Artists who reference other's songs

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The band Spacemen 3 REFERING/QUOTING DIRECTLY/F*CKING RIPPING OFF the opening monologue of MC5's "Kick out the jams" on their song "Revolution". "IT TAKES FIVE SECONDS OF DECISION"

― Bruno dos Santos, Monday, 10 October 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

The House of Love's Shine On features a direct quotation ("A little girl, a little guy...") from Iggy Pop's The Endless Sea.

― Palomino (Palomino), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan Bejar (Destroyer/New Pornographers) litters his songs with lines from other songs, most notably You've got the spirit/Don't lose the feeling over and over on the Streethawk album, also quotes London Calling and too many Smiths references to count...

― douglas eklund (skolle), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link

thats the one i was gonna say, douglas!

― petesmith (plsmith), Sunday, 16 October 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link

The one that always drives me nuts because it's not QUITE close enough to be an actual for real ripoff is on the Flaming Lips' "The Spark That Bled," in the part where he's singing "Descending to relIEVE us" and all that stuff. I swear to god it's "Tell Me Have You Seen Her?"

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Massive Attack goes into a few lines of both "Here Comes The Sun" and "If I Were A Rich Man"

― splates (splates), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link

^on 'Daydreaming'

― splates (splates), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry about that, Pete--great minds think alike!

― douglas eklund (skolle), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

At the end of Ride's "Twisterella", Mark sings a line from, er, "Twisterella", the song purportedly written by Billy Liar in the film of the same name. And it's wonderful.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Sonic Youth references The Byrds 8 miles High on Washing Machines Saucer Like

Empereror does a small part of Metallica's For whom The Bell Tolls in Anthems To The Welkin At Dusks' The Acclamation of Bonds.

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

This section of Time Trap by Built to Spill sounds like a pretty direct nod to Gates of Steel by Devo.

https://youtu.be/goV57pGmiCk?t=11s

https://youtu.be/1F9amPUZokg?t=1m48s

― how's life, Saturday, 6 February 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

Rabbit heart by Florence references house jam by gang gang dance

― Ross, Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link

SSION's recent "At Least The Sky Is Blue" strings multiple borrowed elements together, most conspicuously "In Every Dream Home...", "Not In Love" and "Hey Hey, My My".

(Come to think of it, Roxy Music themselves do similar in the latter half of "Remake/Remodel" innit. Classical works have likewise been known to pay tribute via borrowed melodic elements. Or so I keep reading in liner notes; they're often too subtle for me.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to9ggdpiSyk

― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 19 May 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link

Cool ^

― Ross, Saturday, 19 May 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link

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