Why do they never play Les Savy Fav on the radio - Jetplane Landing (marginally fun song, but only once).

Tom Waits - Fall Of Troy
Fall Of Troy - Tom Waits

Big Black- Pavement Saw

That's probably cheating...

Okay, Rapeman- Kim Gordon's Panties

i havent read the thread but the pavement song "unseen power of the picket fence" is an r.e.m. dedicated song...... one of their greatest songs...

Some bands I like to name check,
And one of them is REM,
Classic songs with a long history
Southern boys just like you and me.
R - E - M
Flashback to 1983,
Chronic Town was their first EP
Later on came Reckoning
Finster's art, and titles to match:
South Central Rain, Don't Go Back To Rockville,
Harbourcoat, Pretty Persuasion,
You were born to be a camera,
Time After Time was my least favourite song,
Time After Time was my least favourite song.
The singer, he had long hair
And the drummer he knew restrait.
And the bass man he had all the right moves
And the guitar player was no saint.
So lets go way back to the ancient times
When there were no 50 states,

And on a hill there stands Sherman
Sherman and his mates.
And they're marching through Georgia,
we're marching through Georgia,
we're marching through Georgia
G-G-G-G-Georgia
They're marching through Georgia,
we're marching through Georgia,
marching through Georgia
G-G-G-G-Georgia
and there stands REM

(Aye Sir, Aye Sir, Aye Sir they're coming, Aye Sir, move those wagons, Aye
Sir, Artillery's in place Sir, Aye Sir, Aye Sir, hide it, hide it, Aye

televison personalities- part time punks
irish band giveamanakick in one song has a lyric "you are thurston for a moore"
Sir, run, run.)

free kitten track, cant remember name its on nice ass has a lyric "huggy bear!!!"

that sonic youth song from nurse where they talk about bbking and buddy guy
minutemen-history lesson part II-bob dylan, joe strummer e bloom john doe richard hell.
crass-punk is dead-steve jones, patti smiththe clash,
sonic youth-providence-mike watt (hahaha)
the minutemen-one reporters opinion, history lesson II and a few more-mike watt (less funny than before)

Gimme Indie Rock by Sebadoh (VU, Stooges, Pussy Galore, Thurston Moore, Dinosaur, Hüsker Dü, and Sonic Youth.)

I remember hearing "Frank Zappa" on one of the tracks off The Weirdness, but I forget which.

Regina Spektor - On The Radio - Mentions GNR's November Rain
Weezer - El Scorcho - Mentions Green Day

Neil Young - Borrowed Tune (Rolling Stones)

fugazifan got it first, but I'll name it anyway.

Sonic Youth - New Hampshire (references Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Johnny Winter, and two dudes name Steve and Joe)

Thurston Moore - Ono Soul (I don't know if somebody mentioned it before)

Donna Summer's I Feel Love was about her five year affair with Love's loping, loathsome, lily-livered, limp-wristed, overrated, over-sized, overbearing, cockeyed, cock squiff, big cocked, big haired, fat assed, fat faced, fatuous, freaky, beaky, squeaky-voiced, mealy-mouthed, touchy feely, creepy crawly, fat, twat, shat in her hat, Arthur Lee.

Does anyone else think it's shit to namecheck other bands unless you're hip-hop or Mark E Smith?

what about Eddie Cochran's Three Stars. Mentions the 3 legends that are J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Ritchie "Lou Diamond Phillips in La Bamba" Valens, and Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holl"e"y

biff bang pow had a song called long live neil young and all who sail in him.

hayden, johnny merzbow is actually this fictitious character me and my friend lyrch reference in our respective bands. it comes from an old ruinhorse lyric.. "JOHNNY MERZBOW!@ SCANNER COP!"

however, scissor shock does have a song subtitled "holy shit the olsen twins just joined wolf eyes!"

The Human League 1/The Future - The New Pink Floyd
TVPs - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
Rapeman - Kim Gordon's Panties

weezer - buddy holly
sonic youth -sugar kane, marylin moore (marylin monroe)

PAULYBEE already mentioned TV Personalities' Part Time Punks (they'd like to buy the O Level's single [...] but they buy the Lurkers instead [...] but they always got 2.50, to go and see the Clash - tonight).

TVP titled one great album They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles.
TVP songs :
Posing at the Roundhouse (I flirted with the idea of creating a t-shirt for the DDN stop there, with some reshuffling of the lyrics, but found it was too much trouble and time) - they mention Billy (Idol).
I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
Where's Bill Grundy Now? - reference to the Sex Pistols on television.
Sad Mona Lisa - "She likes to go shopping on saturdays, especially to Kensington Market, for acid house records her mother hates, and posters of Morten Harket" (A-Ha singer)
Salvador Dali's Garden Party - lyrics would change if they played live, on the studio version Debbie Harry was there, live Jesus & the Mary Chain were there, Iggy Pop was there, TV Personalities were there and so on.
Evan Doesn't Ring Me Anymore - Evan being Evan Dando.
Goodnight Mr Spaceman - "Oh, the train's gone past my station, oh bloody hell, I wish I'd signed to Creation [...] I've taken three e's but I still can't dance like Bobby Gillespie"

Gainsbourg wrote Beau oui comme Bowie for Isabelle Adjani.

Thee Headcoats - I Hate the Fucking NME (David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Sting, Paul Weller, Beck, Rocket From the Crypt, the Clash, Boyzone, Spice Girls, even me in the NME...)

Jonathan Richman recorded a song called Velvet Underground about the group, on a jolly nice record called I, Jonathan.

The Launderettes, from Oslo - WWJJD, What Would Joan Jett Do?

One more from the TVPs, on their new album theres a track called Velvet Underground :
"its the eighth mystery of the world Ive found how did the Velvet Underground get that sound?"
"don't sit under the apple tree with anyone but Lou Reed"

fucking sublime stuff

Syd Barrett- Bob Dylan Blues

Jeffrey Lewis - New Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror - a fine song, references Dylan and Young, but is mainly about getting raped by a Will Oldham look-alike. Great stuff!

Built to Spill-Distopian Dream Girl. "My stepfather looks just like David Bowie, but he hates david bowie."

Outl4w : "sonic youth"

She wrote this because of his fondness for dressing up like a girl when he was a little boy.

But my favorite.

Juliana Hatfield - "My Sister"

Lyric: "It was the Violent Femmes, and the Del Fuegos..."

awful!

neil young - my my, hey hey. johnny rotten.

Tim Rogers - The Smoking Popes

great song.

negativland mentioned bono a lot!

half japanese - no more beatlemania
moldy peaches - d2 boyfriend (mentions duran duran)
ciccone youth - tuff titty rap (again, mike watt)
giant drag - slayer
weezer - in the garage (kiss)
weezer - jamie (the beach boys, the [rolling] stones)
new radicals - you get what you give (beck, hanson, courtney love, marilyn manson)
red hot chili peppers - deep kick (butthole surfers)
red hot chili peppers - tear (the distillers)
bloodhound gang - fire, water, burn (frank black, jimi hendrix, marvin gaye, barry white, there's probably more but I'll stop there)

also mentions sham 69 and the cockney rejects.

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*red hot chili peppers - coffee shop (iggy pop)
*xiu xiu - dr. troll (galaxie 500, nick drake)
*blacklisted - wish (cat power)
*pantera - goddamn electric (black sabbath, slayer)
*pre - that song that goes "we sound like melt-banana" can't remember the title.
*anal cunt - tons of bands that are gay/wished they died/etc.
*s.o.d. - the ballad of jimi hendrix, et al; king at the king/evil is in (king diamond), celtric frosted flakes (celtic frost).
*sunn o))) - fwtbt (metallica)

xiu xiu also mentions the pogues, unless that's already been mentioned on this thread.

The Fall mentioned Captain Beefheart on a lot of songs, the most recent being on "reformation"... on the new album, on 50 year old man, he goes, "Don't forget you tried to ruin me, Steve Albini." or something along those lines.

Bad Religion mentions themselves in "21st Century Digital Boy" and "Walk Away" which may not be what you're looking for, but oh well. They kind of say it in a 3rd person way, instead of saying "Hey! We're bad religion!"

In reply to one of the above posts, I find it a little odd that Thee Headcoats would hate Rocket from the Crypt. If you're familiar at all with those two bands.. it just seems odd. Then again, the dude from Six Organs said he hates John Fahey's music so who knows....

oh Hayden already mentioned the pogues in hives hives.

hypocrite.

i'm losing a lot of respect for ben chasny, starting with that mediocre shelter from the ash album.

Yeah, I read some interview, some guy asked about Robbie Basho and Ben was like, "Yeah, he's okay." And the guy asked about Fahey and Ben was like, "No, I don't like his music at all. He's never been an influence. I like a lot of his writings though."

I mean, seriously, you're playing predominantly finger picked acoustic guitar stuff, how can you not like the GOD of that type of music?! That just makes no sense to me honestly. I mean, personal taste is personal taste so I try to give the benefit of the doubt that he may just not love Fahey's songs and that's understandable I GUESS...but Fahey's music is so pure and technical that I just can't see it not inspiring Ben at all. I also read another interview where he said he hates comparisons to Fahey, and he said people aren't even listening to his music, all they hear is an acoustic guitar and they automatically make the assumption that he's influenced by Fahey.

instant rep for anyone who knows what im talking about

blood sausage.... billy joel.

Can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
"From Station to station, back to Düsseldorf City. Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie"

And off course Bowie's V2-Schneider is named after Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider

weezer - Jamie mentions Kiss and Beach Boys, if I remember correctly
weezer - susanne mentions Izzy, Slash, and Axl Rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_gv7YzIzY

Whoooo the fucking hell are sliiiiiipknot

Porcupine Tree's "Fear Of a Blank Planet"

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My friend says he wants to die,
He's in a band, they sound like Pearl Jam,
Their clothes are all black,
The music is crap

don't know if anyone mentioned this one: Nurse With Wound - Strain, Crack, Break
and The Residents mention Kurt Cobain in one of their songs (don't remember which one)