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

Interesting, I’ve never heard of this other band but I like this version too. Thanks LL!

i didn't know til a few years ago and it explained why i liked that mazzy star song so much more than the other ones i heard. it was actually sort of fun?

Maybe obvious but there's also the quote from "Blue Moon" at the beginning of Clapton's solo in "Sunshine of Your Love".

^^ I swear I was literally just coming here to post that.

Sly & The Family Stone - Plastic Jim/Beatles - Eleanor Rigby

another madonna one that i figure must be intentional is in "justify my love": I don't wanna be your mother/I don't wanna be your sister either/I just wanna be your lover -- must be a reference to prince "i wanna be your lover", yes?

OK how about a bit of Beethovens fifth in in Paul Nicholas' "Reggae like it used to be"

"Reggae Beethoven" indeed

At 1:41 in Alice Coltrane's 'Journey In Satchidanda' Pharoah Sanders quotes something Freddie Hubbard does at 16:53 in John's 'Ascension (Edition I)'.

Which is dead cool as in both instances it's in the context of improvisation. Unless it's originally a reference to something else.

In Huey Lewis's "I Want A New Drug," lead guitarist Chris Hayes plays the intro riff to "Purple Haze" during his outro solo.

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

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.

I can die now.

Oh, and the intro and outro of Sammy Turner's "Stay My Love" reference the 2nd movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony

the entire song sounds like it's derived from that movement

Ha, you are so right, dyl. Guess it doesn't qualify as brief musical reference.

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

speaking of Scarborough Fair: Elizabeth My Dear by the Stone Roses

more than a bit brief tho I suppose, it's basically Scarborough Fair with new lyrics

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)

The intro to Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions is done to the tune of Hey Jude

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

Correction: don't worry baby ref is in the song love not lust for life

"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."

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

^ 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

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

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.

Speaking of the Beatles, the Offspring's "Why Don't You Get A Job" borrows heavily from "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da."

Also in "All You Need Is Love," one of them shouting "ALL TOGETHER NOW" in the outro

even at their most acid fried the Beatles understood the concept of good brand synergy

I think "All together now" came after "All you need is love"

Jenny hval kingsize references Laurie Anderson

"But here I see no subculture, no future;
No big science"

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"

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.

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."

There's a song on the new first aid kit which has the line "what comes after this, momentary bliss" - beach house

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.

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)

Sean Ryder to thread. Lazyitis shovels in great big handfuls of 'ticket to ride', 'family affair' and David Essex.

Big Boi’s Shutterbug breaks into Soul II Soul -Back to life

Does This is why I’m hot fit here?

Does This is why I’m hot fit here?

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

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.)

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.

(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.)

Omc - "how bizarre" has a trumpet playing "the lion sleeps tonight" at some point

^R.E.M. (the band) pay tribute to the same song in “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite”

The brass breakdown from The Cure's "Close to Me" is the middle eight of Sufjan Stevens' "Come On! Feel the Illinoise!"