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