This one is pretty cool:
Number Girl's 'kuromegachina shoujo' (黒目がちな少女) track 11 of Num-Heavymetalic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2k9pHc9hqI
and the pillows' 'my girl (fiction version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sbK9hRyRFQ

Did anyone ever note the 'As Tears Go By' (Rolling Stones) quote on the cover of Smile? I think it's obvious, but I didn't see it mentioned!

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before but I just realized that the chord progression in Come Down is used the same way in Walking on The Spiral. It uses the R-b7-6-b6 progression. In the key of C that would be C-Bb-A-Ab. This chord progression has been used by other bands not just by the pillows such as Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4, The Jam's Running On The Spot, and Green Day's Brain Stew.

I also noticed that the outro to Kanojo wa kyou sounds vastly similar to Fun Boy Three's Well Fancy That's intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSqTO5pV0o

I didn't realize until now that the vocal arrangements for Moon is Mine is similar to how "I'm Wishing" by Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is. The echo effects following after the stated words is what caught my ear. Here are some quoted words from the lyrics that have the echo effect (in parenthesis) followed after them, from Moon is mine, "Goodbye (Goodbye)" "Sunshine (Sunshine)" "Hello (Hello)" "Moonlight (Moonlight)". And from Snow White, "I'm Wishing (I'm Wishing)" "To find me (To find me)" "I'm hoping (I'm hoping)" "The nice things (The nice things)" "He'll say (He'll say)".

Are they also melodically similar? I would imagine that Sawao would have taken the idea from some sort of pop music from the 70s or whatnot instead of a Disney film, but that would be sick as hell if he stumbled across that and wanted to use it. XD

Melodically similar? I don't think they are because Moon is mine and I'm Wishing do sound nothing alike! lol But they do share similar vocal model approaches.

The lead guitar intro in Dear, My "First" Step burrows heavily from Happy Xmas (War Is Over) verse melody 0:11 - 0:21
[url]https://youtu.be/z8Vfp48laS8?t=11s[/url]

The outro to Swinger's Night Club seems to be a shout out to Johnny Rivers' Secret Agent Man
[url]https://youtu.be/6iaR3WO71j4[/url]

[quote="CARNVAL372"]The outro to Swinger's Night Club seems to be a shout out to Johnny Rivers' Secret Agent Man
[url]https://youtu.be/6iaR3WO71j4[/url][/quote]

Hm. Secret Agent Man goes up, while Swinger's goes down. It's similar, but I'd also just call it a common kinda Latin-y line cliche (especially in Swinger's, which has that gentle Latin feel).

I heard this song recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtS0rwQK_pI (Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley) and it reminded me of Stalker. It's not hard to hear why

No Substance and Back in the USSR verse [url]https://youtu.be/tSoFRXWtf6Y?t=17s[/url]

Edit:
My Beautiful Sun Irene and Pulp's Disco 2000 [url]https://youtu.be/qJS3xnD7Mus[/url]

I was listening to Pink Floyd's Shine on you crazy diamond and on part 2 of the song (3:54) the riff reminded me of the main riff to Yellow Beans! [url]https://youtu.be/8UXircX3VdM[/url]

[quote="CARNVAL372"]Moon is mine:
Verse: Oasis - Whatever (verse) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuPBrSl9Nw[/quote]
I've been thinking these were similar. Turns out you noticed it years ago.

edit: Happened to find another one just now.

The Predators - Gun Lock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-dihluOmuA (couldn't find the actual CD version)
Tommy James & The Shondells - Hanky Panky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSHVWzRh30k

Do you think that might have been an influence? They sound pretty similar.