Here's another Steely Dan contribution....

Everything You Did

Where did the bastard run
Is he still around
Now you gotta tell me everything you did baby
I'm gonna get a gun
Shoot the lover down
Are you gonna tell me everything you did baby
Traces are everywhere
In our happy home
Now you better tell me everything you did baby
I jumped out of my easy chair
It was not my own
Now I want to hear about everything you did baby

chorus:
I never knew you
You were a roller skater
You gonna show me later
Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening

You know how people talk
I wonder what they say
I think you better tell me everything you did baby

Chorus:
I never knew you
You were a roller skater
You gonna show me later

You never came to me
When you were so inclined
Yes you could have told me everything you did baby
I know where baby's at
I know your filthy mind
Now you're gonna do me everything you did baby

Weezer - Buddy Holly

ABC - When Smokey Sings (Smokey Robinson, James Brown, Marvin Gaye)

Twista - Slow Jamz (Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, Ready For The World, New Edition, Minnie Ripperton, Sly and The Family Stone, Michael Jackson)

Eminem - Superman (Mariah Carey)

John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. (Frankie Lymon, Mitch Ryder, Shangri-La's, Young Rascals, Martha Reeves, James Brown)

Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart (Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston)

L.A. Style - James Brown Is Dead

Living Colour - Elvis Is Dead (Elvis Presley)

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - Elvis Is Everywhere (Elvis Presley)

U2 - Elvis Presley and America

Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Elvis Presley)

Bowling For Soup - 1985 (Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, U2, Blondie, Nirvana, Motley Crue, Limp Bizkit)

Eminem - The Real Slim Shady (Britney Spears, Will Smith, Christina Aguilera, Fred Durst, Tom Green)

LFO - Summer Girls (New Kids On The Block)

...

Then there's always the Commodores' ...."Night Shift"


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Le Tigre's "Hot Topic" namechecks a lot of singers

Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
One step behind the drum style
One step behind the drum style

Carol Rama and Eleanor Antin
Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneeman
You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but
Don't give a damn I'm listening anyway

Stop, don't you stop
I can't live if you stop
Don't you stop

Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto
Leslie Feinberg and Faith Ringgold
Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham
Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man
Don't stop

Don't you stop
We won't stop
Don't you stop

So many roads and so much opinion
So much shit to give in, give in to
So many rules and so much opinion
So much bullshit but we won't give in

Stop, we won't stop
Don't you stop
I can't live if you stop

Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney
Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O'Grady
Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis
Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison

Stop, don't you stop
Please don't stop
We won't stop

Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Cuttin Candy, David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tammy Hart, The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sissler, Shirley Muldowney, Urvashi Vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin, Diane Dimassa, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem, Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking, Cecilia Dougherty, Ariel Skrag, The Need, Vaginal Creme Davis, Alice Gerard, Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles

Oh no no no don't stop stop

The Animals It's All Meat

The sound of Muddy Waters and the voice of Jimmy Reed
When Ray Charles moans
It's all meat on that same bone
It's all meat on just one bone

When Miles Davis blows his horn,
When Ravi Shankar plays
It's all down home
But it's all meat on the same bone
It's all meat on just one bone

When Erkel Darbies walks,
When Eric Clapton talks
There's only one place it can come from
And it's all meat on the same bone
All meat, same bone,
Do it!

Don't you listen to none of them jive hip squares
Try to tell you where the blues is from
'Cause the blues is from the whole wide world
Deep within the souls of men.

When Muhammad Ali gets mad
When an Irishman drinks
It's all for a woman
It's all for his home
It's all meat on the same bone
It's all meat, same bone
It's all meat, same bone
Same bone, same thing
It's all soul, It's all meat…

LCD Soundsystem


"Daft Punk is playing in my house, MYYYY HOOOUSE...!"

Mylo :: Destroy Rock & Roll (Tom Neville Remix) (2006)

Destroy Michael Jackson
Destroy Prince
Destroy Bruce Springsteen
Destroy Van Halen
Destroy The Cars
Destroy Herbie Hancock
Destroy Men At Work
Destroy Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
Destroy Pink Floyd
Destroy Billy Joel
Destroy Madonna
Destroy Elton John
Destroy Neil Young
Destroy Patti Smith
Destroy Morris Day & The Time
Destroy John Lennon
Destroy REO Speedwagon
Destroy Huey Lewis & The News
Destroy Cyndi Lauper
Destroy Apollonia 6
Destroy Fashion
Destroy The Pretenders
Destroy Hall & Oates
Destroy Big Country

the smiths and the associates..

"William,it was really nothing"...sappusly about the associates singer..
to which the associates responded with.."stephen,you were really something"

t.rex with girl dedicated to bowie..
while lady stardust dedicated to bolan.

Prince mentions Earth Wind and Fire and some other peeps in Musicology

oops, I didn't read carfully... that one was alrady mentioned

some good calls folks, thanx


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JANFAN4L said:

JANFAN4L said:

Maybe I read too fast, but "Sweet Home Alabama" name checks Neil Young

CinisterCee said:

The song is basically a huge soundbite of a guy reading a list of popular artists. I'm thinking this soundbite was recorded sometime in 1984 because a lot of the artists he named had hits that year.

And he also calls David Bowie: "David Boo-ey."

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JANFAN4L said:

Awesome. Yeah! It read a bit 1984-centric. I'd love to hear this track. What's it on?

CinisterCee said:

The U.S. edition of Mylo's latest LP Destroy Rock & Roll. Just came out last week.



Great dance album, BTW.

Frustration by Soft Cell has a few

Frustration (x4)
I'm so tired of endless art
Love stories
I'm beginning to not give a damn
I wish I could reach right out for the untouchable
Film starring Bruce, John Wayne, Elvis Presley
Experiment with cocaine, LSD and set a bad bad example
Live a little, run a harem, be a tiger
Meet Bo Derek and be her Tarzan
Reach, reach out out
Live, live, live
Die, die, die
I, I, I, I wanna die...

Moonstar319 said:

Torch.....I love that one.

AnckSuNamun said:

Awesomeness! In my opinion, "Tainted Love" is way over-played. I'd much rather here some of their other stuff. "Sex Dwarf" always gets me dancing.

some guy wrote this song:

Who will b a guest in Ur tent?
Certainly not the ones who don't wanna repent
And keep giving guns 2 the poorest of our nation's sons
Who is gonna call U by name?
With no confusion, trinity or preacher's vain?
Who says that everytime
and opens up the eyes of the blind?
Who will b the 1 in his bed?
certainly not the 1's who put thorns on his head
and wished him dead while they took his daily bread.
Which 1 is of value to U?
The 1 depleting the oil supply
or the One that renews it
And keeps the peace...
Like the groove in Sade's sweetest taboo.
Who will b a guest in Ur tent?
R U gonna b happy with how Ur life has been spent?
Did u have open arms 4 each and everybody U met
Or did U let them die in the rain? Endless war, Poverty or hurricane...
It's time 4 another groove...
Like Sade's Sweetest Taboo.

Songs namechecking other singers/musicians fucking suck.

Novabreaker said:

the general idea or the thread?

Funkadelic's "Let's Take It To The Stage"
Earth, Hot Air, and No Fire
The Godmother (James Brown)
Slick And The Family Brick
Fool And The Gang (..heard they weren't too thrilled with that)

Dancelot said:

Hah, to be honest usually when songwriters have to namecheck other artists they've just ran out of lyrical ideas. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, you can for instance mention Joni Mitchell in a jazz-electro song of yours, but namechecking both D'Angelo and ?uestlove definitely is not cool. Neither is mentioning Macy and Common eligible for consideration for proper coolness.



Strangely enough. This seems to be one of those rare things, that "it's a white thing, they wouldn't understand" instead of "it's a black thing, they wouldn't understand". Apparently my intuition tells me name-checking black folks in a song is a totally uncool thing to do these days. Maybe Puff Daddy killed it, I don't know. Next thing I'm gonna write a new tune that mentions Ted Nugent, now that's art.

Novabreaker said:

Too late. The Circle Jerks already beat you to it 20 years ago.

minneapolisgenius said:

Then I'm gonna write about the Circle Jerks namechecking Ted Nugent. Beat that!

minneapolisgenius said:

More Steely Dan...

You be the showgirl and i'll be Sinatra
~Janie Runaway

Little Eva meets the Bleeker Street brat
~Almost Gothic

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Donald Fagen...

I hear you're mad about Brubeck
~New Frontier

With Coltrane on the KLH
~Springtime


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minneapolisgenius said:

The Byrds and The Airplane did fly
Oh, Ravi Shankar's music made me cry

The Who exploded into fired light
Hugh Masekela's music was black as night

The Grateful Dead blew everybody's mind
Jimi Hendrix baby believe me set the world on fire

~Monterey - Eric Burdon and The Animals

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Novabreaker said:

They already wrote a song about Novabreaker writing a song about them namechecking Ted Nugent.

Frank Zappa and The Mothers
Were at the best place around

~Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple



Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

~Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd


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Tribal Disorder

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