Songs with lyrics that namecheck an artist other than the one singing it

[what]

At an Emily Capell gig last night reminded of this thread. Her songs are full of references to other musicians.
Couple of the top of my head

This one goes out to the geezers
Who think Paul Weller is the new Jesus

And

I bet you will regret
Your Morrissey tattoos
About how some girls might be bigger than me and you
Because who'd have thought that Morrissey might turn out to be a racist
You should have a got a tattoo lyric of Oasis

And I bet you will regret the amount that you might spend on trainers
Cos they don't make you play the way that Harry Kane does

 

[1927]

At an Emily Capell gig last night reminded of this thread. Her songs are full of references to other musicians.
Couple of the top of my head

This one goes out to the geezers
Who think Paul Weller is the new Jesus

And

I bet you will regret
Your Morrissey tattoos
About how some girls might be bigger than me and you
Because who'd have thought that Morrissey might turn out to be a racist
You should have a got a tattoo lyric of Oasis

And I bet you will regret the amount that you might spend on trainers
Cos they don't make you play the way that Harry Kane does

Which band is Harry Kane in?

 

[what]

Which band is Harry Kane in?

Probably this lot

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spurs&ved=2ahUKEwizn7Tkhbv0AhVNUcAKHYAwBmkQFnoECCQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw37AEZjNGzWW9b5UFahcWcr

 

[isvicthere?]

Which band is Harry Kane in?

Tottie Hot and the Spurs.

 

[nogojones]

St Germain - What's New



name-checks:

Dj Pierre
Easy Street Crew
Todd Edwards
Dimitri of Paris (not Powys)
Loey
Mandrax
Little Louie Vega
Kenny Dope Gonzales
Frankie Knuckles
Todd Terry
Roger Sanchez

 

[Idris2002]

Christy Moore's Lisdoonvarna -

A cousin of mine goes pot holing

A cousing of hers lives Joe Dolan

And:

A 747 for Jackson Browne

They had to build a special runway just to get him down

There's Adam, Bono, and Garret Fitzgerald,

Getting their photo taken for the Sunday World

And that's not even the whole song!

 

[hitmouse]

Another clutch of related songs:
Motorhead wrote a song about how good the Ramones were:

Which the Ramones then covered (only youtube video I could find didn't seem to work though)

Oh, another related song to go here, Motorhead also had a song called Motorhead, which definitely doesn't count as "lyrics that namecheck an artist other than the one singing it", but then Poison Idea covered it, which does:


I think they also just say the word Motorhead at the start of Give It Up?

Totally unrelated, but the Mountain Goats had the memorably-named Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident:


And a song about a fictional death metal band - does it count if the other artist is imaginary?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I’ve never thrown my knickers at you and I don’t come from Wales.

 

[isvicthere?]

Which band is Harry Kane in?

Maybe a bitt too young for this one...

 

[Siouxsie]

 

[May Kasahara]

 

[hitmouse]

I WANNA DANCE TO SOPHIE

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Fall, The Beatles, Mick Hucknall, Lee Scratch Perry....and more.

I love this tune.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Stock Aitken & Waterman, John Lennon

 

[Pickman's model]

Surprised we haven't had pictures of matchstick men yet

 

[PTK]

Does not Blinded by the Light by Bruce Springsteen name check Mozart?

 

[belboid]

Does not Blinded by the Light by Bruce Springsteen name check Mozart?

“The go-kart Mozart” yes indeed. A bit dubes, but hey ho

 

[belboid]

I can’t believe I haven’t already said:

Julian Cope - Bill Drummond Said

Bill Drummond - Julian Cope is Dead

 

[hitmouse]

Does not Blinded by the Light by Bruce Springsteen name check Mozart?

I believe Roll Over Beethoven mentions both Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.

 

[Elpenor]

LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is playing in my house

Dire Straits - Calling Elvis has extended references to Elvis’s songs

Calling Elvis
Is anybody home?
Calling Elvis
I'm here all alone
But did he leave the building?
Or can he come to the phone?
Calling Elvis
I'm here all alone
Well, tell him I was calling
Just to wish him well
Let me leave my number
Heartbreak hotel
Oh, love me tender
Baby, don't be cruel
Return to sender
Treat me like a fool

 

[mojo pixy]

The Teenage Mutant Hero/Ninja Turtles TV cartoon theme mentions Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo.

(of course those are also the characters but nvm, we know where their names come from!)

 

[Knotted]

Have we had Mack the Knife yet? Various versions name checking various other versions.

 

[andysays]

“The go-kart Mozart” yes indeed. A bit dubes, but hey ho

So that's where Lawrence got the name from

 

[hitmouse]

I just read someone use the phrase "sign of the times" and my head instantly filled in "like Prince changing his name":

Various others are mentioned.

 

[maomao]

The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song by Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard mentions:

Leonard Cohen
Sid Vicious
and 'my friend Dave' who may well be the sadly departed David Berman of Silver Jews/Purple Mountains 'fame'.