Hi there,
For a pub-quiz I’m looking for the following; Songs that have an intro that sounds like a Beatles song, but isn’t.
One I could come up with is “Don’t look back in anger” by Oasis, but I think there are more out there.
Most Badfinger songs that I’ve heard sounded a LOT like Beatles songs…not terribly surprising, as they worked with the Beatles quite a few times.
There’s a band called the Redwalls that sound EXACTLY like the Beatles circa about 1962 - scary good.
They have a song on their first CD, Universal Blues, called “Colorful Revolution” that sounds like O-bla-di, O-bla-da (I know, not from 1962, but when you hear the other tracks on the CD, you’ll know what I mean…)
The Monkees (do they count as a real band?) had songs that sounded a lot like early Beatles music.
Last Train to Clarksville etc.
I don’t know if this is what yo’re looking for, but good luck anyhow!
Didn’t like the first set of suggestions, eh? 
I’ve always thought the intro and the rest of the guitar work on Cake’s “It’s Coming Down” sounded like it could have come off the ‘Revolver’ album.
Wilco’s “Hummingbird” sounds kind of Beatles-y to me.
The organ beginning of “Swing, Swing” by the All-American Rejects sounds like the organ background in the “well, well, well” parts of Doctor Robert.
I don’t know if these all have Beatles-ey intros, (that’s for you to find out) but this is my Beatlesque playlist (they get more Beatles-y as the playlist progresses).
Poor Places - Wilco
All That I Know - The Get Up Kids
**Missing the War **- Ben Folds Five
I’m the Man Who Loves You - Wilco
1000 Miles Per Hour - OK Go
Evangeline - Matthew Sweet
Big Blue Sun - Adrian Belew
Pretty (Ugly Before) - Elliott Smith
This Will Be Our Year - OK Go (originally the Zombies)
Look What You’ve Done - Jet
**All Around the World **- Oasis
One of Those Days - Adrian Belew
Everything Starts at the Seams - The Polyphonic Spree
Divine Intervention - Matthew Sweet
1967 - Adrian Belew
“Uncontrollable Urge” by Devo (first song on their first album) opens with a ripoff of the “I Want to Hold Your Hand” intro.
“Sowing the Seeds of Love” by Tears for Fears. It not only sounds exactly like the Beatles at the beginning, but at the middle and end as well. I like the song, but it’s the most obvious Beatles rip – er, homage – I’ve ever heard.
And you can sing “stealing the Beatles’ song” perfectly over the chorus.
As to the OP – Why Don’t You Get A Job by Offspring is pretty much just a reworking of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Actually, that one always struck me as more ELO-ey. But “The War In The Gulf Between Us” would be on my Beatlesque playlist (specifically, it reminds me of “And Your Bird Can Sing”).
Of course, any song by the Rutles. Sounds like a Beatles song, but isn’t…
That, or any song off of Utopia’s album Deface The Music.
Then there’s XTC recording as the long-lost ‘60’s psychedelic band “The Dukes of Stratosphear,” which is one continuous tribute to that period. The song “Brainiac’s Daughter” is like a rehash of "Octopus’ Garden" if Macca had written it. “The Mole From the Ministry,” OTOH, is definitely more Lennonish.
I thought that was a non-Beatles oldie called “Just One Look.”
A Philly DJ runs a Sunday morning show about the Beatles using his own personal collection. It is not the sydicated “Beatles Brunch” many may know. Anyhow, he mentioned a band from Canada called something like Kluge(?). They wrote the original “Calling Occupants (of interplanetary craft)” which has very much Beatles-like guitar rifs and piano segments.
This band was a pet project of some bigwig owner of a Toronto (IIRC) music studio who took these boys under his wing. They worked their day jobs while working in the studio for free in their free time. Their first (and only?) album took three years to develop. This relationship sounds like what Alan Parsons was to several British Bands of the 1970’s.
I’ll email the Philly DJ to get the exact name of the band to which I refer. - Jinx
The band was named “Klaatu”. I have no idea to what this names refers.
I should Google on it some time soon… - Jinx
Most songs by Big Star.
…which is by The Hollies, another very Beatles-esque band.