Trav Le Bleu Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 I'll start the ball rolling with some obvious ones. When Smokey Sings - ABC (Smokey Robinson) Jackie Wilson Says - Dexys (Jackie Wilson obviously) Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd (Neil Young) and the song that made me think of this... I Ain't Goin' Out Like That - Cypress Hill (Billy Ray Cyrus)
purpleronnie Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road - Roy Orbison Billy Joel We Didn’t Start The Fire - Elvis Presley The Clash 1977 Elvis, Beatles, the Rolling Stones
Webbo Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 Eddie Cochran, Just like Eddie-Heinz Geno, Geno Washington-Dexy's midnight runners London's Calling, The Beatles (Beatlemania)-The Clash. I feel better than James Brown-Was(not) Was. Edited (aren't I a twit)
Zingari Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 Sweet soul music by arthur conley ( james brown , otis redding etc) Fairy-tale of NY by Pogues (Sinatra ) When a Woman by Gabrielle , Roberta ( Flack) and Donny Hathaway Roll over Beethoven by ELO Rock me Amadeus by Falco CHER - Walking In Memphis (Elvis) Steve Gibbons Band - Eddy Vortex ( eddy cochran, again ) Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder ( Duke Ellington and others ) Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder ( Bob Marley) This'll get me thinking , but by the time i think of them someone will have already posted it
Zingari Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 showaddywaddy mention themselves in most of their songs
AdamN Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (Kurt Cobain) Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea (Leonard Cohen) Eminem - too many to list! Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Moby, Dr Dre, Vanilla Ice, etc etc etc...
rico Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 Mylo -Destroy Rock n Roll A House -Endless Art House Of Love - Beatles and The Stones Maroon 5 - Move Like Jagger
Finnegan Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 James - Just Like Fred Astaire (Duh) Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (Too many to name) Counting Crows - Mr Jones (Bob Dylan) New Radicals - You Get What You Give (Various) Space & Catatonia - The Ballad of Tom Jones (...)
Rocket-Ron Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 Scritti politti - wood beez (pray like Aretha Franklin)
Uncle Phil Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 Sublime - KRS One and a couple of others I can't think of at the minute. Minutemen - Bob Dylan wrote propaganda song and Political song for Michael Jackson to sing.
ScouseFox Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life - Biggie. Example - You Can't Rap - Prodigy, Kylie, Slipknot, BabyShambles, Pete Doherty, Girls Aloud, could have missed some.
MikeyT Posted 22 March 2012 Posted 22 March 2012 Bon Jovi - It's My Life (Frank Sinatra mentioned - "Like Frankie Said I did It my way")
Zingari Posted 23 March 2012 Posted 23 March 2012 James - Just Like Fred Astaire (Duh) Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (Too many to name) Counting Crows - Mr Jones (Bob Dylan) New Radicals - You Get What You Give (Various) Space & Catatonia - The Ballad of Tom Jones (...) He's a dancer not a musical artist If you can have that one , I'm having ; Grace Kelly by Mika Robert de Niro by Bananarama rock on (James Dean) by David Eseex edit; actually i suppose Fred Astaire does sing a bit in films too .
StanSP Posted 23 March 2012 Posted 23 March 2012 Gym Class Heroes - Taxi Driver (too many to name) Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (too many to name) Something Corporate - Konstantine (mentions Jimmy Eat World)
21st Century Fox Posted 23 March 2012 Posted 23 March 2012 All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople (Written by Bowie) - T-Rex, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 23 March 2012 Author Posted 23 March 2012 Surprised we haven't had Buddy Holly by Weezer yet. We have now!
Raw Dykes Posted 23 March 2012 Posted 23 March 2012 London's Burning Calling, The Beatles (Beatlemania)-The Clash. Goddamn Electric - Pantera (mentions Black Sabbath and Slayer) Sure Shot - Beastie Boys (mentions Dr. John) You're Lionel Richie - Mogwai Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant (mentions Al Green) Daft Punk is Playing at My House - LCD Soundsystem Anyone Can Play Guitar - Radiohead (mentions Jim Morrison) Barbara Streisand - Duck Sauce
The Doctor Posted 23 March 2012 Posted 23 March 2012 Smells Like Nirvana - Weird Al Yankovic (Madonna, Nirvana).
Fox92 Posted 23 March 2012 Posted 23 March 2012 The Who, You Better You Bet, mentions T Rex. The Beatles, Dig It, mentions BB King. The Beatles, Yer Blues!, mentions Dylan.
MC Prussian Posted 23 March 2012 Posted 23 March 2012 Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn (Frank Black, Barry White, Marvin Gaye and others)
Guest Posted 23 March 2012 Posted 23 March 2012 The Wildhearts - 29 x the pain - Beatles/Stones/Ramones/Kurt Cobain/Richey James (Manics) - depending on which version of the track
21st Century Fox Posted 23 March 2012 Posted 23 March 2012 Motorhead - R.A.M.O.N.E.S Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Running Down a Dream - Del Shannon Neil Young - From Hank to Hendrix AC/DC - Let There Be Rock - Tchaikovsky The Doors - Runnin' Blue - Otis Redding Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water - Frank Zappa & The Mothers (of Invention)
Daggers Posted 24 March 2012 Posted 24 March 2012 Ry Cooder - John Lee Hooker For President REM - End of the world as we know it (Leonard Bernstein) Chumbawamba - Torturing James Hetfield ... Metallica, Simply Red
foxfanazer Posted 24 March 2012 Posted 24 March 2012 Badly drawn boy- you were right (kurt Cobain and jeff Buckley
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