RMLondon

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Member Since: 3/31/2004
Total Mixes: 7
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  • Submit Date: 7/26/2004
  • Format: Cassette
  • Category: Theme

The Name Remains the Same

Side A
Artist Song
Steely Dan  Deacon Blue 
Smiths  Shakespeare's Sister 
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band  Death Cab for Cutie 
Roxy Music  Ladytron 
Talking Heads  Radio Head 
Leonard Cohen  Sisters of Mercy 
Tim Buckley  Starsailor 
Morrisey  The Ordinary Boys 
Bob Dylan  John Wesley Harding 
Bing Crosby  Deep Purple 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Deacon Blue  Real Gone Kid 
Shakespeare's Sister  Stay 
Death Cab for Cutie  State St. Residential 
Ladytron  He Took Her To A Movie 
Radiohead  Fake Plastic Trees 
Sisters of Mercy  I Was Wrong 
Starsailor  Four to The Floor 
The Ordinary Boys  Over The Counter Culture 
John Wesley Harding  Same Piece of Air 
Deep Purple  When A Blind Man Cries 

Comment:

I thought this might have already been done on AOTM - but I couldn't find any examples... perhaps you know better? A work in progess - comments and further suggestions welcomed. e.g. I would have included the Be Good Tanyas but couldn't trace the Obo Martin track...Oh, ... and picky-picky, pedantic points of minute detail about the Talkingheads/Radio Head and Dylan/JWH choices also welcome...

thanks to John Widdop for further suggestions
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hemizen
Date: 7/26/2004
I'm so confused. Nicely done!
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factorygirl
Date: 7/26/2004
oooh, good idea!
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Saaf
Date: 7/26/2004
Interesting. Some links here I didn't know before.
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john widdop
Date: 7/27/2004
Do the band have to have knowingly taken their name from the song? I can only think of Dark Star, the Blood Brothers, The Ordinary Boys, Bright Eyes and The Stars of Track and Field. I'm sure there are more xxx
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Moe
Date: 7/29/2004
Interesting concept. Let's see there's the NZ band Garageland, named after the Clash song. There's also Tiger Trap, a fine all-girl band named after a Beat Happening song. Hope this helps!
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Mixxer
Date: 7/29/2004
Whoops, guess my first suggestions were redundant. OK, how about Slipknot, presumably after the Grateful Dead song, and Pacer, after the Amps song. Pacer (the band) is not well known but I noticed them on insound.com.
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dice
Date: 8/2/2004
oh! I so did not know that Starsailor was named after a Tim Buckley tune. right on.
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Nashman1
Date: 8/15/2004
Good stuff here. I'm working on something similar but not the same. I'm using Excel to keep track. It's a wrap around where a song references a band, knowingly or not. It can be something as straightforward as Cake's Frank Sinatra, which obviously references Sinatra the singer, or Frank Sinatra's song Chicago, which he's not referencing the band since they weren't together when it was written. Anyone happen to know of a mix like this?
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corc
Date: 8/17/2004
Blonde Redhead - Suimasen and Suimasen - Brother

Sonic Youth - Eric's trip and Eric's trip - Hurt

Sugarcubes - dEUS does not exist and dEUS - suds and soda
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Nashman1
Date: 8/17/2004
from the website: http://www.heathenworld.com/bandname/ "ROLLING STONES - From the MUDDY WATERS song "Rolling Stone". The name was suggested by Brian Jones."
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blasikin
Date: 7/3/2005
Probably doesn't quite qualify, but "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holliday inspired a fake band for the movie "Still Crazy" and a few others..
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blasikin
Date: 7/3/2005
From the site nashman posted:
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - This classic late 70's band called themselves THE FAST until they heard about the New York band with the same name. Band member Jake Burns had to think of a name fast for the sake of a newspaper ad. He was looking at the new (in 1977) LONDON GIRLS single by the VIBRATORS and saw the song STIFF LITTLE FINGERS on the B-Side. Source: This 1997 interview with the band.