{"id":47,"date":"2009-01-26T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2013-10-10T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:12:43","slug":"songs-that-name-their-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Songs That Name Their Bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristy and I have had five radio shows so far, and we&#8217;re hitting our stride.<\/p>\n<p>January 3: <a title=\"Power Pop!!!\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090103powerpop.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Power pop<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 10: <a title=\"WORST GUITAR SOLOS OF ALL TIME!\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090109guitarsolos.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Worst guitar solos ever<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 17: <a title=\"Under the Covers\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090117covers.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Covers<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 24:<a title=\"&lt; 2:00\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090129twominutes.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"> Songs less than two minutes in length<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Cristy and I had to resort to sound-collage, we were able to use almost everybody\u2019s suggestions for the radio show featuring <a title=\"Songs That Refer to their Own Bands.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090131refers%20to%20own%20band.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><i>songs that refer to their bands by name<\/i><\/a>. Except for Zach\u2019s, and he wins the <b>Golden Geek of the Week Award<\/b> for naming a song I had never heard of and couldn\u2019t find: &#8220;Black \u201947.&#8221; Scott listened online and said the music was &#8220;baaaad,&#8221; and, as much as I relish arguing with Scott, I have a nagging suspicion that he may have a point. Beefheart\u2019s \u201cThe Blimp\u201d (suggested by Mark E. Nslin) caused a bit of on-air friction between the two hosts. Even 15 seconds of &#8220;Iron Maiden&#8221; by Iron Maiden was way too much for me.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions are welcome. Here\u2019s what we have so far.<\/p>\n<p>* SONGS THAT NAME THEIR OWN BANDS<\/p>\n<p>Monochrome Set<br \/>\nJocko Homo (Are We Not Men?)<br \/>\nGive it to the Soft Boys<br \/>\nBig Country<br \/>\nTalk Talk<br \/>\nHave a Cigar<br \/>\nBelle &amp; Sebastian\/My Wandering Days Are Over<br \/>\nIn the Court of the Crimson King<br \/>\nRed Hot Chili Peppers [song off the first album]<br \/>\nClash City Rockers<br \/>\nBlack Sabbath<br \/>\nChaka Khan<br \/>\nMommy, What&#8217;s a Funkadelic? (does it really say the word?)<br \/>\nKiller Queen<br \/>\nThey Might be Giants<br \/>\nWang Chung<br \/>\nWho Are You?<br \/>\nWonder Boy<br \/>\nShow Biz Kids<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Songs That Refer to their Own Bands.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20090131refers%20to%20own%20band.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">This show is now online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RHKY6SCqNNk\/SX3RDk99gVI\/AAAAAAAAAB8\/JUruRK23mwI\/s1600-h\/devo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295618596250943826\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RHKY6SCqNNk\/SX3RDk99gVI\/AAAAAAAAAB8\/JUruRK23mwI\/s320\/devo.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristy and I have had five radio shows so far, and we&#8217;re hitting our stride. January 3: Power pop January 10: Worst guitar solos ever January 17: Covers January 24: Songs less than two minutes in length Although Cristy and I had to resort to sound-collage, we were able to use almost everybody\u2019s suggestions for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,151,97,132,95,38,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-captain-beefheart","category-covers","category-devo","category-guitar-solos","category-the-monkees","category-power-pop","category-songs-that-refer-to-their-own-bands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}