Songs where the band name is self-referenced

And the name Pink Floyd is taken from real people anyway (Pink Anderson + Floyd Council).

Billy Joel’s song The Ballad of Billy the Kid doesn’t mention the singer’s own name, but it’s self-referential. The first few verses are about the gunslinger (it starts “From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia/Rode a boy with a six gun in his hand/And his daring life of crime/Made him a lengend in his time/East and west of the Rio Grande”). The last verse is the same as the first, with the change “From a town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island/Rode a boy with a six pack in his hand.” Obviously both characters share the name Billy, so he’s making the connection. I wonder what Joel thinks about that line these days, given his repeated battles with alcoholism.

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You don’t mean the Falco song, do you? “Rock Me, Amadeus”?

My favorite worst usage of a band/singer’s name in a song:

“I’m a Kid Rock it up and down your block”

Using your band name as a verb …
“We’re gonna Van Halen you up!”
And as an aside: I’m fascinated by the way hip-hop slang has contracted “I am going to” to merely “I’ma”.

“Show Biz Kids” by Steely Dan (“They got the Steely Dan t-shirt”)

“Tempus Fugit” by Yes (the word “Yes” used about a million times)

Jefferson Airplane’s cover of Donovan’s “Fat Angel” (“Fly Jefferson Airplane, get you there on time”)

If instrumentals count, “Iron Butterfly Theme” by…well, guess.

This is my 500th post. Yay me.

Other songs: Every song by Prince. “My Name is Prince”, for instance. Man, what a great song that is.

How about Blue Oyster Cult by Blue Oyster Cult?

And, to pick a nit, Motorhead was not the first band to do the song Motorhead. Lemmy wrote the song when he was with Hawkwind. I guess it is still technicly self refferential.

I need an umlaut key.

If that counts, does “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” count? What about Ringo’s song “I’m the Greatest,” in which he sings, “Yes, my name is Billy Shears”?

“The Road” by the Kinks is another career-summing-up sort of song.

Madness took their name from a Prince Buster song, which they recorded; later they had a song called “Madness Is All In The Mind.”

Then there’s “Hi, We’re the Replacements,” by—oops, no, that actually isn’t by the Replacements; it’s by They Might Be Giants. Never mind.

The South’s Gonna Do It Again (title similar to that anyway) by The Charlie Daniels Band lists 80% of the Southern Rock bands of the era (70’s) and has a line something like:

…and everybody down in Tennessee are digging Barefoot Jerry and the CDB…

Belle and Sebastian love to do this:

  1. “This is Just a Modern Rock Song”–doesn’t mention the band outright, but does refer to several of the members:

[quote]
Stevie’s full of good intentions
Richard’s into rock and roll
Stuart stays in and he thinks it’s a sin
That he has to leave the house at all**

2)“My Wandering Days Are Over”–one of the B&S songs that features the characters of “Belle” and “Sebastian”:

3)“Put the Book Back on the Shelf”–uses the character of “Sebastian”:

4)“A Century of Elvis”–a monologue by (former) bassist Stuart David mentions singer Stuart Murdoch:

5)“Songs for Children”

6)“Belle and Sebastian”–self-explanatory

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seems like everything was roses when we held on to our guns…

“Breakdown” by Guns n Roses

Also, from the same album, “Theme from Flood”:

It’s a brand new record for 1990
They Might Be Giants’ brand new album “Flood”

I believe it counts as “shit” no matter where you are.

Well bless the balls of Barry Andrews! Another shriekback fan!

A few i could think of

Fishbone is Red Hot and Party at Ground Zero by Fishbone (party with the lyrics Fishbone is here to say… let’s havae a good time…)
Total Hate '95 - No Doubt (although the band mention was done by Bradley of Sublime… has the line Bradley’s rocking No Doubt Styley)
Josh Freese is Ready - Josh Freese (regaurledd of what it sounds like it’s not a rap song :))
Bad Religion - Bad Religion (although the song is not about the band)
Juke Joint Jezebel - KMFDM (KMFDM… doing it again…)
Be My Lover - Alice Cooper (she asked me why the singer’s name was Alice…)

Another one by the Clash: Clash City Rockers.

Does ‘The Ballad Of John & Yoko’ count?

“The Blimp” by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band mentions not only the band but the producer, Frank Zappa: “It’s the thing that’s gonna make Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band fat, Frank, it’s the big hit! It’s the blimp, Frank, it’s the blimp!”

And since I mentioned the Jefferson Airplane’s cover of a song thet mentions them, how about the Rolling Stones’ cover of “Like a Rolling Stone”?

Boston-Rock and roll band. “We were just another band out of Boston”

Skid Row-Youth gone wild.“Well I tell ya Park Avenue leads to…Skid Row!”

Minor Threat’s Minor Threat.

Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream by Robert Zimmerman.

The Shamen’s Keep Comin’ On (actually I think they use the term “Shamanic” but close enough.

Frontline Assembly has a song that samples the announcer from the program Frontline saying (naturally) “Frontline!” over and over again.

The Sisters of Mercy mention their own name in the song The Damage Done.

Lard’s The Power of Lard