The vocals on Guggenheim Grotto’s “Wonderful Wizard …SOUNDS so much LIKE… Leonard Cohen! At his drollest.

In the (beautiful, btw) song “Waterfall” by Griffin House, there is a moment when he sings “Hold on to your love, it might not be coming back…” that …SOUNDS so much LIKE… when Sarah McLachlan sings “It’s a long way down, to the place where we started from” in “Ice Cream.”

Something about the downward progression of the melody and the timing/rhythm of it is just sooooo similar.

Wow, I don’t think I’ve listened to Sarah in a year or two. Definitely took a while (and some serious Pod investigating) to figure out what song I was humming…

Thank goodness for Carrie and Monica as I was THIS CLOSE to getting really fucking crazy just now trying to figure this out.

Listening to “High Society” by The Bees (U.S.) and the chorus starts with “Ooooo, high society….” “Oooooo, notoriety…” and it …SOUNDS JUST LIKE… “Oooooo, you’ll wait a long time for me….” from the song “I’m Not in Love” which was apparently a hit in the ’70s for some group called 10 CC (?) and covered in the 90s by Will Power (?).

Don’t know which one it is that I know, but that song was playing clear as a bell in my head, yet a) I couldn’t figure out what song it was and b) I was singing the words wrong (I was singing “oooo, been a long time for me“). But then I called Carrie and she said “I don’t know what it is but here’s more of it” and started singing “I’m not in love, so don’t forget it…” then we conferenced in Monica and two seconds later, she was playing it for us! Woot!

My friends kick ass. I’m just sayin’.

“Nice Day” Persphone’s Bees …SOUNDS LIKE… “Riding on the Metro” Berlin.

Not throughout but in a few places you hear the same vocal progression.

Realized this morning that less than half the Beck I own was on my iPod. (Eh?) So I had to bring a stack of CDs in to work today to get primed for the concert tomorrow.

I forgot how much some early Beck …SOUNDS LIKE… late 60s/early 70s Stones. Sassy lyrics and tone, guitar licks, jazzy blues feel.

Odelay-hee-ho.

“Tonight Let’s Dance” by Elefant …SOUNDS LIKE… David Bowie. Musically at least. But not Bowie-like lyrics.

The Subways “No Goodbye” …SOUNDS LIKE… mid ’90s Oasis.

The intro and refrain lyric of “Corvette” by Golden Smog …SOUNDS LIKE… something from Figdish‘s album “When Shove Goes Back to Push.”

The chorus of Bishop Allen’s “The History of Excuses” …SOUNDS LIKE… “Street Fighting Man” Rolling Stones.