The Wildhearts

I noticed a couple of references to older Wildhearts songs on the new album. For example:

"headfuckin' waste of ass...." from The Sweetest Song.

"Sitting Duck in your firing range (baby strange)" from Bipolar Baby

"sh1t don't stink" from The Sweetest Song and Destroy all Monsters can be almost traced back to "Truth" if it weren't an almost cliched phrase.

can anyone think of any others?

"and my hearts in the song, and my heads in the sand" (The Hard Way) sounds like it references another Wildies tune but I'm fucked if I can remember which one. Anyone?

I think it's actually quite common for songwriters to reference their songs within their songs (paraphrasing the Dresden Dolls there). One of the most obvious examples I can think of is Veruca Salt breaking into "Seether" in the middle of "Volcano Girls". Interestingly both these tracks were also the "big" singles from the first 2 albums. Clever!

shockingcandy wrote:"and my hearts in the song, and my heads in the sand" (The Hard Way) sounds like it references another Wildies tune but I'm fucked if I can remember which one. Anyone?

That'll be Mindslide, B side of..... dunno, was it Just in Lust?

"My hearts in the song but my heads in the battle" or something...

Spot on! I knew I wasn't going mad

It seems to me that the soloing at the end of The Hard Way is likely an intentional revisitation of the soloing at the end of My Baby Is A Headfuck.

the main riff of "the sweetest song" sounds like an extension of the instrumental bit between schizophonic and soul searching, on fishing for luckies.

spoon_of_grimbo wrote:the main riff of "the sweetest song" sounds like an extension of the instrumental bit between schizophonic and soul searching, on fishing for luckies.

You know, that just occurred to me for the first time sometime in the last day or two. It's also the intro to Lovebank.

shockingcandy wrote:I think it's actually quite common for songwriters to reference their songs within their songs

Lemmy has done it quite a few times all on one Motörhead album.

Is it me or does the new flesh sound like its about to break into 29x the pain at one point

therapy? have doen the lyric recycling thing once or twice, Gimme back my brain Contained The Line Im sick and tired of 'going Nowhere


And the hidden track on High Anxiety is based around the line Never Ending Chain Of Biterness

which is in born too soon'

gimme wrote:Is it me or does the new flesh sound like its about to break into 29x the pain at one point

therapy? have doen the lyric recycling thing once or twice, Gimme back my brain Contained The Line Im sick and tired of 'going Nowhere


And the hidden track on High Anxiety is based around the line Never Ending Chain Of Biterness

which is in born too soon'

For me, that moment is at the beginning of Inner City Oveture. When the lyrics first come in, I keep wanting to sing the opening lines of Bad Time To Be Having A Bad Time.

Also, one of the background vocal bits in one of the verses of Bi-Polar is "Baby Strange".

shockingcandy wrote:One of the most obvious examples I can think of is Veruca Salt breaking into "Seether" in the middle of "Volcano Girls". Interestingly both these tracks were also the "big" singles from the first 2 albums. Clever!

And even cleverer is that the Seether section in Volcano Girls mimic's The Beatles' Glass Onion in "the walrus was Paul" verse. I always thought that was cool.

i know that they aren't popular on this board but bon jovi do it all the time too. in particular regular references to tommy and gina.

There's also sequels to some songs. Iron Maiden did it with Charlotte The Harlot / 22 Acacia Avenue (I think that was the title) and so did the Lunachicks with Brickface & Stucco / The Return Of Brickface & Stucco

shockingcandy wrote:There's also sequels to some songs. Iron Maiden did it with Charlotte The Harlot / 22 Acacia Avenue (I think that was the title) and so did the Lunachicks with Brickface & Stucco / The Return Of Brickface & Stucco

Let's not forget the fabulous double whammy from Metallica: "The Unforgiven" and "The Unforgiven II". It's nothing if not imaginative.

Arabiandisco wrote:Let's not forget the fabulous double whammy from Metallica: "The Unforgiven" and "The Unforgiven II". It's nothing if not imaginative.

That's completely, er, unforgiveable (sorry!)