Live It Up (Part 1 & 2)

Gimme All Your Lovin'

Not very subtle, but the new single by The Coral sounds so familiar and I could have sworn I'd heard it before, when I heard it for the first time.
Bruce Springsteen's Radio Nowhere is another one, sadly I have no examples to back up my cases. A poor effort, the heat and greenfly have got to me.

.. "Tailights Fade" lodged firmly in my brain the first time I heard it almost 20 years ago.It was new to me but at the same time naggingly familiar.Then,a few months ago,was driving the sprog home from school and was prompted to switch to R2 due to "Moeybox Live" being on.(got no money y'see). Steve Wright's non-stop golden oldies included REO Speedwagon's "Take it on the Run". The penny dropped.

Then I realised the bass riff from Steady As She Goes by the The Raconteurs is the same as the one in Is She Really Going Out With Him? by Joe Jackson. It is, isn't it?

when I first listened to the best of Steely Dan. It's the guitar bit, I don't know how to describe it but I can hear something similar

"The Fez"

George Michael "Careless Whisper"

... I can't sing along to The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" without trying to sound like Neil Diamond. Try it - go deep and gravelly/slightly nasal (and that might be the link) - "It's a bittah sweet SIM-phonee...

he sounds even more like Neil Diamond.

My work here is done.

it sounds even better with the soul train dancers:

Is identical to the theme from Grandstand.

Happens all the time. The bridge in "Creep" bugged me for a while until I realised it was "the air that I breathe". Didn't they come to some arrangement about that?

Likewise, "Beautiful Day" stands on its own as a song now, but the first time I heard it I could only think of "the sun always shines on TV".

Oh, and the Decemberists' "when the war came" always makes me think of "No Quarter".

Sorry not be be more specific. And just the opening 4 seconds of Fame Is, mind.

http://open.spotify.com/track/4PUJLPpfYIJCeolM1gURqJ

Actually, I just Spotified Squeeze's greatest hits, and couldn't find anything like it. So maybe, it's even more subtle and sounds like something Squeeze could have written?

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