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* Music/{{Grimes}}'s album ''Music/{{Visions}}'' has several lines of Russian text on the front cover. It might seem like some GratuitousForeignLanguage there just to look cool, but the lines of text are actually snippets of poems by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
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* Cracker's "Yalla Yalla (Let's Go)" has just enough straightforward references to weaponry, Iraqi place names, and death that the average listener can probably pick up that it's about war in Iraq. But many lines that might come off as WordSaladLyrics are actually based on actual slang used by US soldiers - David Lowery had stumbled onto a blog post by a soldier that gave examples of such terms and thought they sounded interesting, so he used it for a starting point to write a song about a soldier. For instance, "Get me outta this stinkin' CHU" (pronounced "chew") refers to a '''C'''ontainerized '''H'''ousing '''U'''nit - basically a large shipping container adapted for use as living quarters.

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* Cracker's "Yalla Yalla (Let's Go)" has just enough straightforward references to weaponry, Iraqi place names, locations, and death that the average listener can probably pick up that it's about war in Iraq. But many lines that might come off as WordSaladLyrics are actually based on actual slang used by US soldiers - David Lowery had stumbled onto a blog post by a soldier that gave examples of such terms and thought they sounded interesting, so he used it for a starting point to write a song about a soldier. For instance, "Get me outta this stinkin' CHU" (pronounced "chew") refers to a '''C'''ontainerized '''H'''ousing '''U'''nit - basically a large shipping container adapted for use as living quarters.
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* Music/NewOrder: The song "Times Change" on their 1993 album ''Music/{{Republic}}'' references the [[WretchedHive/RealLife Wretched Hive]] of Port Royal, Jamaica, and the 1692 earthquake that destroyed much of the city.

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* Music/NewOrder: The song "Times Change" on their 1993 album ''Music/{{Republic}}'' references the [[WretchedHive/RealLife Wretched Hive]] of Port Royal, Jamaica, and the 1692 earthquake that destroyed much of the city.
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** Some of the jokes in reggae spoof "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]], as well as being familiar with some specific reggae songs. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Creator/AngelaLansbury at that point, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's actually about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]]: If you're not familiar with the reggae song, the joke has an [[AlternativeJokeInterpretation alternate interpretation]] of just being about how college students are a PeripheryDemographic for daytime TV shows.

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** Some of the jokes in reggae spoof "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]], as well as being familiar with some specific reggae songs. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Creator/AngelaLansbury at that point, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's actually about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]]: If you're not familiar with the reggae song, the joke has an [[AlternativeJokeInterpretation alternate interpretation]] of just being about how college students are a PeripheryDemographic for daytime TV shows.TV.
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** Some of the jokes in reggae spoof "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]], as well as being familiar with some specific reggae songs. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Creator/AngelaLansbury at that point, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's actually about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]].

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** Some of the jokes in reggae spoof "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]], as well as being familiar with some specific reggae songs. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Creator/AngelaLansbury at that point, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's actually about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]].show]]: If you're not familiar with the reggae song, the joke has an [[AlternativeJokeInterpretation alternate interpretation]] of just being about how college students are a PeripheryDemographic for daytime TV shows.
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* Cracker's "Yalla Yalla (Let's Go)" has just enough straightforward references to weaponry, Iraqi place names, and death that the average listener can probably pick up that it's about war in Iraq. But many lines that might come off as WordSaladLyrics are actually based on actual slang used by US soldiers - David Lowery had stumbled onto a blog post by a soldier that gave examples of such terms and thought they sounded interesting, so he used it for a starting point to write a song about a soldier. For instance, "Get me outta this stinkin' CHU" (pronounced "chew") refers to a '''C'''ontainerized '''H'''ousing '''U''nit - basically a large shipping container adapted for use as living quarters.

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* Cracker's "Yalla Yalla (Let's Go)" has just enough straightforward references to weaponry, Iraqi place names, and death that the average listener can probably pick up that it's about war in Iraq. But many lines that might come off as WordSaladLyrics are actually based on actual slang used by US soldiers - David Lowery had stumbled onto a blog post by a soldier that gave examples of such terms and thought they sounded interesting, so he used it for a starting point to write a song about a soldier. For instance, "Get me outta this stinkin' CHU" (pronounced "chew") refers to a '''C'''ontainerized '''H'''ousing '''U''nit '''U'''nit - basically a large shipping container adapted for use as living quarters.
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* Cracker's "Yalla Yalla (Let's Go)" has just enough straightforward references to weaponry, Iraqi place names, and death that the average listener can probably pick up that it's about war in Iraq. But many lines that might come off as WordSaladLyrics are actually based in slang used by American soldiers - David Lowery had stumbled onto a blog post by a soldier that gave examples of such terms and thought they sounded interesting, so he used it for a starting point to write a song about a soldier. For instance, "Get me outta this stinkin' CHU" (pronounced "chew") refers to a '''C'''ontainerized '''H'''ousing '''U''nit - basically a large shipping container adapted for use as living quarters.

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* Cracker's "Yalla Yalla (Let's Go)" has just enough straightforward references to weaponry, Iraqi place names, and death that the average listener can probably pick up that it's about war in Iraq. But many lines that might come off as WordSaladLyrics are actually based in on actual slang used by American US soldiers - David Lowery had stumbled onto a blog post by a soldier that gave examples of such terms and thought they sounded interesting, so he used it for a starting point to write a song about a soldier. For instance, "Get me outta this stinkin' CHU" (pronounced "chew") refers to a '''C'''ontainerized '''H'''ousing '''U''nit '''U''nit - basically a large shipping container adapted for use as living quarters.
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* Cracker's "Yalla Yalla (Let's Go)" has just enough straightforward references to weaponry, Iraqi place names, and death that the average listener can probably pick up that it's about war in Iraq. But many lines that might come off as WordSaladLyrics are actually based in slang used by American soldiers - David Lowery had stumbled onto a blog post by a soldier that gave examples of such terms and thought they sounded interesting, so he used it for a starting point to write a song about a soldier. For instance, "Get me outta this stinkin' CHU" (pronounced "chew") refers to a '''C'''ontainerized '''H'''ousing '''U''nit - basically a large shipping container adapted for use as living quarters.

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** Music/{{Eminem}} reeferences lots of popular culture, such as movies, celebrities, comic books etc. (the man did a video where he and Music/DrDre were Batman and Robin)

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** Music/{{Eminem}} reeferences references lots of popular trash culture, such as movies, celebrities, comic books etc. (the man did a video where he most prominently celebrity gossip, and Music/DrDre were Batman is also fascinated with TrueCrime. In his 2013 work onward he gets into referencing UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop acts and Robin)flows, ranging from [[https://genius.com/2139639 obvious]] to [[https://genius.com/18860507 pretty obscure]].
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* In "Take Me Home, Country Roads", about West Virginia, [[Creator/JohnDenver John Denver]]'s lyric "Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains" is scientifically accurate. The Appalachian Mountains were uplifted 480 million years ago (for comparison, the Himalayas are much younger, about 50 million years old). Animal life on land is only about 440 million years old, and the oldest known trees grew about 385 million years ago.
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* Music/{{Queen}}'s "'39" appears to only be about an astronaut traveling on a ship traveling at significant-fraction-of-C speeds, and the effects of time-dilation on him and those he left behind; however, Brian May has stated it has a second, more-personal, meaning: [[spoiler: It's about how a musician feels about having to be out touring all the time -- coming back a year later to find his kids had grown, the neighborhood had changed, someone he knew is dead, and so on.]]

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* Music/{{Queen}}'s Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s "'39" appears to only be about an astronaut traveling on a ship traveling at significant-fraction-of-C speeds, and the effects of time-dilation on him and those he left behind; however, Brian May has stated it has a second, more-personal, meaning: [[spoiler: It's about how a musician feels about having to be out touring all the time -- coming back a year later to find his kids had grown, the neighborhood had changed, someone he knew is dead, and so on.]]



* The Music/{{Rush}} song "YYZ" begins with Neil tapping the song's title in Morse code.[[note]]"YYZ" is the airport code for Toronto Pearson International Airport, as in what the luggage tags said when the boys in Rush were finally heading home after another grueling tour.[[/note]]

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* The Music/{{Rush}} Music/{{Rush|Band}} song "YYZ" begins with Neil tapping the song's title in Morse code.[[note]]"YYZ" is the airport code for Toronto Pearson International Airport, as in what the luggage tags said when the boys in Rush were finally heading home after another grueling tour.[[/note]]

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** A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about reggae music, the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Creator/AngelaLansbury at that point, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]].

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** A lot Some of the jokes in reggae spoof "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about reggae music, the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. Iyaric]], as well as being familiar with some specific reggae songs. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Creator/AngelaLansbury at that point, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's actually about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]].
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** A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about reggae music, the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Angela Lansbury at that point, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]].

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** A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about reggae music, the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Angela Lansbury Creator/AngelaLansbury at that point, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]].
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** A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about reggae music, the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Angela Lansbury, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]].

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** A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about reggae music, the Rastafari movement, and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Angela Lansbury, Lansbury at that point, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]].
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** A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about the Rastafari movement, along with terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves.

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** A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about reggae music, the Rastafari movement, along with and terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves. At another point he exclaims "murder she wrote!" - "Murder She Wrote" was a hit song by reggae group Chaka Demus & Pliers, but the music video cuts to a photo of Angela Lansbury, so the implication is that Trent has heard the song, but thinks it's about [[Series/MurderSheWrote the TV show]].
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* Music/PinkFloyd: the outer and inner sleeve of the ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' album has photographs depicting a man on ''fire'', a scarf blowing in the ''wind'', a diver frozen in mid-plunge into ''water'', and a mannequin on desert ''sand''. You know, references to the classical elements.

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* Music/PinkFloyd: the outer and inner sleeve of the ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' album has photographs depicting a man on ''fire'', a scarf blowing in the ''wind'', a diver frozen in mid-plunge into ''water'', and a mannequin on desert ''sand''. You know, references to the classical elements.
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** Music/TheGame name-drops everybody, especially his idol, Music/DrDre.

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** Music/TheGame Music/TheGameRapper name-drops everybody, especially his idol, Music/DrDre.
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* The Sam & Dave classic "Soul Man" includes the line "I was educated at Woodstock". Is it about UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}? No, the song was released two years before the festival. Some people just assumed that "Woodstock" was a {{Mondegreen}} and the line should be "I was educated, had good stock" (in their hit CoverVersion, Film/TheBluesBrothers sang "I was educated, from good stock"). But the song's writers, Music/IsaacHayes and David Porter, both insisted Woodstock was correct and clarified the meaning. Woodstock High School, located outside Memphis, was a rural school which was the only local high school for African-Americans in that area during segregation. So "educated at Woodstock" is the singer talking about how he grew up in the country, and how he suffered from discrimination, but overcame all that. After desegregation moved high school-aged kids to another school, Woodstock became an elementary school, and is now a middle school.

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* The Sam & Dave classic "Soul Man" includes the line "I was educated at Woodstock". Is it about UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}? No, the song was released two years before the festival. Some people just assumed that "Woodstock" was a {{Mondegreen}} mondegreen and the line should be "I was educated, had good stock" (in their hit CoverVersion, Film/TheBluesBrothers sang "I was educated, from good stock"). But the song's writers, Music/IsaacHayes and David Porter, both insisted Woodstock was correct and clarified the meaning. Woodstock High School, located outside Memphis, was a rural school which was the only local high school for African-Americans in that area during segregation. So "educated at Woodstock" is the singer talking about how he grew up in the country, and how he suffered from discrimination, but overcame all that. After desegregation moved high school-aged kids to another school, Woodstock became an elementary school, and is now a middle school.
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* The Sam & Dave classic "Soul Man" includes the line "I was educated at Woodstock". Is it about UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}? No, the song was released two years before the festival. Some people just assumed that "Woodstock" was a {{Mondegreen}} and the line should be "I was educated, had good stock" (in their hit CoverVersion, Film/TheBluesBrothers sang "I was educated, from good stock"). But the song's writers, Music/IsaacHayes and David Porter, both insisted Woodstock was correct and clarified the meaning. Woodstock High School, located outside Memphis, was a rural school which was the only local high school for African-Americans in that area during segregation. So "educated at Woodstock" is the singer talking about how he grew up in the country, and how he suffered from discrimination, but overcame all that. After desegregation moved high school-aged kids to another school, Woodstock became an elementary school, and is now a middle school.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7yIg3m2E8lDQxDn19dGt2g Chongo Show's]] musical mashups often cover such a wide range of music, a near encyclopedic knowledge is required to recognize every single song used- and knowledge of videogames or internet culture is often required to get the jokes.

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* Music/TheLonelyIsland: "Lazy Sunday" contains the line "You could call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons" in reference to Burr's killing of UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton in a duel. A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about the Rastafari movement, along with terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves.

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* Music/TheLonelyIsland: "Lazy Sunday" contains the line "You could call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons" in reference to Burr's killing of UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton in a duel. duel.
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A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about the Rastafari movement, along with terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves.
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* As you might have guessed by the content of the song itself, ''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'''s "White & Nerdy" has some. The biggest one is him and Donny Osmond dancing in front of the Schrodinger equation for a hydrogen atom. (It has an error, though.)

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* As you might have guessed by the content of the song itself, ''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'''s Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "White & Nerdy" has some. The biggest one is him and Donny Osmond dancing in front of the Schrodinger equation for a hydrogen atom. (It has an error, though.)

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* ''Music/TheSmiths'' developed a reputation of using quotes from various literary works (particularly Shelagh Delaney's plays and other "kitchen sink"-era works) for their lyrics that would fly over the average listener until someone else points them out. This led to the band being accused of plagiarism and "Cemetry Gates" being written in response.

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* ''Music/TheSmiths'' Music/TheSmiths developed a reputation of using quotes from various literary works (particularly Shelagh Delaney's plays and other "kitchen sink"-era works) for their lyrics that would fly over the average listener until someone else points them out. This led to the band being accused of plagiarism and "Cemetry Gates" being written in response.



* The ''Music/PetShopBoys'' songs regularly reference various European (especially Russian - Neil Tennant is a fan) history and culture, for example in "Jack the Lad," "Don Juan," "My October Symphony," etc.

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* The ''Music/PetShopBoys'' Music/PetShopBoys' songs regularly reference various European (especially Russian - Neil Tennant is a fan) history and culture, for example in "Jack the Lad," "Don Juan," "My October Symphony," etc.



* Mr. Bungle's songs, specifically those on their album California, are chock-full of esoteric name drops. The track "None Of Them Knew They Were Robots" alone is a six minute long wall of doctrinal and scientific references.

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* Mr. Bungle's songs, specifically those on their album California, ''California'', are chock-full of esoteric name drops. The track "None Of Them Knew They Were Robots" alone is a six minute long wall of doctrinal and scientific references.



* Bands like ''Augie March'', ''Okkervil River'' and ''The Decemberists'' often get lumped into "lit pop" because of their insane number of literary references - like Decemberists songs featuring exact quotes from William Blake.
* John Darnielle of ''Music/TheMountainGoats'' has written songs about everything from HP Lovecraft to obscure boxers to minor Greek political events
* ''Music/TheHoldSteady'' sound like just another bar band - until you realize they're singing about John Berrymen, Creator/JackKerouac, and other authors you feel guilty for not having read. There are also references to obscure locations, songs, and people, plus the thick internally consistent narrative. Enjoying "First Night" from Boys and Girls in America is almost entirely dependent on having listened to the previous album, Separation Sunday. Furthermore, if you live in and/or are very familiar with the layout of the Twin Cities, it's not at all confusing to hear about Lyndale, 494, or the Grain Belt Bridge.
* ''Secret Chiefs 3'' (not coincidentally led by Trey Spruance, who was responsible for some of the more esoteric Mr Bungle lyrics) manage to do a lot of this despite primarily playing instrumental music. Their song titles include references to Zoroastrianism, alchemy, the unfinished Creator/PhilipKDick novel ''The Owl In Daylight'', and illuminationist philosophy, and even their name is a reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Chiefs a group of occult figures]].
* ''Music/JonathanCoulton'' does a hell of a lot of songs on various nerdy topics, ranging from DNA structure to Evil Supervillains to one on the mathematical Mandelbrot set. Smart listeners will realise that, despite everything else in the song, [=JoCo=] is actually singing about the Julia set (something he freely admits).

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* Bands like ''Augie March'', ''Okkervil River'' Augie March, Okkervil River and ''The Decemberists'' The Decemberists often get lumped into "lit pop" because of their insane number of literary references - like Decemberists songs featuring exact quotes from William Blake.
* John Darnielle of ''Music/TheMountainGoats'' Music/TheMountainGoats has written songs about everything from HP Lovecraft to obscure boxers to minor Greek political events
events.
* ''Music/TheHoldSteady'' Music/TheHoldSteady sound like just another bar band - until you realize they're singing about John Berrymen, Creator/JackKerouac, and other authors you feel guilty for not having read. There are also references to obscure locations, songs, and people, plus the thick internally consistent narrative. Enjoying "First Night" from Boys and Girls in America is almost entirely dependent on having listened to the previous album, Separation Sunday. Furthermore, if you live in and/or are very familiar with the layout of the Twin Cities, it's not at all confusing to hear about Lyndale, 494, or the Grain Belt Bridge.
* ''Secret Secret Chiefs 3'' 3 (not coincidentally led by Trey Spruance, who was responsible for some of the more esoteric Mr Bungle lyrics) manage to do a lot of this despite primarily playing instrumental music. Their song titles include references to Zoroastrianism, alchemy, the unfinished Creator/PhilipKDick novel ''The Owl In Daylight'', and illuminationist philosophy, and even their name is a reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Chiefs a group of occult figures]].
* ''Music/JonathanCoulton'' Music/JonathanCoulton does a hell of a lot of songs on various nerdy topics, ranging from DNA structure to Evil Supervillains to one on the mathematical Mandelbrot set. Smart listeners will realise that, despite everything else in the song, [=JoCo=] is actually singing about the Julia set (something he freely admits).



* There's a song by ''[=anNina=]'' called "Rothschild Rh-" (the B-side to ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi no Koro ni Kai]]''[='s=] ending theme, "''Object a''"). "Rh-" would be an anion of rhodium; not possible. The lyrics are basically about realizing when something's not possible and moving on.
** It's far more likely to be a reference to the Rhesus-negative blood type.
* ''Music/{{Fugazi}}'' lyrics are often in this territory. Then they wrote a song about Creator/JohnCassavetes.

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* There's a song by ''[=anNina=]'' [=anNina=] called "Rothschild Rh-" (the B-side to ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi no Koro ni Kai]]''[='s=] ending theme, "''Object a''"). "Rh-" would be an anion of rhodium; not possible. The lyrics are basically about realizing when something's not possible and moving on.
** It's far more likely to be
on. That, or a reference to the Rhesus-negative blood type.
* ''Music/{{Fugazi}}'' Music/{{Fugazi}} lyrics are often in this territory. Then they wrote a song about Creator/JohnCassavetes.



* ''Music/SteelyDan'' does this from time to time.
* ''Half Man Half Biscuit''. Everything from obscure biblical references to Music/LeadBelly songs and the history of Blackpool Town Football Club, with a healthy does of Britsih 80's / 90's pop culture thrown in too.
* ''Joaquin Sabina'' is very fond of these. He has songs that are fully comprehensible only by having vast knowledge of Spanish, Mexican and Argentinian culture and history, like "Mas de cien mentiras".

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* ''Music/SteelyDan'' Music/SteelyDan does this from time to time.
* ''Half Half Man Half Biscuit''. Biscuit. Everything from obscure biblical references to Music/LeadBelly songs and the history of Blackpool Town Football Club, with a healthy does of Britsih British 80's / 90's pop culture thrown in too.
* ''Joaquin Sabina'' Joaquin Sabina is very fond of these. He has songs that are fully comprehensible only by having vast knowledge of Spanish, Mexican and Argentinian culture and history, like "Mas de cien mentiras".



--> One life to live, never ask for a mulligan.[[note]]Obscure if you don't know golf or Magic: the Gathering, but it means pretty much a do over.[[/note]]

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--> ---> One life to live, never ask for a mulligan.[[note]]Obscure if you don't know golf or Magic: the Gathering, but it means pretty much a do over.[[/note]]



* ''Music/{{Clutch}}'' peppers their lyrics heavily with mythological and folklore references that sound cool even when too obscure to be comprehensible.
* The songs on the ''Fall Of Troy'' album ''Doppleganger'' are most, if not all, obscure pop culture references that have nothing to do with the music itself. Two are references to ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' ("You Got A Death Wish, Johnny Truant?" and "The Hol[ ]y Tape"), one references Film/AceVentura ("Laces, Out Dan"), etc.
* ''Music/{{Queen}}'''s "'39" appears to only be about an astronaut traveling on a ship traveling at significant-fraction-of-C speeds, and the effects of time-dilation on him and those he left behind; however, Brian May has stated it has a second, more-personal, meaning: [[spoiler: It's about how a musician feels about having to be out touring all the time -- coming back a year later to find his kids had grown, the neighborhood had changed, someone he knew is dead, and so on.]]
* ''Music/TheDivineComedy'''s "Woman of the World" works as a song in its own right, whether or not you know that the title character is Holly Golightly of ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' (she's not named, and it isn't made explicit, but it's obvious once you spot it).
* ''And Then There Was Silence'' by ''Music/BlindGuardian'' has various lines that are only really meaningful to someone who knows their Greek mythology and/or Homer; for example, "the coin's been placed beneath my tongue".
** The entire song explicitly retells the Iliad. A better example is the subtle reference to the Aeniad in the line 'Revenge will be taken by Rome'.

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* ''Music/{{Clutch}}'' Music/{{Clutch}} peppers their lyrics heavily with mythological and folklore references that sound cool even when too obscure to be comprehensible.
* The songs on the ''Fall Of Troy'' Fall of Troy album ''Doppleganger'' are most, if not all, obscure pop culture references that have nothing to do with the music itself. Two are references to ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' ("You Got A Death Wish, Johnny Truant?" and "The Hol[ ]y Tape"), one references Film/AceVentura ("Laces, Out Dan"), etc.
* ''Music/{{Queen}}'''s Music/{{Queen}}'s "'39" appears to only be about an astronaut traveling on a ship traveling at significant-fraction-of-C speeds, and the effects of time-dilation on him and those he left behind; however, Brian May has stated it has a second, more-personal, meaning: [[spoiler: It's about how a musician feels about having to be out touring all the time -- coming back a year later to find his kids had grown, the neighborhood had changed, someone he knew is dead, and so on.]]
* ''Music/TheDivineComedy'''s Music/TheDivineComedy's "Woman of the World" works as a song in its own right, whether or not you know that the title character is Holly Golightly of ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' (she's not named, and it isn't made explicit, but it's obvious once you spot it).
* ''And Then There Was Silence'' by ''Music/BlindGuardian'' Music/BlindGuardian has various lines that are only really meaningful to someone who knows their Greek mythology and/or Homer; for example, "the coin's been placed beneath my tongue".
**
tongue". The entire song explicitly retells the Iliad. ''Iliad''. A better example is the subtle reference to the Aeniad ''Aeneid'' in the line 'Revenge will be taken by Rome'.



* The Music/BarenakedLadies song "Aluminum" describes various properties of the title element, a few of which are somewhat obscure. For example, "''but just below where you shine you burn''" references the fact that it's used to make thermite and "''every time you're here I forget''" comes from various medical studies that have shown a possible connection between excessive aluminum exposure and Alzheimer's Disease.

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* The Music/BarenakedLadies song "Aluminum" describes various properties of the title element, a few of which are somewhat obscure. For example, "''but "but just below where you shine you burn''" burn" references the fact that it's used to make thermite and "''every "every time you're here I forget''" forget" comes from various medical studies that have shown a possible connection between excessive aluminum exposure and Alzheimer's Disease.



* The Music/{{Duran Duran}} song "Last Chance on the Stairway" definitely qualifies. First off, if you're British you should be able to get the gist of what the song is about by looking at the song title and letting it remind you of "l'esprit d'escalier". Secondly, there's a lyric that says that the song's scenario is "just like a scene out of Voltaire/twisting out of sight". Someone who's read ''Candide'', say, might understand what Simon Le Bon was getting at there. As for Simon, knowing that he spent time as a tree surgeon in an Israeli kibbutz will help you understand why the haunting instrumental on the band's debut album was called "Tel Aviv".

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* The Music/{{Duran Duran}} Music/DuranDuran song "Last Chance on the Stairway" definitely qualifies.Stairway". First off, if you're British you should be able to get the gist of what the song is about by looking at the song title and letting it remind you of "l'esprit d'escalier". Secondly, there's a lyric that says that the song's scenario is "just like a scene out of Voltaire/twisting out of sight". Someone who's read ''Candide'', say, might understand what Simon Le Bon was getting at there. As for Simon, knowing that he spent time as a tree surgeon in an Israeli kibbutz will help you understand why the haunting instrumental on the band's debut album was called "Tel Aviv".



* Music/TheBeatles: John "has another cigarette" in ''I'm So Tired'' from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', then curses Sir Walter Raleigh for "he was such a stupid git." The GeniusBonus here is that Raleigh was the first Englishman to bring tobacco to Europe.

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* Music/TheBeatles: John "has another cigarette" in ''I'm "I'm So Tired'' Tired" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', then curses Sir Walter Raleigh for "he was such a stupid git." The GeniusBonus here is that Raleigh was the first Englishman to bring tobacco to Europe.



* The lyrics of Music/JeanMichelJarre's song "Millions Of Stars" seem cryptic to the layman, but if you know your way around music, you'll notice that they're chords. The first four ones ("Gm, Dm, Cm⁹, Gm") are even those that are played at the same time.

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* The lyrics of Music/JeanMichelJarre's song "Millions Of Stars" seem cryptic to the layman, but if you know your way around music, you'll notice that they're chords. The first four ones ("Gm, Dm, Cm⁹, Gm") are even those that are played at the same time.

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* As you might have guessed by the content of the song itself, ''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'''s "White & Nerdy" has some. The biggest one is him and Donny Osmond dancing in front of the Schrodinger equation for a hydrogen atom.
** It has an error, though.

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* As you might have guessed by the content of the song itself, ''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'''s "White & Nerdy" has some. The biggest one is him and Donny Osmond dancing in front of the Schrodinger equation for a hydrogen atom.
** It
atom. (It has an error, though. though.)



* The Music/{{Rush}} song "YYZ" begins with Neil tapping a rhythm in Morse code. Specifically, he's tapping the code for "YYZ"[[note]]which, in turn, is the airport code for Toronto Pearson International Airport, as in what the luggage tags said when the boys in Rush were finally heading home after another grueling tour[[/note]].

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* The Music/{{Rush}} song "YYZ" begins with Neil tapping a rhythm the song's title in Morse code. Specifically, he's tapping the code for "YYZ"[[note]]which, in turn, code.[[note]]"YYZ" is the airport code for Toronto Pearson International Airport, as in what the luggage tags said when the boys in Rush were finally heading home after another grueling tour[[/note]].tour.[[/note]]



* Music/TheLonelyIsland: "Lazy Sunday" contains the line "You could call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons" in reference to Burr's killing of Alexander Hamilton in a duel. A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about the Rastafari movement, along with terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves.

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* Music/TheLonelyIsland: "Lazy Sunday" contains the line "You could call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons" in reference to Burr's killing of Alexander Hamilton UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton in a duel. A lot of the jokes in "Ras Trent" rely on the listener having some knowledge about the Rastafari movement, along with terms from its associated dialect, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_vocabulary Iyaric]]. While it's pretty easy to get the overall humor of the narrator being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a clueless middle class white college student trying to emulate Rastafarian culture]], a lot of the lyrics involve him using references to the movement in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't quite understand it. For instance, the very first two words in the song are "Jah! Rastafarianism!"; Most Rastafari see the suffix "-ism" as having negative connotations, and thus would consider the term "Rastafarianism" offensive and would never use it themselves.



* Music/ThePolice: The song ''Don't Stand So Close To Me'' mentions "that book by Nabokov." Nabokov is Creator/VladimirNabokov, and "that book" is Literature/{{Lolita}}, about an older man falling in love with a young girl-- basically what the song is about.

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* Music/ThePolice: The song ''Don't Stand So Close To Me'' mentions "that book by Nabokov." Nabokov [[Creator/VladimirNabokov Nabokov]]". That book is Creator/VladimirNabokov, and "that book" is Literature/{{Lolita}}, ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', about an older man falling in love with a young girl-- basically what the song is about.
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** Their songs also make frequent references to literature, art, history, music, religion, and more. Sometimes they retell a famous work of literature or film, and sometimes they make it obvious what they're referencing. An incomplete list include Two Minutes to Midnight [[note]]referencing the Doomsday Clock[[/note]], The Rime of the Ancient Mariner[[note]]Coleridge's poem[[/note]], Flight of Icarus[[note]]twisting Greek myth[[/note]], Alexander the Great[[note]][[UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat historical]][[/note]], The Trooper[[note]]both historical and Lord Tennyson's poem[[/note]], Quest for Fire[[note]]Rosny's 1911 novel and the 1981 film[[/note]], To Tame a Land[[note]]Frank Herbet's [[Franchise/{{Dune}}[[/note]], The Phantom of the Opera[[note]]...[[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera obvious]][[/note]], Paschendale[[note]]historical WWI battle[[/note]], The Murders in the Rue Morgue[[note]]the Poe short story[[/note]], Where Eagles Dare [[note]]the 1968 movie of the same name[[/note]], The Evil that Men Do [[note]]references Theatre/JuliusCaesar Act 3, Scene 2's famous line "The evil that men do lives after them / The good is oft interred with their bones"[[/note]], Brave New World[[note]]the book of the same name[[/note]], The Ghost of the Navigator[[note]]many references to Literature/TheOdyssey[[/note]], The Edge of Darkness[[note]]retells ''Film/ApocalypseNow''[[/note]], Lord of the Flies [[note]]based on [[Literature/LordOfTheFlies the book of the same name]][[/note]], The Wicker Man [[note]]the [[Film/TheWickerMan1973 film of the same name]][[/note]], Out of the Silent Planet [[note]]references ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' with the title taken from the C.S. Lewis book of the same title[[/note]], Brighter Than a Thousand Suns[[note]]references an often quoted part of the Bhagavad Gita[[/note]], and several others.

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** Their songs also make frequent references to literature, art, history, music, religion, and more. Sometimes they retell a famous work of literature or film, and sometimes they make it obvious what they're referencing. An incomplete list include Two Minutes to Midnight [[note]]referencing the Doomsday Clock[[/note]], The Rime of the Ancient Mariner[[note]]Coleridge's poem[[/note]], Flight of Icarus[[note]]twisting Greek myth[[/note]], Alexander the Great[[note]][[UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat historical]][[/note]], The Trooper[[note]]both historical and Lord Tennyson's poem[[/note]], Quest for Fire[[note]]Rosny's 1911 novel and the 1981 film[[/note]], To Tame a Land[[note]]Frank Herbet's [[Franchise/{{Dune}}[[/note]], Franchise/{{Dune}}[[/note]], The Phantom of the Opera[[note]]...[[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera obvious]][[/note]], Paschendale[[note]]historical WWI battle[[/note]], The Murders in the Rue Morgue[[note]]the Poe short story[[/note]], Where Eagles Dare [[note]]the 1968 movie of the same name[[/note]], The Evil that Men Do [[note]]references Theatre/JuliusCaesar Act 3, Scene 2's famous line "The evil that men do lives after them / The good is oft interred with their bones"[[/note]], Brave New World[[note]]the World[[note]][[Literature/BraveNewWorld the book of the same name[[/note]], name]][[/note]], The Ghost of the Navigator[[note]]many references to Literature/TheOdyssey[[/note]], The Edge of Darkness[[note]]retells ''Film/ApocalypseNow''[[/note]], Lord of the Flies [[note]]based on [[Literature/LordOfTheFlies the book of the same name]][[/note]], The Wicker Man [[note]]the [[Film/TheWickerMan1973 film of the same name]][[/note]], Out of the Silent Planet [[note]]references ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' with the title taken from the C.S. Lewis book of the same title[[/note]], Brighter Than a Thousand Suns[[note]]references an often quoted part of the Bhagavad Gita[[/note]], and several others.
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* ''Music/TheHoldSteady'' sound like just another bar band - until you realize they're singing about Creator/JohnBerrymen, Creator/JackKerouac, and other authors you feel guilty for not having read. There are also references to obscure locations, songs, and people, plus the thick internally consistent narrative. Enjoying "First Night" from Boys and Girls in America is almost entirely dependent on having listened to the previous album, Separation Sunday. Furthermore, if you live in and/or are very familiar with the layout of the Twin Cities, it's not at all confusing to hear about Lyndale, 494, or the Grain Belt Bridge.

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* ''Music/TheHoldSteady'' sound like just another bar band - until you realize they're singing about Creator/JohnBerrymen, John Berrymen, Creator/JackKerouac, and other authors you feel guilty for not having read. There are also references to obscure locations, songs, and people, plus the thick internally consistent narrative. Enjoying "First Night" from Boys and Girls in America is almost entirely dependent on having listened to the previous album, Separation Sunday. Furthermore, if you live in and/or are very familiar with the layout of the Twin Cities, it's not at all confusing to hear about Lyndale, 494, or the Grain Belt Bridge.



* The songs on the ''Music/FallOfTroy'' album ''Doppleganger'' are most, if not all, obscure pop culture references that have nothing to do with the music itself. Two are references to ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' ("You Got A Death Wish, Johnny Truant?" and "The Hol[ ]y Tape"), one references Film/AceVentura ("Laces, Out Dan"), etc.

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* The songs on the ''Music/FallOfTroy'' ''Fall Of Troy'' album ''Doppleganger'' are most, if not all, obscure pop culture references that have nothing to do with the music itself. Two are references to ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' ("You Got A Death Wish, Johnny Truant?" and "The Hol[ ]y Tape"), one references Film/AceVentura ("Laces, Out Dan"), etc.



** Their songs also make frequent references to literature, art, history, music, religion, and more. Sometimes they retell a famous work of literature or film, and sometimes they make it obvious what they're referencing. An incomplete list include Two Minutes to Midnight [[note]]referencing the Doomsday Clock[[/note]], The Rime of the Ancient Mariner[[note]]Coleridge's poem[[/note]], Flight of Icarus[[note]]twisting Greek myth[[/note]], Alexander the Great[[note]]historical[[/note]], The Trooper[[note]]both historical and Lord Tennyson's poem[[/note]], Quest for Fire[[note]]Rosny's 1911 novel and the 1981 film[[/note]], To Tame a Land[[note]]Frank Herbet's Dune[[/note]], The Phantom of the Opera[[note]]...obvious[[/note]], Paschendale[[note]]historical WWI battle[[/note]], The Murders in the Rue Morgue[[note]]the Poe short story[[/note]], Where Eagles Dare [[note]]the 1968 movie of the same name[[/note]], The Evil that Men Do [[note]]references Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2's famous line "The evil that men do lives after them / The good is oft interred with their bones"[[/note]], Brave New World[[note]]the book of the same name[[/note]], The Ghost of the Navigator[[note]]many references to The Odyssey[[/note]], The Edge of Darkness[[note]]retells ''Film/ApocalypseNow''[[/note]], Lord of the Flies [[note]]based on the book of the same name[[/note]], The Wicker Man [[note]]the [[Film/TheWickerMan1973 film of the same name]][[/note]], Out of the Silent Planet [[note]]references ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' with the title taken from the C.S. Lewis book of the same title[[/note]], Brighter Than a Thousand Suns[[note]]references an often quoted part of the Bhagavad Gita[[/note]], and several others.

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** Their songs also make frequent references to literature, art, history, music, religion, and more. Sometimes they retell a famous work of literature or film, and sometimes they make it obvious what they're referencing. An incomplete list include Two Minutes to Midnight [[note]]referencing the Doomsday Clock[[/note]], The Rime of the Ancient Mariner[[note]]Coleridge's poem[[/note]], Flight of Icarus[[note]]twisting Greek myth[[/note]], Alexander the Great[[note]]historical[[/note]], Great[[note]][[UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat historical]][[/note]], The Trooper[[note]]both historical and Lord Tennyson's poem[[/note]], Quest for Fire[[note]]Rosny's 1911 novel and the 1981 film[[/note]], To Tame a Land[[note]]Frank Herbet's Dune[[/note]], [[Franchise/{{Dune}}[[/note]], The Phantom of the Opera[[note]]...obvious[[/note]], [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera obvious]][[/note]], Paschendale[[note]]historical WWI battle[[/note]], The Murders in the Rue Morgue[[note]]the Poe short story[[/note]], Where Eagles Dare [[note]]the 1968 movie of the same name[[/note]], The Evil that Men Do [[note]]references Julius Caesar Theatre/JuliusCaesar Act 3, Scene 2's famous line "The evil that men do lives after them / The good is oft interred with their bones"[[/note]], Brave New World[[note]]the book of the same name[[/note]], The Ghost of the Navigator[[note]]many references to The Odyssey[[/note]], Literature/TheOdyssey[[/note]], The Edge of Darkness[[note]]retells ''Film/ApocalypseNow''[[/note]], Lord of the Flies [[note]]based on [[Literature/LordOfTheFlies the book of the same name[[/note]], name]][[/note]], The Wicker Man [[note]]the [[Film/TheWickerMan1973 film of the same name]][[/note]], Out of the Silent Planet [[note]]references ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' with the title taken from the C.S. Lewis book of the same title[[/note]], Brighter Than a Thousand Suns[[note]]references an often quoted part of the Bhagavad Gita[[/note]], and several others.

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