"I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" -- Sleater-Kinney"If You Don't Like Hank Williams" -- Kris Kristofferson"Sir Duke" -- Stevie Wonder"Alex Chilton" -- Replacements
what else?
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link
― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:00 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:05 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:06 (twenty years ago) link
'Tom Verlaine' was by the Family Cat, unless the Telescopes had another song.
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link
Then there are all the poison paeans dealt with here
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
All Half Man Half Biscuit
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
The musicians singing 'bout *themselves*:Soft Machine's "The Moon In June" (which's not 'bout Keith, obv)- the live version on BBC Radio.
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
by don lennon.
'american pie' by madonna is about buddy holly?
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:03 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:09 (twenty years ago) link
Paul McCartney: "Here Today"George Harrison: "All Those Years Ago"Mike Oldfield: "Moonlight Shadow"Elton John: "Empty Garden (Bye Bye Johnny)"
It is also claimed that "Seconds" by Human League may have been about the Lennon murder, although it may as well be about JFK.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:11 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:17 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:23 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:25 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:28 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:40 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:46 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
The Fall, "Middle Mass" (which it took me forever to find out was about Marc Riley, which is funny since up till then I thought it was autobiographical, which is funny again since it's actually about Riley:
1. sucking (surprise)
and
2. ripping off/being a clone of MES)
Come to think of it, if other members of your band count, the Fall have a number of entries: "Craigness," "Stephen Song" ... I guess "The Mixer" could even sorta qualify ...
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
And the punch line? I guess Marc asks Mark at some point if the song's about him, and Mark mumbles no, it's about someone else ...
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
Weeeell I wasn't gonna go there, but there may've indeed been more identification going on than they suspected; I guess, though, it's supposed to be about St. Kurt, at least sort-of.
(an awesome, awesome song)
It was our fave at the time.
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:06 (twenty years ago) link
OK, so it's not really about Frank Zappa as such.
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:32 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:18 (twenty years ago) link
RIP.
best line in "the unseen power..." "Time After Time / Was my least favorite song"
― david day (winslow), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:37 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:39 (twenty years ago) link
Wasn't "Whole of the Moon" by the Waterboys supposed to be about Prince?
Also, I seem to remember some band recording a song called "Michael Stipe (Suck My Long Skinny Pipe" but I'm buggered if I can find any reference to it on Google.
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
1) Mighty K.C. - For Squirrels2) I Don't Blame You - Cat Power3) Sleeps with Angels - Neil Young4) About A Boy - Patti Smith5) A bunch of Hole's Live Through This
Also, don't forget the Replacement's pre-Alex Chilton shout-out:
Johnnie's Gonna Die (Johnny Thunders)
Also, if you included rap dis/battle records in this we could keep thing going thread going indefinitely.
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
Also, what if You're So Vain by Carly Simon is really about Mick Jagger and not Warren Beatty, then that would count too.
Oh yeah and How Do You Sleep by Lennon is about McCartney...
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link
On Paul Weller's 2000 solo album Heliocentric there's a song called "He's the Keeper" which is a tribute to Ronnie Lane of the Small Faces....
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:58 (twenty years ago) link
"Pray Like Aretha Franklin" by Scritti Politti (It isn't about her, but the category seems to have stretched)
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:58 (twenty years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:59 (twenty years ago) link
and, oh yeah - Momus - "Walter Carlos"
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:02 (twenty years ago) link
Ween - "I Hate The Smiths (And Stephen Morrissey)"
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:23 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Moss Feaster (Moss Feaster), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Famous Athlete, Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Shmuel (shmuel), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:09 (twenty years ago) link
― bham, Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:12 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:13 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:20 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link
"Needle and the Damage Done" - Neil Young
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 11 September 2003 08:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:53 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:02 (twenty years ago) link
― joni, Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:31 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:08 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:23 (twenty years ago) link
Re: "Michael Stipe (suck my long skinny pipe)" I recall a Spin feature on the Butthole Surfers long ago where they claimed to have written something similar on the side of their tour van. My memory of this is hazy.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 11 September 2003 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
Michael Stipe,Despite the hype,I wanna suck your big long pipe."
They use to live in Athens, and would park it outside his house.(The same Spin article called my good friend Trevor [former B-Hole bassist] "the most hated man in America")
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 11 September 2003 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB, Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 11 September 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
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
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 12 September 2003 03:33 (twenty years ago) link
Don't ask.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 12 September 2003 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
― dwayne dibley (frownland), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link
― frownland (frownland), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link
― dwayne dibley (frownland), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Friday, 12 September 2003 20:26 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Saturday, 13 September 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link
― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
"The Stone Temple Pilots are elegant bachelors".
― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 14 September 2003 11:17 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 14 September 2003 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 14 September 2003 11:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Keith Watson (kmw), Sunday, 14 September 2003 13:29 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Paul Marfleet, Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
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
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
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