Songs that namecheck film directors

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Surely someone like Lloyd Cole or the Go Betweens have dropped a reference to Truffaut or Kubrick or someone...

― time of an exile, Monday, 16 January 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Fugazi - "Cassavettes"

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Gettin' the easy one out of the way:
Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" - Akira Kurosawa

― jonviachicago, Monday, 16 January 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
You asked for the latest party
With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump
Dressed like a priest you was
Tod Browning's freak you was

― jz, Monday, 16 January 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Songs about filmmakers

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

king missile: "martin scorsese"!

fuck, i haven't thought about that song in years.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick

― nate woolls (napawo), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

"What Fassbinder film is it?"

Laurie Anderson: White Lily

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

le tigre - what's yr take on jon williams

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Le Tigre-What yr take on Cassavettes

― WillS, Monday, 16 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

MX-80 Sound, "Orson"
Angel Corpus Christi, "John Cassavettes"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 16 January 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

ra the rugged man "stanley kubrick"

― drknbbs, Monday, 16 January 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Like Kurosawa I make mad films
Okay, I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a Samurai

Bare Naked Ladies (pasted form lyrics site)

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

ok, and now to wash the taste of what I just posted out of our mouths:

Clientele - Joseph Cornell
John Zorn - Godard
Stereolab - Brakhage

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Manic Street Preachers must have a couple, except the only one I can think of right now is a line about Werner Herzog from "The Convalescent" on "Know Your Enemy".

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of some off the top of my head, but I bet Sonic Youth have done it a few times.

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Max Tundra - Gondry

― Bn1 (Bn1), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

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