Others off the top of my head.
Sonic Youth: Bubblegum (the vocal melody is the riff to Till the End of the Day by the Kinks)
Kinks: Sittin' On My Sofa shares a lyric with Lovely Rita and a guitar riff that is similar to the aforementioned Taxman song.
― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 9 October 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Another example is "Twisted Logic", which is a rip off Radiohead's "Electioneering"
― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Sunday, 9 October 2005 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
...Elvis Costello drops two lines of "Dancing Queen" into "When I Was Cruel Pt.2"
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Here's one more:
R.E.M.'s "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" opens with Stipe's approximation of the "Lion Sleeps Tonight" falsetto (hence, probably, the song name - in R.E.M.'s grand tradition of holding on to blatantly provisional titles: "Country Feedback" etc).
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― nbcv, Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
examples:
"all or nothing at all" (referencing sinatra)"mansion on the hill" (hank williams)"wreck on the highway" (roy acuff)"downbound train" (chuck berry)"dancing in the dark" (sinatra again)"two faces" (lou christie)"walk like a man" (four seasons)etc etc
you could argue that a lot of them are coincidences, but some of 'em have further lyrical references within, and when you add the book titles and movie titles he's also referenced with abandon, it's fairly obvious he's doing it on purpose.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bruno dos Santos, Monday, 10 October 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― douglas eklund (skolle), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Sunday, 16 October 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― splates (splates), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― splates (splates), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― douglas eklund (skolle), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
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
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
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