Which is dead cool as in both instances it's in the context of improvisation. Unless it's originally a reference to something else.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
In Huey Lewis's "I Want A New Drug," lead guitarist Chris Hayes plays the intro riff to "Purple Haze" during his outro solo.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
Richard Thompson "The Great Valerio" has a brief exposed quotation from the "Balancoire" number from Erik Saties "Sports et Divertissements" suite
In "Good Love" Prince says Mahler No. 3 is jamming on the box and a short in your face synth-orchestral riff comes in suddenly and I have not identified it as a specific moment from Mahler's 3rd but I feel confident is
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
Soloing in Silkworm's "Raised by Tigers" mimics soloing/vocalizing from Pavement's "In the Mouth a Desert." I listened to that Silkworm album, In the West, once in like '95, noticed that musical reference, and have been waiting 22 years for this thread so I could share this observation. Thank you.
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
I can die now.
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Oh, and the intro and outro of Sammy Turner's "Stay My Love" reference the 2nd movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
the entire song sounds like it's derived from that movement
― dyl, Thursday, 18 January 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
Ha, you are so right, dyl. Guess it doesn't qualify as brief musical reference.
― andrew m., Friday, 19 January 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
Tons on the new Lana :
- "don't worry baby" and "my boyfriends back" in lust for life
- "Scarborough fair" is referenced in "cherry"
- Neil young and the locomotion track both referenced on the closing cut
- "stairway to heaven" referenced on coachella I'm my mind
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
speaking of Scarborough Fair: Elizabeth My Dear by the Stone Roses
― nate woolls, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
more than a bit brief tho I suppose, it's basically Scarborough Fair with new lyrics
― nate woolls, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
In "Lazy Sunday" by the Small Faces they play the Stones' "Satisfaction" riff on kazoo, and also the "Colonel Bogey March" (the whistling tune in Bridge on the River Kwai)
― Josefa, Friday, 19 January 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
The intro to Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions is done to the tune of Hey Jude
― EMEL, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
Oh, and there's the bit in the Bridge Is Over that's rapped to the tune of It's Still Rock & Roll To Me
― EMEL, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
Correction: don't worry baby ref is in the song love not lust for life
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
"Glass Onion" has a reference to "The Fool on the Hill" after John sings "I told you bout the fool on the hill / I tell you man, he's living there still" - and then Paul plays a brief phrase on the recorder, calling back to "The Fool on the Hill."
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
The Beatles "Polythene Pam" uses the "Yeah yeah yeah" refrain from "She Loves You". the inclusion of the catchphrase turns that section of the Abbey Road medley into a conscious throwback to their first hit 6 years prior
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
^ that also shows up at the end of "All You Need is Love," Paul singing the chorus of "She Loves You" slowly by himself as the song fades out
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
Dean blunts Papi liberally samples echoes by pink Floyd for the beat
On the same record he samples oh daddy by Fleetwood Mac, particularly a stretch of the beat used near the outro of the original song
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 19 January 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
Steely Dan's Show Biz Kids has that little bit of the Reelin' in the Years guitar lick after the "They got the Steely Dan t-shirt" line.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 19 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
Speaking of the Beatles, the Offspring's "Why Don't You Get A Job" borrows heavily from "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da."
― nickn, Friday, 19 January 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
Also in "All You Need Is Love," one of them shouting "ALL TOGETHER NOW" in the outro
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
even at their most acid fried the Beatles understood the concept of good brand synergy
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
I think "All together now" came after "All you need is love"
― Mark G, Friday, 19 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
Jenny hval kingsize references Laurie Anderson
"But here I see no subculture, no future;No big science"
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 20 January 2018 09:19 (six years ago) link
Also jenny hval references merry Xmas - war is over in take care of yourself. Throw back to Fiona Apple on "and feminism is over and socialism's over"
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 20 January 2018 09:35 (six years ago) link
The solos in "People Who Died" repeatedly throw in the "Roll Over Beethoven" riff, but that may just reflect Chuck's contribution to rock DNA generally.
― if you steeleye spanshine (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 January 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
There's a live version of The Go-Betweens' "The Clock" where Grant, right before Robert's outro guitar solo, says/sings "Play, magic fingers!" exactly the way Mike Nesmith does on The Monkees' "Papa Gene's Blues."
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 25 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
There's a song on the new first aid kit which has the line "what comes after this, momentary bliss" - beach house
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
speaking of Scarborough Fair: Elizabeth My Dear by the Stone Roses― nate woolls, Friday, January 19, 2018 10:41 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Scarborough Fair is actually a folk song from like the 16th century which has lots of variants, so you could just say the Stone Roses were reclaiming that tradition.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
Two more for the 80's kids:- In the middle of La Di Da Di, Slick Rick starts singing a few lines from "Sukiyaki" by A Taste of Honey.- In the Thompson Twins "Love On Your Side", they make a musical reference to their own song. When he sings "I've played you all my favorite records", the song quotes the melody from "In The Name of Love", which was on their previous album. I've always thought it was lame to shout out their own song (surely this one can't be his actual favorite record)
― enochroot, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
Sean Ryder to thread. Lazyitis shovels in great big handfuls of 'ticket to ride', 'family affair' and David Essex.
― out comes stanley, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
Big Boi’s Shutterbug breaks into Soul II Soul -Back to life
― ƒ©˙∆˚¬ (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link
Does This is why I’m hot fit here?
― ƒ©˙∆˚¬ (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 06:53 (six years ago) link
― ƒ©˙∆˚¬ (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 06:54 (six years ago) link
believe in something fun by price rama references "break stuff" by limp bizkit
there's also a reference to within you, without you on another track
― tinnitus the night (Ross), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
jay-z's "i just wanna love u (give it 2 me)" very briefly references carl thomas's "i wish", which was a hit earlier in the same year. (obviously its interpolation of rick james's "give it to me baby" for the hook is more prominent.)
― dyl, Monday, 18 March 2019 03:02 (five years ago) link
Ariana Grande’s “R.E.M.” evokes the famous ”bum-bum-bum-bum” scatting of “Mr. Sandman” — working the same “dream theme” — without actually repeating the earlier song’s melody.
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Monday, 18 March 2019 03:43 (five years ago) link
(Come to think of it — Pharrell’s spoken line in the same song (”I know how to keep it”) arguably echoes Mr. Sandman’s ”Yes?” in the Chordettes classic.)
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Monday, 18 March 2019 04:05 (five years ago) link
Omc - "how bizarre" has a trumpet playing "the lion sleeps tonight" at some point
― brimstead, Monday, 18 March 2019 04:11 (five years ago) link
^R.E.M. (the band) pay tribute to the same song in “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite”
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Monday, 18 March 2019 04:16 (five years ago) link
The brass breakdown from The Cure's "Close to Me" is the middle eight of Sufjan Stevens' "Come On! Feel the Illinoise!"
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 18 March 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link
Pavement’s “Trigger Cut” nicks the intro of VU’s “Coney Island Steeplechase”
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Monday, 18 March 2019 04:19 (five years ago) link
the microphones - florida beach (beach boys' 'good vibrations')
― but i'm there are fuckups (Karl Malone), Monday, 18 March 2019 04:24 (five years ago) link
“Universal Frequencies,” by His Name Is Alive, is sort of an extended study in musical references to “Good Vibrations” (maybe to a point beyond the scope of this thread topic).
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Monday, 18 March 2019 04:37 (five years ago) link
Okkervil River have a couple of these. "John Allyn Smith Sails" quotes from "Sloop John B" and "Famous Tracheotomies" quotes from "Waterloo Sunset". In both cases the musical quotation is integral to the lyrics of the song. Will Sheff is one clever dude.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 18 March 2019 08:59 (five years ago) link
and that's the third post in a row to reference the Beach Boys
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 18 March 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
I always appreciated how the Handsome Furs "All We Want Baby Is Everything" walks the line between homage, cover version, and complete reimagination of New Order's "Temptation".
And speaking of New Order, they sort of did the same thing on "Run 2" which reimagines "Leaving On A Jet Plane". But in their case I think it was inadvertent or just plain coincidental.
― enochroot, Monday, 18 March 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
Does "Christina Applegate you gotta put me on" from "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" by PM Dawn count?
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 18 March 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
No one has ever successfully explained how Run is similar to Leaving on a Jet Plane to me.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 18 March 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link