All four of the tunes have one thing in common (alright two.) They were all recorded by a Jackson and all sound very similar.


The Jacksons : Lovely One (Written by Michael and Randy produced by the Jacksons)



Michael Jackson : Wanna Be Startin' Something (Written by Michael and produced by Michael and Quincy)



The Jacksons: Body (Written and Produced by Marlon)



Janet Jackson: All My Love To You (Written and Produced by Marlon)



I was thinking about ading some earlier tunes "Things I Do For You" by the Jacksons (1978) and "Workin' Day and Night" by Michael Jackson (1979) what do y'all think. Also, if there is any others that sound similar to these tracks, post them here.

Quite frankly, I always that that "Body", sounded like "Nasty Girl", by Vanity 6.

The Lady In My Life and Funny How Time Flies

I always thought Lovely One sounded like a sped up version of Love Will Never Do Without You, and it also reminded me a little bit of Shake Your Body and All my Love To You

also

This Time Around and You

will think of more later

Songs that sound similar, not exactly alike, are Janet's "Spending Time With You" and Michael's "Butterflies."

bboy87 said:

Yep!

shesoffthewall said:

I just noticed that!

Say You do sounds like Don't stop til' you get enough
Young Love - Baby be Mine


You are right

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um LOVELY ONE does NOT sound like any of that. LOVELY ONE is similar to THINGS I DO FOR YOU.


but of course its going to sound similar. they are family

"Body" is a total rip-off of "Wanna Be Startin Something" Compare the chorus of both songs.

bboy87 said:

even Quincy Jones has noticed this.He jokingly said something like "They (Jam and Lewis) got "Funny How Time Flies..." from "Lady In My Life".

On another thread,I once got into a little discussion with someone who claimed that 'Triumph' is a better album than 'Off The Wall',which I don't agree with.I pointed out that,even though 'Triumph' is a great album,most of the songs sound similiar.Nothing wrong with that cause it's still a superb album,but I think 'Off The Wall' has more variety and the songs don't all sound alike.

SoulAlive said:

Are you kidding me? That's the biggest problem with 'Off the Wall' is that all the songs sound the same. Triumph is the one with the different variety of songs. They're not all disco sounding songs like 'Off the Wall'

bboy87 said:

Holy shit. Just looked the song up, never heard it before. They completely ripped the music off. I could sing Lady In My Life right over it. And the adlibs at the end, what a complete rip off!

Arnotts said:

No,no,no! I don't think the 'OTW' songs sound alike at all.Furthermore,OTW boasts....

"I Can't Help It'---a jazzy-flavored track that's more Quiet Storm than anything on the Jacksons' albums.

"She's Out Of My Life"---a pop/adult contemporary ballad.

"Working Day And Night"---relentless funk number

"Girlfriend"---Michael doing an ex-Beatles' song


'Triumph' is a great but in the end,it's just a well-produced R&B album.'OTW' is that and more.

michael himself said that Triumph was like a marriage of Destiny and Off the Wall and said Lovely One was like Shake Your Body, I'm so sure it was something like that in the Moonwalk book, unless his ghost writer stuck that in....


Spending Time With You, Enjoy, What's Your Name and Could This Be Love by Janet all remind me of Butterflies, Janet has publicly said she loves Butterflies and wishes to do something like that, I think the style really suits her.

I had no clue Quincy said that about Lady In My Life, Can't Be Good reminds me a little bit of Funny How Time Flies and Lady In My Life too

some other similar sounding songs...

The melody of the chorus in With You reminds me a little bit of The Love You Save when it's sung in D major on the mj tours

Dream Street has a bassline that wished to be Billie Jean, just slightly

Say You Do sounds like Don't Stop Till You Get Enough

The hook in All My Love To You reminds me a bit of the hook in Working Day and Night

Trust a Try reminds me a bit of Beat It from the Dangerous tour, probably cause they are in the same scale and with guitars

of course we know about One More Chance by Randy and then Janet covering it

Young Love and Baby Be Mine

SoulAlive said:

and Body failed big time

shesoffthewall said:

Nah Janet's song sounds like "Stay" by Eternal.

(the intro is about 20 seconds, then you'll hear the similar hook)

Arnotts said:

WHAT!!

And Michael Jackson's "Break Of Dawn"?

Sounds like De La Soul "Breakadawn"






Yeah I know what De La sampled

bboy87 said: