Impossible Mix Tape

LCD soundsystem - "losing my edge"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_My_Edge

The track mentions the following artists and music venues:

* Can
* Suicide
* Captain Beefheart
* Daft Punk
* CBGB
* Paradise Garage
* Larry Levan
* Ibiza
* Beach Boys
* Modern Lovers
* Niagara
* Detroit Techno
* Yaz

and ends with "But have you seen my records?" and a list of the following:

* This Heat
* Pere Ubu
* Outsiders
* Nation of Ulysses
* Mars
* Trojans
* Black Dice
* Todd Terry
* The Germs
* Section 25
* Althea and Donna
* Sexual Harassment
* a-ha
* Dorothy Ashby
* PIL
* The Fania All-Stars
* The Bar-Kays
* The Human League
* The Normal
* Lou Reed
* Scott Walker
* Monks
* Niagara
* Joy Division
* Lower 48
* The Association
* Manuel Göttsching
* Rammelzee
* Sun Ra
* Scientists
* Royal Trux
* 10cc
* Eric B. and Rakim
* Index
* Basic Channel
* Soulsonic Force
* Juan Atkins
* David Axelrod
* Electric Prunes
* Gil Scott Heron
* The Slits
* Faust
* Mantronix
* Pharoah Sanders and
* the Fire Engines
* Swans
* Soft Cell
* The Sonics

Originally posted by Fico:
Wallflowers - "Sleepwalker"

It's been awhile…who is the mention?

Mott the Hopple or David Bowie singing- All the Young Dudes, mentions the Beatles and the Stones

elton john - empty garden (hey hey johnny)

several RHCP songs mention sly & family stone, "give it away" mentions bob marley, "apache rose peacock" mentions louis armstrong

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
LCD soundsystem - "losing my edge"

already been mentioned :)

The CLash - 1977

"no elvis, beatles or the rolling stones"

the who - you better, you bet - t. rex
t. rex - ballroom of mars - dylan & lennon
pavement - i love perth - noise addict (ben lee)
pavement - unseen power - rem
built to spill - distopian dream girl - bowie
material issue - what girls want - jagger, richards and rod stewart
the rugburns - your ghost - westerberg

Originally posted by med:
Mott the Hopple or David Bowie singing- All the Young Dudes, mentions the Beatles and the Stones

thinking of the beatles and the stones - if i recall correctly - house of love had a song called 'beatles and the stones'.

Charlie Daniels Band:

"The South's Gonna Do It"

Well the train to Grinder's Switch is runnin' right on time
And the Tucker boys are cookin' down in Caroline
People down in Florida can't be still
When old Lynyrd Skynyrd's pickin' down in Jacksonville
People down in Georgia come from near and far
To hear Richard Betts pickin' on his red guitar

Chorus:
So gather round gather round children
Get down well just get down children
Get loud well you can be loud and be proud
And you can be proud here
Be proud to a rebel 'cause the south's gonna do it again

Elvin Bishop's sittin' on a bale of hay
He ain't good lookin' but he sure can play
And there's ZZ Top and you can't forget
That old brother Willie's gettin' soakin' wet
And all the good people down in Tennessee
Are diggin' barefoot Jerry and the CDB

Waylon Jennings, "Are You Sure Hank Done it this Way?"

That reminds me of Lucinda Williams' Metal Firecracker-

We'd put on ZZ Top
And turn em up real loud

Also, of course there's Neil Young Hey Hey My My

The king is gone but he's not forgotten
This is the story of Johnny Rotten

And Lennon's God

I don't believe in Beatles,
I just believe in me,
Yoko and me,
And that's reality.

The live version of Star Star by The Stones mentions Jimmy Page. Does that count?

"Jimmy Page page was all the rage and i can't see the reason why."

Not sure how you can loop out of Zep, maybe there is a metal band called Gollum or something.

Originally posted by mekmad:
Not sure how you can loop out of Zep

tough one indeed. best i could come up with was "the ocean" - in it, "the hellhound" refers to robert johnson. if you wanted to stretch a bit, you could go with "hats off to (roy) harper" - no mention in the lyrics, only the song title.

wait, just occured to me - the song remains the same version of "whole lotta love" contains a line to the effect of "boogie one time with elvis"! i'm patting myself on the back for remembering this :) (yes, i know, i spent far too much of my youth listening to zep…)

"John the Baptist" by the Afghan Whigs mentions Marvin Gaye

"Omerta" by the Afghan Whigs has a line from a Nas song and mentions him by name

"Sublime" by the Twilight Singers is the bastard white son of Gaye's "Sexual Healing"

"J for Jules" by 'Til Tuesday is about Jules Shear (one of Aimee Mann's former flames)

"Summers Kiss" by the Afghan Whigs and "Suffering" by Satchel share a lyric, "Put on your rose fur coat…it's 1973…"

"Debbie" by B-52s is about Debbie Harry (Blondie)

"Woman in a Bar" by Lloyd Cole mentions Scarlet Johansen…doesn't she have an album out, or coming out? ;)

Two versions of the song "No Child of Mine" were sung by Marianne Faithfull on her album Before the Poison and PJ Harvey on her album Uh Huh Her

"Special" by Garbage was described as an homage to the Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket"

"English Girls Approximately" by Ryan Adams is about Beth Orton

"With David Bowie" by Veruca Salt

Tom Waits - "Frank's Wild Years" about Zappa

Fountains Of Wayne "I'll do the Driving"

mentions Johnny Cash.

Robbie Fulks-Fountains of Wayne Hotline


â??Fountains of Wayne Hotlineâ? originated as a travel game in our van. â??Welcome Interstate Managersâ? had just come out, and I guess it was the bandâ??s super-competency and amazing consistency that made me imagine them as operators of a crisis hotline for songwriters. In our game one of us would place an emergency call for counseling, and a member of a large bureaucratic labyrinth, usually harried and gruff, would offer a solution based on time-honored Fountains of Wayne techniques. Grant, our guitarist, excelled at the mean-spirited drones, and occasionally a different kind of Hotline character would pop up, like one of the perky-beyond-all-reason types that were drummer Geraldâ??s specialty. Just another of those things that turns grimly incomprehensible in the tellingâ?¦but, for whatever reason, it was amusing enough that I codified it as a song a little while later.

We played it for a couple months at shows, and people plainly liked it. But it was soon time to retire it. Remember how Stravinsky was dogged all his days by "Sacre du Printemps" – we didn't want that! I did want to have something to remember it by, however. So we put down a version in our friend Jay O'Rourke's garage. Soon all kinds of people were asking for copies, such as – in a particularly vehement request – a team of able-bodied lawyers representing the real-life Fountains of Wayne. But it has all ended well, with the band liking the song, us still never having to perform it live, and this MP3 that is now available for your listening pleasure.

Says FOUNTAIN OF WAYNE'S Adam Schlesinger:

"If Robbie Fulks wants to ride someone's coattails, he ought to pick someone more famous than us. We, for example, cover Britney Spears songs to get attention. But hey, we're still flattered. In fact, we might hire him to write our next album for us."

Counting Crows - Mr Jones (Bob Dylan)

Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire (don't make me actually list them)

Better Than Ezra - Lifetime - REM (and that rem song was playing in my mind), the song being "talk about the passion"

brain doesn't work, i'm thinking of more tho.

You are all fantastic fantastic fantastic. I'm working on different ways of putting things together, I'll post it when I'm done.

liquorice's "team player" (about lois maffeo)

Originally posted by Graace:
You are all fantastic fantastic fantastic. I'm working on different ways of putting things together, I'll post it when I'm done.

apologies if you've already thought of this obvious suggestion, but this could be done rather quickly using excel.