“Days Gone Down” by Gerry Rafferty sounds like it could be a George Harrison song.
Can you elaborate? I’m a huge Ryche fan, and have never heard of this song. They DID do a song called “Real World,” which was on the Last Action Hero soundtrack.
Is One World a band? A google search doesn’t give any band called One World.
It was a typo:
In other words, I was trying to be the first with the obvious comparison between Queensryche and the band mentioned in my correction. Which I’m still not gonna mention due to it’s obviousnessesitocity 
DarkSideoftheFloyd, I totally agree on the Jet/Beatles thing.
But I hate that Jet song. Gah!
I think that the song Stars by Hum sounds like Smashing Pumpkins, but without Billy Corgan.
I do too.
It took me a good bit to realize that Creed was (thankfully) not Pearl Jam.
When America’s songs were first played on the radio I called them the band that had no sound of their own… Every one of their records sounded like it was played by another group. One song sounded like the Hollies. Another like the Bee Gees, pre-Saturday Night Fever. I liked the songs but thought it was a little cheesy that the band didn’t have its own musical identity.
The New Radicals’ lead singer sounds a lot like the lead singer from James.
Speaking of the Buzzcocks and Pete Shelley: a band called The Adored recently put out a self-titled EP. I’ve only heard the song “TV Riot,” but it sounds exactly like the Buzzcocks. Lyrically, it’s like a heavy-handed version of a Buzzcocks song (something like “Airwaves Dream”). The cover of the EP looks like a stylized Buzzcocks album cover. And, on top of this, Pete Shelley sings on the track! It’s mindblowing.
You have a point… but Ready For the World as a band, almost down to the man, were openly aping that Minneapolis sound. Check out “Oh, Sheila,” “Digital Display” and “Deep Inside Your Love.”
For at least a decade in my youth I thought ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ was the Rolling Stones.
Though bluegrassy, new favorite Blue Merle sounds like Coldplay, especially on their single Burning in the Sun.
Seven Bridges Road by The Eagles sounds a lot like Crosby Stills and Nash.
I only discovered this the other day, but the ending of Led Zeppelin’s Babe I’m Gonna Leave You is the same as 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago.
Or SoundgardenOr Alice in Chains Or Stone Temple Pilots 
For my part, I have always felt that Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream it’s Over” sounds just like Billy Joel.
Rush did a song called Available Light back around 1987; the whole feel of the song through the guitar solo is remarkably like Journey. In 1993 they did a song called Between Sun and Moon in which Alex Lifeson’s guitar parts sound (intentionally, as I understand it) like a strange blending of Mark Knopfler, Keith Richards and Angus Young.
I’ll be the third person here to admit to thinking Brown Eyed Girl was The Rolling Stones.
Really? The story I’ve always heard is that when Rush’s first album started getting airplay back in '74, everybody thought it was a new Led Zepplin album! Granted, I’ve never been able to hear the similarity.
Was their first one the one with “Finding my Way”? If so I totally see the similarity to Zeppelin.