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B. Dandelion
2008-10-13, 12:14 AM
How many song references can you identify in the title or strip? I made a list, but I'm sure I probably missed a few. (And probably included one or two that weren't actually intended as a direct reference, but meh.)

599 - Journey - "Separate Ways"
591 - Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil"
532 - Barry White - "Can't Get Enough"
516 - The Vapors - "Turning Japanese"
515 - Queen - "We Are the Champions"
502 - Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You"
501 - Alan Jackson "Summertime Blues"
493 - Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"
- Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger"
485 - Rolling Stones - "Get Off My Cloud"
468 - "Breaking Up is Hard to Do"
460 - Tesla - "Signs"
445 - "O Danny Boy"
427 - Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall, pt II"
423 - Thomas Dolby - "She Blinded Me With Science"
391 - Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger"
387 - Spice Girls - "Wannabe"
384 - Gloria Estefan - "Words Get In the Way"
368 - Jimi Hendrix - "All Along the Watchtower"
363 - "I Fought the Law"
346 - Tag Team - "Whoomp There It Is"
304 - Prince - "1999"
277 - "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"
168 - Jackson Browne - "Running On Empty"
115 - Kansas - "Dust In the Wind"
113 - "The Way We Were"
093 - The Who - "Teenage Wasteland"

Anybody catch others?

Nimrod's Son
2008-10-13, 06:27 AM
592) "Stuck in the Middle" - Stealers' Wheel
262) "All You Need Is Love" - The Beatles
177) "Changes" - David Bowie
144) "Pop Goes the Weasel" (trad.)


And probably included one or two that weren't actually intended as a direct reference

I think these ones most likely fit into this camp, but still...

415) "Idiot Box" - Incubus
367) "An Innocent Man" - Billy Joel
260) "Folsom Prison Blues" - Johnny Cash
245) "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
231) "Mouths of Babes" - Smashing Pumpkins
155) "Time Is On My Side" - The Rolling Stones
9) "I am Kurious, Oranj" - The Fall

Ghastly Epigram
2008-10-13, 06:30 AM
I've no idea how you got "We Are the Champions" from #515, though.

Ninth panel. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0515.html)

Nimrod's Son
2008-10-13, 06:32 AM
Yeah, just noticed that. I assumed the OP was just talking about the titles, not the comics themselves.

Ron Miel
2008-10-13, 07:25 AM
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0041.html

Celebrate - Kool and the Gang
We Will Rock You - Queen

Cleverdan22
2008-10-13, 07:32 AM
594 - Rock the Boat (Duh)

DBear
2008-10-13, 10:38 AM
501 is a rare twofer, also refering The Fifth Dimension's Wedding Bell Blues

UltraDude
2008-10-13, 11:05 AM
368 - Jimi Hendrix Bob Dylan - "All Along the Watchtower"

Fix'd.

Linkavitch
2008-10-13, 12:36 PM
Doesn't count as a song, but. . .
My Chemical Romance, the band.
:xykon: said he used to listen to My Alchemical Romance.