My first impression of Beck’s Blue Moon is that it sounds like the beach boys. Although the lyrics are not about surfing, the musical style sounds like the Beach Boys. It has the distinctive background vocals of the surf music, it sounds like the later music of the Beach Boys when they developed their own style of music instead of the imitative stage.
In Led Zepplin’s Heartbreaker, the use of the horns and the lack of backup vocals give it the sound produced by stax. I think it sounds like soul music, the lyrics and the