name dropping in rock music

[HighFives]

what bands/artists drop names of other bands/artists in dere songs?

 

 

here's some I can think of.

 

smog - a hit -

"never be a bowie never be an eno. I'll only ever be a gary newman"

 

bobby conn - cashing objections -

"Elton John came on the radio where I work and he had a song h'ed written just for me and he sang it and it was beautiful"

 

beck - fume -

"got some molly hatchet goin on the radio"

 

 

theres more but I can't think of em now. what are some others?

[froggie]

counting crows and hootie mention Dylan

 

lynyrd skynyrd and Dylan mention Neil young

[rwrkb]

snow patrol mention sufjan in that horrible single from their latest album, i thought it was a pretty great namedrop.

[El Picador]

Pavement

 

What about the voice of geddy lee

How did it get so high?

I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?

 

Out on tour with the smashing pumpkins

Nature kids, i/they don't have no function

I don't understand what they mean

And I could really give a fuck.

The stone temple pilots,

They're elegant bachelors

They're foxy to me are they foxy to you?

I will agree there isn't absolutely nothing

Nothing more than me

[tongue-tied]

i heard this song awhile ago that mentions Jeff Tweedy and Liz Phair by name, but i forget what its called.

[cryptique]

LEONARD BERNSTEIN

[TCP]

John name drops Paul in Glass Onion.

[rwrkb]

dylan name drops alicia keys on his latest

[mjpuczko]

neil also mentions dylan in a song

dbt/jason isbell name drop danko/manuel & skynyrd

[moxiebean]

Pavement also wrote a whole song about REM's Reckoning - "The Unseen Power of Picket Fences"

[HighFives]

I forgot how it goes exactly but sebadoh names drops lotsa peeps in "Gimme Indie Rock"

 

"Pedal Hopping like a Dinosaur J"

 

"getting loose w/ the pussy galore

cracking jokes like a thurston moore"

 

"breakin down the barriers like sonic youth"

 

I think there are more in that song but I forgot em.

[froggie]

Neil young also mentions Jimmy page/Zeppelin on rockin in the free world

 

Jimmy barnes mentions Waylon Jennings

 

Robert plant mentions John paul jones in Royal orleans (although not by his real name)

[anodyne]

NoFX - Punk Guy

 

 

Crazier than GG,

More PC than Ian.

Got colored teeth like Johnny,

Exludes a vicious disposition.

His hair sticks out like Colin's did, he jumps,

Similar to Springa, he points his middle finga.

Not just he singer in the band.

Voted biggest asshole, and role model of the year.

Got a face like Charles Bronson,

Straight outta Green Bay Wisconsin,

Not just a singer in the band.

He'll puke on you, he'll fuck your mom,

He'll smoke while huffing gas.

He was the punkest mother fucker I ever did see.

'Ah Hell he's even more punk than me.'

He should've been on the cover,

He should've been on the cover,

He should've been on the cover of Punk and Disorderly (Volume II)

 

[References In This Song]

[Crazier than GG: GG Allin was in the Jabbers, the Scumfucs, Antiseen and the Murder Junkies. He died on June 28, 1993 of a heroin overdose at the age of thirty-six]

[More PC than Ian: Ian MacKaye was supposed to have started the whole sXe thing]

[Got colored teeth like Johhny: Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols]

[Exudes a VICIOUS disposition: Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols]

[His hair sticks out like Colins did: Colins from GBH, he had big hair]

[He jumps similair to Springa: The guy from SSD]

[jahilia]

Paul Westerberg - "I take it you'll be taking me to Sheryl Crow". I might be hearing it wrong though, it may be "share a crow", which is probably the better lyric anyway.

[caliber66]

Emmet Swimming - "I live next to Fugazi" from the song "Arlington"

[KevinG]

Off the top of my head:

 

Counting Crows mention Ben Folds (Not sure what song)

Rufus Wainwright mentions Lenoard Cohen, Jane Curtin and John Lithgow (Want)

Ben Lee mentions Good Charoltte, Sleepy Jackson, and Beyonce (Catch My Disease)

Eef Barzely mentions Ludicris (Ballad of Bitter Honey)

[HighFives]

pavement mentions paul westerberg

 

"westerberg he is so adult now" or something like that.

[Lammycat]

King Missile mention the one-armed drummer from Def Leppard, G'n R, and the Stones in "Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die", Otis Redding in "The Way To Salvation," and Hendrix in "Jesus Was Way Cool."

 

Jay-Z references the Grateful Dead in "Encore."

[cryptique]

Barenaked Ladies mention Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield (first names only) in the song "Jane."

[HighFives]

Barenaked Ladies mention Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield (first names only) in the song "Jane."

 

 

speaking of Dando, Alan Licht has an album called "The Evan Dando of Noise"

[mrrice]

I liked Weezer's mention of Green Day in El Scorcho.

"How cool is that?"

[tapmyglass]

hold steady drops a couple members of The Band, along with steve perry in The Swish

 

 

she said my name is rick danko but people call me one-hour photo

she said my name is robbie robertson but people call me robo

she said my name is steve perry but people call me circuit city

[Willkoman]

Neil mentions Hendrix, Page & Zeppelin in "Downtown" from Mirrorball

 

"Jimi's playin' in the back room

Led Zeppelin on stage

There's a mirror ball twirlin'

And a note from Page"

 

Also from Neil, "Hank To Hendrix" speaks for itself.

 

And Neil speaks of John Lennon and the previously mentioned Bob Dylan on Greendale in "Devil's Sidewalk" and "Bandit" respectively:

 

Lennon:

"Big wheel keep rollin'

Down on me.

"One thing I can tell you,

Is you got to be free."

 

John Lennon said that.

And "I believe in love."

And I believe in action

When push comes to shove."

 

Dylan:

"No one can touch you now.

I can touch you now.

You're invisible.

You've got too many secrets.

 

(Bob Dylan said that.

Or something like that.)"

[Artifice]

counting crows and hootie mention Dylan

 

Embarassed that I know this, but that line actually refers to two bands/musicians.

 

"put on a little dylan, sitting on a fence"

 

refers to Bob, and to Dillon Fence, a regional indie pop band that Hootie used to tour with. They weren't too bad. A bit bland and frat rockish at times, but not as bad as Hootie was.

 

And that would have been a great line if Darius Rucker didn't follow it up with self congratulations.

[cryptique]

Embarassed that I know this, but that line actually refers to two bands/musicians.

 

"put on a little dylan, sitting on a fence"

 

refers to Bob, and to Dillon Fence, a regional indie pop band that Hootie used to tour with.

...and could also be a nod to the Housemartins.

 

 

_{I doubt it, but you never know.}