Same but different

[MFS]

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...

[bob_32_116]

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]

[bob_32_116]

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.

[bob_32_116]

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.

[MFS]

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

[bob_32_116]

^^ 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.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

these two were both in the Australian charts at the same time:

Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

Sheena Easton - 9 to 5 (morning train)

[bob_32_116]

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.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

and two vastly different songs:

Pink Floyd - Time

Culture Club - Time (clock of the heart)

[bob_32_116]

David Bowie - Lazarus

[video=youtube;y-JqH1M4Ya8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8[/video]

and in the opposite corner we have.....