Deadbeat Club

"Going down to Allen's for a twenty-five cent beer,

And the jukebox playing real loud '96 Tears'..."

Neil Young fans Lynyrd Skynyrd respond to the Canadian's passed judgement on Southern Man and Alabama.

I've a vague feeling Young mentioned Johnny Rotten in a later song of his own, but it could have been more namecheck than quote.

Hey that's me and I want you only...

The Boss - Thunder Road of course.

What about ABC's When Smokey Sings?

There's a track on the new Elbow album that references "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess. Can't remember it off hand right now as the CDs in the car.

references 'My Favourite things' BUT BY 'Julie Andrews and not John Coltrane' on Gods Comic.

reference 'another drive-in saturday' on their most recent cd.

When The Sun Goes Down:

'And he told Roxanne to put on her red light'

London Calling references Guy MItchell's Singing the Blues at the end. Jail Guitar Doors as well as being about Wayne Kramer, Peter Green and Keef Richards references Toots and the Maytalls' 54 46 was my Number.

From How Do You Sleep? -"the only thing you done was Yesterday"
to Paul, with love from John.

but I did get the wrong song. The favourite things reference is in 'This is hell' from Brutal Youth. Gods comic references ' Andrew Lloyd Webbers requiem'. Will pay more attention next time.

"feel so suicidal just like Dylan's Mr Jones" referencing 'Ballad Of A Thin Man'

counting crows, Mr Jones, refers to the same

was "stuck outside of Memphis in a mobile home" on Mother Russia.

...mention "Mister, you're a better man than I" by the Yardbirds
Bowie's "Song for Bob Dylan" references some songs by ...well..you know.
Led Zeppelin reference *all sorts* of old blues songs :-)
RT (check) mentions "The very thought of you" in "Al Bowly's in Heaven"
Neil Young drops into "On Broadway" in one of the tracks on "Free World", as does Bowie on "Aladdin Sane" and Genesis on "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" - do we have a ..er.. record here?

By the Cash Brothers.

I see a red jeep and I want to paint it black (Jeep)

...have mentioned a few. Most notably they used the three words "Goodbye Ruby Tuesday" in After the Watershed, for which I believe Jagger and Richards now receive 100% of PRS from the song in perpetuity. Fair enough?

NB Mick and Keef probably now own the rights to this post, and possibly thread. ABKCO is watching...

and as it was Side 1 Song 1 off their debut album it's pretty much all their influences as well as a statement of intent. I would have posted a clip but the ones I found were pretty ordinary.

This is the lyrics to the Hoodoo Gurus song "Let's All Turn On"

Shake Some Action, Psychotic Reaction,
No Satisfaction, Sky Pilot, Sky Saxon.
That's what I like.
Blitzkrieg Bop to the Jailhouse Rock
Stop Stop Stop At The Hop do the Bluejean Bop.
That's what I like.

Better get off my cloud 'cos two's a crowd,
Better get off the phone - there's nobody home.
I'm gonna work it on out, I'm gonna Twist & Shout.
I'm gonna Ride A White Swan and Get it on,
Let's all turn on!

Born To Lose those Summertime Blues
In Blue Suede Shoes, Le Hoodoo Gurus.
That's what I like.
Waiting for My Man, baby, Can The Can,
I Wanna Hold Your Hand, remember Sam The Sham?
That's what I like!

When You Walk in The Room, Sunny Afternoon,
A-Wop-Bop A-Loo-Bop, A-Lop-Bam-Boom

That's what I like.
I like Sugar, Sugar, Talk, Talk, Money, Honey, Boardwalk
Who wears Short Shorts? (We wear Short Shorts!)
That's what I like!
Turn on.

A bit pale after Cookieboy's brilliant effort above but Prefab Sprout's Faron Young ('You give me Faron Young/Four In The Morning') passes muster both here and in the Great Opening Lines stakes : 'Antique!/ Every second sentiment an antique/As obsolete as warships in the Baltic'.

I’m rather partial to this couplet by Springsteen fanatics The Hold Steady, from ‘Charlemagne In Sweatpants’:

“Tramps like us
And we like tramps”

(while we're on a prog theme elsewhere) had a terrific song called "Titles" which was composed of the titles of Beatles songs.

No one wants to hear about your 97th tear
So dry your eyes or let it go uncried, my dear
I am all out of love to mouth into your ear
And not above letting a love song disappear before it's written

And no one wants a tune about the 100th luftballoon that was seen shooting from the window of your room
To be a spot against the sky's colossal gloom
And land deflated in some neighbor state that's strewn with 99 others

8 chinese brothers
Well, there's a reason why the last is smiling wide and sitting higher than the others
Swinging his arms

You would probably die before you shot up 9 miles high
Your eyes dilated as light played upon the sight
Of TVC16 as it sings you goodnight
Relaxed as hell and locked up in cell 45
I hope you're feeling better

The 51st way to leave your lover
Admittedly, it doesn't seem to be as gentle or as clean as all the others
Leaving it's scars

All in the after hours of some Greenpoint bar
I told you, I can't listen, baby, 'bout the 4th time you were a lady and how your forthrightness betrayed a secret shyness
Stripped away by days of being hailed as "your highness"
And what's new, pussycat, is that you were once a lionness
They cut your claws out

Kitten, not everyone's keen on lighting candle 17, the party's done, the cake's all gone, the plates are clean
The chauffeur's leering from the cheerless mezzanine
And in just one year, the straight world can pay to see what they have been missing

You were caught kissing 8 chinese brothers
Well, there's a reason why the last is smiling wide and sitting higher than the others
Stinking with charm

And he says, "Lets get lost, let them send out alarms"
He says, "Let's get crossed out and come to harm
Lets make the world's stupidest stand and truly mean it
Lets hit the limit of laws over lovers' arms
No, lets exceed it"