Hmmm. Some are fair, some are less so, as you say.

Has anyone done a similar thing with Beatles songs? Not as an attack on their originality and inventiveness, but just out of interest.
"Sun King" v "Albatross" and "Lady Madonna" v "Bad Penny Blues" are two obvious ones, but delving into more obscure genres would probably unearth other influences and (gasp!) snippets of plagiarism. "Your Mother Should Know" v ...?

that the intro from Don't Look Back In Anger was lifted from Gene Clark's From A Silver Phial.

EDIT: Bloody You Tube and their embedding disability...

does anyone have Johnny Jenkins' 'Ton-Ton Macoute!', and what's it like? Worth a punt?

I reckon it must be, judging from the fantastic cover. Never judge a record by its cover? Nah, I do it all the time, and it often works.

good tune! You see, Cliff, the devil always has the best tunes...

When I heard these lyrics coupled with the middle eight chord sequence of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I thought that it had all got a bit silly:

Only seen one negative review of the new Oasis album so far, by Andy Gill of The Independent. It's going to be an expensive month, Dylan's album is a must to buy and Mercury Rev, TV On The Radio are on the spending list too. Think I'll give Snow Patrol a miss.
Good to have the Gallaghers back.

Wasn't Noel's defence that he'd stolen the tune from Flying and that if Paul McCartney asked for the royalties he'd hand them over?

were the inspiration for "Lyla" - although Noel and co did have the grace to acknowledge this.

Straight rip of Led Zep's "The Immigrant Song" - not sure J Page got a credit?

and they were playing a track that sounded quite good, didn't sound like Liam or Noel singing, quite a nice groove to it - I thought is it or isn't it Oasis so asked the chap behind the counter. I know, I know...it's not cool to ask "what's that you're playing now?" - but I'm not proud.

Chap says, "new Oasis but doesn't sound like them, took 'em bloody years not to sound like the Beatles but seems they've done it".
At that point cue swirling psychedelic backwards looped strings a la "Tomorrow Never Knows" - chap looks at me as he passes me my stuff..."Oh well, maybe not after all!"