Have we really not got to the "Jesus Christ Superstar" quote in Soundgarden's "Jesus Christ Pose" yet?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
robert pollard's "subspace biographies" is practically karaoke of the police's "ωmegman"
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
Rush's "La Villa Strangiato" quotes the middle section of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" at one point, can't remember if it was actually credited or not.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
It wasn’t, but Rush later contacted Scott and arranged for some form of royalty payments.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
'vine street' as performed & arranged by van dyke parks on song cycle features a very obvious string quote of beethoven's 9thWhich then dissolves into a lick from "The Entertainer"! There are probably fifteen little jokes on that album
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, Sunday, 14 January 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
echo...
― Mark G, Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
Cate le Bon - wild features a guitar solo that references my favourite things from sound of music.
She also references Bowie on rock pool
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
this is a great thread. My mind is blown by the grace jones/wichita lineman and (to a lesser extent) love will tear us apart/and then he kissed me.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 15 January 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
Crowded House's Four Seasons in a Day includes a despondent nod to their own Don't Dream It's Over.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 January 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
The harmonic guitar pattern in How Soon Is Now is taken from a Lovebug Starski track.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 January 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Sugar Coated Sour' quotes that Entry Of The Gladiators circus tune for a split second. Which I guess has likely been done before, I bet by Primus or maybe some jam band.
― MaresNest, Monday, 15 January 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
it might not be brief enough for this thread, but the original version of Spirtualized's "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" which quotes from "Can't Help Falling in Love"
― Number None, Monday, 15 January 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
portishead's machine gun probably is referencing blue monday
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link
The bridge in “blue flower” by mazzy star contains the melody of “i’ll be your mirror”
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
It’s so seamlessly integrated but also an unmistakable nod. I love it.
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link
was the bit of madonna's "express yourself" that sounds just like the bit from the staple singers' "respect yourself" intentional or no? i don't see mention of it on wikipedia/discogs/etc. and when i google it all i get are petty madonna-gaga stan wars
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 05:05 (six years ago) link
"Colorado" by the Flying Burrito Brothers sounds a lot like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 06:41 (six years ago) link
I love the "Moon River" string instrumental line that forms a counterpoint to the melody in Cat Power's "The Greatest"
― Dan S, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 06:49 (six years ago) link
― treeship 2, Monday, January 15, 2018 10:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark
this is a cover and it also sounds like VU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsUoEaRNDTM
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
the original ^^ has a "waiting for the man" vibe
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
Interesting, I’ve never heard of this other band but I like this version too. Thanks LL!
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
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?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
Maybe obvious but there's also the quote from "Blue Moon" at the beginning of Clapton's solo in "Sunshine of Your Love".
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
^^ I swear I was literally just coming here to post that.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
Sly & The Family Stone - Plastic Jim/Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
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?
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 23:23 (six years ago) link
OK how about a bit of Beethovens fifth in in Paul Nicholas' "Reggae like it used to be"
"Reggae Beethoven" indeed
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 08:57 (six years ago) link
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)'.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
Which is dead cool as in both instances it's in the context of improvisation. Unless it's originally a reference to something else.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
In Huey Lewis's "I Want A New Drug," lead guitarist Chris Hayes plays the intro riff to "Purple Haze" during his outro solo.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
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
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
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.
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
I can die now.
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Oh, and the intro and outro of Sammy Turner's "Stay My Love" reference the 2nd movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
the entire song sounds like it's derived from that movement
― dyl, Thursday, 18 January 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
Ha, you are so right, dyl. Guess it doesn't qualify as brief musical reference.
― andrew m., Friday, 19 January 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
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
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
speaking of Scarborough Fair: Elizabeth My Dear by the Stone Roses
― nate woolls, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
more than a bit brief tho I suppose, it's basically Scarborough Fair with new lyrics
― nate woolls, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
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)
― Josefa, Friday, 19 January 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
The intro to Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions is done to the tune of Hey Jude
― EMEL, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
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
― EMEL, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
Correction: don't worry baby ref is in the song love not lust for life
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
"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."
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
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
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
^ 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
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
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
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 19 January 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 19 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
Speaking of the Beatles, the Offspring's "Why Don't You Get A Job" borrows heavily from "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da."
― nickn, Friday, 19 January 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
Also in "All You Need Is Love," one of them shouting "ALL TOGETHER NOW" in the outro
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link