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* In Lupe Fiasco's character biographies for ''The Cool'', Michael Young History's birthdate is listed as the day Lupe's first album ''Food and Liquour'' was leaked. The Cool's is listed as six months later, a reference to the line in the song ''The Cool''. Yes, there's a song, a CD, and a character all named The Cool. |
* In Lupe Fiasco's character biographies for ''The Cool'', Michael Young History's birthdate is listed as the day Lupe's first album ''Food and Liquour'' was leaked. The Cool's is listed as six months later, a reference to the line in the song ''The Cool''. Yes, there's a song, a CD, and a character all named The Cool. |
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* In [[Voltaire (musician)|Voltaire]]'s song ''Alchemy Mondays'', in the middle he stops to say "Hold everything they're playing my song!" and he sings part of one of his most famous songs, ''When You're Evil'', and then continues with the song. |
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* [[The Beatles]] song ''Glass Onion'' is one long series of references to their earlier songs in the same surreal mode, mostly mainly-Lennon works: ''Strawberry Fields Forever'', ''I Am The Walrus'', ''Lady Madonna'' and ''The Fool on the Hill''. |
* [[The Beatles]] song ''Glass Onion'' is one long series of references to their earlier songs in the same surreal mode, mostly mainly-Lennon works: ''Strawberry Fields Forever'', ''I Am The Walrus'', ''Lady Madonna'' and ''The Fool on the Hill''. |
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*** "Lady Madonna" is mainly-McCartney, "Fool on the Hill" entirely so: Paul is the only Beatle to play on the latter track. |
*** "Lady Madonna" is mainly-McCartney, "Fool on the Hill" entirely so: Paul is the only Beatle to play on the latter track. |
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** "Christmas was my favorite holiday", a line from 1999's ''J-Tull Cot Com'', may be ironically referring to his [[Anti-Christmas Song]], "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Christmas Song]]". |
** "Christmas was my favorite holiday", a line from 1999's ''J-Tull Cot Com'', may be ironically referring to his [[Anti-Christmas Song]], "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Christmas Song]]". |
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** In "Strange Avenues", he mentions "looking like a postcard from 1971", referring to ''Aqualung''. |
** In "Strange Avenues", he mentions "looking like a postcard from 1971", referring to ''Aqualung''. |
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** [[Everythings Better With Bunnies|Hares/rabbits]] were always in abundance in Tull imagery: "The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles", the columns about "Do Not See Me Rabbit" and "non-rabbits" in the newspaper of ''Thick As A Brick'', the line, "you're a rabbit on the run" in "Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day", the band wearing rabbit suits onstage... |
** [[Everythings Better With Bunnies|Hares/rabbits]] were always in abundance in Tull imagery: "The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles", the columns about "Do Not See Me Rabbit" and "non-rabbits" in the newspaper of ''Thick As A Brick'', the line, "you're a rabbit on the run" in "Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day", the band wearing rabbit suits onstage... |
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* Fallout Boy's "What a Catch, Donnie" has lines from several of their songs ("Grand Theft Autumn", "Sugar We're Going Down", "Dance, Dance", plus others) sung in the background during the third stanza. |
* Fallout Boy's "What a Catch, Donnie" has lines from several of their songs ("Grand Theft Autumn", "Sugar We're Going Down", "Dance, Dance", plus others) sung in the background during the third stanza. |
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* [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[The Wall]]'' has a few of these. One of the most obvious is "Young Lust's" borrowing from "The Nile Song," an earlier tune, but there are others, including a sound effect in "Is There Anybody Out There?" mirroring one from "Echoes." |
* [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[The Wall]]'' has a few of these. One of the most obvious is "Young Lust's" borrowing from "The Nile Song," an earlier tune, but there are others, including a sound effect in "Is There Anybody Out There?" mirroring one from "Echoes." |
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** The lyrics to the "Willow Farm" section of [[Suppers Ready]] refers to the "fox on the rocks" (the album the song was on was called ''Foxtrot''.) and "''the musical box''". "The Musical Box" was a track from ''Nursery Cryme''. |
** The lyrics to the "Willow Farm" section of [[Suppers Ready]] refers to the "fox on the rocks" (the album the song was on was called ''Foxtrot''.) and "''the musical box''". "The Musical Box" was a track from ''Nursery Cryme''. |
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*** The end section of of [[Suppers Ready]] has the line, "There's an angel standing in the sun". [[Phil Collins]] sang the line, "There's an angel standing in the sun, free to get back home" in the end of "Los Endos" as a tribute to [[Peter Gabriel]] in their ''A Trick Of The Tail'' album. |
*** The end section of of [[Suppers Ready]] has the line, "There's an angel standing in the sun". [[Phil Collins]] sang the line, "There's an angel standing in the sun, free to get back home" in the end of "Los Endos" as a tribute to [[Peter Gabriel]] in their ''A Trick Of The Tail'' album. |
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* [[Emilie Autumn]]'s song Swallow has the line "I'm not a fairy, but I need/more than this life, so I became..." referencing her Enchant era where she performed in fairy wings. |
* [[Emilie Autumn]]'s song Swallow has the line "I'm not a fairy, but I need/more than this life, so I became..." referencing her Enchant era where she performed in fairy wings. |
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* In a particularly meta form of the trope, the [[Dresden Dolls]] song "Backstabber" has the line "And don't tell me not to reference my songs within my songs." |
* In a particularly meta form of the trope, the [[Dresden Dolls]] song "Backstabber" has the line "And don't tell me not to reference my songs within my songs." |
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