Songs that have brief musical references to other tunes in there..

that's Spinal Tap

and Joni nicks a bit of Van Morrison's "Baby Goodbye" for This Flight Tonight (also done by Nazareth)

― Mark G, Wednesday, January 3, 2018 10:04 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not to mention the bit of Jingle Bells in the intro and outro of The River.

Kevin Morby's "1234" references Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" at the end.

that's Spinal Tap

omg i can't believe i did that heh

This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

Elvis Costello's "You Bowed Down" has the 12-string riff from "Turn Turn Turn" in it, probably played by McGuinn himself.

Appropriate, since the song was written for and first recorded by McGuinn for his comeback LP Back From Rio.

...and on that tip, the Byrds bringing up a "Ticket To Ride" in "Artificial Energy".

"All Modern Conveniences" by Clifford T. Ward. When he sings the line "She likes to listen to the radio, music, Clifford T..." the string section plays his own "Gaye."

'vine street' as performed & arranged by van dyke parks on song cycle features a very obvious string quote of beethoven's 9th

'trippin' on a hole in a paper heart' by stone temple pilots quotes the main riff of led zeppelin's 'dancing days' in the prechoruses

'cherub rock' by the smashing pumpkins has a couple: the opening E octave vamp is a rip from the middle of rush's 'bytor and the snow dog,' and the chorus is the same melody/chords as cheap trick's 'oo la la la'

great thread btw

The 'Thought you might like to know' bit in Pink Floyd's "Apples and Oranges" references Sgt. Pepper title track.

"The Skye Boat Song" is referenced in Parliament's "The Silent Boatman"

MJ « Will You Be There » : Beethoven’9th

'you were wrong' by built to spill is full of lyrical references to famous songs but afaik has no musical references

bartok's concerto for orchestra quotes/mocks a theme from shostakovich's seventh

Does it have to be two different bands? "Pop Goes The World" by Men Without Hats drops the "Safety Dance" keyboard thing in the middle.

Eddie Money "Take Me Home Tonight" and they got Ronnie Spector to sing her own reference

The Velvet Underground "There She Goes Again" plays the intro riff from Marvin Gaye's "Hitch Hike" (The Smiths copped this too for "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out")

'silence kid' by pavement has the same vocal melody as buddy holly's 'everyday.' although i don't think that's really what the thread is looking for- this is little riffs or melodies dropped or weaved in, rather than wholesale rips right? another example of that is 'i want it that way' by the backstreet boys, which is exactly the same vocal melody as bruce springsteen's 'atlantic city'

Billy Joel's "The River of Dreams" concludes with him singing a little bit of the Cadillacs' "Gloria."

Paul McCartney (feat. Stevie Wonder)'s "What's That You're Doing" ends up with some "she loves you, yeah, yeah yeah" material. His concert-warmup-track "P.S. Love Me Do" is best left forgotten.

The 'Thought you might like to know' bit in Pink Floyd's "Apples and Oranges" references Sgt. Pepper title track.

― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:33 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post

Never spotted that! Yeah..

Does it have to be two different bands?

lou reed quotes "sweet jane" at the start of street hassle.

foetus does this a lot... off the top of my head:

"kid hate kid" starts with the opening of the monkees theme song.
"satan place" quotes "wipeout"

"sick man" quotes the batman tv show theme tune.

'Lucifer Over London' by Current 93 starts off with the opening riff from Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid'

yeah that one! the transition is stunning

it's the best song really

Ray Mang - Number One seems to have a bit of Turn Your Love Around by George Benson in the melody, but i'm not sure if that was intentional or not.

https://youtu.be/DN60ENBVGVw

another foetus: "enter the exterminator" quotes grieg's "in the hall of the mountain king".

Lots of Ariel Pink songs:

the chorus of "Not Enough Violence" quotes the distorted vibrato guitar that runs through "One Hundred Years" by The Cure.

"Time to Live" quotes the verse melody of "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.

"Bubblegum Dreams" quotes the melody of "Son of a Gun" by The Vaselines.

"Another Weekend" quotes the opening of "Private Line" by William Bell and Judy Clay.

"the osmonds" by denim quotes snatches of "kojak" by lee perry and "rock on" by david essex.

Oh that Dinosaur Jr Version of "Quicksand" that starts with the intro from "Andy Warhol"

mysterioso pizzicato in the intros to the sonics' "strychnine" and Kevin ayers's "don't sing no more sad songs" and surely others

toward the end there pavement's "range life" references billy squire's "everybody wants you"

"4th Time Around" by Bob Dylan is a mocking melodic and arrangement quotation of "Norwegian Wood" by The Beatles.

malkmus' "jo-jo's jacket" references dylan's "it's all right ma (i'm only bleeding)" but more lyrically than musically

Liz Phair's "Jealousy" ends with the little ~diddle-oo diddle-oo~ that similarly closes "When The Levee Breaks."

More Joni, she quotes "Do you wanna dance" in "In France They alias on the Main Street"

Lol, "In France They ***Kiss On the Main Street"

In France They Alias on Main Street is a great fucking title as well, thank you for the typo

the queens of the stone-age fortress track which has a neil young riff reference to hey hey, my my

Dave E. and the Cool Marriage Counselors' "Searching Through Sears" references Mr. Ed in the lyrics, then drops in a couple bars from the theme song.

among other can songs the fall's "i am damo suzuki" references "oh yeah"

Thompson Twins use the riff from their "In the Name of Love" in "Love On Your Side

"moonlight in vermont" by captain beefheart quotes "come out" by steve reich and "old-time religion".

"1,000 Umbrellas" by XTC quotes the strings at the end of "Glass Onion" by The Beatles.

Wilco - I'm Always In Love. The end of that song references I'm Waiting For My Man, Velvet Underground.

Neil Young & Stephen Stills - Long May You Run
Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now, with those waves singing Caroline (Oh Caroline no)

this one isn't super brief, but

lana del rey - terrence loves you

"You Only Live Twice" strings are transposed to lana's vocal melody on some of the verses

"Bing Crosby" by Van Dyke Parks interpolates "Pennies from Heaven" by Arthur Johnston and Johnny Burke (made famous by Bing Crosby).

Julian Cope singing the tune from "As Tears Go By" at the end of "Passionate Friend"

Mutantes breaking into "Satisfaction" at the end of "Mágica"

Captain Beefheart, "Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones" references "Strawberry Fields Forever".

Which reminds me, it's time to break out Nilsson's version of "You Can't Do That", which, according to a guy in the YouTube comments section, and I can't be bothered to check, references (in order): She's A Woman, I'm Down, Drive My Car, You Can't Do That, You're Gonna Lose That Girl, Good Day Sunshine, A Hard Day's Night, Rain, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Day Tripper, Paperback Writer, Do You Wanna Know a Secret, Girl, Norwegian Wood, Yesterday, Strawberry Fields Forever.

https://www.you.tube.com/watch?v=Ue0Mf7_EHk8

And another Christmas one: the Push Kings repurpose the "fall on your knees" bit of "O Holy Night" for the bridge of "Be Kind, Be Still, Be Near"

And Greg Lake's 'I Believe In Father Xmas' with a large chunk of Prokofiev

Nobody will believe me, but “Rapper’s Delight” quotes the baseline from “Good Times”

Pusha T - Numbers On The Board references Jay Z - Rhyme No More v briefly

i thought that was a literal sample of the song inserted?

thanks autocorrect for “baseline” and making me look like a doofus

I just read the whole thread and have to unburden myself of everything that came to mind as I read:

That bit in Roxy Music's Re-Make/Re-Model where the bass does the 'Day Tripper' riff

...and the sax plays "Ride of the Valkyries".

Bach's 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' is quoted in the guitar break in The Byrds' 'She Don't Care About Time'

...and also by Steve Nieve in "The Only Flame in Town" by Elvis Costello.

The goofy little 1812 Overture excerpt at the start of 2112.

...and "Night of Fear" by The Move.

At the very end of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond pt. 6-9" Richard Wright plays the "Soon after dark, Emily cries" melody from "See Emily Play"

Something I read said he also quoted "Strangers in the Night" here, but I can't hear that now.

In "The All-Golden" by Van Dyke Parks, he sings, "Off the record..." and is answered by a parody of the horn fanfares from "Surf's Up" (which he co-wrote for the Beach Boys Smile album).

Beck quotes the melody of "Jingle Bells" in "Hotwax".

Deep Purple interpolate a section of Manuel De Falla's "El Sombrero De Tres Picos" into their rendition of "Hey Joe" (and then credited the whole thing to themselves).

Chris Stamey:

on Repercussion, the second of the dB’s records, there is a shout-out to Ives. He was famous for incorporating musical “quotes” in his original works, and we put a phrase of one of his favorites, the hymn “Shall We Gather By The River?” after the line, “Ives was on the stereo,” into the second verse of our song “From A Window To A Screen.”

Quasi-sampling:

The opening track of Game Theory's Lolita Nation features a montage of the opening seconds of three previous Game Theory records.

King Crimson play a bit of the record of "The Court of the Crimson King" in "The Devil's Triangle".

Faust play the Rolling Stones and Beatles recordings of "Satisfaction" and "All You Need is Love" in the intro of "Why Don't You Eat Carrots".

Metallica's very stupid "Don't Tread on Me" has a dual octave guitar rendition of "America" from West Side Story before the main riff starts.

ironic, since the movie version of that WSS song espouses ideas very much the polar opposite of what Metallica is expressing in their song.

"Stay Up Late" by Talking Heads calls back to "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" by the Temptations.

"I know you wanna leave me"

Michael Stipe's Elvis impersonation on "Hey baby" after the "Andy, are you goofing on Elvis?" line in R.E.M.'s "Man On The Moon."

Pink Floyd's "Fearless" ends with the football crowd singing "You'll Never Walk Alone"

Spacemen 3's "Revolution" basically *is* the MC5's "Black To Comm"

The main riff from The Hives' "Go Right Ahead" ended up sounding so much like ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down" that the band preemptively contacted Jeff Lynne for permission and gave him a songwriting credit.

Never mind "Fearless" - it's outside the scope of this thread

"The Silent Boatman" by Parliament references "The Skye Boat Song"... not briefly though.

Rich by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions quotes Telegram Sam by T Rex towards the end .

pretty sure Ballad of the Band by Felt quotes Outdoor Miner by Wire.

I been working on Concord Sonata this week and anyone who likes this kind of shit would be wise to go deep—-there are PhDs and published books written about tracking all Ives’s nods and quotes in it— Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Wagner, spirituals— he even wrote original “folk” music (and a fake Sousa March) as source material for his collageing— it’s great

Michael Stipe's Elvis impersonation on "Hey baby" after the "Andy, are you goofing on Elvis?" line in R.E.M.'s "Man On The Moon."

I glanced at a reference to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" upthread a couple of days ago and assumed it was about the quote in "Sidewinder". But someone was claiming that the horns in "How Bizarre" quote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (idk)

Kate Bush throws out a verse of 'When You Wish Upon A Star' at the end of 'In Search Of Peter Pan'

xp that was me I was tripping

'vine street' as performed & arranged by van dyke parks on song cycle features a very obvious string quote of beethoven's 9th
Which then dissolves into a lick from "The Entertainer"! There are probably fifteen little jokes on that album

there are probably fifteen little jokes in that one song, the album is just relentless

― flappy bird, Saturday, January 13, 2018 8:10 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I been working on Concord Sonata this week and anyone who likes this kind of shit would be wise to go deep—-there are PhDs and published books written about tracking all Ives’s nods and quotes in it— Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Wagner, spirituals— he even wrote original “folk” music (and a fake Sousa March) as source material for his collageing— it’s great

― the five French fry feeling (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, August 25, 2022 11:11 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://medium.com/@bizmarkiemoon/charles-ives-in-groucho-marxs-pajamas-5ffcd3f5597f

xps Jellyfish have a "When You Wish Upon a Star" reference too, in "Joining a Fan Club" — the strings come in with a bit of the melody after a lyrical reference to Pinocchio

At the end of "Fruits and Vegetables" by Chunky, Novi and Ernie, they interpolate melodies from at least three sources:

Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf
The Merrie Melodies theme
The Toreador theme from Bizet’s Carmen

'The Purple People Eater' by Sheb Wooley (1958) has brief quotations of 'Short Shorts' by The Royal Teens and 'Tequila' by the Champs, both of the same year, as well as Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti', then a fairly recent hit.

Also, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway has a bit of 'On Broadway' by the Drifters.

...and there's a few bars of 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' in 'Joan Crawford' by Blue Oyster Cult