History MythologyGag / Music

* This is literally half of {{Music/The Hold Steady}}'s lyrics, and a solid amount of their appeal.

* This is literally half of {{Music/TheHoldSteady}}'s lyrics, and a solid amount of their appeal.

* This is literally half of (Music/The Hold Steady)'s lyrics, and a solid amount of their appeal.

* This is literally half of The Hold Steady's lyrics, and a solid amount of their appeal.

* PearlJam's GreatestHitsAlbum ''rearviewmirror'' opens with the first song on their debut album, "Once", and ends with the song they usually close shows with, "Yellow Ledbetter".

* Tommy and Gina, from Bon Jovi's "Living On A Prayer", are referenced fourteen years later in "It's My Life":

* In Men Without Hats' song "Pop Goes The World", the lines "And every time I wonder if the world is right,/End up in some disco dancing all night" are followed by about three bars of a distinctive melody from their earlier hit, "Safety Dance".

* Ben Lee's song ''Into the Dark'' has the line, "I was one of those breathing tornados", alluding to his earlier album ''Breathing Tornados''.

** The Gabriel-era song "Dancing with the Moonlight Knight", from ''Selling England by the Pound'', features the line "'Paper, late!' cried a voice in the crowd," which later served as the inspiration for the Collins-era song "Paperlate."

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* Eminem does this multiple times, particularly when he name checks Dr Dre. "My Name Is..." sets up the joke: "And Dr Dre says..." followed by Dre insulting Eminem. Cue "The Real Slim Shady" and the joke is cut short by Eminem claiming he has already killed Dre.

* Knife Party's "Centipede" opens with "Giant tropical Centipedes share their territories with Tarantulas." A nod to Tarantula by {{Pendulum}}

* The song ''Sweet and Low'' by Strippers Union has the line, "It's not his suits that got the girl." This is a reference to the Odds song ''Someone Who's Cool'', with its lyric: "It was the suit that got me the gig, it was the tear that got me the girl." The gag being that Craig Northey, Doug Elliott and Pat Steward are members of both bands.

* The song ''Sweet and Low'' by Strippers Union has the line, "It's not his suits that got the girl." This is a reference to the Odds song ''Someone Who's Cool'', with its lyric: "It was the suit that got me the girl." The gag being that Craig Northey, Doug Elliott and Pat Steward are members of both bands.

** [[EverythingsBetterWithBunnies Hares/rabbits]] were always in abundance in Tull imagery: "The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles", the columns about "Do Not See Me Rabbit" and "non-rabbits" in the newspaper of ''Thick As A Brick'', the line, "you're a rabbit on the run" in "Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day", the band wearing rabbit suits onstage...

* The Guns n' Roses song "Coma," has the lines "It's so easy to be social/It's so easy to be cool/It's easy to be hungry cause you ain't got shit to lose," a nod to their song "It's So Easy" from their first album.
** Additionally, the umbiquitous liner note "With your bitch slap rappin' and your cocaine tongue you get nothin' done" from the Appetite For Destruction album would later become part of the chorus for "You Could Be Mine."
** Not to mention the liner notes for the Use Your Illusion albums quote Steve Bator's "Ain't it Fun" which they would later cover.

* Fallout Boy's "What a Catch, Donnie" has lines from several of their songs ("Grand Theft Autumn", "Sugar We're Going Down", "Dance, Dance", plus others) sung in the background during the third stanza.

* TheBeatles song ''Glass Onion'' is one long series of references to their earlier songs in the same surreal mode, mostly mainly-Lennon works: ''Strawberry Fields Forever'', ''I Am The Walrus'', ''Lady Madonna'' and ''The Fool on the Hill''.

** And ''I Am The Walrus'', in itself, name-checks a song from the previous album: "See how they fly, like '''Lucy in the sky''', see how they run..."
** ''Glass Onion'' also references the infamous "Paul is dead" rumors that some conspiracy buffs floated at the time with the line, "And here's another clue for you all,/{{The Walrus was Paul}}". Post-Beatles, John Lennon wrote a line for the song ''God'': "I was the Walrus, but now I'm John."

* The Beatles themselves were known to do this, most famously by singing "The Walrus was Paul" on the White Album

* In a particularly meta form of the trope, the DresdenDolls song "Backstabber" has the line "And don't tell me not to reference my songs within my songs."

* {{Genesis}} has many:

** The lyrics to the "Willow Farm" section of SuppersReady refers to the "fox on the rocks" (the album the song was on was called ''Foxtrot''.) and "''the musical box''". "The Musical Box" was a track from ''Nursery Cryme".

*** The end section of of SuppersReady has the line, "There's an angel standing in the sun". PhilCollins sang the line, "There's an angel standing in the sun, free to get back home" in the end of "Los Endos" as a tribute to PeterGabriel in their ''A Trick Of The Tail''

* In a particularly meta form of the trope, the [[Amanda Palmer Dresden Dolls]] song "Backstabber" has the line "And don't tell me not to reference my songs within my songs."

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*** "Lady Madonna" is mainly-McCartney, "Fool on the Hill" entirely so: Paul is the only Beatle to play on the latter track.

** "Lady Madonna" is by McCartney. Ditto "Fool on the Hill"; Paul is the only Beatle to play on the latter track.