WYEP’s Stretch or Catch
March 25, 2021
WYEP’s Stretch or Catch presents two popular songs that have a similar sound. You can decide if it’s a stretch or if it’s a catch and vote each week on Twitter. Hear the songs Friday mornings around 8:20 a.m. on 91.3 WYEP.
Look, I know these two songs are vastly different, but listen to the first couple seconds of Seth Avett’s new Greg Brown cover and tell me it doesn’t make you think of @phish playing “Maze.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) October 28, 2022
Listen to them on @WYEP around 8:20 this morning and vote below.
Listen on Spotify:
Past Votes:
I know how this is gonna shake out but I’m gonna do it anyway since it’s been on my mind for 2 years now.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) October 21, 2022
Does @anti_flag’s “Un-American” sound like @BonJovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer?”
You tell me. Hear em both on @WYEP around 8:20 this morning and VOTE!
Have ya heard the new @SANDYalexg song “Runner?” It sounds kinda like “Runaway Train” by @soulasylum (only a little better).
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) October 14, 2022
Hear em both and lmk what you think. Is it a stretch? Or is it a catch??
Past votes and playlist at https://t.co/QHk0aQ4uZF
A year after @EdwardSharpe put out “Home,” a similar sounding tune from @monstersandmen emerged from Iceland called “Dirty Paws.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) September 30, 2022
Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP and let me know if you think they sound the same or not.
More at https://t.co/QHk0aQ3Xa7
I was listening to some of my favorite PGH music the other day when @realwwoman’s “Chuchi” came on.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) September 2, 2022
It hit me then that it kinda sounds like @taylordayne’s hit “Tell It To My Heart.”
Take a listen around 8:20 on @WYEP and vote below!
It’s a real chicken or egg situation for today’s Stretch or Catch on @WYEP.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) August 26, 2022
Dude of Life played an integral part in the early days of @phish, co-writing some classic #Phish songs. So, which came first – “Chalkdust Torture” or “Self?”
Hear both around 8:20 this morning and vote!
When I was a little kid, I loved “Walk The Dinosaur,” unaware of just how cool Was (Not Was) actually were.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) August 19, 2022
Now that I’m an old man and a @Squeezeofficial fan, it’s all I hear when I listen to “Hourglass.”
Hear em both around 8:20am on @WYEP and VOTE your opinion!
I super love the new song “First High” from @nikkilanemusic. It’s perfect.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) August 12, 2022
But, it kinda sounds like @TheDandyWarhols playing “Bohemian Like You.”
Hear them both around 8:20 on @WYEP and let me know if you think it’s different (stretch) or the same (catch).
Does “Carpetbaggers” by @jennylewis sound like Linda Ronstadt’s “Love Is A Rose?”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) July 29, 2022
I think so. Thanks to @Queeney631 for this great suggestion! Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP and VOTE ⬇️
“Dream On” has been a banger since @Aerosmith put it out in 1973.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) July 8, 2022
6 years later, Supertramp took those opening notes and turned them into a whole new song.
Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP and vote! Stretch means I’m hearing things, catch means busted.
I was revisiting my favorite PersonL album the other day when I noticed a familiar riff in the song “Loudmouth.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) July 1, 2022
Were they listening to @SmashingPumpkin around that time? It kinda sounds like “1979.”
Hear them both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP and VOTE!
First time I heard that cool new song “Don’t Bother Me” from @TheSuffers, I started shouting, “Come on shake your body, baby, do that conga!”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) June 24, 2022
Does it sound like @GloriaEstefan to you, too??
Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP and vote!
Remember that song “Da Da Da” from the German band Trio?? I heard it a couple weeks ago and thought, wow that’s just “La Bamba.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) June 10, 2022
Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP and see what you think.
Stretch is no way, Catch is busted!
Lots of people have been saying that Father John Misty’s new song “Goodbye Mr. Blue” sounds and awful lot like “Everybody’s Talkin’” from the legend Harry Nilsson.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) June 3, 2022
(That’s probably why I finally like one of his songs 😬)
Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP and vote!
Found out that @mike913’s daughter Quincy is a Stretch or Catch obsessive. It makes sense, because she’s always been so cool.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) May 27, 2022
Q’s picks are “Life Is A Highway” and @joshritter’s Getting Ready To Get Down.”
Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @wyep!
So, @theholdsteady are surely tired of the @springsteen comparisons, but 🤷♂️
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) May 13, 2022
I think the middle sections of “Stuck Between Stations” and @string_mchn’s “Touring In January” are at least musical cousins (or maybe they’re both just The Boss).
Hear em both around 8:20 on @wyep.
We were sitting in our music meeting a couple weeks ago, listening to @sopharela’s new song “Shotgun” when @RosemaryWYEP said it kind of sounds like “Pumped Up Kicks” by @fosterthepeople.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) May 6, 2022
Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP and vote!
I think my friend @ShanLJoy is sensitive to the old D-A-G chord progression because it’s the second time she’s suggested that “Sweet Jane” sounds like something else.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 29, 2022
Hear the Velvet Underground classic, paired up with “Three Marlenas,” this morning around 8:20 on @WYEP.
I was watching the new “Wall Street” movie the other day and it hit me how similar David Byrne & Brian Eno’s “Home” is to Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 22, 2022
He had to know, right? Right?!
Hear em both on @WYEP this morning around 8:20.
I heard @RosemaryWYEP play “Gracie” the other day. It’s a super sweet song from @BenFolds about his daughter.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 15, 2022
It made me think of a song by @THE_EELS called “Flyswatter.”
They’re two great songs and you’ll hear em both around 8:20 on @WYEP.
“Magnolia Blues” is a great new song from @adiavictoria. It kind of sounds like “Flower” by @thelittleidiot. I wonder if there’s a historical reason for this or something. Feels like there might be.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 8, 2022
Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP and let me know whatcha think.
I really like the song “Chapstick” by @COIN. I also really like @ChapStick. I also really like @lizzo and her song “Juice.” FWIW, I don’t drink a ton of juice.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 1, 2022
Anyway, I think those songs kind of sound alike. Is my brain chapped? Or am I juiced??
Hear em on @WYEP at 8:20am.
I was listening to some @prince the other day (admittedly, there’s a lot of his music I haven’t heard) and thought “3121” sounded kinda like “Super Bon Bon.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) March 25, 2022
If Prince took a little inspiration from @Mike_Doughty_, I think I’m okay with that.
Hear em both on @WYEP this morning.
I’d be surprised to hear that @BestCoast take inspiration from @springsteen, but the opening drums on “Boyfriend” sound just like the opening drums on “Badlands.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) March 18, 2022
Thanks to @BruceMountjoy for this one! Hear em both on @WYEP this morning around 8:20 and vote now!
Go big or go home, right? If I was gonna borrow a little, I’d probably try to borrow from the best.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) March 4, 2022
“Confessions” by @violentfemmes sounds like “Ballad of a Thin Man” and not even @bobdylan can change my mind.
Hear em both around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP 🎶
I was listening to “Pink Moon” the other day (because Nick Drake is perfect for sad winter days), when it hit me that “From The Morning” has the same riff as @speech__ & @misscherrylala’s “Braided Hair.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) February 18, 2022
Hear them both on @WYEP around 8:20 this morning.
If there’s anyone who could get me into @springsteen, it’s @BenFolds 🎹
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) February 11, 2022
I was shocked about how blatantly “Jungleland” ripped off “Brick” (until I remembered The Boss put that one out 20 years earlier).
Hear em both on @WYEP this morning at 8:20.
I grew up listening to a ton of @rodstewart so a lot of those songs are just ingrained in my psyche.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) February 4, 2022
First time I ever heard “Burning” by @TheWarOnDrugs, I immediately started singing “Young Turks.”
Whatcha think? Maybe Rod will show up at @Stage_AE this weekend??
I was playing “Long Lost” by @LordHuron on the radio the other day and couldn’t un-hear the little riff in the middle of the song that sounds just like Billy Joe Royal’s “Down In The Boondocks.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) January 28, 2022
Vote stretch if you think I’m nuts and hear them both around 8:20 on @WYEP 📻
Sir Paul McCartney wrote some dang inspirational songs.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) January 21, 2022
Ever hear @phish’s “Army of One?” Kinda sorta sounds a bit like @PaulMcCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed.”
Maybe they should play em together on stage.
Hear them both this morning on @WYEP and thanks to @DVERandy for the 👀
I was playing some @jungle4eva on the radio last week and began to feel rather funked up.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) December 3, 2021
Ever hear “Keep Moving” and think it sounds a bit like @MarkRonson and @BrunoMars on “Uptown Funk?”
Stretch = Funk that, you’re crazy
Catch = Wow, that’s actually kinda funked up
The Pittsburgh band @bikini_islands always make me smile. Recently, it was because they reminded me of an old Love and Rockets tune!
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) November 12, 2021
Does “Midnight Lizard” sound like “Sweet Lover Hangover?” I love em both.
Hear these songs on @WYEP at 8:20 and vote! 👙 🏝🦎 ❤️ 🚀
Stretch or Catch! Daft Punk's Digital Love sounds a whole lot like Earth Wind and Fire's September.
— liz felix! (@minimumblues) November 5, 2021
If you don't agree, it's a stretch. If I'm totally right, it's a catch!
I heard this @joshritter song called “Rumors” the other day and part of it sounded just a little bit familiar. Maybe it was just all the “Love Potion #9” I was imbibing…
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) October 22, 2021
Hear them both and let me know what you think around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP.
Filling in for Joey today, and I'm going with what (I think) is a pretty obvious catch on today's Stretch or Catch.
— liz felix! (@minimumblues) October 8, 2021
Sam Smith's "Stay With Me"… is this not the same song as Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down"?
If yes, that's a catch! If not… stretch. Vote!
The nerds were certainly smart (and kinda creepy), but not very original.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) September 17, 2021
Doesn’t the theme to “Revenge Of The Nerds” sound like The Kinks’ “(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman?”
Hear them both this morning on @WYEP and vote now!
Do @thebeatles influence everything?
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) September 10, 2021
When I heard @offspring singing a new song called “Why Don’t You Get A Job?” back in 1999, I thought it sounded kinda like “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”
Hear them both around 8:20 on @WYEP (and thanks to @ShanLJoy for the suggestion).
I guess it’s time to throw @GretaVanFleet under the bus.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) August 27, 2021
Yeah, we’ve all thought they ooze the essence of @ledzeppelin in a generic way, but I’d argue that “Highway Tune” is pretty dang close to “The River.”
Can’t really feel too bad for Zep, though. They’re legendary stealers.
I'm filling in for @MorningJoey today, which means I get to play Stretch or Catch! I think I've got this one in the bag… take a listen to Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" and Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life."
— liz felix! (@minimumblues) August 20, 2021
Stretch = nope, two distinct songs
Catch = there's a lawsuit brewing here
Filling on on @WYEP's Morning Mix this morning, and we're playing Stretch or Catch. The Beatles reused the drum pattern from their 1964 song What You're Doing on 1966's Tomorrow Never Knows. Am I being nitpicky to call this out? Stretch=no big deal to recycle it, catch=nailed it
— Mike Sauter (@mike913) August 13, 2021
I was walking out of the studio after my show the other day and caught the end of “Smile” – a new song by @TheValerieJune – that kinda reminded me of an old one from The Noisettes.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) August 6, 2021
Hear em both around 8:20 on @WYEP and let me know if I’m just hearing things!
It felt like Joe Jackson punched me in the face last week when I played The Raconteurs’ “Steady, As She Goes.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) July 30, 2021
That bass line is one Vanilla Ice note away from “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”
Hear em both at 8:20 on @WYEP and let me know what you think!
Nirvana got a ton of comparisons to the Pixies when Nevermind came out in 1991. It makes sense, but I also remember reading that Kurt Cobain said he essentially ripped off Boston for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) July 23, 2021
Does it sound like “More Than a Feeling??” Let me know!
I was shuffling songs in the whip last week when I heard a @bellesglasgow song that really threw me off.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) July 16, 2021
I was convinced it was a cover of Edgar Winter’s “Free Ride!”
Lemme know what you think and hear the songs together on @WYEP this morning at 8:20.
I’ve been thinking about this one for a couple years now.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) July 9, 2021
Doesn’t the intro to The Raconteurs “Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)” sound kinda like Skynyrd’s “Tuesday’s Gone?”
Hear ‘em both around 8:20am on @WYEP. #WYEPStretchOrCatch
Gotta do it. Filling in for @MorningJoey for @WYEP's Stretch or Catch: Nirvana's Come As You Are and Killing Joke's Eighties. Similar enough to be a catch? Or am I stretching a bit?
— Mike Sauter (@mike913) July 2, 2021
Lots of people have lots of feelings about the music of @ledzeppelin – just ask the guys from Spirit.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) June 18, 2021
Did Zeppelin rip off their song “Taurus” when they made “Stairway to Heaven?” Maybe!
Hear both songs this morning at 8:20 on #WYEPStretchOrCatch!
There seems to be a lot of songs that use this one particular pattern of chords.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) June 11, 2021
Today we pair up “MJ’s Last Dance” from @tompetty with “Dani California” by @ChiliPeppers.
Hear the songs together this morning at 8:20 on @WYEP.#WYEPStretchOrCatch
I was flipping through songs in my car the other day and thought I was listening to The Band. Turns out it was just @RayLaMontagne 🤷♂️
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) June 4, 2021
Does “The Weight” sound like “Hannah?” I think so. What about you??
Hear the songs around 8:20 this morning on @WYEP. #WYEPStretchOrCatch
This week on #WYEPStretchOrCatch we’re pairing up a song from a band that inspired a million other bands and a fun one-hit wonder.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) May 28, 2021
Is “Sweet Jane” by the Velvet Underground the same as OMC’s “How Bizarre?”
Kinda. Sorta. Let me know what you think and hear them both on @WYEP.
I already know the answer to this one, but I’ll ask anyway…
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) May 21, 2021
Ever hear the Flaming Lips song “Fight Test” and think to yourself, dang I already know this?
You do. It’s called “Father & Son” by Cat Stevens.
Hear em both at 8:20 on @WYEP and vote now! #WYEPStretchOrCatch
Maybe it’s something in the foggy UK air, or maybe all modern musicians just a little bit of @thebeatles in their blood…
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) May 14, 2021
There’s no denying that @radiohead are a groundbreaking band, but “Karma Police” is pretty close to “Sexy Sadie.”
Whatcha think?#WYEPStretchOrCatch
I bet @rodstewart is a fan of Clarence “Frogman” Henry. It’s the only way to explain the “wooo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo’s” on his song “Some Guys Have All The Luck.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) May 7, 2021
Hear the songs on @WYEP at 8:20 and vote! #WYEPStretchOrCatch
When I first heard @daniellanois new tune “(Under The) Heavy Sun,” I immediately thought of the theme to The Wire – specifically the Blind Boys of Alabama version.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 30, 2021
They’re both great songs so lemme know what you think on #WYEPStretchOrCatch!
I think Ray Parker Jr. was on some new drugs when he came up with the theme song to “Ghostbusters.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 23, 2021
That riff sounds eerily similar to @HueyLewisNews’s “I Want a New Drug” from the previous year.
Thanks to @ShanLJoy for this #WYEPStretchOrCatch suggestion! Happy Movie Day!
When I first head Zach Bryan’s “Heading South,” I loved it. I didn’t realize until the other day, though, that it kind of sounds like “My Sweet Annette” by @drivebytruckers.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 16, 2021
Thanks to @megan9874 for this week’s #WYEPStretchOrCatch selections!
Lemme know what you think!
When I first heard “Ghosts” by @springsteen, I knew I’d heard that riff before. He even starts the song with the line, “I hear the sound of your guitar…”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 9, 2021
The phrasing on that guitar part reminds me of “Free Fallin’” by the late, great @tompetty.
Right?#WYEPStretchOrCatch
You ever have the inexplicable urge to start singing “Born To Be Wild?”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) April 2, 2021
You will after hearing the title track to the excellent new record from @jeliofthebirds. At first you’ll call me an idiot and then you’ll be like, oh, he was right.
Hear em at 8:20 on #WYEPStretchOrCatch!
I became a big @HAIMtheband fan this past year, but I never really got into Lou Reed.
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) March 26, 2021
I was struck when I first heard the HAIM song “Summer Girl.” It took about 30 seconds for me to realize it sounded kinda like Lou’s “Walk On The Wild Side.”
Whatcha think?#WYEPStretchOrCatch
Cornershop sounded otherworldly to me when I heard them as a kid back in 1997. “Brimful of Asha” had that kind of riff that I knew would just stick with me (plus bosoms 😂).
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) March 19, 2021
When I first heard “Peach Fuzz” by @Caamp, I was instantly transported.
Am I crazy?#WYEPStretchOrCatch
I’ll never forget when I asked my guitar teacher to help me figure out “Brain Stew” by @GreenDay. He was outraged that they stole the riff from @chicagotheband’s “26 or 6 to 4.”
— Joey Spehar (@MorningJoey) February 19, 2021
I like em both a whole lot.
Vote now and hear them both on #WYEPStretchOrCatch.