Er, Rapper’s Delight came out in 1979. Another One Bites The Dust came out in 1980.
No, Rapper’s Delight (1979) and Another One Bits the Dust (1980) were both inspired by Good Times (1979) with Rapper’s Delight being a direct lift:
“Hippy Chick” samples The Smiths song so they sound very similar.
The vocal melody of the Flames’ and Bowie’s “Footstompin” is the same. However, Carlos came up with a new backing track for “Footstompin” which they recycled for Fame. So you are correct that the Flames’ “Footstompin” and Bowie’s “Fame” have nothing in common.
The story goes that Bowie got Lennon in the studio but had nothing prepared so Bowie told Carlos to play that “Footstompin” riff. Lennon starting singing “Aim” which sounded like Fame. Bowie cranked out the lyrics to “Fame” and they recorded it. Bowie realized that co-writing a song with Lennon would be a major coup. It was his first American #1. It might not have been if Lennon were not involved.
The beginning of Alanis Morissette’s “Uninvited” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvgi7P97lu0 sounds eerily like the theme music to 28 Days Later.
The Doors similarly caught heat with The Kinks.
U2’s Mysterious Ways remix
Has the drum opening of
Steve Miller Band’s -Take the Money and Run
Clapton’s Let it Rain and Harrison/Starr’s It Don’t Come Easy are practically the same song.
I think you mean Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish.”
Good lord, hippy Chick was a deliberate sample
Og help me, I wanted to hate it, but couldn’t. :mad:
Thanks for that. 
But I think it still would have been a hit, since at the time I had no idea Lennon was even involved. And Duran Duran redid it if I recall.
I knew that…only testing you! Yes, you are right.
Huh. Learn something new every day!
The beginning of Guns 'n Roses “November Rain” sounds just like the beginning of a Cure song to me, but I can’t think of which one right now. Every time I hear “November Rain” I think it’s The Cure coming up but no…
Sly & The Family Stone’s Thank You (for lettin me be mice elf again)
vs.
Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation.
Fortunately for me, I love both songs.
The Offspring’s Get a Job
vs.
The Beatles Ob La Di Ob La Da
Same friggin’ song. Not a fan of either.
The opening bass line from the Fraggle Rock theme song sounds very similar to the opening of Psycho Killer by Talking Heads.
People who are scornful of Vanilla Ice’s comments should pay more attention. He was saying that the songs don’t sound anything alike. And he’s right. No one would mistake one song for the other. It’s only the base lines which are similar. He doesn’t deny that they borrowed from Under Pressure. He says outright that they did. He doesn’t say that the base lines sound totally different. He says there is “that little bitty change”. So why are his comments so consistently misrepresented? Because that’s how they were originally framed and since then people watching the video mostly see what they expect to see.
For me it’s the beginning of I Only Wanna Be With You by Hootie and Company. I mistake it for Tangled Up In Blue. (I’d link the songs but can’t find one to the studio version of the Dylan song.)
To me, Argent’s Hold Your Head Up sounds a lot like Neil Young’s When You Dance I Can Really Love.
Enter Sandman by Metallica has a riff straight out of Space Truckin’ by Deep Purple.
Viewers at home can make the call, but the synopsis of the interview is that MC Hammer gave credit to Rick James for reappropriating “Superfreak” in “U Can’t Touch This,” but Vanilla Ice gave no credit to Queen or David Bowie. In a response to why this is the case, he says: “[It] doesn’t sound anything like ‘Under Pressure.’ Only part that sounds like ‘Under Pressure’ is the hook. We sampled it from them, but it’s not the same bass line.” Technically, he is correct. It is not the exact same bass line. It has a single additional note. Otherwise, it’s the same tempo, the same key, the same everything.
I don’t see the misrepresentation you are claiming.
Watch the clip again. We don’t know what the quote you give is a response to. What we hear is a voice over saying that Vanilla Ice only gave credit to himself and his DJ (presumably in the album credits). Then they cut to Vanilla Ice giving the quote. We don’t even know who is interviewing him let alone what question they asked to elicit that response. All we have is the quote itself which, as I’ve pointed out, is true. The songs do not sound the same only the base lines are similar. After another voice over the video cuts to another quote where Vanilla Ice states plainly that they did lift the hook. He says the base lines are not the same but doesn’t try to pretend there is a major difference. He says flat out there is a “little bitty change”.
Given what we know there is no room for any interpretation other than what he said was completely accurate. And yet people describe the video as if Vanilla Ice was claiming the bass lines were very different or even as if he is saying that the hook wasn’t borrowed at all. MilTan’s sarcastic mischaracterization is typical. Again, this is due to how the video was presented by MTV. The thrust of their report is that Vanilla Ice is minimizing the relationship between his song and Under Pressure. But they can only do so by showing his comments in that context.