# Game: Songs referring to earlier songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2002, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-songs-referring-to-earlier-songs/112116 "2002-06-03T09:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-songs-referring-to-earlier-songs/112116/41 "2002-06-06T01:04:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*John Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep?,” a bitter screed against Paul McCartney, alludes to the Beatles’ songs “Yesterday” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” as well as to McCartney’s solo hit “Another Day.” > > (“So, Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise.”) > > (“The only thing you done was ‘Yesterday’ > And since you left, it’s just another day.”) \*\* To which McCartney responded with Silly Love Songs. A reference to a reference. ---
**Author:** ![A1C\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@A1C\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A1C_Joe)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-songs-referring-to-earlier-songs/112116/42 "2002-06-06T07:46:53Z")
Pink Floyd “remembering games, and daisy chains and laughs, got to keep the loonies on the path.”-brain damage “do you want me to make a daisy chain for you? what do you want from me?”-what do you want from me? Rodger Waters “I’ve looked over jordan and i’ve seen, things are not what they seem.”-Sheep (earlier pink floyd song) “I looked over jordan and what did i see? i saw a us marine in a pile of debris.”-the bravery of beeing out of range (later solo work) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-songs-referring-to-earlier-songs/112116/43 "2002-08-16T02:13:11Z")
“She Gives Me Love” by **Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe.** This song was one-fourth of the track “Quartet” on the 1989 album _Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe_. See, how this came about was four of the five members of the classic **Yes** lineup got back together. Only Chris Squire was missing—however, a court case awarded him the right to the bandname **Yes**. So the other four guys just used their names, since everyone would recognize them as four-fifths of **Yes** , it would be practically like a **Yes** album. To underscore this, the song “She Gives Me Love” referenced no fewer than 4 classic **Yes** songs in only three stanzas: “Long Distance Runaround” “South Side of the Sky” “The Gates of Delirium” “Roundabout” ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-songs-referring-to-earlier-songs/112116/44 "2002-08-16T14:33:03Z")
Stroke 9’s “Kick Some Ass” mentions “Little Black Backpack” “Anger’s today’s fashion so sing another song about bashin’ someone’s head in.” ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-songs-referring-to-earlier-songs/112116/45 "2002-08-17T01:08:06Z")
Right off of the top of my head: Tori Amos makes a couple of Nine Inch Nails references, not to songs, but to the band name and an album. ("…made my own pretty hate machine…" & “…with their nine inch nails…”) Also, Sublime’s “Doin’ Time” contains the first line from Janis Joplin’s “Summertime” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-songs-referring-to-earlier-songs/112116/46 "2002-08-18T02:41:41Z")
Umm, **angelicate** , Janis Joplin’s rock rendition of “Summertime” on _Cheap Thrills_ was not written by her. The lyrics were by DuBose Heyward and the music by George Gershwin. R. Crumb’s famous album cover for _Cheap Thrills_ erroneously attributed “Summertime” to the “Gershwin Bros.” Nope, this was one song the Ira Gershwin did not contribute to. It’s hard to believe that such a passionate devotee of 1930s music as R. Crumb is would make such a blunder. But this was in 1967; I specks he was stoned at the time. ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-songs-referring-to-earlier-songs/112116/47 "2002-08-18T06:52:59Z")
Jomo Mojo: I knew that (Or at least assumed as much.), but her version is the one I heard first, and most often, so that’s who I always think of as it being “their song.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-songs-referring-to-earlier-songs/112116.md?page=2)