Similar sounding songs/songs with the same backing track

[Colly]

Put it this way, next years BBQ playlist will include Best Song Ever and Baba o'Riley. In that order.

[PatDaMan]

Dani California from the Red Hot Chili Peppers sounds very similar to Last Dance with Mary Jane

[TwistOfJack]

The Doors - Hello I Love You has a similar riff to The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night, apparently they made a big fuss about the similarity aswell.

Also:

The Who - I Can't Explain and The Clash - Clash City Rockers

The Beatles - Paperback Writer and The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville

David Bowie - Suffragette City and AC/DC - Shoot To Thrill

And a whole load of Chuck Berry hits mysteriously have the exact same riff..

[K]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ

[VerbalPuke]

When Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" used to be played 9 times a day on the radio, I'd always go to my happy place and sing the lyrics to "Message in a Bottle" by the Police instead.

EDIT: Whoops, I didn't read the full title and thought it was just "similar sounding songs". Never mind.

Haha, love this. At work they have the radio on and twice I've said "Is this the Police?". No man, it's Bruno Mars. Who the fuck is Bruno Mars.

[Nerf]

Also on the topic of One Direction, that 'Midnight Memories' steals the chorus hook from 'Pour Some Sugar on Me.'