History ShoutOut / Music

* In the middle of "Casiotone Nation", M. Doughty throws in quotes from the title theme from YorTheHunterFromTheFuture ("Yor, Yor, he's the man, he's the man") and Fugazi's "Waiting Room" ("everybody's movin', everybody's movin', everybody's movinmovinmovinmovin'!").

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYnqp-bxvg&feature=fvst The video]] for Feist's "1234" ''might'' be a shout-out to the "Bonjour!" song from ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast'': The singer wears a spangly blue outfit while everyone else wears plain clothes in yellows, reds, greens, and purples (some wear blue jeans, but they don't [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles sparkle]]).

* Max Tundra's "Gondry" is all about how cool director Michel Gondry's music videos are (and how much he'd like Gondry to direct a video for him, despite the fact that it'd probably be too expensive). There's yet to be a Michel Gondry directed Max Tundra video, but Gondry did in fact hear the song - The booklet included with ''Director's Series, Vol. 3 - The Work of Director Michel Gondry'' includes a letter he sent to Max Tundra about it, complete with an outline of what kinds of videos he could shoot for different listed budgets.

* Max Tundra's "Gondry" is all about how cool director Michel Gondry's music videos are (and how much he'd like Gondry to direct a video for him, despite the fact that it'd probably be too expensive). There's yet to be a Michel Gondry directed Max Tundra video, but Gondry did in fact hear the song - The booklet included with ''Director's Series, Vol. 3 - The Work of Director Michel Gondry'' includes a letter he sent to Max Tundra, complete with an outline of what kinds of videos he could shoot for different listed budgets.

* The band Fightstar did an entire concept album about NeonGenesisEvangelion, and it's actually not bad.

* British rock band Fightstar sang a song entitled "[[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]]".

* What would happen if some radio executive somewhere decided that it would be a good idea to form a bubblegum pop band aimed solely at [[FanGirl teenaged female nerds?]] They might end up with something like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=189QSTKC5no "Yuri the Only One,"]] a pop song whose lyrics are ''entirely composed of video game and anime references.'' A sample of the lyrics:

* The Air instrumental "Mike Mills" is named after the director responsible for many of their music videos (not to be confused with the {{REM}} bassist of [[NamesTheSame the same name]]).

* FrankTurner loves employing this trope in many of his songs, but most obvious of all is in "Substitute". The first chorus references Shakespeare ("If music is the food of love...") and in the second references TheBeatles ("If love is really all that we need...").

** Also, one of the songs on their second album is titled "[[KingCrimson Fripp]]"…

** The Hold Steady are a band composed of Shout Outs - poets, bands, previous events in the ongoing story of Holly, the Bible and earlier song lines and titles. They now have a whole wiki devoted to explaining references.

* [[OCRemix Sixto Sounds & zircon's]] [[MegaMan Flashman remix]] ''Nuclear Flash'' includes a short riff from the old Ruby-Spears ''MegaMan'' cartoon. [[http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01702/ Hear it here]] (section in question is at ~1:56).

*Pinback's "AFK" includes the line "I miss you, but not in a Slint way". This is most likely a reference to the Slint song "Good Morning, Captain", which ends [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel on a very creepy note]] with Brian [=McMahan=] [[CarefulWithThatAxe shrieking "I MISS YOU!"]]