====== ====== //Paranoid// -- Black Sabbath //Dazed and Confused// -- Led Zeppelin {{:paranoid-dazedconfused.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == The guitar at end of "Dazed and Confused." I'm not paranoid; this is a true soundalike, rip-off, leaves me dazed and confused at the Sab-audacity to go stealing so close to home ====== ====== //Erotic City// -- Prince //White Horse// -- Laid Back {{:eroticcity-whitehorse.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Again, the erotic-city, I mean, audac-city of stealing so close to home. ====== ====== //W.O.R.K// -- Bow Wow Wow //The Whistler// -- Jethro Tull {{:work-thewhistler.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Suite: Judy Blue Eyes// -- Crosby, Stills & Nash //Yummy Yummy Yummy// -- Ohio Express {{:suitejudyblueeyes-yummyyummyyummy.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Ohio Express is the earlier song, at least according to my Top 40 chart book. I have to keep reminding myself that stealing doesn't reflect badly on the stealer, and this theft holds my feet to that fire, because of the high regard in which I hold Stephen Stills ====== ====== //Everything's All Right// -- David Bowie, doing Mojos //Shake a Tailfeather// -- Five Du Tones {{:everythingsallright-shaketail.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Pillaging from r&b with a homage-y tipping of the hat is the world's second oldest profession ====== ====== //Waterfalls// -- TLC //It's Still Rock & Roll to Me// -- Billy Joel {{:waterfalls-itsstillrockandrolltome.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Doll Parts// -- Hole //Love Is a Stranger// -- Eurythmics {{:dollparts-loveisastranger.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Softer Softest// -- Hole //San Franciscan Nights// -- Eric Burdon {{:softersoftest-sanfranciscannights.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Smooth// -- Santana //No One Like You// -- Scorpions {{:smooth-noonelikeyou.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //I Wanna Sex You Up// -- Color Me Badd //Strawberry Letter 23// -- Brothers Johnson {{:iwannasexyouup-strawberryletter23.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == The Brothers Johnson version of the song not Shuggie Otis the writer's. (Until that record falls in my lap, my curiosity about Shuggie Otis is satisfied by, and my interest in is confined to, his playing on his father Johnny Otis's early '70s reworkings of '50s R& B classics with the original singers, which is great!) ====== ====== //Just the Way You Are// -- Billy Joel //You Are Too Beautiful// -- John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman == == Beginning of piano solo ====== ====== //Time// -- Supergrass (?) -- Cheap Trick == == Remarkable Cheap Trick soundalike ====== ====== //Don't Let Go// -- En Vogue //Heartbreaker// -- Pat Benatar {{:dontletgo-hearbreaker.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Fix bad file name: "Hearbreaker.mp3" to "Heartbreaker.mp3" ====== ====== //Don't Ease Me In (title?)// -- Grateful Dead //The Happening// -- The Supremes == == Dead: "Don't ease, don't ease, don't ease me in / I've been **[all night long comin' home]** / Don't ease me in" -- Supremes: "Hey life, look at me / I can see that we are two / 'Cos when you **[shook me, took me out of my world]** / I woke up, suddenly I just woke up / To the happening" ====== ====== //I'll Take You There// -- Staple Singers //Liquidator// -- Harry J's All Stars {{:illtakeyouthere-liquidator.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Can't Get Enough// -- Bad Company //Natural Born Woman// -- Humble Pie {{:cantgetenough-naturalbornwoman.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Badge// -- Cream //I Need a Man to Love// -- Big Brother & the Holding Company {{:badge-ineedamantolove.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Smooth// -- Santana //Mercy Mercy Mercy// -- Buckinghams {{:smooth-mercymercymercy.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == I know, the melody's not quite the same, but, christ, the WORDS are essentially the same, and the melody's close enough ====== ====== //Fable of a Failed Race// -- Hawkwind //I'm Not in Love// -- 10cc {{:fableofafailedrose-imnotinlove.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Can't Smile Without You// -- Barry Manilow //Candy Man// -- Sammy Davis, Jr. {{:cantsmilewithoutyou-candyman.mp3|play soundalike cli p}} == == The bridge of "Can't Smile Without You" ====== ====== //Changes// -- Gordon Lightfoot (written by Phil Ochs) //Sealed with a Kiss// -- Bobby Vinton (original by Brian Hyland) {{:changes-sealedwithakiss.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == I only have Bobby Vinton's 1970s version of Sealed, and I don't have the Phil Ochs version of Changes ====== ====== //Come Dancin'// -- Kinks //Long Live Love// -- Sandie Shaw {{:comedancin-longlivelove.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== Gene McDaniels subarea ====== Note to songwriters: apparently, don't listen to Gene McDaniels anywhere near the time you're planning to write something. //(title?)// -- Traveling Wilburys //Planet Queen// -- T-Rex ---- //Life's a Gas// -- T-Rex //Hundred Pounds of Clay// -- Gene McDaniels {{:lifesagas-ahundredpoundsofclay.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ---- //Aint Too Proud to Beg// -- Temptations //Tower of Strength// -- Gene McDaniels {{:ainttooproudtobeg-towerofstrength.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ---- //Careless Whisper// -- Wham //Tower of Strength// -- Gene McDaniels {{:carelesswhisper-towerofstrength.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Trombone part in Tower, right after chorus -- I shouldn't be implying here that Gene McDaniels wrote either Hundred or Tower -- he didn't, but later he did write well-known songs. For extra credit, he wrote "Compared to What?" and Roberta Flack's (not Bad Company's) "Feel Like Makin' Love" -- yee ha. ====== Leaving Gene McDaniels subarea, returning to regular soundalikes . . . ====== //Make Me Your Baby// -- Barbara Lewis //Downtown// -- Petula Clark {{:makemeyourbaby-downtown.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == This may be a lead-in soundalike ====== ====== //Frankenstein// -- Edgar Winter Group //Hocus Pocus// -- Focus {{:frankenstein-hocuspocus.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //No Surrender// -- Bruce Springsteen //Harmony Constant// -- Mike Nesmith {{:nosurrender-harmonyconstant.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Wichita Lineman// -- Glen Campbell //Nights in White Satin// -- Moody Blues {{:wichitalineman-nightsinwhitesatin.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == String section ====== ====== //There Is a Light That Never Goes Out// -- The Smiths //The Voice// -- Moody Blues {{:thereisalightthatnevergoesout-thevoice.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Burn the Flames// -- Roky Erickson //Flaming Youth// -- Kiss {{:burntheflames-flamingyouth.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Sound clip has a full verse of Burn, just cause it's amazing ====== ====== //The Tourist// -- Radiohead //The Man with the Child in His Eyes// -- Kate Bush {{:thetourist-themanwiththechildinhiseyes.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //The New Pollution// -- Beck That Beatles (Harrison) song that goes "we were talking ... about the space between us all" -- Beatles ====== ====== //Young Splendor// -- Pond, first song on album That Beatles (Harrison) song that goes "we were talking ... about the space between us all" -- Beatles ====== ====== //Material Girl// -- Madonna //You Should Hear How She Talks about You// -- Melissa Manchester ====== ====== //I Looked Away// -- Derek & The Dominoes //Everlasting Love// -- Carl Carlton (original by Frederick Knight) {{:ilookedaway-everlastinglove.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == I only have the 1970s Carl Carlton version ====== ====== //Disgracing the Family Name// -- Skafish //Birthday// -- Beatles {{:disgracingthefamilyname-birthday.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == This is a perfect example of why not to get too bent out of shape about rip-offs -- I mean it's not like Skafish "profited" much by ripping off those poor Beatles ====== ====== //Heat of the Moment// -- Asia //Video Killed the Radio Star// -- Buggles {{:heatofthemoment-videokilledtheradiostar.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Christmas Camel// -- Procol Harum //Ballad of a Thin Man// -- Bob Dylan {{:christmascamel-balladofathinman.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Lido Shuffle// -- Boz Scaggs //Kaleidoscope// -- Procol Harum {{:lidoshuffle-kaleidoscope.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == "Lido Shuffle" organ surge ====== ====== //Let It Loose// -- Rolling Stones (Exile) //Handbags and Gladrags// -- Rod Stewart {{:letitloose-handbagsandgladrags.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Piano part ====== ====== //Possession// -- Sarah McLachlan //Take My Breath Away// -- Berlin ====== ====== //All I Want to Do// -- Cheryl Crow //Stuck in the Middle with You// -- Stealer's Wheel ====== ====== //Breakfast at Tiffany's// -- Deep Blue Something //All Along the Watchtower// -- Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendix ====== ====== //Champagne Supernova// -- Oasis (?) -- (?) == == Harmonica part ====== ====== //Champagne Supernova// -- Oasis (?) -- Rod Stewart == == Guitar part before last verse, after big crescendo ====== ====== //Here Comes a Regular// -- Replacements //Helpless// -- Neil Young ====== ====== //Here Comes a Regular// -- Replacements //Knockin' on Heaven's Door// -- Bob Dylan ====== ====== //Interstate Love Song// -- Stone Temple Pilots //I Got a Name// -- Jim Croce == == Descending thing ====== ====== //Jane Says// -- Jane's Addiction //Many is a man, oft-times leaves me guessin'// -- Led Zeppelin ====== ====== //Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart// -- Stone Temple Pilots //How Soon Is Now// -- Smiths ====== ====== //Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart// -- Stone Temple Pilots //Dancin' Days// -- Led Zeppelin ====== ====== //Ride the Cliche// -- Stone Temple Pilots //Tiny Dancer// -- Elton John ====== ====== //Mother Russia// -- Renaissance //Hang 'Em High// -- Booker T. & The MGs {{:motherrussia-hangemhigh.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Hang 'Em High// -- Booker T. & The MGs //Exodus// -- Percy Faith {{:hangemhigh-exodus.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Hang is the theme to some Clint Eastwood movie. I can't tell if it's actually different from Exodus, but whatever ====== ====== //Telstar// -- Tornadoes //White Christmas// -- Darlene Love {{:telstar-whitechristmas.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == I don't have the Bing Crosby version of White Christmas. Do you? ====== ====== //(title?)// -- Paula Cole (Dawson's Creek theme song) //(title?)// -- Don Henley == == Paula Cole: "I don't want to wait / For our lives to be over" Don Henley: "Even if, even if / You don't love me any more" == == This I think is a lead-in soundalike, where the Paula Cole leads in to that part of the Don Henley song. ====== ====== "Do you have the time, to listen to me whine" -- Green Day "And everything she wants costs money" -- The Smiths ====== ====== //Here Come Those Tears Again// -- Jackson Browne //Tequila Sunrise// -- Eagles ====== ====== //Focus II// -- Focus, from Moving Waves //Pomp and Circumstance// -- Elgar ====== ====== //Hurting Each Other// -- Carpenters //You've Lost That Loving Feeling// -- Righteous Brothers ====== ====== //Busy Bodies// -- Elvis Costello //I Got the Blues// -- Rolling Stones ====== ====== //Listening to Old Voices// -- John Hiatt //Screams// -- Blue Oyster Cult ====== ====== //Waitress in the Sky// -- Replacements //Mountain of Love// -- Harold Dorman ====== ====== //I Only Want to Be with You// -- Dusty Springfield //It Was I// -- Skip & Flip ====== ====== //Bad Weather// -- Poco //Gasoline Alley// -- Rod Stewart == == Guitar sound ====== ====== //Plastic Fantastic Lover// -- Jefferson Airplane //Bummer in the Summer// -- Love == == ... and, both their titles are rhymingly alliterative ====== ====== //It's All Too Much// -- George Harrison //Family of Man// -- Three Dog Night ====== ====== //Selfish One// -- Jackie Ross //Tenderly// -- the standard ====== ====== //What Am I Crying For?// -- Classics IV //Little Green Apples// -- O. C. Smith ====== ====== //Rock & Roll Junkie// -- Motley Crue //Shake Your Body// -- Jacksons ====== ====== //Knockin' on Heaven's Door// -- Bob Dylan //Keep Your Eyes on the Sparrow// -- Jimmy Cliff ====== ====== //You Can't Always Get What You Want// -- Rolling Stones //Feelin' Alright// -- Traffic == == Piano part? ====== ====== //Middle of the Road// -- Pretenders //Living in the U.S.A.// -- Steve Miller {{:middleofroad-livingusa.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == I think this is an "enjambment," or lead-in sound-alike ====== ====== //Twilight Zone// -- Golden Earring //Another Brick in the Wall// -- Pink Floyd ====== ====== //Riot in Room C// -- Knock-Outs //Rebel Rouser// -- Duane Eddy {{:riotinroom3c-rebelrouser.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Running Bear// -- Johnny Preston //Rebel Rouser// -- Duane Eddy {{:runningbear-rebelrouser.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Over at the Frankenstein Place// -- //Rocky Horror Picture Show// Soundtrack //Massachusetts// -- Bee Gees ====== ====== //Puppets// -- Depeche Mode //(I Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman// -- Kinks {{:puppets-wishicouldflylikesuperman.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Don't Go// -- Yaz //No Disco// -- Depeche Mode {{:dontgo-nodisco.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ====== ====== //Bring Your Love Down (Didn't I)// -- Yaz //No Disco// -- Depeche Mode {{:bringyourlovedown-nodisco.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Also in Covers, Self-covers: Rewrites and retreads ====== ====== //Valley of the Dolls// -- Generation X //Rebel Rebel// -- David Bowie ====== ====== //Goodbye Blue Sky// -- Pink Floyd (//The Wall//) //Ruby Tuesday// -- Rolling Stones ====== ====== //Racing in the Street// -- Bruce Springsteen //Then He Kissed Me// -- Crystals {{:RacingInTheStreet-ThenHeKissedMe.MP3|play soundalike clip}} == == Keyboard part of Racing. Racing also has "Geronimo's Cadillac" ====== Songs that quote the Beatles' "Taxman" ====== //Start// -- The Jam //Quicksilver Girl// -- Steve Miller Band //Taxman, Mr. Thief// -- Cheap Trick ====== Rewrites of the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" ====== //It's Only Rock and Roll// -- Rolling Stones //Livin' Lovin' Maid// -- Led Zeppelin //Dime a Dance Romance// -- Steve Miller Band == == Livin' in the U.S.A. album (or whatever its original title was) also has a Dylan imitating song -- homage sound-alikes must be a theme of the album. "Space Cowboy" (on Brave New World) copies the lyrical form of that Beatles or Lennon song that goes "I told you 'bout Strawberry Fields / You know the place where nothin' is real." ====== Quotes "Jumpin' Jack Flash" ====== //Lose to Live// -- Strawberry Alarm Clock ======= Soundalike artists ======= Axl Rose (Guns n' Roses) sounds like Dan McCafferty of Nazareth -- example is "Broken Down Angel" from Razamanaz. This is interesting because Gn'R is critically well regarded by non-metal people (like Rolling Stone and other critic types), whereas Nazareth is dogmeat. I've always heard that Klaatu sounds like the Beatles, but "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" (covered by the Carpenters, I have it incidentally), doesn't sound like the Beatles. Now that I own the Klaatu record, I know why the people who said that said that: "Sub-Rosa Subway" and others. //Be Good to Yourself// -- Frankie Miller Sounds like Bad Company or Free, that is, Paul Rodgers //Saturday Night beneath the Plastic Palms// -- Leyton Buzzards Sounds like Ian Hunter imitating the Kinks //Have I the Right// -- Honeycombs Is the singer imitating Neil Sedaka? //Something's Wrong with Me// -- Austin Roberts Like David Cassidy singing a Barry Manilow song Is there a similarity between Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac's "Storms") and Emmylou Harris? "Minstrel Rap," Straw Dogs, from the weird Skin Talk compilation I have is a remarkable copy of XTC (with Colin Moulding singing). Other soundalikes on the record, Spandau Ballet ======= The Frank Zappa guitar sound when he solos======= Frank Zappa's solo guitar playing is very distinctive //Hot Stuff// -- Rolling Stones == == Various songs by Grand Funk -- on the album produced by Frank Zappa. Zappa plays on one track, but even other songs do too, so whoever played lead guitar for Grand Funk on that record played like Frank Zappa. As a producer Frank Zappa's knowing how get that guitar sound only partly explains it ======= Elvis sound-alikes ======= //Suspicion// -- Terry Stafford //Tragedy// -- Thomas Wayne //Take Out Some Insurance Baby// -- Tony Sheridan (!) ======= Keyboard parts that go like this ======= //Confusion// -- New Order //AEIOU Sometimes Y// -- Ebn Ozn //AEIOU// -- Freez //Remember What You Like// -- Jenny Burton == == {{:chapters:iou_keyb_rhythm.mp3|}} ======= Songs with that weird keyboard sound ======= //Point of No Return// -- Nu Shooz //Feels Like I'm in Love// -- Kelly Marie == == From Soul Classics CD; also uses video game firing shots ======= Things that the group Pulp sounds like ======= Boomtown Rats, Animals-era Pink Floyd, "Twilight Zone" Golden Earring ======= "Lay It Down" by the Replacements sounds like Aerosmith =======