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Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting
Scritti Politti - When Smokey Sings
Louis Philippe - Yuri Gagarin
Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

― Kim Tortoise, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Julie Christie" is it Yo La Tengo? or GBV?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It's YLT

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Stanley Kubrick-Mogwai

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus - Harry K-Tel

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Gary Gilmore's Eyes-The Adverts

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Jennifer Lopez-Xiu Xiu

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bring Me the Head of David Geffen" Mojo Nixon (he has many, but this is the best title)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Dandy Warhols - Cool as Kim Deal
Super Furry Animals - Hangin' with Howard Marks
Linoleum - Ray Liotta

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Except the title of the Yo La Tengo song is "Tom Courtenay" (only the opening line references Julie Christie).

Belle & Sebastian, "Seymour Stein"
Interpol, "Leif Erikson"
The Postal Service, "Clark Gable"
Yo La Tengo, "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Solex, "Randy Costanza"

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Wesley Willis to thread STAT!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Cody Chestnutt-"Eric Burdon"

Lots of Wesley Willis songs. CROSS POST!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Was (Not Was) - I feel better than James Brown

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Hefner - Lee Remick; Alan Bean
Boo Radleys - It's Lulu
Cinerama - Lollobrigida

HMHB:

Dickie Davies Eyes
I Fucking Hate Nerys Hughes
Hair Like Brian May Blues
Fuckin' 'Ell, It's Fred Titmus
The Len Ganley Stance
Bob Wilson - Anchorman

― Wi11iam Bl00dy Swy9art, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Julian Cope - Bill Drummond Says
Bill Drummond - Julian Cope is Dead

― Kim Tortoise, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleater Kinney, "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The Delgados - Monica Webster
B&S - Like Dylan In The Movies

― Wi11iam Bl00dy Swy9art, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Grace Kelly Blues" Eels

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris TT - Eminem Is Gay
Magnetic Fields - The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure

― Wi11iam Bl00dy Swy9art, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Half Man Half Biscuit - Rod Hull is alive. Why?
Tribe of Toffs - John Kettley is a Weatherman
Julian Cope - Metranil Vavin
Scritti Politti - Jacques Derrida
Scritti Politti - Would Beez (pray like Aretha Franklin)

Who did that 'I know someone who knows someone who knows Alan Mcghee quite well' song?

― Kim Tortoise, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Ben Folds Five's Unauthorized Autobiography of Reinhold Messner (so it's an album, meh).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Scritti Politti - When Smokey Sings

This is actually by ABC.

Also,
Jonathan Richman - "Pablo Picasso"

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Julian Cope - "Robert Mitchum"
the Vandals - "The Legend of Pat Brown" (a local celeb in Costa Mesa, California, apparently)
Cop Shoot Cop - "Robert Tilton Handjob"
Ozzy Osbourne - "Mr.Crowley"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Jonathan Richman "Walter Johnson"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Young Fresh Fellows - "Amy Grant"
Fugazi - "Cassavetes"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles - "Eleanor Rigby"
Allman Brothers - "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"
Zappa - "Orrin Hatch on Skis", "Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue"
Simon & Garfunkel - "A Simple Desultory Phillipic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)"

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Brian Wilson" Barenaked Ladies
"Roy Walker" Belle and Sebastian
"Alice Childress" Ben Folds Five
"The Ballad of Rip Van Winkle and Helen Keller" Moldy Peaches

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd - "The Gnome"

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"Louie, Louie" the Kingsmen
http://www.hbo.com/comedy/uscaf/2002/program/images/EO_LouisCK.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

L.A. Style - James Brown Is Dead
Thee Headcoats - Louis Riel
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

was Eleanor Rigby really a real person?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fall - "terry waite sez"
Minutemen - "political song for michael jackson to sing"
Minutemen - "if reagan played disco"
REM - "wendell gee" (a car salesman who lived in Athenes for more than ten years after Fabels was released, stipe sayd that the song was about a section in Athens where everybodies name ended with "Gee" or something).

and Wesley Willis to thread.

― rexJr., Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

bob dylan:

the lonesome death of hattie carroll
who killed davey moore?
blind willie mctell
talkin' john birch society blues (kinda, right?)
hurricane

― jq higgins, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"Alex Chilton" by the Replacements

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

not in the title, but in the chorus: "The Right Profile" by The Clash - about Montgomery Clift

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Would-be-goods - Velazquez and me
Bad Dream Fancy Dress - Dali's diet

― Kim Tortoise, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Burning Spear - "Marcus Garvey"

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Vaselines - (H.P.) "Lovecraft"

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

lee remick was by the go-betweens.
julie christie is the title of a spearmint song.

where's bill grundy now? - tv personalities
song for kelly le brock - dj downfall
throw aggi off the bridge - black tambourine (meaning aggi from the pastels)

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yukari Fresh - Michael Owen

― Kim Tortoise, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Weezer - "Buddy Holly"

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick" - Sonic Youth

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult - "Joan Crawford"
The Walkabouts - "Linda Evans"
M.O.D. - "Jim Gordon"
TV Personalities - "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Stompin' Tom Connors to thread

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Free James Brown (So He Can Run Me Down)" by Foetus.
"John McLaughlin" and "Willie Nelson" by Miles Davis.
"Geno" by Dexys.
"Donovan" by Happy Mondays.
"Kim Gordon's Panties" by Rapeman.

― rw, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Television Personalities - "David Hockney's Diaries"
Rocketship - "Naomi and Me" (of Damon & ...)
Allen Clapp - "Why Sting Is Such An Idiot"
American Music Club - "Johnny Mathis' Feet"
Unrest - "Cath Carroll"
Atom and His Package - "Pumping Iron for Enya"
Chixdiggit! - "Henry Rollins Is No Fun"
Barbara Manning - "Mark E. Smith and Brix"
Jazz Butcher - "Southern Mark Smith"
Anal Cunt - "Richard Butler"
Bob Wiseman - "Gabriel Dumont Blues" (about a lawyer he obviously despises)
Wally Pleasant - "The Day That Ted Nugent Killed All The Animals"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

More él(-related)!

Would-Be-Goods: "Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook", "Bad Lord Byron"
Momus: "Lucky Like St. Sebastian"
Bad Dream Fancy Dress: "Up the King of Luxembourg!" (heh)

And in the obscurish indie band/Marvin Gaye subthread:
[The Band of] Holy Joy: "Marvin in Ostende"
The Chrysanthemums: "I Wish Marvin Gaye's Father Had Shot Me Instead"

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm filing for ownership of this thread.

David Hamilton
Harmony Korine
Walter Carlos
A Little Schubert
Jarre in Hicksville
Heliogabalus
Every single track on 'Stars Forever'
M.C. Escher
Lucretia Borgia
The Symphonies of Beethoven
The Seventh Wife of Henry VIII
Paolo (Conte)
Howard Hughes
The Madness of Lee Scratch Perry
The Cabinet of Kuniyoshi Kaneko

And so on...

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Gertrude + Stein" - The Butchies
"Elvis on Velvet" - Stray Cats
"Jesus Christ" - Big Star

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

the pooh sticks - i know someone who knows someone who knows alan mcgee quite well

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"Gene Clark" by Teenage Fanclub.

― rw, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Roxy Music - "2HB" (HB = Humphrey Bogart)

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Fugazi - "Cassavettes"

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry. Alex already nailed the Fugazi track. Too quick!

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Kid 606 'Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie-Punk Whiteboy Ass'
Queen 'Life Is Real (Song For Lennon)'

― ss, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Robert Johnson" - by The Immortal Lee County Killers

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Matthew Sweet - "Winona" (Ryder)
The Fall - "I Am Damo Suzuki"

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

David Bowie - "Andy Warhol"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

And maybe "Song For Bob Dylan" also on Huky Dory

― Etienne Menu (Etienne), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Velvet Underground's "Candy Says" (inspired by Candy Darling).

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Dead Milkmen's "Ringo Buys a Rifle"...which has one of the best lyrics evah: "hey Paul, you asshole, dub this!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince-"Ronnie, Please Talk To Russia" (Reagin)
Ryan Adams & also Peter Laughner-"Sylvia Plath"
Billy Bragg-"I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs"
Woody Guthrie-"Joe DiMaggio Done It Again"
Bob Dylan-"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
Local H-"Eddie Vedder"
MC5-"I'm Mad Like Eldridge Cleaver"
Make Up-"Free Arthur Lee"
Led Zeppelin-"(Hats Off) To Roy Harper"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Shamen - "In Gorbachev We Trust"

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Van Morrison-"Whatever Happened To PJ Proby?"
Van Morrison-"Rave On, John Donne"
ZZ Top-"Vincent Price Blues"
Todd Rundgren-"Wolfman Jack"
Guess Who-"Clap For The Wolfman"
Leonard Cohen-"Joan of Arc"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Outkast - Rosa Parks
Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams
Magnetic Fields - The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
The Beta Band - Al Sharp
Boo Radleys - Free Huey (as in Newton)
Boo Radleys - Jimmy Webb is God

BB King to thread?

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tea Servants - I wanna be Jay Jay Johanson
Leo Garcia - Morissey
Laurent Voulzy - Mes nuits sans Kim Wilde
Veruca Salt - With David Bowie
The Specials - Free Nelson Mandela
Simple Minds - Mandela Day
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Segre Gainsbourg - Bonnie & Clyde
PS I Love You - Where on earth is Kevin Shields
D.A.F. - Der Mussolini
Fun Lovin Criminals - Love Unlimited
Public Enemy - Son of a Bush
R.A. The Rugged Man - Stanley Kubrick
Blue Bob - Marilyn Monroe

― Sami (Sami), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Bo Diddley

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Smudge - Don't Wanna Be Grant Mclennen
Atom and his Package- Sting Cannot Possibly Be the Same Guy Who Was in the Police
Family Fodder - Debbie Harry which is the same song as
Unrest - Winona Ryder

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives" TV Personalities
"King George Island" Spatula
"Joseph Cornell" Clientele
"Maria Bethania" Caetano Veloso
"The Sways" (Patrick Swayze) Tuscadero
"Hat and Beard" (Monk) Eric Dolphy

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Royal Trux - "Stevie (for Steven S.)" S, as in Seagall, or Seagull, or however he spells it, IF he spells it.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Amon Duul II - The Marilyn Monroe Memorial Church

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Also,
Jonathan Richman - "Pablo Picasso"

uh ok, so
John Cale "Helen of Troy",

and ...
"King Harry"
"'Legs' Larry @ Television Centre"
"John Milton"
"Brahms"
"Nico (the ballet)"
"Graham Greene"
"Mr. Wilson"
"Risé, Sam and Rimsky-Korsakov"
etc..

(but not Hedda Garbla, Macbeth, Dr. Mudd ?, Wilson Joliet, "Gideon", "Cleo", "Charlemagne" etc.. )

― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

miserable vampires Wayne Coyne and Courtney Love have new songs about Jack White & Julian Casablancas respectively

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

momus be damned, i say warren zevon owns this thread:

"frank and jesse james"
"bill lee"
"boom boom mancini"
"jesus mentioned"
"lord byron's luggage"

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

'Legs' Larry Smith, Roger Ruskin Spear, Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, Sam Spoons, Neil Innes, Vivian Stanshall, Adolf Hitler, 'Big' John Wayne, Count Basie, Princess Anne etc. etc..

("The Intro and the Outro", Bonzo 'Doo Dah' Dog Band)

― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i know "intro and outro" doesn't strictly count, but could not resist Larry or Vernon, Roger, John, Anne etc. etc.

― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Lou Reed - "Andy's Chest" and "Good Evening, Mr. Waldheim"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Pavement have one called "Mark E. Smith?"

― Will (will), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and duh, i forgot Lady Godiva

― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Drive-by Truckers, "Steve McQueen"

― mte, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The Rotters- "Sit On My Face Steve Nicks"
Stereolab- "John Cage Bubblegum"
The Clean- "David Bowie" and "Fats Domino"

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Adam and the Ants, "Picasso Visita el Planeta de los Simios"

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Manic Street Preachers, "Kevin Carter", "Let Robeson Sing"

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Tom Verlaine" by Family Cat

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Mensen, "Tommy Lee"
Turbonegro, "Raggare Are a Bunch of Motherfuckers"

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm Henry VIII I Am" Herman's Hermits

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

...a real person in the title?

eh, ELP/ Aaron Copland's 'Fanfare For The Common Man', anyone?
;-)

...and were all the wives of Henry VIII's already mentioned?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Lemmy Goes To The Pub", Motorhead

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Stereo Total, "Ringo I Love You", "I Love You Ono"

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"March of the Ciccone Robots", Ciccone Youth

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"O Yoko"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

another Lucretia Borgia song: "Lucretia My Reflection" by the Sisters of Mercy

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Madness - Michael Caine

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles - "Ballad Of John And Yoko"
D.O.A. - "Fucked Up Ronnie"

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Throwing Muses & michael Stipe - Dio
Dexy's Midnight Runners/Van Morrison - Jackie/Jockey Wilson Said

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

bill ricchini and lorraine bowen also have songs called 'julie christie'

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Wiseman - "Gabriel Dumont Blues" (about a lawyer he obviously despises)
-- zaxxon25 (keith.sawye...), May 6th, 2003.

uh... huh? Gabriel Dumont was Louis Riel's compatriot in the 1885 Northwest rebellion. y'know, Metis vs. Canada. not just a lawyer.

More canadian history: Weeping Tile, Room With The Sir John A. View

I think Stephen Duffy also wrote a Julie Christie, possibly under the name Tin Tin.

Kate Bush, Houdini
Lamb, Gorecki
Low, John Prine
Suzanne Vega, Marlene On The Wall(marlene dietrich)
Zumpano, Broca's Ways(paul broca, 1800's french doctor)
Richard Thompson, Al Bowlly's In Heaven
Sloan, Iggy and Angus
Juliana Hatfield, President Garfield
Richard Thompson, Don't Sit On My Jimmy Shands
The Smugglers, Buddy Holly Convention
Tahiti 80, Mr. Davies(ray davies)
Saint Etienne, Jack Lemmon
paul Simon, The Late Great Johnny Ace
Saint Etienne, Ken(tribute to 'red' ken livingstone)
Beth Orton, Bobby Gentry
M. Doughty, Cobain's Sarcoma
Saint Etienne, Dilwoth's Theme(joe dilworth, ex-stereolab drummer, photographer)
Pixies, Allison(mose allison)
Slowdive, Erik's Song(erik satie)
Long Fin Killie, Valentino(rudolph valentino)
Long Fin Killie, How I Blew It With Houdini

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Man Syd [Barrett]
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Donovan Said

A.C. - Morrissey
A.C. - Guy Lombardo
A.C. - Johnny Violent Getting His Ass Kicked by Morrissey
A.C. - Jack Kevorkian Is Cool
A.C. - Richard Butler
A.C. - Your Cousin Is George Lynch
A.C. - Easy E. Got A.I.D.S. From F. Mercury
A.C. - Hitler Was a Sensitive Man
A.C. - Chris Barnes Is a Pussy

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Rapeman - Kim Gordon's Panties
Such Sweet Thunder - Kim Gordon Blues
Songs: Ohia - Steve Albini's Blues

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Liam Lynch - Fake Björk Song
Sleater-Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Super Furry Animals - Hermann [heart]'s Pauline
3Ds - Evocation Of W.C. Fields
Exploding Budgies - Kenneth Anger
Oasis - Digsy's Diner
Graham Coxon - Jamie Thomas
Joey Ramone - Maria Bartiromo

― Poppy (poppy), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Chixdiggit! - Henry Rollins Is No Fun

I'm having fun with this thread. :-)

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

east river pipe - axl or iggy

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

1. The Minus 5 (Momus)
2. Akiko Masuda (Momus)
3. Steven Zeeland (Momus)
4. Mika Akutsu (Momus)
5. Stephanie Pappas (Momus)
6. Kokoro Hirai (Momus)
7. Stefano Zarelli (Momus)
8. Paolo Rumi (Momus)
9. Natsuko Tayama (Momus)
10. Girlie Action (Momus)
11. Mai Noda (Momus)
12. Robert Dye (Momus)
13. Florence Manlik (Momus)
14. Adam Green (Momus)
15. Maf (Momus)
16. Other Music (Momus)
17. Tinnitus (Momus)
18. 3d Corporation (Momus)
19. Miles Franklin (Momus)
20. Shawn Krueger (Momus)
21. Jeff Koons (Momus)
22. Noah Brill (Momus)
23. Team Clermont (Momus)
24. Bfent Bushboom (Momus)
25. Indiepop List (Momus)
26. Keigo Oyamada (Momus)
27. Minty Fresh (Momus)
28. Molton Jacobson (Momus)
29. Reckless Records (Momus)
30. Karin Komoto (Momus)
31. Christian Carl (Momus)
32. Bill Hardy (Momus)
33. Mr. Kate Kenkins (Momus)
34. Diego Zapparoli and Paola (Momus)
35. Jack Curtis Dubowsky (Momus)
36. El Topo (Momus)
37. Richard Knowles (Momus)
38. Olivier Schopfer (Momus)
39. Momus (Momus)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh. now I see the man himself beat me to it.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah! Saint Etienne have loads : "Memo To Pricey" is another (Simon Price of Bang!).

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

shellac "boche's dick" (after boche billions)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ICBNOHM Bela Lugosi's Dead or Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Duh.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hitler was a Vegetarian" (The Residents)

― george gosset (gegoss), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hitler was a Vampire" (The Unseesn) (yes, sorry)

― george gosset (gegoss), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

no, The Unseen (sorry)

― george gosset (gegoss), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Michael Fay" (Able Tasmans) (sorry, obscure euro-nz people)

― george gosset (gegoss), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Kirsty Mccoll - There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
The Beat - Stand Down Margaret (about you-know-who!!)
Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne is Big Leggy
Tottenham Hotspur (1981 Cup Final Squad) - Ossie's Dream

― Kim Tortoise, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jack Kerouac" Go-Betweens
"From Hank to Hendrix" Neil Young
"Like Leila Khaled said" Julian Cope
"Elizabeth My Dear" Stone Roses
"MLK" U2
"Blind Willie McTell" Bob Dylan
"Dennis and Lois" Happy Mondays

― Robert Moore (treble), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Every single song that has ever had the word "Jesus" in its title...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jesus is Just Alright" will do just fine

― george gosset (gegoss), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Pizzicato 5 - Twiggy vs James Bond (the former obviously)
Talulah Gosh - Spencer Tracey
Brilliant Corners - Brian Rix (amazingly, he appeared in the video)

plus more el records:

King of Luxembourg - Lee Remick
King of Luxembourg - Something for Sophia Loren
King of Luxembourg - Rubens Room

― Kim Tortoise, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

unrest - isobel (after isobel bishop)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Kate's Bush" - Marc Anthony Thompson

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

David Watts - The Jam

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(Er, that's a Kinks cover.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh good, none of the two I can think of at the moment have been mentioned yet. And... voila:

Nirvana, "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle"
ABC, "When Smokey Sings"

Two completely different styles of music, but both of them mentioning a real person in the title.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Kiss - "Plaster Caster"

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

uh ok, so
John Cale "Helen of Troy",
and ...
"King Harry"
"'Legs' Larry @ Television Centre"
"John Milton"
"Brahms"
"Nico (the ballet)"
"Graham Greene"
"Mr. Wilson"
"Risé, Sam and Rimsky-Korsakov"
etc..
(but not Hedda Garbla, Macbeth, Dr. Mudd ?, Wilson Joliet, "Gideon", "Cleo", "Charlemagne" etc.. )

-- george gosset

Somebody beat me to it on the John Cale front but surely Dr. Mudd (as in Dr. Samuel Mudd) and Charlemagne (King of the Franks and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, from 771 - 814) should be included in the main list? And you forgot about the "The Soul of Carmen Miranda"!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Clutch - I have the body of John Wilkes Booth

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Television Personalities - "David Hockney's Diaries"
Flaming Lips - "Ode to CC", "Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber Optic Jesus You Gave Me)"
Van Morrison - "Jackie Wilson Said"

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought Dr Mudd was a minor or us character from the Star Trek of my childhood, hence the question mark; and i didn't know Charlemagne, or Wilson Joliet either; Gideon was re-patched in with bible as a character on the Vintage Violence dramatis personae; i meant to include Carmen etc. but i've always been in the dark about Patrick Lee ..

― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 8 May 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Tower of Power - Diggin' on James Brown

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 May 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Mogwai - the one that's like "Puff Daddy is the Antichrist" or something like that

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Who came out with "Martin Scorsese"? I can't remember the band, but it's hilarious.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

low - john prine

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't there a song called "francois mitterand, do you have the heater on" or some such?

― tim annett (cobblehilliamsburg), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

bob dylan:

george jackson

― steve k (http://go.to/stevek) (stevek10), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

*Who came out with "Martin Scorsese"?*
King Missile

And this will be the second time I've mentioned "Ty Cobb" by Soundgarden.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Leonard Cohen - "Joan of Arc"
Woody Guthrie - "Pretty Boy Floyd"

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Dr. Dre & Snoop, "Fuck Wit Dre Day"

― wl (wl), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

David Bowie turns up a lot ..

"David Bowie Wants Ideas" by Bongwater (also featuring David Byrne)

― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 9 May 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Roxy Music - "Casanova"

― Burr (Burr), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

what about Bree Sharp's "David Duchovny"?

*hides*

(also, Tori Amos' "Song for Eric.")

and hey! Serge Gainsbourg + Brigitte Bardot's "Bonnie & Clyde."

― janni (janni), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"kate moss" by arab strap

― tim annett (cobblehilliamsburg), Friday, 9 May 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hey Jack Kerouac" - 10,000 Maniacs
"Just Like Jesse James" - Cher
"Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)" - Manics
"He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now" - Deacon Blue
"Kylie's Got a Crush on Us" - BMX Bandits

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 May 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Real Person" by The Angels of Light

― rexJr., Friday, 9 May 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Mellotones--'Haile Selassie' (among many, many other titles that mention Ras Tafari)
Burning Spear--'Marcus Garvey' (among many, many other titles that mention him)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

'Mr. Bojangles'

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(damnit, hit submit too soon) ^by Jerry Jeff Walker--and i think Sammy Davis may have done a version ;)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Rock Me Amadeus
Roll over Beethoven

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dylan's Beard - Wilco

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Saturday, 10 May 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Just Another Story About Skeeter Thompson" by Foo Fighters
Skeeter Thompson was the bass player for Scream, one of the bands Dave Grohl was in.

"Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" by Nirvana

― aja (aja), Saturday, 10 May 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

add n to (x) have "peanuts for eno", "buckminster fuller" and "thurston moore" i've read

sonic youth have "[brxaton] kiss my trad. ass"

― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 10 May 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

and was charlie haden's "song for Ché" fashionable ? like feldman's "for philip guston", "..samuel beckett", "..john cage", "..bunita marcus", "..christian wolff" etc. ?

what about braxton's "For Alto Saxophone" double lp (?) which had "Dedicated to Multi-Instrumentalist Jack Gell", "To Composer John Cage", "To Artist Murray de Pillars", "To Pianist Cecil Taylor", "Dedicated to Ann and Peter Allen", "Dedicated to Susan Axelrod,"To My Friend Kenny McKenny" and "Dedicated to Multi-Instrumentalist Leroy Jenkins"

― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 10 May 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

'Richard Corey' by Simon & Garfunkel

Was 'Lee Remick' by the Kings of Luxembourg a cover of the Go Betweens or Hefner , or a third song? Maybe every band should write a song called 'Lee Remick', as some kind of benchmark.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

'Kylie Said To Jason' - The KLF
'Tunic (Song For Karen)' - Sonic Youth

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Serge Gainsbourg - Norma Jean Baker
Catatonia - Ballad of Tom Jones
FSK - Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball

― Kim Tortoise, Monday, 12 May 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

More John Cale:

"At About This Time Mozart Was Dead And Joseph Conrad Was Sailing the Seven Seas Learning English"

- from his unlistenable period!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The Dead C present ''Max Harris''

― george gosset (gegoss), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

"I dreamt of Bobbie Gentry with her warm enchanting smile"- Orange Juice, "Out for the Count" -in the chorus though

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 20 December 2003 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Michael Jackson Is In Heaven Now" (doh!)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 20 December 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The Angry Samoans - "The Ballad of Jerry Curlan," but the less said about that guy the better.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 20 December 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

wesley willis OWNZ this thread

― brains (cerybut), Saturday, 20 December 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

And in addition to Fugazi..... Le Tigre "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes"

― Kevin C, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Whatever Happened to Corey Haim? - The Thrills?

I always thought of starting a "california" or "Superman" thread?

― Dustin Gaynor, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Butthole Surfers - Lou Reed

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hello Sandy Allen" - Split Enz

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ideal - "Richey [edwards] is Dead"
Millions of Dead Cops - "John Wayne was a Nazi"
!!! - "Me and [Rudy] Guiliani down by the schoolyard"
Paul Simon - "Me and Julio down by the schoolyard"
Paul Simon - "Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after war"
Stereolab - "John Cage Bubblegum"
Welle Erdball - "Bill Gates Komm Fick Mit Mir"
Green Day - "Jason Andrew Relva"
The Futureheads - "A Picture of Dorien Gray" (maybe not...)
Daniel Bedingfield - "James Dean"
Pixies - "Alec Eiffel"
Space & Catatonia - "The Ballad of Tom Jones"
Spizzenergi - "Wheres Captain Kirk?" (YES HE IS BLOODY REAL!)
Stereophonics - "Looks like Chaplin"
Stereophonics - "Billy Davey's Daughter" (a local man, both of whose daughters committed suicide)
The Stills - "allison krausse"
Super Furry Animals - "Venus and Serena"
Supergrass - "Richard III"
The Swinging Cats - "mantovani"

― jack, Monday, 1 November 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Earle - "Condi! Condi! Condi!"

― frankE (frankE), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Scrawl - Story Musgrave

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

A few more...

Franz Schubert - Kraftwerk
James Dean - Eagles
Kim Wilde - Charlotte Hatherley
Janie Jones - Clash
Johnny Carson - Beach Boys (can't believe y'all missed this one!)
Spencer Tracey - Danny Wilson
When I Think of Laura Nyro - Jane Siberry
Faron Young - Prefab Sprout
Jesse James Bolero - Prefab Sprout

There's a mix 'Rated X/Billy Preston' on the BIll Laswell 'Panthalassa' remix of Miles Davis stuff so I guess there must be a 'Billy Preston' on one of Miles albums.

...and to top it all 'Sigmund Freud's Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America' by Randy Newman.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Friday, 29 July 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

Jeffrey Lewis, "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror"

― sibsi (sibsi), Thursday, 16 February 2006 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Bauhaus - "Antonin Artaud" & "Bela Lugosi's Dead"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 February 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Dire Straits: Calling Elvis

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 February 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Frank Zappa "Elvis Has Just Left the Building"
Buzz Osborne "Skeeter" (Dave Grohl tells another Skeeter story in this one)
Rapeman "Budd"
Killdozer "Ed Gein"

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 16 February 2006 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Alvin Stardust: "I Feel Like Buddy Holly"
Bruce Baum: "Marty Feldman Eyes"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 February 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Barenaked Ladies--"Be My Yoko Ono"
Dar Williams--"I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono"

― patita (patita), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

....so no songs about Santa Claus!!!!!

How about "Father Christmas"? :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

REM - Exhuming McCarthy
fIREHOSE - In Memory Of Elizabeth Cotton

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

"Laura Laurent" by Bright Eyes. a friend of mine worked with the girl, who in his opinion was perhaps slightly creeped out by the tune.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

she briefly dated conor a year before or something like that

― gear (gear), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Sigourney Weaver - John Grant
Woody Allen - Allo Darlin'
Ingrid Bergman - Billy Bragg & Wilco (Woody Guthrie)

more please

― Enrique, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

Miles Davis: John McLaughlin, Willie Nelson, Billy Preston, Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process, Johnnie Bratton, Archie Moore, Duran, Sugar Ray, Mtume, Mr. Foster (Al Foster), Star On Cicely (Cicely Tyson), Vote for Miles

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:42 (fifteen years ago)

Duck Sauce, "Barbra Streisand"

― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:43 (fifteen years ago)

"Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child" - Mojo Nixon

― like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

omg was just about to post "Don Henley Must Die"

― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:52 (fifteen years ago)

They Might Be Giants:

XTC Vs. Adam Ant
James K. Polk
Meet James Ensor
She Thinks She's Edith Head
The Edison Museum
We're the Replacements
Lincoln, Washington and That Jefferson Guy
Oprah
The Ballad of T. McSweeney

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 03:00 (fifteen years ago)

The Embarrassment: Elizabeth Montgomery's Face

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 03:57 (fifteen years ago)

"from hank to hendrix" - neil young

― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 04:16 (fifteen years ago)

lloyd cole and the commotions - sean penn blues

― obster lob, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 04:22 (fifteen years ago)

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