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Songs which Make Sarcastic/Mocking Allusions to Other Songs or Artists

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Using them as a foil to which to oppose their own hipness, unconventionality, or modernity.

Examples? What do you think of this?

Funny, most of the example I can think of are from the Psychedelic Furs.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Propaghandi's "Ska Sucks" re: The Specials ("FUCK YOU, RUDY!")

― Ollee, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New Frank Sinatra answers.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Get What You Give" New Radicals

― Lord Custos v2.3, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and every Eminem song I've ever heard.

― Lord Custos v2.3, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pavement's Range Life

― MICHELINE, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve Jones & Paul Cook's post-Pistols band, the Professionals mocked Public Image Ltd.'s Keith Levene's staccato guitar on the opening notes of "The Magnificent" off their I DIDN'T SEE IT COMING. The song, furthermore, is about their sense of betrayal by John Lydon.

The Germs' "No God" ripps the opening riff from Yes' "Roundabout" (although the book, "Lexicon Devil: the Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash & the Germs" alleges that Germs guitarist Pat Smear was once a huge Yes fan).

Can't remember the song's title, but there's a track on New Order's TECHNIQUE album that purposely sounds indistinguishable from The Cure's "Just Like Heaven", which I believe was payback for the Cure's appropriation of New Order's sound circa "the Walk"/"Let's Go to Bed."

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

These are more interesting examples than what I was thinking of (which was more a matter of opposing music of the now generation to music of the oldsters).

― DeRayMi, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex: The song you're talking about is "All The Way" and to this day I maintain that even though it uses the same chord progression in the veres, it sounds like a completely different song, to the point where I obsessively listened to both albums for years before noticing a similarity.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't remember the song's title, but there's a track on New Order's TECHNIQUE album that purposely sounds indistinguishable from The Cure's "Just Like Heaven", which I believe was payback for the Cure's appropriation of New Order's sound circa "the Walk"/"Let's Go to Bed."
This is making me scratch my head because I had always heard that the New Order track in question was on Low-life and that it was a rip of "A Forest" (I thought it may have been "Sunrise") and that the Cure's rip of New Order was actually "In Between Days". I think, in general, both bands were charting more similar a path than they or their fans would care to admit.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Warren Zevon - "Play 'Sweet Home Alabama', play that dead band's song"

― dave q, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think, in general, both bands were charting more similar a path than they or their fans would care to admit.
I guess because Pornography-era cure was far too odd to make a splash on Top of the Pops or American Bandstand.

― Lord Custos v2.3, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lifter Puller, "Roaming the Foam," which incorporates both the keyboard line from "Push It" and the line, "You're in the jungle, baby, you're gonna DIE." Actually, a lot of LP's catalog did similar things: I forget what song off Fiestas + Fiascos talks about "She said her name was Juanita but you can call her L.L. Cool J/Because I've been here for years and you can't call it a comeback/If you've never gone away."

― M Matos, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess because Pornography-era cure was far too odd to make a splash on Top of the Pops or American Bandstand.
Not that Movement was all lollipops and kittens...

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From the files of Ben Folds Five:

"Here's something that should cheer you up for sure/You see, I've got your old ID/ And you're all dressed up like the Cure" from "Battle of Who Could Care Less"
"I met this girl/ She looked like Axl Rose" from "Julianne"
"Satan is my master/He will always be/He tells me what to do/ He buys my Metallica records for me" from "Satan Is My Master"
"For Those Of Y'All That Wear Fanny Packs" is one long pisstake of "License To Ill" era Beastie Boys.

Also, Mr T Experience's "Dumb Little Band" contains the line "The guy at the bar said he thinks we're OK/ We kind of remind him of Green Day", a reference to early Green Day's wholesale ripping off of MTX.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ultramagnetic mc's "kool keith housing things"

― bc, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course, Dead Milkmen's "You'll Dance to Anything" is a prolonged dis of every band in the known universe in the mid-80s.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Every Half Man Half Biscuit song ever...

― Mr Swygart, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Too Much Joy's "Long Haired Guy from England" derisively mentions the Cult. Simillarly, Thin Lizard Dawn's "Suck Like Oasis,"....well, that's pretty self-explanatory.

The tail-end of Metallica's GARAGE DAYS RE-RE-VISITED e.p. butchered the signature riff from Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills."

The tail-end of a Damned song (could it be "Disco Man"?) breaks into the intro to the Police's "Walking on the Moon" during the fade-out.

In the intro to "Territorial Pissings," Nirvana's Chris Novoselic's stupidly croons the chorus to the Youngbloods "Get Together."

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Throughout "Smash Retro," a song devoted to shunning nostalgia, Cop Shoot Cop repeatedly sample Robert Plant doing his usual priapic yelp.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a bit in My Iron Lung by Radiohead where they nick something out of Foxy Lady. Isn't there? There is a good possibility I've misheard it...

― Mr Swygart, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And of course "Sweet Home Alabama" attacks Neil Young - "And I hope Neil Young will remember, southern man don't need him around, anyhow."

― nickn, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Early `90s metal band, Scatterbrain (formerly Ludichrist) crib several riffs wholesale in "Down with the Ship (Slight Return)" including audio swipes at Hendrix, Metallica, Zeppelin, Phil Collins, Van Halen and Yes.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"god" by john lennon. he doesn't believe in elvis, zimmerman, or the beatles.

― gilgamesh, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Hole's "Rock Star" about Kathleen Hanna or just that whole scene? "Well I went to school in Olympia-ya-ya-ya, where everyone's the same". I think it's their best song.

The Dickies' would quote the Who at the end of their talking penis song "If Stuart Could Talk". "See me, feel me, touch me, heal me."

― Arthur, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rock Star" is about the whole Olympia riot grrrrl scene, but it does refer to Bikini Kill in particular. The fake giggles, the simplistic guitar playing, etc etc. Quite a bit of Hole's work mocks that scene actually, "Doll Parts" line "I want to be the girl with the most cake" is about the cake parties that were popular amongst riot grrrls at the time, and, of course, there's the mighty Lemonade Nation...

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We want a Lemonade Nation revolution & we want it NOW! ha ha. Riot grrl, giving third wave feminism a bad name.
Speaking of Olympia.. Mary Lou Lord's "His Indie World," which rattles off a list of just about every group that got playlisted at my college radio station.

― daria gray, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tully Craft's "pop songs your new boyfriend's too stupid to know about" takes swipes at Breeders, Green Day and Weezer (among others)

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Arrogant Like Ben Lee" by Klinger

And you're lucky that you met me.
Because I'm arrogant like Ben Lee (Wah-ah-oh).
And some people they don't get me.
Because I'm a genius like Ben Lee.
Evidentally (Wah-ah-oh)

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and I forget to mention Ben Folds' "Rockin' The Suburbs", which quite blatantly takes potshots at Fred Durst and Jonathan Davis, from the video down to the outro.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The one that sprang to mind first: "And my brother's back at home/With his Beatles and his Stones/We never got it off on that revolution stuff..." Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes" as penned by Bowie.

The Dead Kennedys slag the bejeezus out of the Knack in "Pull My Strings" ("My payola!") and Sammy Hagar (and hair-metal in general) in "Triumph of the Swill" ("see the Aryan bozo with the red guitar parachute on the White House lawn/gonna bomb the commies with his air guitar/so dumb he can't drive 55!").

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom: I've always thought the outro sounded more like RATM than Nu Metal...

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well aren't RATM, like, the founders of nu-metal?

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"we think/lou reed's a creep!" - the dictators

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(they liked him really)

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"some day soon it will be the end/for me satan soon will send/watch the flames grow ever higher/shovelling coal with steven tyler" - "heavy metal has destroyed my mind" by mike rep & the quotas.

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

& the bit where the kid gets home & his parents are making out on the couch & they've "got (his) Kiss records out" in Cheap Trick's "Surrender"

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"eric clapton on ukulele!" - the bonzo dog doo dah band

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band may well be the greatest song ever.

Daniel- Ben thought that as well. But at least he puts the effort into dressing up.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

joe pop-o-pie's version of 'i am the walrus' where he sings "boy you should've seen the pistols in '78" instead of "boy you should've seen em kicking edgar allen poe", that cracked me up.

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

NIN starfucker?

― kiwi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that paul mccartney song with the man by the stage who "looks a lot like jimmy page"!

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or some shit like that

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god, don't even get on Trent Reznor. The man makes Eminem look like Fran Healey when it comes to whinging about other musicians. The aftermath of the Tori/Courtney/Trent love triangle could fill a fucking box set.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate to admit that I'm even familiar with it, but doesn't the first track on Limp Bizkit's last album take several swipes at Trent Reznor (who, apparently and very much to his credit, said some less-than-kind things about ol' Fred Durst).

WOW -- did someone really just mention the Pop-o-Pies? DAMN I used to love them!!!

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Afghan Whigs, "Omerta": "Sounds like a Stone Temple Pilots sob story to me."

― j.lu, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

above mentioned dead milkmen (you'll dance to anything) actually titled "instant club hit"

― Ron, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Man, I can't believe I did that. I can quote almost all the lyrics of that, too. Mea Culpa.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex- yeah, you're right. Can't remember the name of the song, but Uncle Fred just goes "I wanna fuck you like an animal/ I want a perfect drug", because nothing disses your nemesis more than repeating some of his lyrics.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RHCP's "Punk Rock Classic" ends on a laughable rendition of the riff from "Sweet Child O' Mine." Also, I've never been sure if the line "I asked her to go to a Green Day concert/she said she's never heard of them/how cool is that" from Weezer's "El Scorcho" is to be interpreted as an insult or not.

― Ben, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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'isaac or fuzz' by machine gun fellatio is built out of a sample of an answering machine msg in which a young man sings a familiar trance/eurodance track off key, trying to find out what it is.

― minna (minna), Monday, 18 November 2002 02:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Another Wonder Stuff song for you, Alex in NYC -- "Maybe"

Maybe I should take the mic, stand up tall like Michael Stipe, and try to solve the problems of the earth...

― Prude, Monday, 18 November 2002 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

The Manics reference The Clash in the Outro to Roses In The Hospital: "Rudi, Rudi, Rudi's gonna fail".

And, I hate to mention it for fear of having to immediately cut my own fingers off for typing the name, but Travis' Slide Show contains the chorus "Because there was no design for life/no devils haircut in your mind/there is not a wonderwall climb/or step around"

Not Particually vicious, I grant you...

― Mr. Christopher, Monday, 18 November 2002 04:28 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...
Zappa- Yikes, you could have a whole thread in and of itself on this one... The Bee Gees...

A friend of mine once interviewed Zappa in the 80's and said he was really nice and the interview lasted all day but finally ended when Zappa had to take his kids to a Bee Gees concert, which he thought was pretty funny at the time. What was the line about the Bee Gees?

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

"No Elvis, Beatles, or Rolling Stones in 1977."

― late adopter, Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

There's an Of Montreal song called Jacques Lemure where following the line 'that weird guy who never says a word, and when spoken to pretends he hasn't heard' a voice in one speaker says "it's XXXX XXXX of the Music Tapes!!!"
I can't really make out the name (it sounds something like 'Neil Moore') but thats not the main guy from the Music Tapes' name and it always bugs the shit out of me.

― mzui (mzui), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

this thread was before get rich or die trying. the way he's going, fifty cent is giving frank zappa a run for the money in this category.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

London Calling isn't here?

― PhonyBeatlemania (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't that dis against the stage show "Beatlemania," i.e., stupidly trying to recreate the past?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 27 August 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wiesner.de/covers/225b.jpg

What's funny is that there is actually a semi-veiled dig at Velvet Underground on "Concentration Moon." The guy whispering on some of the tracks was spoken by recording engineer Gary Kellgren. You can hear him whisper:

"Tomorrow I get to do another Frank Zappa creation . . . and the day after that . . . and the day after that . . . also at the same time I get to work with The Velvet Underground which is as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group"

Now, I always thought that this was Frank placing VU on their side of the fence, but apparently, Frank didn't like Lou Reed, and Keligren didn't like Zappa&MOI OR Velvet Underground, so Frank went ahead and kept the line in.

Taken from another board, about a VU/Zappa&MOI double bill:

" Double bill opening for Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable with the Velvet Underground and Nico at The Trip, Los Angeles. The hometown crowd naturally cheered The Mothers and booed the Velvets whose sombre black New York outfits didn't fit in with the garish Californian Freaks. The Byrds, Jim Morrison (still at UCLA Film School at the time) Sonny & Cher and Mama Cass were all in the audience for the opening night. Lou Reed developed a seething hatred for Zappa: "He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's two-bit, pretentious, academic, and he can't play rock 'n' roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He's not happy with himself and I think he's right." [Reed] This is because Zappa would make fun of the Velvets as part of his stage rap... "These guys really suck!""

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 27 August 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Although I think Zappa's mockworthy coup de grace is "Punky's Whips," which, besides snotting all over Punky Meadows from Angel, Zappa gets digs in on Steven Tyler and Jeff Beck. Viva la 70s.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

The strangest rip/dig I can recall was members of Frente! breaking into a couple of giggly lines from "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe" toward the end of one of their masterpieces.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

"I don't dig the Stripes but I go for Har Mar" from that one Spoon song.

― Leon Neyfakh (Leon Neyfakh), Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Beulah - Popular Mechanics for Lovers

I heard he wrote you a song
But so what
Some guy wrote 69
And one just ain’t enough

― ihope (ihope), Saturday, 27 August 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Pet Shop Boys' "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously". I always imagine it being about Sting, but I've no idea whether this is true.

(Or possibly Bono?)

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 27 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Can't pass this thread up without quoting "Bumper Crop" by Volcano Suns:

"I wanna make the whole world grow / just like Barry Manilow"

― Declan Zimmerman, Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

"Let's Take it to the Stage" by Funkadelic. George Clinton and Co. call out just about every other funk group working:

As shown here

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

no one mentioned zappa's stab at dylan in FLAKES.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Haha yes the harmonica tootlings!

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

at the end of PIL's "albatross", with the "only the lonely" part.

― petesmith (plsmith), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

Indeed "Albatross" as a whole with the Tchaikovsky quote possibly?

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

MURS "The Pain": "I'm more Coldplay than Ice-T"

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart," obv.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Explanation of JD?

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

It was an answer record to "Love Will Keep Us Together" by the Captain and Tennille.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Hey! Student by the Fall implies something or other about Pearl Jam, Shaun Ryder and maybe their fans.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 28 August 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...
Built to Spill - "You Were Right"

― gman, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

The appaling "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" by Peter, Paul and Mary.

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

appalling

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

Chris T-T's "Dreaming Of Injured Popstars"-- a 7" from 2002

Dreaming of Injured Popstars
Lisa from steps, she's the one with the dark hair
curled up in a ball at the bottom of the stairs
with the blood congealing all down her sleeve
i think she severed an artery

Jon Michael-Jarre is tied upside-down
if he pissed himself he'll probably drown
got his head in a hole and his legs in the air
and no-one cares

I saw it all happen i was there all the time
but it wasn't me
i can watch it in slow-mo but i cannot ever move
because it's just a dream

Fuck me, it's Celine Dion
strung up in the forest with nothing on
quick! Climb the tree there's a noose around her throat
get it off, or she'll never sing another note

Cliff Richard is nailed to a cross
with Lou Reed's head stuck up his arse
and Estefan crying on the livingroom floor
but she isn't really injured at all

Hey look! A shadowy figure
running away from the scene
and in my sleep i made a villain
to wipe out the music scene

Chorus:
can't stop dreaming of injured popstars
get them out of my head somehow
one by one the popstars get cut down

Cher is there with battery acid in her hair
and Bob Dylan has a fork stuck up his nose
all around wales the bands are on fire
as the flames lick higher they run from their homes
it only took one match to burn down Kelly Jones

And it's Michael Gambon! It's Michael Gambon!
I saw his face
cleaning all the shit-pop from the human race

(Repeat chorus ad in finitum)

― popcon, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Kinks - "Where Have All the Good Times Gone"

"You said yesterday was such an easy game for you to play, but let's face it things are so much easier today..."

― goldmatt, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

wow. I scanned through here and nobody caught Johnny Thunders' London Boys, his scatching retort to the Sex Pistols' New York. The line "Holiday In The City" refers to them ripping of the Jam's riff.

"London Boys"
You best believe I'm from New York city.

You're telling me 'shut your mouth'
If I wasn't kissing, you wouldn't be around
You talk about faggots, little moma's boy
You sit at home, you got a chaperone
You need an escort to take a piss
He holds your hand and he shakes your dick
You're so pretty, suburban kitty
You think you're gonna change, rearrange your city?

Little London boys
You're little London boys
You're little London boys
You think you're gonna fool me?
Ha ha ha ha

Little rich kid, what do you know?
You had everything, don't you think it don't show?
I've been a climbing, just a face to the wall
Too much too soon, do you recall?

Have a holiday in the city,
Feelings in the air, vasaline pretty
You don't need no drunk, just LSD
You're all big shots. Shot by me!


You're little London boys
You're little London boys
You're little London boys
And I'm talking about the whole audience.

Too bad you boys don't know
And the girls they don't go
Everybody just shows

You're little,
Little London boys
You're little London Boys
You're little London Boys
You're little London Boys
You're little London Boys
You're little London Boys
You're little,
You're little,
Little London boys
You're little London Boys

You poor little puppet
The best part of this one is that Steve Jones and Paul Cook played on it.

― goldmatt, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Hair" (from the musical) "It's not for lack of bread, like the Grateful Dead."

― nickn, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

Little Joya, a cd that came with Joya by Will Oldham had a short song on it called Exit Music (For a Dick). Radiohead has a song called Exit Music (For a Film) on OK Computer. Coincidence?

― badg, Thursday, 5 April 2007 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

virtually anything on the Pooh Sticks album "Great White Wonder"

"Like Sweet Baby James, You've Got A Friend Who Loves You (So Much)" (c.f. Four Seasons for that last bit)

also: the Haywains "Kill Karaoke" (perhaps the ultimate manifestation of this)

These are not necessarily cuttingly sarcastic or mocking, but what came to mind (and they are great). I think that "MetaPop" is by definition a bit sarcastic.

Recommended!! ;-)

― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 5 April 2007 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Using them as a foil to which to oppose their own hipness, unconventionality, or modernity.

Oh and they do fit this...

― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 5 April 2007 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

Clutch sings about "Rockin' with Dokken." Not sure how sarcastic it is, though.

― novaheat, Thursday, 5 April 2007 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

From Detention's "Dead Rock N Rollers":

"And what about you Jim Carroll
All your friends have
what are you waiting for
Do it!"

(ref. to "People That Died")

― dlp9001, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

I like that one!

― Saxby D. Elder, Friday, 6 April 2007 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

Randy Newman's "Story Of A Rock And Roll Band" is a hilarious *sarcastic* tribute to ELO...

― henry s, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

all the young dudes.

― pisces, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

although it always annoys that the 'snags' which the "REVOLUTION-stuff" has 'too many' of aren't detailed.

― pisces, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

That same song from Clutch mentions "Holy Diver", I assume as a reference to Dio.

― Bill Magill, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I just checked the thread title. I have no idea if the reference to Dio is mocking or sarcastic. I tend to doubt it, but still have no idea.

― Bill Magill, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Smashing Pumpkins "Cash Car Star" x Grand Funk Railroad "We're an American Band"

― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Monday, 30 March 2015 07:10 (eleven years ago)

"Tweeter and the Monkey Man" by the Traveling Wilburys pokes fun at Bruce Springsteen.

― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Monday, 30 March 2015 07:36 (eleven years ago)

More Springsteen from "My Life Is Good" by Randy Newman,

"Just this morning
My wife and I
Went to this hotel in the hills
That's right
The Bel-Air Hotel
Where a very good friend of ours
Happens to be staying
And the name of this young man
Is Mr. Bruce Springsteen
That's right, yeah
Oh, we talked about some kind of
Woodblock or something
And this new guitar we like
And you know what he said to me
I'll tell you what he said to me
He said, "Rand, I'm tired
How would you like to be the Boss for awhile?"
Well, yeah
Blow, Big Man, blow"

― Betel-chewing Equipment of East New Guinea (Tom D.), Monday, 30 March 2015 09:23 (eleven years ago)

Many allusions to other musicians in the Fall, but sarcastic/ mocking more often directed at particular fans (or pseudo fans) than bands themselves. E.g.:

Hey!Student already mentioned

C.R.E.E.P.: “He likes ABC! (C.R.E.E.P.)”

Shoulder Pads: “Was embarrassed but stuck with them/ Walked, at shoulder, down the street, ridicule/ They couldn't tell Lou Reed from Doug Yule/ Suppressed hate romance” (also, “it wasn’t then a Beatles song”)

Mere Pseud Mag Ed: on Hex Enduction Hour, “Had a beard which was weird/ Some time ago/ Heard Ramones in '81/ Has a Spanish guitar”; on “Hip Priests and Kamerads, lines become “Has a sneer which was weird/ Some time ago/ Heard Kraftwerk in '81/ Has a WASP synthesizer”

― drash, Monday, 30 March 2015 09:56 (eleven years ago)

"Makes The Kane Gang look like an Einstein chip"

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 30 March 2015 10:12 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, there's dozens in Fall songs.

― Betel-chewing Equipment of East New Guinea (Tom D.), Monday, 30 March 2015 10:13 (eleven years ago)


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