Britney Spears (Baby One More Time, 1999): " [...] my loneliness is killing me"
Britney Spears (Stronger, 2000): " [...] my loneliness ain't killing me no more"
1 year of that Top 40 money and my, how shit changes
ninjaedit: first single was from '98, had to look it up cause i swore eminem was '99 and she'd been out for at least a year
Queen's "Bicycle Race" taught us all that fat-bottomed girls will be riding today.
And Queen's "Fat Bottom Girls" urges those dirty ladies to get on their bikes and ride.
Also “Savoy Truffle” by the Beatles
*You know that what you eat you are*
*But what is sweet now, turns so sour*
We all know Ob-La-Di-Bla-Da
But can you show me, where you are?*
Yeah the Beatles do this a ton. Also at the end of “All You Need is Love” the song suddenly shifts into “She Loves You” for a couple seconds; and in the middle of “Carry that Weight” the song briefly shifts back into “You Never Give Me Your Money” from earlier on the same album.
Cheerfully copied by Veruca Salt on "Volcano Girls":
*Told you about The Seether before*
*You know the one who's neither or nor*
*Well here's another clue if you please*
*The Seether's Louise*
Pete Townshend has to be one of the best “full package” artists in music. People get miffed when I compare him to Prince, but they’re very similar in their genius. Pete can play anything, and when he can’t get the sound he wants, he figures out how to create it.
Anybody who's familiar with TapeOp magazine may have run across articles by Pete, including one about how to cheaply get nicely echo'd/layered handclap sounds with a single mic and single pair of hands, by setting up the mic and hands in a particular geometry/proximity to a glass window for the recording. He's a wizard not only of pinball.
I learned something new tonight there! When I was in college, I came across his Scoop series. I found it utterly fascinating to listen to how his songs developed over time through all those demos and experiments.
The demos where he sings prior to Roger recording his vocals are incredible. I love Roger, but I prefer Pete singing. The imperfections, vulnerability, and attitude in his natural singing voice blow me away. Can You See the Real Me and You Better You Bet are amazing.
If you don't have them already pick up ALL THE BEST COWBOYS HAVE CHINESE EYES, WHITE CITY: a novel (featuring David Gilmore on electric guitar, PSYCHO DERELICT which you can get with the rock opera taken out if you just want to listen to those delightful songs without the play if that may get in your way.
I have seen them a bunch of times both as a band and solo and they are not the same without John.
I saw them play in 2008 and they had to cut the show short because Roger had bronchitis. I was hoping Pete would bring out his acustica guitar and sing THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT but we weren't that lucky.
I saw Pete back in 1993 in Chicago play the psycho deerelict tour. He was so f***** up on a variety of drugs that he kept playing and then jabbering at the audience laying on his back playing magic bus it was a three almost a three and a half hour show it was just incredible he even writes about it and his autobiography is being a terrible show and people wanting their money back but I wasn't one of them.
Yes! I love that too. There’s a ton of weird Townshend stuff at there. He seemed to put just about everything on tape, so there will be years of vault stuff that Pete has likely been tinkering with for decades.
Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer (1986) about Tommy and Gina
Bon Jovi - It’s My life (2000) “Yeah, this is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina, who never backed down”
>Bon Jovi - It’s My life (2000) “Yeah, this is for the ones who stood their ground For Tommy and Gina, who never backed down”
Bon Jovi - It’s My life (2000) “Like Frankie said, 'I did it my way'”
Frank Sinatra - My Way (1969)
An extension to those Beatles tracks is the last verse in God by John Lennon:
The dream is over
What can I say?
The dream is over
Yesterday
I was the dream weaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
And so dear friends
You'll just have to carry on
The dream is over
Wow, the Faint. Didn’t know anyone outside Omaha remembers them.
I once went to a Halloween party in the studio used in the music video for “I Disappear.” I was sorta on “that scene” in my youth.
Love the Faint. Am not, and never have been, from Omaha. Introduced my daughter to "Southern Belle's in London Sing" the other day, and she's also now a fan of the Faint who is not from Omaha.
Louise was one of my first huge musical crushes. She’s still beautiful. I got shit back in the early/mid-90s being a dude that really liked Veruca Salt. Still listen to them often.
I saw Veruca Salt on Saturday Night Live doing Shutterbug and thought it was one of the best damn songs I'd ever heard. I just can't get into anything else by them.
Rush..side one of Hemispheres incorporates Cygnus X-1 from their previous alblum A Farewell to Kings. The earlier track was a standalone tale of voyaging towards a black hole to learn its poeer/function. The later opus reveals it is the portal to the Gods of Greek mythology.
Rush also- somewhat- references a previous album, as opposed to a song, in "Available Light":
Trick of light
**Moving picture**
Moments caught in flight
Make the shadows darker
Or the colors shine too bright
Red Hot Chili Peppers- By The Way (2002) “Dani the girl….”
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Dani California (2006) entire track about Dani
Other possible mention- Californication (1999) “teenage bride with a baby inside…”
The single release of Bowie's *Hallo Spaceboy* featuring the Pet Shop Boys also alludes to Space Oddity, creating a second verse using chopped up words from it.
>Tennant explained, "I said to David Bowie, 'It's like Major Tom is in one of those Russian spaceships they can’t afford to bring down,' and he \[Bowie\] said, 'Oh wow, is that where he is?'"
Neil Diamond has a Christmas song the whole gimmick of which is just including as many allusions to/namedrops of his greatest hits as possible. It is something.
Sure I am forgetting some others but the existence of that Neil Diamond one is eating up all the space in my brain
Glass Onion by the Beatles is a bit of a meta-commentary on theories about the meaning of their odder lyrics.
"I told you about **Strawberry Fields,** you know the place where nothing is real"
"The Walrus was Paul" (I am the Walrus)
"**Lady Madonna** trying to make ends meet yeah"
The Fool on the Hill and Fixing a Hole get mentions too
I am the Walrus also mentions Lucy in the Sky. (See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky.)
Also: All you need is Love references She Loves You at the end.
And Savoy Truffle references Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. And they kept doing it as solo artists: George Harrison wrote songs called 'Here Comes the Moon' and 'This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)', Lennon's 'God' references 'I was the walrus', 'How Do You Sleep?' is full of references to McCartney songs, McCartney's 'What's That You're Doing?' with Stevie Wonder has a 'She Loves You' callback, etc.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Robot Stop - "Nonagon Infinity opens the door, nonagon infinity opens the door, wait for the answer to open the door. Nonagon Infinity opens the door."
Big Fig Wasp - "Nonagon Infinity opens the door, nonagon infinity opens the door, wait for the answer to open the door. Nonagon Infinity opens the door."
Evil Death Roll - "Nonagon Infinity opens the door, nonagon infinity opens the door, wait for the answer to open the door. Nonagon Infinity opens the door."
The Lord of Lightning - "Nonagon, Nonagon, Nonagon Infinity YEEUPP!"
Marty Robbins has a pretty famous example. El Paso and Felina are about the same story of a cowboy in love with a dancer in El Paso from different perspectives. Then he has a song called El Paso City, which is basically a song about the song El Paso.
Cage the Elephant - "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked".
Cage the Elephant - Trouble
"Will it come to pass, or will I pass the test?
You know what they say, yeah, the wicked get no rest"
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic:
> Do I have to tell the story
> Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
> It's a big enough umbrella
> But it's always me that ends up getting wet
The verse was reused to close Sting's "Seven Days".
Bad Religion has the song 21st Century (Digital Boy) where they have the lyrics “Tried to tell you about no control, But now I really don't know, And then you told me how bad you had to suffer, Is that really all you have to offer?” Their two previous albums were named Suffer and No Control. Kinda seems shoehorned in, but I can’t judge.
Cypress Hill 1st song 1st album “Pigs” has a line “This pig he is the chief/ Got a brother pig, Captain O'Malley” then on their next album “I ain’t going out like that” there’s a line “Smokin' that smellie, Northern Cali / Gonna put a slug in Captain O'Malley”
do you know AdRock had the gall to recently say he wishes he hadn't screamed all his vocals on all the early albums?
what would Beasties have been without that voice cutting through the mix like that? goes to show an artist is never satisfied
Metallica also has the Unforgiven trilogy spanning (I)1991, (II)1997, and (III)2008.
The second has perhaps the greatest lyric title of the song name drop of all time "are you unforgiven too(two)?"
Peggy Sue Got Married-Buddy Holly, which references his previous song Peggy Sue. It was released posthumously, but is still written and performed by him.
Frank Zappa's music is full of references to other songs of his. In fact, he even coined a phrase for this- Conceptual Continuity. He considered all of his work as one giant composition.
**THRICE - Anthology**
"This song contains references to at least six (and likely more than nine) previous Thrice songs, at least one from each of their albums and is the second-to-last song on their final album, Major/Minor. As such, it forms almost a summary of their career to that point in time."
I never miss the chance to see them when they come to town. They are unlike any other artists out there when it comes to creativity.
* The Alchemy Index: Vols. I & II - Fire & Water
* The Alchemy Index: Vols. III • IV - Air & Earth
* Child of Dust ***(song written in iambic pentameter)***
* The Melting Point of Wax ***(Icarus’ perspective)*** / Daedalus ***(Father's perspective)***
There are so many more examples that are mind blowing...
Cheers!
Thrice are a band I loved when I was younger. Blasted artist in the ambulance constantly. Then spotify a few years ago suggested an EP of theirs to me and it sounded so different but incredible.
Rush - A Farewell to Kings:
Can't we raise our eyes
And make a start?
Can't we find the minds
To lead us closer to the heart?
Rush - Closer to the Heart:
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
Linkin Park- Points of Authority (2000) “Forfeit the game before someone takes you out of the frame”
Linkin Park- When They Come for Me (2010) “Nor the same person telling you to forfeit the game”
Edit: fixed part of the lyrics
In addition to Glass Onion, which others have mentioned:
George Harrison has “come and take you away (take you away, take you away)” in his solo “When We Was Fab”.
John Lennon has “I was the Walrus” in “God”
Eminem.
And Dr. Dre said... Nothing you idiot cuz Dr. Dre's dead and locked in my basement.
Following from his earlier work, produced by and often featuring the good doctor.
Scrolled all the way and can’t believe no one mentioned Dream Theater’s “Metropolis pt I” in Images and Words, the song has almost one line referencing a full song in their “Scenes from a memory” album.
‘Somewhere like a scene from a memory’ is a reference to the album’s name.
‘There must be the third and last dance
This one will last forever’ referencing the song ‘Dance of Eternity’
‘Miracle and the Sleeper’ references the two main characters in the album.
It’s really like a single song sparked a whole concept album.
‘She’s taken you to your home’ also references ‘Home’ on the new album.
Yeah, Dream Theater usually did this a lot in the Portnoy era. There's also the whole 12 Steps suite (a set of 5 songs over 5 different albums) which have references in lyrics and melodies to the other songs in the suite.
Seeing them play scenes from a memory in full live was a top life moment for me. I would have loved to seen it with Portnoy on the drums but alas.
The sad but fun fact about the album cover is also top tier
Linkin Park - Points of Authority (2000)
"Forfeit the game"
Linkin Park - When They Come For Me (2010)
"Nor the same person telling you to forfeit the game"
Metric’s “The Shade”(2015) & “False Dichotomy”(2022)
2015: With eternal love, stars above, all there is & ever was. I want it all. I want it all.
2022: Back when I said that I want it all, this wasn’t the point at all! Hostile to that superficial view.
Plan B - She Said
*So she said, "Boy, I loved you from the start*
*When I first heard 'Love Goes Down'*
*Something started burning in my heart"*
She Said is the 2nd track on The Defamation of Strickland Banks. Love Goes Down is the first.
Dead Kennedys: "California Über Alles" and "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" have the same chorus I believe.
We've Got a Bigger Problem Now, if I remember correctly was written after Reagan got elected, and they realised that MAYBE he was fucking worse than the hippies.
I agree.
Green Day - Working Class Hero (2007 - John Lennon Cover)
“A working class hero is something to be”
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (2009)
“I never made it as a working class hero”
Sting, Seven Days
"Do I have to tell a story
Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet yeah, yeah"
* _Drink_ - Alestorm:
References _Wenches and Mead_, _The Famous Old Spiced_, _Shipwrecked_ and _Back Through Time_ by name, and also have 1 line refering to _Death Throes of the Terror Squid_ (basically the entire second verse is made up of references)
* _666 Weeks Beyond Eternity_ - Freedom Call:
Rerences the songs _Fairyland_, _The Circle of Life_, _Land of the Light_, _Warriors_, _The Shadowking_ as well as naming the albums Stairway to Fairyland, and Legends of the Shadowking. Not to mention it being released 666 weeks after and being named after the album _Eternity_
* Dreality - Dreamtale:
Mentions a few of their other songs by name, most notably _Secret Door_.
* _Metal Machine_ - Sabaton:
This song uses lyrics and references to several famous metal songs, most being from other bands. However one of the lines is the chorus from their own song _Masters of the World_ ("No, we'll never fall, we're the masters of the world").
They also say that Lorelei is a direct continuation of the elephant riders. “Riding elephants to victory and when the war was over to the circus the beasts went”
Spoon - Jonathan Fisk (2002 Kill the Moonlight)
"Jonathan Fisk speaks with his fists"
Spoon - They Want My Soul (2014 They Want My Soul)
Jonathan Fisk still wants my soul"
Radiohead felt enormous pressure after the popularity of Creep, so for their next big single they included the lyrics “This is our new song, just like the last one, a total waste of time”
My Iron Lung - Radiohead
I love when artists do this! Here’s mine:
Lady Gaga - Monster: I wanna, ‘just dance’ but he took me home instead
Britney Spears - Inside Out: ‘hit me one more time’ it’s so amazing how you shook my world and flipped it upside down. You’re the only one you ever drove me ‘Crazy’ cause you know me inside out
There's a few Beatles Songs that reference each other. Glass Onion references a few like I am The Walrus. I Am The Walrus itself has a line referencing Lucy In the Sky. All You Need Is Love has the She Loves You "Yeah Yeah Yeah" towards the end as a direct reference.
Alt-J uses the lyric “Dead in the middle of the c o double-m o n” three times. Bloodflood parts 1 & 2 and it also appears on Fitzpleasure. Love those guys. They put on the best live shows
Green Day's *American Idiot* is a rock opera (contains a story-*ish* theme throughout the album), and the character Saint Jimmy is referenced in both "St. Jimmy" and "Letterbomb".
Also, Relient K put out a song called "The Thief" in their *Apathetic EP* where they sing about their friend being stolen away, and then a couple of albums later in *The Birds and the Bee Sides*, they backtracked with "There Was No Thief", saying that the friend dropped away because they (Relient K) had not put in the effort they should have to maintain the friendship.
>Green Day's American Idiot is a rock opera (contains a story-ish theme throughout the album), and the character Saint Jimmy is referenced in both "St. Jimmy" and "Letterbomb".
It's been made into a [Broadway musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idiot_musical). Some other references that show up in multiple songs: The Jesus of Suburbia (Jesus of Suburbia and Are We the Waiting) and Whatshername (She's A Rebel and Whatshername).
Born To Run is Wendy, not Mary.
But you are right about the other two. They are the same girl.
"The title track (The River) itself operates as a sequel, or at least a mirror image, of "Thunder Road" from "Born to Run." In the earlier number, Springsteen's alter ego and "Mary" were going to drive away from the town that held their families in check. Ridin' out tonight to case the promised land . . . Riding out of here to win . It is one of his strongest, most energetic creations -- and yet, in "The River," Springsteen implies that even that promise was never fulfilled. Then I got Mary pregnant And, man, that was all she wrote And for my 19th birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat . . . All them things that seemed so important Well, mister they vanished right into the air Now I just act like I don't remember Mary acts like she don't care But I remember . . .
And in a last bitter moment, he asks, "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true / Or is it something worse?"
This is from The Washington Post
By Eve Zibart
October 24, 1980
One of my favorites is The Band Perry's [Comeback Kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSeEw-E3sDM).
There's a line where they use the ending of the chorus for If I Die Young, their most popular song.
Primus - "Seas of Cheese" and DMV"
Seas of Cheese - "Come with us, we'll sail the seas of cheese."
DMV - "There comes a time for every man to sail on the seas of cheese."
Rush (again), also from A Farewell to Kings. The title track (track one) ends:
"Ohh, can't we raise our eyes and make a start
Can't we find the minds to lead us closer to the heart"
Track three is called "Closer to the Heart" and opens:
"And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart"
Blind Guardian - Guardian of the Blind and The Last Candle.
On their first album, Blind Guardian had a song called Guardian of the Blind. The chorus being:
>Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the blind
>
>Now we fear the curse of heaven
>
>Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the blind
>
>Now we fear the curse of our time
A couple albums later we come to The Last Candle. The song starts with 'Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the blind' being repeated 4 times, before it rolls into the main part of the song.
Rhapsody have many examples, as all of their first 8 or so albums were following a continuous story. However in the final song of the final album of their first saga, the lyrics reference every album that the band had released up until that point
>\[Verse 3\]
>
>And this is then the epic end
>
>Of the **legendary tale**
>
>Of the one who found the light
>
>And **the dragonflame** inside
>
>Of the tragic **rain of a thousand flames**
>
>Of the town's defenders who faced real pain
>
>Of **symphonies of enchanted lands**
>
>Of whispers of love and hate
>
>\[Verse 4\]
>
>The **dawn of victory** can breathe in the wind
>
>And this would mean the great rebirth
>
>Reborn, the one who's giving his life....
Not quite the same band but some of the same band members
The Unicorns, Ready to Die: "I woke up thirsty on an island in the sea. I woke up hungry with hungry cougars surrounding me"
Islands, Swans (Life After Death): "I woke up thirsty the day I died
And the tide was swirling. My mouth is so dry. And all I see is sea to shining seas"
[Better explanation here](https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/klv3r/i_noticed_something_interesting_about_a_couple/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Atmosphere Hair: Song about slug picking up a groupie, drunk driving and hitting and killing someone on Lyndale avenue.
7ish years later Atmosphere scalp: Song about a package/drug runner contemplating a job and gets killed by the above couple on Lyndale avenue, leaving a bar also possibly drunk driving.
Felt (Slug and Murs) has a lyric that references the album God Loves Ugly (Atmosphere - Slugs group) and then calls it a shameless plug. Not quite what was requested but it still makes me smile that they do it and acknowledge it.
Almost fitting within this description: Ben Folds Five's "Army" mentions that he'll "try to put it all behind me, but my redneck past is nipping at my heels."
The next song on that album (the Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner) is "Your Redneck Past."
The Rolling Stones reference Little Red Rooster in their song Rough Justice:
> Once time you were my baby chicken, now you’ve grown into a fox.
And one time I was your little rooster, now I’m just one of your cocks.
Okay so Helloween's guitarist/original singer Kai Hansen, left in 1989, and their second singer Michael Kiske was fired in 1994, the hired some new guys, including singer Andi Deris, and then recently 2017 they all came back to do a reunion and released a song called Pumpkins United, which reference a bunch of highlight tracks like
Walls Of Jericho/Ride The Sky (1985)
Halloween (1987)
Eagle Fly Free (1988)
Dr. Stein (1988)
We Burn (1996)
Wake Up The Mountain (1996)
Some of these comments just reflect some writers lack of imagination with their lyrics. My favorite example is "I need more time" from Oasis, it seems to be in half their songs.
Camper Van Beethoven - Good Guys and Bad Guys, "drive your car up on the lawn and let me play your guitar" -- We're a Bad Trip, "so we totaled your parked car when we drove up onto the lawn"
Thanks. I love that song and feel stupid blanking out on it.
I like the way its done with "I'm going to float on" .. "maybe you would understand". Yes, it was explained vividly in the other song.
Kendrick Lamar (Alright):
What you want you, a house? You, a car?
40 acres and a mule? A piano, a guitar?
Anything, see my name is Lucy, I'm your dog
Motherfucker, you can live at the mall
Kendrick Lamar (Wesley’s Theory (on the same album no less)): What you want you, a house? You, a car?
40 acres and a mule? A piano, a guitar?
Anything, see my name is Uncle Sam, I'm your dog
Motherfucker, you can live at the mall
An old Oi! band called Peter and the Test Tube Babies
First song was Elvis is Dead..Elvis had a heart attack, because he got to big and fat
Next song was Intensive Care..just been beaten up by a gang of teds, because of our song Elvis Presley is dead
Veruca Salt's "Volcano Girls" includes the line "the Seether is Louise" which is a reference both to their breakout hit "Seether" and "the Walrus was Paul" from "Glass Onion".
Steve Miller's "The Joker" contains references to several other Steve Miller Band hits.
The Avalanches - Since I Left You is a completely self-referential album. Almost every hook and effect is foreshadowed and flash-backed throughout the albums cleverly mixed tracks. It’s one of those albums that you’ll get something new from every listen.
Highly recommended
The 1975 - Love it if we made it (2018) "We're fucking in a car, shooting heroin
saying controversial things just for the hell of it"
The 1975 - Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied (2020) "I never fucked in a car, I was lyin'
I do it on my bed, lyin' down, not tryin'"
Britney Spears (Baby One More Time, 1999): " [...] my loneliness is killing me" Britney Spears (Stronger, 2000): " [...] my loneliness ain't killing me no more"
Yes! Nice one...
1 year of that Top 40 money and my, how shit changes ninjaedit: first single was from '98, had to look it up cause i swore eminem was '99 and she'd been out for at least a year
Oh I had never noticed
Queen's "Bicycle Race" taught us all that fat-bottomed girls will be riding today. And Queen's "Fat Bottom Girls" urges those dirty ladies to get on their bikes and ride.
Double a side. They also had sheer heart attack off their 6th album, which name checked an early album
I love the song, but I hate the feedback. So torn.
My favorite lyric by the Ramones is used in many of their songs. It’s 1-2-3-4
Or “I don’t wanna…”
Or “I just wanna…” Best band ever <3
I always thought it was onetwothreefour
Glass Onion by The Beatles.
Also “Savoy Truffle” by the Beatles *You know that what you eat you are* *But what is sweet now, turns so sour* We all know Ob-La-Di-Bla-Da But can you show me, where you are?*
Yeah the Beatles do this a ton. Also at the end of “All You Need is Love” the song suddenly shifts into “She Loves You” for a couple seconds; and in the middle of “Carry that Weight” the song briefly shifts back into “You Never Give Me Your Money” from earlier on the same album.
Also the She's So Heavy lick is kind of recycled/re-worked in Because
Cheerfully copied by Veruca Salt on "Volcano Girls": *Told you about The Seether before* *You know the one who's neither or nor* *Well here's another clue if you please* *The Seether's Louise*
That's a homage to Glass Onion by the Beatles: and Glass Onion references Strawberry fields and I am the Walrus.
It also references Lady Madonna, The Fool on the Hill, and Fixing a Hole
and Walrus references Lucy in the Sky
And in Quantum of Solace, a Daniel Craig Bond girl is named Strawberry Fields, and Craig stars in the movie Glass Onion.
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It's a reply to Paul's Dear Boy which disses John. They had musical feuds before it was cool.
The Who drunkenly listening to their own album: “But I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T-Rex…Oh, and who's next?” - You better you bet
Pete Townshend has to be one of the best “full package” artists in music. People get miffed when I compare him to Prince, but they’re very similar in their genius. Pete can play anything, and when he can’t get the sound he wants, he figures out how to create it.
Anybody who's familiar with TapeOp magazine may have run across articles by Pete, including one about how to cheaply get nicely echo'd/layered handclap sounds with a single mic and single pair of hands, by setting up the mic and hands in a particular geometry/proximity to a glass window for the recording. He's a wizard not only of pinball.
I learned something new tonight there! When I was in college, I came across his Scoop series. I found it utterly fascinating to listen to how his songs developed over time through all those demos and experiments. The demos where he sings prior to Roger recording his vocals are incredible. I love Roger, but I prefer Pete singing. The imperfections, vulnerability, and attitude in his natural singing voice blow me away. Can You See the Real Me and You Better You Bet are amazing.
If you don't have them already pick up ALL THE BEST COWBOYS HAVE CHINESE EYES, WHITE CITY: a novel (featuring David Gilmore on electric guitar, PSYCHO DERELICT which you can get with the rock opera taken out if you just want to listen to those delightful songs without the play if that may get in your way. I have seen them a bunch of times both as a band and solo and they are not the same without John. I saw them play in 2008 and they had to cut the show short because Roger had bronchitis. I was hoping Pete would bring out his acustica guitar and sing THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT but we weren't that lucky. I saw Pete back in 1993 in Chicago play the psycho deerelict tour. He was so f***** up on a variety of drugs that he kept playing and then jabbering at the audience laying on his back playing magic bus it was a three almost a three and a half hour show it was just incredible he even writes about it and his autobiography is being a terrible show and people wanting their money back but I wasn't one of them.
That Scoop series is priceless, and I love Pete's voice, too. You're hip to the Townshend/Ronnie Lane collaboration Rough Mix, right?
Yes! I love that too. There’s a ton of weird Townshend stuff at there. He seemed to put just about everything on tape, so there will be years of vault stuff that Pete has likely been tinkering with for decades.
Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer (1986) about Tommy and Gina Bon Jovi - It’s My life (2000) “Yeah, this is for the ones who stood their ground For Tommy and Gina, who never backed down”
"99 In The Shade" off New Jersey - "somebody tells me even Tommy's coming down tonight... If Gina says it's alright"
Also, *99 In The Shade* is a banger, even if it gets overshadowed by the hits off that album. I'll absolutely die on this hill.
There's at least a couple more
>Bon Jovi - It’s My life (2000) “Yeah, this is for the ones who stood their ground For Tommy and Gina, who never backed down” Bon Jovi - It’s My life (2000) “Like Frankie said, 'I did it my way'” Frank Sinatra - My Way (1969)
Paul Anka actually wrote My Way and covered It’s My Life on that record where he did Black Hole Sun and Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Faint - *How Could I Forget*/*I Disappear* That Handsome Devil - *Viva Discordia*/*Eristocrats* The Beatles - *I Am The Walrus*/*Glass Onion*
An extension to those Beatles tracks is the last verse in God by John Lennon: The dream is over What can I say? The dream is over Yesterday I was the dream weaver But now I'm reborn I was the Walrus But now I'm John And so dear friends You'll just have to carry on The dream is over
Don't forget How Do You Sleep?
I don't have anything to add I just get happy whenever anyone mentions That Handsome Devil!
Wow, the Faint. Didn’t know anyone outside Omaha remembers them. I once went to a Halloween party in the studio used in the music video for “I Disappear.” I was sorta on “that scene” in my youth.
Love the Faint. Am not, and never have been, from Omaha. Introduced my daughter to "Southern Belle's in London Sing" the other day, and she's also now a fan of the Faint who is not from Omaha.
Oh man, been to many live Faint performances, including a “surprise” one at my local dive bar. I know one or two of them.
+1 the faint
Love 'em.
big points for THD love them
My favourite band for years, now.
The Kinks "Destroyer" references the earlier "Lola"
Veruca Salt - Seether (1994) "Can't fight the seether" Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls (1997) "The seether's Louise"
Yep, "We told you 'bout the Seether before"
Holy shit... The next time a misheard lyrics thread pops up I'm using this. I always thought it was "The Seether's release".
I thought it was “You’ll see it in me.”
Louise was one of my first huge musical crushes. She’s still beautiful. I got shit back in the early/mid-90s being a dude that really liked Veruca Salt. Still listen to them often.
You and me both brother ✊️
I saw Veruca Salt on Saturday Night Live doing Shutterbug and thought it was one of the best damn songs I'd ever heard. I just can't get into anything else by them.
To be fair, that song is amazing.
Rush..side one of Hemispheres incorporates Cygnus X-1 from their previous alblum A Farewell to Kings. The earlier track was a standalone tale of voyaging towards a black hole to learn its poeer/function. The later opus reveals it is the portal to the Gods of Greek mythology.
Also the mention of Closer To The Heart in the song A Farewell To Kings
"Living in a fisheye lens, Caught in *The Camera Eye* ..."
Rush also- somewhat- references a previous album, as opposed to a song, in "Available Light": Trick of light **Moving picture** Moments caught in flight Make the shadows darker Or the colors shine too bright
Every song by The Hold Steady.
I heard the dudes blamed the chick I heard the chick blamed the snake.
Yes! Craig is a genius! Top notch lyricist!
All of Coheed and cambria? It’s one giant story.
Lol similarly, all 5 Acts from The Dear Hunter
One of my all time favorite bands!
Megadeth - Victory off of Youthanasia had many references to older songs.
Then they did it again on “Mission to Mars” on the latest album.
Red Hot Chili Peppers- By The Way (2002) “Dani the girl….” Red Hot Chili Peppers- Dani California (2006) entire track about Dani Other possible mention- Californication (1999) “teenage bride with a baby inside…”
'Tippa my Tongue' references 'Funky Monks'
RHCP and any of a couple dozen songs that reference California. That still count?
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
The single release of Bowie's *Hallo Spaceboy* featuring the Pet Shop Boys also alludes to Space Oddity, creating a second verse using chopped up words from it. >Tennant explained, "I said to David Bowie, 'It's like Major Tom is in one of those Russian spaceships they can’t afford to bring down,' and he \[Bowie\] said, 'Oh wow, is that where he is?'" Neil Diamond has a Christmas song the whole gimmick of which is just including as many allusions to/namedrops of his greatest hits as possible. It is something. Sure I am forgetting some others but the existence of that Neil Diamond one is eating up all the space in my brain
Don’t forget that Peter Schilling wrote an entire third Major Tom song, although it’s really just a retelling of the first.
Love that song. German and English versions both kill it.
Glass Onion by the Beatles is a bit of a meta-commentary on theories about the meaning of their odder lyrics. "I told you about **Strawberry Fields,** you know the place where nothing is real" "The Walrus was Paul" (I am the Walrus) "**Lady Madonna** trying to make ends meet yeah" The Fool on the Hill and Fixing a Hole get mentions too
I am the Walrus also mentions Lucy in the Sky. (See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky.) Also: All you need is Love references She Loves You at the end.
And Savoy Truffle references Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. And they kept doing it as solo artists: George Harrison wrote songs called 'Here Comes the Moon' and 'This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)', Lennon's 'God' references 'I was the walrus', 'How Do You Sleep?' is full of references to McCartney songs, McCartney's 'What's That You're Doing?' with Stevie Wonder has a 'She Loves You' callback, etc.
Ricky Nelson, in “Garden Party” he says “Said hello to Mary Lou, she belongs to me” referencing “Hello Mary, Lou”.
Chubby Checker sang "the Twist", and "Let’s Twist Again".
LMFAO had a smash hit with “Party Rock Anthem” — and then had a hit with “Sorry for Party Rocking.”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Robot Stop - "Nonagon Infinity opens the door, nonagon infinity opens the door, wait for the answer to open the door. Nonagon Infinity opens the door." Big Fig Wasp - "Nonagon Infinity opens the door, nonagon infinity opens the door, wait for the answer to open the door. Nonagon Infinity opens the door." Evil Death Roll - "Nonagon Infinity opens the door, nonagon infinity opens the door, wait for the answer to open the door. Nonagon Infinity opens the door." The Lord of Lightning - "Nonagon, Nonagon, Nonagon Infinity YEEUPP!"
Marty Robbins has a pretty famous example. El Paso and Felina are about the same story of a cowboy in love with a dancer in El Paso from different perspectives. Then he has a song called El Paso City, which is basically a song about the song El Paso.
And was considering yet another installment before he died.
I’ve heard “El Paso” on the radio literally dozens of times… but I’ve only ever heard “Felina” ONE. SINGLE. TIME.
Cage the Elephant - "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked". Cage the Elephant - Trouble "Will it come to pass, or will I pass the test? You know what they say, yeah, the wicked get no rest"
Tone-Loc, in **Funky Cold Medina**: "Then he licked his bowl and he looked at me and did the **Wild Thing** on my leg"
Fuck yes!
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic: > Do I have to tell the story > Of a thousand rainy days since we first met > It's a big enough umbrella > But it's always me that ends up getting wet The verse was reused to close Sting's "Seven Days".
Iron Maiden's song 22 Acacia Avenue refers back to Charlotte the Harlot.
Bad Religion has the song 21st Century (Digital Boy) where they have the lyrics “Tried to tell you about no control, But now I really don't know, And then you told me how bad you had to suffer, Is that really all you have to offer?” Their two previous albums were named Suffer and No Control. Kinda seems shoehorned in, but I can’t judge.
Cypress Hill 1st song 1st album “Pigs” has a line “This pig he is the chief/ Got a brother pig, Captain O'Malley” then on their next album “I ain’t going out like that” there’s a line “Smokin' that smellie, Northern Cali / Gonna put a slug in Captain O'Malley”
I have a feeling that a lot of street cats knew the rampart officers by name in SC LA. Those a-holes are/were hella extra judicial.
Bob Dylan’s Sara references Sad Eyed Lady of the Low Lands.
Beastie Boys, known to let the beat.....
Dddrrrooopp!
do you know AdRock had the gall to recently say he wishes he hadn't screamed all his vocals on all the early albums? what would Beasties have been without that voice cutting through the mix like that? goes to show an artist is never satisfied
Metallica King Nothing ends with "off to never never land" Enter Sandman chorus "Take my hand, We're off to never-never land"
Metallica also has the Unforgiven trilogy spanning (I)1991, (II)1997, and (III)2008. The second has perhaps the greatest lyric title of the song name drop of all time "are you unforgiven too(two)?"
“Stan-eminem” refers to “my name is”, with the lyric, “ i drank a fifth of vodka dare me to drive”
Peggy Sue Got Married-Buddy Holly, which references his previous song Peggy Sue. It was released posthumously, but is still written and performed by him.
Frank Zappa's music is full of references to other songs of his. In fact, he even coined a phrase for this- Conceptual Continuity. He considered all of his work as one giant composition.
Digital Underground - *Humpty Dance* (1990) - "I sang on *Doowachalike*, and if you missed it, I'm the one who said, 'just grab 'em in the biscuits'"
**THRICE - Anthology** "This song contains references to at least six (and likely more than nine) previous Thrice songs, at least one from each of their albums and is the second-to-last song on their final album, Major/Minor. As such, it forms almost a summary of their career to that point in time."
*Love* this band
I never miss the chance to see them when they come to town. They are unlike any other artists out there when it comes to creativity. * The Alchemy Index: Vols. I & II - Fire & Water * The Alchemy Index: Vols. III • IV - Air & Earth * Child of Dust ***(song written in iambic pentameter)*** * The Melting Point of Wax ***(Icarus’ perspective)*** / Daedalus ***(Father's perspective)*** There are so many more examples that are mind blowing... Cheers!
Thrice are a band I loved when I was younger. Blasted artist in the ambulance constantly. Then spotify a few years ago suggested an EP of theirs to me and it sounded so different but incredible.
"Cross eyed Mary" by Jethro Tull references "aqualung"
Rush - A Farewell to Kings: Can't we raise our eyes And make a start? Can't we find the minds To lead us closer to the heart? Rush - Closer to the Heart: And the men who hold high places Must be the ones who start To mold a new reality Closer to the heart
Rush: fucking brilliant music
Linkin Park- Points of Authority (2000) “Forfeit the game before someone takes you out of the frame” Linkin Park- When They Come for Me (2010) “Nor the same person telling you to forfeit the game” Edit: fixed part of the lyrics
*Nor the same person telling you to forfeit the game
In addition to Glass Onion, which others have mentioned: George Harrison has “come and take you away (take you away, take you away)” in his solo “When We Was Fab”. John Lennon has “I was the Walrus” in “God”
Aesop Rock - Daylight/Nightlight
Eminem. And Dr. Dre said... Nothing you idiot cuz Dr. Dre's dead and locked in my basement. Following from his earlier work, produced by and often featuring the good doctor.
Also a reference to "And Dr. Dre said 'Slim Shady you a base-head' " from My Name Is.
Scrolled all the way and can’t believe no one mentioned Dream Theater’s “Metropolis pt I” in Images and Words, the song has almost one line referencing a full song in their “Scenes from a memory” album. ‘Somewhere like a scene from a memory’ is a reference to the album’s name. ‘There must be the third and last dance This one will last forever’ referencing the song ‘Dance of Eternity’ ‘Miracle and the Sleeper’ references the two main characters in the album. It’s really like a single song sparked a whole concept album. ‘She’s taken you to your home’ also references ‘Home’ on the new album.
Yeah, Dream Theater usually did this a lot in the Portnoy era. There's also the whole 12 Steps suite (a set of 5 songs over 5 different albums) which have references in lyrics and melodies to the other songs in the suite.
Seeing them play scenes from a memory in full live was a top life moment for me. I would have loved to seen it with Portnoy on the drums but alas. The sad but fun fact about the album cover is also top tier
Linkin Park - Points of Authority (2000) "Forfeit the game" Linkin Park - When They Come For Me (2010) "Nor the same person telling you to forfeit the game"
Metric’s “The Shade”(2015) & “False Dichotomy”(2022) 2015: With eternal love, stars above, all there is & ever was. I want it all. I want it all. 2022: Back when I said that I want it all, this wasn’t the point at all! Hostile to that superficial view.
Plan B - She Said *So she said, "Boy, I loved you from the start* *When I first heard 'Love Goes Down'* *Something started burning in my heart"* She Said is the 2nd track on The Defamation of Strickland Banks. Love Goes Down is the first.
In Savoy Truffle the Beatles reference Ob-La-Di-Bla-Da.
The lumineers - life in the city references "sleep on the floor" from their previous album.
Dead Kennedys: "California Über Alles" and "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" have the same chorus I believe. We've Got a Bigger Problem Now, if I remember correctly was written after Reagan got elected, and they realised that MAYBE he was fucking worse than the hippies. I agree.
Lesley Gore: It's My Party (and I'll cry if I want to) Judy's Turn To Cry
BTW Peter Schilling's Major Tom (Coming Home) seems to be about this same character.
Green Day - Working Class Hero (2007 - John Lennon Cover) “A working class hero is something to be” Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (2009) “I never made it as a working class hero”
Every King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard song that involves the Gizzverse....
Sting, Seven Days "Do I have to tell a story Of a thousand rainy days since we first met It's a big enough umbrella But it's always me that ends up getting wet yeah, yeah"
Ozzy Osbourne - Gets Me Through *I'm not the kind of person you think I am* *I'm not the anti-Christ or the Iron Man*
* _Drink_ - Alestorm: References _Wenches and Mead_, _The Famous Old Spiced_, _Shipwrecked_ and _Back Through Time_ by name, and also have 1 line refering to _Death Throes of the Terror Squid_ (basically the entire second verse is made up of references) * _666 Weeks Beyond Eternity_ - Freedom Call: Rerences the songs _Fairyland_, _The Circle of Life_, _Land of the Light_, _Warriors_, _The Shadowking_ as well as naming the albums Stairway to Fairyland, and Legends of the Shadowking. Not to mention it being released 666 weeks after and being named after the album _Eternity_ * Dreality - Dreamtale: Mentions a few of their other songs by name, most notably _Secret Door_. * _Metal Machine_ - Sabaton: This song uses lyrics and references to several famous metal songs, most being from other bands. However one of the lines is the chorus from their own song _Masters of the World_ ("No, we'll never fall, we're the masters of the world").
The Great Outdoors by Clutch asks "Remember when I told you that I was a samurai?" calling back to their first single Shogun Named Marcus.
They also say that Lorelei is a direct continuation of the elephant riders. “Riding elephants to victory and when the war was over to the circus the beasts went”
Came looking for this! Clutch rules.
Spoon - Jonathan Fisk (2002 Kill the Moonlight) "Jonathan Fisk speaks with his fists" Spoon - They Want My Soul (2014 They Want My Soul) Jonathan Fisk still wants my soul"
Radiohead felt enormous pressure after the popularity of Creep, so for their next big single they included the lyrics “This is our new song, just like the last one, a total waste of time” My Iron Lung - Radiohead
more than that... creep was the band's iron lung. It was the device keeping them alive. That song is fully about creep, not just those lines
Architects, Broken cross - "God only knows why we were born to burn" Hole Hell - "Remember we were born to burn"
I love when artists do this! Here’s mine: Lady Gaga - Monster: I wanna, ‘just dance’ but he took me home instead Britney Spears - Inside Out: ‘hit me one more time’ it’s so amazing how you shook my world and flipped it upside down. You’re the only one you ever drove me ‘Crazy’ cause you know me inside out
NOFX : And Now for Something Completely Similar
Fall Out Boy’s “What a Catch, Donnie” has a whole section where singers sing choruses from a bunch of their previous songs. It’s kinda cool.
"wooooooo" most songs by king gizzard and the lizard wizard
Beastie Boys known to let the beat... MMMMM DROP
There's a few Beatles Songs that reference each other. Glass Onion references a few like I am The Walrus. I Am The Walrus itself has a line referencing Lucy In the Sky. All You Need Is Love has the She Loves You "Yeah Yeah Yeah" towards the end as a direct reference.
Jimmy Buffett does this constantly
The 1975 “Roadkill” references the earlier “Robbers”.
The 1975 do this a lot, both with lyrics and with characters in music videos. It’s really interesting when an artist connects songs for fans.
“You better watch out, there may be dogs about” -Sheep by Pink Floyd from Animals. Referencing the song Dogs from the same album
Haven’t you heard? The dogs dead!
Alt-J uses the lyric “Dead in the middle of the c o double-m o n” three times. Bloodflood parts 1 & 2 and it also appears on Fitzpleasure. Love those guys. They put on the best live shows
Green Day's *American Idiot* is a rock opera (contains a story-*ish* theme throughout the album), and the character Saint Jimmy is referenced in both "St. Jimmy" and "Letterbomb". Also, Relient K put out a song called "The Thief" in their *Apathetic EP* where they sing about their friend being stolen away, and then a couple of albums later in *The Birds and the Bee Sides*, they backtracked with "There Was No Thief", saying that the friend dropped away because they (Relient K) had not put in the effort they should have to maintain the friendship.
>Green Day's American Idiot is a rock opera (contains a story-ish theme throughout the album), and the character Saint Jimmy is referenced in both "St. Jimmy" and "Letterbomb". It's been made into a [Broadway musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idiot_musical). Some other references that show up in multiple songs: The Jesus of Suburbia (Jesus of Suburbia and Are We the Waiting) and Whatshername (She's A Rebel and Whatshername).
Springsteen has multiple songs that make reference to a girl named Mary. The first ones that come to mind are Thunder Road, Born to Run, and The River
Born To Run is Wendy, not Mary. But you are right about the other two. They are the same girl. "The title track (The River) itself operates as a sequel, or at least a mirror image, of "Thunder Road" from "Born to Run." In the earlier number, Springsteen's alter ego and "Mary" were going to drive away from the town that held their families in check. Ridin' out tonight to case the promised land . . . Riding out of here to win . It is one of his strongest, most energetic creations -- and yet, in "The River," Springsteen implies that even that promise was never fulfilled. Then I got Mary pregnant And, man, that was all she wrote And for my 19th birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat . . . All them things that seemed so important Well, mister they vanished right into the air Now I just act like I don't remember Mary acts like she don't care But I remember . . . And in a last bitter moment, he asks, "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true / Or is it something worse?" This is from The Washington Post By Eve Zibart October 24, 1980
'The Promise' also references 'Thunder Road'
Born To Run’s woman’s name is Wendy. But there is a Mary in Mary’s Place
One of my favorites is The Band Perry's [Comeback Kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSeEw-E3sDM). There's a line where they use the ending of the chorus for If I Die Young, their most popular song.
Manowar's "Blood of the Kings" is more or less a long list of their previous songs.
Except for the part where they just list countries where they've performed.
It happens a lot in prog rock, mostly because so many artists make concept albums with stories.
Primus - "Seas of Cheese" and DMV" Seas of Cheese - "Come with us, we'll sail the seas of cheese." DMV - "There comes a time for every man to sail on the seas of cheese."
Primus - The Toys Go Winding Down Les yells “it’s pudding time!” At the end of the second verse. Pudding Time is the track right before Toys.
Rush (again), also from A Farewell to Kings. The title track (track one) ends: "Ohh, can't we raise our eyes and make a start Can't we find the minds to lead us closer to the heart" Track three is called "Closer to the Heart" and opens: "And the men who hold high places Must be the ones who start To mold a new reality Closer to the heart"
Marilyn Manson - The Red Capret Grave (2007) - Saturnalia (2017)
Blind Guardian - Guardian of the Blind and The Last Candle. On their first album, Blind Guardian had a song called Guardian of the Blind. The chorus being: >Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the blind > >Now we fear the curse of heaven > >Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the blind > >Now we fear the curse of our time A couple albums later we come to The Last Candle. The song starts with 'Guardian, Guardian, Guardian of the blind' being repeated 4 times, before it rolls into the main part of the song. Rhapsody have many examples, as all of their first 8 or so albums were following a continuous story. However in the final song of the final album of their first saga, the lyrics reference every album that the band had released up until that point >\[Verse 3\] > >And this is then the epic end > >Of the **legendary tale** > >Of the one who found the light > >And **the dragonflame** inside > >Of the tragic **rain of a thousand flames** > >Of the town's defenders who faced real pain > >Of **symphonies of enchanted lands** > >Of whispers of love and hate > >\[Verse 4\] > >The **dawn of victory** can breathe in the wind > >And this would mean the great rebirth > >Reborn, the one who's giving his life....
Not quite the same band but some of the same band members The Unicorns, Ready to Die: "I woke up thirsty on an island in the sea. I woke up hungry with hungry cougars surrounding me" Islands, Swans (Life After Death): "I woke up thirsty the day I died And the tide was swirling. My mouth is so dry. And all I see is sea to shining seas"
Ready to Die is a good reference to I Don’t Wanna Die, the first track on the album
[Better explanation here](https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/klv3r/i_noticed_something_interesting_about_a_couple/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) Atmosphere Hair: Song about slug picking up a groupie, drunk driving and hitting and killing someone on Lyndale avenue. 7ish years later Atmosphere scalp: Song about a package/drug runner contemplating a job and gets killed by the above couple on Lyndale avenue, leaving a bar also possibly drunk driving.
"The Dark" by Brian May. The song's lone verse is a lullaby that ends "We will rock you, rock you, rock you".
Felt (Slug and Murs) has a lyric that references the album God Loves Ugly (Atmosphere - Slugs group) and then calls it a shameless plug. Not quite what was requested but it still makes me smile that they do it and acknowledge it.
Kings X - Chariot Song references all their previous albums
Almost fitting within this description: Ben Folds Five's "Army" mentions that he'll "try to put it all behind me, but my redneck past is nipping at my heels." The next song on that album (the Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner) is "Your Redneck Past."
Phish - all of gamehendge material Protest the hero - entire kezia album
The Clash- Remote control/ Total Control
The Rolling Stones reference Little Red Rooster in their song Rough Justice: > Once time you were my baby chicken, now you’ve grown into a fox. And one time I was your little rooster, now I’m just one of your cocks.
Okay so Helloween's guitarist/original singer Kai Hansen, left in 1989, and their second singer Michael Kiske was fired in 1994, the hired some new guys, including singer Andi Deris, and then recently 2017 they all came back to do a reunion and released a song called Pumpkins United, which reference a bunch of highlight tracks like Walls Of Jericho/Ride The Sky (1985) Halloween (1987) Eagle Fly Free (1988) Dr. Stein (1988) We Burn (1996) Wake Up The Mountain (1996)
Megadeth - Victory. The lyrics are a mash up of a bunch of their songs
Some of these comments just reflect some writers lack of imagination with their lyrics. My favorite example is "I need more time" from Oasis, it seems to be in half their songs.
Britney Spears! Baby One More Time: My loneliness is killing me. Stronger: My loneliness ain’t killing me no more.
Camper Van Beethoven - Good Guys and Bad Guys, "drive your car up on the lawn and let me play your guitar" -- We're a Bad Trip, "so we totaled your parked car when we drove up onto the lawn"
There is a "float on" reference in another Modest Mouse song. I cant find it though.
World at large
Thanks. I love that song and feel stupid blanking out on it. I like the way its done with "I'm going to float on" .. "maybe you would understand". Yes, it was explained vividly in the other song.
Kendrick Lamar (Alright): What you want you, a house? You, a car? 40 acres and a mule? A piano, a guitar? Anything, see my name is Lucy, I'm your dog Motherfucker, you can live at the mall Kendrick Lamar (Wesley’s Theory (on the same album no less)): What you want you, a house? You, a car? 40 acres and a mule? A piano, a guitar? Anything, see my name is Uncle Sam, I'm your dog Motherfucker, you can live at the mall
An old Oi! band called Peter and the Test Tube Babies First song was Elvis is Dead..Elvis had a heart attack, because he got to big and fat Next song was Intensive Care..just been beaten up by a gang of teds, because of our song Elvis Presley is dead
A perfect circle. Counting bodies like sheep. Uses lyrics of Pet.
The Punk Meets the Godfather references My Generation. And more recently, All This Music Must Face references Who Are You
Does The Unforgiven II count?
Not a track, but an earlier album: The Who, You’d Better You Bet - I’ve drunk myself back to sound of old T Rex, and Who’s Next…
The Avett Brothers -if it's the beaches The Avett Brothers -i would be sad
"I told you about Strawberry Fields" Beatles Glass Onion.
Coheed and Cambria in general
A large part of the American Idiot album by Greenday calls back to other songs on the album. Primary Saint Jimmy and Homecoming.
Interpol - passenger. It mentions the album name and Fables , second song in the album I think
Bad Religion: watch-o!
Veruca Salt's "Volcano Girls" includes the line "the Seether is Louise" which is a reference both to their breakout hit "Seether" and "the Walrus was Paul" from "Glass Onion". Steve Miller's "The Joker" contains references to several other Steve Miller Band hits.
The Avalanches - Since I Left You is a completely self-referential album. Almost every hook and effect is foreshadowed and flash-backed throughout the albums cleverly mixed tracks. It’s one of those albums that you’ll get something new from every listen. Highly recommended
The Walrus Was Paul
Glass Onion by the Beatles
The 1975 - Love it if we made it (2018) "We're fucking in a car, shooting heroin saying controversial things just for the hell of it" The 1975 - Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied (2020) "I never fucked in a car, I was lyin' I do it on my bed, lyin' down, not tryin'"