History ShoutOut / Music

* God Lives Underwater titled their album ''Life In The So-Called Space Age'' as a Music/DepecheMode shout out - that phrase appears in quotes on the back cover of the Depeche Mode album ''Black Celebration''.

{{Shout Out}}s in {{Music}}, song titles, lyrics, and band names.

And [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Cobain]] can you hear [[Music/FooFighters the Spheres]] [[note]]referencing the cover art of ''Music/TheColourAndTheShape'', which depicts silver spheres in a molecule-like formation[[/note]] \\

And [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Cobain]] can you hear [[Music/FooFighters the Spheres]]\\

** "The Authority Song" has the lines "The DJ never has it / JMC ''Automatic''": JMC is an abbreviation for Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, and ''Automatic'' is one of their albums. The song's title is a reference to Music.JohnMellencamp's similarly named "Authority Song" - the TitleDrop is in the context of playing a song called "Authority Song" on a jukebox, and the lyrics also mention [[Music/TheVelvetUnderground "What Goes On"]].

** "The Authority Song" has the lines "The DJ never has it / JMC ''Automatic''": JMC is an abbreviation for Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, and ''Automatic'' is one of their albums. The song's title is a reference to JohnMellencamp's similarly named "Authority Song" - the TitleDrop is in the context of playing a song called "Authority Song" on a jukebox, and the lyrics also mention [[TheVelvetUnderground "What Goes On"]].

** "Authority Song" has the lines "The DJ never has it / JMC ''Automatic''": JMC is an abbreviation for Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, and ''Automatic'' is one of their albums.

* Music/{{GFRIEND}}'s [[https://youtu.be/9iPLjmz3_U4 Sunny Summer]] makes a recreation of Vermeer's painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" and a couple of references to Shakespeare's sonnets.

* Music/{{Garbage}} has a few:
** Two [[ThrowItIn improvisations]] while recording their second album, [[Music/TheBeachBoys "don't worry baby, it will be alright"]] in "Push It" and [[Music/ThePretenders "we were the talk of the town..."]] in "Special". Both had to be cleared with author permission, and thankfully Brian Wilson and Chrissie Hynde approved.
** "Sleep Together" ("If we sleep together, will you like me better?") has a clear homage to Romeo Void's "Never Say Never" ("I might like you better if we slept together!"). Shirley downright sung the original's lyrics during that album's 20th anniversary tour.
** "Only Happy When It Rains", "Supervixen" and "Felt", amongst others, are homages to Shoegazing (Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain for the former, who released a song called "Happy When It Rains" back in 1987, and Music/MyBloodyValentine for the latter two, with "Supervixen" going so far as to imitate the opening drum roll and riff from "Only Shallow").
** Third album ''Beautiful Garbage'' is named after a line in Music/{{Hole}}'s "Celebrity Skin".

* HeavyMetal band Zimmers Hole named their album ''When You Were Shouting At The Devil... We Were In League With Satan'' after two metal albums from the eighties, Music/MotleyCrue's ''Shout At The Devil'' and {{Music/Venom}}'s ''In League With Satan''. It supposedly came out of a band member overhearing an argument about who was "more metal" and turned into a band in-joke; Since Venom are considered more "underground" than Motley Crue, the title translates to "when you were a poseur, I was the real deal".

* "Thin Line" by Dag Nasty ends with 30 straight seconds of the repeated lyric "I trusted you!". While making sense with the rest of the lyrics, it also seems to be a nod to an Creator/AndyKaufman bit: Andy once appeared on variety show ''The Midnight Special'' and performed a deliberately repetitive three-minute song where the only lyric was "I trusted you!"

** His duo with fellow hip hop producer Prince Paul, Handsome Boy Modeling School, named themselves after a fictional modeling school from an episode of the Elliott-starring sitcom ''Get a Life'', and their album ''So... How's Your Girl?'' frequently used samples from the same episode. The pseudonym Nakamura used for the Handsome Boy Modeling School project was Nathaniel Merriweather, which was probably meant to sound similar to Nathaniel Mayweather, Chris Elliott's character in ''Film/CabinBoy''.

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

** "Punk Rock Girl" mentions Mojo Nixon ("We asked for Mojo Nixon, they said 'he don't work here' / we said if you don't got Mojo Nixon, then your store could use some fixin'!").

* Music/TheClash's version of "Police And Thieves" starts with Joe Strummer ad-libbing "Going through a tight wind!", which is a lyric from "Blitzkrieg Bop" by Music/TheRamones. It's possibly the earliest musical shout out the Ramones ever got, as the Clash song only came out a year after the first Ramones album.

* Dum Dum Girls have said their name was inspired both by the Music/IggyPop song "Dum Dum Boys" from ''Music/TheIdiot'' and the Vaselines song and album ''Dum Dum''. It's been speculated that vocalist Dee Dee Penny's StageName was inspired by [[{{Music/Ramones}} Dee Dee Ramone]], but she's denied this.

** “Sheena Is A Parasite”, which is a ShoutOut to Music/TheRamones and their song “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker”. This makes more sense when you realize that the song is actually a short, brutally told history of punk rock.

* The fourth movement from Creator/JohannesBrahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor contains a very obvious shout out to Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's ''Ode to Joy'' -- written into the Symphony when Music/RobertSchumann named Brahms "the second Beethoven". After the Symphony was finished (it only took Brahms 14 years to write it) Hans von Bulow dubbed it "Beethoven's Tenth". When told the two symphonies bore a certain similarity, Brahms replied, "Any ass can see that."

** The orchestra plays snatches of Music/ClaudeDebussy's "La Mer", Maurice Ravel's "La Valse", Creator/IgorStravinsky's "The Rite of Spring", as well as quotations from Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Creator/JohannesBrahms, Henri Pousseur, Paul Hindemith and others.

** "Beast Mode" references ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Creator/AlecBaldwin, ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', Bed, Bath & Beyond, ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', ''Def Jam'', Website/{{Facebook}}, Creator/ForestWhitaker, Honda Civic, John Dillinger, ''Series/{{Martin}}'', ''VideoGame/PacMan'', ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'', and ''Franchise/XMen''.

* ''The Antlers'' have a song titled "Sylvia". Here are a few lines from the chorus; you get three chances to guess [[Creator/SylviaPlath who]] it's a shout out to, but you'll only need one.

** "Number One Blind" includes a short bridge with the repeated lyric "It is time", a confirmed reference to Music/ThePixies' SingleStanzaSong "Stormy Weather".

{{Shout Out}}s in music, song titles, lyrics, and band names.

* Bomfunk MCs' "Freestyler" has a double shout-out in its first verse: "Or [[Film/Titanic1997 will your heart go on]] like Music/CelineDion, [[Music/CultureClub Karma Chameleon]]?"

* "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion, in addition to being a SongOfSongTitles, drops ''tons'' of references from 50s, 60s and 70s pop culture. (Although the reference to UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper ''isn't'' a ShoutOut. Hopefully.) If you're interested, see the list at the end of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_is_a_rock this article]] at Wiki/TheOtherWiki or, perhaps better still, watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kh-AP4OCU this video]].