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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:34 am 
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For some reason, I'm fascinated by rock songs that mention one of the following:

1. The singer is sitting somewhere writing the song
2. This is a song
3.Here's the name of one of the instruments
4. We're in a band
5. Here's what my name is

It's metamusic. How many songs can you name? Here's an example of each:
1. Bon Jovi "Bed of Roses" (Sitting here wasted and wounded/At this old piano)
2. Mellencamp "Jack and Diane" (A little ditty...'bout Jack and Diane)
3. Def Leppard "Hysteria" (Guitar! Drums! Light up! Stun!)
4. Great White "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" (You didn't know what rock and roll was/Until you met my drummer on a grey tour bus)
5. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy "You & Me & Bottle Makes Three" (Hey Scotty/Yeah/What's it gonna be)


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:42 am 
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Jerry Lee Lewis probably holds the record for mentioning himself in his songs. By the late '70s he had become almost postmodernly self-aware about it and seemed to throw his name in just because listeners expected it of him. "My name is Jerry Lee Lewis and I'm rocking my life away ..."

Paul Weller's "Sunflower" is unintentionally ironic, including the lyrics "I'll write this now while I'm in control, I'll choose the words and how the melody goes" in a song where the main riff is ripped off note-for-note from an old Fleur De Lys song.

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 Post subject: Metamusic
PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:53 am 
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What do you call a camel with three humps?

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Just thought of another great example, possibly the most famous, as it's in the chorus:

"You're so vain/I bet you think this song is about you"


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:08 am 
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This is a song from under the floorboards


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 Post subject: Metamusic
PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:48 am 
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No surprises here:

George Harrison wrote:
If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not;
He just wrote it like that.

When you're listening late at night
You may think the band are not quite right
But they are, they just play it like that

It doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song.

It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern song.

If you think the harmony
Is a little dark and out of key
You're correct, there's nobody there.

And I told you there's no one there.


Later, George wrote:
This song has nothing tricky about it
This song ain't black or white and as far as I know
Don't infringe on anyone's copyright, so . . .

This song we'll let be
This song is in E
This song is for you and . . .

This tune has nothing Bright about it
This tune ain't bad or good and come ever what may
My expert tells me it's okay

As this song came to me
Quite unknowingly
This song could be you could be . . .

This riff ain't trying to win gold medals
This riff ain't hip or square
Well done or rare
May end up one more weight to bear

But this song could well be
A reason to see - that
Without you there's no point to . . . this song


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:39 pm 
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What do you call a camel with three humps?

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Grand Funk Railroad "We're an American Band"
Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" (Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar)
Tenacious D "Tribute" (This is not The Greatest Song in the World, no/This is just a tribute)


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