Thirty-second clips of every song on Bob Dylan’s Modern Times leaked last week. A single MP3 of the snippets can be found
, in case you missed the link while we were under construction.
You may have read that on one tune, ol’ Bob gives a bizarre shoutout to R&B songbird Alicia Keys.
“I was thinking about Alicia Keys, couldn’t help from crying/When she was born in Hell’s Kitchen, I was living down the line/I’m wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be/I been looking for her even clean through Tennessee.”
Early reports indicated the lyric would appear on the title track. But Times has no title track. So I was dubious.
Well, the MP3 (sort of) confirms it. Assuming the samples are correctly sequenced, the song’s actually called “Thunder On The Mountain.” Hurrah! It’s Dylan’s weirdest move since those Victoria’s Secret commercials.
I always thought it would be fun (in a terribly dorky High Fidelity way) to make a mix on which each song references the artist who performs the subsequent song. Hey, I said it was dorky! But I was so sure it would get published in whatever magazine printed reader mixes. (Was it CMJ?)
Anyway, never did make that mix. The flow would be horrendous. And I would inevitably hit a wall…
Terrorvision – “Tom Petty Loves Veruca Salt”
Veruca Salt – “David Bowie”
David Bowie – “Song For Bob Dylan”
Bob Dylan – “Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie”
… so just tell us your favorite rock ‘n roll shoutouts (can be in a lyric, a la “Thunder On The Mountain,” not necessarily the song title) and collectively we’ll make the most clever, worst mix of all time.
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I asked Bobby Dylan/
I asked the Beatles/
I asked Timothy Leary/
But he couldn’t help me either/
“The Seeker”, The Who
Pixies – “I’ve Been Tired” (Lou Reed)
Veruca Salt – “Number One Blind” (Lyric/Melody shout out to the Pixies’ “Stormy Weather”)
“don’t keep jack in my lap, don’t wanna see Tupac”
-Ghostface
alternatively
“give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld”
-Nirvana
“Bobby’s all right/Bobby’s all right
He’s a natural born poet/He’s just outta sight” – T Rex shouting out Dylan in “Telegram Sam”
“I don’t believe in Zimmerman”
God, John Lennon
“Goodbye Hollywood, goodbye downey – hello Janis
Hello Dennis, Elvis – and all my brand new friends”
Tunic (Song for Karen), Sonice Youth
“I don’t believe in Zimmerman”
God, John Lennon
“Goodbye Hollywood, goodbye downey – hello Janis
Hello Dennis, Elvis – and all my brand new friends”
Tunic (Song for Karen), Sonice Youth
Pavement – “Range Life”
“out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
nature kids, i/they don’t have no function
i don’t understand what they mean
and i could really give a fuck.
the stone temple pilots,
they’re elegant bachelors
they’re foxy to me are they foxy to you?
i will agree theY DESERVE absolutely nothing
nothing more than me…”
“Show me, a word that rhymes with Pavement, and I won’t shoot your parents…” wait, that doesn’t work.
Or you can just cheat and visit the Velvet Rope where a thread on this very topic has been going on since last week.
“We’re The Replacements” by They Might Be Giants
The Replacements – “Alex Chilton”
How am I the first person to mention this one??
Also, “Range Life” is as far from a shoutout as you can get. It’s more of a fuckyou.
“I really don’t want to be John Lennon or Leonard Cohen” — Rufus Wainwright in “Want”
“Sick of muthafuckas trying to tell me that they’re down with Prince” — Hot Chip in “Down With Prince”
“Singing a little Dylan, sitting on a fence…” Hooty & the Blowfish in “I Only Want To Be With You” (wish I hadn’t thought of this one)
“Lying in bed, just like Brian Wilson did” — Barenaked Ladies in “Brian Wilson”
“Bob Marley, poet and a prophet” — RHCP in “Give It Away”
“In a dream I had, I was on a stage with Queen, Michael Stipe and Elton John, Bono, Springsteen” — Live in “People Like You” (from the seldom-heard album V)
And if this wasn’t a “rock n’ roll” shotout list, I’d offer pretty much every hip hop song ever recorded.
staying with the pavement theme, “Stereo”
what about the voice of geddy lee
how did it get so high?
i wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?
(i know him and he does!)
and you’re my fact-checkin’ cuz
don’t forget “Politcal Song for Micheal Jackson to Sing” or “Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs” by The Minutemen.
What about references to other songs? From the Pet Shop Boys – I Want to Wake Up:
I stood at the kitchen sink, my radio played
songs like ‘Tainted Love’ and ‘Love Is Strange’
As I listened and the words hit my ears
I cried sudden tears
Now, I want to wake up
How I want to wake up
Dylan must be into the shout outs. Time Out Of Mind had this lyric… “I’m listening to Neil Young/Gotta turn him up”
McCartney also sang “What’s the man moving cross the stage?/Looks a lot like the one used by Jimmy Page” on Rock Show.
And…didn’t Neil Young mention Jimmy Page too on Mirrorball?
I’ve got to mention only because I loves the Ben
“I’ve got no place to go\
I’ve got Ben Folds on my radio, right now”
Counting Crows – “Monkey”
“I asked you to go to the Green Day concert
You said you never heard of them
How cool is that?
So I went to your room and read your diary:”
Weezer “El Scorcho”
Take that Green Day!
Two shoutouts to Kiss:
In the Garage — Weezer
Heavey Metal Drummer — Wilco
“I wish I was him
He gets the girls at his feet
With all his cool friends
He gets his records for free
I wish I was him
He has no enemies”
(from “I wish I was him” – a ben lee song about evan dando)
“I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” – Sleater Kinney
Tori Amos and Nine Inch Nails
“Precious Things” — “With your nine inch nails…”
“Caught a Lite Sneeze” — “Made my own pretty hate machine”
Punk Rock Girl-Dead Milkmen
“We asked for Mojo Nixon
They said he don’t work here
We said if you don’t got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin”
someone posted in art of the mix something like this but covers.
http://www.artofthemix.org/FindAMix/GetContents.asp?strMixID=18189
“Jackie Wilson Said (It Was Reet Petite)” – Van Morrison.
All of ILX to thread.
for it’s “huh?” quality, I love Brady’s shoutout to Coldplay in the song “I Tried”:
‘I think I wanna hear some Cold Play
Especially that song where the man says
“Did I drive you away? I know what your sayin’”‘
“From Hank to Hendrix…/From Marilyn to Madonna…” (Hank Somebody [not Hank Williams], Jimi Hendrix and Madonna).
-Neil Young
“Neil Young, Have You Forgotten”
-Dr. BLT
these are obvious, but as of yet unmentioned, so here goes:
lynyrd sknyrd “Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her // Well, I heard ole Neil put her down.//
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
a southern man don’t need him around anyhow.”
neil young “”The king is gone but he’s not forgotten // This is the story of Johnny Rotten”?
not sure where to go from there… i heard there’s a drive-by truckers song that continues this thread, but i don’t know it…
“..lost like a fleeting thought, stuck inside of Leonard Cohen’s mind” – Mercury Rev
Donna A by The Darlingtons
how could I forgot?
“And I hope Neil Young will remember / A Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow…”
-Lynyrd Skynyrd
“..lost like a fleeting thought, stuck inside of Leonard Cohen’s mind” – Mercury Rev
Donna A by The Darlingtons
Also:
- Ben Folds’ “Rockin’ The Suburbs” (Michael Jackson, Quiet Riot, Jon Bon Jovi)
- Mott The Hoople “All The Young Dudes” (Beatles, Stones)
and how could we forget:
- Snow Patrol “Hand Opens” (Sufjan!)
Agree w/ Amrit, let’s leave out hip-hop … too easy/neverending.
hey “the management,” Pavement’s “Range Life” was neither a FUCK YOU or a SHOUT OUT – if you read the liner notes to the Crooked Rain reissue, SM says the line about the Pumpkins (and STP) was a throwaway line. It had the band laughing, he writes. He also joked that he’d always wanted to kick Billy Corgan’s ass (probably cuz he knows the 6-foot something Corgan would most likely kick his nuts in).
That line in “Range Life” to me, really reflects the jealousy Malkmus had at the mainstream success those two bands had, especially STP’s sudden success, as evident by the line “”i will agree theY DESERVE absolutely nothing
nothing more than me.”
Anyway, don’t forget about Snow Patrol’s shoutout to Sufjan on their new single “Hands Down,” which actually not only finds the band requesting Sufjan, but an actual song of his (“Chicago”).
“i got the bob dylan blues
and my bob dylan shoes
and my clothes and my hair’s in a mess
but you know i couldn’t care less”
-the late great syd barrett
that hootie and the blowfish song where he name checks dylan and then steals a whole verse of dylan’s “idiot wind” has always bothered me. hootie shoulda been shot and killed for that.
- No love for Pavement’s “Unseen Power of the Picket Fence?”
- R.E.M. “practiced my T-Rex moves” in “The Wake-Up Bomb”
cheap fuckin trick!! surrender!
“When I woke up, mom and dad are rolling on the couch.
Rollin numbers, rockin rollin, got my Kiss records out.”
and the cooliest one over, trans-europe express-kraftwerk
“From station to station
back to Dusseldorf City
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie”
“You turn on the radio and you change the station until you hear the new one by Belle and Sebastian”
– Calvin Krime, “Inverse Crickets and Attractive Transistors”
(Does anyone else like this band? They are so good.)
Beck’s “Ozzy” off stereopathic soul manure & Of course Pavement’s REM homage “Unseen Power of the Picket fence” are my faves cuz they’re specifically about other bands?
also
Television Personalities – “You, Me, and Lou Reed” and “I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives”
Art Brut vs. Velvets in “Bang Bang Rock and Roll”
Belle & Sebastian shout out The Go-Betweens in “Shoot the Sexual Athlete” as well as Sherlock Holmes
T. Rex’s “Ballrooms of Mars” with Alan Freed, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, et al
dorkin out
“Blonde on Blonde” by Nada Surf
“You Were Right” by Badly Drawn Boy
They Might Be Giants shouting out both the dB’s and Young Fresh Fellows on “Twisting”
“She doesn’t have to have her dB’s records back”
“She doesn’t have to have her Young Fresh Fellows tape back”
Steely Dan (more of a shout down of the Eagles) on “Everything You Did”
“Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening”
ELO “Shangri-La” – The Beatles
“Faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude”
Simon & Garfunkal’s “A Simple Desultory Philippic”
“I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I’m blind.”
“I been Mick Jaggered”
“Been Roy Haleed and Art Garfunkeled.”
“When you say Dylan, he thinks youre talking about Dylan Thomas / Whoever he was / The man aint got no culture / But its alright, ma / Everybody must get stoned.”
The Who “You Better You Bet” – T-Rex
“but I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T-Rex”
Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water” – Frank Zappa and the Mothers
“Frank Zappa & the Mothers were at the best place around”
Molly Hatchet “Gator Country” has plenty of southern rock shoutouts:
“Skynyrd says it’s a real sweet home but it ain’t nothing to me.
Charlie Daniels will tell you the good Lord lives in Tenessee, ha!”
“Old Richard Betts will tell ya Lord he was born a Ramblin’ Man.”
“Elvin Bishop out struttin his stuff with little Miss Slick Titty Boom.”
“There’s Marshall Tucker riding a rainbow searching for a pot of gold.”
“The Outlaws down in Tampa town it’s a mighty fine place to be.”
“Electroclash is karaoke too
I try to dance to Britney Spears
I guess I’m getting on in years”
-Rufus Wainwright, ‘Vibrate’
Prince likes Alicia, too. Why do so many talented Old School singer-songwriters tout this untalented bland songstress besides the obvious…
Belle and Sebastian — Me and the Major
“…and he remembers Roxy Music in ’72″.
BTW, enslavement rhymes with Pavement.
Some random ones:
The Animals – “Bo Diddley”
Weezer – “Buddy Holly”
The Dandy Warhols – “Cool as Kim Deal”
Grandaddy – “Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland”
CCR – “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” (Buck Owen)
Morphine – “Kerouac”
Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen – “Charlie Parker”
“My Sister” — Juliana Hatfield Three (ref. Violent Femmes & Del Fuegos)
The Young Fresh Fellows – “Amy Grant”
“When she comes home from church, she’s gotta take off those pants, that’s what I like about Amy Grant”
and “Hank, Karen And Elvis” about Hank Williams, Karen Carpenter, and… well.. Elvis.
and might as well throw in “My Friend Ringo” while were at it.
Young Fresh Fellows (again) with “Beer Money”
“’cause the beer is free and we’re on MTV, and we’re opening up for the Del Fuegos”
Wilco gets a shoutout in “Back on My Feet” by Glen Phillips (formerly of Toad the Wet Sprocket).
Steve Miller gets one in Gillian Welch’s “My First Lover”
ricky nelson “garden party”
waterboys “has anybody here seen Hank”
blue mountain “band called bud”
sebadoh “gimme indie rock”
you can stll be marlon brando,
and the king of rock’n'roll.
Mark Knopfler – Back to Tupelo
there’s so many funny references to Elvis’ career in this one. “you and the lying dutchman”
hahahaah
“Keep Fallin’” by Hot Chip also gives a shout out to Stevie Wonder and Ween:
Nothin’s new forever, can’t you see I’m just a sucker? I’m like Stevie Wonder, but I can see things
Me and Ulysses, we like Gene and Dean Ween
We’re like brothers making records who can’t play things
and then from there, I guess you could go to “Sir Duke” by Stevie. And there’s my wall.
David Bowie – “all the young dudes”
“Man I need a TV when I’ve got T. Rex”
..
“And my brother’s back at home
With his Beatles and his Stones”
“Lloyd [Cole], I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken” — Camera Obscura
“Paul Simon” — The Russian Futurists
“Lightnin Hopkins” — REM
“I wanna be Bob Dylan”
-Counting Crows
Just make all the songs about Skynyrd. Betwen Neil, Drive-By Truckers, Charlie Daniels (ugh) and this one:
“‘sweet home alabama’ – play that dead band’s song’… — Play it all night long, Warren Zevon.
WZ also mentions Jackson Browne in the live cut of ‘Werewolves’ on Stand in the Fire.
but who talks about Warren? anyone?
Stars –> Velvet Underground
“We hit the streets with all we had, a tape-recording of the sound of the Velvet Underground”
Soft Revolution
Lou Reed –> Jimi Hendrix
“Hendrix played on some foreign jukebox; they were prayin’ to be saved”
Christmas in February
Wonderstuff –> REM
“Maybe I could take the mic, stand up tall like Michael Stipe, try to solve the problems of the world.”
Maybe
Sunnysmack –> Lifter Puller
“I’m not the Lifter Puller guy; my voice is way too high”
Now Everybody Knows
The Hold Steady’s “Swish” shout-outs Patty Smythe, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Steve Perry, Neil Schon, Nina Simone and Andre Cymone
“There was this chick she looked like Patty Smythe. She seemed seemed shaky but nice.”
“She said my name is Rick Danko but people call me one-hour photo.”
“She said my name is Robbie Robertson but people call me robo.”
“She said my name is Steve Perry but people call me Circuit City – I’m so well connected.”
“She said my name’s Neil Schon but some people call me Nina Simone. Some people call me Andre Cymone, ’cause I’ve survived the 80s one time already… and I don’t recall them all that fondly.”
Less Bob Dylan, more Junior Senior! And JJ Fad!
“Here’s the son of Frankenstein (Bow-wow-wow)
He shakes it good (yeah), He shakes it fine
Here’s a fan of the JJ Fad (JJ Fad)
He’s the best thing you ever had”
- “Go Junior, Go Senior”
into…
“Eenie meenie disaleenie ooh wah bop a leenie
Asa cotcha Liberace I love you”
- “Supersonic”
Now you’re rockin’ it.
Falco — “Rock Me Amadeus”. Hee hee.
The mix from Art of the Mix that Angelica posted was (I think) in response to a long-standing “mix challenge” on that site.
About four years ago, I made a series of mix trades with an Art of the Mix regular, and one of the mixes he sent me was a “mix composed entirely of songs with shout outs.”
Here it is:
http://www.artofthemix.org/FindAMix/getcontents.asp?strMixID=2829
Gee, I guess it was longer than four years ago.
Sheesh, I’m old.
What, no mention of Blonde Redhead’s “Young Neil” ??
Not the same song as the Badly Drawn Boy song, but also a great song with shoutouts: Built to Spill, “You Were Right”
The Spinanes (though it might be Rebecca solo) – “Jad Fair Drives Women Wild”
Magnetic Fields – “Acoustic Guitar”
Acoustic guitar, if you think I play hard
well, you could have belonged to Steve Earle
or Charo or Gwar
How about Sophie B. Hawkins’s “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover”:
If I was your girl believe me
I’d turn on the Rolling Stones
We could groove along and feel much better
Cansei de Ser Sexy – Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
A couple of songs with more than a few shout outs:
the bloodhound gang – fire water burn: “I’m not black like Barry White no I am white like Frank Black is/ So if man is five and the devil is six than that must make me seven,/ This honkey’s gone to heaven,/But if I go to hell then I hope I burn well,/I’ll spend my days with J.F.K., Marvin Gaye, Martha Raye, and Lawrence Welk,/And Kurt Cobain, Kojak, Mark Twain and Jimi Hendrix’s poltergeist”
Mary Lou Lord – His indie world:
“I don’t think i fit in to his indie world,
Guided by Voices and Volocety Girl
Eric’s Trip and Rocketship, Rancid, Rocket From the Crypt
Bikini Kill and Built to Spill its plain to see that I don’t fit
He says my songs are too deep and gloomy,
He wishes that I could be more like ‘ ‘?
Just give me my Joni, My Nick, Neil, and Bob
You can keep your Tsunami, your Slant 6 and Smog
Whats the story?
He says
Whats the news?
He says the Silver Jews
is Heavenly hangup, is getting me down
and its making me wonder, why he’s hangin around
Cause I don’t fit into his indie scene,
Huggy Bear and Helium and Half-Japanese
Sebadoh and Sentridoh and Superchunk and I don’t know
Doug and Lou and Calvin too and Kim and Kim and Kim and Kim”
LCD soundsystem- daftpunk is playing at my house
Daft punk- Teachers. That song is nothing but artist shout outs. Dr. Dre, Brain Wilson, etc etc.
bikini kill – thurston loves the who
Jenny Lewis on The Charging Sky:
“and my Dad starts growing Bob Dylan’s beard”
Ben Folds’ had a tribute to Elliot Smith’s dirty basketball playing – “Late”.
“Making life-size models of the Velvet Underground in clay” — Belle and Sebastian, “Expectations”
Jazz Thing by Gang Starr
“Scott Joplin’s rags, Bessie Smith’s blues…Diz’ and Byrd, givin the word Defining how a beat could be so complete Playing with ferocity, thinkin with velocity…Theolonious Monk, a melodious thunk…Charlie Mingus, such nimble fingers Droppin the bass, all over the place and Max Roach, cymbals socking…John Coltrane, a man supreme…He was a GIANT step, and there was Ornette Coleman…Cause when Betty Carter sings a song ain’t nuttin goin on, but simply good music…Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone with a big old tone, recitin poems”
mostly every Wesley Willis song.
“Let’s Go Smoke Some Pot,” which I guess is by Dash Rip Rock:
“Well there was Eddie Brickell & the New Bohemians smokin’ pot pot pot pot!
There’s the Black Crows & Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ smokin’ pot pot pot pot!
The Spin Doctors & Blues Traveler smokin’ pot pot pot pot lets go!”
“There’s ‘sposed to be some words here but I forgot’em cause I smoked too much pot pot
I went to lollapoloza and everybody out there was smokin’ pot pot
I saw Blind Mellon and the new Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam and Widespread Panic”
Also, as far as Hootie being shot and killed, I think I remember hearing that they did get sued for the Dylan cribbing.
> mostly every Wesley Willis song.
Haaa.
R.I.P. Wesley!
“Fuck Lindsey Lohan, give me Mindy Cohn.”
‘Celebrity Stalker’ by Jamie Kennedy & Stu Stone
Wilco – ‘Bob Dylan’s Beard’ (I don’t know if the one Tweedy grows is the same as Jenny Lewis’ dad’s…)
LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge (‘I was there in 1968/I was there at the first Can show in Cologne…I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, “Don’t do it that way. You’ll never make a dime.”
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.’ And then he sounds off his record collection. As you do.)
Brian Eno – King’s Lead Hat (which is…an anagram of Talking Heads. And is supposedly about them.)
oh, and then there’s ‘jessica’ by adam green (‘jessica simpson, where has your love gone?’)
“Julian, I’m a little bit older than you” – Courtney Love
That same Courtney Love album (America’s Sweetheart) also has “Zeppelin Song,” and I think maybe some other shout-outs too. It’s a great album. Really.
There’s the folk standard “I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,” – lyrics by Alfred Hayes – which Billy Bragg later turned into “I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night.”
Ochs wrote “Bound for Glory” for Woodie Guthrie, and the well-meaning but long-winded “Joe Hill.”
I also like Tobin Sprout’s nod to Syd Barrett in “Last man well known to kingpin”
“Madcap laughs / Syd Barrett
The last man well known to Kingpin
Madcap laughs / Syd Barrett
But what’s in a name?”
An old smashing pumpkins demo called “If there is a god” references David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust:
And if there is a God
I know he likes to rock
He likes his loud guitars
His spiders from Mars
everyone else has posted so many, this was the only one i could think of that isnt already here!
Peter Schilling’s 1983 hit “Major Tom (Coming Home)” is pretty much just a retelling of David Bowie’s classic 1969 song “Space Oddity”.
A shoutout to Milli Vanilli in Barenaked Ladies’ “Blame It On Me” =D
[i]and Milli Vanilli told you to blame it on the rain but if you blame it on the rain, how can we begin?[/i]
“Dostoevsky, FAB MORETTI, antiseptic, complimentary…”
-Adam Green, “Carolina”
Brakes- Heard About Your Band
‘coked-up arsehole/waiting for Liars/you shared a cab with Karen O/wo-wo, wo-wo-wo’ (later mentions of Electrelane and Sleater-Kinney)
Moving Units- Unpersuaded
‘I remember/it was Television/that was playing/on that stranger’s Walkman’
The Rapture- Killing
‘Killing with flange and with tape and with Hendrix’
probably lots of Moldy Peaches, though i can only think of ‘D2 Boyfriend’ at the moment.
Bis- Action and Drama
‘Give me action and drama/give me 80′s Madonna’
“I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song”
-Leonard Cohen
And if you ever get stuck you can always use my “Destroy Rock and Roll”.
How bout “David Bowie Needs Ideas” by Bongwater?
SELF
“1999″ (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Aerosmith Callgirls
Appolonia Let’s Pretend We’re Married
“Around The World In A Day” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
BET Breakfast With Girls, Life Could Be Swell
Barker, Bob While The Gangsters Sleep
Bass D, Count Moronic
Braxton, Toni Puppy Love
Captain and Tennille Placing The Blame
Chase, Chevy Out With A Bang
Cheap Trick Now
Clash, The Sassy Britches
“Controversy” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Danson, Ted Sassy Britches
Danzig, Glen (Misfits, Danzig) Trunk Fulla Amps
Dean, James Flip-Top Box
“Diamonds And Pearls” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
DiCaprio, Leonardo Titanic
“Dirty Mind” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Dr. Dre , N.W.A. While The Gangsters Sleep, Moronic
Easy E, N.W.A. While The Gangsters Sleep
ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) Trunk Fulla Amps
Evis (Presley) Big Important Nothing
“Eyes Without A Face” (Billy Idol) You’re A Drug
“Girls On Film” Kodak Moment
Grundman, Bernie Moronic
Hello Kitty Cinderblocks For Shoes
Ice Cube While The Gangsters Sleep
Idol, Billy You’re A Drug
IG-88 (Star Wars) Preschool Days
Jackson, Michael Pattycake
Jordan, Michael Kill The Barflies
Kane, Big Daddy 5 Alive
Kit (Night Rider) Kill The Barlies
Kravitz, Lenny Trunk Fulla Amps
“Lovesexy” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Madonna Sophmore Jinx
Manilow, Barry Permagrin
Manson, Marilyn KiDdies
“Material Girl” (Madonna) How Can I Make You Happy?
McCartney, Paul Out With A Bang
Mercury, Freddie (Queen) Trunk Fulla Amps
Mr. T Meg Ryan
MTV Breakfast With Girls, Life Could Be Swell
Oldman, Gary Breakdown
Osbourne, Ozzy While The Gangsters Sleep
“Parade” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Price Is Right, The While The Gangsters Sleep
Prince Rogers Nelson Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Prince Paul Breakdown
“Purple Rain” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” When You’re Alone
Rakim (Eric B & Rakim) Wide Awake at 7
Ryan, Meg Meg Ryan (duh)
“Safety Dance” (Men Without Hats) Ilovetoloveyourlovemylove
Seal L.A. Radio
“Sex And The City” Grow Up
“Sign O’ The Times” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Solo, Han Preschool Days
Spielberg, Steven While The Gangsters Sleep
Superman Suzy Q Sailaway, Donating To Science
Terminator, The Joy, The Mechanical Boy
“Titanic” Titanic
Transformers Kill The Barflies
“Unbreak My Heart” (Toni Braxton) Puppy Love
Veruca Salt Happy Accidents
Wheel of Fortune While The Gangsters Sleep
Williams, Montel Hey, Deceiver
“Wonder Years, The” Crashing Parties
Yoda Sucker
The Clash – Sassy Britches
Ted Danson – Sassy Britches
Meg Ryan (obviously, the song)
Count Bass D (Moronic)
Superman (also mention in Donating to Science)
Wacky D & Sunshine (While Gangsters Sleep, I have no idea who they are but presumably they’re old school hiphop artists from Compton)
NWA (he doesn’t say NWA but Ice Cube EZ E & Dr. Dre were the founding members and he refers to all of them at once in While Gansters Sleep)
Han Solo (preschool days)
IG 88 (preschool days)
SELF
“1999″ (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Aerosmith Callgirls
Appolonia Let’s Pretend We’re Married
“Around The World In A Day” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
BET Breakfast With Girls, Life Could Be Swell
Barker, Bob While The Gangsters Sleep
Bass D, Count Moronic
Braxton, Toni Puppy Love
Captain and Tennille Placing The Blame
Chase, Chevy Out With A Bang
Cheap Trick Now
Clash, The Sassy Britches
“Controversy” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Danson, Ted Sassy Britches
Danzig, Glen (Misfits, Danzig) Trunk Fulla Amps
Dean, James Flip-Top Box
“Diamonds And Pearls” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
DiCaprio, Leonardo Titanic
“Dirty Mind” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Dr. Dre , N.W.A. While The Gangsters Sleep, Moronic
Easy E, N.W.A. While The Gangsters Sleep
ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) Trunk Fulla Amps
Evis (Presley) Big Important Nothing
“Eyes Without A Face” (Billy Idol) You’re A Drug
“Girls On Film” Kodak Moment
Grundman, Bernie Moronic
Hello Kitty Cinderblocks For Shoes
Ice Cube While The Gangsters Sleep
Idol, Billy You’re A Drug
IG-88 (Star Wars) Preschool Days
Jackson, Michael Pattycake
Jordan, Michael Kill The Barflies
Kane, Big Daddy 5 Alive
Kit (Night Rider) Kill The Barlies
Kravitz, Lenny Trunk Fulla Amps
“Lovesexy” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Madonna Sophmore Jinx
Manilow, Barry Permagrin
Manson, Marilyn KiDdies
“Material Girl” (Madonna) How Can I Make You Happy?
McCartney, Paul Out With A Bang
Mercury, Freddie (Queen) Trunk Fulla Amps
Mr. T Meg Ryan
MTV Breakfast With Girls, Life Could Be Swell
Oldman, Gary Breakdown
Osbourne, Ozzy While The Gangsters Sleep
“Parade” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Price Is Right, The While The Gangsters Sleep
Prince Rogers Nelson Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Prince Paul Breakdown
“Purple Rain” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” When You’re Alone
Rakim (Eric B & Rakim) Wide Awake at 7
Ryan, Meg Meg Ryan (duh)
“Safety Dance” (Men Without Hats) Ilovetoloveyourlovemylove
Seal L.A. Radio
“Sex And The City” Grow Up
“Sign O’ The Times” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Solo, Han Preschool Days
Spielberg, Steven While The Gangsters Sleep
Superman Suzy Q Sailaway, Donating To Science
Terminator, The Joy, The Mechanical Boy
“Titanic” Titanic
Transformers Kill The Barflies
“Unbreak My Heart” (Toni Braxton) Puppy Love
Veruca Salt Happy Accidents
Wheel of Fortune While The Gangsters Sleep
Williams, Montel Hey, Deceiver
“Wonder Years, The” Crashing Parties
Yoda Sucker
The Clash – Sassy Britches
Ted Danson – Sassy Britches
Meg Ryan (obviously, the song)
Count Bass D (Moronic)
Superman (also mention in Donating to Science)
Wacky D & Sunshine (While Gangsters Sleep, I have no idea who they are but presumably they’re old school hiphop artists from Compton)
NWA (he doesn’t say NWA but Ice Cube EZ E & Dr. Dre were the founding members and he refers to all of them at once in While Gansters Sleep)
Han Solo (preschool days)
IG 88 (preschool days)
SELF
“1999″ (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Aerosmith Callgirls
Appolonia Let’s Pretend We’re Married
“Around The World In A Day” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
BET Breakfast With Girls, Life Could Be Swell
Barker, Bob While The Gangsters Sleep
Bass D, Count Moronic
Braxton, Toni Puppy Love
Captain and Tennille Placing The Blame
Chase, Chevy Out With A Bang
Cheap Trick Now
Clash, The Sassy Britches
“Controversy” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Danson, Ted Sassy Britches
Danzig, Glen (Misfits, Danzig) Trunk Fulla Amps
Dean, James Flip-Top Box
“Diamonds And Pearls” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
DiCaprio, Leonardo Titanic
“Dirty Mind” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Dr. Dre , N.W.A. While The Gangsters Sleep, Moronic
Easy E, N.W.A. While The Gangsters Sleep
ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) Trunk Fulla Amps
Evis (Presley) Big Important Nothing
“Eyes Without A Face” (Billy Idol) You’re A Drug
“Girls On Film” Kodak Moment
Grundman, Bernie Moronic
Hello Kitty Cinderblocks For Shoes
Ice Cube While The Gangsters Sleep
Idol, Billy You’re A Drug
IG-88 (Star Wars) Preschool Days
Jackson, Michael Pattycake
Jordan, Michael Kill The Barflies
Kane, Big Daddy 5 Alive
Kit (Night Rider) Kill The Barlies
Kravitz, Lenny Trunk Fulla Amps
“Lovesexy” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Madonna Sophmore Jinx
Manilow, Barry Permagrin
Manson, Marilyn KiDdies
“Material Girl” (Madonna) How Can I Make You Happy?
McCartney, Paul Out With A Bang
Mercury, Freddie (Queen) Trunk Fulla Amps
Mr. T Meg Ryan
MTV Breakfast With Girls, Life Could Be Swell
Oldman, Gary Breakdown
Osbourne, Ozzy While The Gangsters Sleep
“Parade” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Price Is Right, The While The Gangsters Sleep
Prince Rogers Nelson Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Prince Paul Breakdown
“Purple Rain” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” When You’re Alone
Rakim (Eric B & Rakim) Wide Awake at 7
Ryan, Meg Meg Ryan (duh)
“Safety Dance” (Men Without Hats) Ilovetoloveyourlovemylove
Seal L.A. Radio
“Sex And The City” Grow Up
“Sign O’ The Times” (Prince) Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Solo, Han Preschool Days
Spielberg, Steven While The Gangsters Sleep
Superman Suzy Q Sailaway, Donating To Science
Terminator, The Joy, The Mechanical Boy
“Titanic” Titanic
Transformers Kill The Barflies
“Unbreak My Heart” (Toni Braxton) Puppy Love
Veruca Salt Happy Accidents
Wheel of Fortune While The Gangsters Sleep
Williams, Montel Hey, Deceiver
“Wonder Years, The” Crashing Parties
Yoda Sucker
The Clash – Sassy Britches
Ted Danson – Sassy Britches
Meg Ryan (obviously, the song)
Count Bass D (Moronic)
Superman (also mention in Donating to Science)
Wacky D & Sunshine (While Gangsters Sleep, I have no idea who they are but presumably they’re old school hiphop artists from Compton)
NWA (he doesn’t say NWA but Ice Cube EZ E & Dr. Dre were the founding members and he refers to all of them at once in While Gansters Sleep)
Han Solo (preschool days)
IG 88 (preschool days)
HOLD YOU IN HIS ARMS TILL YOU CAN FEEL HIS DISEASE…THE BEATLES
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE…THE BEATLES
IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING, ANY ROAD WILL TAKE YOU THERE….GEORGE HARRISON
The Beach Boys-It’s Over Now:
“Put a Frank Sinatra album on and cry by blues away”
The Beach Boys-Mona:
“Come on, Listen to da doo ron ron now, Listen to it be my baby, I know youre gonna love Phil Spector”
Barenaked Ladies-New Kid (On The Block):
“I’m a New Kid On The Block, and though I may not be Johann Sebastian Bach, so we may not write the songs we sing, but look at Elvis he sold his soul and you crowned him king…I’m a New Kid On The Block, young girls scream and old boys mock, there’s no need to be afraid of us, but it just might be your daughter on our bus”
NOFX-13 Stitches:
“the first time I saw the Descendents…”
Barenaked Ladies-One Week:
every other line in the song is a shout out-Aquaman, sushi, Bert Kampfert, Leann Rhymes, Busta Rhymes, The Smoking Man from the X-Files, Snickers, Akira Kurosawa, Sting, Sailor Moon, etc.
Barenaked Ladies-When You Dream:
“do you hear Del Shannon’s Runaway playing on transistor radio waves”
Barenaked Ladies-In The Car:
“my tongue in side her ear, my tongue inside her, in the basement of her mother’s house where we once taped the first three sides of Sandanista! for my car”