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Started 4 years ago by carroll13
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OK, so, remakes are being covered in another thread, and Stanley mentioned Alright With The Boys by the Glitter Band.
The first time I heard that song, the main riff instantly reminded me of a later song that quite obviously took the main riff of the chorus, and used it to a very different effect.
So I was thinking that might make an interesting thread, Glam songs that borrow riffs, themes, and basic melodic ideas from earlier songs, and post-Glam songs that borrow Glam ideas.
Here's a few:

Bela Lugosi's Dead-Bauhaus >Alright With The Boys-Glitter Band
Panic-The Smiths >Metal Guru-T. Rex
Get It On-T.Rex >Little Queenie-Chuck Berry
Starman-David Bowie >Somewhere Over The Rainbow-Judy Garland
Sharp Teeth, Pretty Teeth-Specimen >20th Century Boy-T. Rex
On With The Show-Motley Crue >All The Young Dudes-Mott The Hoople/David Bowie
Liar-Sex Pistols >Puss In Boots-New York Dolls

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Motley Crue-Kickstart My Heart-Hellraiser-Sweet!!! as mentioned somewhere else on here.

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There was a song by David Bowie "Jean Genie" that sounded like a song by the Sweet...I think "Blockbuster"...but Charlotte will know. I'm getting old.

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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ah yes...Jean Genie...i forgot about that...RCA's double releases...Sweet recorded in November and released in January...whereas Bowie recorded and released in December...there was also another song that used the riff...the riff was originally from The Yardbird's recording of Bo Diddely's 'I'm A Man'.

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"Jean Genie" may have had the riff...but thankfully sounded nothing like the Sweet. David Bowie was very glam but as for singing, couldn't shine the Sweet boys' shoes.

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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to be honest...i have always found Bowie to be talented...but truly a kiss ass...trying to assume the throne of the glam kingdom...when it so rightly belonged to Marc Bolan...there were a few other glam identities on the scene before him.

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I didn't mean to imply that David Bowie wasn't talented. He's very talented. But isn't as gifted as others

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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Keep You're Frilly Leather Skirt On! i never said you said that...i was making my own separate statement!

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Devil Gate Drive-Suzi Quatro/Beautiful People-Marilyn Manson

Train Tracks-Izzy Stradlin & The Ju Ju Hounds/Kicking My Heart Around-Black Crowes

DRINKING FIFTHS STRAIGHT FROM THE JACK BOTTLE DO I LOOK LIKE A MOTHERFUCKING ROLE MODEL

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*Devil Gate Drive-Suzi Quatro/Beautiful People-Marilyn Manson*

Oh wow! I'm not terribly familiar with Suzi, but I just looked it up on Youtube, and totally...that beat.
Works with Disposable Teens and Rock Is Dead too.

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it occurred to me today...that i had missed something from this post...from the moment i first heard..Heartbreak Today by Sweet...i knew the opening riff...and when i can sing Alice Cooper to it, without bending any vocals...part of the intro to Heartbreak Today is School's Out...the "no more" sections.

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i was going to upload the mp3...but my computer hates me, so it isn't happening.

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Poison's Unskinny Bop intro is similar to Take That's Shine...and i did have one that sounded like Queen's We Will Rock You....but i'll have to get back to you on that one..because i forgot it...so i'll trawl through my iPod and find out what it was.

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Aniseed, there's a part in Warrants' "Cherry Pie" that sounds like the intro of "We Will Rock You"....actually it is....they sampled it

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yeah...that could very much be it..since it is one of the songs i recently downloaded for Silver Stream (yes..i named my iPod..that's actually it's 2nd name, and i'm thinking of chaning it again)

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"Aniseed, there's a part in Warrants' "Cherry Pie" that sounds like the intro of "We Will Rock You"....actually it is....they sampled it"
- glamster

"Cherry Pie" has a sample from another Warrant song, too. "D.R.F.S.R." has the same chant at the beginning (minus the last word).

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"Aniseed, there's a part in Warrants' "Cherry Pie" that sounds like the intro of "We Will Rock You"....actually it is....they sampled it"- glamster

Yup...listened through my new tracks...it is Cherry Pie...i wouldn't mind, it's one of the tracks i most listened too, so it was right under my nose...i should've got that really.

...or not...as it happens, i re-ordered my iPod around, and listened through my tracks...and realised the one i meant was in fact Pour Some Sugar On Me- Def Leppard...there's a little bit at the very beginning that suggests We Will Rock You...but i missed Cherry Pie originally.

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Warrant/Saints of the Underground's Jimmy and Thin Lizzy's Boys Are Back In Town. I fucking LOVE Jimmy and can prolly listen to it a million fucking times in a row and not get sick of it.this song would have been killer on dog eat dog.

Dan Dash

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wait so songs that sound like other songs?
Well a lot of the songs by glam bands that never really got big sound pretty close to the same.

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Uriah Heap's Easy Livin' > WASP's Easy Livin'

LOL.

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Um, Faster Pussycat "Tattoo" from 1989 has a very similar intro to Smashed Gladys "17 Goin On Crazy" from 1988...

Play track: FasterGladys

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Davud Bowie "Suffragette City" - Alice Cooper "Under My Wheels"
Mainly toward the ends of the songs.

I'm livin' in the 70s, I feel like I've lost my keys
I got the right day, got the wrong week
I get paid for just being a freak

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Believe it or not L.A. Guns "Sex Action" from 1988 has similar riffs to GWAR's "Black And Huge" from 1990

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Don't forget the classic sample "Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Davis..." that appeared on both Operation Mindcrime 1988 and Dr. Feelgood 1989.

Play track: DrStranger

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I actually understand the Chuck Berry/T Rex thing because Marc loved old rock n' roll and rockabilly. In fact he got Gene Vincent's (of Be Bop Lula fame for all you non music nerds, it was a old old rockabilly song) old guitar. That being said The Cult's "Love Removal Machine" suspiciously sounds alot like the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up".

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The riff to Poison's "Nothin' But A Good Time" has always made me think of "Deuce" by KISS.

'Mom and daddy said, "The life that you've led - You'll party your way straight to hell!"'

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Sweet's Hellraiser > Stiff Little Fingers' Suspect Device

I only realised when I was learning Suspect Device. I wanted my band to cover both those songs - but they're practically the same!! That idea went down the toilet a little!!!

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I noticed - Blackie Lawless's voice sounds a lot like Patti Smith's.

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i was listening to some Bonfire today,and i noticed that their You Make Me Feel sounds like Pink Floyd's Breathe

Dan Dash

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Ok,so this one just came to me today...Ozzy's Shot In The Dark and Grease Is The Word(opening credits track to the movie Grease)

Dan Dash

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