Thanks to William for this one
There is a Dutch singer-songwriter duo called Nick & Simon and they wrote a song called Julia. Then they made 154 versions of the song. I don’t have time to listen to any more than the one that William sent my way but it sounds just like Green Day‘s “When I Come Around”. Do the other 153 versions sound like other songs as well??
“Nick & Simon released many different versions of the song, each with another female given name as title. Eight versions were released on CD, but on iTunes 154 versions were released (see different versions). Nick & Simon established a record in the Guinness Book of Records with this song, because they released 155 singles on one day. This has never been done before.
The single debuted at the peak position in both the Dutch Top 40 and the Mega Single Top 100.The song became the first number-one single for Nick & Simon in the Dutch Top 40 and the first number-one debut in that chart since Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” in 2011. “Julia” was the tenth number-one single for the duo in the Mega Single Top 100.” – Wikipedia
Check out some other Green Day posts on this site:
Green Day vs. ELO vs. Scott McKenzie
Part of the first movement of Homecoming, The Death of St. Jimmy (2004) sounds like a combination of It’s the Same Old Song (1965) and Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) by Chris Tomlin in 2006 (the Wikipedia page on Amazing Grace gives some interesting information and as it is part of the folk tradition, the story is intertwined with that of other songs). The third movement, Nobody Likes You sounds like When Will I Be Loved by The Everly Brothers (1960) made into a taunt, the fourth movement sounds kind of like I’m ON My Way by The Proclaimers (1988), but maybe there’s something it sounds more like which I just can’t think of right now and part of the fifth and final movement, We’re Coming Home Again has the same ‘church bell’ melody of Given to Fly by Pearl Jam (1997), but it could be based on On the Road Again by Willie Nelson (1980). This is another one of those Green Day songs with a substantial amount of swearing, but I stopped given a warning because you kind of have to expect it from these guys. One last thing, part of Holiday (2004), towards the end, sounds like their own 2000 Light Years Away (1991), but also A Groovy Kind of Love, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbe7OruLk8I#t=1m15s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1yYDuSf3C4#t=23s
I guess the more logical place for Nobody Like You (which was also at the beginning of Letterbomb) to come from is the children’s song: Nobody Likes Me, which has the same tune as Polly Wolly Doodle.
Que Sera by Justice Crew (2014) sounds to me like Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough by Patty Smyth and Don Henley (1992) and my mother thinks it sounds like Holiday by Green Day (2004) and I guess we’re both right, especially considering the piano part of Que Sera sounds like the verse of Holiday, 9675309/Jenny (1982), Radio Nowhere (2007) and The Stranger (1977), but that might just be a chord progression. It might also sound kind of like Please Don’t Say You Love Me by Gabrielle Aplin (2012). Que Sera was a No. 1 hit on the ARIA chart and sold quadruple platinum. The next part of the chorus of Holiday by Green Day sounds like Holiday by The Scorpions (1979).
For another Green Day comparison, part of The Forgotten (2012) sounds like The Flame by Cheap Trick (recorded 1987, released 1988), part of which also sounds like If You Could Read My Mind, The Greatest Love of All, Break it Down Again, Runaway Train, She Will Be Loved, that Hillary Duff song and Love Story by Taylor Swift (2007) and The Forgotten also sounds like part of Eternal Flame by The Bangles (1988) and Brokenpromiseland by Bon Jovi (2009) as they all have a similar ‘church bell’ melody. What can I say, every post seems to have more to it than it appears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvL3ibYD3aU#t=1m09s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1_IOW8rjE4#t=48s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrlEalV-dUM#t=54s
I think with the verse the instrumentals must just be a matter of the same chord progression, as All of Me by John Legend sounds similar in the piano part. I’d only count:
The Stranger (1977)
8675309/Jenny (1982)
Holiday (2004)
Radio Nowhere (2007)
Say Yeah (2009)
Sorry, I forgot Hold On (2000). For another Green Day similarity, St. Jimmy (2004) sounds kind of like Lascia ch’io Pianga (Allow Me to Weep) from Rinalda HWV 7a by Handel (1685-1759), but louder and faster, as has been the usual trend. For another Handel similarity, Maroon 5’s new song It Was Always You sounds like part of the finale from the Water Music, another part of It Was Always You probably sounds like a lot of songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJJnhp2CYnk#t=23s
Sorry, the Iggy Pop song isn’t called The Stranger, it’s The Passenger.
https://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2012/12/09/tommy-tutone-vs-bruce-springsteen/comment-page-1/#comment-5206
R.E.M. have a few songs with chord progressions like that, but one with a similar melody in parts is Stand (1988). The title line also sounds like La Bamba. While I’m on the subject, Maps & Legends (1985) also sounds kind of like Solitary Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNoZKegJHaU
And It’s Not Enough by Starship (1989).
And maybe the background music in the infomercial for the Shark Rotator.
http://www.sharkclean.com/rotator/exclusive-offer/