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

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)

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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-one years ago)

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

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

wesley willis OWNZ this thread

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

Butthole Surfers - Lou Reed

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

"Hello Sandy Allen" - Split Enz

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

Steve Earle - "Condi! Condi! Condi!"

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

Scrawl - Story Musgrave

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

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

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

Dire Straits: Calling Elvis

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

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

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

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

How about "Father Christmas"? :)

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

REM - Exhuming McCarthy
fIREHOSE - In Memory Of Elizabeth Cotton

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

she briefly dated conor a year before or something like that

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

Duck Sauce, "Barbra Streisand"

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

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

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

The Embarrassment: Elizabeth Montgomery's Face

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

"from hank to hendrix" - neil young

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

lloyd cole and the commotions - sean penn blues

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

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