![]() ![]() ![]() – PPįrom Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980 Asylum) Although “My Love” is still soppier than a wetnap in a flash flood. At the time Lennon’s argument had some merit, especially since McCartney released his saccharine champion “My Love” just two years later–certainly those “ whoa-whoa-whoa-whoooa’s” were exactly what Lennon was talking about when he sang “ the sound you make is muzak to my ears.” The two were, however, able to patch up their personal friendship soon after this brush-up, and McCartney’s solo work eventually enjoyed an inevitable cultural and critical renaissance. “How Do You Sleep?” took issue with the purported lightness and banality of Paul McCartney’s solo work, which Lennon conjectured wasn’t as essential as his own efforts in forging universal brotherhood: “ The only thing you done was ‘Yesterday’/And since you’ve gone you’re just ‘Another Day’” (the latter phrase referring to McCartney’s first post-Beatles solo hit). Tucked in the middle of John Lennon’s utopian decree is the original diss track and the nastiest song he ever wrote, a bruising insult of his former songwriting and business partner. All we need is to hear a song we know, within another song. We didn’t even get into the self-referential Bowie and Beatles songs! (Though one Lennon joint made it.) Anyone who spends all day on Genius could find many more where these came from, but these 10 songs that reference other songs are some of our favorites, both in their subtly affectionate tributes and in how cleverly they’re executed. There are actually so many examples of this that 10 songs is really just a small sample. But there are also plenty of songs in which artists offer even more transparency, name-checking the bands that influenced them and-in the case of this week’s list-songs. Nobody picks up an instrument without any frame of reference-everybody’s music is informed by something else. It’s always a pretty safe bet that musicians listen to a lot of other music.
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