Songs where the singer mentions his/her bandmates

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* Jonathan Richman: "The Morning of Our Lives"
* Slumber Party: "Your Friends"
* The Supremes: "Come See About Me" (or whichever one goes "And Flo, she don't know...")

― mike a, Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Adam & the Ants - "Ant Rap"

― Richard C (avoid80), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

S Club 7 - "S Club Party"
Sugarhill Gang - "Rapper's Delight" (kinda)

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Does B-52s "Song for a Future Generation" count, or similar songs where the bandmembers introduce themselves?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

"Wannabe"!

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

"Ballroom Blitz", obviously too.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

"CC, pick up that guitar and talk to me!"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Brownsville Station (& Motley Crue) - "Smokin' in the Boys' Room"
The Beatles - "Glass Onion"
Destiny's Child - "Bootylicious"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

TLC - Diggin' On You
Spice Girls - Wannabe
Sleater-Kinney - Step Aside

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

grand puba w/ brand new heavies - "who makes the loot" where he goes like "the bass players real, the drummers real, the bass players real and the drummers real" etc

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

"Dum Dum Boys"-Iggy Pop
"The Ballad of Mott the Hoople"-Mott the Hoople

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

The Bolshoi - "M.F.P." (sort of)...

...(also, where is the love?)

― Pangolino again, Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

"That's right, The Mascara Snake, fast and boolbous..."

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

Belle and Sebastian- This Is Just A Modern Rock Song

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

The Wrens--This Boy is Exhausted

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

Mamas & The Papas: Creeque Alley

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Westy Can Drum - Pavement

― Will(iam), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

pixies, "monkey gone to heaven." ("rock me joe.")

veruca salt's "volcano girls." ("the seether's louise.")

def leppard, "armageddon it" i think. ("c'mon, steve!")

if those three played on a package tour, i'd totally go.

― cobra commander (cobra commander), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

el guapo- 'justin destroyer' about their bandmate justin moyer.

the band now calls itself supersystem and are on touch and go. also dont like me as much. blah.

― jane (jane), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Sly & The Family Stone: Dance To The Music

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Does "Paranoimia" (the album version) count?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

"Big Star" -- Dream Lover "play it for me, guitarist" (not by name but it's a great moment)

― Aaron A., Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Malkmus mentions Spiral Staircase in... So Stark?

― Aaron A., Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Does "Sultans of Swing" count?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Sam & Dave--Soul Man ("Play it, Steve")

― late adopter, Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

"One Reporter's Opinion" - Minutemen

"What could be romantic to Mike Watt, he is only a skeleton". Watt still plays this live, which rules.

― Eggzachly Huh? (Zach), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

"Strawberry Fields Forever", allegedly ;)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

"TERMINATOR X! [scratch, scratch, scratch]"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 10 March 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

"KIRA'S GOT THE 10 1/2!!!"

― mike a, Thursday, 10 March 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

"Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike: if I like a girl, who cares who you like?"

― mike a, Thursday, 10 March 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

The Supremes: "Come See About Me" (or whichever one goes "And Flo, she don't know..."

"Back in My Arms Again."

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

JSBX 'Flavor'
Russell Simins, Mr Judah Bauer, the number one blues singer in the country BLUES EXPLOSION!

― Marcel Verhoeven (Marcel Verhoeven), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

"No Fun" The Stooges

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

Approx 75% of James Brown recorded output 1965-80. Maceo! Fred!

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Poison - Rock and Roll All Nite
Ben Folds Five - Where's Summer B?

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

John Phillips, "Mississippi": "Joseph" on the bass.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

White Stripes - It's True That We Love On Another

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

ahem.."One" (freudian slip?)

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

big o by kristina olsen

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

isnt it kind of all over ben folds five, if i remember things right? he's always talking about darren or robert sledge... and that one fear of pop song about the rubber sled.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

David Thomas, "My Theory of Spontaneous Simultude"

If that counts.

― I.M. (I.M.), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

2 perverse examples of making people play on mean songs about them:

the stones' "miss amanda jones", it's so fucking vicious with the "hey girl, don't you realise there's money invested in you" and "she looks so delightfully stoned" lines.

the kinks's "session man" about nicky hopkins - which is kind of nicer but also i think a bit of a back-handed & jealous move on Ray's part (or is that a Dave song?)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

PJ's cover of I've Got A Feeling
"Everybody made a movie, Jeff Ament had one line...no, two"

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

television-"venus"
"richard said hey man let's dress up like cops..."
I'm not sure whether this refers to richard lloyd or richard hell. probably the latter.

― tylerw, Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

Armageddon It - Def Leppard: "C'mon Steve, get it.." [proceed to guitar solo]

Rocking out to the radio at age 10, I thought Joe E was talking directly to me. Magic! I played along on a tennis racket.

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

"Introduction" by the Zeros (the purple-haired, giant Chuck Taylor-wearing, early-90s hair-metal group, not the late-70s Hispanic LA punk group).

― Handsome Dan, Thursday, 10 March 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

ballboy - a night at the ballet

― coco, Thursday, 10 March 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

Zappa's "Catholic Girls" (*Vinnie Colaiuta* *Warren Cuccurullo*) and "Stevie's Spanking" (*His name is Stevie Vai*).

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 10 March 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

Bonzo Dog Band - Intro And The Outro (including "Eric Clapton on ukulele, hi Eric!" who actually IS Eric Clapton on ukulele).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 10 March 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

'The Beta Band Rap'
Len - 'Feelin' Alright' ("Sharon's right beside me" - "Yeah, I feel it too/And if you weren't my little brother, I'd take it out on you" - "Well, G-Rockin' Moves just lost his mad fat flow...")

― BARMS, Thursday, 10 March 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

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Camera Obscura "Knee Deep at the NPL"
something like:
I made a ball and threw it at Gavin because he's tall.

― marianna, Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

What about the original version of "I'm Straight" where Jonathan's rival is known as "Hippie Ernie"?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

In "Jungle Love," doesn't Morris do something like "Jesse, now Jerome," etc.?

And in "Monkey Gone to Heaven," Frank rather solemnly intones "rock me, Joseph Alberto Santiago."

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

> In "Jungle Love," doesn't Morris do something like "Jesse, now Jerome," etc.?

OTM

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

gang of four :

which is that one that goes
'jokes made about you on the bbc/ i disapprove of it/ so does john'

love that.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Tighten Up

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

"I'll Take You There"- The Staple Singers

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Approx 75% of James Brown recorded output 1965-80. Maceo! Fred!
And don't forget Tim! (Drummond), although I can't remember whether JB calls him out by name in "Licking Stick" or "I Can't Stand Myself(When You Touch Me)"

"Who Do You Love" - Ronnie Hawkins (in The Last Waltz)

"Rudie Can't Fail" - The Clash (Sing Michael Sing)

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan Richman - "Vincent Van Gogh" when he tells his bandmates to fill in parts of the song.
I think in Sublime's "dj's" they get turns to sing about themselves but I haven't listened to Sublime for awhile...
On Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, he jokes with his bandmates in some of the wordless parts of songs.. There are a lot of these on live cd's.

― Glading the Wanderer, Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Dee-Lite "Groove is in the heart"

'Dj Soul was on a roll/I've been told he can't be sold'

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Beastie Boys: Finger Lickin' Good

Now that I think about it, probably 75% of Beastie Boys songs do this at least once.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Minutemen - "History Lesson Part II": Me and Mike Watt played for years

― alex in montreal, Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

"Ballad of Mott" - Mott the Hoopel

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Mott the Hooplah, Mott the Hoo-hah!

Mott the Hoople, really

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Time has been mentioned and Prince hasn't?

Prince - Baby I'm a Star
Prince - Kiss

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Dismemberment Plan, "The Plan Gets Rich."

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh, does mentioning the manager in R.E.M.'s "Little America" count? Jefferson I think we're lost...

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Is the name Tommy ever actually mentioned in "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out"?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

For some reason, the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this was "ok Edge, play guitar" - but I've no idea what U2 song that's from or even if it's a live recording (which, I'm guessing, doesn't count).

― Graeme (Graeme), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Actually, now that I think of it, it's probably "play the blues" - which would explain why it stuck in my head (it's v lame).

― Graeme (Graeme), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

'Dj Soul was on a roll/I've been told he can't be sold'

i don't think there was anyone in Deee-Lite named DJ Soul
i'm kinda embarassed to admit that I know it was Lady Miss Kier, Super Dj Dmitry and Towa Tei (with Bootsy and Maceo on that track) and later DJ Ani came aboard. but never any DJ Soul, afaik

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Maybe a reference to DJ Soulslinger? (He used to play at a lot of the same parties as Dmitry.)

― Graeme (Graeme), Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

"Escort Crash on Marston Street" by Heavenly, in which the band members are maimed/killed. But in a cute way.

― Amy Holmes (amy's robot), Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

"Surrender," Cheap Trick ("Bun E's alright! Tommy's alright! Robin's alright! Rick's alright!")
"Your Mama Don't Dance," Poison ("Rock it, Rocket!")
"Girls," Beastie Boys ("Jacking Mike D. to my dismay")

― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

...like every beastie boys track ever

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

R.E.M. - "Second Guessing" on Reckoning

"Peter Mike Bill Michael book this season"

― El Maury, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

― white boi, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Rolling Stones, "Dance, Pt. 1" on Emotional Rescue

"Keith! Watcha, watcha doing?"

― J. Seder, Friday, 11 March 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

Metallica - Whiplash "We'll never stop, we'll never leave, cuz we're Metallica!"

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 11 March 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Yellow Magic Orchestra, "Tighten Up"

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 11 March 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

"Something Better Change" by the Stranglers ("Yeah, take it, Hugh!")

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 March 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

the dead milkmen "the pit"

"joe?"
"i don't know"

― bangor, Friday, 11 March 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Its another band, not their own, but the Falling Joys sang "and the clouds/fear the moon" in one song. The Clouds had a song at the same time called "Fear the Moon", I always assumed it was a dig or something.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 11 March 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

Another Dead Milkmen one: he says "hey Joe, whats happenin?" at the start of "Bitchin Camaro".

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 11 March 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

Actually bangor we're talking abt the same song - its "Bitchin Camaro" not "the Pit".

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 11 March 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

i bet you a nickel.

rodney does a roll-call...

"are you ready dave?"
"uh-huh"
....
"joe"
"i don't know"
well alright fellas let's go"
it's a heave and a ho and i love my baby so"
"meow meow woof woof meow woof"
doot doot diddly doot"
"this song's called "the pit"
"doot doo doodly doot"

― bangor, Friday, 11 March 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

I stand corrected! :D

I was thinking of:

"hey Joe, whats happenin?
Ah.. I dunno..
Well how about we go down to the shore?"

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 11 March 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

"Ballroom Blitz"...are your ready Steve....

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

""Something Better Change" by the Stranglers ("Yeah, take it, Hugh!")"

Now you mention it, I do seem to recall a "take it Dave", just before the keyboard solo....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Freddie Mercury did it on The Invisible Man. There's a bit where he shouts "Brian May!" and Brian leaps into a solo. And a bit where he shouts "Rrrrrrrroger Taylor!" and Rog blarts out a huge but shitty drum fill. And a bit where he sort of mumbles "John Deacon...?" and John doesn't seem to notice he's had his name called out. So nothing happens.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there something on the second Modern Lovers record, "New England" maybe, where during an instrumental break Jonathan says "me and Dave" and "me and Curley"?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

The Chameleons' cover of "John, I'm Only Dancing":

"REEEEEEEEEEEG, I'M ONLY DAAAANCIIIIIIIIIIING"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

In Orinoco Flow Enya says:

"We can steer, we can near
With Rob Dickins at the wheel"

Rob Dickins was her producer or something.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Boss of WEA innit

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 12 March 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

Dunno. Probably. Was she on WEA?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Saturday, 12 March 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

"Crazy Little Thing Called Love": "are you ready?" "ready Freddy!"

OK, it's the wrong-way-round, but still.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 13 March 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Peter Tripodi - Spot 1019

― Sweat Loaf (Sweat Loaf), Saturday, 21 October 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

aerosmith - f.i.n.e ("joe perry says i'm alright")

the end of megadeth's cover of paranoid ("nick! nick!")

megadeth - lucretia ("my friends all say 'dave, you're mental anyway', hey!"

sonic youth - providence

the last track on elephant by the white stripes...can't remember the name and couldn't be bothered checking the sleeve or lyrics sheet, something along the lines of "i love jack white like a little brother"

tenacious d obviously do it quite a lot

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Saturday, 21 October 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Faith No More - Cukoo For Caca ("Take it from our drummer Puff/Being good it gets you stuff.")

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Saturday, 21 October 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Zombies - "Friends of Mine" (Paul Atkinson is in one of the couples mentioned)

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

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