Same Title, Different Song

[Michedelic]

I Want You
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
Elvis Costello

 

[Michedelic]

two different takes of this song...

 

[FatStringer52]

A 30-second look at my music library

You know, I had not looked at my music library yet, but most of my stuff is in separate folders arranged by artist. But in my "Various Artists" folder I came up with these . . .

Evil Woman
Crow (1969)
Electric Light Orchestra (1975)

One
Three Dog Night (1969)
Metallica (1988)
Creed (1997)

So Far Away
Carol King (1971)
Dire Straits (1985)

 

[FatStringer52]

"Bad" Big Audio Dynamite, U2

Michael Jackson can be added to Bad

"Burn" The Cure, Nine Inch Nails

Deep Purple can be added to Burn

 

[La Faro]

One
Three Dog Night (1969)
Metallica (1988)
Creed (1997)

 

[whero]

Without You
Badfinger, Harry Nilsson


Lana Del Ray


The Doobie Brothers


Brooke Fraser


Halsey


Bic Runga


Bruce Springsteen


Silverchair


Talk Talk


Eddie Vedder


...and that's just from my CD collection.

 

[Michedelic]

You know, I had not looked at my music library yet, but most of my stuff is in separate folders arranged by artist. But in my "Various Artists" folder I came up with these . . .

Evil Woman
Crow (1969)
Electric Light Orchestra (1975)

also done by Spooky Tooth

 

[Michedelic]

 

[nnnnnn]

"The Power Of Love" - three different songs of that name came out within a year or so of each other back in 1984/85. The Huey Lewis & the News and Jennifer Rush ones both went to number 1 in multiple countries, and the Frankie Goes To Hollywood song was top 10 in multiple countries.

 

[TheIndieKid]

Geez, there are zillions of these. One-word titles are where it's at. A 30-second look at my music library...

"Alive" Pearl Jam, Daft Punk

"Androgyny" Simple Minds, Garbage

"Angel" Jimi Hendrix, Massive Attack

"Arrival" Daft Punk, Zoe Keating

"Bad" Big Audio Dynamite, U2

"Birthday" The Beatles, The Sugarcubes

"Breathe" The Mission UK, U2, The Prodigy

"Burn" The Cure, Nine Inch Nails

"Cascade" Afro Celt Sound System. Peter Murphy

"Changes" David Bowie, Yes

That's 10 and I'm not even through "c" yet.

For many of these, I'm sure there are more artists that go there. I mean, how many bands have a song called "Angel"? Gotta be at least 50...

For "Liar" besides what we have already there's also New Order, the Cranberries, and the Sex Pistols... and probably more.

So if you want to make it interesting, maybe only songs with at least two words in the title (and "the" doesn't count). Like...

"You Don't Know" Berlin, Curve

"4th of July" Soundgarden, U2

 

[La Faro]

Moanin'

Charles Mingus
Art Blakey

 

[edencab]

Van Morrison - Domino
Kiss - Domino

 

[FugaziBomb]

Creep - TLC and Radiohead.

This actually threw me a curve ball when I did a pickup gig for a cover band. I learned the TLC song when they meant the Radiohead song. Luckily, the Radiohead song was something I learned early on when I picked up bass and I was able to hang, but still - lesson learned that day. Now I always confirm artist/version/key when I'm given a set list

 

[sxaxsx]

Not the exact same title but being a Beatles fan the first time I heard the James Taylor song "Something in the Way She Moves" I thought who does this guy think he is. Turns out Taylor wrote his song first and Harrison was inspired by that. Both great songs.

 

[TheReceder]

Hold on

 

[bearhart74]

Don’t forget “Liar” from the Rollins Band.

And Liar by Todd

 

[bearhart74]

One
Three Dog Night (1969)
Metallica (1988)
Creed (1997)

U2 (1991)

 

[Ostie]

Valerie - Amy Winehouse and Steve Winwood

Didn’t the Monkees also have a song called “Valerie”?

 

[bumperbass]

Skynyrd too.

“I Need You”....
The Beatles, The Who, America, The Kinks; I’m sure there are others, but that’s what I could think of without looking anything up.

 

[edencab]

Didn’t the Monkees also have a song called “Valerie”?

yes, not one of their hits though