# Songs with group member's names in the lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419 "2017-05-25T15:57:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/21 "2017-05-25T19:57:00Z")
Now here’s a little story I’ve got to tell About three bad brothers you know so well It started way back in history With Adrock, (M.C.A.) and me (Mike D.) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/22 "2017-05-25T20:03:33Z")
R.A.M.O.N.E.S sung by Motorhead and the Ramones: \*Bad boy rock, bad boy roll, Gabba gabba, see them go, C. Jay now hit the gas, Mark takes it up the ass, Go johnny go go go Tommy o-way-o [chorus] Bad boys then, bad boys now, Good buddies, mau mau mau, Keep it up, rock n roll, Let the music save your soul, Dee dee, he left home, Joey calls me on the phone.\* Also by the Ramones “It’s Gonna Be Alright” _Got good feelings about this year All is very well, C.J. is here_ ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/23 "2017-05-25T20:04:36Z")
Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen “Because I’m ready (Ready Freddie)” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/24 "2017-05-25T20:26:13Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen > > “Because I’m ready (Ready Freddie)” One of Queen’s last singles, “[The Invisible Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKdxd718WXg)”, includes the full names of all four band members, as shout-outs in between the verses. (The video feels, to me, like a clip from a bad “Doctor Who” episode. 😃 ) On Electric Light Orchestra’s “[Easy Money](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnb_4dPkGJQ),” just before the guitar solo (at 1:28), Jeff Lynne says, “Take it, Jeff!” (An inside joke, since, by that point, ELO was essentially a Jeff Lynne solo act, and he was telling himself to “take it.”) ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/25 "2017-05-25T20:42:02Z")
Chanitllly Lace - “This is the Big Bopper speaking…” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/26 "2017-05-25T20:45:30Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > Basically every rap song, ever. How _dare_ you make that prejudiced generalization before I had the chance to, not like it didn’t make a SNL skit last week or anything! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/27 "2017-05-25T20:47:54Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > as shout-outs in between the verses Do shout-outs (“Play a guitar solo now, fellow band member!”) count as being part of a song’s lyrics? ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/28 "2017-05-25T20:51:32Z")
The Floaters [“Float On”](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_floaters/float_on.html) My favorite lyric: “Cancer and my name is Larry, huh And I like a woman That loves everything and everybody” ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/29 "2017-05-25T21:14:47Z")
“We’re Archie Bell and the Drells from Houston, Texas! We don’t only sing, but we dance just as good as we walk!” Tighten Up! ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/30 "2017-05-25T21:15:36Z")
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch _Good Vibrations_ “Donny D’s on the back up. Drug free, so put the crack up” OMC’s _How Bizarre_ mentions backup singer Sina, and somebody named Pele several times. The Time _Jungle Love_ “Jesse… now Jerome O! E! O! E! O!” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/31 "2017-05-25T21:17:43Z")
ABBA’s [I Am An A](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/abba/iamana.html) ---
**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:** [May 25, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/32 "2017-05-25T21:25:56Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Or the Motley Crue version (my buddy Sixx, Mick, and Tom) Also on Motley Crue’s “Girls, Girls, Girls”: _Tommy, check that out! / Where, Vince, where?_ ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/33 "2017-05-25T21:28:00Z")
[We are Maggi and Terri and Suzi, Maggiiii and Terriiii and Suziiiiii Roooooche…"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgQITWRTbQ&list=RDPbgQITWRTbQ#t=0) – The Roche Sisters (“We”) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/34 "2017-05-25T21:29:49Z")
“The Seether’'s Louise.” - Veruca Salt, referring to guitarist Louise Post. (Who I went to High School with, which you need to know for no reason) ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/35 "2017-05-25T21:30:20Z")
Marilyn Manson calls Brian Warner (his real name) the N word in his cover of Patti Smith’s _Rock ‘N’ Roll Nigger_. Eminem song _Marshall Mathers._ One I’m surprised hasn’t been mentioned yet: “It’s Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.” Does “Mr Mojo Risin” count? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/36 "2017-05-25T21:37:47Z")
I don’t know how close to the topic this gets, but in Joe Walsh’s solo song _Shut Up_, he mentions two of his bandmates in the Eagles. > [@](#): > > Hey Joe, how ya doin’, how’s your album, how’s your tour > How’s Don Henley, how’s Glenn Frey, > And who, what where and when and why > They could not shut up (can’t shut up) > They couldn’t shut up (can’t shut up) > So I hung up (can’t shut up) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/37 "2017-05-25T21:47:56Z")
Hank Williams, Jr - Family Tradition “Hank, why do you drink? Hank, why do you roll smoke? Why must you live out The songs that you wrote?” ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/38 "2017-05-25T21:48:06Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > …On Electric Light Orchestra’s “[Easy Money](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnb_4dPkGJQ),” just before the guitar solo (at 1:28), Jeff Lynne says, “Take it, Jeff!” (An inside joke, since, by that point, ELO was essentially a Jeff Lynne solo act, and he was telling himself to “take it.”) I always figured that “Take it Jeff!” was a throwback to the old Move song “California Man” where Roy Wood tells Jeff Lynn to “Take it, Jeffrey!” Actually I think there were a couple of Move songs where he shouts that. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/39 "2017-05-25T21:54:59Z")
Billy Joel, “Piano Man”: _“He said, Bill I believe this is killing me…”_ Rick Springfield, “Bruce”: _“My name is Rick, I’m gonna stick it to ya babe…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419/40 "2017-05-25T22:12:06Z")
_“…Sincerely, L. Cohen”_ Leonard Cohen, “Famous Blue Raincoat”. _Just walking through the set, drunk as they could get And what the hell was wrong with Joe?_ Local H, “All the Kids Are Right” (referring to band member Joe Daniels) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-group-members-names-in-the-lyrics/787419.md?page=3)