SONGS WHERE/SONGS THAT/SONGS WITH/SONGS IN WHICH

You could include "Mr. Wilson" in that longer list as well.

Some of those so flagrantly disregard the rules, it’s a scandal (“Jack the Ripper”??)

morrisp not playing around

I AM CHECKING TWITTER ACCOUNTS

Lol

muddying the waters (hey!) here even more, but I don’t have Twitter, so...

Lil Nas X • Montero (Call Me By Your Name)

Frank Sinatra - Miss Kittin & The Hacker

He was prescient

lol

Some of those so flagrantly disregard the rules, it’s a scandal (“Jack the Ripper”??)

Do you know his real name?

(At least I double checked whether Helen of Troy was fictional before I included her.)

Big Bopper’s real name was Chantilly Lace right?

is The Avalanches “Frankie Sinatra” against the rules?
(Frankie sure seems to be a popular subject)

Mecano - Eungenio Salvador Dalí

The Dandy Warhols - Nietzsche

Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour
Cass McCombs - Bradley Manning
MGMT - Brian Eno
Charlie Puth - Marvin Gaye
Jay Z - Tom Ford

These are popular ones that haven’t been mentioned:

MIKA - Grace Kelly
Miike Snow - Genghis Khan
Boney M - Ma Baker
Boney M - Rasputin

"Bo Diddley" - Bo Diddley
"Marshall Mathers" - Eminem

does "Pretty Boy Floyd" by Woody Guthrie count?

^it’s not in the spirit of what I had in mind, but I’ll cry uncle and say the more the merrier at this point

(what I liked what the prosaic nature of titles that are simply “real” names, or close enough)

lol @ sic

Negativland - Michael Jackson

Cocoa Tea - Barack Obama

i like how all of these can be read either way and you can imagine that michael jackson had a song called "negativland" and barack obama has one called "cocoa tea."

Hey, that reminds me of another one:

“Michael Stipe” (P, that Johnny Depp band)

(remember 1995 – when there was a band called P, and a song by a different band called “Friends of P.”? good times, man)

here’s an honorable mention that I’ll use my discretion to allow:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2228742698_10.jpg

this is legit one of my favorite genres of song (though my rules are even stricter than morrisp's). not mentioned yet, i don't think:

king missile - martin scorsese
migos - forest whitaker
b bragg & wilco - ingrid bergman
uncle tupelo - d. boon
joey ramone - maria bartiromo
sr-71 - axl rose
king stitt - lee van cleef
(that broadway show) - alexander hamilton
drive-by truckers - steve mcqueen
they might be giants - james k. polk
nick lowe - marie provost
pernice bros - jacqueline susann
the baseball project - harvey haddix
the posies - grant hart
redd kross - linda blair
jonathan richman - vincent van gogh
jonathan richman - salvador dali
jonathan richman - walter johnson
warren zevon - bill lee
the clash - janie jones
spank rock - rick rubin
vic chesnutt - lucinda williams
the band - bessie smith
fred eaglesmith - johnny cash
lydia loveless - steve earle
neil young - pocahontas
belle & sebastian - seymour stein
vic chesnutt - woodrow wilson
mina - brigitte bardot
big dipper - robert pollard
dominique leone - nellie mckay
young fresh fellows - amy grant
blue oyster cult - joan crawford
sun kil moon - glen tipton
neil sedaka - betty grable
big audio dynamite - esquerita
annie - ralph macchio
van dyke parks - bing crosby
van dyke parks - jack palance
todd rundgren - wolfman jack
beastie boys - johnny ryall
the kinks - david watts
mountain goats - duke ellington
blossom dearie - dusty springfield
mighty sparrow - martin luther king
lead belly - howard hughes
kraftwerk - franz schubert
teenage fanclub - gene clark
warpaint - billie holiday

^^awesome!

(I should’ve thought of “seymour stein”)

ooh, and forgot:

kanye west - barry bonds

Richard Thompson - Alexander Graham Bell

van dyke parks - “van dyke parks”

Sekiden also have an Alexander Graham Bell song but it's not eligible itt

Luke Haines, "Peter Hammill"

Andres Calamaro - Maradona
Vaudeville Villain - Zinedine Zidane

Serial killer edition:

Soulfly - Jeffrey Dahmer
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr
Cassius - Belle Gunness
Dahmer - Henry Lee Lucas (this works for a double qualifier since the artist name is also based on a serial killer)
Murder Junkies - Danny Rolling

Several songs titled Son of Sam, Jack the Ripper, Unabomber, BTK, Zodiac but don’t know if they qualify. Serial killers are usually more popular by nicknames than by real names no?

since we’re doing

Songs with footballers in their titles🕸

This rich vein cries out for a poll

songs in which humans get shredded

I'll go

Cannibal Corpse - Shredded Humans

The Buoys - "Timothy" (well not shredded, but eaten... close enough)

Kesha (still Ke$ha back then) • Cannibal

"Leng Tch'e" by Naked City.

Songs with footballers in their titles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_for_Pele?wprov=sfla1

(I know it's an album, but still)

Songs in which being a "Nineties Baby" is a focal point:

Victoria Monét – "90's Babies"
Maren Morris - "80s Mercedes"
Icona Pop - "I Love It"
The Weeknd - "Girls Born in the 90's"
Jay Rick$ - "Born in the 90's"
FAVX - "Born in the 90's"
The Cassettes - "Born in the 90s"

(I've never heard of the last few, but they came up in a search of lyrix for one of the others)

― Mocha Sauce (morrisp), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:38 PM (one year ago)

new one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMKcWsUjdzg

songs with names beginning with Mr or Mrs/Miss in which the name is a ridiculous , over-the-top 'character' name and or being used as a nickname to insult someone

“Mr. Vain” is playing, so I came back to see if it had already been mentioned—it has—so instead I’ll add “Mr. Perfectly Fine” (T. Swift).

The Pretty Things - "Mr. Evasion".

songs in which the narrator compares their love for somebody else to a drug

better have 1,000 by 5 pm ET

Pink - "Just Like a Pill"
Ashanti - "Baby"

Kesha - Your Love is My Drug