Afroman’s “Because I Got High”
I’m gonna stop singin’ this song, because I’m high.
I’m singin’ this whole thing wrong, because I’m high.
And if I don’t sell one copy, I’ll know why:
Because I got high,
Because I got high,
Because I got high.
Isn’t that the third reference to Deacon Blues?
"Here’s our Jingle for goldfish
Baked and not fried goldfish
:smack:
Wasn’t there a song called This Song Ain’t Got No Video? I vaguely remember seeing the video of it, so maybe there’s a double self-reference in there somewhere.
In the garage where I feel safe
No one cares about my ways
In the garage where I belong
No one hears me sing this song.
Best self-referencial song ever.
Sounds kind of like:
In My Room by The Beach Boys
Rhett Miller’s “This is What I Do”:
I’m gonna sing this song forever
About a girl that I once knew
And how she is always leaving
This is what I do
This is what I do for a living
This is what I do
" you might say this is an independant love song "
Only I can’t remember the title or artist.
Ha! I beat both of you!
Also, I forgot “Love Song” by Madonna and Prince:
“God strike me dead if I did you wrong
This is not a love song”
Going back to TWDuke’s post, that brings us up to four songs that are not, in fact, love songs.
A quick Google reveals at least three more songs titled “This is Not a Love Song” (by Turn, Tabitha’s Secret, and Runrig), and four songs with “This is not a love song” in the lyrics (Alexia’s “Everyday,” Too Short’s “It’s Alright,” DJ Rap’s “Bad Girl,” and “Bye Bye Baby” by Madonna.)
I’m sure there’s more, but I have to go to work and can’t look at all 797 sites.
Well technically “Tribute” is about how cool a different song is, which JB and KG sadly forgot.
Woody Guthrie’s “Jesus Christ”:
And “Jesse James” the older folk song from which “Jesus Christ” was derived, also has a reference to the song’s composer.
Also, there’s “Worried Man Blues,” first recorded by The Carter Family:
and
“Lookin’ for me Somewhere” by the BoDeans includes the line:
…referring to the song being written.
Has anyone mentioned Alice’s Restaurant?
The Vestibules’ “Grunge Song” is, of course, completely and intentionally self-referential:
I’m amazed no one has mentioned this one yet.
This is the song that never ends…
“School’s Out”, by Alice Cooper -
“Well, we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can’t even think of a word that rhymes”
Billy Preston, “Will It Go 'Round in Circles”:
I’ve got a song that ain’t got no melody
I’m gonna sing it to my friends
Vicki Sue Robinson, “Turn the Beat Around” (later covered by Gloria Estefan)"
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Love to hear it
John Lennon & Paul McCartney, “With a Little Help From My Friends”:
- What you would think if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me
Lend me your years and I’ll sing you a song
And I’ll try not to sing out of key*
Engelbert Humperdink, “After the Loving”:
So I sing you to sleep after the loving
With a song that I wrote yesterday
And I hope that it’s clear what the words
And the music have to say
“It goes like this
the forth, the fifth,
the minor fall the major lift,
a baffled king composing Hellelujah”
<i>Hallelujah</i> by Leonard Cohen
In a similar theme (callimg out the chords) is Cole Porters’ <i>Everytime We Say Goodbye</i>
“How strange the change from major to minor”
More Cursive:
(First words sung on the album)
And now, we proudly present
songs perverse and songs of lament
A couple hymns of confession
and songs that recognise our sick obsessions
-Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand
(Later in the same song)
There’s no use to keep a secret
everything I hide ends up in lyrics
so read on - accuse me when you’re done
if it sounds like I did you wrong
(still later)
This is the blood I found
on my hands after I wrote this album
Play it off as stigmata for crossover fans…
(from “Butcher the Song”)
“So rub it in… in your dumb lyrics.
Yeah that’s the time and
place to wring out your bullshit.
And each album I’ll get shit on alittle more,
‘Who’s Tim’s latest whore?’”
(Tim being Tim Kasher, singer and lyricist)