To which McCartney responded with Silly Love Songs. A reference to a reference.
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)
“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”
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.”
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”
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.
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.”