Bands than sound like other bands.

[NancyJohnson]

Sitting listening to the BBC's Stereo Underground.  'No Time to be 21' by The Adverts comes on.

 

Wife goes, 'Is this Weezer?'. Inside I'm laughing, but at the same time I'm thinking, feck, Weezer sound just like this.

[Jackroadkill]

Low hanging fruit perhaps, but... Oasis?

[BassTractor]

Is this the generic "sounds just like ..." as in that it might be about sound in the strict sense but also about chord progressions, melody lines and the rest?

In that case, J-pop band Kanjani 8 have several songs that, whilst sounding nothing like Yes, do have compositional elements that make me go: no way they'd have done that without having listened to Yes.
J-pop.  I kid you not.

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Mmm... this could run and run .

Queensryche = iron maiden / Judas Priest . Airforce = Ac/DC  . 

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Helloween = iron maiden 

[Paul S]

James Taylor and the James Taylor Quartet.  They sound exactly the same.  Apart from the extra word 'quartet', of course. 

[TheGreek]

When Icehouse released "Hey, little girl" there were many people who thought it was Japan. 

[TheGreek]

...and who didn't think that "American Woman " by Guess Who was Led Zeppelin. 

[upside downer]

Call me crazy, but I always thought that the Rutles sounded a lot like the Beatles.

 

 

 

[ahpook]

Rush and Lush ?

 

 

[Lozz196]

13 minutes ago, upside downer said:

Call me crazy, but I always thought that the Rutles sounded a lot like the Beatles.

 

 

 

Ouch!

[Maude]

Not a band but a whole genre.

American Punk Pop that those into it think is super cool, sounds just like it could be the latest Busted release, which those into American Punk Pop would hate. 

[paul_5]

Greeta Van Fleet and Led Zeppelin. 

[Baloney Balderdash]

Ween sounds like a lot of bands (yet at the same time just like only they can sound), here respectively Motörhead and Pink Floyd :

 

Motörhead :

 

Pink Floyd :

 

 

 

I am also pretty sure they sound like some specific Country artist here, but not being very well versed in the Country genre I couldn't pinpoint exactly who:

 

Edited December 17, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[Barking Spiders]

All those US bands that came after grunge died which MTV used to show on rotation. All identikit clones Quite a few of them had 'three' or 'third' in their names All total ballcocks of course.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

5 hours ago, upside downer said:

Call me crazy, but I always thought that the Rutles sounded a lot like the Beatles.

 

 

 

Apparently The Rutles stole all their songs from Rutling Orange Peel...

[Cosmo Valdemar]

6 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

Low hanging fruit perhaps, but... Oasis?

I never thought they sounded particularly like any one band. Certainly not the Beatles.

To me Oasis sound like a load of Slade b-sides mixed up with some generic early-70s glam rock and stirred until a thick browny-grey porridge.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

2 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

 

 

Motörhead :

 

I never thought that song sounded like Motorhead, it's got a distinct Country jaunt to it, although I suppose the vocal delivery could.

 

These blokes however are clearly taking the absolute p.

 

 

[Paul S]

This thread reminds me of the old joke:

 

What's made of brass and sounds like Tom Jones?

 

Trombones.

[Delberthot]

I was on the way to a gig with our guitarist and he put this on. I didn't recognise it so I asked if it was John Meyer. His reply was "John Meyer wishes he was this good".

 

 

[Doctor J]

I remember reading a review of this album when it came out. They described it as "the best AC/DC album since Back In Black"

 

 

[Doctor J]

Kingdom Clone

 

 

[MacDaddy]

Any music released after the 90's sounds like something that was released before.

[SumOne]

Lowrider sound a lot like Kyuss, I think they'd take that as a compliment. Also Bongripper with Electric Wizard. 

[TheGreek]

Remember this album? Sounds like every 70s rock band.

 

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