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― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha I meant Harold Wilson!

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

would you accept "Hey Hey My My"?

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"political song for michael jackson to sing" - minutemen
1. Hootie & The Blowfish (Willis) - 3:08
2. Kurt Cobain (Willis) - 2:26
3. Nirvana (Willis) - 2:21
4. The Rolling Stones (Willis) - 2:15
5. Jello Biafra (Willis) - 3:02
6. Mojo Nixon (Willis) - 2:09
7. Bolt Thrower (Willis) - 2:15
8. Spin Doctors (Willis) - 3:16
9. Dave Grohl (Willis) - 3:02
10. Foo Fighters (Willis) - 2:59
11. Pink Floyd (Willis) - 2:52
12. Blues Traveler (Willis) - 2:49
13. Fugazi (Willis) - 3:00
14. Blackie-O (Willis) - 2:37
15. KRS-1 (Willis) - 2:53
16. Morbid Angel (Willis) - 2:31
17. KMFDM (Willis) - 2:55
18. Shonen Knife (Willis) - 2:30
19. Liz Phair (Willis) - 3:05
20. Courney Love (Willis) - 2:59
21. Jefferson Airplane (Willis) - 3:09

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-two years ago)

yes that line is the very crux

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sweet Gene Vincent" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads
"Bo Diddley is a Communist" by Eugene Chadbourne
"Shine on You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett)
"Three Stars" by Eddie Cochran (Holly, Bopper, Valens)

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Baltimores" - Jonathan Richman
"Velvet Underground" - Jonathan Richman

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-two years ago)

Actually, what about songs about Kurt Cobain - they could be a genre in themselves:

1) Mighty K.C. - For Squirrels
2) I Don't Blame You - Cat Power
3) Sleeps with Angels - Neil Young
4) About A Boy - Patti Smith
5) 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-two years ago)

there's probably more Kurt Cobain stuff I'm forgetting...

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-two years ago)

"Jad Fair Drives Women Wild" - The Spinanes
"Mark Robinson" - The Graverobbers
"Cath Carroll" - Unrest
"I Love Calvin" - Unrest (Calvin Johnson/Beat Happening)
"Butch Willis Is A Psychopath" - Unrest
"Jumper Clown" - Marc Riley & the Creatures (Mark E. Smith/The Fall)
"James Brown" - Cabaret Voltaire
"Levi Stubbs' Tears" - Billy Bragg
"Rita MacNeil" - Stompin' Tom Connors
"Lady k.d. lang" - Stompin' Tom Connors
"He Was A Big Freak" - Betty Davis (rumoured to be about Jimi Hendrix)
"Miracle Land" - East River Pipe (Kurt Cobain)

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I neglected to mention the deathless "Morrissey Rides A Cockhorse" by the Warlock Pinchers.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's an obscure one:

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 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder why I never get any work done?

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

How about "Tupelo" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds?

"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-two years ago)

Another Cobain song: 'Let Me In' by REM.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Frank Black - "The Man Who Was Too Loud" (about - yes - Jonathan Richman, if memory serves)

and, oh yeah - Momus - "Walter Carlos"

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, another one:

Ween - "I Hate The Smiths (And Stephen Morrissey)"

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Jazz Butcher, "When Eno Sings" and "Southern Mark Smith"; MES songs should have should have their own category.
"Mark E. Smith" Bar-B-Q Killers
"MES and Brix" Barbara Manning
"Two States" by Pavement (okay, not really but it might as well be, in the manner of Unseen Power of the etc.)
and the songs previously mentioned

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

not to mention the small spate of techno songs about dead rock stars- "James Brown Is Dead", "Michael Jackson Is In Heaven Now","Who Is Elvis?" and its own parody, "Who Is Brenda?" (on some screwy 90210 parody record)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

'squarepusher stole my barbeque' by special moth

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Morissey Rides a Cockhorse" by Warlock Pinchers
"Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?" (about Hank Williams) by Waterboys
"Prince Alone in the Studio" by Smog
"For the Mekons et al" by Palace
"Roll Over Beethoven" any version

― Moss Feaster (Moss Feaster), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Michael Jackson" - Fatboy Slim
"Ladykiller" - Lush
"James Brown" - Blood Brothers
"Be My Yoko Ono" - Barenaked Ladies
"Girls" - D12

― Famous Athlete, Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Just Wanna Get Along" - the Breeders. Nice "fuckyou" song, that.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

'jimmy webb is god' the boo radleys
'a banda do ze pretinho' jorge ben

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Freed Pig" Sebadoh (J Mascis)
"Nick Drake Tape" Clem Snide
"The wreck of the Arthur Lee" Robyn Hitchcock
"I saw Nick Drake" Robyn Hitchcock
And then there's The Boy with the Arab Strap
And then there's Mojo Nixon

― Shmuel (shmuel), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

'Johnny Thunders' by Vic Godard; 'I Can't Get "Bouncing Babies" by the Teardrop Explodes' by the Freshies

― bham, Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Malkmus did a retrospective appreciation of Reckoning for a magazine (Uncut? Mojo?) recently that confirmed his dislike of 'Time After Time'. I think he's nuts.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"bring me the head of jerry garcia" by iron prostate, "empty garden" by elton john.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

is this thread just for songs completely about a musician, or ones that just mention other musicians?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cool as Kim Deal" - Dandy Warhols

"Needle and the Damage Done" - Neil Young

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 11 September 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

You're One by Imperial Teen is about Kurt Cobain too.

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

They Might Be Giants, "We're The Replacements"

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Roberta Flack, 'Killing Me Softly'
Eileen Rose, 'Tom Waits Crooning'
Black Box Recorder, 'Andrew Ridgeley'

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

bill drummond 'julian cope is dead'
julian cope 'bill drummond says'

― joni, Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Miles Davis wrote "He Loved Him Madly" as a tribute to Duke Ellington when he died.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Also Miles' "John McLaughlin" offa Bitches Brew.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"nirvana" by elemeno p

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Did no one yet mention "I Know Where Syd Barret Lives"?

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-two years ago)

I'm fairly certain that the quote on the side of the Butthole's van went something like this:

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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

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
----
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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

pj harvey:memphis (j buckley)

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

Who is "Styx Gig" by?

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

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-two years ago)

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