"She doesn't have to have her Young Fresh Fellows tape back now" - Your favorite name checks of other bands in songs

Inspired by that other thread, but easier because you don't need to think about what constitutes a cultural reference and what makes it bizarre.

"I love my sister/Why'd she go?/She's the one who would have taken me/To my first all-ages show
It was the Violent Femmes/and the Del Fuegos/Before they put a record out/Before they went gold and started to go"

"I got your body right now on my mind and I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T-Rex..."

"we went to see the Lovers, the Modern Lovers, and they were very good...."

"I like the Kinks, life stinks."

"so here i am, "alone with you", the sunnyboys god bless them, and god bless you"

"I was pretending that I was in a Galaxie 500 video"

everytime cobain awkwardly namechecked in hiphop

When do I get to sing "My Way"?
When do I get to feel like Sinatra felt?
When do I get to sing "My Way",
In heaven or hell?

So when do I get to do it "My Way"?
When do I get to feel like Sid Vicious felt?
When do I get to sing "My Way",
In heaven or hell?

IMO this is maybe the best, most poignant meta reference ever in pop music.

Thread title reminded me:

"Even those Young Fresh Fellows/don't sound too good tonight"

How about album titles?

"I see myself with headphones on /I'm listening to Wake of the Flood/Now I'm high"

How about song titles?
"Tell him what we said about Paint it Black"?

Vetiver - Idle Ties

"Put on a tape that you made for me,
It's got Marc Bolan and Vashti"

Oh also, that Vampire Weekend song with the mention of Peter Gabriel, Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa?

Well, I was curious if anyone (like me) read that line as "This feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel 2"?

Half Man Half Biscuit kinda rule this thread tbh

Yep, Nigel is so amazingly obscure too, "I was getting done up as a Mogul Thrash acetate"???

he even understands the words to Pavement songs

"listening to elliott smith / on compact disc / his third album / sounds pretty good"

"First the Fat Boys break up..."

"We hate punks, but we love the F.U.'s"
Dead Milkmen, "Tiny Town"

my stepfather looks like david bowie
he hates david bowie
i think bowie's cool
i think lodger rules
my stepdad's a fool

listening to the Higsons, whoa-oh
One night in November, whoa-oh...

'Turn up The Eagles, the neighbors are listening'

(the wife beating protagonist in Steely Dan's 'Everything You Did')

out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
nature kids, i/they don't have no function
I don't understand a thing they say
and I could really give a fuck

stone temple pilots, they're elegant bachelors

not really one of my faves, I just wanted to finish cutty's

spotlight on lou rawls y'all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Httn0SH5tY0&feature=related

Then they go to Rough Trade
To buy Siouxsie and the Banshees
They heard John Peel play it
Just the other night
They'd like to buy the O Level single
or Read about Seymour
But they're not pressed in red
So they buy The Lurkers instead

Here they come...

out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
nature kids, i/they don't have no function
I don't understand a thing they say
and I could really give a fuck

― bum-sniff deviant (cutty), Monday, December 28, 2009 12:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

stone temple pilots, they're elegant bachelors

― dmr, Monday, December 28, 2009 12:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

version on the european live lp has

"Kula Shaker in the Melody Maker/Pin-up stars, big big cars/But no tunes/Or should I say 'choooons?"

..."Wailers will be there
the damned, the jam, the clash"...

From station to station / back to Düsseldorf City / Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie

Midnight to six man
For the first time from Jamaica
Dillinger and Leroy Smart
Delroy Wilson, your cool operator

Virgin without a memory,
now's your chance to be free
of all those favorite bands you ditched for one that's grander:
No Use for a Name to The Make-Up...
it's all the same.
The singer not the song, no!
The singer not the song, no!
The singer not the song, no!

I don't think I fit into his indie world
Guided By Voices and Velocity Girl
Eric's Trip and Rocketship, Rancid, Rocket from The Crypt
Bikini Kill and Built to Spill, it's plain to see that I don't fit

He says my songs are too deep and gloomy
He wishes that I could be more like Jenny Toomey
Just give me my Joni, my Nick, Neil, and Bob
You can keep your Tsunami, your Slant 6 and Smog

What's the story? he says Butterglory
I say what's the news? he says the Silver Jews
His Heavenly hang-up is getting me down
And it's making me wonder why he's hanging around

Cause I don't fit into his indie scene
Huggy Bear and Helium and Half-Japanese
Momus and Matmos and The Mountain Goats
Sebadoh and Sentridoh and Superchunk and I don't know
Doug and Lou and Calvin too and Kim and Kim and Kim and Kim Thayil

Yeah I’m stuck in the past and he's stuck on his four-track
But I can't get through to his one-track mind
I push play and record and a major chord
Maybe I’ll win his heart this time
Maybe I’ll win his heart this time

Virgin without a memory,
now's your chance to be free
of all those favorite bands you ditched for one that's grander:
No Use for a Name to The Make-Up...
it's all the same.
The singer not the song, no!
The singer not the song, no!
The singer not the song, no!

― cajunsunday, Monday, December 28, 2009 3:15 PM

those who love zeppelin will soon betray floyd, i cast off these couplets in honor of the void

Momus and Matmos and The Mountain Goats

O_O

"To the sound of The World of Twist/you leaned over and gave me a kiss"

"Remember the old days/remember The O'Jays?"

SST, superstore
society, Screaming Skull
Lemonheads, superstore
society, SST
I'd go there, I don't care
I'll go there, it's just to stare
let's go there, it's just it's fair
I'll go there, Pat Smear

Superchunk, Society
Sunset Strip, Screaming Skull
society, Husker Du
Lemonheads, SST
I'd go there, but I don't care
I'll go there, it's just to stare
Let's go there, Sister's there
I'll go there, Pat Fear

society, superstore
SST, Lemonheads
Sunset strip, society
Screaming skull, Husker Du
I'd go there, but I don't care
I'll go there, it's just to stare
let's go there, it's just it's fair
I'll go there, Pat Smear

Momus and Matmos and The Mountain Goats

O_O

― kingkongvsgodzilla,

lolllllllllll

Started back in '83
Started seeing things a differently
And hardcore wasn't doin' it for me no more
Started smoking pot
Thought things sounded better slow
Much slower, heavier
Black magic melody to sink this poseur's soul

VU Stooges undeniably cool
Took a lesson from that drone rock school
Manipulate musicians hack righteous drool
Getting loose with the Pussy Galore
Cracking jokes like a Thurston Moore
Peddle hopping like a Dinosaur, J...

Rock and Roll genius, ride the middle of the road
Milk that sound, blow your load
Shoot it further than you ever said it go
Four stars in the Rolling Stone

Oooh sludge rock,
That's hard as harsh
Just gimme indie rock!
It's gone big
Come on indie rock
Just give me indie rock

Taking inspiration from Husker Du
It's a new generation
Of electric white boy blues
Come on indie rock
It's gone big
Come on indie rock
Just give me indie rock

Breaking down the barriers
Like Sonic Youth
They got what they wanted
Maybe I can get what I want too
Come on indie rock
It's gone big
Come on indie rock
Just give me indie rock

Time to knock
The hard rock on it's side
Time to knock
The shit right up a storm
Turn to amaze
With the indie sludge
Grunge!
Aaah!

Do you know Frank Sinatra?
He's dead. Dead! Ahahahahahaha.

we did the sangre de stephanie / right into the stephanie says

you got a bong you called the babylon / picked the name up from a bad brains song

he said 'sex makes you smart', he said 'drugs make you dumb'
queued the record up to 'comfortably numb'

"I listened to the Beach Boys just a minute ago. Wild Honey. It's not the best album but it's still pretty good. They got lots of funny little love songs on there. It's not mainly a Brian Wilson production, so it's probably not as good as something like... Pet Sounds. Ooooh, I'm goin' totally round the bend." - the beta band

Here's another indie rock one for y'all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhCoDd21QpE

Sweet Soul Music

Do you like good music
That sweet soul music
Just as long as it's swingin'
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Out here on the floor now
We're going to a go go
Ah, dancin' to the music
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on Lou Rawls y'all
Ah, don't he look tall y'all
Singin' loves a hurtin' thing now
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on Sam and Dave now
Ah, don't they look boss y'all
Singin' hold on I'm comin'
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on Wilson Pickett
That wicked picket Pickett
Singin' Mustang Sally
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on Otis Redding now
Singing fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on James Brown now
He's the king of them all, yeah
He's the king of them all, yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
One step behind the drum style
One step behind the drum style

Carol Rama and Eleanor Antin
Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneeman
You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but
Don't give a damn I'm listening anyway

Stop, don't you stop
I can't live if you stop
Don't you stop

Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto
Leslie Feinberg and Faith Ringgold
Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham
Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man
Don't stop

Don't you stop
We won't stop
Don't you stop

So many roads and so much opinion
So much shit to give in, give in to
So many rules and so much opinion
So much bullshit but we won't give in

Stop, we won't stop
Don't you stop
I can't live if you stop

Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney
Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O'Grady
Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis
Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison

Stop, don't you stop
Please don't stop
We won't stop

Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Cuttin Candy, David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tammy Hart, The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sissler, Shirley Muldowney, Urvashi Vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin, Diane Dimassa, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem, Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking, Cecilia Dougherty, Ariel Skrag, The Need, Vaginal Creme Davis, Alice Gerard, Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles

Oh no no no don't stop stop

"We had a party three years later
Clean Steve wore a robe
He brought a new Nick Lowe cassette
And played it in the road"
--Robyn Hitchcock, "Clean Steve"

and don't you think we should kiss, while the Husker Du is playing
Do you like Grant Hart songs?
Do you like Bob Mould songs?
and have you ever sung along with New Day Rising?

babababa, bababababa, bababababa, bababababa, bababababa, lalalalala

oh, it's all just indie rock

I hear the radio is finally gonna
play new music, you know, the
British invasion." But what about
The Minutemen, Flesh Eaters, DOA,
Big Boys. And Black Flag? Will
the last American band to get played
on the radio please bring the flag?

meet me by the water, underneath that big beehive
bring your record player and your raincoats 45s

("meet me by the water," saturday looks good to me)

"He's got six different flannel shirts
Airwalks not thongs
He even understands the words to Pavement songs
He's got his new guitar toys
He loves Smudge and the Beastie Boys"

-Ben Lee, 'I Wish I Was Him'

I was in France
Or Switzerland
In a store looking out on a cobblestoned street in a quaint village
I had received a toy xylophone in the mail, it was sent by David Bowie
Saying to come visit him at his recording studio
But it was a form letter
With my name stamped on it
Apparently he had sent many people the same xylophone
With the same request
Saying that he was working on a new record
And anybody with some ideas should come and visit him.
I thought "yeah
he'll take everybody's ideas and then we'll never hear from him again".

-Bongwater

Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her
Well I heard ole Neil put her down
Well I hope Neil Young will remember
A southern man don't need him around anyhow

Momus and Matmos and The Mountain Goats

O_O

― kingkongvsgodzilla,

lolllllllllll

― tacoma chameleon (electricsound), Monday, December 28, 2009 5:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

guhh?

Well billy rapped all night about his suicide.
Said he could kick it in the head when he was 25.
Speed jive. Don't wanna stay alive when your 25.
And Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks And Sparks.
And Freddie's got spots from ripping of the stars.
From his face. Funky little boat race.
The television man is crazy.
Saying we're juvenile delequent wrecks.
I need TV when I got T-Rex?

...

Well Billy's looking sweat cuz he dresses like a queen.
But he can kick like a mule it's a real mean team.
But we can love. Ahh yes. We can love.
And my father's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones.
He never got it off with that revolution stuff.
What a drag. Too many snags.
Well I drunk alot of wine and I'm feeling fine.
I'm gonna raise some kind of bet.
Oh man, is this concrete all around or is it in my head.

"I wish I had a thousand bucks, I wish I was the Royal Trux"

They don't play Slint on the radio
They don't play Sentridoh
They don't play Zappa
They don't play Beefheart
They don't play Can
They don't play The Residents
They don't even play
Renaldo and the Loaf
The Velvet Underground
Or Bongos Bass and Bob,
They don't play Wesley Willis Oh No,
They don't play the Stacatto Reeds Oh No,
They don't play The Shag's Oh No,
Sometimes they will play Devo.

'police me' by the sugargliders references both roddy frame ('just like roddy says it's there until it goes away') and the housemartins' "flag day" ('some might say that flag day reads like fifth form poetry')

'by his side' by tender engines also throws out a roddy frame ref among others. gee i wonder if summershine bands were into postcard records at all

All your favorite songs wouldn't seem so sad
If you weren't so depressed
Elliott Smith seems like a mess to me
And you cry way too easily.

I can't cry, I can't apply a word to sum it up
Under stress I can't repress the moment it erupts
Hear the sound of paper drums and shredded paper voice
Got to turn up 'Keep Hanging On' as if I had a choice
Prairie fires and pitchfork choirs inspire as they create
Turn it up, It's too far down, until we can relate
Minnesota New Day Rising first day in the store
Take the couch at someone's house and wait around to score
Nervous children making millions: you owe it all to them
Power trios with big-ass deals: you opened for it then
I can see, I can see, I can see it all with my one good eye
For a start take two Grant Harts and call me when you die

I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.

But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra, Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc, Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.

You don't know what you really want. (x15)

Both guitars got the fuzz tone on
The drummer's standing upright pounding along
A howl, a tone, a feedback whine
Biker boys meet the college kind
How in the world were they making that sound?
Velvet Underground.

A dinosaur Victrola
Listening to Buck Owens

"whoah, look out, here i come!"
"michael
jackson ... look what you've done!"

michael jackson

"you've spattered mud
all over my dress with
your old bicycle!"

paul mccartney and michael jackson

"gee carol, those mud
stains'll never wash out."

bruce springsteen

"oh, jean, what am i going to do?"

van halen

"oh, i'm sorry, carol,
you were too close."

tina turner

"sorry? what good does that do?"

david boowie

"you know you aren't
supposed to be riding
your bike during lunch
hour."

prince
madonna
huey lewis and the news
the cars
herbie hancock
bonnie tyler
zz top
"weird" al yankovic
cyndi ... looper
pink floyd
the pretenders
billy joel
billy idol
elton john
neil young
sheena easton
john lennon
the alan parsons project
rick springfield
the rolling stones
pat benatar
hall and oates
adam ant
queen
john cougar mellencamp
fleetwood mac
duran duran
police
eurythmics
culture club including boy george
kenny rogers
stevie wonder
j. iglesias and diana ross
donna summer
dean martin
kiss
and we especially call
for the judgment in this
hour and the
destroying of
rock music directed
specifically against
children
and working specifically
through these
individuals
for whom we call for the
judgment in the sacred
fire in this hour
before
the throne of almighty god

"whoah, look out, here i come!"

David Bowie!
David Bowie!
David Bowie!
David Bowie!

UB40!
UB40!
UB40!
UB40!

As you masturbate with your Shaun Ryder face

I hate the guts of Shakin' Stevens for what he has done, the massacre of Blue Christmas, on him I'd like to land one on.

Lloyd Cole's brain and face are made of cowpat
We all know that.

phony beatlemania has bitten the dust

I can't cry, I can't apply a word to sum it up
Under stress I can't repress the moment it erupts
Hear the sound of paper drums and shredded paper voice
Got to turn up "Keep Hanging On" as if I had a choice

Prairie fires and pitchfork choirs inspire as they create
Turn it up, it's too far down, until we can relate
Minnesota new day rising first day in the store
Take the couch at someone's house and wait around to score

Nervous children making millions: you owe it all to them
Power trios with big-ass deals: you opened for it then
I can see, I can see, I can see it all with my one good eye
For a start take two Grant Harts and call me when you die

ctrl-f grant hart

phony beatlemania has bitten the dust

― dmr, Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:33 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is probably my least favorite name check.

"R.A.M.O.N.E.S." - Motorhead

"Motorhead" - Primal Scream

and Eubank wins the fight,
and did you see the KLF last night?

you are my best friend
you are my rock and roller
you are my engineer
you can really rock into rush hour
steve albini
steve albini
steve albini
steve albini
you are a nice man
you sing for the band shellac
you are my rock and roll musician
you can really whoop it up while whooping a horse's ass keeper on the right track
steve albini
steve albini
steve albini
steve albini
you engineered the in utero record for nirvana
you are the miracle mind's touch
you are my favorite man with the midas touch
you are on my side with the midas touch
steve albini
steve albini
steve albini
steve albini
rock over london; rock on chicago
holland furniture--you will like our style

gbv: "come on over tonight, we'll put on some cat butt & do it up right"

'you'll dance to anything, by the smiths' - you'll dance to anything - dead milkmen
'lying in bed, just like brian wilson did' - some song by that canadian band
'i check up on the scores, i listen to the corrs' - dear bernard, please lock yourself in the studio and write an all electronic instrumental album.

"We went to a shopping mall and laughed at all the shoppers
And security guards trailed us to a record shop
We asked for Mojo Nixon, they said "He don't work here"
We said "If you don't have Mojo Nixon, then your store could use some fixin'"

When The Beatles Hit America by John Wesley Harding has lots of refs.

and the jay-z song was on
and the britney song was on
its a party in the usa

"As a child I used to be obsessed with Pale Saints / In a shop of art supplies among the sale paints"

and the jay-z song was on
and the britney song was on
its a party in the usa

― ice cr?m, Friday, January 1, 2010 2:30 AM (3 hours ago)

Oh hell yea. I don't even know any Jay-Z songs and I love this reference.

Apparently neither does Miley. Anyway this reference from The National was quite timely coming a few months before they actually did reform:

"You’ve been humming in a daze forever
Praying for Pavement to get back together"

It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar
Where do we take it from here
Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars
We've been the same way for years
We need to change

Somebody told me when I got to Nashville
Son you finally got it made
Old Hank made it here, we’re all sure that you will
But I don't think Hank done it this way
I don't think Hank done it this way

Ten years down the road, making one night stands
Speeding my young life away
Tell me one more time just so I understand
Are you sure Hank done it this way
Did Ol' Hank really do it this way?

I've seen the world with a five piece band
Looking at the back side of me
Singing my songs and one of his now and then
But I don't think Hank done 'em this a'way
No I don't think Hank done 'em this a'way

come on, come on, come on, do it
just like... husker du

and the jay-z song was on
and the britney song was on
its a party in the usa

― ice cr?m, Friday, January 1, 2010 2:30 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

LOL Joe you <3 it.

Also it has been bugging me for days what the quote in the title was from. I knew that I knew it but couldn't place it. lol. Tru confessions - I was a teenage TMBG fan.

noddin my head like yeah!
moving my hips like yeah!

Look what you’ve done
How could you go out and watch the show without me
You know that Portastatic is still my favourite band
Am I alone or are you with me
Me with you, what ever
Could you tell me just one more time
I just don’t understand

Am I a child or just a crayon in your filthy hand

Look what you’ve done
How could you do it
You left me behind again
I feel so empty
Should I think that something is wrong
Should I try to do a thing about it
As the band plays on

Look what I’ve done
How could I do it
I left you behind this time
Even though I know that Sebadoh is still your favourite band
I’m not laughing but I thought I would be
Wouldn’t you be laughing at me
As the band played on

-The Gerbils, "Crayon Box"

Like the flowers, like the bees
Like the woodlands and the trees
I like the Byrds on their LP's
And I'm a refugee

I've got "Falling and Laughing"
The original Postcard version
I've got The Pastels' "Songs For Children"
Sky Saxon's solo albums

You want it, I've got it
I'm talking bout everything
All the Velvet Underground records
On tape

etc.

...then Richard, Richard said, "Hey man, let's dress up like cops - think of what we could do!"

mr. narrator this is bob dylan to me my story could be his songs i'm his soldier child our band is scientist rock but i was e. bloom, richard hell, joe strummer, and john doe me and mike watt, playing guitar

It was song number three on John's last CD,
I'm going to make it through this year if it kills me
And it almost killed me
And song number four on that first D4, you want the scars but you don't want the war
Now that's just hardcore
These kids are clever to the core

"When the world falls apart some things stay in place/She takes off the 4 Tops tape and puts it back in its case/And when the world falls apart some things stay in place/ Levi Stubbs' tears run down his face" -Billy Bragg