Songs That Quote Other Songs

I was listening to this the other day on a CD called Girls with Guitars.

 

This one mentions at least couple dozen song titles.

 

The Genesis album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" is chock-full of references to other songs.

The title track quotes from "On Broadway" right at the end.



"Broadway Melody of 1974" quotes from "Needles and Pins."



"In The Cage" quotes from "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head."



The closing track, "it.", includes the line, "It's only knock and know-all, but I like it."



I'm sure I've missed a few.

 

Some odes to Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" album

 

The most famous French song with such quotations is Rockollection.
It includes The locomotion, A hard day's night, I get around, Gloria and Satisfaction.

 

Jimmy eat world does it a lot. In this song the quote lines from Madness, They Might be Giants and others.

 

Barenaked Ladies did it a couple of times on their debut album. "Grade 9" interpolates Rush's "Tom Sawyer," and "The King of Bedside Manor" quotes Styx's "Mr. Roboto."

 

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express - 1977 :

" From station to station
Back to Düsseldorf City
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie "

 

The Kinks - Destroyer references Lola and quotes All Day and All of the Night.



George Harrison’s When We Was Fab quotes or references texturally various Beatles tunes.



The Pixies - Levitate Me quotes Larry Norman’s Watch What You’re Doing, "C’mon pilgrom, you know He loves you" which became the title for the EP Come on Pilgrim.

The Dayglow Abortions - Lisa Washed Her Hair borrows the solo from Led Zepplin’s Whole Lotta Love, which is amusing because in the song Stupid Songs, The Cretin sings, "I steal all my solos from The Rolling Stones."

 

The walrus was Paul.

 

It goes over really well in bars