Friday 17 April 2009

Namecheck songs

A selective list based on a quick trawl through my hard drive: titles only. Think of some more over the weekend while I go south to see Felix and maybe even go to the FA semi-final between Everton and Manchester United, depending on whether the tickets exist.

I didn't start it. The Guardian did. You all know an awful lot of awful music. I can extend it:
Jacob Marley's Chain - Aimee Mann
Glitter Years - The Bangles
Like Dylan in the Movies - Belle and Sebastian
Seymour Stein - Belle and Sebastian
Gene Autry - Beulah
Ingrid Bergman - Billy Bragg
Walt Whitman's Niece - Billy Bragg
Benny Hill's Wardrobe - The Bitter Springs
Mike Coe Reads the Credits - The Bitter Springs
Andrew Ridgley - Black Box Recorder
Josephine Baker - Blaggers ITA
Warhol's Fifteen - The Blue Aeroplanes
Blues for George Michael - Boo Radleys
Arthur Walker - Cable
Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura
Presley on Oldham Street - Clint Boon Experience
Tiger Woods: Astronaut - Clint Boon
Andy Gill: Astronaut - Clint Boon
Eulogy to Lenny Bruce - Damon and Naomi
Elizabeth Duke - Darren Hayman
Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
The Beatles - Edwyn Collins
Fitzcarraldo - The Frames
Black Elvis - Gold Blade
Sally Webster - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Gubba Lookalikes - Half Man Half Biscuit
Fucking Hell It's Fred Titmuss - Half Man Half Biscuit
David Attenborough - Huon
Annie Oakley - Jad Fair and Kramer
Alice Cooper's Roadie's Love Child - Kim Fowley and BMX Bandits
Sharing a Gibson With Martin Luther King Jr. - Lambchop
Popeye - Lambchop
Howard Hughes Blues - Laura Cantrell
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins - Leonard Nimoy
Bonnie and Clyde - Luna
This Nelson Rockerfeller - McCarthy
I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead - Mogwai
Zidane - Mogwai
Kerouac - Morphine
Eulogy to Lenny Bruce - Nico
Elvis the last ten days - The Nightingales
The Ballad of Bjorn Borg - Pernice Brothers
I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee Quite Well - The Pooh Sticks
What's the Frequency Kenneth? - REM
John Cage Bubblegum - Stereolab
The Very Best of Neil Diamond - Super Furry Animals
I Was a Rolling Stone - Tiger Phil (Ochs) - Tom Paxton
Tribute to Woody Guthrie - Tom Paxton
Tinky Winky - Tom Paxton
There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl
Cassius Clay - The Wave Pictures
Shatner - The Wedding Present
Dan Dare - The Wedding Present
Kevin Ayers - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Bukowski - Rheinallt H Rowlands
Paul McCartney - Laugh Mulder and Scully - Catatonia
The Ballad of Tom Jones - Cerys Matthews and Space
Where's Captain Kirk? - Spizzenergi
John Wayne was a Nazi - MDC
Myrna Loy - The Minus 5
Where on Earth is Kevin Shields - PS I Love You
Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh
Norman Bates - Landscape
Robinson Crusoe - Tindersticks
Alan Parsons In a Winter Wonderland - Grandaddy

1 comment:

  1. That's a bit neater. Call me an old romantic but my favourite namecheck in a song is in the chorus of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' Rattlesnakes - "She looks like Eve Marie Saint in On The Waterfront"

    Either that or Soulfly's No. All together now "No bullshit,No slaveship, No mother fucking Hootie and the Blowfish"

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