songs that sound like other songs

It was pointed out even at the time, but I didn't appreciate until recently how Rachel Stevens' "Some Girls" is essentially a crib of Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine", but with weaker production and a less charismatic delivery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIYgig9maY

Hearteningly the Goldfrapp song has millions of views on YouTube versus merely tens of thousands for "Some Girls". Rachel Stevens was only relevant in a brief temporal window and only in the UK whereas Goldfrapp transcends time and space. Whatever happened to Richard X? He was the Ilxor generation's Mark Ronson.

This all came about from a thread on RYM about the John Lee Hooker "Boogie Chillun" riff. The Goldfrapp song has a little bit of it, "Some Girls" almost none at all.

I'm sure there were Strict Machine/Rachel Stevens mashups floating about in the good old 2000s but it was possibly Sweet Dreams My LAX, rather than Some Girls, even though that would seem more similar!

Speaking of Goldfrapp, Kylie Minogue was definitely inspired by them when she recorded "Two Hearts". Even the video has the same esthetic as "Ooh La La".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQGU-vdXoVE

I remembered it was a Kish Mauve song first, so looked it up to check, and on the Wikipedia article there is a quote from Tom Ewing comparing it to Goldfrapp (among others), ha

the chorus of freez's "southern freez" quotes the opening notes of coltrane's "giant steps"

We finally went to see Hamilton a couple weeks ago and I feel it necessary to report that almost ALL the Hamilton songs sound like other songs - which, I mean, smart move?

Pere Ubu's "Waiting for Mary" and the Velvet Underground's "Lady Godiva's Operation"

^^ And the Stones' "Gomper" has that riff also

“Lust for Life” drums are a slowed down version of those on “Touch Me”

Music doesn’t otherwise sound similar but still

Never occurred to me before, despite Iggy’s acknowledged debt to Jimbo.

not to mention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsZa3diYZg

!

There's a moment about 25 seconds into this (and then again a few times throughout) that sound just like For You Blue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlLlwVk9eI

Some pretty intensive Talking Heads cosplay from Martha & The Muffins (in 1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrXQ31dGlB8

I know their previous three and their next two albums, but not this one, though the video for the title track is one of my favourites. Their shift into dance-oriented rock was somewhat at the expense of their strong melodic sensibilities, but basically hip Toronto bands had to sound like this in 1983 - the alt-country revival movement hadn't taken hold yet.

Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party" and Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone"

I was gonna say the second half of Sabbath's Symptom of the Universe and PWEI's Familus Horribilus until I learnt the former is a sample on the latter

I can't listen to 'Doctrine' from Autechre's debut album without getting 'If we ever get out of here' bit of Wings - Band On The Run stuck in my head