VEGANGELICA

Capital Cities' "Safe and Sound" sounds suspiciously like MGMT's "Kids" to me.

They share satisfyingly low gritty notes, my favorite part in both songs. Also, both songs are sung by a male duo and even their style of singing sounds similar. Finally, the songs have almost the exact same tempo.

I like MGMT's song, so it isn't a surprise to me that I now also like Capital Cities' "Safe and Sound," which is my current song addiction after hearing it for the first time on the radio yesterday.


Capital Cities - Safe and Sound (Original) - YouTube


MGMT "Kids" Video - YouTube

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technokidz

hahaha some songs are just a mindopener to how similar a lot of music are

sopsych

I have both songs on CD and have known them for years, but I didn't make the connection until today. The blended androgynous-sounding chorus and the backing guitar riff. Pretty shameless of Slaughter to release its song as a single in the same genre only 6 years later.

Lita Ford - Gotta Let Go - YouTube

Slaughter - mad about you - YouTube
And apparently they're playing a show together in a few weeks! And have done that before.

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Isbjørn

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this:



and



Also, they're both pop-punk bands, they both get picked on for not being "real punk" (though I'd say Jawbreaker is far more punk than Green Day), their lead singers both have a unique voice (but in different ways), they both formed in the 80s and gained popularity in the 90s, and they're both from the US.

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sidewinder

Holy **** Green Day, you're not punk and I'm telling everyone!

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anathematized_one

Neil Young - "There's a World" and the "Chronos Boss" theme from Chrono Trigger.

However, I always felt like that track by Neil Young was odd sounding in comparison to not only all of his other material, but even the other material on Harvest.

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SpunkPillar

Holy ****, you're right! Brilliant observation....absolutely love Neil Young and the music from that game but I neve put them together, heh.

The one I always notice (perhaps this has been mentioned up thread) is a three-fer: Jethro Tull - We Used to Know, Rolling Stones - Angie and Eagles - Hotel California. Though I think Angie and Hotel C. were each independently ripped off of the Tull song...

Isbjørn

At least not anymore. Their early recordings were punk, or maybe pop punk. Then they started playing some kind of distorted alternative rock. American Idiot was an attempt at going back to the punk days, at which they failed. Epically.
Still, I think they are alright, and I don't give a deep fried damn if they're punk or not.

Oh, and Green Day, swearing does not make a song "more" punk.

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anathematized_one

Yeah, I love it when songs that sound similar in that way are so removed from one-another from an interest perspective that almost nobody ever knows it or would be the last place you would expect it to happen.

I mean, you more expect it to happen with two songs of the same or similar genres.

Another one is the "Imperial March" from the original Star Wars being extremely similar, at least to me, to certain parts of the first two movements of Gustav Mahler's second symphony.



Start at 3:50. That theme gets repeated later at 5:30, then 6:05, and continues to dip into it through the first two movements and the fourth movement.

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sidewinder

I don't give a damn either, I liked their earlier work and they're just not for me anymore. But more importantly, I think you may have missed the fact that I was just throwing out a line from the Jawbreaker song.

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