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matt72582
08-17-23, 04:40 PM
I first thought "Stuck In The Middle With You" was Bob Dylan. But it's Stealers Wheel (Gerry Raferty went on to write "Baker Street") who have better songs anyway.

I was talking to some friends last week and Santana came up, and I realized I needed to check out the discography and first off, I'll say "Caravanserai" is his best album, easily.

At the beginning, I thought, "Maybe he guested as a favor, especially since Phil Collins was hot" - which might be a reason to sound like him :)

How Long
https://youtu.be/3BnGv_hTkP8
cricket
08-17-23, 05:33 PM
A long time ago I thought 96 Tears was early Rolling Stones

https://youtu.be/bOCOMYGIfUQ
GulfportDoc
08-17-23, 08:18 PM
I have a few, if I could only think of them...:D

However, IMO, contemporary "country" music all sounds about the same, like it was all written by the same computer program or AI source. I was always a traditional country fan (Hank, Sr. up to George Jones), but now I regret walking into a travel stop restroom to have to hear the modern country stuff droning on, one song about the same as the next...:rolleyes:
ScannerDarkly
08-18-23, 02:18 AM
Billy Joel - You May Be Right... Sounds like Mick Jagger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo9t5XK0FhA

Tame Impala - Elephant.. Sounds like Lennon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKUD_OztRE
Torgo
08-18-23, 10:55 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdVFSTkskw0
Elvis Costello, anybody?
Holden Pike
08-18-23, 11:21 AM
Back in the pre-internet days it took me a while to track down the song "Dirty Work", because when I heard it on the radio I kept missing the artist and it sounded more like a Todd Rundgren record to me than Steely Dan. The sound I more identified with them was from their later albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrE_cDvcgJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCwpLfivEU
Holden Pike
08-18-23, 11:26 AM
Sometimes a band dabbling in a genre that is not their norm obviously makes identifying them difficult. I mean, when The Grateful Dead got on the Disco bandwagon for a hot minute...it sure didn't sound like a Dead track. By design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lCMUkqpI7o
Austruck
08-18-23, 11:36 AM
This ridiculous wannabe ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4

... is clearly trying to steal the style of the great Bob Dylan! I'm seriously offended!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0
matt72582
08-18-23, 02:46 PM
That was the first Steely Dan song I heard, so it was really interesting to what I was to hear later. The only band I saw four times (Fager and Becker).. I even had a band that played mostly Steely Dan (22 out of 30 songs) at a concert downtown. We didn't play or consider "Perfect Day". Since Palmer sang it on record, they always had the back-up singers do it live.
KeyserCorleone
08-18-23, 02:49 PM
Not Led Zeppelin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5U1VgV7puw
matt72582
08-18-23, 03:19 PM
Not Led Zeppelin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5U1VgV7puw


I thought he came closest (along with Heart) with the sound.. Vocal, guitar riffs/tone, but even the drum sound. Same bass drum and snare sound. Heart's "Barracuda" is a single version of Led Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand" and they finally admitted this. Even the drum rolls (and even the changes) are a note-for-note duplication.
dadgumblah
08-20-23, 03:52 AM
The first time I heard this, I had never heard of the film Eddie and the Cruisers, so when this came on the radio I thought it sound just like Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band. Same voice...hell, it even has a Clarence Clemons-like sax solo in it. Not Bruce but still good rock!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgIsyoxZ7Uw
Austruck
08-21-23, 12:14 AM
The first time I heard this, I had never heard of the film Eddie and the Cruisers, so when this came on the radio I thought it sound just like Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band. Same voice...hell, it even has a Clarence Clemons-like sax solo in it. Not Bruce but still good rock!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgIsyoxZ7Uw

I remember watching the movie waaaaay back when it came out and thinking it was a story kinda borrowing the Springsteen vibe to get viewers. I don't recall it being a BAD movie, though. Then again, I was... younger. ;) (It's from 1983.)
dadgumblah
08-21-23, 02:26 AM
I remember watching the movie waaaaay back when it came out and thinking it was a story kinda borrowing the Springsteen vibe to get viewers. I don't recall it being a BAD movie, though. Then again, I was... younger. ;) (It's from 1983.)

No, it's a good movie. I liked it a lot. This song was a case of DJs not saying who played what songs they had just spun for the previous half hour or so, thereby frustrating me to no end!