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Weezer - Susanne

 

Even Izzy, Slash and Axl Rose

When I call you put them all on hold

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Mary Lou Lord's "His Indie World" is a name dropping tour-de-force.

 

Among my personal favorites are Naked Raygun mentioning the Adolescents on "Entrapment" and Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Roy Orbison on "Wonder Beer", and Dillinger Four referencing Otis Redding (complete with a sample) on "doublewhiskeycokenoice".

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wilco - bob dylan's beard

 

akron/family - bob dylan sits and thinks pt. 1 and dylan pt 2.

 

and

 

 

Songs that mention Will Oldham

 

1998 CD It Doesn't Make Sense by Readymade contains the song "No Deadline"

which has the following line:

"I'm a drinker but I'm a thinker

palace-brothers here

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Rolling numbers Rock N' Rolling got my Kiss records out

Surrender-Cheap Trick

 

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

And of course...this one :D

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George Jones-Who's gonna fill their shoes.

 

 

You know this old world is full of singers

But just a few are chosen

To tear your heart out when they sing

Imagine life without them

All your, radio heros

Like the outlaw that walks through Jesse's dream

 

No, there will never be another

Red-headed stranger

A Man in Black and Folsom Prison Blues

The Okie from Muskogee

Or Hello Darling

Lord I wonder, who's gonna fill their shoes

 

(Chorus:)

Who's gonna fill their shoes

Who's gonna stand that tall

Who's gonna play the Opry

And the Wabash Cannonball

Who's gonna give their heart and soul

To get to me and you

Lord I wonder, who's gonna fill their shoes

 

God bless the boys from Memphis

Blue Suede Shoes and Elvis

Much too soon he left this world in tears

They tore up the Fifties

Old Jerry Lee and Charlie

And old Go Cat Go still echoes through the years

 

You know the heart of country music

Still beats in Luke the Drifer

You can tell when he sings I Saw the Light

Old Marty, Hank and Lefty

Why I can feel them right here with me

On this Silver Eagle rolling through the night

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Silver Heels

Fleetwood Mac (written by Bob Welch, on Heroes are Hard to Find)

 

She came in like a hurricane

Wearing boots and diamond rings

With a fox fur on her shoulder

She set wondering

 

And I could tell she was feeling abandoned

Because she flashed a look across my way

She said hop for a ride

You'll never ask me but I'll tell you anyway

 

She took me out on the blackboard jungle

Put me straight in a hurricane

She hypnotized my eyes with her silver heeled ways

If I could sing like Paul McCartney, or get funky like Etta James

I'd never change, I'd never change, I'd never change silver heeled ways

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Hank III's "Country Heroes" references George Jones, David Alan Coe, Merle Haggard, Hank I, and Johnny Cash. He also references Coe and Jones in "Thrown Out of the Bar".

That's a pretty decent double album, too.

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