Pre-Rap Dis Records

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By now, especially after this seemingly endless 50 Cent/Murder Inc. business, the dis record is pretty played out, except as an aspiring rapper career-booster....But, I started think about pre-rap era dis records and thought of these:

John Lennon: "How Do You Sleep?" (aimed at Sir Paul)

John Fogerty: "Zanz Kant Danz" (aimed at old record company pres)

Guns N Roses: "Get In The Ring" (okay, not from pre-rap era, but they are a rock group and the song names names of people Axl has beef with)

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 June 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ballad of a Thin Man" (maybe)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 June 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, I think Dylan's Positively 4th Street is a jab at whoever was the editor of Sing Out!, a folk mag that went after Bob for going electric at Newport....

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 June 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(One of my friends swears that until recently he thought the last line of "Positively 4th Street" was "You'd know what a dragon is to see you.")

Anyway...
"You're So Vain," obviously.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 26 June 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sex Pistols, "New York" (responded to by Johnny Thunders' "London Boys" -- it was like some punk rock Eastside-Westside beef!)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sweet Home Alabama" obviously.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

channel one is a joker - aggrovators

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - yeah, more like "the genre of reggae to thread."

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

as well as "90% of calypso"

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"A Simple Desultory Phillipic" by Simon and Garfunkel seems to semi-dis the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but the attack on Bob Dylan seems very pointed and bitter.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the genre of reggae to thread

ha! i might be wrong about that aggrovators tune actually...

but yeah Lee Perry to thread (people funny boy, white belly rat etc), Dennis Alcapone etc etc

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Dead Finks Dont Talk by Brian Eno. It is about Brian Ferry.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

um, surely sweet home alabama?

― simon 803 (simon 803), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sweet Home Alabama" obviously.
-- Mr. Diamond (electrifyingmoj...), June 27th, 2003 1:12 PM.

um.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

o, and that lynyrd skynyrd tune too.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(Let's Dance) The Screw - Part 1

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

London Boys by The New York Dolls

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 28 June 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

how does it feel? by Crass

― gs (kissmyfist), Saturday, 28 June 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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