"And my favourite song's entitled 'Boredom'..."

Cue two-note guitar solo as performed by the EFIL(WSYS)Hs.

by Roxy Music. Though, strictly speaking, isn't this a song that references itself?

by The Divine Comedy has the line

"We sank down to the floor
and we sang that song i can't sing anymore"

which when played live gets changed to 'and we sang 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore' as thats the tune thats played and obviously they had to change the lyric for bizarre copyright blather

Although earlier he does sing

We played old 45's. I said "it's like the soundtrack to our lives"
And she said "true, it's not unusual"

The sort of clever cleverness other poeple hate him for, I guess

And in Costello's 'Crimes Of Paris' after the line 'you better leave that kitten alone' Bruce plays a little of the bassline from, erm, 'Leave My Kitten Alone'

"I played you all my favourite records", the keyboard line is from the Twins own "In the Name of Love"

an obscure (to me at least) Steve Miller song, has what might be best described as a cameo role here:

... references the HJH 'ADITL' with "... I heard the news today, oh boy."

The HJH 'All You Need Is Love' includes a bit of 'She Loves You.'

Sly & The Family Stone's 'Dance To The Music" nicks the "ride Sally, ride" bit from 'Mustang Sally.'

"Stuck inside of Memphis in a mobile home"

The Buddha Of Suburbia has the guitar bit from Space Oddity and "Zane, zane, zane, ouvre le chien" from 'All The Madmen'

There's no Devil's Haircut in my mind
There is not a Wonderwall to climb, or step around"

(Travis)

Reference 'can't buy me love' in How She Through It All Away

Ex husband of Rosanne Cash called in a favour from his former father in law and recorded I Walk The Line (Revisited):

Here's Failure by Ian Ball from Gomez. It's on his solo album, and also a collaborative album he did with Operation Aloha. This is an acoustic version, the song-within-a-song happens just over a minute in and it's a treat:

She said "Sounds like a real man 2 me"
"Mind if I turn on the radio?"
"Oh, my favorite song" she said
And it was Joni singing "Help me I think I'm falling"
(Ring)
The phone rang and she said
"Whoever's calling can't be as cute as U"
Right there and then I knew I was through

Also, Runnin' Down A Dream refers to Del Shannon's Runaway.

Glass Onion, the winner?

if not, you can always rely on They Might Be Giants to write a song about payola that references some of their own tracks (The World's Address, Rabid Child, Chess Piece Face)

(PS I'm GLAD people record things on phones at gigs. There. I've said it.)

the opening line of Elvis C.'s "High Fidelity" is the title of a lesser known Diana Ross & The Supremes (not The Supremes) song

in a way "Get Happy" is, musically, one big Stax/Motown reference

Features the lyric "It's just like when Gary Numan said You're just a viewer cold and distant"
A reference to the song "Conversation" in which Mr Numan states that "You're just a viewer, so cold and distant"

... has a breakdown where Green sings:

Hard Times, Sucker MC's, Jay's Game, 30 Days, Wake Up, Hollis Crew, Rock Box, It's Like That

i.e. the track-listing of Run-DMC's debut album.

New Order's "Way Of Life" (from "Brotherhood") includes the hook from "Love Will Tear Us Apart" towards the end. And "LWTUA" itself was a parody of Captain & Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together".

Used a time machine to steal the opening lines of Billy Bragg's "A New England" for "Leaves That Are Green".

makes an appearance in Paint A Vulgar Picture.

references its own B-side, Hard Times. I've had some hard times (Hard Times!) in the past...

as the second part fades away, Rick Wright plays the melody of 'See Emily Play'.

...admiration.

Towards the end of Praise from Marvin Gaye's lesser-known album 'In Our Lifetime(?)' (with optional question mark). He sings "Stevie, we really dig you, hope you don't mind this riff from you.", which is presumably directed at Mr Steveland Judkins Morris, at which point (shock horror), the horns actually launch into a rendition of one of the brass riffs from 'Don't Stop 'til You get Enough' by MJ

However, he was doing a lot of 'stuff' at that point, so I guess we can understand...

Conversely, the verse refrain from 'Shake Your Body Down to the Ground' by The Jacksons, derives from a vocal riff from the latter part of the long version of 'Got to Give it Up' by MPG - along the lines of "...gettin' funky's what it's all about"...

Are you still with me class?... Class?!... [throws blackboard rubber]

of Blind Melon talks to doomed guitar god Jimi towards the end of this tune saying he's just going to borrow this - and they play a bit of The Wind Cries Mary

best songs ever put on tape Mos Def riffs on Gregory Isaacs style

You'll hear the brass sound from Wonderland By Night when they mention Bert Kaempfert.

And Hergest Ridge gets a mention in Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias' Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie

The Beta Band used slightly altered lyrics from Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse on 'The Hard One'

Self referential nod to "You Stole The Sun From My Heart"

"You stole the sun straight from my heart, from my heart from heart
With no excuses just fell apart, fell apart, fell apart"

and Broooooooce's "Racing in the Street"

"we're calling out around the world, we're going racing in the street"

"TV Man" by The Bolshoi has an outro that features the James Bond Theme, the theme from The Professionals and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

...terrific "Only Want To Be With You" brazenly lifts a whole chunk of Dylan's "Idiot Wind" lyric - "They said I shot a man named Grey/Took his wife to Italy/She inherited a million bucks/And when she died it came to me/I can't help it if I'm lucky" - then tags on the comment, "Oh Bobby's so cool..." and "yeah, I'm tangled up in blue..."

This might not count, either but:

"Ballet For A Rainy Day" on "Skylarking" contains the name of their next album - "Oranges and Lemons", admittedly singular (Orange and lemon raincoats roll and tumble...'.)

Then, on "Oranges and Lemons", the track "Chalkhills and Children" has the name of the next album "Nonsuch" (..nonsuch dreams held me aloft).

On "Nonsuch", "Then She Appeared" has the line 'Apple Venus on a half-opened shell'.

Much talked about round these parts recently, the song Waltz #2 from XO contains the line about "singing Cathy's Clown"

What a great song. Figure 8 is his best album for me though!

While I remember, Los Endos From Genesis' A Trick of the Tail references all the songs from the album.

Does that count?

I think "More of That Jazz" by Queen does something similar but not as well.

Bruce fans that they are, they couldn’t resist a sly ‘Born To run’ reference/gag in ‘Charlemagne in sweatpants’:

Tramps like us...
And we like tramps

'1972' references 'It's Too Late' by Carole King. Great album, great song.

Genesis- Over the garden wall, two little love birds, cuckoo to you.
Marillion- Gonna make my escape on the midnight train. Choo, choo to you.

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on reaching the Glass Onion stage of their career...