Songs where the band name is self-referenced

[Semp]

I don’t think it’s meant to be self-referential, but the song Pornography off the album of the same name by The Cure ends with “I must fight this sickness, find a cure.”

Then there’s the song Renegade Soundwave by the band with the same name.

[Horatio_Hellpop]

Lyle Lovett in “Give Back My Heart”:
She was standing there in a pretty white dress
She said “Hi there. Bull riders do it best”
I said “Oh my God What’s your name? My name’s Lyle!”

I’d heard that Bach did a piece with rapid successions of B, A, C and H chords. I’m not a musician, but I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as an H chord…

The Rolling Stones finally covered Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.”

[Quack]

From the first page:

Green Day did have a song called “Green Day” on their first record. However, the band is named after the song, not vice versa.

[Troy_McClure_SF]

*Originally posted by BurnMeUp *
Total Hate '95 - No Doubt (although the band mention was done by Bradley of Sublime… has the line Bradley’s rocking No Doubt Styley)

Missed that one, however, in http://www.lyricsdepot.com/no-doubt/move-on.html]Move On from their self-titled album, they mention themselves in the chorus:

You have to understand that when it comes to making music
We meshed the styles of five alive and intertwined and fused it
Life comes from life and through our strife we strove to make the sound true
Compelled to spell it out, No Doubt, in search of what we must do

[moejuck]

Infectious Grooves by the Infectious Grooves on the Plague that makes your Booty Move.

[the_terminator]

Slayer- Metalstorm/Face the Slayer
Exodus- The Toxic Waltz “…with us, Exodus!”

[Fred]

The Dismemberment Plan - The Dismemberment Plan Get Rich
Mission of Burma - The Ballad of Johnny Burma
Counting Crows - Murder of One (“She stood there/Counting Crows” This may not technically count. :))

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

*Originally posted by Krokodil *
**I’d heard that Bach did a piece with rapid successions of B, A, C and H chords. I’m not a musician, but I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as an H chord… **

There is in German. Their H is our B, and their B is our B-flat. So the “BACH” motif in The Art of Fugue is Bb-A-C-B (in single notes, not chords).

[Princhester]

The Who in You’d Better, You Bet": "to the sound of old T-Rex, and Who’s Next"

[todd33rpm]

NRBQ’s “Here Comes Terry” - but it’s more of an “introduce-the-individual-members-of-the-band” song.

Otis Redding’s “The Happy Song” - “she tells me, ‘Big O, everything’s alright’…”

Wham’s “Everything She Wants” - if you listen to the background vocals towards the end, you can hear that they’re shouting “Wham!” over the handclaps.

The Beatles’ “Glass Onion” - “The Walrus was Paul.”

[Dead_Pirate_LeChuck]

“Well, I dreamed I saw you walking
Up a hillside in the snow.
Casting shadows on the winter sky,
As you stood there, counting crows.”
The Rain King– Counting Crows

[Ike_Witt]

There is “The Fun Lovin’ Criminal” by the Fun Lovin’ Criminals.
Also, Fat Boy Slim does it on the album “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby”, but I am drawing a blank on the song name - you hear “Fat Boy Slim is f@*king heaven” repeated ad naseum.

[Troy_McClure_SF]

Also, in No Doubt’s “In My Head” (Rock Steady), Gwen Stefani references herself (in character).

Long distance
Don’t talk about ex-girlfriends
Don’t talk about you with out me
Don’t talk about your past

Let’s talk about the future
Let’s talk about the wedding
Let’s talk about Gwen Stefani
Let’'s talk about how much you like me
And all that

[Shemem]

Setting myself up for much mockery here:

All you party people who are in a state of shock
We’re the New Kids on the Block!

From one of their first couple albums, which I have mercifully almost forgotten.

[fizgig]

There, there, Shemem, I don’t think anyone’s mentioned, Ice, Ice, Baby by Vanilla Ice, or Can’t Touch This By MC Hammer yet, either.

Lessee…

Family Tradition by Hank Williams Jr. (Tell me Hank why do you drink?)

Bang Your Head (Metal Head will drive you mad).

Pink Elephant by Cherry Poppin’ Daddies (to see the Cherry Poppin Daddies play the mumbles rest of lyrics*)

[system]

Yet another by They Might Be Giants: “They Got Lost,” a cute little song, apparently based on a number of real-life experiences, about the two Johns getting hopelessly lost on the way to an interview at a radio station.

There’s Shonen Knife’s “Shonen Knife” (“Ooh-ooh-ultra ec-cen-tric su-per-cult punk-pop-band… SHO-NEN KNIIIIFE!”)

Back in their cabaret-parody days, Oingo Boingo used a song called “Acapella Ditty” to introduce themselves to the audience:

Wylee weelie wylee wadey
We are called the Oingo Boingo
Not Gazingo or Gazongo or by any other name
And we’ll punch you in the gizzard if you dare to call us Bingo
Cause we’re called the Oingo Boingo
And it’s simply not the same,
No it’s simply not the same!

[Sternvogel]

*Originally posted by Marley23 *
**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. **

And continuing the “Billy Sings About Intoxicants” theme, the song Piano Man features “John at the bar” saying “Bill, I believe this is killing me.”

Similarly, Sue asks “How are you, Harry?” in Harry Chapin’s Taxi.

Hollywood Swinging contains the self-referential “I went to a theatre/ And I saw the Kool and The Gang show”.

[Harvey_The_Heavy]

Jane Says By Jane’s Addiction.

We Are Motorhead and I’m Your Man by Motorhead.

Mean Machine by Sugar Ray.

Too many by Rob/White Zombie to name.

I suppose High Voltage by AC/DC would count.

Then there’s March of the S.O.D. and Sgt. D & the S.O.D. by S.O.D.
Hey it’s my 420th post! Who’s got a light? </////////>

[Troy_McClure_SF]

*Originally posted by Sternvogel *
Similarly, Sue asks “How are you, Harry?” in Harry Chapin’s Taxi.

And that reminds me of Aerosmith’s “Love in an Elevator” (Technically, it’s “Going Down”, the intro to LiaE), in which, at the beginning of the track a young female elevator operator says,

Second floor, hardware, children’s wear, ladies’ lingerie… Oh, good morning, Mr. Tyler. Going… down?

[Troy_McClure_SF]

And in Aerosmith’s F.I.N.E., Tyler mentions his Toxic Twin/lead guitarist:

But I’m
Alright
Your daddy says I’m
Alright
And Tipper thinks I’m
Alright
And Joe Perry says I’m
Alright