SONGS WHERE/SONGS THAT/SONGS WITH/SONGS IN WHICH

Rick Ross - Gunplay f. Gunplay

“David Bowie” - phish

'Andy Warhol' - David Bowie

Duck Sauce • Barbra Streisand

lots of ‘em here:

Songs with footballers in their titles

“Alex Chilton” - the Replacements

Oh, good catch

“P.F. Sloan” - Jimmy Webb
“Buddy Holly” - Weezer
“Frank Sinatra” - Cake

"Penelope Tree" - Felt

"Ry Cooder" and "Jim Cain" by Bill Callahan

"Marilyn Monroe" – Dan Bern

"Jacques Derrida" - Scritti Politti
"Perry Como" - Sean O'Hagan
"Van Dyke Parks" - Van Dyke Parks

Uma Thurman - Fall Out Boy

Tiger Woods - Dan Bern

Bands named after songs from the Talking Heads:

Big Country
Radio head

"Robert Montgomery" by Love.
"James Dean" by Eagles.

Bands named after songs by Can:

Spoon
Moonshake
Hunters & Collectors

Bands named after songs from the Talking Heads:

Heaven

xxp
"River Phoenix" (Japanther)
"Stanley Kubrick" (Mogwai)

"Woody Allen" (Unrest)

"Pablo Picasso" (The Modern Lovers)!

"Willie Nelson" by Miles Davis (plus numerous songs named after boxers)

Psychokiller (2): 1186 monthly listeners on Spotify
Psycho Killer: 0 monthly listeners
The Psychokillers: 3 monthly listeners

not counting Psychokiller (1): 220 monthly listeners, they’re a TH cover band

Slippery People (1, first release 2020): 19 monthly listeners
Slippery People (2, first release 2021): 52 monthly listeners

Listening Wind (first release 2021): 8,795 monthly listeners

(I’m not making them up, I swear!)

also, in my Release Radar this week:

Kaydy Cain ft. Kabasaki • Serena Williams

"Matthew Modine" by Pony Up!

Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay

Negativland - Michael Jackson

Cocoa Tea - Barack Obama

"Johnny Carson" by the Beach Boys.

Mogwai - “Nick Drake”

Mark Knopfler - Song for Sonny Liston

Warren Zevon - Boom Boom Mancini

Bob Dylan - Hurricane

Phil Ochs - Davey Moore

Tom Russell - Muhammad Ali

Miles Davis - Sugar Ray

Faithless - Muhammad Ali

^the first three are disqualified—no extra words or nicknames allowed!—though I just realized “Magic Johnson” isn’t actually his real name, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc

After a shower, have decided that “professional names” are acceptable, when that is how the person is generally known (e.g., Buddy Holly, Winona Ryder). Nicknames like Debbie and Pete were accepted from the jump. Still on the fence about Magic Johnson.

did anybody ever call him Earvin Johnson?

Surely “Magic Johnson” is the only name by which almost anyone knows Magic Johnson

I’m afraid his official Twitter account is heavily dispositive here

(and fwiw, I have heard him called Earvin and always knew that was his name... I had to look up Buddy Holly‘s name, had no clue what that was)

All John Cale:

Archimedes
Brahms
Charlemagne
Dr. Mudd
Graham Greene
Hemingway
Jack the Ripper
John Milton
Magritte
Pablo Picasso (Jonathan Richman cover)

OK, Hemingway and Magritte don't count, although you could make an argument for people who are one-name famous.

You could include "Mr. Wilson" in that longer list as well.

Some of those so flagrantly disregard the rules, it’s a scandal (“Jack the Ripper”??)

morrisp not playing around

I AM CHECKING TWITTER ACCOUNTS

Lol

muddying the waters (hey!) here even more, but I don’t have Twitter, so...

Lil Nas X • Montero (Call Me By Your Name)

Frank Sinatra - Miss Kittin & The Hacker

He was prescient

lol