Top 100 most META songs of all times

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100. Rolling Stones 'Like A Rolling Stone'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

99. 'I've Got A Song That'll Get On Your Nerves'

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

98. Prince - My Name Is Prince
97. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

96. Pulp: 'Something Changed'

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

95 Carly Simon "You're So Vain" (which ownz)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

94. Devo - "Jocko Homo"

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

93. Tenacious D - "Tribute"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe a bit early for this, but fuck it: 92. Natasha Bedingfield - "These Words"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

92. A Guy Called Gerald 'Specific hate'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

90. Beautiful South 'Song For Whoever'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

89. Rheostatics - We Went West
88. Sloan - G Turns to D

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

87. Morris Minor & The Majors - 'This Is The Chorus'

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

86. Technotronic: 'This Beat is Technotronic'

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

85. Blackalicious - Swan Lake
84. Pulp - The Fear
83. The Beta Band - The Beta Band Rap

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

82. Charlie "Bird" Parker - "Yardbird Suite"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

81. Eric B and Rakim: 'Paid in Full'

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Shellac - Squirrel Song

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Kylie Minogue - Can't get you out of my head
Tricky - Tricky Kid

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

77. Rachel Stevens 'Some Girls'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

76. Kanye West 'Through the Wire'
75. Eminem 'Without Me' [erm, or any Em track really]

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

74. - Kiley Dean -- Pop Goes Meta

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

73. Elton John - Your Song

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

72. men without hats - pop goes the world

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

71. the four tops - same old song

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

70. britney spears - lucky

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

71 Simon & Garfunkel - 'Leaves That Are Green'
72. Bruce Springsteen - 'Dancing In The Dark'

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

67. L.L. Cool J "I Need a Beat"
66. R. Kelly "Ignition (Remix)"
65. Leon Russell "This Song For You"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

64. The Prodigy - 'Poison'

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

63. limp bizkit - rollin'

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

62. digital underground - the humpty dance

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

61. scatman john - scatman

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

60. The KLF - Gary Joins The JAMM

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

60. Cornelius - 'Mic Check'
59. Cornelius - 'New Music Machine'
58. Imani Copppolla - 'It's All About Me'

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

57. John Lennon - Glass Onion

― common_person (common_person), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

56. Spandau Ballet - "True"

(thx Radio 1 for that one)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

55. Weird Al -- "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long"

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

AND THAT'S A GOOD LINE TO TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Barry Manilow - "I Write the Songs"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Drums."

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

54. They might Be Giants - Number Three
53. Camper Von Beethoven - Joe Stalin's Cadillac

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Grand Popo Football Club - One More Song On The Market

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

51. The Philistines Jr. - Analog vs. Digital

― Tony Bleach, Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

50. abba - thank you for the music

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

DJ Tocadisco - Nobody Likes The Records That I Play

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

48. Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

― Rubberband Man (Rubberband Man), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Vicki D - 'This Beat Is Mine'

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

46. The Tamperer feat Maya - If You Buy This Record (Your Life Will Be Better)

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

45. Bis - 'This is Fake DIY'

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

44. B&S 'This is Just a Modern Rock Song'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

43. PiL 'This is not a love song'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

42. The Fall "I'm into CB" (narrator makes mention of needing to "listen to 'New Face in Hell'" another Fall song about cb radio)

― the classical, Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

41. madonna, "love song"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

40. "WHAT THE HOOK GON' BE?"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

39. Loadsamoney - "The B-side"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

38. XTC "This Is Pop"

37. There was an early Chas & Dave B-side which was all about how no-one would ever play the song because it was only a B-side.

36. Kanye West "Last Call"

35. The Clash "We Are The Clash"

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

34. Korn - "Y'all Want A Single"

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

33. Scarlet 'Independent Love Song'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

32. S.I. Futures 'We Are Not A Rock Band'

31. The Clash 'This Is Radio Clash'

30. Franke 'F.U.R.B.'

29. Shystie 'I Luv U'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Monty Python: "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio"

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

27. Dead Kennedys - Short Songs

― Avi (Avi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

26. George Harrison - "This Song"

― briania (briania), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

25. "Hey Hey, We're The Monkees"

― mike a, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

24. Jimmy Ray 'Are You Jimmy Ray?'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

23. Adam & The Ants - "Don't Be Square (Be There)"
22. Adam Ant - "Goody Two Shoes"

― mike a, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

21. Three Dog Night, "Our 'B' Side"

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Felix da Housecat - "My Life Is Music"

― Nick Sylvester, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

woops

20. Felix da Housecat - "My Life Is Music"

― Nick Sylvester, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

gah! I mean

20. Felix da Housecat - "Music Is My Life

― Nick Sylvester, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

19. Raspberries - "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)"

18. Pete Wingfield - "18 With a Bullet" (had to be here)

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

17. Badly Drawn Boy - This Song
16. Outkast - Da Art of Storytellin' (parts 1 & 2)

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

15. L.L. Cool J, "My Rhyme Ain't Done"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

14. They Might Be Giants "They Might Be Giants" (which is a song named after and about the band which is named after a film)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

13. Eels, "I Write the B-Sides"

― Simon H., Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

12. "Goodnight Mr Spaceman" Television Personalities
11. "This is not a song" - Frank and Walters

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

10. "Judy is a Punk" - Ramones

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

9. Kiss, "Rock And Roll All Nite"

― mike a, Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

8. John Lennon (& Yoko Ono), "Watching the Wheels"

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

7. Mary Lou Lord, "His Indie World"

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

6. Built to Spill, "You Were Right"

― subgenius (subgenius), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

5. Pixies - "Trompe Le Monde"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Can, "Halleluwah" (Damo lists the tracks on Side One at one point)
3. Jimi Hendrix, "Crosstown Traffic" ("I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead." Next song is a live jam with Steve Winwood of Traffic.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

2. David Bowie - "Ashes To Ashes" (Major Tom etc.)

good call on "Halleluwah"

― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Bobby Konders - "The Poem" feat Muta Baruka

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

0. Pink Floyd w/ Syd Barrett "Jugband Blues"

― andy beta, Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

-1. KMFDM "Sucks" (and samples "Godlike" too, for double the META)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 6 August 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

-2 Joe jackson, 'Hit Single'

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

-3. NOFX – ‘Please Play This Song on the Radio’

― Orange, Friday, 6 August 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

-4. Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To (an album, not a song? but whatever)

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Princess Superstar - I Hope I Sell a lot of Records at Christmas Time

― Symplistic (shmuel), Friday, 6 August 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

-6. Bad News - "Cashing In On Christmas"

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 6 August 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

5 Low - (That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace

― mei (mei), Friday, 6 August 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

-8. Michael Jackson - 'Music And Me'

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

7. Avril Lavigne - ' Sk8r Boi' ("I'll be at the studio / singing the song you wrote / about a girl you used to know")

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

haha ILM can't do negative counting

― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

-10. pavement, "gold soundz" ("...and they're coming to the chorus now...")

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

-11. Neil and Iraiza - 'This Is Not A Love Song'

-11.5. Sugababes - 'New Year' (vaguely meta-ish nod to 15/6 year old girls singing convincingly adult themes in chorus)

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

-12. Glen Campbell - "Rhinestone Cowboy"

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

-13. john lennon, "god"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

-14. Buffalo Springfield "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing"
-15. Buffalo Springfield "A Child's Claim to Fame"
-16. Buffalo Springfield "I Am a Child"
(Not to mention almost all of Neil Young's "Tonight's the Night")

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

-17. Barry Mann "Who Put the Bomp"
-18. Herman's Hermits "I'm Henry the VIII I Am" ("Second verse, same as the first")
-19. Alice Cooper "Schools Out" ("We can't even think think of a word that rhymes")

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

-20. Neil Diamond, "I Am, I Said" (or is that just self-obsessed?)

― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

-21. Game Theory, the entire Lolita Nation album

― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

-22. Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man" ("What can a poor boy do/'Cept to sing for rock 'n' roll band")
-23. Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" live version ("Honey, it's no rock 'n' roll show")

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

-24. Athlete: "Westside" - ("Chorus!")

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

-25. Kool Moe Dee "I'm Kool Moe Dee"
-26. Jay-Z "Izza (H.O.V.A.)" and another score or so Jay-Z songs

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

-27. Boyzone: "Words"

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

-28. New Seekers - "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing"

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

-28. Greens Keepers - 'Should I Sing It Like This?'

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

-29 that "you don't even know who Liz Phair is" song by Liz Phair

― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

-30. Chubby Checker "Let's Twist Again (Like We Did Last Summer)"

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

-31. The Band "Spotlight"

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, that was "Stage Fright," but I'll bet someone did a song called "Spotlight."

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

-32. The Nails "88 Lines about 44 Women"

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

-33. Born Against - "Born Against is fucking dead"

― Avi (Avi), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

-34. LCD Soundsystem - 'Yeah!'

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

-35. Bob Dylan - "Sara"

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

-36. Steely Dan, 'Show Biz Kids' - "They got their Steely Dan t-shirts"

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

God, how could this be forgotten? the most meta of all bands: Manowar
see songs such as Manowar, Metal Warriors, Return of the Warlord, Brothers of Metal, Warrior Prayer/Blood of the King, Kings of Metal, Hail and Kill, Fighting the World, All Men Play on 10, etc.
Probably a good 70% of their catalogue is about how awesome heavy metal is and how good they are at playing it.

― Avi (Avi), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

-38 them, story of them
-39 smiths, paint a vulgar picture
-40 undertones, more songs about chocolate & girls
-41 beatles, sgt. pepper's
-42 chuck berry, rock and roll music [why does he request that someone play him some rock and roll music? can he not hear his own song?]

― mig (mig), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

-43. The Concept - 'Hey DJ'

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

-44. Downliners Sect - Sect Appeal
-45. Downliners Sect - Be A Sect Maniac
-46. Downliners Sect - Leader Of The Sect
-47. Velvet Illusions - Velvet Illusions
-48. Chocolate Moose - Chocolate Moose Theme
-49. Slaves - Slave Time
-50. Monks - Monk Time

― divideby0, Friday, 6 August 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

-51. Railroad Jerk "The Ballad of Railroad Jerk"

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 7 August 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

-52. Kaleidoscope (U.K.) - Music

A "good'un"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 7 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

-53. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

― Symplistic (shmuel), Saturday, 7 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

can someone please explain to me what meta means in this context? if it's short for metaphysical i fail to see how any of these tracks are.

― jed (jed_e_3), Saturday, 7 August 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

music about music

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 7 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

why is that metaphysical?

― jed (jed_e_3), Saturday, 7 August 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Meta just means after or beyond.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 7 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

or in this case, self-referential.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 7 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

-54. Renegade Soundwave-Renegade Soundwave

"my house was shaking...my walls vibrating...Renegade Soundwave, Renegade Soundwave"

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 7 August 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

-55 Jawbreaker - "Pack It Up"

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Saturday, 7 August 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, forgot to add...

-56 Charles Mingus - "So Long, Eric"

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Saturday, 7 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

57. Mamas & The Papas: Creeque Alley

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 7 August 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

58. CCR: Travelin' Band
59. Kinks: Rock n' Roll Fantasy

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 8 August 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

-60. L'Trimm "Cars With the Boom" obviously. (Sorry it took me so long to post that one. Sometimes I wonder what I did with my brain.)
-61. James Taylor "Fire and Rain" ("I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song")
-62. Van Morrison "Brown-Eyed Girl" ("Do you remember when we used to sing 'Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah' just like that")

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 8 August 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

-63. Carpenters, 'Yesterday Once More'

how has it taken this long?

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 8 August 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Dylan,"I Want You":The cracked bells and washed out horns blow into my face with scorn, the saxophones say I, should refuse you [somethingsomethingsomething]but it's not that way, I wasn't BORN to lose you." He not only raps but signifies why: music sucks!If you let it make you its bitch, instead of vice versa. "Visions of Johanna": "The country music station plays soft, but there's nothing really nothing to turn off." "Lay Down Your Weary Tune", and then theres all the songs that he and most others did that evoke previous songs when they don't outright rip or suck em off. In Dylan's case, a lot with his name on 'em are as good or better or close enough to the songs or styles he evokes, but in any case, it's about a) being imprinted by the impressive, even if it's just impressively bad and'or catchy; b) hitchin a ride on the safe side, to *some* degree, even you're also taking a chance in another direction (who the ** woulda thunk "LIke A Rolling Stone" woulda been a Top 40 AM Hit of mid-60s?)

― Don Allred, Sunday, 8 August 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry if anybody already named these :Beach Boys,"I Hear or I can Hear Music"("The sounds of the city seem to disappear") Or is that about the music he hears *only* she's near, so really more about her?(Perhaps a Ms. Alice D., age 25, a la Allen Ginsberg's "Transcription of Organ Music"? But that's a pome so never mind.)Ditto B.Boys'"Wind Chimes" and probably a lot (all?) Same question of others: Olivia Newton John,"Please Mr. Please"("Don't play B-17. It was his song it was our song now it's oh-oh,ver."It" being affair re "over," but orig."it" was "song," she's screwing with us man! (And not in a good way.) Whoever,"Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life"; "I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today"; Charlie Daniels Band,"The South's Gonna Do It Again": not only jumping on but being the bandwagon of Southern Rock (as music, as trend;again, where''s the distiction, but it exemplifies former as well as latter, since a) demonstrates/embodies fusion of Western Swing,"straight"Country,etc,that it's talkin *about*; and b) namechecks ever damn body leading trend, incl "CDB"< as well it mat).

― Don Allred, Sunday, 8 August 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

64. Barclay James Harvest: "Poor Man's Moody Blues"
65. Eddie Cochran: "Three Steps To Heaven" (at the time of the recording, indeed, he was....)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 August 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't believe no one has mentioned: 66. "The Tennessee Waltz" (Peggy Lee, many others), which about a song called "The Tennessee Waltz" (and is far and away the oldest thing here).

― Obvious Pseudonym, Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

HEY? WHERE'S RIKWANDO? Damn. Well anyway, 67. George Gershwin: "I got rhythm or however you spell it, I got music, I got somethin, who could ask for anything more." 68. Afrika Bambaataa or whoever did "Looking for the Perfect Beat." HEY

― BigFatDrunkChickWithABoomBox, Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

69. Lois -- Indie

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

70. Beatnuts Theme

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

71."Dance To The Music," Sly damn Stone.72."Higher," Ditto! 73."Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa," Otis Redding ("It's a, sad song, it's a happy song, I just sing it,alll day long," I JUST LOVE YOU OTIS. No I won't settle down you settle down. 74."It's The Same Old Song," Four Tops ("Since, *you* been gone.") This means *Yew* mutha man. 75."Melody," David Johansen.76. "Frenchette," DJ too. "Why can't we just *day-unce?* Good question! HEY

― BigFatDrunkChickWithABoomBox, Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

72. Yankovic: This Song Is Just Six Words Long

Btw. Listening to "The Same Old Song", after listening to "I Can't Help Myself", clearly tells you it is one of the most aptly titled songs ever ;)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

We're into the negatives people... don't forget.

-73 The Fall - Repetition (and the various 'Crap Rap' songs)

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, yes, I would like some more coffee please. Thank you. Hello people, I'm straight now (sober, anyway). Oh god. Um, any music can be meta that just wants to fold you into itself minus note-noting and beat-counting and track-tracking and all that. Just, "Surrender all brins ye who enter here sugar" sugar on and in everything. Ambient or air guitar or whatevar darlin. Also:
-74(even got the - in there this time told you I was straight as a goatam *board* jack), "Memphis Soul Stew", whoever did it (I'm sorry!)
-75 "Time Is Tight," Booker T & the MGs,
-76"Boogie Fever," the Sylvers
-77"Blues In the Night"Frankie Sinatra
-78"First Time I Met the Blues" Buddy Guy(you could say all these are too meta for music but by the time music's met it/them too late to wonder there's a meld). Oh hang I need a meld--Room SERVIIICE

― BigFatDrunkChickOnTheWagon, Monday, 9 August 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Allo, I would like to hear:
-79 "SOS(Same Ol Song and Dance)" by Aerosmith
-80 "Barb Wire Fence or Riff" by Bob Dylan and The Band ("You might think this song/don't make no sense/it's the sound you get/sittin on barb wire fence")
-81"Mr Parker's Band" by Steely Band, althoug it does not sound like Mr. Charlie Parker, more like Mr. Peter Parker, who is tres cute.Stanku all vary much.By

― A Little Girl, Monday, 9 August 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

-82 (though the counting went seriously awry). the Wonder Stuff - Our New Song
-83. The Drugs - Pop Song

there really should be seperate lists for songs that are properly meta and about music or the song itself Song For Whoever-stylee, ones where rappers mention their own names, and all these rock'n'roll songs people are throwing in that just happen to concern rocking and/or rolling

-84. AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top would probably still squeeze into the first category though

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

-85. Don, you forgot "Desolation Row" ("had to rearrange their faces, give them all another name")

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

But Geir, listening to "Under My Thumb" after "It's the Same Old Song" is even better, and so's listening to "Standing in the Shadows of Love" right after listening to "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby (Standing in the Shadows)"

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 9 August 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

-86. Public Image Ltd - "the cassette played 'Poptones'" (but the song hadn't been written yet!)

― Patrick (Patrick), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

-85. Wiley - Wot Do U Call It?
-86. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

-87. REM's "Pop Song '89"

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 9 August 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

88. "Only A Northern Song," the Beatles. Which gets points for being both about itself and the band's publishing company.

― phil d., Monday, 9 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

-89. Roxy Music, "Oh Yeah":

"How we can drive to a movie show/ when the music is here in my car?/ There's a band playing on the radio/ with a rhythm of rhyming guitars/

They're playing "oh yeah" on the radio, oh oh-oh oh."

― Calvino Ray, Monday, 9 August 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

-90 Vengaboys, "Up and Down"

"
We have already in the past produced records
These records were succesful
And produced considerable results
But the funds have been spent
And very well spent
And for this reason we're now producing
a new, unique record
called Up and Down
Up and down
Up and down
And up and down"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The entire top 100 should've been filled with hip hop.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

-92."Poetry Man" Phoebe Snow (really its about Charlie Parker but she couldn't call it "Heroin Man" on the radio!) Which reminds me
-93. "Rock and Roll"Velvet Underground
-94."Rock and Roll" Led Zep
I'm gone donate all my numbers to you, Calvino & Sterling! So here's my UnNumbered Medley :Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight! Cos! *That's* the way, uh huh uh huh, I *like* it, I'm gonna put on, my my my my boogie, shoes, just to boogie with you URRRRPH, ohmigod I'm sorryyHEY where yall goin

― BigFatDrunkChickWithABoomBox, Monday, 9 August 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

COURTNEY LOVE "MONO" anybody?

How could you forget?

Meta rawwwk.

― I'm American, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

elton john-your song
justin timberlake-rock your body

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Leoš Janáèek's first string quartet, from 1923, is usually called "The Kreutzer Sonata". However, it's not a sonata -- as mentioned, it is a string quartet, inspired by Tolstoy's story "The Kreutzer Sonata", in which Beethoven's op. 9, a sonata for violin and piano, usually called "The Kreutzer Sonata", plays a part.

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

That è should be a c with a little v on top.

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

aargh OPUS 47! I hate factual errors when trying to show off erudition!

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

-95. 'Live at the Johnny Mack Brown High School,' The Statler Brothers (entire album of the group hilariously pretending to be an inept small-town C&W act)

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

-96. "Peggy Sue Got Married," Buddy Holly

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

-97. "Indian Flute," Timbaland & Magoo

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Pooh Sticks to thread.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

-98. "Play My Song," Redd Kross (outchorus: "Rock rock rock rock 'n' roll sucks!")

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

-99. Natasha Bedingfield "These Words" (Just seen it, it's about how difficult writing a love song is.)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

-100. kleenex girl wonder - why I write such good songs

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Saturday, 14 August 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Song Sung Blue, everybody knows one "Song Sung Blue," by me

― NeilD, Saturday, 14 August 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

-102. The Magnetic Fields - "The Way You Say Goodnight"
("Oh I could write a song about / The way you say goodnight.")

― cws (cws), Sunday, 15 August 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

-103. "Jugband Blues," Pink Floyd (Syd: "And I'm wondering who could be writing this song.")

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 15 August 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy Bragg: "A New England":

I was 21 years when I wrote this song
I'm 22 now, but I won't be for long

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 15 August 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yachts - Suffice to Say. On the Stiff Records Box. What Sparks would sound like if they were a pub rock band. Ew.

Mojo Nixon - The Story of One Chord. A song about the cavemen touching the Monolith, if the Monolith were shaped like Glenn Mercer.

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Sunday, 15 August 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread really should've started going back up again after -100.

― The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 15 August 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, -107. "Joyride", Built To Spill
this part of the song is called the second verse /
sounds just like the first but with different words /
it only has three chords and they are A and E and D /
they are A and E and D /
then it goes to D minor, D, uh, A, E, D

― The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 15 August 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"2nd verse, same as the first: 'Ahhhm, 'en-er-ey the aith Oiyam Oiyam (etc.)" Mocks Henry VIII's exercise of royal perog (via 'eritage): there are 8 'eneries, oiroight, but, instead of the 8th with 7 woves,here's 1 who's flaunting the fact that he's 1 of the 8-identically named 'usbands of 1 woman."Second verse" bit mocks the audience cos actually there are many more reps than 2 (and this "verse" actually the same as "chorus")! And audience eats it up, pays for such self-satisfaction of upfront swindlin' song (perhaps IDing with such inyourface? It was the 60s after all come to think of it) "Henry the Eighth" by 'erman's 'ermits

― Don Allred, Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

-109. The Sisters of Mercy - "This Corrosion" ("hey now, hey now now, sing 'This Corrosion' to me")

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

-110 Rachel Stevens "Some Girls". ("He likes to put his own records on", "you made a promise to make me a star", "dreams of #1 last forever".)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 15 August 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

U turn me on (ima radio)

― Prince Joni, Monday, 16 August 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

-111. The godawful Usher's "Confessions part II" references the chick he told us about in part I.

― frankE (frankE), Monday, 16 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

-112. One Note Samba - Astrid Gilberto & Stan Getz

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Monday, 16 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

-113. Todd Rundgren - Chain Letter
It's really, really meta. "This is how I thought I'd start my song" etc.

― Comme personne (common_person), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago)

-114. Joey Carbone, Garry Shandling, Alan Zweibel - It's Garry Shandling's Show Theme

― Comme personne (common_person), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago)

-115. Jay-Z - "Song Cry"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago)

-116. rufus thomas - Bearcat (Answer to 'Hound Dog')

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago)

A few good examples:

-117. "Never Knew" by Eminem ... counterarguing against himself.
-118. Neil Young, "Borrowed Tune" ... even admits he's stealing the melody.
-119t. Built to Spill, "Randy Described Eternity," "Time Trap," "I Would Hurt a Fly" ... Meta seems to be Martsch's whole m.o. as a lyricist. "You Were Right" is the best example, though.
-120. Neutral Milk Hotel, the entirety of In the Aeroplane O'er the Sea, especially "Holland 1945," which goes inward then outward then celestial and back again. Whoa!

― Chris O., Friday, 17 September 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Thanks very much to swoods for this one:
-121 Goddo - Sweet Thing.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

-122: Al Green, "L-O-V-E"

"I started to write this song about you
And then I decided that I would write it all about love..."

(No wonder Orange Juice covered it.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

This isn't the first time I've posted "the Pooh Sticks own this thread"

-123 : First Of a Million Love Songs

― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

-124. Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

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