{"id":12132,"date":"2012-02-10T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T15:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12132"},"modified":"2012-02-10T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:03:30","slug":"last-man-standing-songs-that-directly-reference-other-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-songs-that-directly-reference-other-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Songs That Directly Reference Other Songs By the Inclusion of a Performed Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>At the end of <strong>Stephen Malkmus<\/strong>&#8216; long guitar jam &#8220;No More Shoes&#8221; he begins singing the chorus of the <strong>KISS<\/strong> disco atrocity &#8220;I Was Made for Loving You,&#8221; a direct musical reference to another song through a brief performance within the contemporary song. <em>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about!<\/em> Songs that merely mention other songs don&#8217;t count; the referenced song must be included as part of the performance, be it a direct vocal (with original lyrics) or key instrumental passage. Got it?<\/p>\n<p>Beside the Malkmus reference I can immediately think of 3 other examples, 2 of which are by the same band (and 1 of those 2 is a reference to one of that band&#8217;s own songs). Collectively, you are much smarter than me, so I trust we&#8217;ll come up with at least 5 entries in this difficult challenge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Two more exclusions<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The referenced excerpt must be performed specifically for the newer recording; the inclusion of previous recordings, such as the early Buzzcocks records heard on the &#8220;radio&#8221; at the beginning of &#8220;I Believe,&#8221; do not count.<\/li>\n<li>References to songs within the same album on any concept album\/rock opera DO NOT QUALIFY. Sorry, those of you who were planning on loading up this LMS with Who self-references from their rock operas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, don&#8217;t bogart this thread: <em>one entry per post, please<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Make me proud!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of Stephen Malkmus&#8216; long guitar jam &#8220;No More Shoes&#8221; he begins singing the chorus of the KISS disco atrocity &#8220;I Was Made for Loving You,&#8221; a direct musical reference to another song through a brief performance within the contemporary song. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about! Songs that merely mention other songs don&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-songs-that-directly-reference-other-songs\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}