When a new song sounds too much like an old song, it bothers me. I had an old "Saturday Night Live" episode on this weekend, and the band Keane was playing. They were singing their song "Somewhere Only We Know" that has the refrain:
O simple thing
Where have you gone...
It was bothering me because it reminded me of a song I'd already heard enough times. Eventually I realized it was "Let 'Em In" by Wings. The part that goes:
Sister Suzie,
Brother John
Martin Luther,
Phil and Don...
Usually I tell people things like this, and they say I'm imagining it. Well, thanks to the internet, I can find that there are other people noticing such similarities. Here is a video that mixes the two songs. Exactly...same thing.
UPDATE: Oh, here are some lists people made of similar songs, guitar riffs stolen from other songs, etc.
UPDATE 2: Read this story!
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