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In the same vein as the "Songs About Other Songs" thread, howzabout Bands that Sing about other bands? Whether outright, thinly veiled or cleverly hidden.....

"Velvet Underground" by Jonathan Richman
"R.A.M.O.N.E.S." by Motorhead
"The Magnificent" by the Professionals (about John Lydon/Pil)
"How Do You Sleep" by John Lennon (about Paul McCartney)
"Stacked Actors" by the Foo Fighters (about Courtney Love)
"Alex Chilton" by the Replacements

....others?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 October 2002 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"...but they got 2.50 to go and see the Clash."

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 4 October 2002 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Atom & His Package - "Pumping Iron For Enya"
Meatmen - "One Down Three To Go" (still waiting for the sequel in light of George Harrison's death)
Screeching Weasel - "I Hate Led Zeppelin"
Fish Karma - "She Likes To Make Love To Led Zeppelin"
Chixdiggit! - "Henry Rollins Is No Fun"
Anal Cunt - "Richard Butler" (and many, many others)
Television Personalities - "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives" (ditto)
House of Love - "Beatles and Stones"
Unrest - "Cath Carroll"
Sebadoh - "Gimme Indie Rock" (lotsa name checking)
Tullycraft - "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About" (more namechecking)
Wayne County - "Max's Kansas City 1976" (even more namechecking)
Barbara Manning - "Mark E. Smith and Brix"
Eastern Dark - "Johnny and Dee Dee"
Helen Love - "Joey Ramoney"

and oh so many more ...
keith

np: Geno Washington

― zaxxon25, Friday, 4 October 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"Amy Grant" by Young Fresh Fellows
"This Corrosion" by Sisters of Mercy (supposedly about former Sister Wayne Hussey)
"Blood Brother" by the Mission (supposedly about Ian Astbury of the Cult)

"Trash" by Robyn Hitchcock is about someone specific, and is rather scathing. Anyone have an idea? I've heard possibly Dave Vanian of the Damned.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Dandy Warhols - "Cool as Kim Deal"
The Posies - "Grant Hart"
Drive-By Truckers - "Ronnie and Neil" (about Skynyrd and Neil Young)
The Donnas - "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"
Barenaked Ladies - "Be My Yoko Ono"

By the way, every single angry-type song the Foo Fighters have released are speculated to be about Courtney Love.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually Sleater-Kinney did "I Wanna Be Yr Joey Ramone" (Donnas -- was that a cover or a joke on Kenny's part?).

― wl (wl), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Sloan "Iggy and Angus"
East River Pipe "Iggy or Axl"
Blues Explosion "Orange" (James Brown tribute)
Brian Jonestown Massacre "(David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six"
Warlocks "Song For Nico"

(Bound to be millions more. Hip hop shout-outs/diss songs alone are a whole motherlode for this kind of endeavor.)

Also, this guy who busks down in Santa Monica, doing James Taylor songs in the style of James Taylor -- he wrote a song about James Taylor. Hott stuff.

― wl (wl), Friday, 4 October 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary Lou Lord - "His Indie World"..namechecks just about every prominent band active around '94

― rms (rms), Friday, 4 October 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Wesley Willis does a few well constructed tributes.

'Something to du' replacements
'jonny's gonna die' ditto(thunders)
'police car' Cockney Rejects (sham 69)
'tonyage' descendents (fear & germs)

I must find better things to do on a friday night.
Respect.

― 2 old, Friday, 4 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

How could I forget.........?
'Morrisey rides a cockhorse' Warlock Pinchers

'crybaby sonofabitch
no talent motherfucker
baggy shirted
depressed
Dean loving bonehead'

CLASS

― 2 old, Friday, 4 October 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Magnificent" by the Professionals (about John Lydon/Pil)"

I guessed right then Alex?! ;~)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 4 October 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"They want to buy the O'Levels single
Or Read About Seymour
But it's not pressed in red
So they buy the Lurkers instead"

Part Time Punks - Television Personalities (thanks Jodie)

"The king is gone
but he's not forgotten
This is the story
of a Johnny Rotten
It's better to burn out
than it is to rust
The king is gone
but he's not forgotten"

My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) - Neil Young

"Pictures of Strummer that fell from the wall
And nothing was left where they hung"

Walk Out To Winter - Aztec Camera

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 4 October 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis" - Kirst MacColl

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 4 October 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"Stacked Actors" by the Foo Fighters (about Courtney Love)
Also Mudhoney's "Into Yr Shtick" [sp?]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Pavement, "Range Life." On a related note, the Afghan Whigs' "Omerta" ("sounds like a Stone Temple Pilots sob story to me").

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 4 October 2002 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Sore Throat singing about DRI and how they'll "burn the fuckers down".

― Lek Dukagjin, Friday, 4 October 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"about a boy" by the go-betweens (tom verlaine and patti smith)

"smoke on the water" by deep purple (frank zappa and the mothers)

"southern man" lynard skynard's (failed) attempt at a riposte to neil young.

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 4 October 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

no no NO. Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" in response to Neil Young's "Southern Man."

My non-contentious contribution to this thread is They Might Be Giants "Hi! We're the Replacements". Actually a very funny song.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 4 October 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"Omerta" also name-checks Nas.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 5 October 2002 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i apologize, of course...

― mike (ro)bott, Saturday, 5 October 2002 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Beulah has a Stephen Merritt reference: "I hear he wrote you a song, but so what. Some guy wrote sixty-nine. And one just ain't enough."

― Steph (Steph), Saturday, 5 October 2002 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroyer - "Make Up and No Use For A Name." those two in one track!

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Saturday, 5 October 2002 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

another pavement namecheck song - "unseen power of the picket fence" (all about, erm, REM).

― mbosa, Saturday, 5 October 2002 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"met her at the hawkwind show" by monoshock

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Saturday, 5 October 2002 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Redd Kross:
Elephant Flares (BTO)
Shonen Knife
Debbie & Kim (Kim Gordan and Debbie Gibson)

Sonic Youth, "Screaming Skull" (Superchunk, Lemonheads, Husker Du, Pat Smear)
Shonen Knife, "Redd Kross"

― Underclocked, Saturday, 5 October 2002 07:10 (twenty-three years ago)

a couple songs sitting on my hard drive that would fit the favourite opening lyrics thread as well:

"singing along with joni mitchell/as his face went through the windshield of a '67 chevrolet..." snfu - joni mitchell tapes

"don't play your fucking cds/stupid bjork and plastic cher..." nazis from mars - girl from another world.

― brian badword (badwords), Saturday, 5 October 2002 07:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Arthur Conley's "Sweet Soul Music" gives a litany, Cheap Trick's "Surrender" namechecks KISS to good effect, Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen" mentions Aretha Franklin to bittersweet effect, T. Rex and/or Marc Bolan have been mentioned too many times to be mentioned. Don't even get started on hip-hop....

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 5 October 2002 07:52 (twenty-three years ago)

(erm, Kim Gordon)

― Underclocked, Saturday, 5 October 2002 07:59 (twenty-three years ago)

spearmint - the flaming lips
teenage fanclub - that first song on bandwagonesque that goes "says she's gonna buy some records by the status quo..."

― joan vich (joan vich), Saturday, 5 October 2002 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

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

― Venga, Saturday, 5 October 2002 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

honeyrider's 'you made me hate the beach boys' it's a cover but i have neverheard the original. and actually it's not really about the beach boys, so nevermind.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 5 October 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Moldy Peaches - "D2 Boyfriend"

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has a great song that talks about the joy of listening to the Cure's Faith and 17 Seconds. And before those who hate complain, it is done in the style of the Mag Fields if anybody, and thus you would be singing alone happily until you realized what you were singing, and then you would be angry with yourself. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 October 2002 03:51 (twenty-three years ago)

bubble gum music by the rock and roll dubble bubble trading card company of philadelphia 19141.

― brian badword (badwords), Sunday, 6 October 2002 04:08 (twenty-three years ago)

smog's "prince alone in the studio" !

― brian badword (badwords), Sunday, 6 October 2002 04:11 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't tori's "professional widow" also about courtney ?

― V, Sunday, 6 October 2002 04:14 (twenty-three years ago)

John Cale-"Mr. Wilson"

Also, more Redd Kross-"St. Lita Ford Blues", "Janus, Jeanie & George Harrison".

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 6 October 2002 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Beck has a couple on Stereopathetic Soulmanure, namely "Ozzy" (which is pretty obvious) and "Rollins Power Sauce" (which is almost completely incoherent but involves lots of guttural yelling so I can only assume it is about Hank).

The Dead Kennedys' "Pull My Strings" mocks the Knack in one of its choruses ("drool drool drool drool drool -- MY PAYOLA!")

Favorite Zappa title in this regard: "Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue".

― Nate Patrin, Sunday, 6 October 2002 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Lightning Bolt have songs named "St. Jaques" and "Forcefield." "St. Jaques" is, I assume, about Dan St. Jaques from Landed, Three Hydrogen Terrors, Olneyville Sound System and Vincebus Eruptum.

Against Me "We Laugh At Danger And Break All The Rules" references the (Young) Pioneers.

Tullycraft "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend Is Too Stupid To Know About" talks about Neutral Milk Hotel and others.

Tons of songs references Ian Curtis/Joy Division.

― Ian, Sunday, 6 October 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

teenage head's 'head disorder' - "i listen to elvis to bring me down/wishing gene and eddie were still around" referencing presley, vincent and cochran, respectively.

the real kids' 'do the boob' - "...the girls looked like lou reed" ouch!

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 7 October 2002 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Syd Barrett-"Bob Dylan Blues"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 7 October 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

brian jonestown massacre have 'not if you were the last dandy on earth' and 'courtney taylor'.

teen anthems have 'i hate oasis' and 'paul weller is the anti-christ' and as supercute they did 'welsh bands suck' where only helen love is saved from their wimpy ire. great line 'oh no he's singing in welsh ack-ack ack-ack ack ack ack'

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 7 October 2002 02:48 (twenty-three years ago)

built to spill - dystopian dream girl: "my stepfather looks just like david bowie but he hates david bowie/i think bowie's cool - i think lodger rules and my stepdad's a fool"

heavy vegetable's "song for wesley" is an ode to wesley willis and their "radio" drops slint, sentridoh, zappa, beefheart, can, the residents, renaldo & the loaf, the velvet underground, bongos bass & bob, wesley willis, staccato reeds, the shaggs and devo.

incidentally, heavy vegetable and thingy reference star wars a fair bit - anyone wanna start a new thread?!?! uhh...didn't think so.

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:28 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, say, on that same heavy vegetable album there's an (almost) instrumental called 'henry mancini goes surfing' too...

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Johnny Marr is mentioned by Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura and Tribe of Toffs:

"He reminded you of Johnny, before he want Electronic"

"You knew you'd made a mistake when you first saw Marr"

"Johnny Marr he plays guitar"

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"he remembers Roxy Music back from '72"

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:45 (twenty-three years ago)

The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes (Captain Beefheart) - GTO's

Tom Verlaine - The Family Cat

"I'll wear my fringe
Like Roger McGuinn's"
Consolation Prize - Orange Juice

"I dreamed of Bobbie Gentry and her sweet enchanting smile
She said 'I'll never fall in love again at least not for a while"
Out For The Count - Orange Juice

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

gillian welch - 'elvis presley blues'
weezer - 'buddy holly'
half man half biscuit - 'styx gig (seen by my mates coming out of a)'
half man half biscuit - 'albert hammond bootleg'
mr floppy - '100,000 morrisseys'
tism - 'the ballad of john bonham's coke roadie'
you am i - 'doug sahm'
yo la tengo - 'let's save tony orlando's house'
american music club - 'johnny mathis' feet'
minutemen - 'bob dylan wrote propaganda songs'
led zeppelin - 'hats off to (roy) harper'
king missile - 'glass' (about phillip glass)

best namechecking lyric - public enemy rhyming 'sonny bono' with 'yoko ono' in 'bring tha noize'

― angelo (angelo), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

The Poohs Stick's "On Tape" and "I know someone who knows someone who knows Alan McGee quite well" namechecks just about everyone.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

the rotters' "sit on my face stevie nicks" and the accident's "kill the bee gees".

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 7 October 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The Minutemen also did "Protest Song for Michael Jackson to Sing," didn't they?

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 7 October 2002 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

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I can't believe someone else knows Monoshock. And that no-one has mentioned Anal Cunt.

― Kris (aqueduct), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I first saw Monoshock when they were Von Lmo's backing band.

That's actually not true, on my first trip to SF I stayed with one of the members, which was really my first introduction to that whole blackjack/womb/superdope axis that is sadly defunct.

― gygax!, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Eno on Taking Tiger Mountain's...The True Wheel sing's about seeing the Modern Lovers and"they were very good, they looked like they should..."

Soft Machine on that tune about the BBC namecheck "the old Pink Floyd,
Caravan" and other Canterbury bands.

Chris

― Chris Krohn, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Van Morrison, Leadbelly in "astral weeks": There you go, Standin' with the look of avarice, Talkin' to Huddie Ledbetter, Showin' pictures on the wall, Whisperin' in the hall...

and "Cyprus Avenue" alludes to "Mansion on the Hill".

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 10 October 2002 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

in yummy fur's 'exact copy of h. friendly' --he puts on roxy music when girls come up to his room which is not often, not often.

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 10 October 2002 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

wendyhouse "give henry rollins a hug"?

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 10 October 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Peter, Paul & Mary's "I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music" mentions and imitates the Beatles, the Mama & the Papas, Donovan

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 10 October 2002 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)

My Favorite's "Working Class Jacket" namechecks Marr & Morrissey

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 10 October 2002 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

"I try to sing it funny like Beck/but it's bringin' me down/
lower than ground/beautiful ground/"
Grandaddy, "Jeddy's Other Poem"

"He's in a band, sounds like Korn/
Pretentiously aggressive, not too impressive/"
12 Rods, "What Has Happened"

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Jazz Butcher - "When Eno Sings"
Firehose - "For The Lead Singer Of R.E.M."
Mojo Nixon - "Don Henley Must Die"
They Might Be Giants - "XTC vs. Adam Ant"
Thelonious Monster - "Sammy Hagar Weekend"
Mary's Danish - "Axl Rose Is Love"

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Concrete Blonde - "Roxy"
Veruca Salt - "With David Bowie"
Self's "Trunk Fulla Amps" mentions lots - ELO, Glen Danzig, Freddie Mercury, Lenny Kravitz...

― brooke edel (brookedel), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Xiu Xiu - Ian Curtis Wishlist
Pavement - Stereo

― Simon H., Tuesday, 4 March 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

don lennon sigs lots about other bands. esp. double dong.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

he sings.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody's mentioned Eminem?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Teenage Fanclub have done both "Gene Clark" and "Neil Jung"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

"everybody's hanging at the record store, they're gonna get some records by gang of four" - Lifter Puller, "Double Straps"

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"when the birdmen fly" by the fun things

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess LCD Soundsystem's 'Losing my edge' is a little too obvious??

― Bill E (bill_e), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

from "My Sister" by the Juliana Hatfield Three

I miss 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 had a record out. Before they went gold,
And started to grow.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed / I like Lou Reed, she says, sticking her tongue in my ear..." - Pixies, "I've Been Tired"

― Nick Mirov (nick), Friday, 11 July 2003 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The French - "Wu-Tang Clan" (better than you'd think)

Spearmint - "The Flaming Lips" (worse than you could ever imagine)

Pulp - "Bob Lind" http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006N4S.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 11 July 2003 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Anti-Music Song!"

"I saw you on TV
doing a bad imitation of a second rate songwriter from the 80s named Morrissey
i never liked Morrissey
and i don't like you!"

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 11 July 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Have you seen the future of Rock & Roll"
Man, I need TV [T-Rex reference]
When I got my Morrisey
-Lloyd Cole

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 July 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why do I need TV/ When I've Got T-Rex" - David Bowie

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i was in a bowling alley wednesday night and i heard that horrible tullycraft song "pop songs your new boyfriend's too stupid to know about" come on, and it was a bit disconcerting.

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 11 July 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"I've taken three Es / I still can't dance like Bobby Gillespie" - The Television Personalities "Goodnight Mr Spaceman".

"When Smokey Sings" - ABC

"Dylan in the Movies" - Belle and Sebastian

"The Beatles and the Stones" - The House of Love

"With John F Kennedy / and the Beatles" - Dream Academy "Life in a Northern Town"

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 July 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Best name-drop / put down of all time: "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" (Steely Dan - "Everything You Did")

― J (Jay), Friday, 11 July 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

eno singing about brian eno on "dead finks don't talk"...

... er, you meant about Ferry, right?

Others:

Pavement, "Cut Your Hair"
Jazz Butcher, "The Devil is My Friend" and "Southern Mark Smith"
(both hilarious; the first mentions Love & Rockets, who also "is his friend")
The Fall, "I Am Damo Suzuki"
David Bowie, "Song for Robert Zimmerman"
Robyn Hitchcock, "The Man Who Invented Himself"
(allegedly about David Bowie)
The Clash, "London Calling"

and last but not least

Rick Springfield, "They Call Me Bruce" (!!!)

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Friday, 11 July 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and "making life-size models of the Velvet Underground in clay - Belle and Sebastian "Expectations"

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 July 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"I love you, Ono" by Stereo Total.

― David Allen, Saturday, 12 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

um Daniel Johnston- The Beatles, NIN- Starfuckers Incorporated

― DJB, Sunday, 13 July 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The Clash- White Man in Hammersmith Palais (Dillinger and Leroy Smart, Delroy Wilson your cool operator...)

The Who- You Better You Bet (to the sounds of old T-Rex...)

The Fall- C'N'C Mithering (big AM Herb was there..)

Nirvana- Pennyroyal Tea (give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally..)

Nick Cave- Tupelo (It seems to be reverencing both the old John Lee Hooker blues song about the great flood in Tupelo and the birth of Elvis.)

― earlnash, Sunday, 13 July 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Funkadelic, "Let's Take it to the Stage", for the Mad magazine-style anti-shout-outs: Slick and the Family Brick! Fool and the Gang! Earth, Hot Air and No Fire! SLOOFUS! Plus they call James Brown "godmother" and "grandfather"! That's some fuckin' chutzpah.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 13 July 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, good times".

From the Human League's "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of". Very highly probable this is in reference to Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee out of The Ramones.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 13 July 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet Tommy was pissed.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 13 July 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Soft Cell's "It's A Mug's Game" yet.

If your dad finds out
Then he'll make you stay in
And do your homework
And cut your hair
And wear your school uniform
Out in the street
Oh what a fate worse than death
Oh well he can't hit you
You can hit him back
And play your records so loud
All the ones that he especially hates
Deep Purple in Rock, Led Zeppelin II
Well even you hate those

― Amarga (Amarga), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"When Smokey Sings," ABC
"Clash City Rockers," The Cl*sh ("no one but you and I / say the bells of Prince Far I")
"Bitchin' Camaro," The Dead Milkmen ("a Doors cover band called Crystal Shit")
"Blonde on Blonde," Nada Surf
"You Better You Bet," The Who ("to the sounds of old T.Rex")
"Hangin' With Howard Marks," Super Furry Animals ("the guy from Sparks")
Motorhead, "Ramones"

― Neudonym, Sunday, 13 July 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Who the hell are the Clush?

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 13 July 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The Clush were an important band in punk ruck musuc. They formed after seeing a Sux Pustuls show, and were contemporaries of Shum 69.

― Neudonym, Sunday, 13 July 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Fountains of Wayne - "Laser Show". ("We're gonna sit back, relax, watch the stars / James and Jason, Kirk and Lars")

― chules (chules), Sunday, 13 July 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet Tommy was pissed.

That is, if Tommy actually cared about what a group of tarted-up, artsy Brits with an especially strong fondness for synthesizers and robotic singing. My guess is he either wasn't aware of it or didn't care.

Having said that, your response was hilarious. Whether intentional or unintentional is to be determined.

(Note: I do adore the Human League, thankyouverymuch. *grin*)

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 13 July 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

That is, if Tommy actually cared about what a group of tarted-up, artsy Brits with an especially strong fondness for synthesizers and robotic singing.

Er, that would be That is, if Tommy actually cared about what a group of tarted-up, artsy Brits with an especially strong fondness for synthesizers and robotic singing expressed via their lyrical content. Gah.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 13 July 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The Clush were an important band in punk ruck musuc. They formed after seeing a Sux Pustuls show, and were contemporaries of Shum 69.

Kiwis, then?

Yeah, I know that doesn't quite work, but...meh.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 13 July 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

electric eel shock: Rock & Roll Can Rescue The World

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My God is early Black Sabbath... Yeah
Every day, every night I like Ramones
And Bob and John and Jimi and Stevie,
Fishbone and Wishbone Ash and much more.

Lets talk about Rock & Roll
Every day and every night It's a free for all
So we don't need a big bank roll...

Rock & Roll can rescue the world...
Rock & Roll can rescue one and all
Rock & Roll can rescue the world...
Rock & Roll can rescue one and all
Yeah Yeah Yeah

Yeah
Maybe, I think we can beat Nirvana
Much more than Presidents of USA
I can play faster than Eddie Van Halen

Yeah
Rock & Roll can rescue one and all
Rock & Roll can rescue the world...
Rock & Roll can rescue one and all
Oh Yeah Yeah Yeah

Rock & Roll can rescue the world...
Rock & Roll can rescue one and all
Rock & Roll can rescue the world...
Rock & Roll can rescue one and all

― dbini, Monday, 14 July 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge (is this worth $9 for the 12")

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 14 July 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

>i was in a bowling alley wednesday night and i heard that horrible
>tullycraft song "pop songs your new boyfriend's too stupid to know >about" come on, and it was a bit disconcerting.
>
>-- j fail (unhalfbrickin...), July 11th, 2003 3:34 PM. (cenotaph) (link)

Where the hell do you go bowling!?

― Elyn (elynbeth), Sunday, 7 December 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Pavement - "Range Life".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 December 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Kid 606 - "Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie-Punk Whiteboy Ass"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 December 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Bare Naked Ladies "Brian Wilson"

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 7 December 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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