Songs which mention other bands/artists even though they aren't literally mentioning those bands/artists
Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection:
"Show me one direction
I will not question again
For a warm injection
Is all I need to calm the pain"
Grim.
Was "inspired" (!) to start this thread by Tom Ewing's Popular blog where he reviews all the number ones.. he's now up to a song called "The Real Thing." Not the "You to Me are Everything" guys but that bathroom fitter from Oxford or something, Tony Bart-Williams I think he was called who somehow got to number 1 in May 1994..
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Not entirely unexpected.
"I don't love anyone" by Belle and Sebastian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2bHOdBxxw4
Contains the follwing lyric;
I met a man today
And he told me something pretty strange
There's always somebody saying something
He said, "The world was as soft as lace."
Which is PROBABLY a reference to the Felt song "The World is as Soft as Lace". I know Stuart Murdoch is a fan. Its also a great song;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWql_-85A8c
it's definitely a reference
cos at one of the 1996 ICA shows supporting Tindersticks, in which Lawrence from Felt was in attendance, Stuart sings "sunlight bathed the golden glow" instead of "the world is as soft as lace".
completely misunderstood thread
Coldplay- Up In Flames
Beulah - Popular Mechanics For Lovers
"I heard he wrote you a song
Bus so what
Some guy wrote 69
And one just ain't enough"
Scott Walker - Epizootics
Take That accidentally in the bollocks for a start
Coldplay - Clocks
"Am I part of The Cure or am I part of the disease?".
Famous last words
GIVE ME THE CURE
...Fugazi
I sing that line to myself everytime I put a Cure record on, impossible to dissasociate it.
The Smiths - Rubber Ring
I'm here with The Corrs
millions of songs
"girls"
eg bruce springsteen girls in their summer clothes
I hate it when bands go for the most generic, unGoogleable name
I thought people fought a war to stop this kind of thing in 1998.
Elvis Presley
Don't you *STEPS* on my *BLUE* *SUEDE* shoes
Placebo - Teenage Angst
At the drive-in, double feature, pull the lever, break the fever and say your last goodbyes.
Run DMC
It's TRICKY
On a similar note
I remember seeing a long-forgotten band called Two People at Lancaster Uni back in 1986. They'd written a song called Tina Turner - "She wrote a song about us, so we've written one about her". LOL.
Destroyed by Madness.
"Ooh yeah, destroyed by Madness."
I know the early Manics liked to flirt with sexual ambiguity, but it means I'll never let Suggs sell me a fish finger.
Some band called Green released an EP called R.E.M.
Art Garfunkel
had that song about how much he wanted to set fire to Conor Oberst.
Wasn't it about
his hatred of Paul Simon's collection of garish neckwear, & how he wanted to burn it?
Belle & Sebastian
... reference The Left Banke in "Piazza, New York Catcher":
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee”
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Away_Ren%C3%A9e