#21

Mark E Smith has so many :smile:

“Australians in Europe, The biggest things invented I have ever seen
Their cover versions are naff and they live in Berlin”

“James Murphy is their chief
They show their bollocks when they eat”

“Pink Floyd are short”

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#22

Never noticed this one before, a Cave swipe i I presume?

#23

Gareth is the absolute master of shoehorning in obscure football references that just click

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#24

Nick Berry had talent in a previous life.

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#25

I’ll see you on the moon/With Marian Pahars

#26

Yes, this was Bend Sinister era which would have been not long after the Bad Seeds covers album.

#27

I was in the realm of the essence of Tong

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#28

“I’m so sick of Snow Patrol”.

So many actually. A whole track about the time Susan Kennedy got amnesia is still my favourite of these though

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#29

Reference to Peter Beardsley in a Beautiful South song

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#30

Also

I requested a room with a view
In the middle of a war between me and you
And leave with all the dignity
Of a missed Panenka penalty

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#31

The One That Got Away by Katy Perry includes the line “We made out in your Mustang to Radiohead” and I’ve always thought it’s massively weird because I can’t think of a single Radiohead song that would be an appropriate soundtrack for the activity in question

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#32

My Iron Tongue

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#33

Erectioneering

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#34

This lyric from Dylan surely ranks high on the unexpected references scale:

I was thinkin’ 'bout Alicia Keys, couldn’t keep from crying
When she was born in Hell’s Kitchen, I was living down the line
I’m wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be
I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee

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#35

Snog.

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#36

Oh wow, that’s a great one

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#38

I asked you to go to the Green Day concert
You said you never heard of them
How cool is that?
So I went to your room and read your diary
Watching Grunge leg drop New Jack through a press table
And then my heart stopped
Listening to Cio-Cio San
Fall in love all over again

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#39

Embarrassingly the one that springs to mind is One Direction talking about “way too many people in the Addison Lee”

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/onedirection/midnightmemories.html

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#40

Not odd or anything but I think a lot about this reference to Felicity the tv show in a song that I like:

I really don’t know what I thought
I think I thought I’d be an artist,
and just like a lot of young people I guess
I pictured myself in the village,
stumbling out of dark bars late at night
in love with the hustle and bustle,
laughing out loud with a handful of friends
A little bit like Keri Russell.

#41

Jimmy Snuka and Steve Austin getting mentioned in that Five song