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

"Push It" by Garbage repeatedly invokes "Don't Worry Baby" by the Beach Boys.

ariel pink - time to live references video killed the radio star

I don't think that's a reference so much as a straight-up steal

still tight tho

another rip/reference on that album is "Bubblegum Dreams" which is just "Son of a Gun" by the Vaselines

Or 'Bend Me, Shape Me' by Amen Corner on 'I Think I'm Paranoid' ...

Hatfield and the North "Shaving Is Boring" (on side 2 of the record) has a segment with the sound of footsteps running over to open doors, and each door opening sound reveals a snippet of a song previously heard on side one.

"Push It" by Garbage repeatedly invokes "Don't Worry Baby" by the Beach Boys.

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Garbage also directly quote the Pretenders' "Talk of the Town" near the end of their track "Special".

Also, the chorus of Catherine Wheel's "Delicious" (".........YOU EAT!...YOU SLEEP!...YOU BREATHE!") shares the melody and rhythm of the "Talk of the Town" chorus (or is it a post-chorus? There's so many hooks and sections of that tune, no wonder it's so prolific at inspiring other songs), when Chrissie sings "....YOU'VE CHANGED!..."

And I swear I've heard another song that reminiscent of the "...MAYBE TOMOR-OR-OR-OR-OR-OR-OR-OW-OWW!...Maybe SOME-DAY!!!" chorus (or it could just be another example of the descending major scale that occasionally sneaks into pop music, although the only such song I can remember right now is Pink Floyd's "Apples and Oranges").

i figured the various occurrences of 'sexy sexy sexy' in odb's "got your money" were a reference to rick james's "cold blooded" but i didn't realize until now that he did a version of that whole song on the same album -- the track directly preceding "got your money" in fact!

Spiritualized's "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" ending with Elvis' "Can't Help Falling in Love"

god i had a great one a few days ago and couldn't find the darn thread

reference was to "lonely woman" ... hold on

Harvey Milk's "The Anvil Will Fall" using Gustav Holst's "Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity" to perfection

"Mutiny!" on Motorpsycho's Death Defying Unicorn has a jam section which suddenly morphs into "Changes" by Yes

Beck "Halo of Gold"/Skip Spence "Furry Heroine"

references Johnny Cash's "Walk the Line" with Beck's version imitating a classic country arrangement for that one line

The intro to “Diamond Bollocks” is a paraphrase of “Girotondo” from Vergogna Schifosi

The 'Thought you might like to know' bit in Pink Floyd's "Apples and Oranges" references Sgt. Pepper title track.

The intro to “Flaming” references “Later During a Flaming Riviera Sunset”

"Bing Crosby" by Van Dyke Parks interpolates "Pennies from Heaven" by Arthur Johnston and Johnny Burke (made famous by Bing Crosby).

And there’s a bit of “I Ain’t got Nobody” in “The Four Mills Brothers”. The original versions of both songs by Roaring Lion are on the Folkways Real Calypso comp.

I could be pedantic here and point out the originals of "Bing Crosby" and "The Four Mills Brothers" by The Lion reference "Pennies From Heaven" and "I Ain't Got Nobody" and all VDP did was cover the original songs. But I wouldn't do that.

Especially as I've just noticed you mentioned the originals! I suspect there's other references in "Bing Crosby" which I can't work out.

Another Christmas one: Nina Simone's Little Girl Blue quotes Good King Wenceslas.
Another Beatles one: It's All Too Much quotes Sorrow by the Merseybeats.

someone upthread mentioned the Velvets borrowing Marvin Gaye's Hitch Hike for There She Goes Again; to be specific, I think they borrowed the Stones' version.

Towards the end of The Church's cover of "It's All Too Much" they work in one line of Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue"

This live version of Carboforce by Trans Am lifts a whole chunk of the vocal line (played on guitar) of a Qawwali song, that I heard Nusrat perform on one of his more well-known records but cannot seem to lay a hand on annoyingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFQELWES9o

(John Wesley Harding) Wes Stace’s, Cathy’s New Clown has a musical reference to the Everly Bothers song at the very end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiLdU2jBb2o

In the middle of "The Electric Co." on U2's Under A Blood Red Sky, Bono starts singing "Send In The Clowns." U2 never cleared or paid royalties to Stephen Sondheim (who subsequently sued) which results in this long note on the Wikipedia entry for the album.

At the very end of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond pt. 6-9" Richard Wright plays the "Soon after dark, Emily cries" melody from "See Emily Play"

XP - Ian McCulloch was especially prone to doing this, thinking of the Dion quote in Over The Wall, and he would throw in lots of quotes in live performance.

The main piano riff in Coldplay’s “Trouble” is the exact same riff note-for-note as the synth/vocal riff in “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (F#, G, F#, D, B).

Volcano Girls by Veruca Salt. A musical quote from Seether followed by a nod to Glass Onion with "Here's another clue if you please, The Seether's Louise..."

I suspect there's other references in "Bing Crosby" which I can't work out.

― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.)

Possibly "Git Along Little Dogies" which Crosby doesn't seem to have recorded himself until 1959

The intro to "Where's Bill Grundy Now?" by the Television Personalities quotes "Windy"

Mick Ronson quotes Bowie's "Song For Bob Dylan" while playing with Dylan on the live 1975 "Knockin' On Heaven's Door."

Sonic Youth's Trilogy (the Wonder) sounds like Throbbing Gristle's Six Six Sixties sped up a little.

And another Christmas one: the Push Kings repurpose the "fall on your knees" bit of "O Holy Night" for the bridge of "Be Kind, Be Still, Be Near"

And Greg Lake's 'I Believe In Father Xmas' with a large chunk of Prokofiev

Nobody will believe me, but “Rapper’s Delight” quotes the baseline from “Good Times”

Pusha T - Numbers On The Board references Jay Z - Rhyme No More v briefly

i thought that was a literal sample of the song inserted?

thanks autocorrect for “baseline” and making me look like a doofus

I just read the whole thread and have to unburden myself of everything that came to mind as I read:

That bit in Roxy Music's Re-Make/Re-Model where the bass does the 'Day Tripper' riff

...and the sax plays "Ride of the Valkyries".

Bach's 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' is quoted in the guitar break in The Byrds' 'She Don't Care About Time'

...and also by Steve Nieve in "The Only Flame in Town" by Elvis Costello.

The goofy little 1812 Overture excerpt at the start of 2112.

...and "Night of Fear" by The Move.

At the very end of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond pt. 6-9" Richard Wright plays the "Soon after dark, Emily cries" melody from "See Emily Play"

Something I read said he also quoted "Strangers in the Night" here, but I can't hear that now.

In "The All-Golden" by Van Dyke Parks, he sings, "Off the record..." and is answered by a parody of the horn fanfares from "Surf's Up" (which he co-wrote for the Beach Boys Smile album).

Beck quotes the melody of "Jingle Bells" in "Hotwax".

Deep Purple interpolate a section of Manuel De Falla's "El Sombrero De Tres Picos" into their rendition of "Hey Joe" (and then credited the whole thing to themselves).

Chris Stamey:

on Repercussion, the second of the dB’s records, there is a shout-out to Ives. He was famous for incorporating musical “quotes” in his original works, and we put a phrase of one of his favorites, the hymn “Shall We Gather By The River?” after the line, “Ives was on the stereo,” into the second verse of our song “From A Window To A Screen.”

Quasi-sampling:

The opening track of Game Theory's Lolita Nation features a montage of the opening seconds of three previous Game Theory records.

King Crimson play a bit of the record of "The Court of the Crimson King" in "The Devil's Triangle".

Faust play the Rolling Stones and Beatles recordings of "Satisfaction" and "All You Need is Love" in the intro of "Why Don't You Eat Carrots".

Metallica's very stupid "Don't Tread on Me" has a dual octave guitar rendition of "America" from West Side Story before the main riff starts.

ironic, since the movie version of that WSS song espouses ideas very much the polar opposite of what Metallica is expressing in their song.

"Stay Up Late" by Talking Heads calls back to "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" by the Temptations.

"I know you wanna leave me"

Michael Stipe's Elvis impersonation on "Hey baby" after the "Andy, are you goofing on Elvis?" line in R.E.M.'s "Man On The Moon."

Pink Floyd's "Fearless" ends with the football crowd singing "You'll Never Walk Alone"

Spacemen 3's "Revolution" basically *is* the MC5's "Black To Comm"

The main riff from The Hives' "Go Right Ahead" ended up sounding so much like ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down" that the band preemptively contacted Jeff Lynne for permission and gave him a songwriting credit.

Never mind "Fearless" - it's outside the scope of this thread

"The Silent Boatman" by Parliament references "The Skye Boat Song"... not briefly though.

Rich by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions quotes Telegram Sam by T Rex towards the end .

pretty sure Ballad of the Band by Felt quotes Outdoor Miner by Wire.

I been working on Concord Sonata this week and anyone who likes this kind of shit would be wise to go deep—-there are PhDs and published books written about tracking all Ives’s nods and quotes in it— Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Wagner, spirituals— he even wrote original “folk” music (and a fake Sousa March) as source material for his collageing— it’s great

Michael Stipe's Elvis impersonation on "Hey baby" after the "Andy, are you goofing on Elvis?" line in R.E.M.'s "Man On The Moon."

I glanced at a reference to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" upthread a couple of days ago and assumed it was about the quote in "Sidewinder". But someone was claiming that the horns in "How Bizarre" quote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (idk)

Kate Bush throws out a verse of 'When You Wish Upon A Star' at the end of 'In Search Of Peter Pan'

xp that was me I was tripping