Wow! You guys are good! Keep 'em coming!
“I Dig Rock and Roll Music” by Peter, Paul, and Mary mentions The Mamas and Papas and The Beatles
“And when the Beatles tell you, it’s love they’ll try to sell you, they mean exactly what they sayyyyyyyyyyy.” Or words to that affect. It’s been awhile since I’ve heard the song.
From Sleepwalker by The Wallflowers:
“Cupid, don’t draw back your bow / Sam Cooke didn’t know what I know”
I think that originally the lines were “…million dollar fella” and “…to look like Rockafella,” but it was changed relatively recently (the '80s) to the Gary Cooper reference because it was believed that the listeners wouldn’t be sufficently familiar with the wealth and style of the Rockefellers.
If I am right (which on a Thursday afternoon is highly unlikely), that puts two references in the same place of same song on the same line, but at different times.
…and Donavan
“She’s Got Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes (I think).
Emenim’s song “I am whatever you say I am” or something like that mentions Maryln Manson.
Limp Di… I mean Bizket (or however they spell it) has a song that all but mentions Trent Reznor using a fair deal of NIN lyrics in what is supposed to be a mockery of Trent and his band. In addition I hear that there is more slander by Fred against Trent in a song called “Counterfit” Both of these are more songs that reference someone else than specificailly metnion them but I think in “Counterfit” Trent is actually named.
There are a few other of these feud type songs. Everlast and someone else whose name escapes me have several songs slandering eachother.
I Like this thread! Here are some more:[ol]
[li](Marshall) Tucker (Band), Lynyrd Skynyrd, (Dickie) Betts, Elvin Bishop, ZZ Top, Willy (Nelson) & (A Self-Promoting) Charlie Daniels Band in The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The South’s Gonna Do It Again”[/li][li]Alex Chilton (Of The Box Tops & Solo) in The Replacement’s “Alex Chilton”[/li][li]Bob Dylan in Jesus Jone’s “Right Here, Right Now”[/li][li]Bob Mould of Husker Du in Jello Biafra’s “Names For Bands”[/li][li]Brian Wilson in John Cale’s “Brian Wilson”[/li][li]David Bowie, Gary Glitter & Prince in The Clash’s “Complete Control”[/li][li]Don Henley in Mojo Nixon’s “Don Henley Must Die”[/li][li]Elton John, Roger Daltrey & CSNY in Frank Zappa’s “Do You Like My New Car?” [/li][li]Elvis, Joan Rivers & Michael J. Fox in Mojo Nixon’s “Elvis Is Everywhere”[/li][li]Elvis, The Beatles & The Rolling Stones in The Clash’s “1977”[/li][li]Frank Sinatra inDream Academy’s “Life In A Northern Town”[/li][li]Frank Zappa inCaptain Beefheart’s “The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)”[/li][li]George (Harrison), Ringo (Starr), Paul (McCartney), John (Lennon) & Yoko Ono in Flo & Eddie’s “Keep It Warm”[/li][li]Grandmaster Flash in Blondie’s “Rapture”[/li][li]Green Day in Weezer’s “El Scorcho”[/li][li]Howlin’ Wolf in Mojo Nixon’s “I’m Gonna Dig Up Howlin’ Wolf”[/li][li]Iggy Pop in The Red Hot Chili Pepper’s “Coffee Shop”[/li][li]Iron Maiden in Wheatus’ “Teenage Dirtbag”[/li][li]Jimi Hendrix & Hank Williams in Neil Young’s “From Hank To Hendrix”[/li][li]James Brown in Was Not Was’ “I Feel Better Than James Brown”[/li][li]Joni Mitchell in Frank Zappa’s “Billy The Mountain” [/li][li]Kiss in Cheap Trick’s “Never Surrender”[/li][li]Led Zeppelin in Everclear’s “AM Radio”[/li][li]Lemonheads & Superchunk in Sonic Youth’s “Screaming Skull”[/li][li]Lou Reed, Mink Deville, The Heartbreakers, Television & More in Jane County’s All Stars " Max’s Kansas City"[/li][li]Michael, Janet & Jermaine Jackson in Frank Zappa’s “Why Don’t You Like Me?”[/li][li]Mott The Hoople in Queen’s “Now I’m Hear”[/li][li]Neil Young in Sonic Youth’s "Crème Burlee”[/li][li]Ramones in Motorhead’s “R.A.M.O.N.E.S”[/li][li]Rod Stewart, Chuck Berry, Mick Jagger in The Sex Pistol’s “The Great Rock n’ Roll Swindle”[/li][li]Roy Orbison in Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”[/li][li]Smashing Pumpkins & STP in Pavement’s “Range Life”[/li][li]T Rex in The Who’s “You Better,You Bet” AND Mott The Hoople’s “All The Young Dudes”[/li][li]The Beatles in Donna Lynn’s “I Had a Dream I Was a Beatle”/“My Boyfriend Got a Beatle Haircut”[/li][li]The Carpenters in The (London)Suede’s “He’s Gone”[/li][li]The Cure in Ben Folds Five’s “Battle of Who Could Care Less”[/li][li]The Doobie Brothers in Frank Zappa’s “Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy” [/li][li]The Grateful Dead in Frank Zappa’s “Teenage Wind” [/li][li]The Rolling Stones in Blur’s “Trailer Park”[/li][li]The Rolling Stones in Nazareth’s “Shanghai’d In Shanghai”[/li][li]Velvet Underground & Black Sabbath on Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels”[/ol][/li]
Minor Hijack I can only think of 4 artist’s who’ve entitled songs after themselves…[ol]
[li]Bad Company From Bad Company by Bad Company[/li][li]Blue Oyster Cult From Imaginos by Blue Oyster Cult[/li][li]Black Sabbath From Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath[/li]Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley[/ol]There’s gotta be more, aren’t there?
“Everybody Wang Chung tonight!”
“In a Big Country, dreams stay with you,
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside.”
I’m sure there are even more.
A couple from my fave band The Tragically Hip.
At The Hundredth Meridian:
“…Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy…”
50 Mission Cap:
“Bill Barilko disappeared that summer,
he was on a fishing trip.
The last goal he ever scored
won the Leafs the cup
They didn’t win another until 1962,
the year he was discovered.”
Ramble On Rose by the Grateful Dead mentions all of the following:
Jack The Ripper
Billy Sunday
Jack & Jill
Crazy Otto
Wolfman Jack
Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Barenaked Ladies:
One Week (Akira Kurosawa)
When You Dream (Del Shannon)
Jane (Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield)
King of Bedside Manor (Tom Jones)
Be My Yoko Ono (duh ;))
New Kid (On The Block)(also duh ;))
Straw Hat & Dirty Old Hank is about Anne Murray
Third Eye Blind:
Horror Show (Lou Reed)
Oh yeah…
Weird Al:
It’s All About The Pentiums (Bill Gates)
Jerry Springer
If you count fictional characters:
The Saga Begins (lots of Star Wars characters)
Gump (Forrest Gump characters)
That’s about the extent of my Weird Al experience.
Has anyone mentioned “God” by John Lennon yet?
“Don’t Call Us (We’ll Call You)” by Sugarloaf mentions:
Listen kid you paid for the call
You ain’t bad but we’ve heard it all before
Yeah it sounds like John, Paul and George
…and borrows a riff from “I Feel Fine”, as well.
Xanadu–
To stand within the Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honeydew
And drink the milk of Paradise
–“Xanadu”, by RUSH
The Pope - Joan Osbourne’s “What if God Was One of Us?”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus”
Puff Daddy - Fountains of Wayne’s “Denise”
Beck, Hanson, Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson - New Radicals’ “You Get What You Give”
Harold Robbins, William Tell - Squeeze’s “Pulling Mussels from the Shell”
James K. Polk - They Might Be Giants’ “James K. Polk”
Buddy Holly, Mary Tyler Moore - Weezer’s “Buddy Holly”
Lon Chaney, Lon Chaney Jr., The Queen - Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”
Consolation Row- Bob Dylan
He doesn’t mention many by name but the characters in the song are supposed be real people. It’s a bunch of riddles really…
Alice Cooper’s Department of Youth - Billy Sunday, Damon Runyon
Counting Crows’ Einstein On The Beach
From “Life in a Northern Town”:
In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
and The Beatles
From “Luckenbach, Texas”:
Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas
Willie and Waylon and the boys
This successful life we’re livin’s
got us feudin’ like the Hatfields and McCoys
Between Hank Williams train songs
and Jerry Jeff [Walker] pain songs
and “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain”
Out in Luckenbach, Texas
Ain’t nobody feelin’ no pain