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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital_Man View Post
    Love is like Oxygen-Sweet sounds like ELO.
    Not to me. It does sound like 10cc, though.

    Quote Originally Posted by klothos View Post
    "Magic" by Pilot also sounds like ELO
    Again, not to me. Maybe Badfinger.

    Quote Originally Posted by Digital_Man View Post
    I've heard people say that it sounds like Todd Rundgren and I agree.
    I also agree. That was my first thought on hearing it. I used to see Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too in clearance CD bins all the time and considered buying it on the strength of the single, one of the rare listenable hits of the 90s. I guess I’m glad I didn’t bother, considering how two listeners have claimed the rest of the album sucks. Trivia time: backing vocals on the album are from ex-child star Danielle Brisebois (who also has at least one solo album to her credit).

    Back on the subject, for years I thought “Baby Come Back” by Player was actually a Hall & Oates song.
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    In My Own Time by the Bee Gees = Beatles
    Clumbidextrous by Sad Cafe = Kayak

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    When I was kid I thought LRB's Lonesome Loser was a Kansas song.
    I live in an ephemeral eternity

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    Listening to Rare Bird’s Born Again album, which contains “Last Tango in Beulah,” which I always thought sounded like Supertramp. It must be all the different kinds of pianos/keyboards on it.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Fantastic Progo Rican View Post
    When I was kid I thought LRB's Lonesome Loser was a Kansas song.
    They were one of those musical chameleons, in which many of their songs sounded like other bands. I’d put America in that category, too:

    “A Horse With No Name” = Neil Young
    “Sister Golden Hair” = George Harrison
    “Ventura Highway” = Eagles
    etc. etc.
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    The first time I heard both of these songs I thought it was Dylan.

    At The Crossroads - Mott (and Hunter never sounded like that again after the debut Escher cover album)

    Sultans - Dire Knopfler (who I still think sounds a lot like younger Dylan, only MK has better pitch)
    "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital_Man View Post
    Styx- Mr Roboto sounds a bit like Queen.
    yup...an't really mistake the vocals, but it soub-nds like it could've been the flipside of Radio Gaga

    Quote Originally Posted by Dave (in MA) View Post
    • The Disraeli Gears recording sessions took place in May, 1967.
    • The eponymous Procol Harum was recorded during June.
    • The two songs don't sound all that similar.
    notto most people's ears, I would say

    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Oh yea, good point. Silly me! BUT to me the listener they still sound and feel similar.
    Fair enough, I guess

    Quote Originally Posted by The Fantastic Progo Rican View Post
    When I was kid I thought LRB's Lonesome Loser was a Kansas song.
    could've bgeen done by any number of AOR bands, AFAIAC
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    Not to me. It does sound like 10cc, though.

    As I noted in post #15.

    Glad someone else agrees with me on this.
    And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post

    Trivia time: backing vocals on the album are from ex-child star Danielle Brisebois (who also has at least one solo album to her credit).
    She was a child star? I remember a clip of a really nice song, with some cool chords, being played live in the movie 'As Good As It Gets', and I researched and found it was 'My Only' by Danielle Brisebois, and I sought her out and found nothing on her album sounded anything like 'My Only' unfortunately, and that she didn't even write 'My Only' but has written a lot of pop songs for pop artists like Kelly Clarkson and Natasha Bedingfield.

    'Needle And A Knife' by 'Tennis' starts off sounding just like 'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon. The 'Tennis' song turns out much, much better, but the opening vocal melody...

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    Steve Miller's - Livin' In The USA sounds like...........?

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    Queen's "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" might be mistaken for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, by those who don't know either act.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fracktured View Post
    The Hollies Long Cool Woman sounds like CCR.
    I thought that was the radio song of the summer it was released. I still haven't gotten tired of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by davis View Post
    I thought that was the radio song of the summer it was released. I still haven't gotten tired of it.
    It was the Hollies' attempt -and a quite successful one - to shed the slightly twee bubblegumish image they had acquired, following the departure of Graham Nash. Oddly, I think Nash's old band and his new one both benefited from his transfer.

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    Queensryche "Silent Lucidity" Sounds like it was taken right off a Division Bell era, Pink Floyd recording.
    Of course, not being of the daily persuasion in this opinion laden public prog bathhouse, my diatribe of recent lucubration is perhaps as welcome as a rats teat. One often is forced to weigh the desire to flash judgment within against the effort required as well as the value this knowledge will be to the greater good of all mankind or whatever inhabits the current spa. At best, its a slippery slope.

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    Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" always sounded like Ozzy to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dang View Post
    Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" always sounded like Ozzy to me.

    and totally un-Nuge-like as well
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bill g View Post
    She was a child star?
    She started her career on Archie Bunker’s Place. She actually sang a song on one episode, as I recall.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calabasas_Trafalgar View Post
    In My Own Time by the Bee Gees = Beatles
    Many early Bee Gees songs sounded like Beatles-lite. There’s also “Odessa (City on the Black Sea),” which is more Moody Blues.
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    Oh yes, here's one:

    The first song I heard from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers was "Here Comes My Girl", and I honestly thought it was the Rolling Stones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dang View Post
    Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" always sounded like Ozzy to me.
    The MP3 is my entire Nugent collection. I don't hear anything remotely Ozzy-sounding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by progeezer View Post
    The first time I heard both of these songs I thought it was Dylan.

    At The Crossroads - Mott (and Hunter never sounded like that again after the debut Escher cover album)

    Sultans - Dire Knopfler (who I still think sounds a lot like younger Dylan, only MK has better pitch)
    Same here for both. It was Mott's version of "At the Crossroads" that got me to explore the Sir Douglas Quintet (Doug Sahm wrote the song) and I've been a rabid fan ever since.
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    When I first heard The Doors' 'Hello I Love You' I thought it was The Kinks...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    Again, not to me. Maybe Badfinger..
    Hmmm...I can see that

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    Quote Originally Posted by yoyiceu View Post
    When I first heard The Doors' 'Hello I Love You' I thought it was The Kinks...
    I see what you did there...
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    Quote Originally Posted by yoyiceu View Post
    When I first heard The Doors' 'Hello I Love You' I thought it was The Kinks...
    I thought the same about Blur's "Charmless Man".

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