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Songs that namecheck other artists

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by finishthehat, Nov 26, 2007.

  1. New Rascals "You've got the music in you"

    "Fashion mag shoots
    with the aid of 8 dust brothers Beck, Hanson
    Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
    You're all fakes
    Run to your mansions
    Come around
    We'll kick your ass in!"

    They later said it was a form of flattery.
     
  2. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Cool as Kim Deal by the Dandy Warhols
     
  3. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    And of course, Eminem dissed Moby, Chris Kirkpatrick and (in a lefthanded way) Elvis on "Without Me."
     
  4. Bob Slydell

    Bob Slydell Active Member

    Bob Dylan's 49th Beard -- Wilco. May not be 49th but it's something like that.

    American Pie -- Don McLean

    Jammin' Me -- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

    Crique Alley -- Mamas and the Papas.

    Rappers are always name checking each other.
     
  5. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    The ultimate name check ...

    "Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news".
     
  6. Bob Slydell

    Bob Slydell Active Member

    House of Love -- Beatles and the Stones.

    Runnin' Down a Dream, Tom Petty.
     
  7. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Celluloid Heros
     
  8. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    'you never even call me by my name' -- written by steve goodman and john prine, adapted and made famous by david allen coe
     
  9. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    A.C. has a song called "311 Sucks."

    However, it doesn't really call the out, so to speak. The song mimics 311's "Down" for a bit, then the singer yells, "You fucking suck," and the song ends.
     
  10. Mitch E.

    Mitch E. Member

    Phish has at least a couple --
    "David Bowie" (edit, UB40 is also honored in this one)
    "Letter to Jimmy Page"
     

  11. You missed one from "Dudes" -- "I need TV when I've got T Rex."
    Cat Mother's "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)" names a ton of names, so does the Animals' "Monterey." Hootie steals an entire verse of "Idiot Wind" by putting in front of it the line, "Put on a little Dylan."
    Speaking of whom:

    "Ma Rainey and Beethoven, once unwrapped a bedroll."
    To say nothing of his more recent shout-out to Alicia Keys.
     
  12. terrier

    terrier Well-Known Member

    Almost the end of the page, and no love for the Replacements' "Alex Chilton?"
     
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