Songs named after bands/musicians - crossing genres prefered but not required

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This may be a repeat, but searching 'song' 'name' and 'band' didn't sound very productive to me.

Anyways:

"Social Distortion" by Prince Po and MF DOOM

"Ramones" by Motorhead

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh shit! Of course "Michael Jackson" by Negativland

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

indeed, "Motorhead" by Primal Scream...also, "Donovan" by Happy Mondays...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"Motorhead" by Primal Scream

Errrr... that was a cover!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll allow this, counsellor.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

...of the Hawkwind song that Motorhead themselves were named after! (In fact did Lemmy write it? My Hawkwind knowledge grows dim.)

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Alex Chilton: The Replacements

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

They Might Be Giants - "We're The Replacements"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson

― Mingus Realty (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"Coldplay Can Suck My Balls" - Carly's Hymen.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

miles davis funeral - morphine

― travis randy (travis randy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

first-name basis:

"Jimi", Butthole Surfers
"Michael", Prefab Sprout
"Jonathon, Jonathon". The Rockingbirds

also:

"Carly Simon", Insides

and:

"Morrisey Rides a Cockhorse", Warlock Pinchers

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

"Gene Clark" - Teenage Fanclub
"Mr. Davies" - Tahiti 80

― Kay Queue (Kay Queue), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Both Mike Scott of the Waterboys and his bandmate Karl Wallinger wrote songs called "World Party." Wallinger left the Waterboys and formed World Party.

One for this thread, one for that other thread.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson

Fortunately Davis was long dead before the singing Jack Johnson had a chance to record anything.

He did record the tune "Willie Nelson" though (and, um, "Sugar Ray")

― drench, Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

THANK YOU FOR CLEARING UP MY CONFUSION

― Mingus Realty (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Skullflower - "Bo Diddley's Shitpump"

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The Fall - "I Am Damo Suzuki"
Jonathan Richman - "Velvet Underground"
Flaming Lips - "Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)"
Van Morrison - "Jackie Wilson Said"
Half Man Half Biscuit - "The Ballad of Climie Fisher"

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Boredoms: "Noise Ramones"

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Barbara Manning = "Mark E. Smith and Brix"

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

David Bowie: Song For Bob Dylan
Teenage Fanclub: Neil Jung (well, almost at least)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

"Jimi, Janis and Brian", a cover version by Norwegian heavy rock band Aunt Mary based on the melody of "Abraham, Martin & John" but with new lyrics.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Butth0le Surfers - "Gary Floyd"

― Brian G, Friday, 21 April 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and of course "Levi Stubbs' Tears" by Billy Bragg.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Weezer: "Buddy Holly"

― Jake Brown, Friday, 21 April 2006 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

"Kevin Shields" by Andreas Tilliander...

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link

... and "Donna" by Art of Noise is named after Donna Summer, but that may be a little oblique.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

"Frank Sinatra" - Cake

― utter joob (smittish yout fawb dill), Friday, 21 April 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick Drake by Mogwai.
Morrisey must die by the Meatmen.

― jimnaseum wastes the taxpayer's money, Friday, 21 April 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"the Beatles" (?) by daniel johnston

― vv, Friday, 21 April 2006 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, on my first-ever radio program at CJAM-FM, my cohort & I played a three-song mini-set of these titular! We played That Petrol Emotion's "Chester Burnett" as well as the aforementioned "Levi Stubbs' Tears" and "Alex Chilton". Oh, and we immediately followed that up with Chilton himself, doing a song from his then-new High Priest album. It sucked.

― Myonga Von Bombast (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

of the Hawkwind song that Motorhead themselves were named after! (In fact did Lemmy write it? My Hawkwind knowledge grows dim)

Written by The Lemster

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

'Rick James Style' by the Lemonheads and 'Don't want to be Grant Maclellan' by Smudge.

― Troy Quinn, Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Jay-Z- Guns'N'Roses
American Music Club- Johnny Mathis' Feet
Daniel Johnston- Beatles

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Saturday, 22 April 2006 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Röyksopp - "Sparks"

No idea if it was actually named after the band though, sorry. :-/

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Duke Ellington by the Mountain Goats.

― Sean Braudis (Sean Braudis), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Lee Ryan- Army of Lovers

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

King's Call - Phil Lynott
Calling Elvis - Dire Sraits

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Songs named after Elvis are practically a subgenre, starting with the two by Mojo Nixon.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Rick James Style doesn't count, it's just a version of Style with Rick James singing on it. Hence and thus.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 23 April 2006 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement

― Mr. Silverback (Mr. Silverback), Sunday, 23 April 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Miles Davis - Mr. Pastorius

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Sunday, 23 April 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

"Where On Earth Is Kevin Shields?", PS I Love You
"Where The Fuck Is Kevin Shields?", PS I Love You

"My Dear Mr. Gaye", Teena Marie

― hank (hank s), Sunday, 23 April 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Suzanne Vega" "Rick James" "Marvin Gaye" and "Morris Day" all by Slug and Murs

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 23 April 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"Brian and Robert" - Phish, Brian (Eno) and Robert (Fripp), or so Trey has said in interviews.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"Popol Vuh 1" & "Popol Vuh 2" by Flying Saucer Attack

― van igloo (van smack), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hallucinating Elvis" - Duran Duran

― Zora (Zora), Monday, 24 April 2006 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Alex Chilton - Replacements
Joey Ramoney - Helen Love
The Beatles - Devendra Banhart

― Kali (Kali), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - "Frank Sinatra"
Liveonrelease - "I'm Afraid Of Britney Spears"
Jennifer Rush - "Madonna's Eyes"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Xiu Xiu - "Jennifer Lopez"
Xiu Xiu - "Ian Curtis Wishlist"
Sunn o)) - "I Dream Of Lars Ulrich Being Thrown Through The Bus Window Instead Of My Master Mystikall Kliff Burton"

― Henrik (Henrik), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Frank Black "I Heard Ramona Sing"

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Everything by Wesley Willis, ever

insofar as he's no-one's genre

― the, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Captain Beefheart, "Beatle Bones And Smokin' Stones"

Two bands in one, or one-and-a-half if you're being anal.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 7 May 2006 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmkeHx6Yn_g
Gabrielle • Neil Young

(Gabrielle = Gabrielle Leithaug, who's Norwegian - lyrics included!)

― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 3 July 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link

Mötley Crüe - 'Primal Scream'

― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 3 July 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZzd2P2YR4c
Aya Nakamura • Oumou Sangaré

― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 3 July 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link

Julian Cope, "Julian H. Cope"

― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 July 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link

Bob Dylan - The Ballad of Geddy Lee & Judas Priest

― r u rolling pop 2021 (morrisp), Saturday, 3 July 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link

Someone should write that song.

― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 July 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giXoC9Q9lag
Tems • Ice T

― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Thursday, 8 July 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link

Pavement - Ed Ames

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 8 July 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link

The Auteurs • The Rubettes

― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Thursday, 22 July 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link

Redd Kross - "Shonen Knife"
Shonen Knife - "Redd Kross"

― Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, Lynmouth, Ilfracome, etc. (SlimAndSlam), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link

Archers of Loaf - Ethel Merman

― At Easter I had a fall. I don't know whether to laugh or cry (ledge), Friday, 23 July 2021 08:00 (two years ago) link

Les Rythmes Digitales ft. Thomas Ribeiro - 'Soft Machine'

― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 24 July 2021 02:18 (two years ago) link

Morphine - 'Yes'

― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 24 July 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link

Jimmy Webb - "PF Sloan"

― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 24 July 2021 05:15 (two years ago) link

Half Man Half Biscuit to thread...

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 24 July 2021 07:45 (two years ago) link

Surely someone has returned the honor by naming a song Wesley Wellis.

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 24 July 2021 07:49 (two years ago) link

a classic of the genre:
“Marvin Gaye" by Charlie Puth featuring Meghan Trainor (of “All About Ace Of Base” fame).

Gaye famously made an answer record: “What’s Going On, What’s Happening Brother (Make Me Wanna Holler)”.

thank you for enjoying my content

― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 24 July 2021 08:19 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7yeSI9-g8

― Maresn3st, Saturday, 24 July 2021 08:26 (two years ago) link

Big Dipper - 'Robert Pollard'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePraqQ27L-8

― Grantman, Sunday, 25 July 2021 10:27 (two years ago) link

Kraftwerk, "Franz Schubert"

― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 July 2021 10:29 (two years ago) link

michael chapman - mozart lives upstairs
phil ochs - bach, beethoven, mozart & me

― no lime tangier, Sunday, 25 July 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link

ABC - When Smokey Sings

― chap, Sunday, 25 July 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Kevin Ayers

― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 25 July 2021 11:38 (two years ago) link

Family Fodder - Debbie Harry
Sebadoh - Slintstrumental
1/2 Japanese - Patti Smith
Tonstartssbandht - Andy Summers
Tortoise - Ry Cooder
Television Personalities - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives

Surely someone has returned the honor by naming a song Wesley Willis.
Heavy Vegetable - Song For Wesley

― city worker, Sunday, 25 July 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link

Elton John - "Levon" (supposedly denied by Bernie Taupin but really, who else could the song have been named after?)

― henry s, Monday, 26 July 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link

Miles Davis - John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin - Miles Davis

― 29 facepalms, Monday, 26 July 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link

Anal C**t - Connor Clapton Killed Himself Because His Father Sucks

― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fCyO3wEqig
Skeng • Elvis Presley

too bad he can’t return the favour

― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Friday, 17 February 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link

not a song but after Slayer named one of their albums Live Undead, Undead released an album called Live Slayer

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 February 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link

In the same vein I guess is David Bowie naming an album "Low", and in response, Nick Lowe naming his debut EP "Bowi"

― Blessed Bloated Burdened (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 17 February 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link

John Cale

Mr. Wilson
Brahms
Risé, Sam & Rimsky Korsakov
The Soul of Carmen Miranda

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 17 February 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link

four months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt68vWOtOtM
DJ Danifox • Robert Johnson

― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Thursday, 13 July 2023 19:46 (nine months ago) link

Jim Jones - “Barry White”

― brimstead, Thursday, 13 July 2023 19:49 (nine months ago) link

Billy Bragg - "Levi Stubbs' Tears"

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 13 July 2023 19:52 (nine months ago) link

Aw shit, I didn't CTRL+F that one.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 13 July 2023 19:53 (nine months ago) link

Prefab Sprout - “Faron Young”

― brimstead, Thursday, 13 July 2023 20:06 (nine months ago) link

No-one mentioned "The Beatles and the Stones" by the House of Love yet?

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 13 July 2023 20:12 (nine months ago) link

"Cowboy Junkies Lament", written by Townes Van Zandt and performed by Cowboy Junkies.
"Townes' Blues", written and performed by Cowboy Junkies.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 13 July 2023 20:55 (nine months ago) link

caetano veloso - maria bethânia
maria bethânia - mano caetano

― no lime tangier, Friday, 14 July 2023 04:28 (nine months ago) link

i guess the dead c's amm of punk rock might also qualify

― no lime tangier, Friday, 14 July 2023 04:31 (nine months ago) link

"Sweet Gene Vincent" by Ian Dury & The Blockheads

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 14 July 2023 05:32 (nine months ago) link

Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
Jamila Woods - Betty
Jamila Woods - Sun Ra
Jamila Woods - Eartha
Jamila Woods - Miles
Jamila Woods - Muddy
Jamila Woods - Betty (For Boogie)
AKA - Fela in Versace
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta F' Wit

― Nabozo, Friday, 14 July 2023 06:33 (nine months ago) link

I guess the last one could be a thread of its own

― Nabozo, Friday, 14 July 2023 06:35 (nine months ago) link

Craig David's tribute to the Pretty Things, "(Can You) Phil May In"

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 17 July 2023 03:02 (nine months ago) link

Laura Veirs, "Carol Kaye"

― jaymc, Monday, 17 July 2023 03:29 (nine months ago) link

one month passes...

Cracker- "Low"

― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:28 (seven months ago) link

μ-Ziq - Roy Castle
Fatboy Slim - Michael Jackson
R.E.M. - Lightnin' Hopkins
Beady Eye - Beatles and Stones
MGMT - Brian Eno
Busted - Britney
The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra
Beck - Harry Partch

And if these count:

Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - The Wreck of the Arthur Lee
Robyn Hitchcock - I Saw Nick Drake
Sparks - (When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
Robbie Williams with Pet Shop Boys - She's Madonna
They Might Be Giants - XTC vs. Adam Ant
Super Furry Animals - The Very Best of Neil Diamond

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:47 (seven months ago) link

The Wildhearts - Tim Smith

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:49 (seven months ago) link

Jimmy McGriff- Spear for Moondog

― bbq, Friday, 15 September 2023 05:48 (seven months ago) link

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