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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RYQ8Y-ObMw#)
Art Brut - The Replacements (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ps_FJVL-4Y#)
atom and his package ~ hats off to halford (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkpK0PjK4Y#)
DRIVE BY TRUCKERS-GEORGIA THEATER-RONNIE AND NEIL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7gOeP5MYqM#ws)
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).
David Bowie - Andy Warhol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_bO7tRJRs0#)
Neil Young - From Hank to Hendrix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_HwegHxXvY#)
Ween - So Long Jerry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04VT9becM3A#)
David Bowie - Song For Bob Dylan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxnCNRm_nY#)
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
Phish-David Bowie
Phish - David Bowie - IT Festival (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sELsUXUV55s#)
The Flaming Lips - Thank You Jack White (For The Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNNllQxm_0A#)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_with_Wilco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_with_Wilco)
Ray LaMontagne - "Meg White" on Ferguson 7/17 (TheAudioPerv.com) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMzjr_Q1DK0#)
Ray Lamontange-Meg White
Bob Dylan - Song to Woody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt7MVy6cN_Q#)
Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks - Bo Diddley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEsL5xk_0D4#)
Pink Floyd - Vera (HD) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ZI1iqDa3s#ws)
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).
I thought this would be easy, but it isn't!
Alabama 3 - Hello... I'm johnny cash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3d9-sXrx3o#)
CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (OFFICIAL VIDEO) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7agPOt1XZz8#)
And this gem from 80s genius band Half Man Half Biscuit:
I Love You Because... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_0QpzSHkzM#)
Full official song title is: I Love You Because (You Look Like Jim Reeves)
The Stone Foxes "Robert Johnson" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcr7p2rXqWo#ws)
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).
Bob Dylan - ''Blind Willie McTell''
Quote from: el_chode on Oct 10, 2011, 10:37 AM
And that CSS song is incredibly annoying (no offense).
None taken. I like DFA1979 a lot more than CSS.
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...
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sIjSNTS7Fs#)
Ray LaMontagne - ''Meg White''
Quote from: bbill on Oct 10, 2011, 01:25 PM
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sIjSNTS7Fs#)
seriously one of the best songs ever. Seeing Stevie Wonder at Bonnaroo was one of my favorite shows of all time...
Bobbie Bare Jr Dig Down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHO4pXPJhy8#)
Not sure this is actually about Eddie Vedder:
http://www.youtube.com/v/GOmRhOKhkOI?version=3 (http://www.youtube.com/v/GOmRhOKhkOI?version=3)
Local H - Eddie Vedder - can't embed for some reason
Quote from: bowl of soup on Oct 10, 2011, 04:33 PM
Not sure this is actually about Eddie Vedder:
http://www.youtube.com/v/GOmRhOKhkOI?version=3 (http://www.youtube.com/v/GOmRhOKhkOI?version=3)
Local H - Eddie Vedder - can't embed for some reason
I think that song is more about how girls just wanted the E.V.-chic guy. I met Local H a while back, they were some cool dudes.
Quote from: el_chode on Oct 10, 2011, 10:37 AM
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).
do what ya gotta do pimp juice. it's your mix. make that bitch flow.
this where radiohead got their name:
Talking Heads - Radio Head (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku-NgIOc_Ko#)
Sublime: KRS One
KRS One - Sublime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kejBH1aO2D8#)
Well, I've probably mentioned this more than enough times.... but since it's a post directly dedicated to this kind of thing, I think I'll share once again!
Robert Plant just outright says Joni Mitchell's name in the "Goin to California" from the triple-disc set How the West Was Won
If anybody has the slightest interest in hearing this, please tune into
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/12/11/500678/08%20-%20Going%20To%20California.wma (http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/12/11/500678/08%20-%20Going%20To%20California.wma)
and listen to the whole dang thing, or check in at just about the 4 minute mark.
"To find a Queen, without a King, they say she plays guitar, cries, aaaaand she sings.... Joni...."
And I get all intertwined in the history of that one line... Joni's got the song "I Had A King," and of course her song "California"... and I just like to daydream about Robert Plant crushing on her........... :)
One of the most important songs of our time, from one of the most important artists of our time, about one of the most important musical personalities of our time. I proudly give to you Stuffin Martha's Muffin:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPts1cPQRh8#ws%5B/url)
Dandy Warhols - Cool as Kim Deal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56W16EMxi54#)
This is a song shot at the Dandy Warhols for their song Not If You Were The Last Junkie on Earth
Brian Jonestown Massacre live in Austin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiW-581boVI#ws)
Laura Veirs - Carol Kaye [High Quality] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRAkIaHfI7E#ws)
...and yes that is Mr. Jim James that you hear as well
Ok bear with me here....
This song was written by DONOVAN, for Mama Cass. And part of the lyrics are about Jefferson Airplane.....
So the Airplane (naturally) covered it.....
So here's THEIR groovy version, and I'll post Donovan's groovy version below it!
Jefferson Airplane - Fat Angel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A7jM-7bNYs#)
The Fat Angel by Donovan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkmmiu1ocGs#)
Most psychedelic dude ever...... a song dedicated to the trip.
This one calls out Bobby Dylan & Joniiiiiii
The Trip by Donovan on 1966 Mono Epic LP. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNMhn4uP2Jc#)
Alright last one before I head to bed....
From Check Your Head
"Jimmy James" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5i7TPkYfI#)
The OG version.... sampling Hendrix out the wazoo... (and hey, it's called Jimmy James, so I think it counts on this board for sure 8))
Strapped on the ear-goggles and what did I see? But the music brought the people into harmonyyyy