Probably. Well, well, the man did produce the blue album, he knows what he's doing.

Well that's the thing, that is clearly not what Toledo was doing though? He was interpolating parts and fragments, sure, but never actually just lifting the entirety of the verse. Plus, Ocasek would obviously have been credited, so how is it different really?

Didn't Fountains of Wayne do this exact same thing on (the presumably far more lucrative) 'Stacy's Mom' and essentially get away with it? I always assumed the palm-muted E chord with the sudden staccato bursts in that song was an obvious homage to 'Just What I Needed' too

Having recently watched the Eagles doc, I was actually really amused about the many specific references they managed to get in there. Like BJC, noone in the Eagles were California natives (funny as they all identify wholly with a sort of Californian "desert/coastal" theme in every song). The Eagles also had a bass…