Singles that are musical siblings

[harrisonjon]

I've often thought of WIBN as being a sibling of California Girls, maybe more sophisticated and with a higher IQ (because it was born later). There seems a natural progression there in form and sound. The Little Girl I Once Knew is less of a sibling to WIBN but is more akin to other Pet Sounds tracks.

[Cabinessenceking]

?

[The Shift]

I know what you mean … but more recently I've been associating WIBN with GV. They're big incredible productions with multiple complex sections.

[Sam_BFC]

I guess I've always seen Little Girl and California Girls as kind of like musical siblings: both got monster intros, Brian at the top of the vocal stack in the chorus.  But I guess we could relate a lot of songs with each other.  For some reason I also relate Girl Don't Tell Me and You're So Good To Me.

[wantsomecorn]

County Fair and Amusement Parks USA are the strange cousins people pretend to forget to invite to Christmas. And Palisades Park is their even stranger cousin from Europe.

[Chocolate Shake Man]

People often confuse County Fair and Country Air for identical twins on first glance but when you look a bit harder you can see subtle differences.

[wantsomecorn]

People often confuse County Fair and Country Air for identical twins on first glance but when you look a bit harder you can see subtle differences.

Like how they sound nothing alike?

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Surfer Girl, In My Room, Girls On the Beach

Surfin, Surfin Safari

409, Little Deuce Coupe

The Shift, Shut Down

Girl Don't Tell Me, I Can Hear Music (production wise?)

All Dressed Up for School, Marcella, Goin On

When I Grow Up, Winds of Change  (won't last forever)

[I. Spaceman]

People often confuse County Fair and Country Air for identical twins on first glance but when you look a bit harder you can see subtle differences.

Like how they sound nothing alike?

It's called humor. Try it.

[rogerlancelot]

"Do It Again" and "It's About Time"

[Eric Aniversario]

I've always thought that Do It Again and Keepin' The Summer Alive were pretty similar, in that the theme was similar, and that there was a slower and mellower part in the middle.

[PongHit]

Saint Nick is a xmas rewrite of Deuce Coupe.

[Bean Bag]

County Fair and Amusement Parks USA are the strange cousins people pretend to forget to invite to Christmas. And Palisades Park is their even stranger cousin from Europe.

Me too!  They're cut from the same cloth.

As well, I've always maintained that Surfin Safari (the album) is similar to Smiley Smile.  They both exude a kind of homemade quality -- humble, hopelessly naive and goofy giddy fun.  One was cut on Soda pop, the other on Hash joints.

 

[Loaf]

Good Timin and Goin On remind me of each other.

[Ron]

Not the boys, but as for siblings,

The Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces, Sometimes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmrnYbIVqs

sounds just like the chorus of Leon Heywood's "I Wanna Do Something Freaky To You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukuXUKRVu6c


I never could understand who ripped off who, or if was just a coincidence, or if the session bassist just screwed one of them out of an original bassline or something.  I still haven't figured it out.  Dr. Dre famously sampled the intro for Nothin' But a G Thang, and then sampled Smiling Faces for "The Wash"... when it's the same damn beat. 

somebody should have sued somebody.