PSB Song Similarities

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What's the song that sounds just like Absolutely fabulous?
I sincerely *love* Disco 2 and listen to it straight through regularly.

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Captain Hollywood Project - More and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-rS174AUT0

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#18 Post by retrofuturist »

Deodato's Keep On Moving (1982)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI8z-NQkk08

... is an absolute dead-ringer for Pet Shop Boys' Why Don't We Live Together?

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synthpopfan wrote: Fri 08 Dec 2017, 6:30 pm I feel that the Boys appropriated Surrender by Swing Out Sister for Dreaming of the Queen:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQJ_ysAqWug
Yes, this. Not the whole song, which is plenty different. But the HORNS always remind me of Surrender every time I hear DOTQ. I doubt it was intentional though. It's Better To Travel is a ridiculously strong album for anyone not initiated.
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Plus he raps with his regular voice [BOOSH! BOOSH!]
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#21 Post by davee »

jules wrote: Mon 29 Jan 2018, 6:05 pm London.
https://youtu.be/PNOumutbwa4
Eek, that does almost sound like the same music, at least for the verse. Parallel inspiration, or lifted?

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#22 Post by gehegu »

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjPA7CXutDw
Single bilingual, drums are identical and, as far as I’m concerned, both tracks were released approximately at the same time

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#23 Post by York Minster »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eejr0A63COs
Elton John - I don't wanna go on with you like that extended - The Shep Pettibone production reminds me of PSB, and the house piano would seem to fit in on the Introspective era. The piano on I Want a Dog album version reminds me of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uot1D30F9cc
Seal - loaded. If you haven't heard this, put it on and pretend you're listening to a new PSB song until the vocals kick in. It could easily be with that string pad and base line. Stuart Price production. I suppose it could equally be Confessions era Madonna (also Price).
And tryin' to figure out what happened to 'Germaine Propaine'
"He couldn't have fell off that hard" Ain't no way
"What happened to the way you was rappin' when you was scandalous
That Canibus turned into a television evangelist"
Plus he raps with his regular voice [BOOSH! BOOSH!]
[BOOSH! BOOSH!] (What was that?) Pet Shop Boys

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#24 Post by Luke Colorado »

davee wrote: Wed 31 Jan 2018, 10:07 am
jules wrote: Mon 29 Jan 2018, 6:05 pm London.
https://youtu.be/PNOumutbwa4
Eek, that does almost sound like the same music, at least for the verse. Parallel inspiration, or lifted?
Released in 2004, versus London in 2002.
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#26 Post by Xakrij »

Hello...

Maybe it's just me but I hear a similar vibe with these:

PSB My girl
https://youtu.be/9Bq7sGfQ3B4?t=32s

Erasure Voulez vous
https://youtu.be/BklqOX8vZpk?t=31s
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#28 Post by S-sense »

Italo Pop-Genius Savage performing his answer to It's a Sin. And also foreseeing Neils look...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GukPbPDWRU4

IIRC he made another song that sounds like a certain Village People Cover... Can't remember the Name.

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S-sense wrote: Sun 18 Feb 2018, 10:52 am Italo Pop-Genius Savage performing his answer to It's a Sin. And also foreseeing Neils look...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GukPbPDWRU4
There are a couple of other quite popular euro/italo-disco songs which have something in common with "It's a sin". "Come Back and Stay" by Bad Boys Blue and "Flames of Love" by Fancy, to name a few.

Savage also has a song that sounds similar to Alphaville's "Big in Japan"...

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#30 Post by Sandy Shaw »

Listen to:
Eric Clapton "Wonderful Tonight"
Suede "Saturday Night"
PSB "Casanova in Hell"
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