Artists/songs who mention other artists

"For the singer of REM" - fIREHOSE

Peder ft. Dean Bowman - the sour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKVoFT9XcQ

Some songs with the artist as the entire name:

"Buddy Holly" - Weezer
"Alex Chilton" - Replacements (song also mentions Big Star)
"Brian Wilson" - Barenaked Ladies (which Brian Wilson actually covered in concert! Surreal. And speaking of BNL, "Be My Yoko Ono"

Luke Haines, "Peter Hammill".

the Who, "Mirror Door":

"Howlin' Wolf and old Link Wray
Dave Van Ronk and Doris Day
Bobby Darin, Brownie McGhee
Elvis, Buddy and Eddie C
...
Frank n' Ella, Ray 'What'd I Say'
Johnny Cash and Johnnie Ray
Amadeus and Ludwig Van
Henry, Johann and the Doo-Dah Band"

better than ezra - teenager (the cure)

Wrap yourself in black
Listen to The Cure
'Love-line' won't call back
They don't know, they don't care, they don't see, but I do

Dexy's Midnight Runners - there, there, my dear

"Dear Robin let me explain
Though you'd never see in a million years
Keep quoting Cabaret, Berlin, Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Duchamp, Beauvoir
Kerouac, Kierkegaard, Michael Rennie

And I don't believe you really like Frank Sinatra"

"Murder Most Foul" = a thread in itself

Mott The Hoople- All The Young Dudes also mentions Beatles and Stones.
Which makes me think House Of Love- Beatles And The Stones
TV Personalities- Part Time Punks: Siouxsie & The Banshees, O Level, Swell Maps (by reference to Read About Seymour) and The Lurkers
Bowie- Song For Bob Dylan
Bowie- Life On Mars: Lennon (on sale again)
Steely Dan- Everything You Did: The Eagles
ABC- When Smokey Sings
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band- God: Beatles (that's another artist, right?)
Snow Patrol- Hands Open: Sufjan Stevens
Kraftwerk- Trans Europe Express: Iggy Pop & David Bowie
Golden Earring- Radar Love: Brenda Lee

Cleaners from Venus - song for syd barret

The Dining Rooms - U
Album: La Suite 7 (2009) by Alexandros Christopoulos

"Sabu Martinez, Gil Scott-Heron, Clay Mayfield, Henry Miller, Lonnie Liston Smith, Fela Sanders, John Coltrane, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Derek Jarman, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Jack Kerouac, Nick Drake, Fela Kuti, KLF, Talk Talk, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jimi Hendrix,
Andy Warhol, Gato Barbieri, Chet Baker, Art Blakey, Federico Fellini, Deep Purple, Muhammad Ali, Caetano Veloso, Jobim, Ivan Lins, Gilberto Gil, Kraftwerk, Jean-Luc Godard, Serge Gainsbourg, Pier Paolo Pasolini,

hip hoppers
punk rockers

hip hoppers
punk rockers"

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFcKhZYToX4

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