Hingehead's Tip Of The Hat thread

Deep Purple tip the hat to Frank Zappa:

We all came out to montreux
On the lake geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didnt have much time
Frank zappa and the mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

Wheatus' 'Teenage Dirtbag' tips the hat to Iron Maiden in the chorus

http://www.youtube.com/v/8jJWQkVgDs4&hl=en

You should listen to Charlie Daniels singing, "The South's Gonna Do it Again". Or Reunion's "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)".

Good thread. I will be back.

Oh yeah Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians' Song "Little Miss S" is about Edie Sedgwick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb0KIRhHsFE

Three Stars
About Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J P Richardson (Big Bopper)

out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
nature kids, i/they don't have no function
i don't understand what they mean
and i could really give a f**k.
the stone temple pilots,
they're elegant bachelors
they're foxy to me are they foxy to you?
i will agree they deserve absolutely nothing
nothing more than me

Pavement - Range Life

She doesn't have to have
Her dB's record back now

So turn off your smoke machine
And Marshall stack

She doesn't have to have
Her Young Fresh Fellows tape back now

They Might Be Giants - Twisting

You're So Vain by Carly Simon references Warren Beatty

Nirvana's "Territorial Pissings" begins with Krist Novoselic giving a brief nod (if you want to call it that) to the Youngbloods' "Get Together."

The most famous one is probably "Candle in the Wind".

and from the same album

Roy Rogers
Elton John

Sometimes you dream, sometimes it seems
There's nothing there at all
You just seem older than yesterday
And you're waiting for tomorrow to call

You draw to the curtain and one thing's for certain
You're cozy in your little room
The carpet's all paid for, God bless the TV
Let's go shoot a hole in the moon

And Roy Rogers is riding tonight
Returning to our silver screens
Comic book characters never grow old
Evergreen heroes whose stories were told
Oh the great sequin cowboy who sings of the plains
Of roundups and rustlers and home on the range
Turn on the T.V., shut out the lights
Roy Rogers is riding tonight

Nine o'clock mornings, five o'clock evenings
I'd liven the pace if I could
Oh I'd rather have a ham in my sandwich than cheese
But complaining wouldn't do any good

Lay back in my armchair, close eyes and think clear
I can hear hoofbeats ahead
Roy and Trigger have just hit the hilltop
While the wife and the kids are in bed

Nods happen in classical music all the time as well. Here's the second movement of Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos (with the composer himself as one of the soloists). At the 1:44 mark, we hear a nod to the famous "Elvira Madigan" melody of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 (the tune appears at 1:04 in the orchestra, and at 3:15 in the piano).

Cool guys:

My Sister - Juliana Hatfield Trio

I miss my sister, whyd she go ?
She's the one who would have taken me
To my first all-ages show.
It was the Violent Femmes and The Del Fuegos,
Before they had a record out, before they went gold,
And started to grow.

two from the thin white duke

"Drive In Saturday"

And try to get it on like once before
When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored
Like the video films we saw


"All The Young Dudes"

And my Brother's back at home
With his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on that revolution stuff
What a drag
Too many snags

Big Dipper
Cracker

"And hey Jim, a Kerouac, a brother of the famous Jack
or so he likes to say, lucky bastard"

California Uber Alles
Dead Kennedys

"I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president...

Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school"

Toto's song Rosanna was written for Rosanna Arquette, as I recall.

Weezer:

Ooo wee ooo, I look just like Buddy Holly,
Oh oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore.
I don't care what they say about us anyway.
I don't care about that.'

Wasn't American Pie about Buddy Holly?

And while we're on Don McLean:

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflecting Vincent's eyes of China blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hands