TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

[multipleman78]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Murder She Wrote by Chaka Demus and Pliers.

[Patrick Thistle]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Mountains of Navajo by Scouting for Girls name-checks He-Man, Battle-cat and She-Ra.

Technically He-Man was on Masters of the Universe and the full title of She-Ra's show was She-Ra, Princess of Power. But it's close.

[evilC]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

The Cure - 'Play For Today'

[Crystal Staples]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

And in the subset of song lyrics about having sex while watching TV shows:

The X-files (The Bad Touch by the Bloodhound Gang)
The Two Ronnies (Charlotte by the Macc Lads)

[Toby Gymshorts]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Crossroads also gets a mention in HMHB's Descent of the Stiperstones.

EDIT: Well, not a mention, it's more the central conceit of the song. But anyway.

[evilC]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Thread diversion: I dunno about you lot, but every time there's one of these 'mentioned in...' threads, there's certain groups I immediately look to. For me, they are...

Momus
My Little Airport
The Divine Comedy
The 6ths / Future Bible Heroes / The Magnetic Fields
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Lloyd Cole (& The Commotions)
Kid Carpet
...and several other I can't recall right now (though I'd be more use if I could!)

I suppose you could call it some kind of highbrow nerdpop subgenre.

I'm sure you've all got your own bands that you turn to in these circumstances anyway. I'm interested to know what they might be.

(...and no, I'm not a fan of The Fall, so that's a whole galaxy of referential stuff that I deny myself, right there.)

[evilC]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Killing Joke - 'Tomorrow's World'

[Taylor]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Only just saw this thread but had to bump it just to say: "Take Your Pick", the 50s / 60s game show mentioned in the lyrics of "Making Time" by The Creation. "'Take Your Pick' / Makes you sick." It's my favourite one of these by miles (err... no pun intended).

[Borracho]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

3-2-1 in 5-4-3-2-1 by Manfred Mann.

[Satchmo Distel]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Match Of The Day by Genesis was from an EP called Spot The Pigeon, which might be a pun on Stop The Pigeon, the theme to the cartoon spin-off, Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines:

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

Dastardly was voiced by this ventriloquist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwN-vtWUjlA

[Ginger Yellow]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Grease (is The Word)

[Satchmo Distel]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

The Word - The Beatles

[adams house cat]

Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub

The Late, Late Show is mentioned in "Down To Seeds And Stems Again Blues." Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen.

[Mr Cogito]

The Sweeney's doing ninety cos they were cool for cats by that Squeeze lot.