Bands calling other bands out

UrbanSprawl

Songs that reference other bands,especially slagging them off.
This is the only one I can think of at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VVj1zqbWpU

Out on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins
Nature kids, I/they don't have no function
I don't understand what they mean
And I could really give a f:)
The Stone Temple Pilots,
They're elegant bachelors
They're foxy to me
Are they foxy to you?

Of ye go!

Speedwell

There's always the classic example of Lynyrd Skynyrd in "Sweet Home Alabama" calling out Neil Young for "Southern Man". Though opinions differ: http://thrasherswheat.org/jammin/lynyrd.htm

GLaDOS

One that comes to mind is Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree, which references Pearl Jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8tgLNgXCLA

My friend says he wants to die
He's in a band
They sound like Pearl Jam
The clothes are all black
The music is crap

I'm not sure it's a dig at Pearl Jam though, but bands which copy other bands's sound. Doesn't seem like Steven Wilson to have a pop like that.

David Bowie, Prince Far I, (*cough*) Gary Glitter

Grayditch

That band the New Radicals called out "Beck & Hanson, Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson" in what is possible the ****test song of all time.

Lemming

Darkbuster - I hate the unseen

Note: for the uninitiated - as a friend of mine from Boston explained once - the Unseen are a punk band that are "too punk for punk". Hence the hate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3fSL-aOec

The Clash

Song about The New York Dolls

UrbanSprawl

Thanks Kindly for all the posts.
Never really considered what this song was about before ..Mozart,obvious really!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7km8iVCWyhM

adrian522

How do you sleep?

Not bands as such, but ex-band mates.

So sgt. pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
How do you sleep?
Ah how do you sleep at night?
You live with straights who tell you "you was king"
Jump when your mamma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you've gone it's just another day
How do you sleep?
Ah how do you sleep at night?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNjTPZW7GCU

adrian522

Song for Bob Dylan by Bowie is another one

Oh, hear this Robert Zimmerman
I wrote a song for you
About a strange young man called Dylan
With a voice like sand and glue
Some words had truthful vengeance
That could pin us to the floor
Brought a few more people on
And put the fear in a whole lot more

noby

How about slating a whole nation of bands:

https://youtu.be/5HyDHGRsDy8

Teen Anthems - Welsh bands suck.

This came out when the likes of Stereophonics, Catatonia, SFA etc were the darlings of the music media.

Lemming

noby wrote: »

How about slating a whole nation of bands:

https://youtu.be/5HyDHGRsDy8

Teen Anthems - Welsh bands suck.

This came out when the likes of Stereophonics, Catatonia, SFA etc were the darlings of the music media.

Does it count as a slating if it's true? :pac:

UrbanSprawl

Brilliant,linked onto this one as well which I would mostly agree with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAQPwBK-JoA

And this, although pot kettle black springs to mind when talking about Ween :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-fTbd8juzQ

UrbanSprawl

Lemming wrote: »

Does it count as a slating if it's true? :pac:

Could hardly call the Manics bad in fairness,they redeem that period of Welsh music.Today great bands like Future of the Left keep the Welsh flag flying.

Terrontress

Radiohead, Anyone Can Play Guitar

Grow my hair, grow my hair
I am Jim Morrison
Grow my hair
I wanna be wanna be wanna be Jim Morrison

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GIWwfWaWuaE

Zaph

Prince Buster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G45iskHxwk

duploelabs

Practically the whole of this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388888/

Donnielighto

Speedwell wrote: »

There's always the classic example of Lynyrd Skynyrd in "Sweet Home Alabama" calling out Neil Young for "Southern Man". Though opinions differ: http://thrasherswheat.org/jammin/lynyrd.htm

Did you read that mess of a link before you posted it?

(*Ahem*) Miley Cyrus meets a grimly fiendish demise by the end of the song. :pac:

Ardent

Apparently there were mutual references between the songs of Steely Dan and the Eagles back in the 70s. There's speculation that the line "they stab it with their steely knives" in Hotel California is a nod to Steely Dan.

GLaDOS

Ardent wrote: »

Apparently there were mutual references between the songs of Steely Dan and the Eagles back in the 70s. There's speculation that the line "they stab it with their steely knives" in Hotel California is a nod to Steely Dan.

Steely Dan had a lyric "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbours are listening" in their song "Everything You Did".

Elvis and The Sex Pistols

K.Flyer

Bowie / Mott the Hoople.

"And my brother's back at home 
With his Beatles and his Stones 
We never got if off on that revolution stuff 
What a drag 
Too many snags"

Speedwell

Donnielighto wrote: »

Did you read that mess of a link before you posted it?

Did you read it? I didn't write it, I just posted it to show that the "common wisdom" is not necessarily universally agreed upon. If you have issues with the page, take it up with the author, not with me.

nomdeboardie

Bowie (*sniffle* ) again, on Gary Numan (probably) in Teenage Wildlife:

A broken-nosed mogul are you
One of the new wave boys
Same old thing in brand new drag
Comes sweeping into view
As ugly as a teenage millionaire
Pretending it’s a whiz-kid world

...easy on the ad-hominems, though, Mr Jones - I am disappoint :eek::p

gramar

Bill Callaghan as Smog...A Hit


I'll never be a Bowie
I'll never be an Eno
I'll never be a Bowie
I'll never be an Eno
I'll only ever be a Gary Numan

Olishi4

Flight of the Concords - Bowie

So funny

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zV4pJ8MwM

mordeith

Every hip-hop artist ever

Donnielighto

Speedwell wrote: »

Did you read it? I didn't write it, I just posted it to show that the "common wisdom" is not necessarily universally agreed upon. If you have issues with the page, take it up with the author, not with me.

I pretty clearly read it, if you didn't there's no need to get so defensive. And I'll take it up with you since you're the one who posted it here so wind your neck in.

Mamased Nokuowt

Henry Rollins and Mother Superior, "L.A. Money Train"

Feel free to choose one or utilize any combination. You loose your job. You get your ass kicked. Your woman leaves you. You spend a night in county jail. Reality gets all up in your face, and says: "Hey, man, the reds do." And all of a sudden that Offspring record just doesn't do it for you anymore. Did I just say that? Man! So what if it's true? Yeah. Money train. Money train. Just get on. Just get on the money train, man.

UrbanSprawl

Speedwell wrote: »

There's always the classic example of Lynyrd Skynyrd in "Sweet Home Alabama" calling out Neil Young for "Southern Man". Though opinions differ: http://thrasherswheat.org/jammin/lynyrd.htm

Very interesting and I did not know any of that about Southern Man and Sweet home Alabama.:cool:

The Bishop Basher

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

Very interesting and I did not know any of that about Southern Man and Sweet home Alabama.:cool:

We can throw the drive by truckers into this mix as well...

Specifically on Southern Rock Opera... Reads like prose but it's a spoken song...

"Bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd attempted to show another side of the south, one that certainly exists, but few saw beyond the rebel flag and this applies not only to their critics and detractors but also their fans and followers. So for a while, when Neil Young would come to town, he'd get death threats down in Alabama. Ironically, in 1971, after a particularly racially charged campaign, Wallace began backpeddling and he opened up Alabama politics to minorities at a rate faster than most northern states or the federal government. Wallace spent the rest of his life trying to explain away his racist past and in 1982 he won his last term in office with over 90% of the black vote, such as the duality of the southern thing. "

UrbanSprawl

Swanner wrote: »

We can throw the drive by truckers into this mix as well...

Specifically on Southern Rock Opera... Reads like prose but it's a spoken song...

"Bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd attempted to show another side of the south, one that certainly exists, but few saw beyond the rebel flag and this applies not only to their critics and detractors but also their fans and followers. So for a while, when Neil Young would come to town, he'd get death threats down in Alabama. Ironically, in 1971, after a particularly racially charged campaign, Wallace began backpeddling and he opened up Alabama politics to minorities at a rate faster than most northern states or the federal government. Wallace spent the rest of his life trying to explain away his racist past and in 1982 he won his last term in office with over 90% of the black vote, such as the duality of the southern thing. "

Brilliant song! Wallace sounds like some character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIztbe1_e8

Levi Stubbs, The Four Tops, and the Motown songwriting partnerships of Holland&Holland&Dozier and Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong are a magic recipe for a classic tearjerker

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

Nobody listens to techno...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHM7QGMWjAw

Pete Moss

"Bob Dylan Blues" by Syd Barrett

Got the Bob Dylan blues
And the Bob Dylan shoes
And my clothes and my hair's in a mess
But you know I just couldn't care less
Gonna write me a song 'bout what's right and what's wrong
Got God and my girl and all that
Quiet while I make like a cat

Cause I'm a poet, doncha know it
And the wind you can blow it
Cause I'm Mr. Dylan the king
And I'm free as a bird on the wing

Roam from town to town, get to get people down
But I don't care too much about that
Cause my gut and my wallet are fat
Make a whole lot of dough but I deserve it though
I got soul and a good heart of gold
So I'll sing about war and the cold

Cause I'm a poet, doncha know it
And the wind you can blow it
Cause I'm Mr. Dylan the king
And I'm free as a bird on the wing

Well I sings about dreams and I rhymes it with seams
Cause it seems that my dream always means
That I can prophesy all kinds of things
Well the guy that digs me
Should try hard to see
That he buys all my discs in a hat.
And when I'm in town go see that.

Cause I'm a poet, doncha know it
And the wind you can blow it
Cause I'm Mr. Dylan the king
And I'm free as a bird on the wing

The way Barrett delivers "blow it" in each of the chorus is a excellent.

The Bishop Basher

Dylan gets called in quite a few tunes.. Deservedly so...

Always loved Mr. Jones - Counting Crows

"Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women,
She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me,
I want to be Bob Dylan.
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky.
When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be."

The Bishop Basher

Also love Neil Young's deliberate misquote of Dylan in Bandit...

You're invisible, you've got too many secrets, Bob Dylan said that, or something like that

Earthhorse

They built portholes for Bono so he could gaze out across the bay and sing about mountains, maybe.

Whipping Boy - We Don't Need Nobody Else

Elvis; was a hero to most
But he never meant sh*t to me
Straight up racist
That sucker was simple and plain
Mother-f*ck him and John Wayne.

Public Enemy - Fight The Power

Crosby, Stills, & Nash, The Grateful Dead, and the three individual members of Husker Du by name. Demented genius!

UrbanSprawl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTrmUDlydac

Sheridan81

Counting Crows-Hey MOnkey
Hey monkey, what's life without an occasional surprise?
Got nowhere but home to go
Got Ben Folds on my radio right now
I'm in trouble for the things I need
Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too?

Manic Street Preachers-1985
In 1985, the Civil War failed why?
Kept hidden like scars of birth
Nature unable to soften the words
In 1985, my words they came alive
Friends were made for life
Morrissey and Marr gave me choice
In 1985, in 1985

Fighting Tao

How about one calling out the Rock industry and the antics of the bigger bands? It's doesn't call out anyone specific and I if I recall correctly from the bands now defunct forum, it was really about the likes of Nickleback. They style is not typical of Hurt as it's more generic.

Lorelli!

We Didnt Start The Fire by Billie Joel mentions loads. Elvis Presley, Billy Joel, U2 etc.

Reminds me, the older kids where I grew up had a version of that whole song replacing the lyrics mostly with a story of the adults in the area we knew. Some of the lyrics went like..

Annie Murphy is a bitch
Throw her in the Nolan's ditch
We didn't start the fire....

We were horrible children

UrbanSprawl

He is still at it ..wonder what his problem is with them in particular..
http://www.nme.com/news/music/stephen-malkmus-hits-out-at-fake-smashing-pumpkins-reunion-2330253