"Give me your love, and I'll give you the Perfect Lovesong, with a divine Beatles bass-line, and a big old Beach Boys sound".
Cue divine Beatles bass-line, and big old...Well, you get the idea. I love it.

As sung by John Hiatt in "Slow Turning", followed by the drummer... er, just carrying on as normal really, except they do whip the snare's fader up for a bit.

Mika vocally mimics Freddie Mercury when singing the line "So I try a little Freddie."

Constant shout out to others "in the game". Probably the worst offender for this has got to be either 50 Cent or The Game.

50 Cent's "In A Club" mentions Eminem, Dr Dre, Xzibit, 2-Pac and G-Unit.

The Game's "Let's Ride" mentions Eminem, Dr Dre, Busta Rhymes, Eve and Scott Storch.

Ridiculous as always.

In "Me heart is living in the sixties still" the always enjoyable Saw Doctors sing

"when the Beatles said "she loves you"
It's your biggest teenage thrill"

And the band chorus "Yeah yeah yeah" in response.

from these discussions, as it goes with the territory. Performers are constantly namechecking other artists (or more often slagging them off).

Their Spilt Milk album is a smorgasbord of 'sounds a bit like' snippets. In 'Joining a Fanclub', after the lyrics 'Shake that Woody, for me St Pinnochio' there's a string section playing a bar of 'When You Wish Upon a Star' (1:50 on the clip below).

And 'New Mistake' has a big stab of 'Hold the Line'. (2:15)

Another similar thing - in the Dream Academy's 'Life in a Northern Town' after the line 'JFK... and the Beatles' there's a sample of Beatlemania shrieking.

Life in a Northern Town by The Dream Academy - "In winter 1963 it felt like the world would freeze, with John F Kennedy and The Beatles...yeah, yeah, yeah". They even throw some screaming girls in the mix.

And another Beatles reference - The Lilac Time's All For Love and Love For All. - "Before there was the word, before the word was love, before The Quarrymen and The Moondogs", followed by the harmonica line from I Should Have Known Better.

In Orange Juice's "Rip it Up", Edwyn Collins sings:

"You know me I'm acting dumb-dumb
You know this scene is very humdrum
And my favourite song's entitled 'Boredom'"

This is then followed by the lead guitar riff from the Buzzcocks' debut EP track "Boredom", which he has just mentioned.

Nazareth's Shanghaid In Shanghai mentions The Stones at 2.00 followed by a bit of Satisfaction:

Neil Young on the other hand used Lady Jane as the basis for Borrowed Tune and includes the lines:

I'm singing this borrowed tune
I took from the Rolling Stones
Alone in this empty room
Too wasted to write my own

Randy Newman on 'Born Again' has a song called The Story of a Rock and Roll Band, which is (an affectionate tribute to/devastating piss take of) ELO, complete with Lynnesian strings, choirs etc.
Aimee Mann's track 'Long Shot' uses the riff from Squeeze's 'Up The Junction' for the guitar solo, and Chris & Glenn from Squeeze appear on another track on the same album.

But 'No Fun' by the Stooges in this Babyshambles number at 1:15

All For Love And Love For All

The line is "Before The Quarrymen and The Moondogs" and is followed by a brief rasping Lennon-esque harmonica solo

Whilst reminiscing about their schooldays in song the tubby Canuck funsters throw in a very creditable stab at a power-chord fuelled drum fill from Rush's "Tom Sawyer"

"Andy are you goofing on Elvis?"

Cue: Presleyesque sneering of "Hey Baby"

Lazy Sunday Afternoon. Aural Quote from the Stones' Satisfaction (1.45 in):

In his song "Guitar Jamboree", Chris "introduces" and plays in the style of many guitarists including Albert King, Chuck Berry, Hendrix, Page, Keef, Clapton etc...

...but this takes some topping, surely?

(Grandaddy - Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland)

the drums on Lust for Life

(Constructive Summer, The Hold Steady)

from Beastie Boys "Do It". Later they became Elvis' Attractions for a night

And in Elvis' Crimes Of Paris after the line 'you better leave that kitten alone' Bruce Thomas plays the bassline to 'Leave My Kitten Alone' which they covered in the Blood & Chocolate sessions but wasn't released until the Rhino 2 CD edition. *takes off anorak*

Loads of little musical and lyric references here, in fact it is so referential it refers to itself. Pop country, that popular genre in the Word.

manage to name check themselves in "Love On Your Side" they sing " I played you all my favourite records" and do a keyboard bit from the song "In the Name of Love". I am about to post my second and third Thomson Twins songs in 2 days, get in!

"Love On Your Side"

"In The Name of Love"

"I was thinkin' 'bout Alicia Keys, couldn't keep from crying
When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line
I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be
I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee"

From Thunder On The Mountain

By Richie Balance is a catchy if slightly naff (& bad taste) single that appeared on a Rhino Records sampler many years ago. Contains nods to Frankie Lymon, Jim Morrison and others. Please note that I am not the original uploader of this audio only clip, someone else actually bothered to put it on youtube.

in their song 'Drive' Shannon sings -

Jimi, I need to borrow this for a little bit' and the guitarist riffs on The Wind Cries Mary for a couple of bars.
Later he also speaks to Jimi direct while the riff plays (Jimi, what would you say, what would you do...)

All you need is love - Loves you yea, yea, yea in the fade out.

His mother bought him a synthesizer
Got the Human League into advise her

Fading like The Beatles on Hey Jude....

But Supergrass "Seen the Light", after the line "I'm a rock n roll singer in a rock n roll band", Gaz puts in a little Elvis "Thankyou very much", after already singing the song in the style of Marc Bolan.

But nothing explicitly in the words, no. Just nods to styles.

Mott/Bowie and The Who

Nazareth checked The Byrds

On 'The Lamb lies Down on Broadway' on 'Seconds Out', the melody changes to that of 'On Broadway' as the song fades out with the words 'they say the neon lights are bright on Broadway'...

On Running Down a Dream Tom Petty gives a nod : ' me and Del (Shannon) were singing.........'

On Randy Scouse Git - the final song on side two of Monkees Headquarters Mickey sings of 'the Four Kings Of EMI are sitting on the Floor....' Now I wonder who they may have been!?!?

Buddy Holly refers to Bo Diddley when he sang Bo Diddley!

Gillian Welch - Elvis Presley Blues

or
Bbubblaa Bbubblaa Bbubblaa!
Barenaked Ladies - Be My Yoko Ono

Well, as far as I'm concerned her last truly great song is Chinese Cafe - nearly thirty years ago, yikes. Anyway, you don't have to listen closely to hear which song she's interpolated here - beautifully.

(For those not able to watch the clip, it's Unchained Melody)

Steely Dan 'They got the Steely Dan T-shirts' from Show Biz Kids

"I Dig Rock And Roll Music" has references (and a few bars of sound alikeness) tp the Beatles, Donovan and The Mamas and The Papas.

Paddy imagines he was in The Beatles and nicks the ending from 'A Hard Day's Night' (though it gets somewhat prematurely cut off in the video):

This is about Spandau Ballet's "True".

"Listening to Marvin all night long" is just a reference to Marvin Gaye, so nothing aural there.

But wait! Later on, Hadley sings "Listening to Marvin" and then Gary Kemp chimes in with "All night lo-onng", as if this is recognisably a Marvin Gaye line.

Marvin Gaye sings that line in Anna's Song from Here, My Dear. Not the most upbeat Marvin song (it isn't even very good), but if you're feeling sad and dejected by your love life, you might listen to that album - with a thrill in your hand and a pill on your tongue.

of "Into The Groove" by Sonic/Ciccione Youth is actually quite lumpen, but it's saved by the brilliant way that it cannibalises the original. It culminates in the almost chilling "Now I Know You're Mine" samples at the end of the break, which makes it sound like they had Madge locked in a trunk in the studio while they were recording it.

TheBeastie Boys 'Gratitude' video is a tribute/parody of the Pink Floyd 'Live In Pompeii' film. Note the trademark long, slow tracking shots past the band and the 'Pink Floyd London' stencils on the back of the cabs.

this, just now, so will have to assume this is a link to what it should be, i.e. "Fountains of Wayne Hotline", by Robbie Fulks. Witty song, and a very good pastiche of the Fountains' style:

In "Down at the Twist and Shout", Mary Chapin Carpenter (backed by Cajun band Beau Soliel) say "when Beau Soleil are comin' to town / baby let's go down. And the BS boys give themselves a cheer.

PS contains fine Telecaster pickin'

one of the last people to realise that PJ Harvey is quoting Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues' when she's singing in 'The Words That Maketh Murder' about 'gonna take my problem to the United Nations'