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    #51
    Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

    treibeis wrote: When not referencing The Fall, Mark E. Smith's quite good at mentioning other groups.
    The Fat White Family's new single - "I am Mark E Smith" ( it's pretty good too).

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      #52
      Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

      'Then they go to Rough Trade
      To buy Siouxsie and the Banshees
      They heard John Peel play it
      Just the other night
      They'd like to buy the O Level single
      or Read about Seymour
      But they're not pressed in red
      So they buy The Lurkers instead'

      'Part Time Punks' - The Television Personalities

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        #53
        Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

        Belle & Sebastian:

        - 'I'd rather be in Tokyo / Rather listen to Thin Lizzy-o' (I'm a Cuckoo)

        - 'It reminded you of Johnny [Marr] before he went Electronic' (Seymour Stein)

        ... and of course, they called an album 'The Boy with the Arab Strap'

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          #54
          Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

          Metric - 'Who would you rather be? / The Beatles or the Rolling Stones' (Gimme Sympathy)

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            #55
            Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

            Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs
            Pretending that you're Al Green, Al Green

            Adam Ant -Goody Two Shoes

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              #56
              Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

              (Which was about Kevin Rowland, no?)

              Couple of others:

              Queen reference Mott the Hoople in Now I'm Here - the two bands toured together on many occasions back in the early seventies.

              Ultrasound tell us that 'Gary Glitter's gone to seed' in the 1998 single Stay Young. (Unfortunately, he'd gone somewhere else within a year of that record's release.)

              Fun Lovin Criminals name check Barry White & EWF on Love Unlimited
              FLC also namecheck Love Unlimited in Love Unlimited...

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                #57
                Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                Vicarious Thrillseeker wrote: 'Then they go to Rough Trade
                To buy Siouxsie and the Banshees
                They heard John Peel play it
                Just the other night
                They'd like to buy the O Level single
                or Read about Seymour
                But they're not pressed in red
                So they buy The Lurkers instead'

                'Part Time Punks' - The Television Personalities
                'Polystiffs' by Marc Riley and the Creepers goes down a similar road:

                She likes Lou Reed, she's got Transformer
                She was a punk, she saw the Stranglers
                But now she's into biffs, flowers and quiffs
                She hangs around with some polystiffs

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                  #58
                  Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                  Solid Air by John Martyn is about Nick Drake

                  "Lennon's on sale again" from Bowie's Life on Mars

                  "Lennon read a book on Marx" - Don McLean, American Pie

                  "Empty Garden" by Elton John is about Lennon, as is "Here Today" by Macca

                  "Johnny Marr plays guitar" - A Tribe of Toffs (John Kettley Is A Weatherman)

                  "Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news" - Chuck Berry

                  "When Smokey Sings" - ABC

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                    #59
                    Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                    Smoke on the Water was mentioned in the previous thread, and is pretty much about a Frank Zappa concert (and the Rolling Stones' mobile tax dodging studio).

                    The Reynolds Girls famously sang that they'd rather jack than Fleetwood Mac. I was never sure if they meant they'd rather jack up (in which case they'd probably quite enjoy Fleetwood Mac). They also disrespect Rolling Stones, Dire Straits and Pink Floyd, but speak approvingly of Yazz (as against all that jazz)..

                    Moving up the credibility scale a few notches, Public Enemy memorably called Elvis a racist on Fight The Power, although a list of rap songs which namecheck other artists will be a very long one.

                    Ian Dury's Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) is a list song which mentions the following musicians: Buddy Holly, Elvis (and Scotty Moore), Wee Willie Harris, Rico Rodriguez, Smokey Robinson, Dimitri Shostakovich, John Coltrane, and Adi Celentano. It also uses the Good Golly Miss Molly/Jump Back In The Alley refrain from Little Richard.

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                      #60
                      Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                      Mott the Hoople (having, in my previous posts, mentioned T Rex and been mentioned by Queen) also drop a reference to Chuck Berry in the 1973 hit Honaloochie Boogie.

                      Various artists nod to the Rolling Stones/Mick Jagger - among them The Clash, Generation X, The House of Love and (ugh) Maroon 5 - with Neil Sedaka's Queen of 1964 being one of the less-obvious references.

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                        #61
                        Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                        This was the Jack which was The Reynolds Girls preference.

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                          #62
                          Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                          I suspect he knew that.

                          The Clash mentioned a fair number of reggae stars in White Man in Hammersmith Palais, among them Ken Boothe, Dillinger and Delroy Wilson.

                          Edit:
                          Mott the Hoople (having, in my previous posts, mentioned T Rex and been mentioned by Queen) also drop a reference to Chuck Berry in the 1973 hit Honaloochie Boogie.
                          Apologies for quoting my own post, but I just wondered what might be the longest 'chain' we could create using such in-song references?

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                            #63
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                            and The Four Tops (in Hammersmith Palais)

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                              #64
                              Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                              "Frankie Laine he was singing Jezebel"

                              Leonard Cohen - Memories

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                                #65
                                Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                                Sham 69 - Ari Up 'Ari

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                                  #66
                                  Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                                  I asked Bobby Dylan
                                  I asked the Beatles


                                  The Who - The Seeker

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                                    #67
                                    Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                                    Open Up
                                    Said Liquidator
                                    Supersaurus
                                    Aaga
                                    Kix
                                    The Interrogated
                                    Seize The Infidels
                                    Chance
                                    Laverne & Shirley

                                    All name checked on Spearmint's Sweeping The Nation.

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                                      #68
                                      Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                                      Macho Sapiens

                                      Jon Poole, the ex Cardiacs/occasional Wildheart/was once on the National Lottery results show man refers to Rob Halford on Macho Sapiens on the last God Damn Whores album.

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                                        #69
                                        Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                                        Members of The Band have received a few namechecks in songs. Though off the bat I can think of only two:

                                        Counting Crows - Richard Manuel Is Dead
                                        Marc Cohn - Listening To Levon

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                                          #70
                                          Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                                          "Listening to Marvin all night long".

                                          Spandau Ballet - True

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                                            #71
                                            Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                                            'Brenda Lee's comin' on strong...'

                                            Radar Love - Golden Earring

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                                              #72
                                              Singers or groups mentioned in songs by other

                                              In their song Danket dem Herrn, Böhse Onkelz mention Die Fantastischen Vier:

                                              "entartete Kunst von den fantastischen Vier".

                                              If, as was/is the case with Böhse Onkelz, you fiercely, and repeatedly, deny accusations of harbouring extreme-right tendencies, then using expressions such as "degenerate art" to describe music you don't care for doesn't really help your cause, not really.

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