100 great songs that put down the fakes, phonies & poseurs

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100. TLC - Case of the Fake People

― briania (briania), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

99. NWA - Fuck the Police

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

98: mobb deep - shook ones pt II

97: jay-z - the takeover

― jake b. (cerybut), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

96. the Kinks "Dedicated Follower of Fashion"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

95. Avril Lavigne - "Complicated"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ballad of a Thin Man" should be number one.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

(ooh that reminds me)

94. Bob Dylan "Positively 4th Street"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

93. FZ/MOI, "Plastic People"
92. FZ/MOI, "America Drinks and Goes Home"

Zappa owns this thread. We could fill the hundred just with his stuff, but I'd like to see other names.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

91. The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train

― Seb (Seb), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, good one, Seb.

90. Television Personalities - Part Time Punks

― briania (briania), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall - C'n'C -S Mithering

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

88. O-Level - Pseudo Punk

see 90.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Manowar say "Heavy Metal or no Metal at all - Wimps and posers leave the hall!"

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

87. hole - rock star
86. dylan - like a rolling stone

― Symplistic (shmuel), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost. Haha, Dan, but it's not pressed in red.

― briania (briania), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, um, um, um ... "Revolution?"

― Chris O., Monday, 20 September 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

85. O.C. - Time's Up

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

84. "vapors" da bizzzzzzz

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

83. The Fall - Mere Pseud Mag Ed.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

More hiphop to thread, please. I want to hear the keepers of the real calling out the suckers!

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

More hiphop to thread

On it: Pavement "Range Life"

― nader (nader), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

82. Pavement - Range Life

― nader (nader), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

81. Art - Ugly People with Fancy Hairdo's

(which owns the thread)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

80. Pulp - Common People

― Elliot (Elliot), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

79. Fashion shows with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
you're all fakes run to your mansions
come around WE'LL KICK YOUR ASSES

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just going to go ahead and promote ``80. Pulp - Common People'' into the top 25. At least.

(Come on, Elliot...why'd you have to go and blow it so soon?!)

Also: at risk of, uh, risking my street "credentials," I would suggest that one song by either Cake or the Presidents of the United States of America...you know, the one about getting t-shirts from concerts, wearing leather jackets. To reiterate:

78. PresUSA or Cake: (~) Concert T-shirts/Leather Jackets

― skowly (skowly), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Clarification:
78. Cake, "Rock and Roll Lifestyle"

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

77. the fall - classical (more rap)

― rssgnld, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Shooter! Thanks, j.lu

― skowly (skowly), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

76. "Sucker MCs," damn. I used to actually feel sorry for the sucker MCs when dude said "You're a five-dollar boy and I'm a million-dollar man."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

75. Funkadelic, "Let's Take It to the Stage"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

76. Dead Milkmen, "Instant Club Hit"

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

74. Sinatra lays down a tremendous dis of Patti Page's "Mama From the Train" on the '57 Seattle concert. For reals.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

72. teenage fanclub, "everybody's fool"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

71? Negative Approach - Why Be Something That You're Not

― Reed Rosenberg (reed), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

71. John Lennon, "How Do You Sleep"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

70. 50 Cent - "How to rob"
69. Green Velvet - "Fake and phony"

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

68. Black Flag "You're Not Evil"
67, The Beef People "Artsy Boy"
66. The Swell Maps "Fashion Cult"
65. Loon "Don't Wanna Die"

― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

64. Fela Kuti, "Gentleman"

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

63. TLC - "No scrubs"
62. Missy Elliott - "One minute man"
61. Lady Saw - "Man short"

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

60. Wire - Mannequin

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

59. REM, "Bandwagon"

― Guayaquil, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

58. Pet Shop Boys - "Shameless"

"I know what you think
It's clear as mud in your eyes
We're the plastic poseurs and prostitutes
You've obviously come to despise

But you don't know nothing
You're not hot enough to matter
You don't understand it's the glamorous life
A dream that no one can shatter

We're shameless
We will do anything
To get our fifteen minutes of fame
We have no integrity
We're ready to crawl
To obtain celebrity
We'll do anything at all"

― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

57. notorious big - machine gun funk
56. big l - i don't understand it

― Symplistic (shmuel), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

55. Modern Lovers, "I'm Straight" (I think?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

54. Eminem, "The Real Slim Shady"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

53. Main Source "Fakin the Funk"

!!!!!

Now I've never been one to knock the next man for getting his
You know what I'm saying? (Right right)
And I do realize that now hip hop is a form of showbiz. (Uh huh)
But this has always been something with which you have to be true
So in the year on 1992...(this is how we do!)

[Large Professor]
At the age of 19 heard the scene
A lot of M.C.'s that do not come clean
Fronting on dealing hard times in rhymes
You see him in the streets and you see no signs
Of the hell, and they get on stage and tell
Some cornball war story, ring the bell (word)
You're fakin the funk
Talking that extra hard junk, you're probably a punk
And Imma let you know, that this way
You just don't cut with the artificial flow

[K-Cut]
Knee digs out a great backs a next
When fakes try to front, they get smoked like blunts
My rhymes penetrate like skunk
Ayo word up, I think you're fakin the funk

[Large Professor]
You're fakin the funk! (You're fakin the funk)

Chorus:
Yo! You're fakin the funk! (You're fakin the funk) (Repeat 6x)

[Large Professor]
You do a song about a current event
Get on television and seem hesitant to represent
And that's what we call fraud
You can't kick the streets with a look I sold out a board (word)
And everywhere has streets
That's not trying to hear the same wack rhymes over the same stink beats
Cause times are real, and I can't feel
Putting...down on the reel to reel

[K-Cut]
Now Imma let you know
With those weak style of raps, it's time to go
I eject rejects that step
I'm a vet ready to snap your neck
I shine and rhyme at the same time
The mastermind of the sport called the rhyme
Now it's my time to dump chumps that front
(Ayo Professor what's up?)

[Large Professor]
You're fakin the funk

Chorus (1/2)

[Large Professor]
The era of the wack M.C.
Is getting shut down when the Main Source stomps through your town
Cause we don't play the role of a clown
And keep things jumping with the real rap sound

So to all the people stealing beats (You're fakin the funk)
To the crossover rapper with the pleats (You're fakin the funk)
To all the chumps that's claiming the streets (You're fakin the funk)
Fronting incredible feats (You're fakin the funk)
To the girl acting like a prostitute (You're fakin the funk)
Wearing that hooker type suit (You're fakin the funk)
To the rapper with the big space suit (You're fakin the funk)
To the artist that doesn't pay dues (You're fakin the funk)

[K-Cut]
Caue, exotic and then you're torn with the hyper tone
I can't be blown because my rhymes are hard like stone
So prepare for the scare, because I'm you're worst nightmare, punk
Cause you're fakin the...

Chorus

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

52 -- RJD2: I Really Like Your Def Jux Baby Tee

― Jimmy Mod, Los Sexx Yanqui (ModJ), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

51. Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

50. Rolling Stones, "Fight" (Mick singing Keith's words about Mick)
49. Sex Pistols, "God Save the Queen"
48. Elvis Costello, "Radio Radio"
47. Hank Williams, "Mind Your Own Business"
46. Sir Mix-A-Lot, "Seattle Ain't Bullshittin'"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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N*E*R*D "Rock Star"!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

3. Jean Knight-"Mr. Big Stuff"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

don't want it to be No 1 cos it's so new - but it's a such a great track that deserves major honorable mention:

Esthero - OG Bitch
You're just waiting for me to drown
So no one knows that you stole my whole sound
and yet you're grinning when I come around
You fake ass bitch

http://www.thehomelands.net/audio/Esthero_OG_Bitch.mp3

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, ...
1. Joan Jett - Fake Friends.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

0 - minutemen - toadies

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, sorry about the dead link

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

-1. "Thank You Friends" - Big Star

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

-2. Sonny Bono, "Laugh at Me"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

-3: Roxanne Shante- Bite this (in which she reels off a list of all her contemporaries, by name, and claims that they all ripped her off, set to the most thunderous Marley Marl beat EVER)
-4: Julian Cope- Greedhead Detector

― Owen Hatherley (owen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

-5. "Albatross," Public Image Ltd.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

-6. The Descendents, "I'm Not A Loser"

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

7. 'Sensitive Artist,' King Missile

8. 'Forgot About Dre,' Dr Dre

― Nackles (Nackles), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

9. Rip Her to Shreds - Blondie

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Blur - Girls and Boys
Dre - Still DRE

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

12. Alan Jackson - Gone Country
13. Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?

― Allen Baekeland (Allen Baekeland), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

14. The Mekons--Club Mekons

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

-15. Saint Etienne - "Lose that girl"

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

-16. "Well I hear that Laurel Canyon
is full of famous stars,
but I hate them worse than lepers
and I'll kill them in their cars."

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

17 The Freeze - This is Boston not LA

"you look the same you dress the same..."

― Bidfurd, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

18. Lou Reed - New York Stars (and lots of others)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

Megalomaniac by Incubus

― jack, Thursday, 9 February 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Reverend Horton Heat - Livin' on the Edge (of Houston)

― bendy (bendy), Thursday, 9 February 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Did we mention

-19. Johnny Thunders- "Little London Boys"
-20. The Kinks - "Prince Of The Punks"

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 9 February 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

-21 Aqua - Barbie Girl

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 9 February 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

-22 10cc - We've Heard It All Before

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

-23 Blur - Charmless Man
-24 The Kinks - A Well Respected Man

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:11 (twenty years ago)

-23/24 Phil Ochs-"Love Me I'm a Liberal" and "Draft Dodger Rag"

― 31g (31g), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:11 (twenty years ago)

-27 Blur - Colin Zeal

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

-28 Offspring - Pretty Fly For a White Guy

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

-29 The Saints - A Minor Aversion
-30 Helen Love - Punkboy
-31 Sham 69 - Sunday Morning Nightmare

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

-32. Pet Shop Boys - "How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 9 February 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

-33. dandy warhols - bohemian like you

― Stephen C (ihope), Thursday, 9 February 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

-34 Stereophonics: Mr. Writer

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 10 February 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

35. Steely Dan - Only a Fool Would Say That

― douglas eklund (skolle), Friday, 10 February 2006 01:43 (twenty years ago)

-36. Dexys: There There My Dear

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 10 February 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

-37. "Public Image," Public Image Ltd.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Ruby Tuesday

― Nigger With No Job (Nigger With No Job), Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:32 (twenty years ago)

Kings and Queens

― Nigger With No Job (Nigger With No Job), Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:33 (twenty years ago)

38. "imaginary player," jay-z
39. "no vaseline," ice cube
40. "y'all be warned," wu-tang clan
41. "wanksta," 50 cent

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 11 February 2006 08:32 (twenty years ago)

Well.....as to the person who said Nirvana's "In Bloom". In Bloom was the first song that showed me the definition of what this thread is. Seeing as how it's so catchy and all, trapping any poseurs in the sing a long chorus.... does any body else get anoyed when somebody does'nt spell "poseur" as poseur...... they always spell it as "poser".... well it always annoyed me.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 11 February 2006 08:45 (twenty years ago)

-42. Sly & The Family Stone - "Plastic Jim"

― Voodoo Man (Voodoo Man), Saturday, 11 February 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

-43. "Choking Tara" by Guided By Voices -

today when every fake-it decides to make it / they just can't take it away / shove it, cos I'll just stay / like an ugly unwanted stray / I don't care what they say

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

-44. "Self Obsessed and Sexxee" by Sonic Youth

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

-45. "Crush With Eyeliner" by R.E.M.

What position should I wear?
Cop an attitude? (you faker)
How can I convince her? (faker!)
That I'm invented too?
I am smitten
I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
We all invent ourselves
and, uh, you know me

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

46. The Fall - Shoulder pads. The finest put-down of Nathan Barley types but 18 years earlier...

All these fads
It's shoulder pads

On New Year's Dawn
To my surprise
All the Macca lads stayed at home
Picking antiques
Encloses
Cosy fleck with green bits
Main undercurrent, white spermatoze

My powers
Against them, half-useless
My senses
Alive have party

Was embarrassed but stuck with them
Walked, at shoulder, down the street, ridicule
They couldn't tell Lou Reed from Doug Yule
Suppressed hate romance

It was like being back at school

My powers before them resound
My powers heard language, two-time doom

Win populace, internal defeat
Their mob had a coup d'etat
Realize what they'd always wanted
Knew I was right all along
It wasn't then a Beatles song
Superhero in harlequin kecks
Dim-wit lecture, half read
Cursing black singers ten years dead

Was a clown in victim hat
Was shouldered and spurned

Then my powers did return....

― Ant, Saturday, 11 February 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

47. "black number 9," type-o negative

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 11 February 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

48. Dead Kennedys "Pull My Strings"
49. Bikini Kill "Thurston Hearts the Who"
50. Belle & Sebastian "Century of Fakers"

― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

18. Lou Reed - New York Stars (and lots of others)
Yeah, including

"Vicious"

I think.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Sunday, 12 February 2006 07:45 (twenty years ago)

51. Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods.
He believed in love and peace and never wore no shoes.
Long hair, beard and sandals and a funky bunch of friends.
Reckon they'd just nail him up if He come down again.

― JB Young (JB Young), Sunday, 12 February 2006 08:13 (twenty years ago)

52. The Cribs - "Mirror Kissers"

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 12 February 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

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