Bands with songs named after them
This post is dedicated to a
Random John, who thinks most rock bands that write songs with the same
name as their band are lame. Lame or not, let’s see what we can come up
with.
Off the top of my head, here’s what I thought of.
Big Country
The Young Fresh Fellows
Black Sabbath
Minor Threat
Electric Wizard
General Public
I’ll post the first two to the radio.blog. I wanted to post the Sabbath song too but I only have it on vinyl.
September 30, 2005 in Uncategorized |
I browsed through the music I have on my hard drive and came up with these, too:
Infectious Grooves
Madness
Talk Talk
Technotronic
The Who (sorta)
Honorable mention to Pink Floyd and Soundtrack of Our Lives for having songs that reference their band names.
Comment by Susan M — September 30, 2005 @ 2:11 pm
Wow. If I get another post dedicated to me I’ll feel as special as DKL must on BoH…
I was thinking of 38 Special and Bad Company, lame bands and especially lame songs. I would like to know which came first, the band or the song. Obviously The Who were named that prior to Who Are You.
Comment by a random John — September 30, 2005 @ 2:22 pm
Here are some more:
Iron Maiden
Anthrax
Beastie Boys
Built to Spill
Belle and Sebastian
References:
Clash City Rockers (The Clash)
Bob Dylan’s Dream
Bob Dylan’s Blues
Comment by Greg — September 30, 2005 @ 2:23 pm
Steely Dan does it in one of their songs. The lyric is “they got the Steely Dan T-Shirts” from the song Show Biz Kids.
Comment by Dallin I — September 30, 2005 @ 2:27 pm
I misread the post, still, the song references the band.
Comment by Dallin I — September 30, 2005 @ 2:27 pm
They Might Be Giants
Comment by John C. — September 30, 2005 @ 2:54 pm
“They Might Be Giants” - sub-par TMBG song.
“The Jazz Butcher Meets Count Dracula,” “The Jazz Butcher Vs. The Prime Minister” by the Jazz Butcher - pretty good.
“Black Sabbath” - meh. But I’m not a Black Sabbath fan, so my vote shouldn’t count.
“(Theme From) The Monkees” - should theme songs count?
In general, I agree that when bands sing songs about themselves the results usually kind of suck. I can think of a couple of local-band exceptions, like “The Deathray Davies Set the Original Tone” by Deathray Davies, which rocks as hard as any of their other songs, which all rock.
Comment by Allison — September 30, 2005 @ 3:21 pm
Quickly going through my music, I came up with:
Aqualung
Louis XIV
People with songs named after them:
Bo Diddley (himself)
Buddy Holly (Weezer)
John McLaughlin (Miles Davis)
Another Band reference is “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House” by LCD Soundsystem.
Comment by Logan — September 30, 2005 @ 3:43 pm
A friend sent me Black Sabbath so I posted it the radio.blog.
Comment by Susan M — September 30, 2005 @ 5:00 pm
Well, if we’re going that route, there is “XTC vs. Adam Ant” by TMBG. A much, much better song than the one I mentioned earlier.
Comment by John C. — September 30, 2005 @ 5:40 pm
Is it me or does the beginning of that Sabbath song, once the rain lets up, sound a lot like “Stonehenge,” off of Spinal Tap’s legendary album “The Sun Never Sweats”?
I can just picture the little druids dancing… And oh, how they danced…
Comment by Greg — September 30, 2005 @ 5:45 pm
“We’re the Replacements” - also TMBG
“Van Halen” - The Nerf Herders
What about bands named after songs? Like “Death Cab for Cutie,” “Pretty Girls Make Graves” and “Girls Say Yes”?
Comment by BTD Greg — October 3, 2005 @ 11:51 am
…and Godsmack.
I always thought that it was wierd that Houses of the Holy came before Physical Graffiti that had the song “Houses of the Holy” on it.
Comment by J. Stapley — October 5, 2005 @ 11:37 pm
“Fleetwood Mac” (it’s on The Original Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac in Chicago, and the Complete Blue Horizons Sessions boxed set)
“Stray Cat Strut” — the Stray Cats
“David Bowie” (and UB40) — Phish
Comment by Last Lemming — October 6, 2005 @ 5:25 pm