In complete agreement… The entire Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy album (CD?) is made up of these sarcastic, sardonic lyrics. It’s what made it a “Top 10 Stranded on a Desert Island” albums for me.
He’s mellowed over the years. He’s gone from lyrics about bitter relationships, drinking and lonlieness on the road to family, success and stopping to smell the roses. His lyrics however still remain some of the best I have seen.
OK, here’s another (better) one for Dire Straits: “Tunnel of Love” (from the brilliant Making Movies album) has Knopfler "Sing about the six-blade . . . " in reference to “Six Blade Knife” from their eponymous debut.
David Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes” has a call back to Major Tom from “Space Oddity.”
The Kinks’ “Destroyer” quotes both the line “Girl, I want you here with me” and the guitar riff from their early hit “All Day and All Of the Night.” (Also: “Met a girl called Lola…”)
Ke$ha (WHOM I’M MEETING ON SUNDAY!!!) has a new unreleased song, “Machine Gun Love,” with the line “I already told you my love is a drug, boy, you’re about to OD,” recalling her earlier song “Your Love is My Drug.”
Not quite what the OP is asking for as it doesn’t re-use lyrics, but it does reference a previous song (“One Week” and also possibly “Old Apartment”):
Barenaked Ladies - “Testing 1,2,3”
*She got a new apartment
It’s out on the escarpment
And in her glove compartment
Are my songs
She hasn’t even heard them
Since she found out what the words meant
She decided she preferred them
All wrong
Kind of like the last time
With a bunch of really fast rhymes
If we’re living in the past I’m
Soon gone*
I’ve yet to locate a Golden Earring song called “When the Bullet Hits the Bone”. . . what album is that on?
They Might Be Giants’ song “Why Does the Sun Really Shine” makes multiple references to their older (cover) song “Why Does the Sun Shine?” Pretty much the whole song corrects the factual inaccuracies of the previous version with the immortal lines…
“I forget what I was told my myself…” and
“Forget that song, they got it wrong.”
So as i look back, I’m not seeing it. I would swear as I was looking for this song there was a lyrics page of some sort with a completely different song.. now I cant find it… ugh..
Ok, so maybe it IS the same song. My other example however is valid for what I was thinking about…
Do you mean Robert Plant’s solo stuff from the 90s where he samples lyrics and guitar rifs from Black Dog and The Ocean?
Don’t forget “Every leg you break” - I think that’s in there, too.
The Thompson Twins single Love On Your Side got a lot of MTV airplay in 1983. At one point the lyric goes, “I played you all my favorite records,” which is followed by a quick instrumental phrase from their song In The Name Of Love, which topped the US dance charts in spring 1982.
And one of their songs on Imaginos is the same with a different title.
I like BOC they’re one of my favorites, but they are the kings of recycling. Don’t they have 5 studio albums and 10 Greatest Hits/Best Of/Live Rehashed albums?
On the Bad Religion song 21st Century Digital Boy there is a lyric in the bridge that says “I tried to tell you about no control”
Which is the title of an earlier album with a song called No Control on it.
“I sang ‘Do What You like’, and in case you missed it, I’m the one that said 'Just grab ‘em in the biscuits.’” - Humpty Dance, Digital Underground.
“In February 1985 Pato became a winner. Because I did a tune called ‘Hello Tosh’ gotta Toshiba?” - Don’t Sniff Coke - Pato Banton.
Would Leslie Gore’s “Judy’s Turn To Cry” count? It’s sort of the sequel to “It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To.”
Alice Cooper’s “Elected” includes the line:
I never lied to you, I’ve always been cool,
I wanna be elected,
I gotta get the vote, and I told you 'bout school,
which is a callback to “School’s Out”
Nice one Ranger, there’s also Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue Got Married”
Everything I’ve found suggests that Twilight Zone is sometimes referred to as “Bullet Hits the Bone”.
In John Lennon’s God there is the line, “I was the Walrus, but now I’m John.”
Thanks. And how did I forget that one! :smack:
I just recently mentioned this in a similar thread, but, well, here ya go:
From Bob Dylan’s Sara:
mmm