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I think that I remember that Johnny Thunder's Sad Vacation is about Sid Vicious.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

Rickie Lee Jones "Chuck E.'s in Love"

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

Mojo Nixon to thread:
Elvis is Everywhere
I'm Gonna Dig up Howlin' Wolf
Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with my 2-Headed Love Child
Don Henley Must Die
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I'm wondering how REM standing up to the Union Army in "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence" means that Malkmus thinks that they suck now. I mean, in that song he remenices about early REM and then he wants to go back to the Civil War and see them marching through Georgia and it ends with "there stands REM" - no indication that they've fallen off. I guess you could assume that Malkmus thinks they've fallen off, since clearly they have, but I wouldn't say it's what that song is about.

― BrianB, Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

the blow had a song about bob mould that was kinda cute. actually, i think it was about bob mould fans
amy correia's "blind river boy" was about jeff buckley

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

pj harvey:memphis (j buckley)

― kephm, Thursday, 11 September 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

Bob Dylan-Song To Woody [Guthrie, that is]
Leonard Cohen-Chelsea Hotel #2 (Janis Joplin)
Bob Dylan-Blind Willie McTell (duh)
Gram Parsons-Return of The Grievous Angel (supposedly about Elvis)

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

the doublehappys - big fat elvis
some dude - walking in memphis
gillian welch - elvis presley blues
the byrds - so you wanna be a rock n roll star

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

Mighty K.C. was a fucking sad song especially after those guys passed. Anyone remember "Michael Stipe" by P? - I think it was a Butthole Surfers side-project or something.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

only living boy in new york - simon and garfunkel
written by paul about art, unknowingly to art - art is tom. when they were first together they released as a duo called Tom and Jerry.

so long frank lloyd wright - simon and garfunkel
again, written by paul about art - and art never knew. art studied architecture in college.

just lemme know if this is common knowledge....or maybe i'm a bit obsessed/have listened to the Old Friends box set too many times/read too many interview.....i dunno.

― zarathustra, Friday, 12 September 2003 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

Who is "Styx Gig" by?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 12 September 2003 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

The Widowed Isis - (I Want To Be) Jim Morrison.

Don't ask.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 12 September 2003 03:34 (twenty years ago) link

"Rmaones"-Motorhead

― dwayne dibley (frownland), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

oops - "Ramones"

― frownland (frownland), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

thanks

― dwayne dibley (frownland), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:31 (twenty years ago) link

"Michael Jackson" by Fatboy Slim.
"Markus Popp Can Kiss My Redneck Ass" by Lesser.
"Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie-Punk Whiteboy Ass" by Kid 606.
"There He Stood" by Jamaaladeen Tacuma (it's about Paul Robeson).
"The Baron" by Eric Dolphy (that one's about Charles Mingus).
"Miles' Mode" by John Coltrane (you can guess whom that one is about).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

The Waterboys' It Should Have Been You is supposedly addressed to the late Johnny Thunders.

― Palomino (Palomino), Friday, 12 September 2003 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

Liveonrelease - "I'm afraid of Britney Spears",

Pet Shop Boys' "The night I fell in love" is about Eminem,

Was Jennifer Rush's "Madonna's eyes" about the Queen of pop?

― Seb, Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

I hate to bring this up, but 'Killing Me Softly' was written about Don McClean (sp?) singing 'American Pie' about Buddy Holly. I'm going to write a song called 'With a Machine Gun' about this post.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Saturday, 13 September 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

didn't quasi write one or more bitter songs about elliott smith? if so does anyone know what they are? cuz i can really relate right now.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link

Range Life?

"The Stone Temple Pilots are elegant bachelors".

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

That shit Cranberries song about John Lennon to thread!

Also, the KLF Kylie said to Jason and BMX Bandits Kylie's Got A Crush on Us

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 14 September 2003 11:10 (twenty years ago) link

"The Assasination of Stephan Grossman" by John Fahey, but he spelt the name wrong, cos its Stefan i think.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 14 September 2003 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

(disclaimer - I do realise neither Kylie or Jason could be technically classified as musicians)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 14 September 2003 11:19 (twenty years ago) link

(disclaimer - I do realise neither Kylie nor Jason could be technically classified as musicians)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 14 September 2003 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

Adam Ant's "Goody two shoes", about Kevin Rowland... Or did someone just say that in the playground and I believed it.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Sunday, 14 September 2003 13:29 (twenty years ago) link

didn't quasi write one or more bitter songs about elliott smith?
i guess they're on sword of god. little lord fauntleroy et al.

asking ilm when you can just ask your real life friend who you know knows the answer, classic or classic?

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

"So Tough" - Slits (references Johnny Rotton and Sid Vicious)
"Instant Hit" - Slits (about Keith Levene of PIL)

― Paul Marfleet, Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

ten years pass...

New Babe The Blue Ox album has a song called D. Boon and I got curious. I wonder if he's actually the musician with the most songs about him. Quick scan of Spotify reveals a whole bunch.

― dlp9001, Friday, 25 July 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzjO6ADwD74

― xzanfar, Friday, 25 March 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WRSO3usjKA

― xzanfar, Friday, 25 March 2022 13:41 (two years ago) link

Joni Mitchell - "That Song About the Midway"
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/joni-mitchell-dumped-david-crosby/

― raven, Saturday, 26 March 2022 11:21 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Pee Shy - "Jad Fair"

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link

Cat Power, "Song to Bobby"

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link

William Butler Yeats in jeans
Got up to play guitar and sing
In some joint in Mission Beach last night
At the door sat Tom Waits
In a porkpie hat and silver skates
Jugglin' three collection plates, Jesus Christ

Townes Van Zandt standin' at the bar
Skinnin' a Hollywood movie star
And he can't remember where he parked his car
Or to whom he lost the keys
Full of angst and hillbilly haiku
What's a poor Ft. Worth boy to do
Go on rhyme somethin' for em' man
Show him how you really feel

--Guy Clark, but I like James McMurtry's version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jwuzD-OHFE

― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nysF0cVlF4A

Wiley - P Money

I can't think of another song bigging someone up who's part of the same scene

― paolo, Thursday, 28 April 2022 07:11 (one year ago) link

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