Songs that mention filmmakers

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1. Laurie Anderson, "The Dream Before" (..."he had a part in a Fassbinder film")

2. Magnetic Fields, "Busby Berkeley Dreams"

3. Le Tigre, "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes"

....?

― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

4. Barenaked Ladies, "One Week" (like Kurosawa I make mad films)

― jedidiah (jedidiah), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

5. Saint Joan - "Klaus Kinski" (yes it counts, not merely because he attempted to take credit for most of his work with Herzog, but also because I think you'll find he has directed stuff, so there)

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Songs about filmmakers

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

"Richard [Linklater] said 'withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy'" -- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" REM

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

6. King Missile, Martin Scorses

This one' called Martin Scorsese
He makes the best fucking films
He makes the best fucking films
If I ever meet him I'm gonna grab his fuckin' neck and just shake him
And say thank you thank you for makin' such excellent fuckin' movies
Then I'd twist his nose all the way the fuck around
And then rip off one of his ears and throw it
Like a... like a.. like a fuckin' frisbee
I wanna chew his fuckin' lips off and grab his head and suck out one of his eyes
and chew on it and spit it out in his face
And say thank you thank you for all of your fuckin' films
Then I'd pick him up by the hair swing him over my head a few times
And throw him across the room and kick all his fuckin' teeth in and then
stomp on his face 40 or 50 times
'cuz he makes the best fucking films he makes the best fucking films
I've ever seen in my life
I fuckin' love him
I fuckin' love him

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there a band called Fellini?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

The Comet Gain: Movies

Too many to list, but one line that springs to mind is "What's your favorite Hitchcock?"

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

pixies - debaser

references a bunuel film, un chien andalou

― steve steveman, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Beastie Boys - Sure Shot, John Woo

― DJMonsterMo, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

David Bowie - "Andy Warhol"

― Anne Tarpey (anne t), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

MC Paul Barman - "Salvation Barmy"
("My pissed off Jimbrowski turned three colors like Krystof Kieslowski.")

― Jimmy_tango, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

There's a song in the musical Hair that name-checks several: "Believes he's Fellini and Antonioni and even his countryman Roman Polanski."

(About the earlier thread--damn. I searched for "directors" when it was going to be about songs that mention directors, then I changed my mind at the last minute, going with the broader "filmmakers," in case there's a song about a producer or, hell, key grip out there somewhere.)

― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

"Cassavetes" by Fugazi

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

i feel like Destroyer mentions one or two somewhere...

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

-RA The Rugged Man - "Stanley Kubrick"
-Smut Peddlers - "Bottom Feeders" (Cage talks about his dog, which he named Kubrick)
-Whatever Freestyle Fellowship song has the line about "Our battered love to its bloody pulp fiction was Tarantino-esque."
-Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood"
-GZA and Meth - "Shadowboxing" ("Johnny Blazin', nightmares like Wes Craven")

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Ooooh, "Clint Eastwood" is a good one.

― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

The Upsetters - Clint Eastwood

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Of Montreal - "Rapture Rapes the Muses"

"You hit me so hard/ Like a Wong Kar Wai beginning..."

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

i feel like Destroyer mentions one or two somewhere...

"Virgin With a Memory" ("was it the movie or the making of Fitzcarraldo")

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Wow! Is that Of Montreal line a joke? It really stinks

― snotty moore, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

That song by Cork-based sensations FRED, where they mention how they have Stanley Kubrick seasons up in Dublin.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

no, that Of Montreal line is real... to continue the rhyme "I'm exploding inside/ my equilibrium's spinning." actually a great, great song, but pretty dumb lyrics throughout.

and yeah, COL1N B, thanks for the Destroyer reference i was looking for...

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Frank Black, "The Jacques Tati"

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

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