Bands mentioned by other bands (in song)

[at least 100 dead]

The Fall: Guest Informant (excerpt) - 1988

The miserable Scottish hotel,
Resembled a Genesis or Marillion, 1973 LP cover
All the hotel staff had been dismissed...

[spacefreak]

I asked Bobby Dylan
I asked The Beatles
I asked Timothy Leary
But he couldn't help me, either

[Scrotum Scissor]

So all our friends,
like Kevin,
Caravan,
the ol' Pink Floyd

Robert Wyatt in the Top Gear-rendition of "Moon In June".

[walt]

[walt]

"And my brother's back at home
With his Beatles and his Stones..."

All The Young Dudes-Mott The Hoople

[at least 100 dead]

The Fall: I Am Damo Suzuki (1985)

The fuck-up like red acid rain
Give it to me Daki every day
Who is Mr. Karlheinz Stockhausen?
Introduce me
I'm Damo Suzuki

[bob_32_116]

The Monkees - "Randy Scouse Git".
"The four kings of EMI" refers to the Beatles.

The Beatles themselves namecheck B. B. King and Doris Day in "Dig It".

"Phil and Don" in Wings' "Let 'em In" almost certainly refers to the Everly Brothers.

Donovan mentions Jefferson Airplane in "The Fat Angel", the title of which refers to Mama Cass Elliot. He also mentions Bob Dylan and "Joanie" or "Joni" in "The Trip"; not sure if that refers to Joan Baez or Joni Mitchell.

Lynyrd Skynyrd famously mention Neil Young.

"1985" by Bowling For Soup names a number of acts of that era, and contains the line "When did Motley Crue become classic rock?".

Cheap Trick in "Surrender" sing "got my Kiss records out."

I'm sure there's a shitload of other examples.

[iguana]

THE TANGENT’s “the sun in my eyes”:

“or get my head kicked in for liking YES, instead of SUZI QUATRO or the RUBETTES…”

[walt]

"listening to sounds of Mingus mellow fantastic
My,my, they sigh
My, my they sigh.."

Sunny Goodge Street-Donovan(i much prefer the cover by Judy Collins)

[Scrotum Scissor]

Country Joe McDonald on

Electric Music for the Mind and Body (by Country Joe & the Fish) - "Grace" (about sleeping with Grace Slick)
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die (by Country Joe & the Fish) - "Janis" (about sleeping with Janis Joplin)

[spellbound]

" Bob Dylan knows
And I bet Alan Freed did
There are things in night
That are better not to behold

You dance
With your lizard leather boots on
And pull the strings
That change the faces of men
You diamond browed hag
You're a gutter-gaunt gangster
John Lennon knows your name
And I've seen his" - Marc Bolan T. Rex Ballrooms Of Mars

[spellbound]

" Television man is crazy
Saying were juvenile deliquent wrecks
Oh man I need TV when I got T Rex" - Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes (David Bowie)

[bigbassdrum]

"Frank Zappa and the Mothers ... were at the best place around... but some stupid with a flare gun..." - Smoke on the Water, Deep Purple

[bob_32_116]

Sunny Goodge Street-Donovan(i much prefer the cover by Judy Collins)

I always thought the same. He makes the song sound depressing. She makes it sound... sunny.

[Scott Bails]

We all came out to Montreaux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around.

- Deep Purple, "Smoke on the Water"

[No Pride]

"Turn up The Eagles, the neighbors are listening"

Steely Dan - Everything You Did

[Cats On Glue]

speaking of zappa, he mentions the vanilla fudge on mudshark.

[at least 100 dead]

Zappa: Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy

She put a Doobie Brothers tape on
I had a Roger Daitrey cape on
There was a bed I dumped her shape on
Can't remember what became of me . . .

[rcarlberg]

"Sometimes we even are progressive
And listen with intention
To The Mothers of Invention."
- Supersister, Corporation Combo Boys

[at least 100 dead]

Just about every Wesley Willis song is about another band, for example:

You are a good punk rocker
You are a maniac
You can really sing your ass off to the max
You are a good person

Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra

[paythesnuka]

Zappa mentioned in Beardfish's "A Love Story"

Beatles mentioned in The Temptations' "Ball of Confusion"

T-Rex mentioned in The Who's "You Better You Bet"

[at least 100 dead]

@paythesnuka : Great avatar!

[rickawakeman]

Some more Tangent, from the Canterbury Sequence:

I seem to spend my whole life shouting,
Perhaps I should be cool,
Put on some Caravan or Hatfields,
Like I used to do at school

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

"I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T.Rex" - the Who, "You Better You Bet"

The whole song "Elvis is Everywhere" - Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

"If you don't have Mojo Nixon, your record store needs fixin'"
"Someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox"
-- both from Dead Milkmen, "Punk Rock Girl"

"Jack the ripper Owens Wilson Phillips and my supper's ready" (etc.) - Dream Theater, "Octavarium"

[Scrotum Scissor]

I always thought the same. He makes the song sound depressing. She makes it sound... sunny.

If anything, Donovan's version has an atmosphere of smog about it. I still think it's a great rendition; I love the smokey jazz vibe, the guitar chords and that eminent flute solo.