Concept Mix:Songs About Other Artists

[SG]

Replacements-Alex Chilton
Lucinda Williams-Real Life Bleeding Fingers And Broken Guitar Strings(about Paul Westerberg)
Red House Painters-Golden(about John Denver)
Eleventh Dream Day-Bomb The Mars Hotel (about the Grateful Dead )
Sebadoh-The Freed Pig,Ocean,etc. (we all know who these songs are about )
Sonic Youth-Teenage Riot(about J as president of the USA )
Kate Bush-Blow Away(there`s supposed to be a reference to Sandy Denny in it,I can`t hear it but I can`t make out every word of the song)
Son Volt-Too Early(about Townes Van Zandt)
Noise Addict(or was it Ben Lee?)-I Wish I Was Him(about Evan Dando)
Bob Mould-The Reciept(about Grant Hart)

so what songs am I forgetting?

[Robert]

Cool mix theme SG!
(and rocking avatar)

The Workhorse Movement – Keep The Sabbath Dream Alive
Nerf Herder – Pantera Fans In Love
Nerf Herder – Courtney Love

[Bucky Ramone]

The Posies – Grant Hart
the House of Love – The Beatles & the Stones
Minutemen – Political song for Michael Jackson to sing

…gonna think of some more, cool theme…..

[Bucky Ramone]

Ian Dury – Sweet Gene Vincent
Pink Floyd – Shine on you crazy diamond (about Syd Barrett)
Cowboy Junkies – Towne’s Blues (about TvZ)
Townes van Zandt – Cowboy Junkies Lament (TvZ returns the honour…)
Ciccione Youth – Two cool rock chicks listening to Neu

[Robert]

Anal Cunt – Rancid Sucks(And The Clash Sucked Too)
Anal Cunt – When I Think Of True Punk Rock Bands, I Think Of Nirvana And The Melvins.

[SG]

Juliana Hatfield-Nirvana
Van Morrison-Astral Weeks(he mentions Huddie Ledbetter AKA Leadbelly)
Buffalo Tom-Baby("I`m digging ‘New Day Rising’ " is one of the lyrics )
Buffalo Tom-Summer("where have my heroes gone today,Mick And Keith and Willie Mays")
Dayglo Abortions-Trying To Sound Like Sabbath

Actually another board had this thread,I thought I`d try it around here

Robert-my avatar is Peggy Lee circla 1950

[Bucky Ramone]

Okkervil River – Listening to Otis Redding at home during Christmas
ABC – When Smokey sings (about Smokey Robinson)
Weezer – Buddy Holly
Teenage Fanclub – Neil Jung
the Flaming Lips – Thank you Jack White (for the fiber optic Jesus you gave me) :aliensmile:

[Bucky Ramone]

Elvis section:

Alex Chilton – I wish I could meet Elvis
Cowboy Junkies – Blue moon revisited (song for Elvis)
Phil Lynott – King’s call
Dire Straits – Calling Elvis
Living Colour – Elvis is dead
Danny Mirror – I remember Elvis Presley (this infamous Dutch Elvis tribute was in the stores a day after Elvis Presley died….. )

Others:

Blonde Redhead – Young Neil
Neil Young – Buffalo Springfield again
Calexico – Not even Stevie Nicks
Mike Watt – Intense song for Madonna to sing
Yo la Tengo – Let’s save Tony Orlando’s house
Songs:Ohia – Steve Albini’s Blues
Long Beach Dub Allstars – Fugazi
Mojo Nixon – Don Henley must die
Nerf Herder – Van Halen
the Freshies – I can’t get ‘Bouncing Babies’ by Teardrop Explodes
Camper Van Beethoven – ZZ Top goes to Egypt

[Bucky Ramone]

Dandy Warhols – Cool as Kim Deal
Rapeman – Kim Deal’s panties
Anouk – Tom waits
Johnny Dowd – Woody Guthrie Blues
Robbie Fulks – That Bangle girl
Moțrhead РR.A.M.O.N.E.S.

a small sidestep to movie stars:
Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s dead
Yo la Tengo – Tom Courtenay
Toy Dolls – Yul Brynner was a skinhead
Eels – Grace Kelly Blues
Kim Carnes – Betty Davis eyes

[SG]

Evaporators-Winnipeg 64(about Neil Young)
Cowboy Junkies-The Sun Comes Up It`s Tuesday Morning(I love this lyric:"I`d rather listen To Coltrane than take that shit again" )
NOFX-Kill Rock Stars(about Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill/Le Tigre)

[Bucky Ramone]

Tocotronic – Ich habe geträumt, ich wäre Pizza essen mit Mark E. Smith
They Might Be Giants – Hi, we’re the Replacements!
fIREHOSE – For the singer of REM
Pavement – Range Life (mentioning the Smashing Pumpkins and the Stone Temple Pilots)
the Go-Betweens – She sang about angels (about Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine and Kurt Cobain get mentioned)

small but important correction on a previous post:
Rapeman – Kim Gordon’s panties

[Robert]

Uncle Tupelo – D. Boon

[Bucky Ramone]

the Dream Syndicate – John Coltrane Stereo Blues
Gil Scot-Heron – Lady Day and John Coltrane
Nadine – A different kind of heartache ("She leaves the light off in the room / The boombox plays a South San Gabriel tune")
Drive-by Truckers – The night G.G. Allin came to town
Palace Brothers (Will Oldham) – For the Mekons et al.
the Replacements – Something to Du

[Samwise]

John Lennon – How do you sleep? (about Paul McCartney: ‘A pretty face may last a year or two’)

[SG]

Palace-Gezundheit(about Phil Ochs)

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