I was listening to some Cribs B-Sides the other day and realised in Glandular Fever Got The Best of Me they reference Pinkerton:
Yeah I was listening to Pinkerton,
Mine-sweeping round all the pubs
It was a whole new way of life to me but then
Glandular fever got the best of me
Yep
And got thinking about other songs that reference albums:
The National - Pink Rabbits - “And Bona Drag was still on”
Marth - Orange Juice - “We were driving to Vauxhall and I”
The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer - “Me and my friends are like the drums on Lust for Life”
Craig Finn does it so much with albums and songs especially with his ‘we did the xxx into the xxxx’ phrase
Lifter Puller:
We did the Goat’s Head Soup into the Tattooed Youth
We did the Green Eyed Lady right into the Lay Lady Lay
Hold Steady:
We did the been caught stealing
Into dancing on the ceiling
Back home we we’re listening to Catholic Boy
And I got hung up on the people who died
They did “She’s Got Legs” into "Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
Into something by the Dixie Dregs
And they faked their way through “Fairytale of New York”
When the band stopped playing we howled out for more
Like “Planet of the Apes” on TV
The second side of “'Til the Band Comes In”
Like an own-brand box of cornflakes
He’s going to let you down my friend
One from Bad Cover Version by Pulp. Never heard of Til The Band Comes In but apparently it’s an album by the producer of the Pulp album this song is on, the second side is all covers, and this is a good natured doing between friends.
I’ve heard Jarvis talk about this…he wrote the song long before he knew Scott Walker would be producing and got very embarrassed immediately before he was due to sing it for the first time in front of him…I believe Scott Walker was fine with it.
