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Post by Platypus on Apr 8, 2015 14:33:49 GMT
Helmut's comment in the New Wilbury topic, about Shakira plagiarizing Eternal Flame, made me think that as we've had other
"sounds like" topics, maybe we know of or can find some songs that sound like other songs.
I'm not thinking of looking for plagiarism, or sampling, but just with the limit of possibilities to melodies and chord
progressions that some songs or parts of songs become similar.
That was Jeff's take on the situation with Sam Smith and Stay With Me - outside the court he said "It's a co-incidence"
even though Sam's legal team offered the settlement of royalties and credits.
See if you think this comparison illustrates it - I think parts of Jeff & Tom Petty's superb Blown Away (1990) are
reminiscent of parts of Love is All from Roger Glover's The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1974)
* Note some comments by Helmut if you go to Youtube
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Post by Platypus on Apr 8, 2015 14:36:13 GMT
Anyway, to my first offering of similarity, and it's a 3 way - Alan Parsons Project's Don't Let it Show (1977), Orchard
Road performed by Leo Sayer (1983), and a Christian Worship song written by Noel Richards (1985). Can't find an actual
performance by him.
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Post by Buttler on Apr 9, 2015 10:36:32 GMT
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Post by Chippa on Apr 9, 2015 21:30:35 GMT
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Post by Helmut83 on Apr 9, 2015 23:16:52 GMT
Platypus, where do you find a similarity between "Blown away" and "Love is all"? Is the chord progression similar maybe? because in the melody, I can't find any similarity. The one of Oasis vs. Greenday is a very well known case. The chords are the same.
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Post by Helmut83 on Apr 9, 2015 23:21:17 GMT
Here I go with one, based mainly on the chords progression, although it's a very common one and the melody doesn't have much to do really:
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Post by BSJ on Apr 9, 2015 23:37:23 GMT
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Post by Helmut83 on Apr 10, 2015 0:02:54 GMT
Kind of, although I suspect a Jamaican would jump to your throat if you dared to label those to songs as reggae.
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Post by BSJ on Apr 10, 2015 0:16:41 GMT
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Post by Platypus on Apr 18, 2015 6:14:56 GMT
Platypus, where do you find a similarity between "Blown away" and "Love is all"? Is the chord progression similar maybe? because in the melody, I can't find any similarity. The one of Oasis vs. Greenday is a very well known case. The chords are the same. Yes, the chord sequence rising from the Tonic that Love is All is built on is used in the "blown away" and "I should have known" lines of Blown Away (as well as other things too of course, including the equivalent in the Minor in Rick Wakeman's "The Battle" from Journey to the Centre of the Earth.)
Love is All is an old favourite of mine, which I tried to play in my youth, whereas Armchair Theatre is a rather recent discovery (ha ha) to me, having found no reason to audition it when it appeared. Blown Away immediately made me think of Love is All.
There's really no overlap melodically, you could possibly propose a tiny coincidence, but I do notice a little in some small production techniques, like the quiet ensemble backing vocals that pop into Blown Away at 0:32 - 39 and 1:19 - 27, more often in Love is All, but compare say from 2:13.
Overall, to me it's a "feel" that is triggered by the chord sequence.
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Post by Chippa on May 30, 2015 20:40:52 GMT
I heard a song by Three Dog Night called "Shambala", on the radio today, and the opening chords immediately reminded me of "Handle With Care" by the Wilburys.
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Post by Platypus on May 31, 2015 5:41:45 GMT
I think you're right! How about a bit of a Werewolves of London vibe too in the funny little bridge/chorus bits?
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Post by Platypus on May 31, 2015 6:29:33 GMT
And here's one I've just noticed, the Quick & the Daft didn't get onto OOTB (1977) just the 2007 re-release, melody sounds reminiscent of part of Split Enz's Hope I Never (1980) 1:08
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Post by 88keys on Jun 26, 2015 0:16:25 GMT
ELO's Illusions In G Major bears some similarity to Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting.
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Post by Platypus on Jun 28, 2015 12:53:41 GMT
Yes, guitar riff particularly.
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, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?