songs that remind you of other songs
 

fugazi - sieve fisted find has this bass part (in the "please let me get my hands on it" part) that reminds me of kool thing
toadies - tyler / pixies - where is my mind
interpol - say hello the angels / the smiths - this charming man
every other interpol song / joy divison - shadow play


I know I'm forgetting some, but I ALWAYS hear songs that sound like, or at least remind me of, other songs in some part... hmm.

Yeah, I noticed that too.

Good thread.

Placebo - You don't care about us / The Cure - In between days
Placebo - Taste in men / Pink Floyd - Let there be more light
An Pierlé - Sing song sally / Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm / My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Nick Drake - Voice from the mountain / Joni Mitchell - Both sides now
Nick Drake - Three hours / Tim Buckley - Hallucinations

Ben Folds Five - Brick/Neil Young - After The Goldrush

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm / My Bloody Valentine - Sometimesyes.Also...Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 / Husker Du - What's Going On? (listen to the bass lines! almost identical!)

oh..

every hot snakes riff reminds me of the wipers and girls against boys - let me come back.

Placebo - This Picture (the chorus) / Muse - Plugin baby

Merzbow - Random song / Merzbow Random song
Don't get me wrong I like his stuff though.

The Horrors - Jack the Ripper / The Birthday Party - Release the Bats / The Jezus Lizard - Any song.

Wow, they are very similar.
Also counting backwards by Throwing Muses has a very similar lead guitar part to Where is my mind, and also a song called "Oh yeah" by a shitty australian band called End of Fashion, shares the same rhythm guitar part, with one minor difference. Seriously, it's strummed the same way
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Yeah

nice. that's hilarious.

lots of pixies ripping off.

one i forgot to mention is "medium is the message" by mclusky.. haven't listened to it in a while but i remember the bass line being identical to a pixies song..

and more obvious:
offspring - self esteem chorus riff / nirvana - smells like teen spirit
elastica - connection / wire - ex lion tamer

Two huge rip-offs by French bands:

Kaolin - Partons vite / Bob Dylan - I want you
Cookie Dingler - Femme libérée / Iggy Pop - The passenger

To judge by yourself: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JxaJIZ_FBsk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lDD7vF-SyaI

There's a short bit on Charles Mingus' Black Saint ... LP that I always think sounds like the theme tune from Neighbours. I'm not trying to be clever here, I just really think that it does.

smells like teen spirit / boston's more than a feeling (chorus riff)

pavement's silent kit / lynyrd skynyrd's tuesday's gone (the "hand me the drumstick..." bit)...also the main part reminds me of a television song, although i'm not sure which.

pavement's stop breathing (last part) / sonic youth's she's in a bad mood (last part)

Queen of the Stone Age : First it giveth bass line / Sonic Youth : Mildred Pierce bass line
Exactly the same.

haha!

that was my one.

i see your mildred pierce and raise you a tsol - sounds of laughter, listen to the bass riff in there, not to mention it was done way before any of those.

Just noticed that:

Black Flag - Black coffe / Metallica - Disposable heroes ("back to the front" part)

Nirvana-Come As You Are sounds a lot like Killing Joke-Eighties, the riff, I mean...

not really a song but the majority of The Swirliees' Blonder Tongue Audio Baton reminds me of My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything