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10 songs that namecheck albums (by others) in the lyrics?

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Only one I can think of is Smog's hilarious namecheck of Lou Reed's Mistrial in "Stick in the Mud"...this is a tough one

― douglas eklund (skolle), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

You know me I'm acting dumb-dumb, you know the scene it's very hum drum, and my favorite song's entitled boredom.

― Michael Paradis (MParadis), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

who's that

― douglas eklund (skolle), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

... the second side of till the band comes in...

― terry ted (terry ted), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

Elliott Smith's 'Baby Britain': '...Revolver's been turned over...'

xpost = Buzzcocks

― Bill E (bill_e), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Johnny Rivers / Summer Rain

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent! Thanks

― douglas eklund (skolle), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

raytracer - emperor x (either/or)
losing my edge (of course) - lcd soundsystem (about 50)

― Lucas Pine (Ignatius), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

Pavement - "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence" (R.E.M. - Chronic Town and Reckoning)

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Friday, 7 July 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

i think bowie's cool
i think lodger rules
my stepdad's a fool
- built to spill, "distopian dream girl"

― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 7 July 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

the roommate album "songs the animals taught us" namechecks ocean songs by the dirty three. I think it's that album anyways.

― badg (badg), Friday, 7 July 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

Another R.E.M. reference...Destroyer's "Watercolours Into The Ocean" quotes the first line of "Losing My Religion."

"Oh, life - it's bigger..."

― B. Waxwing (axelav), Friday, 7 July 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

The Beta Band - "Round the Bend"

"Listened to the Beach Boys just a minute ago, Wild Honey. It's not the best album, but it's still pretty good. Got some funny little love songs on there...but it's not mainly a Brian Wilson production, so it's probably not as good as something like...Pet Sounds."

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 7 July 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Soft Cell "It's A Mugs Game"

"Deep Purple In Rock, Led Zeppelin II - well even you hate those.."

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 7 July 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

Pulp - Bad Cover Version "... the second side of 'Til The Band Comes In'"

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 7 July 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

Pavement's Range Life (sorta):

Out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
nature kids, they don't have no function
I don't understand what they mean
and I could really give a fuck.
The Stone Temple Pilots,
they're elegant bachelors
they're foxy to me are they foxy to you?
I will agree they deserve absolutely nothing
nothing more than me

― smn (smn), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, namechecking other bands and their songs can go on forever, but referring to albums much rarer...

― douglas eklund (skolle), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

Great example:

"Listening to Being With You, and High Land Hard Rain,
I turned the record player over again."

Spearmint, "A Third Of My Life"

― darren (darren), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

The Fall must have done it, but I can't think of an example off the top of my head

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

I always assumed Blur's "country house" was checking the (was it yet released?) new Oasis album:
he's got morning glory, life's a different story
everything's going jackanory

― permanent revolution (cis), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Bought another copy of Xoso; seeds were busting up the spine."

Nod Scene is by Monster Magnet (the song later namechecks Fragile in the same context)

"37 push ups in a winter-rate, seaside motel.
I feel like Travis Bickle, I'm listening to Highway to Hell."

37 Push Ups is by Smog

Ahhh, fuck. There's some tune by some indie something-or-other band that includes the question, "Favorite side of Daydream Nation?" with the gang-shout comeback (of course), "Four!"

But I have no fuggin' clue what the song is or who does it.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Stretching it...

"You were right when you said
We are all just bricks in The Wall"

You Were Right is by Built to Spill

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Howbout EPs? Ice Cube disses N.W.A.'s "100 Miles & Running" EP in "When Will They Shoot?": "Cause I bust styles, new styles / Standing strong while others run 100 miles"

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

it's 'xmas trip' by run on - "second side of daydream nation worn out" - or are you thinking of something else? GREAT SONG 'xmas trip'!

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I is Run On...

Don't think so, though. Think it's something I own and have listened to recently. And I'm right fresh out of Run On.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

In "You Better You Bet", The Who reference their own album:

"...to the sound of old T.Rex, and Who's Next...."

― musicjohn73 (musicjohn73), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was a Cocteau Twins song that talked about listening to "A Love Supreme"

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Nada Surf's "Blonde on Blonde" may be the quintessential etc.

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

The Game, "The Documentary"
The chorus namechecks Ready to Die, Reasonable Doubt, The Chronic, Doggystyle, Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me, Illmatic, as well as his own album.

― Hunteer (hunteer), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there a Loudon Wainwright song about Bob Dylan wherein he references several lps ("Self-Portrait? Well, it was interesting....")?

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Checkin' out some Fromme, some Sartre, Camus
Mingus's Ah Um, damn Roach can drum"

Pacifics is by Diggable Planets

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

"And the morning Scotch, of another Sunday over
A miserable Scottish hotel,
Resembled a Genesis or Marillion, 1973 LP cover"
-The Fall, Guest Informant

― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! I knew there would be a Fall track!

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Beulah allude to Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs in "Popular Mechanics for Lovers"

I heard he wrote you a song
But so what?
Some guy wrote sixty-nine...

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

"There's a D.H.S.S. Volvo estate
Right outside my door
With a Moody Blues cassette on the dashboard"
-The Fall, Room to Live

― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

"I used to have this thing about Link Wray
I used to play him every Saturday
God bless Saturday
God bless Saturday"
-The Fall, Neighbourhood of Infinity

― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Soundtracks
Soundtracks mulched together
The lights, the lights above you"

I am Damo Suzuki is by The Fall

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oasis - "Be Here Now"

"Sing a song for me
One from Let It Be"

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember whether the Small Factory song "Versus Tape" was about a particular Versus album or not.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

"I played Love Tara by Eric's Trip

― Graeme Danko (summer teeth), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

"I played Love Tara by Eric's Trip on the day that you were born"
-"Put it Off" by Tragically Hip
They obviously didn't want anyone to miss this reference...

― Graeme Danko (summer teeth), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

tell your dad get off my back/
tell him what we said 'bout "Paint It Black"
-Big Star "Thirteen"

Also, that Hootie song, i think it's 'Only wanna be with you' where he sings that dylan verse.

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Saturday, 8 July 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Dismemberment Plan - Ellen And Ben

"Ellen had my copy of Nebraska..."

― Fergus Brady (Fergs), Saturday, 8 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Jay-Z - Takeover

"The other was Illmatic - that's a one hot album every ten year average"

― Fergus Brady (Fergs), Saturday, 8 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Cash Brothers--Nebraska

"I'm just driving around, listening to Nebraska"

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 8 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I'd never say that I bought Nevermind
and it changed my life some fifteen years ago.
- Herman Dune, Not on Top

― mayhaps (mayhaps), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Nerf Herder's novelty alt.hit "Van Halen" probably racks up the most such references per song:

"I bought Van Halen I, it was the best damn record I ever owned"
"I bought Women & Children First, Fair Warning, and Van Halen II"
"1984, my favorite record, yeah, I wore it down"

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 9 July 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

London calling, speak the slang now
Boys say wha' gwan girls say wha'
Wha' slam, galang galang galang

etc.

― Aditya (dan138zig), Sunday, 16 July 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

"It was a blockbuster summer, Moving Pictures got us through..."

The Hold Steady--The Swish

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

"Sold all your punk rock records /
Read the book instead /
You lost your sense of humour /
But you kept The Queen Is Dead"

Sleeper - "You Dress Like Your Mother"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Brother's in Arms mentioned by Malkmus on that 1st solo reocrd.

― Will (will), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Brother's Brothers

― Will (will), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yo La Tengo's "Drug Test" has the line "I was listening to Wake Of The Flood."

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jason Anderson has a line where he talks about how he's listening to Elliott Smith's second album and it sounds pretty incredible, but I can't dig up the exact song/lyric at the moment.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

And why do you sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to you
Why do you sing with me at all?

Damien Rice- "Delicate"

I always assumed that this was a reference to Buckley's version of the song. I think he is a big fan.

Hey Steve! It's funny to see a familiar face around here.

― Keith White (tkeithwhite), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

I hate to say this, but the Barenaked Ladies "Brian Wilson" has the lyric "Just listening and relistening to Smiley Smile."

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

"Hard Times
Sucker MCs
Jay's Game
Thirty Days
Wake Up
Hollis Crew
Rock Box
It's Like That
I love you still
I always will"

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 29 July 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

"I won't ask a question you can't answer
Like 'Do you remember All Shook Down?'
At one time, it was your favorite record
Now it's broken; not around"

from some song by the New Amsterdams (the acoustic side project of the dude from the Get-Up Kids... what can I say, I was young and foolish. but even back then, I always found the notion that [i]All Shook Down[/i] could even be someone's favorite 'Mats album vaguely ridiculous)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 29 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

urgh bracketfuckery

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 29 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

"That's when I saw her, ooh! I saw her,
She walked In Through the Out Door, out door"

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Cornelius - 'Thank You For The Music'

"I hope that the next time we meet, we'll be Smiley Smile."

― Headspin (Barima), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of the Beach Boys, I wrote a song called "To Jane Gallagher" with the lines:

"I need a girl, not your average type of smart / who knows all of Pet Sounds by heart"

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure how this fits in, but English band The Chap have a song called 'Emerson, Lake And Palmer'. Lordy.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

"Reject" By Green Day checks Reject All American by Bikini Kill

"So when the smoke clears here I am.
Your reject all-American."

― Penelope Gilbert (shalimarsunset), Sunday, 30 July 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

"On Tape" by the Pooh Sticks, which checks the Monkee's "Head" soundtrack, the Velvet Underground, Mighty Mighty, and the Pastel's "Song's For Children" ("The original Postcard version..")

The whole song is about namechecking with the title being the punchline of the joke.

― Max Hechter (Max), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)


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