Rock and Roll artist allusions

[Winston Legthigh]

Dylan:

 

I was thinkin' 'bout Alicia Keys, couldn't keep from crying

When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line

I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be

I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee

[PopTodd]

Mojo Nixon - "Elvis is Everywhere"

[Chez]

Mojo Nixon - "Elvis is Everywhere"

He also wrote a hilarious song about Don Henley ("Don Henley Must Die").

[u2roolz]

R.E.M. is name dropped in Pavement’s Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence & The National’s Not In Kansas. Not only is the band name dropped, but so are some of their songs. Well, just one song is mentioned in The National song.

[bcdoc]

Bruce Cockburn in “”Last Night of the World”:

“I'm sipping Flor De Caña* and lime juice, it's three a.m.

Blow a fruit fly off the rim of my glass

The radio's playing Superchunk and the friends of Dean Martinez”

[Chez]

The Dandy Warhols "Cool as Kim Deal."

[TCP]

44 Teenagers from the last Sloan record directly references Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip. Great song too.

Margo Price mentions Levon Helm in A Little Pain.
 

Have you guys ever heard the tune American Pie by Don McLean? It's awesome.

 
I'm afraid you're mistaken, I'm almost certain that's a Madonna song from the 00s. 
 
 
 

[chuckrh]

GBV - Pendulum

 

"Come on over tonight; we'll put on some Cat Butt and do it up right."

winner winner chicken dinner!

[chuckrh]

Is David Bowie Dying? - The Flaming Lips 

[Yaz Rock]

Allusions, or references?

"Allusion: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference."

 

I guess we are going for references here.

 

Pearl Jam - "Santa Cruz"

"I got Neil Young on the stereo
He comes along whenever I go"

 

 

Elvis:

Richard Thompson - "From Galway to Graceland"
Mark Knopfler - "Back To Tupelo"

 

Old 97s - "Ray Charles"

 

Rhett Miller - "Christie's Got a Guitar" - references Marc Bolan

The Who - "You Better You Bet"

"I got your body right now on my mind and I drunk myself blind
To the sound of old T-Rex
To the sound of old T-Rex, who's next?"
 

 

Possible allusion! "Gullible's Travels" by Soul Asylum may or may not be an allusion to Soundgarden, who were getting more attention from their label A&M:
"Woke up, was cold and his manager had sold him
It's louder than love but don't think they know what it means"

[i'm only sleeping]

Iron Prostate - 'Bring Me The Head Of Jerry Garcia'

[PopTodd]

He also wrote a hilarious song about Don Henley ("Don Henley Must Die").

I just remembered that, and was about to come back and post it. But you beat me to it!

How about another Mojo classic:

"Debbie Gibson is Pregnant With My 2-Headed Love Child"

?

Or then, a non-Mojo song...

Jonathan Richman - "Velvet Underground"

[jff]

He also wrote a hilarious song about Don Henley ("Don Henley Must Die").

 

Speaking of Don Henley, he had that song about seeing a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.

 

I remember hearing a Hank Williams 3 song where he sings something about Dickey Betts, then plays a hilarious Dickey Betts-esque guitar part. 

[Plumplechook]

Half Man Half Biscuit : 

 

"I'll wipe my snot on the arm of your chair, 

Because you've got a Roger Dean poster on the wall"

[jw harding]

the Grateful Dead's Uncle John's Band is a reference to John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers. Some years later Dylan would pay tribute to the Ramblers in his song Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, which references many Rambler's songs, and lifts the music from the song, you guessed it, Uncle John's Bongos.

 

Much more here:

 

http://swarmuth.blogspot.com/2015/12/bob-dylans-secret-answer-record-uncle.html

[Chez]

The Smithereens' "Wall of Sleep" references Bill Wyman.

[Chez]

Pavement's "Range Life" roasts Smashing Pumpkins and Stone Temple Pilots.

 

Another from Pavement ("Stereo"):

 

What about the voice of Geddy Lee

How did it get so high?

I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?

(I know him and he does)

[tinnitus photography]

you're my fact-checkin' cuz...

[jff]

The Beastie Boys have got more attractions than Elvis Costello, everything they do is funky like Lee Dorsey, you can plug them in like they was Eddie Harris, they're on like Dr. John (yeah, Mr. ZuZu), they're like Buddy Rich when they fly off the handle,  etc.

[tinnitus photography]

Malkmus - "Lariat"

We lived on Tennyson and venison and The Grateful Dead
It was Mudhoney summer, Torch of Mystics, Double Bummer

[chuckrh]

He also wrote a hilarious song about Don Henley ("Don Henley Must Die").

legend has it that Don Henley walked out on stage during the song at a Mojo show. it is said that for the first time in his life Mojo was left speechless...