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Leviathan, who we have now learned is the king of inter-textual song references, mentions the song "Tony" in the book's Acknowledgments.
Years later, I know how that song references Motown, how descending basslines push emotional buttons, and how hugely yearning those lyrics are.
The video for the song references both Camberwick Green and The Wicker Man, and while the group are secretive about its meaning, it looks as if it was influenced by British, or maybe even global tensions, and perhaps is even a comment on online public shaming and/or rightwing rhetoric (Trump's "lock her up" chant springs to mind).
For Song references to Zhang Yue's "new Great Wall", see TPHYJ 71.2b and Zeng Gongliang 曾公亮.
With many (if not most) song references on the site, you can now click a play button that instantly loads the song into a web-based Rhapsody player running in another window.
Aside from the well-known lyrics - including "No direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone" - the manuscript also contains margin notes of song references, reminders and personal appointments, according to Sotheby's.
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Behold: the below cutesy song, referencing a series of hackneyed jokes about Beyoncé being inhumanly beautiful/talented.
At the 1993 Brit awards, they famously played Animal Nitrate, a song referencing drugs and the age of homosexual consent; that year, their first album won the Mercury prize.
McDonald's has been forced to apologise after a branch in Wales played a rap song referencing violent prison rape and underage sex at breakfast time.
Other parts of the song reference a macabre desire to eat dogs, enjoying things you never thought you would, and to change where you live, which was to be a new thing for me after that.
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