Songs that namedrop band names.

One of my favorite namedropping songs.....

Also on the Kiss namedropping Wilco's "Heavy Metal Drummer" with the chorus being:

I miss the innocence I've known
Playing KISS covers, beautiful and stoned

Who/Pete Townsend ?

"you Better you better you bet"

......to the sound of old T-Rex

Shocked no one has mentioned Smoke on the Water yet.

But, being the homer that I am, School of Fish dropped Johnny Clueless in their biggest "hit". That was the first one to pop into my head. Johnny Clueless was a very popular band in our scene in the early 90's.

S.D. wrote:

Deep Purple mentions "Frank Zappa & The Mothers" (of Invention) in Smoke On The Water.

That song also name drops "Funky Claude" who is Claude Nobs, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, he just passed away a couple weeks ago.

Crap - sorry man. Skimming posts again...

Stryper name-check themselves in The Writing's on the Wall.

Faith Factor -Keep it True is an ode to metal, with a number of band names dropped.

If KISS ever named-dropped themselves in a song, Gene would send them a bill.

SACRED REICH - 31 Flavors

Vanilla is smooth chocolate is kickin' strawberry is sweet all deserve a hearty lickin' have em all three scoops piled high variety is the spice of life Well you can have soft serve and hard sugar cones root beer floats or my banana split do you like nuts or some sticky whip creme come lick it off and be my dairy queen I love the Chilis freaky, uplift, mother's milk Faith No More Mike Patton's voice is smooth as silk

Metallica's music makes me want to rage, Sting's lyrics have something to say, Jimi Hendrix plays guitar like a no one else, Black Sabbath Ozzy's voice is sick as hell Prince, Fishbone, NWA these are the things that I like to play, Mr. Bungle is so very cool so don't be an ignorant fool there's so much music for you to choose so don't just be a metal dude it's cool fool

OK - Nominating Dayglo Abortions for the Hall of Fame for this thread [fast forward to 1:30 - all the live vids sounded like crap]:

James B. wrote:

If KISS ever named-dropped themselves in a song, Gene would send them a bill.

"The first step of your cure is a KISS!!!!" I always felt in the live setting that Gene sang it like it was the band and not the action......

I take that back, his ego was probably thinking that he was KISS and he was the cure

Namedrops Queensryche.

Motörhead namedrop the Ramones in"Ramones" and Bon Jovi in "Angel City".
Mott the Hoople mention T. Rex in "All the Young Dudes".
Mother Love Bone mention Freddie Mercury in "Capricorn Sister" and Marc Bolan in "Mr. Danny Boy".
Sum 41 mention Iron Maiden and Judas Priest in "Fat Lip".
Weezer mention KISS in "In the Garage".
Shonen Knife mention the Kinks in "One Week", Redd Kross in "Redd Kross", and White Flag in "White Flag".
Concrete Blonde mention John Lennon in "God Is a Bullet", and add a mention of Tupac Shakur in the live version.

Juliana Hatfield Three "Sister"

Namedrops: Violent Femmes and the Del Fuegos

I miss my sister, why'd she go?
She's the one who would have taken me
To my first all-ages show.
It was the Violent Femmes and the Del Fuegos,
Before they had a record out. Before they went gold,
And started to grow.

Dream Academy "Life in a Northern Town"

Namedrops: Frank Sinatra, the Beatles

And through an open window came
Like Sinatra in a younger day,
Pushing the town away

He said "In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
And The Beatles."

weezer - teenage dirtbag mentions iron maiden

Chuck Berry told Beethoven to roll over and mention the news to Tchaikovsky. Does that count?

Mother Love Bone drops Freddie Mercury's name and Marc Bolan's name on a few tunes.

Speaking of T. Rex/Marc Bolan,

You Better You Bet- Got myself drunk on the sound of old T. Rex

Mott the Hopple- Who Needs TV/When we've got T. Rex

Zodiac Mindwarp- I love TV and I love T. Rex

manny wrote:

Mother Love Bone drops Freddie Mercury's name and Marc Bolan's name on a few tunes.

Speaking of T. Rex/Marc Bolan,

You Better You Bet- Got myself drunk on the sound of old T. Rex

Mott the Hopple- Who Needs TV/When we've got T. Rex

Zodiac Mindwarp- I love TV and I love T. Rex

I know live doesn't really count, but since we there is an abundance of T. Rex mentions being...mentioned:

On Alice Cooper's live record A Fistful of Alice, before playing "Teenage Lament '74", he says something about how they next song they are playing is so glam T. Rex would be embarassed. Something along those lines...haven't heard the record in a while.

Bad Biscut has a song called "Thunders Falling" which is an ode to the late NY Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders. One of the lyrics goes "Played with Dolls at seventeen, one track mind was so obscene..."

I don't know if anyone mentioned this one:

Smithereens "Behind The Wall Of Sleep"

Well she held a bass guitar and she was playing in a band
And she stood just like Bill Wyman
Now I am her biggest fan.
Now I know i'm one of many who would like to be your friend
And I've got to find a way to to let you know I'm not like them.

Some others





Doro's tribute to Ronnie James Dio

Oh, speaking of Dio references...

Jorn had "Song for Ronnie James"

and Tenacious D, didn't they have a Dio-related song too, but before he died?

Yeah, never really quite sure how I felt about that one...



seemed more mocking than tribute.

^^ Dio obviously had a sense of humor about that, though. After all, the Tenacious D guys turned up in Dio's video for "Push" a few years after that.

Boris2008 wrote:

Namedrops Queensryche.

good call, I totally forgot about that one.