Fuckin' shit! These songs are the same song!!

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Y'know at first I was like "oh, thought this was gonna be a christmas related post" but then I remembered my strongest memory of this song was hearing it playing on the radio of my brother's 1981 sky blue Chevy Malibu beater driving home from my aunt's place in the city after the Christmas Eve dinner my dad missed after over-imbibing the previous evening. It was a cold Christmas that year and the heat in the car didn't work, and my brother only sorta knew how to get home, and this song (as well as Soul Coughing's "Circles") added this bittersweet kind of vibe for whatever reason. When I got home I played Ocarina of Time.

hold on wait these are actually different songs

This sounds like The Field but it's from 1993

Not that it's a problem for me.

Sing the chorus to Joey by Concrete Blonde during the chorus of The Sweetness by Jimmy Eat World and you may be surprised. I know I was this morning when I listened to Joey. Next thing I know I’m in the shower screaming ‘I was spinning free, whooooooooa oh way oh’

Around the 1:30 mark, the melody is almost the exact same as Peep's verse in this...

This was another one that stunned me



I’m adding this vid as well because it’s nice to hear the genesis of things.

This is far from a fuckin shit level of similarity, but I am really enjoying the ways in which these three songs sound a like which isn't like entirely unrelated to that song in Three Amigos! where the horses sing imho





ps not entirely sure i picked the right Nilsson song, I think there are like a handful of them that fit this post like Open Your Window or Mr Richland's Favorite Song to name a couple.  I love Harry Nilsson and hope he's grooving it down in a heaven where there is lots of free booze and no hangovers and everybody loves you and lets you eat the extra hash browns for free.

Man I don’t know anything about keys or notes or music per say, but im just now hearing similarities here that got me like whoa

Carried Away by Television sounds like more than a few Springsteen songs, but maybe this one the most:  



or...



Maybe...



Edit, the more I think about it the more I think it doesn’t stop with Carried Away… I feel like Prove It (All Night) and Guiding Light have some echoes of the Boss.

Sorta hammered at a bar right now so can’t totally verify it atm but calm down by Taylor Swift is totally the same as Heartbeats by The Knife

Jeebus I don’t have the give a shit at the moment to look at liner notes, but I hope that Johnny 80s pop star from Dead or Alive got a paycheck for this one:

Man I dunno where my brain was at with that last post but I blame the whisky

Eurovision 2023 very Swedish heritage imho

These two but also probably like 5% of blues songs by singer-songwriter-traveling-piano-man-folk and probably at least one or two from waits during his pre-island days.

Edit:
Yeah, like this one: