to XTC‘s “Standing in for Joe” (2000).
Update 8/2012: Added Bob Dylan “Positively 4th Street” (1965) and The Beatles – “Tell Me What You See” (1965)
https://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2012/08/06/steely-dan-vs-xtc-vs-bob-dylan-vs-the-beatles/
Steely Dan - "Barrytown" (1974)
XTC - "Standing in for Joe" (2000)
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The hell, that’s the exact same melody!
and to top it off
colin of XTC claims to of never heard of “barrytown” when coming up with “standing in for joe”
On an XTC note: compare overrated Polish annoyance Gotye’s ‘amazing’ ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ with ‘Senses Working Overtime’ – he’s just taken the melody and played ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ over it on a xylophone!
I meant Belgian of course. They both have vowels in. It’s an easy mistake to make. Anyway he looks kind of Polish. He’s still ripped off XTC either way.
The melody was actually even more like “Barrytown” in the demo but Dave Gregory caught it and got Moulding to adjust it slightly.
Let’s don’t forget The Beatles “Tell Me What You See” from Help!. http://youtu.be/TMw4-WkjxsA
Great addition!!
Mac, I just made an update for this post and included Bon Dylan and The Beatles:
https://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2012/08/06/steely-dan-vs-xtc-vs-bob-dylan-vs-the-beatles/
The Loft’s “City of Dreams” verse melody is very similar to the one of Steely Dan’s “Do It Again”. On top of that, most of the instrumental is already sampled from another song!
Forgot the links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5ZfeKQTkg&feature=iv#t=32s and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYuLsudaJQ&feature=iv#t=65s
I know this is off-topic, but I don’t know where else to post it. But am I the only one who thinks that Kenny Loggins’s vocal melody for the chorus of “Footloose” is simply a vocal approximation of the guitar riff from Joe Walsh’s “Funk #49?”
Totally!!
Finally added this one!
https://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2014/04/16/free-vs-joe-walsh-vs-kenny-loggins-aka-2-songs-that-sound-like-footloose/
I know this is off-topic, but I don’t know where else to post it. But am I the only one who thinks that Kenny Loggins’s vocal melody for the chorus of “Footloose” is simply a vocal approximation of the guitar riff from Joe Walsh’s “Funk #49?”
Totally!
Anybody ever hear Steely Dan’s “Rikki Don’t lose that number”? They lifted the main hook from “Songs for my father” by Horace Silver.
But I guess it is a “homage” so that makes it OK (:-)
As far as soft rock goes how about America jacking Christopher Cross’s “Ride Like the Wind” for their “The Border”, hardly even changing anything.
Wow. That’s amazing. I’ll be sure to post this.
By the way, Green Day has done a fair amount of “tributing” on their “Uno!,” “Dos!,” and “Tre!” albums. Perhaps the most obvious being “Brutal Love,” which sounds a whole lot like Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home to Me,” IMO.
What about Neil Young’s most iconic recent song “Harvest Moon” owing a great deal of its appeal to the Everly Brothers “Walk Right Back”? Since America had their biggest hit with a Neil Young soundalike and all.