name and shame tribute songs from other bands!

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what song is about or tributes a singer-songwriter?

― doomie x, Monday, 16 August 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Empty Garden" by Elton John (tribute to John Lennon)
"Blood Brother" by the Mission UK (tribute to Ian Astbury)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Killing Me Softly" by Roberta Flack (tribute to Don McLean)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Unseen Power of the Picket Fence by Pavement (REM)

― coco, Monday, 16 August 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Magnificent" by the Professionals (a fuck-you tribute to John Lydon)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"When Smokey Sings" by ABC
"Geno" by Dexys midnight Runners

Wow, Alex used the word 'Killing' without it being followed by 'Joke'.

Kidding.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Alex Chilton" - The Replacements

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"December Dream" by Klaatu is a tribute to John Lennon.

― Adam Kempa, Monday, 16 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Write The Songs," written by Bruce Johnston and made famous by Barry Manilow, is about Brian Wilson.

― phil d., Monday, 16 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ramones - Motorhead

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Dylan, "Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"

― dave q, Monday, 16 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Arthur Conley, "Sweet Soul Music" -- tribute to Lou Rawls, Sam & Dave, James Brown, and Otis Redding (were there any others?)

Diana Ross, "Missing You" -- Marvin Gaye

Commodores, "Night Shift" -- Marvin and Jackie Wilson

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 16 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"I.C. Water" , by Psychic TV, is a tribute to Ian Curtis - the video even has clips of Curtis doing his Petit Mal Boogie (tm) at a Joy Division gig.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 16 August 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Eric Burden - "Monterrey"

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cast No Shadow" by Oasis is supposed to be about Richard Ashcroft.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank Black - I heard Ramona Sing (about the ramones)
Frank Black- Ten Percenter (about iggy pop)
judging from these songs, fb likes the ramones more than iggy pop.

― Magic City (ano ano), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Starship - "We Built This City" about Jefferson Airplane.

I win!

― Huck, Monday, 16 August 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out of" by U2 is about Michael Hutchence of INXS

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"the missing boy" by the durutti column is about ian curtis. as is "haunted" by section 25 (i think). actually: find me a factory band circa 1981 that *didn't* do a song about curtis ...

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 16 August 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Song for Bob Dylan" - David Bowie

― darin, Monday, 16 August 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Song for Woody" by Bob Dylan

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Understanding Kyuss - The Fauves

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Minutemen, "Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs"
Nick Lowe, [Bay City]"Rollers Show"
MX-80 Sound, "Pop For [Iggy] Pop"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

the cult - edie :)

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

I like Motorhead's R.A.M.O.N.E.S better than any single Ramones song.
Same goes for the Replacements' Alex Chilton.

― bendy, Saturday, 17 November 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Jack DeJohnette: "Papa-Daddy and Me". The "papa-daddy" is Roy Haynes, who also plays drums on this tune (DeJohnette plays the melodica).

Thelonious Monk: "In Walked Bud". This is about Bud Powell; though curiously enough, in the vocal version of the song, the way Jon Hendricks pronounces "Bud" sounds more like "Bird". I'm not sure if this intentional.

Alice Cotrane: "Something About John Coltrane". You can figure it out to whom this is a tribute.

All three great songs, btw.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 17 November 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Add to the above Miles Davis' numerous songs whose titles are musicians' names (John McLaughlin, Billy Preston, Mtume, Willie Nelson).

― Formerly Painful Dentistry, Saturday, 17 November 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Spandau Ballet - True (Marvin Gaye)

― musically, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

John Lennon wrote him a song about this guy Paul. Same band, though so I don't know if it counts.

― ellaguru, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

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