This one’s a little weird. They actually went by any number of outlandish names, such as The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole, the Vodka Family Winstons, and Ashtray Babyheads. At their first paid gig, the emcee forgot their name, and used the song title off the set list as their name. It stuck.
DChord: I wanted to thank you for supplying an additional comedic depth to this 39 year old National Lampoon bit. I always thought it was funny that “Gregory Puck” might be having a fever dream, but his last line from the Ritter song is now the icing on the cake. Kudos!
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Probably an obscure one: “Bruce” by Rick Springfield. A lament about the similarity between his name and Bruce Springsteen’s.
She called me Bruce, Bruce
I can hear her calling Bruce, Bruce
I can hear her calling Bruce, Bruce
I can hear her
My name is Rick I’m gonna stick it to ya babe
If you, if you wanna party at the next election
Only one way to go
Put on a rocking rock and roll selection
Turn up and vote
And you can check out anytime you want Just call me Joe
And I can play that rock and roll for ya…
“Creeque Alley” is a good example of an autobiographical song, which includes, but goes beyond, mere name-checking. It does, as you said, mention all members of the group, as well as some of their contemporaries.
Another such autobiographical song is The Kinks’ “The Road”:
You win a clap and a from me, because I forgot to list that song and back in the '80s they were one of my favorite bands.
But since I already listed Talk Talk by Talk Talk from the album Talk Talk (which contains the phrase “talk talk” more than 20 times, that’s all you get.
He also name-checks himself and a couple of his fellow Eagles in “Shut Up.”
Hey Joe, how ya doin’, how’s your album, how’s your tour
How’s Don Henley, how’s Glenn Frey,
and who, what where and when and why
They could not shut up (can’t shut up)
They couldn’t shut up (can’t shut up)
So I hung up (can’t shut up)