Here's where we post songs that contain some lyrics or the song title of another song.
I haven't given much thought to others, that's where you all come in, but as I was driving just now I heard one and thought it'd make a fun thread.

Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet (song with in it: The Angels - My Boyfriend's Back")

"He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriends back"

Roy Orbison's singin' "for the Lonely"
That's me and I want you only

Good start.

Patty Griffin's "Burgundy Shoes" has the line "Michelle, Ma Belle - the song that you loved then"
Springsteen's thunder road's has the line "roy orbison singing for the lonely"
Steve Earle's Hard Core Troubadour has the line "hey rosalita won't you come out tonight"
John Hiatt's Slow Turning has always struck me as a Stone's tribute - at one point he throws in "not fade away", the kids in the back are "banging like charlie watts" and probably the best one for this thread "I never did get what I wanted, Now I get what I need"

good thread. I'm sure I'll think of tons more.

Okkervil River's "Plus Ones" has 6 or 7 almost song titles:

"cell 45"
"TVC 16"
"51st way to leave your lover"
etc.

Yeah, that's a cool song.

Third on the Okkervil. Great stuff.
Anybody ever hear Adam Sandler's Listening to the Radio?
A tad Kitschy, but a tad brilliant. Name/quote drops about ten billion classic songs about chicks to fall in love with. A personal fave.

On Jonathan Richman's "Velvet Underground", he breaks into a little "Sister Ray".

On The White Stripes' "The Union Forever", Jack White breaks into an a capella of the Charles Foster Kane song...

Van Morrison's Cleaning Windows: "I heard leadbelly and blind lemon, On the street where I was born, Sonny terry, brownie mcghee, Muddy waters singin Im a rolling stone"

Radio clash
magnificent 7
I was a choir boy
you showed me no heaven
Two tools surley lost
no remorse ignoring the cost

From Rancid's Radio...
When I got the music, I gotta place to go. Brings back some good times.

The Gaslight Anthem's "High Lonesome", from the new album that a few of us have been digging on in another thread, has a couple of good ones - the chorus references the Counting Crows:

"Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand -
I always kinda sorta wished I looked like Elvis"

and later he pulls out Springsteen:

"At night I wake up with the sheets soakin' wet
It's a pretty good song, maybe you know the rest"

And from the same Okkervil River album, of course, there's "John Allyn Smith Sails", which slowly morphs into "Sloop John B."...

The Destroyer discography

Also "Glass Onion", natch

Just listen to The Hold Steady.

Tramps like us and we like tramps

This is literally tattooed on my person. The hold steady owns all. As does the boss.

John Lennon quotes "She Loves You" on the fade of "All You Need is Love." Similarly, "Glass Onion" contains allusions to "Fool On the Hill' and "Strawberry Fields Forever." (Shit, Caustic beat me to that one.)

Eddie Money's unfortunate "Take Me Home Tonight" is redeemed by Ronnie Specter singing her own "Be My Baby" on the fade.

And Dylan quotes his own "Highlands" in "The Levee's Gonna Break."

Don McLean - America Pie references "Helter Skelter" and "Eight Miles High" directly
Van Morrison - Jackie Wilson Said references Jackie Wilsons's "Reet Petite"
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah? "The baffled king composing Hallelujah"?
Destroyer - Your Blood and Rubies both reference "Your Blues" (Destroyer references himself all the time)

EDIT: cerebralcaustic beat me to the last one

Looks like there's plenty to keep this thread going.

Now I've got this in my head...

"just like Ronnie sang...be my little baby"

reminds me of the Kinks' Destroyer lines "met a girl called lola and I took her back to my place" and "girl i want to be with you" which even has the melody from "all day and all of the night"

Didn't Bowie include some Space Oddity in a song from "Let's Dance"? I don't feel like googling it.

and speaking of tramps like us, there's Street Hassle, where Lou even gets Bruce to sing the line "tramps like us, we were born to pay"

FF to the end and get Ronnie stuck in your head, instead.

Great one!

They faked their way thru fairytale of new york. When the band stopped playing we howled out for more.
More hold steady paying homage to other faves on Chicago seemed tired last night. Saw them new year's day 07 on their second of two straight HOB shows in Chicago. Needless to say, this was a big hit.

Metallica "Because you're unforgiven too (II?)" ...recoils in disgust

how about Warren Zevon's "Play it All night long", with the line

"Sweet Home Alabama, Play that dead band's song, turn those speakers up full blast, play it all night long"

Oh yeah, it's there...that high pitched aching beauty

Islands reprising The Who's Quick One, but changing lyrics slightly to "You are Forgotten." That was an interesting one.

which of course reminds me of Skynyrd's reference to Neil Young " A Southern Man Don't need him around anyhow"

You're thinking of Ashes To Ashes



And please no one bring up Kid Rock. Oops, I just did.

KID ROCK!
Didn't that dude toss both Zevon and Skynard into a hit recently? Not really a shocker if he did.


Edit:
hahahaha.....
Dammit Rob. Beat me to horribleness.

There was a mention of Counting Crows Mr. Jones. At the beginning he sings sha la la la la. Though not to the tune of Brown Eyed Girl but certainly an homage.

AND there's the Drive-By Truckers' "Ronnie and Neil" about Young and Van Zant:

"And Neil helped carry Ronnie in his casket to the ground
And to my way of thinking, us southern men need both of them around"

That sort of counts...

Listening to the Radio:

Where's my Peggy Sue?
I could use a Rosalita
If there's a Long Tall Sally out there
I'm dyin' to meet her
Why can't I hear Beth callin' me?
Why can't I be the one to make Sara smile?
I wish I was arm in arm with Jean genie
Walkin' down the aisle

Oh yeah, all right

But I got no Mary Jane
There's no Sloopy or Dancin' Queen
I'm just a fool in the rain
Waitin' on my Billie Jean

I want an Angie, a Mandy, a Candy-O
A devil in a dress of blue
A Rosanna, Diana, a sweet Caroline
I'd even take a Run-Around Sue

Oh yeah, all right

Well, I never got to scream for a Layla
I never saw Mary-Anne walkin' away
I never danced on the sand with a Rio
Or woke up with a Maggie May

I dialed 867-5309
But there was no Jenny Jenny
Oh, why can't I get myself a brown-eyed girl
When Willie Nelson loved so many?

And why does Jack have Diane?
And why does Billy Joe have Bobbie Sue?
And everybody had Roxanne
Except you-know-who

I want an Angie, a Mandy, a Candy-O
A devil in a dress of blue
A Rosanna, Diana, a sweet Caroline
I'd even take a Run-Around Sue

Well I'd take any ol' Suzy Q
I got no reason to be picky
She can be a Goody-Goody-Two-Shoes
Or she can be my Darling Nikki

Oh, Brandy would be such a fine girl
And so would the sweet Judy Blue
I guess I sound just like that other fella
'Cause you know I wish I had Jessie's girl too

Oh yeah, all right

Well, I'd die for a kiss from Allison
Even though I know she'd break my heart
Or give me a Lo-lo-lo-lola
Minus the extra part

I want an Angie, a Mandy, a Candy-O
A devil in a dress of blue
A Rosanna, Diana, a sweet Caroline
I'd even take a Run-Around Sue

You know I'd even take a Run-Around Sue
Well, I'd even take a Run-Around Sue

I always thought the Jean Genie was a male. Maybe Sandler accidentally got a bit gay on this one. Long before it became his default comedic role in his movies.


Love that lyric. Great stuff.

Which then brings to mind Neil's response, "Alabama," from Harvest, although I don't kow that he makes a lyrical bow to the Skynyrd song.

According to Bowie, "Jean Genie" is both a play on Jean Genet and inspired by iggy Pop. I doubt Sandler was being gay so much as clueless.

Tom Petty - "Running Down a Dream"

Me and Del were singing, little Runaway

Dire Straits - "Walk of Life"

Here comes Johnny singin' oldies, goldies
Be bop a lula, baby, what'd I say
Here comes Johnny singin' I got a woman

First two that came to my mind as well.

Sting slips in a little parody of "Every Breath You Take" at the end of "Love is the Seventh Wave".

Barenaked Ladies put a Rush solo in the middle of "Grade 9".

Not exactly on point, but he also does that "I want my Mtv" bit on Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" to the slowed down tune of "Don't Stand So Close to Me."

Is it "Every Breath You Take," Complain? On which song does he do a bit of "Ev'ry Little Thing She Does" as it fades?

^^That's the one I came here to post. Thanks



Can't. They sound too much like Counting Crows.

Peripherally I was also going to mention the Soundgarden lyric in "Outshined" that references a movie title, "I'm looking California but feeling Minnesota" when in fact, wiki says the film title was taken from the lyric.

Prince in "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" sampling Joni Mitchell's "Help Me"


"Oh oh, that's my favorite song she said
And it was Joni singin'
"Help me, I think I'm falling" (brrrrring) the phone rang and she said
Whoever's callin' can't be as cute as you
Right then and there I knew I was through
(Dorothy Parker was cool)

^ that's acceptable but god let's not start bringing up Ditty rip offs.

Just wanted to say, too, that Reed's Street Hassle is a great one. Seems that Springsteen is often quoted in the posts thus far.

That's just crazy-talk.

First few things I thought of were Springsteen, Hold Steady/Lifter Puller and that Del Shannon line in the Petty song.

"Thirteen" Big Star: "Won't you tell your dad to get off my back?/Tell him what we said about Paint It Black..."

"Night Shift" by The Commodores

Good call on Thirteen. What's the line from Night Shift. I know the song but...

They reference "What's Goin' On" and I think later they reference Jackie Wilson's "Higher & Higher". "I still can hear him say "Aw, talk to me... so you can see... what's goin' on"."

DBT's do this a lot. "Let There Be Rock" is another glaring example. Also, in "3 Dimes Down" the line "Rock and Roll never forgets" seems like a pretty obvious nod to Bob Seger.

Another non-DBT tune: "And the band played waltzing matilda." I just know the Pogues cover, don't know who did the original.

I don't really know the history behind walzing matilda, I just know of the Pogues and Tom Waits tunes, both of which are insanely great.

More Jonathan Richman love:
Parties in the USA - Little Latin Lupe Lu, Louie Louie, Hang on Sloopie, and probably some others I don't remember.
Monalogue About Bermuda - References his own Cracked. Him poking fun at what he used to be. I'd love to hang out with that dude sometime. Seems like the nicest chap out there.

Weezer's Heart Songs.

Bringing rap into this discussion would open up all sorts of craziness, but I gotta mention the Johnny Cash sample on Paul's Boutique. Rad. But obviously, that whole album is a bunch of awesome, sampling a bunch of awesome.

Death Goes to the Winner.
With that awesome effed up suicidal spin on Day in the Life.

Ooh, speaking of Beatles... You Can't Do That by Nilsson is a three minute long homage to the Beatles.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the premise. So you only want lyrics that do not reference other songs or lyrics, but just happen to have sequences of words that happen to be lyrics in another song's context?

That would almost be Sickpupian in scope...

whatever happened to the duke of earl? An apoplectic randy Newman character in 'mikey's'. Good song.

One that just came up on shuffle for me - an riff on the Eagles starts off "In The Springtime of His Voodoo" by Tori Amos -

"Standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona
and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song"

Better than Ezra's "A Lifetime" has a bit of a twist on this where it mentions "That REM song" but doesn't say which song they're referring to.

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that REM song was playing
In my mind.