# Songs that namecheck their own writer. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123 "2005-04-13T13:59:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/21 "2005-04-13T15:48:39Z")
> [@PookahMacPhellimey](#): > > Yes, yes, I know it said they have to have _written_ the song. Otherwise > > _Hey hey, we’re the Monkees_ And I don’t suppose that The Chipmunks wrote there own songs, either. Okay, I’ll go now. I think it’s hilarious, though. _snigger_ ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/22 "2005-04-13T15:49:39Z")
Clarence Carter in "Strokin’ " (or whatever the name of that song is). "Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter … " ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/23 "2005-04-13T15:50:08Z")
> [@PookahMacPhellimey](#): > > And I don’t suppose that The Chipmunks wrote there own songs, either. THEIR own songs. Pookah’s cracking up, Pookah needs a holiday. Maybe I should work that into a song so I could submit it. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/24 "2005-04-13T15:52:17Z")
Also, “Girls, Girls, Girls” by Motley Crue: _Hey Tommy – look over there! / Where, Vince, where?_ ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/25 "2005-04-13T16:05:04Z")
_How do you do? I don’t think that we’ve met. My name is Ian and I’m from Minor Threat._ “Cashing In” - Minor Threat ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/26 "2005-04-13T16:10:32Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] You probably couldn’t find Hip Hop acts that DON’T do it. QUOTE] Agreed. Victor Wooten: “Yo Victor, Whatever you do I want you to remember this here thing: You can’t hold no groove if you ain’t got no pocket.” The O.C. Supertones: “Supertones strike back!” ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/27 "2005-04-13T16:16:12Z")
Also “Jim Dandy” by Black Oak Arkansas is referential to lead singer Jim Dandy Mangrum. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/28 "2005-04-13T16:21:18Z")
These are coming to me fast and furious now: _My first name ain’t baby / It’s Janet / It’s Jackson / If you’re nasty_ “Nasty Boys”, Janet Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/29 "2005-04-13T16:23:00Z")
**"Strange"** by **R.E.M.** : _“Michael’s nervous and the lights are bright”_ **"Broken Whiskey Glass** by **Jason and the Scorchers** : _“Here lies Jason, strangled by a love that wouldn’t breathe”_ And stretching way back into the mists of time, there’s the classic folk song **“Jesse James”** , written by minstrel **Billy Gashade** upon hearing the news of James’s death: \*This song was made by Billy Gashade, As soon as the news did arrive; He said there was no man with the law in his hand Who could take Jesse James when alive. \* ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/30 "2005-04-13T16:25:39Z")
Oh, and if band names count, there’s \*\*“Radio Clash” by, well, **The Clash**. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/31 "2005-04-13T16:31:56Z")
I thought it was “Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.”? Anyway, another R.E.M. song, “Little America” - “Jefferson, I think we’re lost” He was their road manager, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/32 "2005-04-13T16:36:00Z")
Beastie Boys, “Girls” - I heard she moved real far away That was two years ago this May I seen her just the other day Jockin’ Mike D. to my dismay \* ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/33 "2005-04-13T16:45:32Z")
> [@Iacob\_Matthew](#): > > From “Waiting for my Ruca”- “And she said ‘you’re not the only one, but you’re the best Bradley’” > > Can’t think of more where they mention the actual singer off the top of my head. However, if you allow band names, there’s “Don’t Push,” from which at least three songs on the album _Robbin’ Da Hood_ reuse lyrics. Don’t forget “Caress Me Down”: “Mucho gusto, me llamo Bradley, I am much hornier than Ron Jeremy!” ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/34 "2005-04-13T16:49:41Z")
Again, if working their own band name in counts, **Blur** lead singer/songwriter \*\*Damon Albarn \*\* purposely stuck in the line: “now life’s a _blur_”, in the Great Escape song “It Could Be You”. He _did_ work his own name into an actual song on the same album, however, it is an anagram: **Dan Abnormal**. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/35 "2005-04-13T16:58:23Z")
Bart Simpson’s early hit _Do The Bartman_, co-written by Michael Jackson, features the line “If you can do the Bart, then you’re bad like Michael Jackson.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/36 "2005-04-13T17:28:13Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Again, if working their own band name in counts, **Blur** lead singer/songwriter \*\*Damon Albarn \*\* purposely stuck in the line: “now life’s a _blur_”, in the Great Escape song “It Could Be You”. > > He _did_ work his own name into an actual song on the same album, however, it is an anagram: **Dan Abnormal**. Speaking of anagrams, there’s "Mr. Mojo Risin’ " (Jim Morrison) in “L.A. Woman” by The Doors. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/37 "2005-04-13T17:31:35Z")
_I told you about the walrus and me-man You know that we’re close as can be-man Well here’s another clue for you all The walrus was Paul_ -Glass Onion, The Beatles ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/38 "2005-04-13T17:47:49Z")
Enya’s **Orinoco Flow** , the final verse has the following (which completely ruins the song in my opinion): _We can steer, we can near with Rob Dickins at the wheel. We can sigh, say goodbye Ross and his dependencies._ ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/39 "2005-04-13T17:49:40Z")
Of course, technically that’s not namechecking the writer, but it does mention people she works with. After reading the threads here I got so caught up in ‘Boy, I really hate that Enya did this in \*Orinoco Flow’ \* that I went off-topic a wee bit. Sorry folks. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123/40 "2005-04-13T18:23:53Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > _I told you about the walrus and me-man > You know that we’re close as can be-man > Well here’s another clue for you all > The walrus was Paul_ > > -Glass Onion, The Beatles And in a direct reference, Veruca Salt’s _Volcano Girls_ I told you about the seether before You know, the one that’s neither or nor Well here’s another clue if you please The seether’s Louise Let’s see…Not exactly hiphop, but The Bloodhound Gang’s lead singer, Jimmy Pop mentions himself in a bunch of songs, _Why’s Everybody Always Picking On Me, Shut Up, Mama Say, One Way, Convoy, Legend In My Spare Time_, and probably many more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-namecheck-their-own-writer/299123.md?page=3)