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Originally posted by EricG75:

I think there's a sub-topic within this topic of bands that revisit their own songs in other songs.

Popped in Lou Reed's Street Hassle this morning. The opening track, "Gimmie Some Good Times" begins with Lou Reed 'talking' to himself while he sings the intro to "Sweet Jane."

Bittersweet Symphony, anyone?

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Originally posted by golden flea:
Bittersweet Symphony, anyone?

I can't remember, was that a sample?

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:

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Originally posted by golden flea:
Bittersweet Symphony, anyone?

I can't remember, was that a sample?

Yeah, they built that around a sample of an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time". They used too much of the sample and as a result they had to give Mick and Keith writing credits on the song.


I also thought of the Violent Femmes' (and more recently, Gnarls Barkley) "Gone Daddy Gone" which uses an entire verse from Willie Dixon's "I Just Wanna Make Love To You".

Dixon's song sadly did not feature a badass xylophone solo.

Does it count if it's the same band?
If so,
Wilco's "I'm the man who loves you" tagged at the end of "I am trying to break your heart" and the "Wonderwall" acoustic guitar at the beginning of "Hello" from the same respective albums for these examples.

The intro to David Bowie's "Let's Dance" borrows the "Ahs" from "Twist & Shout."

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:

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Originally posted by EricG75:

I think there's a sub-topic within this topic of bands that revisit their own songs in other songs.

Popped in Lou Reed's Street Hassle this morning. The opening track, "Gimmie Some Good Times" begins with Lou Reed 'talking' to himself while he sings the intro to "Sweet Jane."

yeah - I think that that's not the only time Reed does that, but I can't remember where the other(s) are.

Another Odelay mention - High 5 drifts into the same spacey break as Novacane (from the same record), before some sample busts in and goes "Hey man! Get the other record! damn..."
heheh

If anyone listens to Dream Theater they'll know that this band does this incorperation thing ALL THE TIME. They do it a lot with their own songs from different albums and of old 70s prog rock bands like pink floyd, genesis, king crimson as well as the beatles. It makes for a really interesting listen.

Oh Blur's song M.O.R. off their self-titled uses the bowie/eno song Boys Keep Swinging off of Lodger.

For that matter Red Money on Lodger uses Sister Midnight, the bowie/iggy pop song off The Idiot.

My personal favorite instance of this is in the Replacements' "Mr. Whirly", which mid-song cuts into an obvious rip off of the Beatles' "Oh! Darling". I always thought that was absolutely hilarious. Also, on the Constantines' debut album, on the song "Young Offenders", mid song Bryan Webb chants a punk rock version of the line "Young hearts be free tonight, time is on your side" from Rod Stewart's "Young Turks". Such a poetic line from a campy artist, but it comes off so brilliantly clever. That always gets a chuckle out of me as well.

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Originally posted by smileyface:
Bryan Webb chants a punk rock version of the line "Young hearts be free tonight, time is on your side" from Rod Stewart's "Young Turks". Such a poetic line from a campy artist, but it comes off so brilliantly clever. That always gets a chuckle out of me as well.

That and "Tonight I'm Yours" are probably the last two instances when one could still call Stewart relevant.