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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: love songs to songs/bands |
| Date | Fri, 27 Jun 2003 02:47:31 -0500 |
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:49:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: shawn campbell <thursdayinjune@yahoo.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: love songs to songs/bands
> Message-ID: <20030627014911.58862.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com>
>
> In 'My Sister,' Juliana Hatfield namechecks the
> Violent Femmes and the Del Fuegos.
>
And, of course, the Divine Ms. H was herself the recipient of a love
song: "Dear Juliana" by Pittsburgh's sadly-underappreciated kings of
regular-guy rock'n'roll, the Frampton Brothers.
> In 'Twisting,' They Might Be Giants namecheck the dbs
> and the Young Fresh Fellows.
>
And the Young Fresh Fellows had a ... uh, kind of love song called
"Amy Grant" (off of their supa-fine *The Men Who Loved Music* album), a song
which also namechecked beefy pillow-talk crooner Barry White in a most
amusing way. The same album includes the song "Hank, Karen, and Elvis", and
the last names that go with that title trio are Williams, Carpenter, and
Presley.
> Band hate Song:
> The Freed Pig - Sebadoh (about j Mascis/Lou Barlow's
> leaving/getting fired from Dinosaur jr)
> and of course How Do You Sleep?
>
The most widely-heard hate song in rock'n'roll, Lynyrd Skynyrd's
"Sweet Home Alabama", dissed Neil Young for his "Southern Man" putdown of
Dixie rednecks so emphatically that they named him in three straight lines.
Warren Zevon got one off at the expense of that particular radio staple by
singing in the chorus of his extraordinarily caustic (even for him) song
"Play It All Night Long", "Sweet Home Alabama / Play that dead band's song /
Turn those speakers up full blast / Play it all night long".
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:59:06 -0400
> From: Kevin Mathews <kevin@powerofpop.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Cc: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: love songs to songs/bands
> Message-ID: <200306270159.ALA88422@ms4.verisignmail.com>
>
> Of course, BNL and TFF both had Brian Wilson in songs as did
> John Cale - Mr Wilson
>
Don't forget Splitsville's "The Love Songs of B. Douglas Wilson".
Here's a few more off of the top of my head:
Billy Bragg, "Levi Stubb's Tears"
Bratmobile, "Cheap Trick Record"
Redd Kross, "Shonen Knife" (also done by Wesley Willis)
Shonen Knife, "Redd Kross" (also done by Death of Samantha)
(oddly enough, Shonen Knife's song "Blue Oyster Cult" is *not* about
the hard rock quintet; it's actually about eating oysters)
Liquor Giants, "Beautiful Flo" (about the late Florence Ballard of
the Supremes)
Replacements, "Johnny's Gonna Die" (about Johnny Thunders) and
"Something to Du" (about their fellow Minneapolitans Husker Du)
There's two entire albums of artists singing songs *about* the
Beatles that're called *Flabby Road* and *Flabby Road, Vol. 2*.
IMHO, the coolest tribute song of all time was former Thin Lizzy
frontman Phil Lynott's ode to Elvis Presley, "King's Call".
Namechecks? Now, there's a thread that could go on forever. Arthur
Conley namechecked James Brown, Otis Redding, and Wilson Pickett in "Sweet
Soul Music". Tom Tom Club namechecked Bohannon, Kurtis Blow, and James Brown
in "Genius of Love". The Kinks namechecked Danny & the Juniors, Dion & the
Belmonts, and Johnny & the Hurricanes in "One of the Survivors". The Ramones
may be the kings of namechecking other artists in their songs. They did
shout-outs to T.Rex, John Lennon, legendary hook-handed drummer Moulty of
the Barbarians, Jerry Lee Lewis, 10cc, and the Beach Boys, among others.
Gregory Sager
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