Why do they never play Les Savy Fav on the radio - Jetplane Landing (marginally fun song, but only once).

Tom Waits - Fall Of Troy
Fall Of Troy - Tom Waits

Big Black- Pavement Saw

That's probably cheating...

Okay, Rapeman- Kim Gordon's Panties

i havent read the thread but the pavement song "unseen power of the picket fence" is an r.e.m. dedicated song...... one of their greatest songs...

Some bands I like to name check,
And one of them is REM,
Classic songs with a long history
Southern boys just like you and me.
R - E - M
Flashback to 1983,
Chronic Town was their first EP
Later on came Reckoning
Finster's art, and titles to match:
South Central Rain, Don't Go Back To Rockville,
Harbourcoat, Pretty Persuasion,
You were born to be a camera,
Time After Time was my least favourite song,
Time After Time was my least favourite song.
The singer, he had long hair
And the drummer he knew restrait.
And the bass man he had all the right moves
And the guitar player was no saint.
So lets go way back to the ancient times
When there were no 50 states,

And on a hill there stands Sherman
Sherman and his mates.
And they're marching through Georgia,
we're marching through Georgia,
we're marching through Georgia
G-G-G-G-Georgia
They're marching through Georgia,
we're marching through Georgia,
marching through Georgia
G-G-G-G-Georgia
and there stands REM

(Aye Sir, Aye Sir, Aye Sir they're coming, Aye Sir, move those wagons, Aye
Sir, Artillery's in place Sir, Aye Sir, Aye Sir, hide it, hide it, Aye

televison personalities- part time punks
irish band giveamanakick in one song has a lyric "you are thurston for a moore"
Sir, run, run.)

free kitten track, cant remember name its on nice ass has a lyric "huggy bear!!!"

that sonic youth song from nurse where they talk about bbking and buddy guy
minutemen-history lesson part II-bob dylan, joe strummer e bloom john doe richard hell.
crass-punk is dead-steve jones, patti smiththe clash,
sonic youth-providence-mike watt (hahaha)
the minutemen-one reporters opinion, history lesson II and a few more-mike watt (less funny than before)

Gimme Indie Rock by Sebadoh (VU, Stooges, Pussy Galore, Thurston Moore, Dinosaur, Hüsker Dü, and Sonic Youth.)

I remember hearing "Frank Zappa" on one of the tracks off The Weirdness, but I forget which.

Regina Spektor - On The Radio - Mentions GNR's November Rain
Weezer - El Scorcho - Mentions Green Day

Neil Young - Borrowed Tune (Rolling Stones)

fugazifan got it first, but I'll name it anyway.

Sonic Youth - New Hampshire (references Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Johnny Winter, and two dudes name Steve and Joe)

Thurston Moore - Ono Soul (I don't know if somebody mentioned it before)

Donna Summer's I Feel Love was about her five year affair with Love's loping, loathsome, lily-livered, limp-wristed, overrated, over-sized, overbearing, cockeyed, cock squiff, big cocked, big haired, fat assed, fat faced, fatuous, freaky, beaky, squeaky-voiced, mealy-mouthed, touchy feely, creepy crawly, fat, twat, shat in her hat, Arthur Lee.

Does anyone else think it's shit to namecheck other bands unless you're hip-hop or Mark E Smith?

what about Eddie Cochran's Three Stars. Mentions the 3 legends that are J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Ritchie "Lou Diamond Phillips in La Bamba" Valens, and Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holl"e"y

biff bang pow had a song called long live neil young and all who sail in him.

hayden, johnny merzbow is actually this fictitious character me and my friend lyrch reference in our respective bands. it comes from an old ruinhorse lyric.. "JOHNNY MERZBOW!@ SCANNER COP!"

however, scissor shock does have a song subtitled "holy shit the olsen twins just joined wolf eyes!"

The Human League 1/The Future - The New Pink Floyd
TVPs - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
Rapeman - Kim Gordon's Panties

weezer - buddy holly
sonic youth -sugar kane, marylin moore (marylin monroe)

PAULYBEE already mentioned TV Personalities' Part Time Punks (they'd like to buy the O Level's single [...] but they buy the Lurkers instead [...] but they always got 2.50, to go and see the Clash - tonight).

TVP titled one great album They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles.
TVP songs :
Posing at the Roundhouse (I flirted with the idea of creating a t-shirt for the DDN stop there, with some reshuffling of the lyrics, but found it was too much trouble and time) - they mention Billy (Idol).
I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
Where's Bill Grundy Now? - reference to the Sex Pistols on television.
Sad Mona Lisa - "She likes to go shopping on saturdays, especially to Kensington Market, for acid house records her mother hates, and posters of Morten Harket" (A-Ha singer)
Salvador Dali's Garden Party - lyrics would change if they played live, on the studio version Debbie Harry was there, live Jesus & the Mary Chain were there, Iggy Pop was there, TV Personalities were there and so on.
Evan Doesn't Ring Me Anymore - Evan being Evan Dando.
Goodnight Mr Spaceman - "Oh, the train's gone past my station, oh bloody hell, I wish I'd signed to Creation [...] I've taken three e's but I still can't dance like Bobby Gillespie"

Gainsbourg wrote Beau oui comme Bowie for Isabelle Adjani.

Thee Headcoats - I Hate the Fucking NME (David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Sting, Paul Weller, Beck, Rocket From the Crypt, the Clash, Boyzone, Spice Girls, even me in the NME...)

Jonathan Richman recorded a song called Velvet Underground about the group, on a jolly nice record called I, Jonathan.

The Launderettes, from Oslo - WWJJD, What Would Joan Jett Do?

One more from the TVPs, on their new album theres a track called Velvet Underground :
"its the eighth mystery of the world Ive found how did the Velvet Underground get that sound?"
"don't sit under the apple tree with anyone but Lou Reed"

fucking sublime stuff