Rip off bands of the 70s/80s?

With the Nice[edit]

• "America, 2nd Amendment", from West Side Story's "America", by Leonard Bernstein, credited, quoting Antonín Dvořák's symphony No. 9, From the New World, uncredited.
• "Rondo", derived from Dave Brubeck's "Blue Rondo à la Turk", uncredited, quoting Bach, Italian Concerto third movement, uncredited.
• "Diary of an Empty Day", from Symphonie Espagnole by Édouard Lalo, credited.
• "Azrael Revisited", quoting Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor, credited, and Lennie Tristano's Turkish Mambo, uncredited.
• "Ars Longa Vita Brevis" – Bach, the third Brandenburg Concerto, Allegro, credited.
• "Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite" – Sibelius, credited.
• "Pathetique", Symphony No. 6 by Tchaikovsky, credited.
• "Hang on to a Dream", from "How Can We Hang on to a Dream?" by Tim Hardin, credited, quoting (during a live recording) "Summertime", from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, uncredited.
• "She Belongs to Me", by Bob Dylan, credited, quoting Bach, uncredited, and fragments of the theme from The Magnificent Seven, by Elmer Bernstein, uncredited.
• "Country Pie", by Bob Dylan, credited, lyrics partly set to Bach, the sixth Brandenburg Concerto, credited.

With ELP[edit]

• "The Barbarian", based on Allegro barbaro, Sz. 49, BB 63 by Béla Bartók, uncredited on US release of Emerson Lake & Palmer (credited on the British Manticore re-pressing of the original LP, on the back cover of the LP jacket).
• "Knife Edge", based on Sinfonietta by Leoš Janáček, uncredited on US release (credited on the British Manticore re-pressing of the original LP, on the back cover of the LP jacket); middle section based on the Allemande from French Suites No. 1 in D minor, by J.S. Bach, uncredited.
• "The Only Way (Hymn)", incorporating (in the song's introduction and bridge) J.S. Bach's 'Organ Toccata in F and Prelude VI from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier', credited on Tarkus.
• "Are You Ready Eddy?", based on the tune of Bobby Troup's song "The Girl Can't Help It" and including a quote from the Assembly bugle call, both uncredited (on Tarkus).
• Pictures at an Exhibition, by Modest Mussorgsky, credited.
• "Blues Variation" from Pictures at an Exhibition also contains an uncredited quote of the 'head' of Bill Evans' minor blues piece "Interplay" (1:52), and an uncredited quote of "Miles Davis'" "Walkin'" (2:44), during Keith Emerson's Hammond Organ solo.
• "Nutrocker", adapted by Kim Fowley (credited) from Tchaikovsky's "March of the Wooden Soldiers" (uncredited).
• "Hoedown", from Rodeo by Aaron Copland, credited, quoting "Shortenin' Bread" and "Turkey in the Straw"", both traditional.
• "Abaddon's Bolero", quoting "The Girl I Left Behind", traditional.
• "Jerusalem", by C. Hubert H. Parry, credited.
• "Maple Leaf Rag", by Scott Joplin (in Works Volume 2), credited.
• "Toccata", from a piano concerto by Alberto Ginastera, endorsed by the composer, credited.
• "Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression", quoting "St. Thomas", a Caribbean melody sometimes attributed to Sonny Rollins, uncredited.
• "Fanfare for the Common Man", by Aaron Copland, credited.
• Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff, quoted in an extended solo in live recordings from Poland.
• With Emerson, Lake & Powell, the main theme to "Touch & Go" is identical to the English folk song "Lovely Joan", better known as the counterpoint tune in Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves Not credited.^[18]
• With Emerson, Lake & Powell, "Mars" is based on the homonym movement of the suite The Planets, by Gustav Holst
• "Romeo & Juliet" from Romeo and Juliet suite by Sergei Prokofiev, credited.
• "Love at First Sight" intro, Étude Op. 10, No. 1, by Frédéric Chopin, uncredited.