― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
- "Julian H. Cope" by....er...Julian Cope
- "Triumphal Theme" by Cop Shoot Cop
- "We're a Happy Family" by the Ramones (sorta....though they never mention their actual name)
- "This is Radio Clash," "We Are the Clash" (the latter being off the abortive CUT THE CRAP album) by the Clash
- "Public Image" by Public Image Ltd.
- "Adrenochrome" by the Sisters of Mercy
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
And by that I mean DUD. A million times DUD.
― My name is Kenny, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
destroy: the song at the end of Youthanasia by Megadeth where Mustaine references all of his hits in the most godawful cheesy way imagineable.
― Wyndham Earl, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
But that's true, too!
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
You Better You Bet - The Who
"Tell me good Captain, how does it feelTo be driven away from your own steering wheel...."
Upon The My Oh My - Captain Beefheart
"He said 'Captain'I said...."
Wot! - Captain Sensible
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Not to mention Clash City Rockers - but why "abortive"? The album was released.... grated it was an abortION....
.... which reminds me:
"We Are The League" - Anti Nowhere League
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Actually, on second thoughts....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
Rrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh. "Worked up." Fuck you.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
Er, hardly. I don't even particularly like indie.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, not their name but don't New Order play a snip of Love will tear us apart on (forget the track) Brotherhood?
― geoffdickens, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, Ian Svenonius to thread.
― g.cannon (gcannon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hang on John / John hang on -- Lennon
― Aaron, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
Loads of Lennon solo songs (or at least post-Yoko -- "Ballad of...") qualify here. He seems to be more a blurring of the private and public (see also:Eminem) than simply being self-referential.
(also I’ll add Miss Dy-Na-Mi-Tee-Hee and Belle and Sebastian.)
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
Brain dead, total amnesia,Get some mental anasthesia,Don't move, I'll shut the door and kill the lights,And if I can't be wrong I could be right,All good clean fun,Have another stick of gum,Man, you look better already,Motorhead, remember me now Motorhead, alright
Fourth day, five day marathon,We're moving like a parallelogram,Don't move, I'll shut the door and kill the lights,I guess I'll see you all on the ice,I should be tired,And all I am is wired,Ain't felt this good for an hour,Motorhead, remember me now, Motorhead alright
― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dan (dan), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
The interesting footnote here is that even this line did not render the song uncoverable.
― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Norman, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Britney's done it live too I think.
― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
Revive!
I'm delighted I've found this thread because for my regular quiz on Sunday, I've decided to feature a round of self-referencing songs in which the participants aren't told what the theme is - they have to figure it out from a bunch of 15-second intros.
Any others you can think of that were not mentioned in the old thread above (18 years ago!)?
Hot Chip's The Warning, for example, included the gently intoned line "Hot Chip will break your legs".
― giraffe, Friday, 20 November 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
Amy Grant - Saved by Love
― aphoristical, Friday, 20 November 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
Show me a word that rhymes with PavementAnd I won't kill your parentsAnd roast them on a spit
(Harness your Hopes)
― the 120 days of sod 'em (ledge), Friday, 20 November 2020 10:26 (three years ago) link
Iggy Pop - "Dum Dum Boys"
― willem, Friday, 20 November 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
Hallelujah, hallelujahWhen Shaun William RyderWill lie down beside yaFill you full of junk
Happy Mondays - Hallelujah. Love that line!
― the article don, Friday, 20 November 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
Polygon Window "UT1-dot" has an almost indecipherable robo voice that says something akin to 'introducing integration in step with electronic techno music controlled manually by Aphex Twin programs'. The rare self ref in a chin-strokey electronica work, although the track actually slaps.
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Friday, 20 November 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
In that case there's also Autechre's Goz Quarter, with a sample of Kool Keith saying something that sounds like (but probably isn't) "jam like autechre"
― the 120 days of sod 'em (ledge), Friday, 20 November 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
Another banger along the same lines is Chaos AD "Mind War Electro" which matter of factly repeats the tag of 'acid mind warp electro recorded by Squarepusher, 1995'
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Friday, 20 November 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link
And of course "Come on you cunts lets have some Aphex acid!"
― the 120 days of sod 'em (ledge), Friday, 20 November 2020 11:28 (three years ago) link
Kool and the Gang's "Hollywood Swinging"
I rememberNot too long agoI went to a theaterAnd I saw the Kool & The Gang Show
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 November 2020 11:32 (three years ago) link
it render's one's songs uncoverable.
For some reason I'm reminded of the Pet Shop Boys' "We're The Pet Shop Boys", which is self-referential when they perform it, but is itself a cover of a song by an act (My Robot Friend) who was *not* in fact the Pet Shop Boys. And there's a further cover by Robbie Williams!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 20 November 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
I feel like The Fall must have something like 37 such songs...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 20 November 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
Christy Moore, Cabaret:
Your wife says "Oh not Christy Moore, we've heard him loads of times before, We're gonna miss Gay Byrne on the Late Late Show"
― the 120 days of sod 'em (ledge), Friday, 20 November 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
“glass onion”
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 November 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
In Luxuria's Against the Past, they mention "Howard DeVoto Boulevard".
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 20 November 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
There's a much better thread on this here:
Non-rap examples of lyrics where the artist refers to him/herself by name
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 20 November 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the suggestions on here and the signpost to the other thread.
― giraffe, Sunday, 22 November 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
The New Kids on the Bock celebrate the expanse of their 1.5 year-long career in the song 'Tonight'.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 22 November 2020 12:55 (three years ago) link
The discography of Mike Jones
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 22 November 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
Two songs from Sparks:
The Wedding of Jacqueline Kennedy to Russell MaelThe Decline and Fall of Me - "goodbye future Mrs. Mael"
The Roches: The Death Of Suzzy Roche
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
Are You Jimmy Ray?
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
No, halfway there but for you.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
UTAH SAINTS
― ledge, Monday, 23 November 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link