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.)
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).
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:
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