Songs about other bands/artists

[el_chode]

I'm wondering if I can fill and entire mix (70 mins worth) of GOOD songs by bands about other bands/artists. So, for example:

The Replacements - Alex Chilton - Original Music Video
Art Brut - The Replacements
atom and his package ~ hats off to halford
DRIVE BY TRUCKERS-GEORGIA THEATER-RONNIE AND NEIL

Now, the challenge is that I'd like the songs to be titled about the subject, such as these. However, in the event that proves just too difficult, I'd settle for songs like "Sweet Home Alabama" (trite though it may be).

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

David Bowie - Andy Warhol

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

Neil Young - From Hank to Hendrix

[the_wizzard]

Ween - So Long Jerry

[the_wizzard]

David Bowie - Song For Bob Dylan

[Tracy 2112]

Morphine- Miles Davis' Funeral
U2- Elvis Presley and America
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Ballad of Curtis Lowe
REM- Lightnin' Hopkins
Led Zeppelin- Hats off to Roy Harper

[walterfredo]

Phish-David Bowie


Phish - David Bowie - IT Festival

[the_wizzard]

The Flaming Lips - Thank You Jack White (For The Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)

[YouAre_GivenToFly]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_with_Wilco

[Ghosts_on_TV]

Ray LaMontagne - "Meg White" on Ferguson 7/17 (TheAudioPerv.com)

Ray Lamontange-Meg White

[EasyRyder]

Bob Dylan - Song to Woody

Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks - Bo Diddley

[johnnYYac]

Pink Floyd - Vera (HD)

[weeniebeenie]

Danko/Manuel- Jason Isbell

Revolution Blues- Neil Young (it's supposedly about Charles Manson who was a musician of some sort but that's not what Neil was singing about).

[MarkW]

I thought this would be easy, but it isn't!

Alabama 3 - Hello... I'm johnny cash

CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

And this gem from 80s genius band Half Man Half Biscuit:

I Love You Because...

Full official song title is: I Love You Because (You Look Like Jim Reeves)

[Jaimoe]

The Stone Foxes "Robert Johnson"

[el_chode]

Alright I think I'm halfway there. Some songs don't flow well in the mix, so I'll have to see what to do about that. And that CSS song is incredibly annoying (no offense).

[kjw818]

Bob Dylan - ''Blind Willie McTell''

[MarkW]

And that CSS song is incredibly annoying (no offense).

None taken.  I like DFA1979 a lot more than CSS.

[Penny Lane]

Drive-by Truckers: Ronnie and Neil

Church blew up in Birmingham
Four little black girls killed for no goddamn good reason
All this hate and violence can't come to no good end
A stain on the good name.
A whole lot of good people dragged threw the blood and glass
Blood stains on their good names and all of us take the blame

Meanwhile in North Alabama, Wilson Pickett comes to town
To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound

Meanwhile in North Alabama, Aretha Franklin comes to town
To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound

And out in California, a rock star from Canada writes a couple of great songs about the
Bad shit that went down
"Southern Man" and "Alabama" certainly told some truth
But there were a lot of good folks down here and Neil Young wasn't around

Meanwhile in North Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town
To record with Jimmy Johnson at Muscle Shoals Sound
And they met some real good people, not racist pieces of shit
And they wrote a song about it and that song became a hit

Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
Rock stars today ain't half as real
Speaking there minds on how they feel
Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil

Now Ronnie and Neil became good friends their feud was just in song
Skynyrd was a bunch of Neil Young fans and Neil he loved that song
So He wrote "Powderfinger" for Skynyrd to record
But Ronnie ended up singing "Sweet Home Alabama" to the lord

And Neil helped carry Ronnie in his casket to the ground
And to my way of thinking, us southern men need both of them around

Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil Rock stars today ain't half as real
Speaking their minds on how they feel
Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil



Drive-by Truckers: Danko/Manuel (song written by Jason Isbell)

Let the night air cool you off.
Tilt your head back and try to cough.
Don't say nothing 'bout the things you never saw.
Let the night air cool you off.

I ain't living like I should.
A little rest might do me good.
Got to sinking in the place where I once stood.
Now I ain't living like I should.

Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold.
Maybe I can only hear it in my head.
Fifteen years ago we owned that road
now it's rolling over us instead.

Richard Manuel is dead.

God forbid you call their bluff.
Like the nightmares ain't enough.
Remember when we used to think that we were tough?
God forbid you call their bluff.

First they make you out to be
the only pirate on the sea.
Then they say Danko would have sounded just like me.
"Is that the man you want to be?"

Can you hear that song? It sounds like gold.
Maybe I could make it bigger overseas.
Fifteen years ago we owned this road
now it only gives us somewhere else to leave.

Something else you can't believe.

Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold.
Maybe I can hear poor Richard from the grave
singin' where to reap and when to sow
when you've found another home you have to leave.


Drive-by Truckers: Carl Perkin's Cadillac

Life ain't nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs
Dammit Elvis, don't you know
You made your Mama so proud
Before you ever made that record, before there ever was a Sun
Before you ever lost that Cadillac that Carl Perkins won

Mr. Phillips found old Johnny Cash and he was high
High before he ever took those pills and he's still too proud to die
Mr. Phillips never said anything behind nobody's back
Like "Dammit Elvis, don't he know, he ain't no Johnny Cash"

If Mr. Phillips was the only man that Jerry Lee still would call sir
Then I guess Mr. Phillips did all of Y'all about as good as you deserve
He did just what he said he was gonna do and the money came in sacks
New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac

I got friends in Nashville, or at least they're folks I know
Nashville is where you go to see if what they said is so
Carl drove his brand new Cadillac to Nashville and he went downtown
This time they promised him a Grammy
He turned his Cadillac around

Mr. Phillips never blew enough hot air to need a little gold plated paperweight
He promised him a Cadillac and put the wind in Carl's face
He did just what he said he was gonna do and the money came in sacks
New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac

Dammit Elvis, I swear son I think it's time you came around
Making money you can't spend ain't what being dead's about
You gave me all but one good reason not to do all the things you did
Now Cadillacs are fiberglass, if you were me you'd call it quits


Drive-by Truckers: Let there be Rock

Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old,
And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me.
On my way home, got pulled over in Rogersville Alabama, with a half-ounce of weed and a case of Sterling Big Mouth.
My buddy Gene was driving, he just barely turned sixteen.
And I'd like to say, "I'm sorry", but we lived to tell about it
And we lived to do a whole lot more crazy, stupid, shit.

And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
With 38 Special and the Johnny Van Zant Band.

One night when I was seventeen, I drank a fifth of vodka, on an empty stomach, then drove over to a friend's house. And I backed my car between his parent's Cadillac's without a scratch.
Then crawled to the back door and slithered threw the key hole, and sneaked up the stares
And puked in the toilet.
I passed out and nearly drowned but his sister, DD, pulled me out.

And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
And the band that I was in played "The Boy's are Back in Town".

Skynyrd was set to play Huntsville, Alabama, in the spring of 77, I had a ticket but it got cancelled.
So, the show, it was rescheduled for the "Street Survivors Tour".
And the rest, as they say, is history.

So I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads in 82
Right before that plane crash.
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw AC/DC
With Bon Scott singing, "Let There Be Rock Tour".

With Bon Scott singing, LET THERE BE ROCK!



Drive-by Truckers: The Living Bubba (about Gregory Dean Smalley who was dying of AIDS)

I wake up tired and I wake up pissed
wonder how I ended up like this
I wonder why things happen like they do
but I don't wonder long cuz I got a show to do

I'm sick at my stomach from the A.Z.T.
Broke at my bank cuz that shit ain't free
but I'm here to stay (at least another week or two)
I can't die now cuz I got another show to do

Don't give me no pity don't give me no grief
Wit till I die for sympathy
Just help me with this amp and a guitar or two
I can't die now cuz I got another show to do

Don't give me no preachin' no self servin'
I ain't no angel but nobody's deserving
I can dance on my own grave, Thank You!
but I can't die now cuz I got another show...

Some people keep saying I can't last long
but I got my bands I got my songs,
liquor, beer, and nicotine to help me along
and I'm drunk and stubborn as they come
chain smoking, guitar picking, til I'm gone

I ain't got no political agenda
Ain't got no message for the youth of America
'cept "Wear a rubber and be careful who you screw"
and come see me next Friday cuz I got another show...

Some people stop living long before they die
Work a dead end job just to scrape on by
but I keep living just to bend that note in two
and I can't die now cuz I got another show...

[pawpaw]

Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke