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Same but different - MFS - 19-12-2016
Wish you were here, known by many as one of Pink Floyds most loved songs... And I agree.
But Wish you were here is also the title of a great ballad by Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe, remember? - and their ballad has even been covered by Blackmore's Night
[video=youtube_share;qoYbVosc93U]http://youtu.be/qoYbVosc93U[/video]
And Fleetwood Mac's "Wish you were here" is really good also...
http://youtu.be/5AlOdU_BM1M
Feel free to add more such examples...
Same but different - bob_32_116 - 19-12-2016
Some titles are pretty simple and would be often repeated. For example I don't know how many songs there are called "Crazy" or "Crazy In Love".
"Total Eclipse of the Heart", the Bonnie Tyler hit, is not a title you would expect to pop up too often. Yet, bizarrely, when this one was on the charts, there was also a song out by an Australian band called The Expression. I think the title was "Total Eclipse", but it did contain the line "a total eclipse of the heart."
I also happened to think it was a better song than the bonnie Tyler one: you be the judge:
[video=youtube;mh7JEb2qXXI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh7JEb2qXXI[/video]
Same but different - bob_32_116 - 19-12-2016
Another example:
Peter Allen - I Go To Rio
Mike Nesmith - Rio
Those two were in the local charts at the same time; indeed, I believe at one point they occupied the No. 3 and 4 positions, or something like that.
Same but different - bob_32_116 - 19-12-2016
Elton John - Empty Sky
Bruce Springsteen - Empty Sky
Both great songs, and quite different.
Curiously, Bruce is probably the only musician to have not one but two public monuments named after song titles of his.
Same but different - MFS - 19-12-2016
I guess, if both songs have been on a chart simultaneously, one or two missing words could slip through...
That video, seem like a movie with mr P Swayze, or am I wrong?
And since I really liked Bonnie Tylers version, I will have to listen to the other one... and then be back with the verdict
Next pair is also an "almost" perfect match
Skeeter Davies (most familliar w Herman and the Hermits cover here though) and R.E.M up for a battle - which is the best
R.E.M - It's the end of the world
[video=youtube_share;Z0GFRcFm-aY]http://youtu.be/Z0GFRcFm-aY[/video]
Skeeter Davis - End of the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonLd-32ns4
Same but different - bob_32_116 - 19-12-2016
^^ That's easy. The Skeeter Davis song is a decent song, albeit a little syrupy. On the other hand I think that's one of R.E.M.'s least appealing songs.
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Last year an Australian entry almost won the Eurovision song contest with a song called "Sound of Silence". I believe that's also the title of a song by a well known folk-rock duo.
mile:By the way I can't answer your question about the total Eclipse video. They are Australian, so it was likely shot in this country, and I have been to a few places here where the coastline looks like that.
Same but different - CRAZY-HORSE - 19-12-2016
these two were both in the Australian charts at the same time:
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Sheena Easton - 9 to 5 (morning train)
Same but different - bob_32_116 - 19-12-2016
I can think of two very different songs called "God Save the Queen", but that probably doesn't count because I think one is an intentional piss-take of the other.
Same but different - CRAZY-HORSE - 19-12-2016
and two vastly different songs:
Pink Floyd - Time
Culture Club - Time (clock of the heart)
Same but different - bob_32_116 - 19-12-2016
David Bowie - Lazarus
[video=youtube;y-JqH1M4Ya8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8[/video]
and in the opposite corner we have.....