Impossible Mix Tape

Weston has a song called Liz Phair

oh and Bob Dylan - Song to Woody

Sweet Home Alabama

ben lee- i wish i was him (pavement, beastie boys)

I always thought this was about Evan Dando.

Whatus – Teenage Dirtbag (references Iron Maiden)

Tenacious D – Dio

"Thirteen" by Big Star (covered by everyone incl. Elliott Smith, Wilco, Evan Dando, etc) references the Rolling Stones.

Ben Lee's "Catch My Disease" mentions Beyonce and the Sleepy Jackson


Badly Drawn Boy's "You Were Right" talks of John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Jeff Buckley AND Madonna.

sun kil moon - glenn tipton (mentions kk downing too - guitarists for Judas Priest)

Travis, "Slide Show" off "The Man Who…"
mentions songs by Oasis, U2, Beck, etc…

Songs about Cobain:
Neil Young - Sleeps with Angels
For Squirrels - Mighty KC (although there's no way in hell you'll find a song referencing For Squirrels)

Ben Lee - Away with the Pixies

Juliana Hatfield Three - My sister (refer to violent femmes and del fuegos shows, "before they went gold")

Originally posted by econo:
There's a live version of Jeff Buckley singing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah where he says, "I used to live with Leonard before I knew ya."

Better Than Ezra reference in the song "Under You" - Lyric: "You're a Leonard Cohen song…"


Are those all dupes or is Ben Lee a big name dropper?

Nice topic.

Drive By Truckers: "Ronnie and Neil"; "Danko/Manuel"; "Carl Perkins Cadillac".

Springsteen: Thunder Road- "..Roy Orbison singing for the lonely"….

Social D: "Prison Bound" mentions Johnny Cash.

Smithereens: "Behind the wall of Sleep"

"Well she held a bass guitar
and she was playing in a band
And she stood just like Bill Wyman
Now I am her biggest fan"

dandy warhols - cool as kim deal, lou weed and probably a bunch of others im forgetting at the moment.

BJM - not if you were the last dandy on earth

Hold Steady "The Swish" mentions Journey (Steve Perry, Neil Schon) and the Band (Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson)

I'm sure they've got some more in their catalog somewheres.

Also, Jonathan Richman's "Velvet Underground"

Originally posted by Graace:
Okay this is going to be hard to do, but I'm trying to create a mix of songs that allude to other songs/artists.

Great idea. I did something similar a while ago and even added some cover songs that relate to artists. I spent days on it, if not months.

Of course, the brilliance was lost on just about everybody I gave it to and it ends up being just another mix tape to everybody else…

Cheap Trick-Surrender
Songs by Wesley Willis are a good standby as well haha

Originally posted by kcjones119:
"Thirteen" by Big Star (covered by everyone incl. Elliott Smith, Wilco, Evan Dando, etc) references the Rolling Stones.

If I'm doing this correctly, Alex Chilton by the Replacements can come before or after this one.

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by Graace:
Okay this is going to be hard to do, but I'm trying to create a mix of songs that allude to other songs/artists.

Great idea. I did something similar a while ago and even added some cover songs that relate to artists. I spent days on it, if not months.

Of course, the brilliance was lost on just about everybody I gave it to and it ends up being just another mix tape to everybody else…

I'm glad someone appreciates this. My friends all laughed at me when I got excited about it, haha.

Wilco - "Heavy Metal Drummer" mentions KISS
Weezer - "In my Garage"(?) I believe it also mentions KISS posters on a wall..
Alfonzo Velez (of Monopoli) - Prayer for Bobby Dylan
Wallflowers - "Sleepwalker"

Counting Crows - Monkey (Ben Folds)