Songs that shamelessly rip "Linus and Lucy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgoPl35n_AY

You know, plinky-plonky piano and a wistful air. Maybe some musicologist can fill in exactly what I mean here.

1. Seeing Other People - Belle and Sebastian
2. Feelgood by Numbers - The Go! Team

I don't know about shapelessly rip, but I've always felt that

3. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - The Temptations

owed something to it.

I was gonna say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACR2RUOPIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBU6PZEXq5w

dave burrell, "margie pargie (a.m. rag)"

The rest of the song is probably not what you're after, but the piano riff of REM's "Pilgrimage" always reminds me of "Linus & Lucy". (Riff goes root-5-6 like the second part of the left hand pattern in L&L, which I guess is a common enough thing to do, but still.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeI06K77Sg8

For a more jazz approach, "Spaces" by the Mal Waldron Trio is my jam, but no youtube that I can find

Ahmad Jamal's "The Awakening." Can't find a YouTube clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io_-KOKyMao

At 2:20

shameless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JyzH5D_jQw

Linus and Lucy gettin' down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cFpqjr9qo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c03GDQBRMcM

Some very good stuff here. What are the common threads through these then?

More of a Charlie Brown Xmas rip but why not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5zYR4qY5aU

coff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JVouRLKEbw

A bit perky, but I always thought so. TheSC's did a few...

ha, i feel like a lot of my own tunes fall into this category

I also feel like a lot of recent philip glass falls into it too /rimshot

ryuichi sakamoto has one, can't remember the name though....