The Twenty Craziest Soundalike Songs

This weekend you tortured your spouses/roommates/pets by spending hours painstakingly comparing soundalike songs, honing in on the key moments that made pairs of tracks seem so familiar. Your nominations rocked. So do most of these songs. Check out the finalists that made the cut:

1. Jet’s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” and Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life”
2. Fergie’s “Fergalicious” and J.J. Fad’s “Supersonic”
3. The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” and Offspring’s “Why Don’t You Get a Job”
4. Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” and Blondie’s “X Offender”
5. Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Boston’s “More Than a Feeling”
6. Nazareth’s “Hair of the Dog” and the Beatles’ “Day Tripper”
7. The Doors’ “Roadhouse Blues” and Oasis’ “Put Yer Money Where Your Mouth Is”
8. Foo Fighters’ “Monkey Wrench” and Elton John’s “Whipping Boy”
9. Sublime’s “What I Got” and the Beatles’ “Lady Madonna”
10. Wilco’s “Walken” and Spoon’s “Don’t Make Me a Target”
11. Akon’s “Don’t Matter” and R. Kelly’s “Ignition” (Remix)
12. Billy Joel’s “Honesty” and Elton John’s “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word”
13. Phish’s “Farmhouse” and Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry”
14. Elastica’s “Connection” and Wire’s “Three Girl Rhumba”
15. Bryan Adams’ “Summer of 69″ and Green Day’s “Jesus of Suburbia”
16. Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and Weezer’s “Beverly Hills”
17. Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” and The Black-Eyed Peas “Where is the Love”
18. The Kinks “Picture Book” and Green Day’s “Warning”
19. The Killers’ “When You Were Young” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run”
20. Pearl Jam’s “Given to Fly” and Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California”

Bonus link: For an awesomely obsessive fanboy take on this subject, check out this site. The hidden connection between Santana’s “Smooth” and the Scorpions’ “No One Like You” will blow your wig back.

-- Rolling Stone