Songs that reference another artist/group name?
07-28-09, 02:21 PM
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Songs that reference another artist/group name?
I’m looking for songs that reference another artist in the lyrics, here are a few that I could think of. Give me more.
Neil young : "Borrowed Tune"
“I'm singin' this borrowed tune
I took from the Rolling Stones,
Alone in this empty room
Too wasted to write my own.”
Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express
"From station to station
back to Dusseldorf City
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie
Trans-Europe Express"
The Band: Up on Cripple Creek
"Now me and my mate were back at the shack
We had Spike Jones on the box
She said, "I can't take the way he sings
But I love to hear him talk" "
The Who: You Better You Bet Lyrics (with bonus self reference!)
" love to hear you say my name
especially when you say yes
I got your body right now on my mind
but I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T-Rex, Mmmmm
To the sound of old T-Rex
oh, and Who's Next"
Neil young : "Borrowed Tune"
“I'm singin' this borrowed tune
I took from the Rolling Stones,
Alone in this empty room
Too wasted to write my own.”
Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express
"From station to station
back to Dusseldorf City
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie
Trans-Europe Express"
The Band: Up on Cripple Creek
"Now me and my mate were back at the shack
We had Spike Jones on the box
She said, "I can't take the way he sings
But I love to hear him talk" "
The Who: You Better You Bet Lyrics (with bonus self reference!)
" love to hear you say my name
especially when you say yes
I got your body right now on my mind
but I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T-Rex, Mmmmm
To the sound of old T-Rex
oh, and Who's Next"
07-28-09, 02:27 PM
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Re: Songs that reference another artist/group name?
My Sister - Juliana Hatfield
"I miss my sister, why'd she go?
Shes the one who would have taken me
To my first all-ages show.
It was the Violent Femmes and the Del Fuegos,
Before they had a record out. before they went gold..."
Twisting - They Might Be Giants
"She doesn't have to have
her Young Fresh Fellows tape back now.
But there's not a lot of things
that she'll take back."
All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
"And my brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on that revolution stuff,
What a drag. Too many... snags"
"I miss my sister, why'd she go?
Shes the one who would have taken me
To my first all-ages show.
It was the Violent Femmes and the Del Fuegos,
Before they had a record out. before they went gold..."
Twisting - They Might Be Giants
"She doesn't have to have
her Young Fresh Fellows tape back now.
But there's not a lot of things
that she'll take back."
All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
"And my brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on that revolution stuff,
What a drag. Too many... snags"
Last edited by Pointyskull; 07-28-09 at 02:32 PM.
07-28-09, 02:33 PM
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Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
We all came out to montreux
On the lake geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didnt have much time
Frank zappa and the mothers
Were at the best place around
"Elvis Costello Hurry Down Doomsday" _ Elvis Costello
Any day now a giant insect mutation
Will swoop down and devour the white man's burden
Starting out with all of the sensitive ones
Better make like a fly if you don't want to die
Look out there goes Gordon (Sting of course)
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
The screen door slams
Mary' dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
We all came out to montreux
On the lake geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didnt have much time
Frank zappa and the mothers
Were at the best place around
"Elvis Costello Hurry Down Doomsday" _ Elvis Costello
Any day now a giant insect mutation
Will swoop down and devour the white man's burden
Starting out with all of the sensitive ones
Better make like a fly if you don't want to die
Look out there goes Gordon (Sting of course)
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
The screen door slams
Mary' dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
07-28-09, 02:36 PM
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Cheap Trick - Surrender
Whatever happened to all this season's losers of the year?
Every time I got to thinking, where'd they disappear?
When I woke up, Mom and Dad are rolling on the couch
Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my KISS records out
Whatever happened to all this season's losers of the year?
Every time I got to thinking, where'd they disappear?
When I woke up, Mom and Dad are rolling on the couch
Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my KISS records out
07-28-09, 02:44 PM
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Red Hot Chili Peppers "Bob Marley, poet & a profit, Bob Marley taught me how to off it"
Lynyrd Skynryd "I hope Neil Young will remember, a southern man don't need him around anyhow"
Beastie Boys "If I play guitar I'll be Jimmy Page, the girlies I like are underage - check it"
Weezer "I've got posters on the wall, My favorite rock group, KISS. I've got Ace Frehley. I've got Peter Criss Waiting there for me. Yes I do."
Neil Young "The king is gone but he's not forgotten, this is the story of Johnny Rotten."
Cult "Kurt Cobain was so young, don't you know your poets gone"
Cypress Hill "Like louie armstrong played the trumpet, I'll hit dat bong and break ya off something soon"
Pantera "Your trust is in whiskey and weed and Black Sabbath, it's Goddamn Electric" and the second chorus goes "Your trust is in whiskey and weed and Slayer, it's Goddamn Electric
Ol' Dirty Bastard name checked himself numerous times
Lynyrd Skynryd "I hope Neil Young will remember, a southern man don't need him around anyhow"
Beastie Boys "If I play guitar I'll be Jimmy Page, the girlies I like are underage - check it"
Weezer "I've got posters on the wall, My favorite rock group, KISS. I've got Ace Frehley. I've got Peter Criss Waiting there for me. Yes I do."
Neil Young "The king is gone but he's not forgotten, this is the story of Johnny Rotten."
Cult "Kurt Cobain was so young, don't you know your poets gone"
Cypress Hill "Like louie armstrong played the trumpet, I'll hit dat bong and break ya off something soon"
Pantera "Your trust is in whiskey and weed and Black Sabbath, it's Goddamn Electric" and the second chorus goes "Your trust is in whiskey and weed and Slayer, it's Goddamn Electric
Ol' Dirty Bastard name checked himself numerous times
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07-28-09, 02:55 PM
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Edan — "Rock n Roll"
[Dagha]
I be the headbanger with the double-edge razor
The breathtaker, dragon slayer slash savior
Assassinator, flame thrower, fascinator
My dagger blade cascade, and catch the mayor
Captivator, spectator, activator
Palladium's packed, they pay me a stacks of paper
Aggravated assault, halt the batch of strangers
The strangler, long ranger, the devil devestator
Educated rebel with the heavy metal flavor
Levels is elevated to decibels of danger
Volts from that generator blow the detonator
Decimate the place and left the radius a crater
I cater to the greater entertainer
and blaze the remainder with the energy of anger
Celebrate the maker, I mutilate later
And play a naysayer like a amplified bass player
[Edan]
The Riders of the Storm enter when Doors open
To bring raw dosage in the form of swarm locusts
Beetles and Birds that seem evil and absurd
Gather with The Eagles that swerve to form herds
Butterflies made of Iron ride the horizon
Giving Credence to the Revival of Poseidon
Who feeds in the Clearwater, you feel slaughter
But Lovecraft author pens the horror for tomorrow
Zombies and walking dead stalk the Talking Heads
Insects with awkward legs haunt with awful dread
All along the web the thread remains rare
With bloodshed that led to where the Little Feat fled
To lost places, thoughts lost for all ages
Where Small Faces sit on the walls of tall Mazes
That overlook the 13th Floor with long gazes
Connected to the earthly core through elevators
Check it, the Underground is made of Velvet
Where buttersoft brothers talk tough on wax but ain't sell shit
Every cracka that rap, ain't the Elvis
My Aqualung cultivates the blue oyster shellfish
I design my Pearls Before Swine
And form rhymes that take you to a world before time
Where Living Things coexisted with Crimson Kings
Who on the Moon's Dark Side painted pretty things
That illustrated lessons conceived by the mothers of invention
Who also built the Stairway To Heaven, it's a present
Only to be stolen by a Thief, the Judas Preist
Who unleash his devil magic
My mental fabric too thick for Lenny Kravitz
Who imitates Jimi Hendrix in every facet
Semi-Automatic Rap Heavy Metal Jackets
Kill with mathematics to build with Black Sabbath
And some I missed, probably.
Last edited by The Bus; 07-28-09 at 02:58 PM.
07-28-09, 02:56 PM
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Ween: I hate the Smiths (I hate the Smiths and Steven Morrissey)
the Mountain Goats: Anti-Music Song
i saw you on tv
doing a bad imitation of van morrison
and i saw you on tv
doing a bad imitation of a second rate songwriter from the eighties named morrissey
i never liked morrissey
and i don't like you.
the Mountain Goats: Anti-Music Song
i saw you on tv
doing a bad imitation of van morrison
and i saw you on tv
doing a bad imitation of a second rate songwriter from the eighties named morrissey
i never liked morrissey
and i don't like you.
07-28-09, 02:57 PM
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Van Halen (Sammy Hagar) - Nerf Herder
Is this what you wanted, Sammy Hagar?
Sammy Hagar, is this what you wanted, man?
Dave lost his hairline but you lost your cool buddy
Can't drive 55
I'll never buy your lousy records again
Again, again, again, never again:
Is this what you wanted, Sammy Hagar?
Sammy Hagar, is this what you wanted, man?
Dave lost his hairline but you lost your cool buddy
Can't drive 55
I'll never buy your lousy records again
Again, again, again, never again:
07-28-09, 03:02 PM
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Tori Amos, Precious Things
With their nine-inch nails and little fascists panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl
With their nine-inch nails and little fascists panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl
07-28-09, 03:08 PM
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Leonard Cohen - "Memories"
"Frankie Laine was singing 'Jezebel' "
Descendents - "Catalina"
"....put on my Beatles tape" & "put on my Doors tape"
"Frankie Laine was singing 'Jezebel' "
Descendents - "Catalina"
"....put on my Beatles tape" & "put on my Doors tape"
07-28-09, 03:13 PM
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Prepare to close thread:
Gym Class Heroes - Taxi Driver (referenced band list)
Gym Class Heroes - Taxi Driver (referenced band list)
I took cutie for a ride in my deathcab
She tipped me with a kiss I dropped her off at the meth lab
Before she left she made a dashboard confessional
And spilled her guts in cursive but whats worse is
I could still see her bright eyes like sunny day real estate
Oh my and in a funny way the ceiling tastes
So high but no chance
My little chemical romance left a bad taste in my mouth
But I approached her like hey mercedes why the long face
Why you cryin? theres no need
Just put on this coheed and fallout
Boy meets girl jimmy eat world
But Schlep eats pills till hes all out
Not once not twice she was thrice times a lady
Mackin on brand new, but I had to
Bounce over to the postal service to
Pick up these pills that take care of my nervousness
And all the way I saw planes and mistook 'em for stars
She played games but she took em too far
At the drive in
Watching soft porn and you can tell
By the trail of the dead, that there was somethin in the popcorn
I hop in my cab destination midtown
Just to get up with some kids that like to get down
I'd made my rounds and that was that
In between the frowns and scraps and heart attacks
And I remember I seen her ass in early november
On a Thursday taking back Sunday for a refund
She shot a wink like no hard feelings
Then she jetted to brazil man them pills had me spun
This is the story of the year right here
This is hot water music
Put ya ramen into it
She tipped me with a kiss I dropped her off at the meth lab
Before she left she made a dashboard confessional
And spilled her guts in cursive but whats worse is
I could still see her bright eyes like sunny day real estate
Oh my and in a funny way the ceiling tastes
So high but no chance
My little chemical romance left a bad taste in my mouth
But I approached her like hey mercedes why the long face
Why you cryin? theres no need
Just put on this coheed and fallout
Boy meets girl jimmy eat world
But Schlep eats pills till hes all out
Not once not twice she was thrice times a lady
Mackin on brand new, but I had to
Bounce over to the postal service to
Pick up these pills that take care of my nervousness
And all the way I saw planes and mistook 'em for stars
She played games but she took em too far
At the drive in
Watching soft porn and you can tell
By the trail of the dead, that there was somethin in the popcorn
I hop in my cab destination midtown
Just to get up with some kids that like to get down
I'd made my rounds and that was that
In between the frowns and scraps and heart attacks
And I remember I seen her ass in early november
On a Thursday taking back Sunday for a refund
She shot a wink like no hard feelings
Then she jetted to brazil man them pills had me spun
This is the story of the year right here
This is hot water music
Put ya ramen into it
07-28-09, 03:31 PM
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Righteous Brothers-"Rock And Roll Heaven"
Hendrix,Janis,Morrison,Croce,Otis,and Bobby Darin (Might be a few others)
Hendrix,Janis,Morrison,Croce,Otis,and Bobby Darin (Might be a few others)
07-28-09, 03:35 PM
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07-28-09, 03:35 PM
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Pavement - "Range Life"
Out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
Nature kids, I they don't have no function
I don't understand what they mean
And I could really give a fuck
The stone temple pilots, they're elegant bachelors
They're foxy to me are they foxy to you?
I will agree they deserve absolutely nothing
Nothing more than me
Dreamin' dream dream dream
Local H - Eddie Vedder
If I was Eddie Vedder
Would you like me any better
That's it
I quit
I don't give a shit
Out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
Nature kids, I they don't have no function
I don't understand what they mean
And I could really give a fuck
The stone temple pilots, they're elegant bachelors
They're foxy to me are they foxy to you?
I will agree they deserve absolutely nothing
Nothing more than me
Dreamin' dream dream dream
Local H - Eddie Vedder
If I was Eddie Vedder
Would you like me any better
That's it
I quit
I don't give a shit
07-28-09, 03:39 PM
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Re: Songs that reference another artist/group name?
Rockshow-McCartney w/Wings mentions Jimmy Page
Drive-In Saturday-Bowie mentions Jagger
I Dig Rock And Roll Music-Peter, Paul & Mary mentions a couple but can't remember who
Creeque Alley-Mamas and Papas mentions one of them, Mama Cass
Some song mentions T-Rex. All The Young Dudes?
Drive-In Saturday-Bowie mentions Jagger
I Dig Rock And Roll Music-Peter, Paul & Mary mentions a couple but can't remember who
Creeque Alley-Mamas and Papas mentions one of them, Mama Cass
Some song mentions T-Rex. All The Young Dudes?
07-28-09, 03:50 PM
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Re: Songs that reference another artist/group name?
Eighteen posts, no mention of "Sweet Home Alabama"?
07-28-09, 04:51 PM
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Re: Songs that reference another artist/group name?
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Quite a few in this one.
Quite a few in this one.
07-28-09, 04:57 PM
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Re: Songs that reference another artist/group name?
Phish - Tube
Robert Palmer is employed
again, again, again
So stupendous, living in this tube.
Phish - David Bowie (That's the name of the song, here are all the lyrics)
David Bowie
UB 40
John Lennon - God
I just believe in me,
Yoko and me,
Robert Palmer is employed
again, again, again
So stupendous, living in this tube.
Phish - David Bowie (That's the name of the song, here are all the lyrics)
David Bowie
UB 40
John Lennon - God
I just believe in me,
Yoko and me,
07-28-09, 05:18 PM
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Re: Songs that reference another artist/group name?
Mott The Hoople-Born Late '58 "Tell Chuck Berry the news"
Edit: Don't think that's right. Might be "Honoloochie Boogie"
Edit: Don't think that's right. Might be "Honoloochie Boogie"
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07-28-09, 06:15 PM
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Re: Songs that reference another artist/group name?
1985 by Bowling for Soup
Debbie just hit the wall
She never had it all
One Prozac a day
Husband's a CPA
Her dreams went out the door
When she turned twenty four
Only been with one man
What happen to her plan?
She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of white snake’s car
Her yellow SUV is now the enemy
Looks at her average life
And nothing has been alright since
Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Woohoohoo
(1985)
Woohoohoo
She’s seen all the classics
She knows every line
Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink
Even Saint Elmo’s Fire
She rocked out to Wham
Not a big Limp Bizkit fan
Thought she’d get a hand
On a member of Duran Duran
Where’s the mini-skirt made of snake skin
And who’s the other guy that's singing in Van Halen
When did reality become T.V.
Whatever happened to sitcoms, game shows
(on the radio was)
Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Woohoohoo
She hates time make it stop
When did Motley Crue become classic rock?
And when did Ozzy become an actor?
Please make this stop
Stop!
And bring back
Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 1985
Woohoohoo
Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV (woohoohoo)
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Debbie just hit the wall
She never had it all
One Prozac a day
Husband's a CPA
Her dreams went out the door
When she turned twenty four
Only been with one man
What happen to her plan?
She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of white snake’s car
Her yellow SUV is now the enemy
Looks at her average life
And nothing has been alright since
Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Woohoohoo
(1985)
Woohoohoo
She’s seen all the classics
She knows every line
Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink
Even Saint Elmo’s Fire
She rocked out to Wham
Not a big Limp Bizkit fan
Thought she’d get a hand
On a member of Duran Duran
Where’s the mini-skirt made of snake skin
And who’s the other guy that's singing in Van Halen
When did reality become T.V.
Whatever happened to sitcoms, game shows
(on the radio was)
Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Woohoohoo
She hates time make it stop
When did Motley Crue become classic rock?
And when did Ozzy become an actor?
Please make this stop
Stop!
And bring back
Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 1985
Woohoohoo
Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV (woohoohoo)
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
07-28-09, 06:16 PM
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Re: Songs that reference another artist/group name?
"Was is for Anthrax" - Public Enemy, "Bring the Noise"
"Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally" - Nirvana, "Pennyroyal Tea"
"Smashing Young Man" by Collective Soul is (allegedly) about Billy Corgan.
"Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally" - Nirvana, "Pennyroyal Tea"
"Smashing Young Man" by Collective Soul is (allegedly) about Billy Corgan.
