{"id":8330,"date":"2010-03-19T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:30:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:30:51","slug":"something-to-du","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8330","title":{"rendered":"Something To Du"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Replacements are getting a lot of bloggy attention this week for their 1987 song about Alex Chilton<\/a> (\"Alex Chilton\"):<\/p>\n

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Long before that song, though, they wrote a song about the band Husker Du:
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It's not quite as good as \"Alex Chilton\".<\/p>\n

This comes to mind thanks to Matt Yglesias<\/a> who notes:<\/p>\n

...I think it\u2019s worth observing that the only reason I ever heard Big Star was because of The Replacements\u2019 song \u201cAlex Chilton\u201d. And while the current generation will probably be exposed to The Replacements thanks to Rock Band 2, I was first introduced to the band thanks to the They Might Be Giants song \u201cWe\u2019re The Replacements.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So now my head is stuck on the task of finding songs who explicitly reference other bands in their lyrics - trying to find the longest chain of band-to-band references I can. I haven't come up with anything better than the two-link chain that Yglesias notes: TMBG -> Replacements -> Big Star. And I can't think of anyone who references TMBG, and I don't think Big Star made any references to other bands.<\/p>\n

I've come up with a lot of other references:<\/p>\n