Songs that mention the bands that sing them...
 

Can anyone think of songs that mention the very bands that sing them? There are a few. Some of them do so, coincidentally but others are quite deliberate. Here's my list and I'm sure you can all add to it...

Actual References:

• Lucas - Lucas With the Lid Off ('Cause it's Lucas with the lid off...)
• Prince - My Name Is Prince (My name is Prince and I am funky...)
• Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight (Everybody have fun, tonight. Everybody Wang Chung, tonight...)
• Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Rock your body right, Backstreet's back, alright...)
• Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (Shay with a gauge and Vanilla with a nine...)

Coincidental Mentionings:

• Big Country - In a Big Country (In a big country, dreams stay with you...)
• Talk Talk - Talk Talk (All you do to me is talk talk...)
• Queen - Killer Queen (She's a killer queen, gunpowder gelatine...)
• Human League - Human (Human, born to make mistakes...)
• The Who - Who are you (Who are you. Who who, who who...)

Bad Company - Bad Company
Boston - Rock N Roll Band

Brand New - Mix Tape

Just about every Limp Bizkit song... I'm confident that My Generation and Rollin do. Also, Take a Look Around (M:I 2 song). Then again, Fred Durst is a tool and can't rhyme so what can you do.

311 - Livin' and Rockin' (Can't nobody do it like 311 fuckin up competition cause there really is none)

It seems like every rapper has to plug himself 100 times in each song. It's one of the reasons I hate rap.

Metallica - Hit the Lights
"We'll never stop, we'll never quit cause we're Metallica."

The Dismemberment Plan - The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich (fun song)
The Dismemberment Plan - Do the Standing Still

In Fargo, six or seven kids watch the Plan in a strip mall
I thought they were bored out of their skulls but it turned out they were having a ball, uh-huh!
Whah-oo-ooh, well they were do the brand new step that everybody isn't moving to!
They were doing the standing still.

I think the Rolling Stones released a cover of 'Like A Rolling Stone'

In "Purple Stain" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, they mention John Frusciante (band's guitarist)

The Prodigy - Diesel Power

Fast forward, I move and I swings toward
Exit load, put your brain in right mode
Selected mix, the man will perfect the fix (the man with perfected fix?) has lightly bite me
Copy zimmers (Xerox?), cops handblocks

You cant knock some out there
Ill be (upbeat?) lifting, shifting, persisting, intelligent kingpin
Keepin astrology
As I roll with <b>Prodigy</b>

With Diesel Power
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fanta...

coincidental:

"i'll grow old
start acting my age
ill be a brand new day in a life that you hate"

-Brand New - The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot

Some old KMFDM: A Drug Against War, Light, Sucks, Inane, Megalomaniac (both KMFDM and "Kein mitleid fur die mehrheit",) Sturm & Drang, Intro


Also, Eminem mentions either himself or "Slim Shady" in most of his songs

They Might be Giants: They Got Lost
Reel Big Fish: Trendy ("Everybody's doing the fish")
O.A.R. : That Was a Crazy Game of Poker (" I say Of, you say A, I say Revolution")



Incidental:
Porno for Pyros - Porno For Pyros

Geez.. KMFDM is the dominator of this category. The most self-absorbed rap artist doesn't even mention himself as much as they do.

I think you mean Whiplash. I love that song. :)

And "We are Mötorhead" by Mötorhead.

Anal Cunt - "Everyone in Anal Cunt is Gay"

Spice Girls - Love Thing -
"On and On with the girls named Spice,
You wanna get with us, then you'd better think twice"

GWAR

Every rapper there has been has mentioned themselves at least nine times in each song.

Some of the songs by the Toasters make referene to themselves, however I can't really remember the names at this moment.

KMFDM definetly takes the cake for this one.

iron maiden - iron maiden

Won't you come into my room, I wanna show you all my wares.
I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare.
See the blood begin to flow as it falls upon the floor.
Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought.

*Chorus*:
Oh Well, wherever, wherever you are,
Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far.
See the blood flow watching it shed up above my head.
Iron Maiden wants you for dead.

Won't you come into my room, I wanna show you all my wares.
I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare.
See the blood begin to flow as it falls upon the floor.
Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought.

Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie:
"Now I'm a crushed credit card registered to Smith"

James Taylor - "Sweet Baby James"

Old and In the Way - "Old and In the Way"

The Beastie Boys - "Fight for your Right to Party"

Bob Dylan - "I Shall Be Free"

Aphex Twin -
The Waxen Pith
Wax the Nip
Wet Tip Hen Ax
Next Heap With
are all anagrams of "The Aphex Twin" and
Acrid Avid Jamshred
is an anagram of Richard David James.

KMFDM also has the songs Welcome and Dirty.

I bet there are more, but i couldnt think of any.

The Tragically Hip - Grace, Too

Great fuckin song by the way. ;)

Reverend Horton Heat - Reverend Horton Heat's Big Blue Car

Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan (only in the title.... mogwai sort of don't have lyrics :P ... well, in a few songs they do)

They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants

the blood brothers - mutiny on the ark of the blood brothers

The Hives - The Hives Introduce the Metric System in Time

The Hives - The Hives Declare Guerre Nucleaire

And of course....

Snoop Dogg - What's My Name?

Chic - Le Freak (C'est Chic)
Kind of a roundabout one, but Frank Zappa had a song called "Stevie's Spanking" about Steve Vai when he was in the band. <i>His name is Stevie Vai./He is a crazy guy/Last November I recall he needed a spankin'</i>

Snot - Snot (Snooooo-ooot!)
Soulfly - Soufly (Until we meet again. Soul fly... fly free!)
Rammstein - Rammstein
Kid Rock - Bawitaba (My name is Kiiiiiid!)


I know there are Tons! more, but can't think of any. I'll be back. Goodnite.

Sweatshop Union (Sweatshop comming through, so everybody move)

The KINKS in the song "The Road", Ray doesn't really mention the band but he names the original 4 and what they did in the beginning.

"Started playing blues in a coffee bar
I took a trip down Charing Cross Road
With my imitation Gretsch guitar
And my head full of songs and my eyes full of stars
I saw a band called the Rolling Stones
I thought, "that's it, I'll get a band,
I'm leaving home, I'm out on the road."

The motorways all over this land
(The road)
Far away places like Wigan and Birmingham
(The road)
Didn't have no name, didn't have any fans
(The road)
Didn't have no money so we slept in the van

All those early gigs we ever played
Sometimes we were lucky if we even got paid
On the road
Pete played on the bass guitar
Liked to get around, mixing with all the stars
But Mrs. Avory's child was all fingers and thumbs
But solid as a rock, setting time on the drums
While Dave the Rave hit the rock 'n' roll riffs
Yours truly strummed away with a slightly limp wrist
On the road"

KMFDM, better than the best
Megalomanical and harder than the rest

sort of:

Morrissey - OUIJA BOARD, OUIJA BOARD

The table is rumbling
The glass is moving
"No, I was NOT pushing that time"
It spells : S.T.E.V.E.N

Steely Dan "Show Biz Kids"

They got the shapely bods...
They got the Steely Dan T-shirt...

Will2k by Will Smith

"The new millennium Excuse me, Willenium"

CLEVER, WILL!! CLEVER!!

Hickey - Revolution $19.95
Mr T Experience - T-Shirt Commercial

Lots of Tenacious D. They mention themselves in a lot of their songs.

even though they insist on no one calling them a "band" and they aren't a band anyways, D12 - My Band. lmao.

Pink Floyd "Have a Cigar"

The band is just fantastic,
that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

jimmy ray - are you jimmy ray

and every rapper ever

The Puhdys with Till Lindemann of Rammstein guest singing:

Till's lyrics in [ ]'s

Sag mir, wie weit willst Du geh'n
willst Du ihn am Boden seh'n
[Ja]
willst Du, daß er vor Dir kniet
willst Du, daß er um Gnade fleht

Rachegedanken von Demut gepeitscht
Du siehst und hörst nichts mehr
Deine kranken Gefühle
geben ihm keine Chance
Deine Wut will nicht sterben
nur dafür lebst Du noch

Du kannst, Du willst und wirst nie vergeben
und Du verteufelst sein ganzes Leben
treibst in den Wahnsinn von
maßlosem Zorn, Vernichtung und Rache,
Du bist zum Hassen gebor'n

[Meine Wut will nicht sterben
Meine Wut will nicht sterben
Meine Wut stirbt nie]

Deinen Hass rammst Du wie einen Stein
in ihn hinein
[Rammstein]
hast ihn verfolgt, gejagt und verflucht
und er hat kriechend das Weite gesucht

Du kannst, Du willst und wirst nie vergeben
und Du verteufelst sein ganzes Leben
treibst in den Wahnsinn von
maßlosem Zorn, Vernichtung und Rache,
Du bist zum Hassen gebor'n

[Meine Wut will nicht sterben
Meine Wut will nicht sterben
Meine Wut stirbt nie]

Du kannst, Du willst und wirst nie vergeben
und Du verteufelst sein ganzes Leben
treibst in den Wahnsinn von
maßlosem Zorn, Vernichtung und Rache,
Du bist zum Hassen gebor'n

[Meine Wut will nicht sterben
Meine Wut will nicht sterben
meine Wut stirbt nie]

Oh my lord that song was the WORST! And I knew every single word... Sigh...


Dashboard Confessional - The Sharp Hint of New Tears
"On the way home this car hears my confessions"

Well, thats where he got the name for the project anyway....

I think Bo Diddley beats KMFDM in this category...

Hendrix is always sayin things like "its Jimi talkin to ya" and "move over rover and let Jimi take over"... I think that counts.

Counting Crows- A Murder of One

"I dreamt i saw you walking/Up A hillside in the snow/Casting shadows on the winter sky/As you stood there counting crows"

In LA Woman by the Doors, "Mr Mojo Risin'" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.

The song became a lot dorkier once I found that out.

In real slim shady eminem mentions himself 20 times, anyone beat that? :D

Black Betty by Ram Jam.

Reel Big Fish, "I'm Cool", is slightly subtle about it:

Maybe you'll come and see us
When we get real big
And maybe you'll see us
If we ever get another gig
Because there're so many fish in the sea
They all look like me
I'm just a little tiny fish
That's all I'll ever be

Chaka Khan from the 70's

Wild Wild West by the Escape club
In the Zone by Brittney Spears.

In Motley Crue's cover of "Smokin' in the Boys Room" the lead singer (Vince Neil) mentions the other band members by name.

The Beastie Boys name themselves, like most rappers. I can't remember the tune but the line is: "we're the beastie boys not cheech and chong." (Rhymin' and Stealin' maybe?)

...oh and I hate to double post, but how could we forget.... Rico Suave.

Informer by Snow

Yup. I have his Chess Box Set and about 2/3 of the song titles have his name in them. Bo Diddley 1969 is a favorite.

You, like so many others, are incorrect.

The artists name is GERARDO, not RICO SUAVE.

How about every Beastie Boys song?

YOU CAN TELL WHAT HE'S SAYING!?!?!?

Well, I'll be a licky boom boom down.

That was mine... I don't know any others