songs written about you?

valerie's 'popstar' name checked me in a verse, and there was a Union Kid track that thanked all the journos who'd written about them in the middle 8, of which i was one...

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Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about me on the Born in the USA album. I'm not saying which one though.

I was a bit horrified and plenty perplexed to learn several years after the fact that the Chicago indie band Laundry (who I'm not even sure I ever saw during their existence) had a song that mentioned me and someone I was then going out with. I think the gist of the lyrics were that the singer/protagonist dug this girl, but I was in the way, or something like that.

And, oh yeah, there's that whole "Cubs in Five" nonsense. Oh come on, you just KNOW that's a dig at me! ;)

The Costa Mesa band Supernova allegedly wanted to do a song about me called "My Name is Ned" (I had inadvertantly become an early supporter when I played their debut single "Long Hair and Tattoos" on KUCI in fall 1992). But alas, they did not.

Sarah has written various songs about me in different bands, not mentioning me by name, but yeah. I don't know about any other songs about me. I've written some about Sarah too. And I started one about Horace Mann yesterday.

There's always the fred song. But that's about it.

Oh, and I also labored under the delusion that the Replacements' "Tim" album was named after me. I had approached Bob Stinson after a 'Mats show at the Metro in '85, and my younger, dorky brother happened to be spazzing out and yelling my name just as I was asking Bob what the new record was gonna be called. Bob was pretty drunk, but he replied "We're going to call the album 'Tim'." I figgered he was just joshin', but then a couple months later...voila.

Did I say Bruce Springsteen?
I meant NA.

I always get them confused.

Fuck you.

It's kind of embarrassing and a long story, but I wrote the letter in "Ebow the Letter."

This singer/songwriter type from the '70s named Carly Simon wrote a song about me called "You're So Vain"

I am playing my song! Ha! It's very catchy and has this strange sixties electronic thing in the midde - anti-folk in 95? Maybe....

Apparently I did call him at three in the morning and pleaded with him to meet me at the 7-11. He came out and waited around for two hours before going home .... fuck, if this is googled, just got to say, man, I had no clue that I had called you and you should email me!!!!

The folk song was more embarrassing - you ever have the 'soulful' talk with someone? And than the person puts it too music? And then you go and see her play? And then she plays the song? A bitter song about basically how much she secretly loves/hates me and exposes all our painful secrets? Yeesh. That really sucked. But it was a good Prince/Nikki 'Purple Rain' feel about it.... being lapsed catholic, I enjoyed the pain and embarrassment of it all. And then walked out of the bar and never talked to her again.

...and we finally learn who Alanis' "You Oughta Know" is about.

No songs written ABOUT me (other than ones I've written about myself) (and the occasional boyfriend-fucking-around-on-acoustic-guitar-and-singing-my-name thing), but a friend of mine used something I once said to him as a song title on his record.

Summer Burkes to thread...

...and we finally learn who Alanis' "You Oughta Know" is about.

-- NA. (emmaa...) (webmail), June 10th, 2003 4:18 PM. (Nick A.) (later) (link)

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The Clean's "Psychedelic Clown" namechecks me; my pissed-off ex-girlfriend's band the Apes (no relation to the current Apes) wrote a really good & angry song about me; Chris Knox re-recorded "Not Given Lightly" as "Not Wedding Lightly," with lyrics about me and Lisa; and I've been told that "Meet Me by the Water" by Saturday Looks Good To Me is about me and Lisa too.

I RULE this thread

My old roomie John wrote a bunch of songs about me for his band (which I would wager no one here has ever heard of, much less heard). I was a good case study for pathetic, screwed-up, drunken twentysomethingness, so I must have come in handy as inspiration.

I have had two experiences similar to doom-e's at poetry readings, which were even worse for all concerned because in that situation there is but the faintest pretense that any non-involved party will actually get any pleasure or enlightenment out of listening to the results. Again, patheticness rampant.

I think I was more pissed cause she blatantly ripped off Joni Mitchell's 'The Last Time I Saw Richard' ... might as well been The Last Time I Saw Doom-e'...and a sneaking paranoia that I had my 15 minutes of fame destroyed - but a friend reassured me, that in Canada, regional radio hits don't count against your alloted fifteen minutes!

jerry you have to tell before momus comes on this thread - 'Oh yes, in days of yore, Handel's Messiah was written about me but I suggested feeding it backwards through a tape lope .../

I wrote a song called "I Wrote a Song about Momus (And I'm Still Waiting for My Check)"

Okay, I didn't, but wouldn't it be cool if I had?

"You Oughtta Know" is about the Olsen Twins?
Ick.

No. Refuse to tell you, Doom-e. I've had so many about me I've forgot. You mean like actual name mentions, or me being the inspiration for songs...?

Handel was just a no-bit ass-licker anyway.

My dad, Roger Barrow, was Queen's manager in their early days. They wrote this song about him:

Artist: Queen
Title: Death On Two Legs(Dedicated to...)
Album: A Night At The Opera

You suck my blood like a leech, you break the law and you preach
Screw my brain till it hurts, you've taken all my money
And you want more...
Misguided old mule with your pig headed rules
With your narrow minded cronies, who are fools of the first division

Death on two legs, you're tearing me apart
Death on two legs, you've never had a heart of your own

Kill joy, bad guy, big talking, small fry
You're just an old barrow boy
have you found a new toy to replace me? Can you face me?
But now you can kiss my ass goodbye

Feel good, are you satisfied? Do you feel like, suicide?(I think you should)
Is your conscience all right Does it plague you at night?
Do you feel good feel good?

You talk like a big business tycoon, you're just a hot air balloon
So no-one gives you a damn, you're just an overgrown schoolboy
Let me tan your hide
A dog with disease, you're the king of the 'sleaze'
Put your money where your mouth is, mister know-all
Was the fin on your back part of the deal? (Shark)

Death on two legs, you're tearing me apart
Death on two legs, You've never had a heart (you never did)
of your own (Right from the start)
Insane you should be put inside
You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride
Should be made unemployed, then make yourself null and void
Make me feel good I feel good

someone once wrote a song called "di smith is a drug addict" because i wouldn't sleep with him. it was probably his finest moment.

an ex of mine may have written a song about me but that was probably just wishful thinking.

Is THAT who the song was about? I've always wondered that! Thanks Colin! Er, I assume your dad had a different point of view on it. ;-)

Sorry Ned, sorry everyone, I was just kidding around. I really don't have a father who managed Queen, and I also don't know who that song was about. No-one's ever written a song about me, boo hoo.

Hey! We've been fibbed to!

It was a clever one though, don't you think? The way that line 'barrow boy' was in there, just to convert the skeptics... and what about Roger Barrow as the name of a dodgy UK manager? Perfect!

my old roommates' band wrote a song that is about me -- it's not particularly nice, but not particularly nasty either since it was a reasonable assessment of me at a certain point in time.

i sat through five months of them rehearsing this song every night in the basement (even sometimes singing along) until i clued in. how dense am i?

This is very common. Singing about you band mates and them not realising, I mean.

Trying to remember them all... bitter ex-boyfriends in bands that never release any records don't count. I could fill a C-90 tape with them, honestly!

A long-forgotten Albany hardcore band called Spitpope wrote a song about me saying I had a habit of waylaying cute punk rock boys and sucking their toes. (This may or may not have been true.) And then another long-forgotten Albany band who thought they were the Replacements wrote a song called "Too Young" after finding out that I was only 16. The guitarist from the Creatures of the Golden Dawn told me he'd written songs about me, but I'm not sure that they ever made it to disc because that band had a bad habit of all the other members that were not Mark Smith quitting and going off and starting their own band.

It's been a while since anyone wrote a song about me. And that makes me sad. It's about time, considering all the bloody songs I've written about idiot boys that didn't deserve it... Grrrr.

I am under the impression that the Kinks wrote a song about my mother and the ducks (actually they were loons but what does Ray Davies know?) in her kitchen, but she may have been fibbing about that...

My ex tried to shame me by inviting me to an acoustic gig and playing a song she'd written called "My Boyfriend's a Stinking Drunk". I was so upset that I dropped my drink and the glass shattered all over the floor, it was embarrassing as I was sitting right up front

I am also convinced that Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor-LeBon-Rhodes wrote that "won't somebody write a song about me, so I can sing along" song on the new album after hearing all the songs I wrote about Peter Holmstrom. ;-)

At LEAST four by one artist. Which is fine until people start introducing you as 'the girl who...etc."

I think you introduce *yourself* as that, more than other people do...