Strangely similar songs

Also, I don't remember what it was but some obscure south american prog band put out a song where part of the section sounded exactly like a Joe Walsh song but theirs was released first. A really strange coincidence because I seriously doubt that Joe traveled to south America heard this band in some bar and said "Hmmm, I like that. Nobody will know the difference." :D

Hawkwind's Hall Of The Mountain Grill (1974) and the beginning of Stories' Earthbound / Freefall (1973).         

There is great similarity in The refrains in Darkness by Peter Gabriel (Up) and The Irrelevant Love Song by T (Psychoanorexia).

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I often question myself and certain ideals ........

Why do I feel that Floyd's Learning To Fly sounds similar to Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. ??
I swear you can fit the lyrics and chord progression and tempo...... with each other

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Green River by CCR and Long Cool Woman(In a Black Dress) by The Hollies are similar in vocal style and in melody

Its subtle, but Dire Straits Down to the Waterline and Pink Floyds Comfortably Numb use the same scale and even repeat the same notes in certain parts of each song. Not to call foul play, of course, the scale is used in a lot of songs, but these tracks can become glaringly similar once the listener becomes aware of this.

Triumvirat’s The History of Mystery has two passages that had to have been inspired, intentionally or not, by earlier songs:

 

1.  The opening section sounds a lot like Apache by the Shadows (or by “Jorgen Ingemann and His Guitar” in the U.S.)

 

2. The tune that opens and closes the next section sounds like a variation on a theme from ELP’s Karn Evil 9 1st Impression (the one with the guitar solo).