You can also sing these lyrics to the above jingle:
Amazing Grace how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind but now I see
The Doors’ “Hello, I Love You” sort of ripped off the Kinks’ “All Day and All of the Night.”
Am I the only one who thinks that the bassline to Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” sounds a lot like “Cool Jerk” by the Capitols?
The guitar in “Pounding” by Doves is almost identical to U2’s “Ultra Violet (Light My Way)”
**My Country 'Tis of Thee (America) ** sounds just like God Save the Queen!
I’m a huge geek of both these groups, and I’ve heard both of these songs live, and I forget this one?!
The No Doubt song is “Don’t Speak.”
Santana’s Jingo from their first (1969) album and Painter, a cut from Deep Purple’s 1969 self-titled second album, are eerily alike, and can easily be mixed together. By the way, AMG has some nice things to say about that particular Deep Purple album
The musical break in the middle of the Knack’s “My Sharona” always sounded to me like the DJ made a seamless transition into John Cougar Mellencamp’s “I Need a Lover.” It took me some time to realize that it was all part of the same song.
The beginning of Tom Petty’s “Free Falling” sounds exactly like the beginning of another song. I had a friend who loved Tom Petty, and I used to turn up the radio when I thought it was that song starting and it turned out to be the other. I can’t think of what it is now. Steve Windwood? Arggh, can’t remember…
ZZ Tops’s “Cheap Sunglasses” seems to borrow a lot of guitar from Edgar Winter’s instrumental “Frankenstein”.
Another poster in this forum, several months ago, pointed out that Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne” is the same melody as “The 1812 Overture” (exploding-golf-course music in Caddyshack), but played at a slower tempo. IIRC, Fogelberg has confirmed this publicly.
“Jet boy Jet Girl” by the Damned and “Ca Plane Pour Moi” by Plastic Bertrand are the exact same song.
I’m surprised nobody’s yet mentioned Pearl Jam’s “Given to Fly” and Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California.” It’s such a blatant rip that I’m even more surprised there was never much fuss over it.
Parts of Alanis Morissette’s “Perfect” have sounded like Tori Amos’ “China” to my ears, as well. And I seem to recall some rock critic complaining that the Pumpkins’ “1979” ripped off Husker Du’s “What’s Going On,” as well.
OMG!!! I figured I was the only person in the UNIVERSE that noticed that!
Here’s my contribution:
Heaven is a Place on Earth (Belinda Carlisle)/Livin’ on a Prayer (Bon Jovi)
The bassline in the chorus is virtually identical, note-for-note.
I Got a Girl (Tripping Daisy)/She #$%^# Hates Me (Puddle of Mudd) What a mindlessly derivitive song…
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C’est La Lie on Shania Twain’s new album is exactly like Abba’s Dancing Queen.
Weren’t the two songs “Run Through The Jungle” and “Old Man Down The Road”?
Louie Louie is the chicken of rock and roll - everything seems to sound like it. That Boston song did win the “Most Subtle Use of Louie Louie” in the New Book of Rock Lists, though.
I’d disagree with whoever it was that all Offspring songs sound the same - that’s Creed, and all their songs sound like Jeremy by Pearl Jam - but Why Don’t You Get A Job? is most definitely a pisstake of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.
I think Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” has some subtle “Louie Louie” nuances in it, perhaps more subtle than Boston’s “More Than A Feeling.”
The NBoRL was published in 1993, before Smells Like Teen Spirit.
AKA The Vaselines’ “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam”
“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, “Baa-Baa Black Sheep”, and the alphabet song all sound alike. Someone should sue 
The opening of John Fogerty’s “Rock and Roll Girls” sounds very similar to the opening of The Cars’ “My Best Friend’s Girl”. Just insert handclaps.
Just remembered another sound-alike pair. Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever” and Men at Work’s “Down Under”.
I would swear that whenever I hear a new Sum 41 song it sounds basically the same as the one before it, for everone of their songs. Probably something to do with them being a complete shit band and a rip off of blink 182 which is a rip off of good punk music.