I’m doing a quiz for the new year again, just a family thing. For this years music round, instead of doing intros or whatever, I’d like to do “Identify the song from this excert that doesn’t really fit the rest of the song”, so I’d like some suggestions to get me going. A good example for reference is the middle of certain versions of Madonna’s “Like A Prayer”, which suddenly goes all dancey for about 30 seconds towards the end before returning to the normal fade.
Don’t feel you have to be restrained by what people might reasonably get in a quiz though 
A Day in the Life
(Got it in one! Yeah!
Or… Yeah, yeah, yeah!)
“Brilliant Colors” by the Neon Philharmonic.
In the middle, an in-fix of a totally different song.
No More Tearshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty71dvQog4Q
“The Battle Of Epping Forest” by Genesis.
Have you seen people try to dance to this song? It’s hysterical! Slow dance mode for 30 secs., separate into boogie formation for 20 secs, just as you’re getting up a head of steam, back to SDM (Where are you, babe? Come here, QUICK!) Rinse and repeat! Kept ME off the dance floor.
Well, there’s “Broken Arrow” by Buffalo Springfield, which has that little corny jazz part around the 5 minute mark… the sort of thing that avant-garde rock musicians liked to do around then.
Bohemian Rhapsody.
“No Sugar Tonight” by the Guess Who has that 20 second semi-Baroque part at 2:00; it’s also at the very beginning.
Knights in White Satin?
Never Been To Me
Lovely melody, terrible lyrics, and a spoken bit in the middle.
Are You Lonesome Tonight
Is a bridge the same thing as an in-fix?
“Dead And Gone” by Gypsy.
What about that short “big boys don’t cry” interlude in 10CC’s “I’m Not In Love”?
The End: The Doors
Begins and ends with “This is the end…my only friend… the end.”
And in the middle you have Jim’s Oedipal mumblings.
I’m listening to “Just Like a Prayer” right now and I’m trying to figure out what specifically we’re talking about. There’s the part at 2:59, where the mood goes from light and airy to serious and sexy. Then there’s the part at 3:42–which I call the “break it down” section. As the name suggests, that’s when you’re supposed to “break it down”, dancewise. But IMHO neither part really is “completely different” from the rest of the song. Most songs (R&B in particular) have a similar structure.
The bridge of the Doobie Brother’s “China Grove” is a better example, IMHO.
“You Never Me You Money,” The Beatles
“Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,” Billy Joel. Though considering how long the “middle” is, I’m inclined to say that it’s the beginning and ending that are completely different.
Richard Harris’ version of Jimmy Webb’s “MacArthur Park”?
The bridge of Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear )The Reaper” seems to have come from a totally different song.
I’m playing the song right now in my head and I never really noticed that before. It does indeed sound quite unfamiliar to the rest of the song.
But what a song!
Rush: The Spirit of Radio. A straightahead hard rock number until after the instrumental verse then it’s 25 second of reggae chords and a verse that is rhythmically disconnected from the rest of the song - and effectively stolen from Sounds of Silence(!!!). It’s been enough to get my 14-year-old to say, ‘What the hell was that?’