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(I couldn't find this anywhere)

― peepee, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

That one Saul Williams did with DJ Krust.

― chap, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Sweet Soul Music" Arthur Conley

― Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Brimful Of Asha", Cornershop

"Teachers", Daft Punk

― henry s, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

JUST GIMME INDIE ROCK

― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

cock, sorry, i meant cock

― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

TI - get it

"I was raised off Easy, ‘Cube, Ice T, 8Ball, MJG, ‘Face, Pimp C,
I'ma G best believe me, try me when you see me..."

― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Horton Heat's "Can't Get Away from Me" is a snapshot of every rocker in 1992 that might have drawn the fancy of a girl with a Betty Page haircut.

― bendy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh right "you'll dance to anything," too, and "history lesson pt. II"

― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Edan's "Rock and Roll" mentions alot of rock band names within the lyrics (and samples the Small Faces' "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" in the middle!)

― city worker, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

X--I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts

hear the radio its finally gonna play new music you know the british invasion but what about the minutemen fleasheaters doa big boys and the black flag

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm Against The Eigthies", "The Osmonds", Denim

― henry s, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

"Genius of Love"

― peepee, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

eighties...

― henry s, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

"You Get What You Give", New Radicals

― henry s, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

wildhearts - 29x the pain

― Bocken Social Scene, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Tullycraft, "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About"

― Garrett Martin, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

His Indie World - Mary Lou Lord

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Pooh Sticks - On Tape

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

LFO - What Is House?

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

The Beloved - Hello

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Phil Ochs - Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Me

― dad a, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Mothers--Mudshark

― ellaguru, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

"Love on the Terraces" Serious Drinking

― peepee, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

does "Smoke on the Water" count?

― peepee, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Neil Young - Hey Hey My My
The King is gone but he's not forgotten
Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

range life

― ksg, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers
Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady
Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction
Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter
Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story
Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama
Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry
Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

FM, AM, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin'
Friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations
Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin'
Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers
Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary
Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper
Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter
Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses
Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and
Dale and Ronnie, Kukla, Fran and Norma Okla
Denver, John and Osmond, Donny
JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah
David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider
Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders
Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda
Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy
CBS and Warner Brothers, RCA and all the others

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

spoken:
Listen--remember, they're playing our song!
Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me
Fish, and Swim, and Boston Monkey,
Make it bad and play it funky.
(Wanna take you higher!)

― scott seward, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Can You Dig It" PWEI

― peepee, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

"American Badass", Kid Rock

― henry s, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

"The Day Marvin Gaye And Phil Ochs Got Married", They Might Be Giants
"Rhythm Section Want Ads", ibid

― henry s, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Le Tigre: Hot Topic

Notorious B.I.G.: Juicy

― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Luther croons
Sly's the original - ORIGINATOR
James screams (oh! oh!)
Marvin was the only innovator (innovator)
But nothing can compare, nothing can compare when Smokey siiiings.....

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

"sir duke"

― Hec, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

John Wesley Harding, "Bastard Son"

― Morley Timmons, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Lullaby" - Shawn Mullins (they hung out with folks like
dennis hopper, bob seeger, sonny and cher)

"I'd Rather Jack" - The Reynolds Girls

― ailsa, Friday, 27 April 2007 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

"No Elvis, Beatles or The Rolling Stones in 1977"- The Clash

― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

"There are jewels in the crown of England's glory
And every jewel shines a thousand ways

Frankie Howerd, Noël Coward and garden gnomes
Frankie Vaughan, Kenneth Horne, Sherlock Holmes
Monty, Biggles and Old King Cole
In the pink or on the dole
Oliver Twist and Long John Silver
Captain Cook and Nelly Dean
Enid Blyton, Gilbert Harding
Malcolm Sargeant, Graham Greene (Graham Greene)

All the jewels in the crown of England's glory
Too numerous to mention, but a few
And every one could tell a different story
And show old England's glory something new

Nice bit of kipper and Jack the Ripper and Upton Park
Gracie, Cilla, Maxy Miller, Petula Clark
Winkles, Woodbines, Walnut Whips
Vera Lynn and Stafford Cripps
Lady Chatterley, Muffin the Mule
Winston Churchill, Robin Hood
Beatrix Potter, Baden-Powell
Beecham's powders, Yorkshire pud (Yorkshire pud)

With Billy Bunter, Jane Austen
Reg Hampton, George Formby
Billy Fury, Little Titch
Uncle Mac, Mr. Pastry and all
Uncle mac, Mr. Patry and all

allright england?
g’wan england
oh england

All the jewels in the crown of England's glory
Too numerous to mention, but a few
And every one could tell a different story
And show old England's glory something new

Somerset Maugham, Top Of The Form with the Boys' Brigade
Mortimer Wheeler, Christine Keeler and the Board of Trade
Henry Cooper, wakey wakey, England's labour
Standard Vanguard, spotted dick, England's workers
England's glory"

Ian Dury

― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Def Leppard's "Rocket" is entirely made up of them.

White lights, strange city, mad music all around
Midnight street magic, crazy people, crazy sound
Jack Flash, rocket man, Sergeant Pepper and the band
Ziggy, Benny and the Jets
Take a rocket, we just gotta fly

I can take you through the center of the dark
We're gonna fly
On a collision course to crash into my heart
I will be your, I will be your, I'll be your

Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Rocket baby, c'mon
I'll be your satellite of love

Spotlight, magnetic, razor rhythm, laser love
Guitar, drums, load up, stun
Jet, Black, Johnny B, Gene Jenie, Killer Queen
Dizzy Lizzy, Major Tom
So c'mon, we just gotta fly

I can take you thru the center of the dark
We're gonna fly
On a collision course to crash into my heart
I will be your, I will be your, I'll be your

Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Rocket baby, c'mon, we're gonna fly

We just gotta fly
I can take you thru the center of the dark
We're gonna fly
On a collision course to crash into my heart
I will be your, I will be your, I'll be your

Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Guitar, drums, light up!
We're gonna fly
Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
We're gonna fly
Rocket, yeah, satellite of love
Rocket yeah

― I am not afraid of you and you can spank my ass, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Coldplay, Keane and Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Kings of Leon, Dead 60s and so on, all in "The Kids Are All Shite"

http://www.myspace.com/mikrofisch

― StanM, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

soft cell - it's a mugs game

deep purple in rock - led zeppelin II

― Jack Battery-Pack, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Kris Kristopherson- If You Don't Like Hank Williams--

I dig Bobby Dylan and I dig Johnny Cash
And I think Waylon Jennings is a table thumpin' smash
And hearin' Joni Mitchell feels as good as smokin' grass
And if you don't like Hank Williams, honey, you can kiss my ass

I said, I dig Roger Miller, Merle Haggard; George Jones
Shotgun Willie Nelson and them rockin' Rollin' Stones
And Jerry Lee's still gotta be the coolest in the class...

― mulla atari, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

jane birkin:

ex-fan des sixties
petite baby doll
comme tu dansais bien le rock 'n 'roll
ex-fan des sixties
où sont tes années folles
que sont devenues toutes tes idoles
où est l'ombre des shadows
des byrds, des doors
des animals
des moooooody blues
séparés mccartney
georges harrison
et ringo starr
et john lennon

ex-fan des sixties
petite baby doll
comme tu dansais bien le rock 'n 'roll
ex-fan des sixties
où sont tes années folles
que sont devenues toutes tes idoles
disparus brian jones
jim morrison
eddy cochran
buddy hollyyy
idem jimi hendrix
otis redding
janis joplin
T.rex
elvis

― RJG, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

We didn't start the fire

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

We didn't start the fire

i just realized you can sing a good deal, maybe all, of "life is a rock (but the radio rolled me)," quoted in its entirety upthread, to the tune of "we didn't start the fire."

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

ooh! forgot about this:

www.myspace.com/ldnisavictim

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

belle & sebastian:

now I'm in a band, people try to make me do things
kiss arses and pay tribute
but I'm inclined, today, to do those things anyway
and I don't care who hears it

because I'm a fan of the go-betweens
a fan of robert and I always have been
but I like grant, now that I've met him,
because he's charming

of all the stars and all the would-be stars
I'd take him home to my mum and dad
yeah, he's charming but he's a trouble-maker too
he amuses me greatly

I like lindy and I saw vickers
pete stole the set list and the itinerary
he wrote my name down as "tour rent boy"
it was hard but so's life

I was making button badges
and I had too much time on my hands
I coloured them by hand
pere ubu and the sugarcubes

kids came in to watch me
but pete and sean just scorned
just like they scorned robert
but I secretly loved the big guy
he dressed like sherlock holmes

and he fixed us with a quizzative eye
before singing such romances
that only the sods trampled underfoot by thatcher
could appreciate their love
could appreciate their love

― RJG, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

life is a rock (but the radio rolled me)

This was played as part of the quiz on Ken Bruce's show on Radio 2 this morning!

Obvious answer that I forgot earlier - House of Love "Beatles and the Stones"

― ailsa, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

"Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?" - Ramones

― peepee, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

"American Pie" mentions several, without namechecking a single one of them.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Alan Jackson - Don't Rock the Jukebox
David Allan Coe - Willie, Waylon and Me
David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Dixie Chicks - Long Time Gone
A Tribe Called Quest - Verses from the Abstract
Hank Williams III - Country Heroes
The Judds - Have Mercy
George Jones - Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

― dad a, Friday, 27 April 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

gretchen wilson, "redneck woman"
deana carter, "one day at a time"

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Sleater-Kinney, "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"
i wanna be your thurston moore
wrestle on the bedroom floor
always leave me wanting more
throw away those old records

Mos Def, "Rock and Roll"
I said, Elvis Presley ain't got no soul (huh)
Chuck Berry is rock and roll (damn right)
You may dig on the Rolling Stones
But they ain't come up with that style on they own (uh-uh)
Elvis Presley ain't got no SOULLLL (hell naw)
Little Richard is rock and roll (damn right)
You may dig on the Rolling Stones
But they ain't come up with that shit on they own (nah-ah)

Guess that's just the way shit goes
You steal my clothes and try to say they yo's (yes they do)
Cause it's a show filled with pimps and hoes
Tryin to take everything that you made or control (there they go)
Elvis Presley ain't got no SOULLLL
Bo Diddley is rock and roll (damn right)
You may dig on the Rolling Stones
But they ain't the first place the credit belongs

Say whoahhhh-oh (don't take it) oooh-weee-ohhh
(black music) whoahhhh-oh (don't take it) oooh-weee-ohhh
(black music) whoahhhh-oh (Jimi Hendrix say) oooh-weee-ohhh
(black music) whoahhhh-oh (Albert King and) oooh-weee-ohhh
(and Motown)

(huh) I ain't tryin to diss
but I don't be tryin to fuck with Limp Bizkit
"The fuck is on your mind?"
When I get down in my zone
I be rockin Bad Brains and Fishbone
I ain't tryin to slow your groove
But that ain't the way I'm tryin to move
I don't turn on Korn to get it on;
I be playin Jimi Hendrix 'til the dawn
That's my word is bond
Sittin up on my front lawn
Got the volume turned to ten
Playin Albert King the best again (black)
When the mornin in the cooker
Got to turn on some John Lee Hooker
When I want some rock and roll
Go to Otis Redding to get some soul

Say, James Brown got plenty of soul
James Brown like to rock and roll
He can do all the shit fo' sho'
that Elvis Presley could never know (black people)
Said, Kenny G ain't got no SOULLLL
John Coltrane is rock and roll (uh-huh)
You may dig on the Rolling Stones
but they could never ever rock like Nina Simone

― ExtensionsOff, Saturday, 28 April 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

Dead Milkmen "Instant Club Hit"

― city worker, Saturday, 28 April 2007 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

sonic youth screaming skull

― jaime, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

You can torture me
With Donnie and Marie
You can play some Barry Manilow
Or you can play some shlock
Like New Kids on the Block
Or any Village People song you know
Or play Vanilla Ice
Hey, you can play him twice
And you can play the Bee Gees any day
But Mr. DJ please
I'm beggin on my knees
I can't take no more of Billy Ray

Don't play that song
That Achy Breaky song
The most annoying song I know
And if you play that song
That Achy Breaky song
I might blow up my radio (ooooo)

You can clean the room
By playing Debbie Boone
Or crank you Abba records until dawn
Oh, I could even hear
Slim Whitman or Zamfir
Don't mind no Yoko Ono marathon

Or play some Tiffany
On 8-track or CD [eight-track]
Or scrape your fingernails across the board
Or tie me to a chair
And kick me down the stairs
Just please don't play that song no more

Don't play that song
That Achy Breaky song
You know I hate that song a bunch
And if you play that song
That nauseating song
It might just make me lose my lunch (oooo)

Don't play that song
That Achy Breaky song
I think its driving me insane
Oh, please don't play that song
That irritating song
I'd rather have a pitchfork in my brain

Don't play that song
That Achy Breaky song
The most annoying song I know
And if you play that song
That Achy Breaky song
I might blow up my radio (ooooo)

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

The Who, "Mirror Door": "Howlin' Wolf, Link Wray, Dave Van Ronk, Doris Day, Bobby Darin, Brownie McGhee, Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Led Zeppelin, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Johnny Ray, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Curtis Mayfield.

― Standing In The Shadows Of Bob, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

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