Top 100 Most META Songs of All Times

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Top 100 most META songs of all times
100. Rolling Stones 'Like A Rolling Stone'
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link
99. 'I've Got A Song That'll Get On Your Nerves'
― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
98. Prince - My Name Is Prince

97. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
96. Pulp: 'Something Changed'
95 Carly Simon "You're So Vain" (which ownz)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:34 (sixteen years ago) link
94. Devo - "Jocko Homo"
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
93. Tenacious D - "Tribute"
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe a bit early for this, but fuck it: 92. Natasha Bedingfield - "These Words"
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
92. A Guy Called Gerald 'Specific hate'
90. Beautiful South 'Song For Whoever'
89. Rheostatics - We Went West

88. Sloan - G Turns to D
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=32301#msg51 1/17
87. Morris Minor & The Majors - 'This Is The Chorus'
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
86. Technotronic: 'This Beat is Technotronic'
85. Blackalicious - Swan Lake

84. Pulp - The Fear
83. The Beta Band - The Beta Band Rap
― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
82. Charlie "Bird" Parker - "Yardbird Suite"
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
81. Eric B and Rakim: 'Paid in Full'
Shellac - Squirrel Song
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Kylie Minogue - Can't get you out of my head

Tricky - Tricky Kid
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
77. Rachel Stevens 'Some Girls'
76. Kanye West 'Through the Wire'

75. Eminem 'Without Me' [erm, or any Em track really]
74. - Kiley Dean -- Pop Goes Meta
73. Elton John - Your Song
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
72. men without hats - pop goes the world
― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
71. the four tops - same old song
70. britney spears - lucky
71 Simon & Garfunkel - 'Leaves That Are Green'
72. Bruce Springsteen - 'Dancing In The Dark'
67. L.L. Cool J "I Need a Beat"

66. R. Kelly "Ignition (Remix)"
65. Leon Russell "This Song For You"
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
64. The Prodigy - 'Poison'
63. limp bizkit - rollin'
62. digital underground - the humpty dance
61. scatman john - scatman
60. The KLF - Gary Joins The JAMM
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
60. Cornelius - 'Mic Check'

59. Cornelius - 'New Music Machine'
58. Imani Copppolla - 'It's All About Me'
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
57. John Lennon - Glass Onion
― common_person (common_person), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
56. Spandau Ballet - "True"
(thx Radio 1 for that one)
55. Weird Al -- "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long"
― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
AND THAT'S A GOOD LINE TO TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Barry Manilow - "I Write the Songs"
"Drums."
54. They might Be Giants - Number Three

53. Camper Von Beethoven - Joe Stalin's Cadillac
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Grand Popo Football Club - One More Song On The Market
― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
51. The Philistines Jr. - Analog vs. Digital
― Tony Bleach, Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
50. abba - thank you for the music
DJ Tocadisco - Nobody Likes The Records That I Play
― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
48. Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
― Rubberband Man (Rubberband Man), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Vicki D - 'This Beat Is Mine'
46. The Tamperer feat Maya - If You Buy This Record (Your Life Will Be Better)
45. Bis - 'This is Fake DIY'
44. B&S 'This is Just a Modern Rock Song'.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
43. PiL 'This is not a love song'.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
42. The Fall "I'm into CB" (narrator makes mention of needing to "listen to 'New Face in Hell'" another Fall
song about cb radio)
― the classical, Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
41. madonna, "love song"
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
40. "WHAT THE HOOK GON' BE?"
39. Loadsamoney - "The B-side"
38. XTC "This Is Pop"
37. There was an early Chas & Dave B-side which was all about how no-one would ever play the song
because it was only a B-side.
36. Kanye West "Last Call"
35. The Clash "We Are The Clash"
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
34. Korn - "Y'all Want A Single"
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
33. Scarlet 'Independent Love Song'
32. S.I. Futures 'We Are Not A Rock Band'
31. The Clash 'This Is Radio Clash'
30. Franke 'F.U.R.B.'
29. Shystie 'I Luv U'
Monty Python: "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio"
― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
27. Dead Kennedys - Short Songs
― Avi (Avi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
26. George Harrison - "This Song"
― briania (briania), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
25. "Hey Hey, We're The Monkees"
― mike a, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
24. Jimmy Ray 'Are You Jimmy Ray?'
23. Adam & The Ants - "Don't Be Square (Be There)"

22. Adam Ant - "Goody Two Shoes"
21. Three Dog Night, "Our 'B' Side"
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Felix da Housecat - "My Life Is Music"
― Nick Sylvester, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
woops
20. Felix da Housecat - "My Life Is Music"
gah! I mean
20. Felix da Housecat - "Music Is My Life
19. Raspberries - "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)"
18. Pete Wingfield - "18 With a Bullet" (had to be here)
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
17. Badly Drawn Boy - This Song

16. Outkast - Da Art of Storytellin' (parts 1 & 2)
15. L.L. Cool J, "My Rhyme Ain't Done"
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
14. They Might Be Giants "They Might Be Giants" (which is a song named after and about the band which is
named after a film)
― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
13. Eels, "I Write the B-Sides"
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
12. "Goodnight Mr Spaceman" Television Personalities

11. "This is not a song" - Frank and Walters
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
10. "Judy is a Punk" - Ramones
― Neil FC (Neil FC), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
9. Kiss, "Rock And Roll All Nite"
8. John Lennon (& Yoko Ono), "Watching the Wheels"
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
7. Mary Lou Lord, "His Indie World"
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
6. Built to Spill, "You Were Right"
― subgenius (subgenius), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
5. Pixies - "Trompe Le Monde"
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
4. Can, "Halleluwah" (Damo lists the tracks on Side One at one point)
3. Jimi Hendrix, "Crosstown Traffic" ("I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead." Next song is a live jam with
Steve Winwood of Traffic.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
2. David Bowie - "Ashes To Ashes" (Major Tom etc.)
good call on "Halleluwah"
― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
1. Bobby Konders - "The Poem" feat Muta Baruka
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
0. Pink Floyd w/ Syd Barrett "Jugband Blues"
― andy beta, Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
-1. KMFDM "Sucks" (and samples "Godlike" too, for double the META)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 6 August 2004 06:45 (sixteen years ago) link
-2 Joe jackson, 'Hit Single'
― derrick (derrick), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
-3. NOFX – ‘Please Play This Song on the Radio’
― Orange, Friday, 6 August 2004 07:52 (sixteen years ago) link
-4. Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To (an album, not a song? but whatever)
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Princess Superstar - I Hope I Sell a lot of Records at Christmas Time
― Symplistic (shmuel), Friday, 6 August 2004 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
-6. Bad News - "Cashing In On Christmas"
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 6 August 2004 09:32 (sixteen years ago) link
5 Low - (That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace
― mei (mei), Friday, 6 August 2004 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link
-8. Michael Jackson - 'Music And Me'
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
7. Avril Lavigne - ' Sk8r Boi' ("I'll be at the studio / singing the song you wrote / about a girl you used to
know")
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
haha ILM can't do negative counting
― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
-10. pavement, "gold soundz" ("...and they're coming to the chorus now...")
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
-11. Neil and Iraiza - 'This Is Not A Love Song'
-11.5. Sugababes - 'New Year' (vaguely meta-ish nod to 15/6 year old girls singing convincingly adult themes
in chorus)
-12. Glen Campbell - "Rhinestone Cowboy"
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
-13. john lennon, "god"
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
-14. Buffalo Springfield "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing"

-15. Buffalo Springfield "A Child's Claim to Fame"
-16. Buffalo Springfield "I Am a Child"
(Not to mention almost all of Neil Young's "Tonight's the Night")
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
-17. Barry Mann "Who Put the Bomp"

-18. Herman's Hermits "I'm Henry the VIII I Am" ("Second verse, same as the first")
-19. Alice Cooper "Schools Out" ("We can't even think think of a word that rhymes")
-20. Neil Diamond, "I Am, I Said" (or is that just self-obsessed?)
― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
-21. Game Theory, the entire Lolita Nation album
-22. Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man" ("What can a poor boy do/'Cept to sing for rock 'n' roll band")
-23. Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" live version ("Honey, it's no rock 'n' roll show")
-24. Athlete: "Westside" - ("Chorus!")
― Huey (Huey), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
-25. Kool Moe Dee "I'm Kool Moe Dee"

-26. Jay-Z "Izza (H.O.V.A.)" and another score or so Jay-Z songs
-27. Boyzone: "Words"
-28. New Seekers - "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing"
-28. Greens Keepers - 'Should I Sing It Like This?'
-29 that "you don't even know who Liz Phair is" song by Liz Phair
-30. Chubby Checker "Let's Twist Again (Like We Did Last Summer)"
-31. The Band "Spotlight"
Er, that was "Stage Fright," but I'll bet someone did a song called "Spotlight."
-32. The Nails "88 Lines about 44 Women"
-33. Born Against - "Born Against is fucking dead"
― Avi (Avi), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
-34. LCD Soundsystem - 'Yeah!'
-35. Bob Dylan - "Sara"
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
-36. Steely Dan, 'Show Biz Kids' - "They got their Steely Dan t-shirts"
― derrick (derrick), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
God, how could this be forgotten? the most meta of all bands: Manowar
see songs such as Manowar, Metal Warriors, Return of the Warlord, Brothers of Metal, Warrior Prayer/Blood
of the King, Kings of Metal, Hail and Kill, Fighting the World, All Men Play on 10, etc.
Probably a good 70% of their catalogue is about how awesome heavy metal is and how good they are at
playing it.
― Avi (Avi), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
-38 them, story of them

-39 smiths, paint a vulgar picture
-40 undertones, more songs about chocolate & girls
-41 beatles, sgt. pepper's
-42 chuck berry, rock and roll music [why does he request that someone play him some rock and roll music?
can he not hear his own song?]
― mig (mig), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
-43. The Concept - 'Hey DJ'
-44. Downliners Sect - Sect Appeal

-45. Downliners Sect - Be A Sect Maniac
-46. Downliners Sect - Leader Of The Sect
-47. Velvet Illusions - Velvet Illusions
-48. Chocolate Moose - Chocolate Moose Theme
-49. Slaves - Slave Time
-50. Monks - Monk Time
― divideby0, Friday, 6 August 2004 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
-51. Railroad Jerk "The Ballad of Railroad Jerk"
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 7 August 2004 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
-52. Kaleidoscope (U.K.) - Music
A "good'un"
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 7 August 2004 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
-53. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
― Symplistic (shmuel), Saturday, 7 August 2004 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
can someone please explain to me what meta means in this context? if it's short for metaphysical i fail to see
how any of these tracks are.
― jed (jed_e_3), Saturday, 7 August 2004 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
music about music
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 7 August 2004 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
why is that metaphysical?
― jed (jed_e_3), Saturday, 7 August 2004 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Meta just means after or beyond.
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 7 August 2004 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
or in this case, self-referential.
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 7 August 2004 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
-54. Renegade Soundwave-Renegade Soundwave
"my house was shaking...my walls vibrating...Renegade Soundwave, Renegade Soundwave"
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 7 August 2004 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
-55 Jawbreaker - "Pack It Up"
― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Saturday, 7 August 2004 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry, forgot to add...
-56 Charles Mingus - "So Long, Eric"
― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Saturday, 7 August 2004 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
57. Mamas & The Papas: Creeque Alley
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 7 August 2004 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
58. CCR: Travelin' Band

59. Kinks: Rock n' Roll Fantasy
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 8 August 2004 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
-60. L'Trimm "Cars With the Boom" obviously. (Sorry it took me so long to post that one. Sometimes I
wonder what I did with my brain.)
-61. James Taylor "Fire and Rain" ("I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song")
-62. Van Morrison "Brown-Eyed Girl" ("Do you remember when we used to sing 'Sha la la la la la la la la la la
dee dah' just like that")
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 8 August 2004 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
-63. Carpenters, 'Yesterday Once More'
how has it taken this long?
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 8 August 2004 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Dylan,"I Want You":The cracked bells and washed out horns blow into my face with scorn, the saxophones
say I, should refuse you [somethingsomethingsomething]but it's not that way, I wasn't BORN to lose you."
He not only raps but signifies why: music sucks!If you let it make you its bitch, instead of vice versa. "Visions
of Johanna": "The country music station plays soft, but there's nothing really nothing to turn off." "Lay Down
Your Weary Tune", and then theres all the songs that he and most others did that evoke previous songs
when they don't outright rip or suck em off. In Dylan's case, a lot with his name on 'em are as good or better
or close enough to the songs or styles he evokes, but in any case, it's about a) being imprinted by the
impressive, even if it's just impressively bad and'or catchy; b) hitchin a ride on the safe side, to *some*
degree, even you're also taking a chance in another direction (who the ** woulda thunk "LIke A Rolling
Stone" woulda been a Top 40 AM Hit of mid-60s?)
― Don Allred, Sunday, 8 August 2004 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry if anybody already named these :Beach Boys,"I Hear or I can Hear Music"("The sounds of the city
seem to disappear") Or is that about the music he hears *only* she's near, so really more about her?
(Perhaps a Ms. Alice D., age 25, a la Allen Ginsberg's "Transcription of Organ Music"? But that's a pome so
never mind.)Ditto B.Boys'"Wind Chimes" and probably a lot (all?) Same question of others: Olivia Newton
John,"Please Mr. Please"("Don't play B-17. It was his song it was our song now it's oh-oh,ver."It" being affair
re "over," but orig."it" was "song," she's screwing with us man! (And not in a good way.) Whoever,"Hank
Williams, You Wrote My Life"; "I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today"; Charlie Daniels Band,"The
South's Gonna Do It Again": not only jumping on but being the bandwagon of Southern Rock (as music, as
trend;again, where''s the distiction, but it exemplifies former as well as latter, since a)
demonstrates/embodies fusion of Western Swing,"straight"Country,etc,that it's talkin *about*; and b)
namechecks ever damn body leading trend, incl "CDB"< as well it mat).
64. Barclay James Harvest: "Poor Man's Moody Blues"

65. Eddie Cochran: "Three Steps To Heaven" (at the time of the recording, indeed, he was....)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 August 2004 07:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't believe no one has mentioned: 66. "The Tennessee Waltz" (Peggy Lee, many others), which about a
song called "The Tennessee Waltz" (and is far and away the oldest thing here).
― Obvious Pseudonym, Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
HEY? WHERE'S RIKWANDO? Damn. Well anyway, 67. George Gershwin: "I got rhythm or however you
spell it, I got music, I got somethin, who could ask for anything more." 68. Afrika Bambaataa or whoever did
"Looking for the Perfect Beat." HEY
― BigFatDrunkChickWithABoomBox, Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
69. Lois -- Indie
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
70. Beatnuts Theme
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
71."Dance To The Music," Sly damn Stone.72."Higher," Ditto! 73."Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa," Otis
Redding ("It's a, sad song, it's a happy song, I just sing it,alll day long," I JUST LOVE YOU OTIS. No I won't
settle down you settle down. 74."It's The Same Old Song," Four Tops ("Since, *you* been gone.") This
means *Yew* mutha man. 75."Melody," David Johansen.76. "Frenchette," DJ too. "Why can't we just *day-
unce?* Good question! HEY
― BigFatDrunkChickWithABoomBox, Sunday, 8 August 2004 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
72. Yankovic: This Song Is Just Six Words Long
Btw. Listening to "The Same Old Song", after listening to "I Can't Help Myself", clearly tells you it is one of
the most aptly titled songs ever ;)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
We're into the negatives people... don't forget.
-73 The Fall - Repetition (and the various 'Crap Rap' songs)
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, yes, I would like some more coffee please. Thank you. Hello people, I'm straight now (sober, anyway).
Oh god. Um, any music can be meta that just wants to fold you into itself minus note-noting and beat-
counting and track-tracking and all that. Just, "Surrender all brins ye who enter here sugar" sugar on and in
everything. Ambient or air guitar or whatevar darlin. Also:
-74(even got the - in there this time told you I was straight as a goatam *board* jack), "Memphis Soul Stew",
whoever did it (I'm sorry!)
-75 "Time Is Tight," Booker T & the MGs,
-76"Boogie Fever," the Sylvers
-77"Blues In the Night"Frankie Sinatra
-78"First Time I Met the Blues" Buddy Guy(you could say all these are too meta for music but by the time
music's met it/them too late to wonder there's a meld). Oh hang I need a meld--Room SERVIIICE
― BigFatDrunkChickOnTheWagon, Monday, 9 August 2004 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Allo, I would like to hear:

-79 "SOS(Same Ol Song and Dance)" by Aerosmith
-80 "Barb Wire Fence or Riff" by Bob Dylan and The Band ("You might think this song/don't make no
sense/it's the sound you get/sittin on barb wire fence")
-81"Mr Parker's Band" by Steely Band, althoug it does not sound like Mr. Charlie Parker, more like Mr. Peter
Parker, who is tres cute.Stanku all vary much.By
― A Little Girl, Monday, 9 August 2004 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
-82 (though the counting went seriously awry). the Wonder Stuff - Our New Song
-83. The Drugs - Pop Song
there really should be seperate lists for songs that are properly meta and about music or the song itself Song
For Whoever-stylee, ones where rappers mention their own names, and all these rock'n'roll songs people
are throwing in that just happen to concern rocking and/or rolling
-84. AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top would probably still squeeze into the first category though
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
-85. Don, you forgot "Desolation Row" ("had to rearrange their faces, give them all another name")
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
But Geir, listening to "Under My Thumb" after "It's the Same Old Song" is even better, and so's listening to
"Standing in the Shadows of Love" right after listening to "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby (Standing in the
Shadows)"
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 9 August 2004 05:01 (sixteen years ago) link
-86. Public Image Ltd - "the cassette played 'Poptones'" (but the song hadn't been written yet!)
― Patrick (Patrick), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
-85. Wiley - Wot Do U Call It?

-86. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
-87. REM's "Pop Song '89"
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 9 August 2004 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
88. "Only A Northern Song," the Beatles. Which gets points for being both about itself and the band's
publishing company.
― phil d., Monday, 9 August 2004 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
-89. Roxy Music, "Oh Yeah":
"How we can drive to a movie show/ when the music is here in my car?/ There's a band playing on the radio/
with a rhythm of rhyming guitars/
They're playing "oh yeah" on the radio, oh oh-oh oh."
― Calvino Ray, Monday, 9 August 2004 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
-90 Vengaboys, "Up and Down"
"
We have already in the past produced records
These records were succesful
And produced considerable results
But the funds have been spent
And very well spent
And for this reason we're now producing
a new, unique record
called Up and Down
Up and down
Up and down
And up and down"
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
The entire top 100 should've been filled with hip hop.
― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
-92."Poetry Man" Phoebe Snow (really its about Charlie Parker but she couldn't call it "Heroin Man" on the
radio!) Which reminds me
-93. "Rock and Roll"Velvet Underground
-94."Rock and Roll" Led Zep
I'm gone donate all my numbers to you, Calvino & Sterling! So here's my UnNumbered Medley :Do a little
dance, make a little love, get down tonight! Cos! *That's* the way, uh huh uh huh, I *like* it, I'm gonna put on,
my my my my boogie, shoes, just to boogie with you URRRRPH, ohmigod I'm sorryyHEY where yall goin
― BigFatDrunkChickWithABoomBox, Monday, 9 August 2004 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
COURTNEY LOVE "MONO" anybody?
How could you forget?
Meta rawwwk.
― I'm American, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
elton john-your song

justin timberlake-rock your body
― robin (robin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night
― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Leoš Janáèek's first string quartet, from 1923, is usually called "The Kreutzer Sonata". However, it's not a
sonata -- as mentioned, it is a string quartet, inspired by Tolstoy's story "The Kreutzer Sonata", in which
Beethoven's op. 9, a sonata for violin and piano, usually called "The Kreutzer Sonata", plays a part.
That è should be a c with a little v on top.
aargh OPUS 47! I hate factual errors when trying to show off erudition!
-95. 'Live at the Johnny Mack Brown High School,' The Statler Brothers (entire album of the group hilariously
pretending to be an inept small-town C&W act)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:24 (sixteen years ago) link
-96. "Peggy Sue Got Married," Buddy Holly
-97. "Indian Flute," Timbaland & Magoo
Pooh Sticks to thread.
-98. "Play My Song," Redd Kross (outchorus: "Rock rock rock rock 'n' roll sucks!")
-99. Natasha Bedingfield "These Words" (Just seen it, it's about how difficult writing a love song is.)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
-100. kleenex girl wonder - why I write such good songs

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Saturday, 14 August 2004 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Song Sung Blue, everybody knows one "Song Sung Blue," by me
― NeilD, Saturday, 14 August 2004 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
-102. The Magnetic Fields - "The Way You Say Goodnight"

("Oh I could write a song about / The way you say goodnight.")
― cws (cws), Sunday, 15 August 2004 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
-103. "Jugband Blues," Pink Floyd (Syd: "And I'm wondering who could be writing this song.")
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 15 August 2004 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Billy Bragg: "A New England":
I was 21 years when I wrote this song

I'm 22 now, but I won't be for long
― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 15 August 2004 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Yachts - Suffice to Say. On the Stiff Records Box. What Sparks would sound like if they were a pub rock
band. Ew.
Mojo Nixon - The Story of One Chord. A song about the cavemen touching the Monolith, if the Monolith were
shaped like Glenn Mercer.
― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Sunday, 15 August 2004 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread really should've started going back up again after -100.
― The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 15 August 2004 07:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, -107. "Joyride", Built To Spill

this part of the song is called the second verse /
sounds just like the first but with different words /
it only has three chords and they are A and E and D /
they are A and E and D /
then it goes to D minor, D, uh, A, E, D
― The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 15 August 2004 07:37 (sixteen years ago) link
"2nd verse, same as the first: 'Ahhhm, 'en-er-ey the aith Oiyam Oiyam (etc.)" Mocks Henry VIII's exercise of
royal perog (via 'eritage): there are 8 'eneries, oiroight, but, instead of the 8th with 7 woves,here's 1 who's
flaunting the fact that he's 1 of the 8-identically named 'usbands of 1 woman."Second verse" bit mocks the
audience cos actually there are many more reps than 2 (and this "verse" actually the same as "chorus")! And
audience eats it up, pays for such self-satisfaction of upfront swindlin' song (perhaps IDing with such
inyourface? It was the 60s after all come to think of it) "Henry the Eighth" by 'erman's 'ermits
-109. The Sisters of Mercy - "This Corrosion" ("hey now, hey now now, sing 'This Corrosion' to me")
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
-110 Rachel Stevens "Some Girls". ("He likes to put his own records on", "you made a promise to make me
a star", "dreams of #1 last forever".)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 15 August 2004 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
U turn me on (ima radio)
― Prince Joni, Monday, 16 August 2004 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
-111. The godawful Usher's "Confessions part II" references the chick he told us about in part I.
― frankE (frankE), Monday, 16 August 2004 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
-112. One Note Samba - Astrid Gilberto & Stan Getz
― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Monday, 16 August 2004 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
one month passes...
-113. Todd Rundgren - Chain Letter

It's really, really meta. "This is how I thought I'd start my song" etc.
― Comme personne (common_person), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
-114. Joey Carbone, Garry Shandling, Alan Zweibel - It's Garry Shandling's Show Theme
― Comme personne (common_person), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
-115. Jay-Z - "Song Cry"
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
-116. rufus thomas - Bearcat (Answer to 'Hound Dog')
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
A few good examples:
-117. "Never Knew" by Eminem ... counterarguing against himself.

-118. Neil Young, "Borrowed Tune" ... even admits he's stealing the melody.
-119t. Built to Spill, "Randy Described Eternity," "Time Trap," "I Would Hurt a Fly" ... Meta seems to be
Martsch's whole m.o. as a lyricist. "You Were Right" is the best example, though.
-120. Neutral Milk Hotel, the entirety of In the Aeroplane O'er the Sea, especially "Holland 1945," which goes
inward then outward then celestial and back again. Whoa!
― Chris O., Friday, 17 September 2004 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks very much to swoods for this one:

-121 Goddo - Sweet Thing.
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
one year passes...
-122: Al Green, "L-O-V-E"
"I started to write this song about you

And then I decided that I would write it all about love..."
(No wonder Orange Juice covered it.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
This isn't the first time I've posted "the Pooh Sticks own this thread"
-123 : First Of a Million Love Songs
― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
-124. Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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Top 100 most META songs of all times

100. Rolling Stones 'Like A Rolling Stone'

99. 'I've Got A Song That'll Get On Your Nerves'

98. Prince - My Name Is Prince

96. Pulp: 'Something Changed'

95 Carly Simon "You're So Vain" (which ownz)

94. Devo - "Jocko Homo"

93. Tenacious D - "Tribute"

92. A Guy Called Gerald 'Specific hate'

90. Beautiful South 'Song For Whoever'

89. Rheostatics - We Went West

86. Technotronic: 'This Beat is Technotronic'

85. Blackalicious - Swan Lake

82. Charlie "Bird" Parker - "Yardbird Suite"

81. Eric B and Rakim: 'Paid in Full'

Shellac - Squirrel Song

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Kylie Minogue - Can't get you out of my head

77. Rachel Stevens 'Some Girls'

76. Kanye West 'Through the Wire'

74. - Kiley Dean -- Pop Goes Meta

73. Elton John - Your Song

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link

72. men without hats - pop goes the world

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link

71. the four tops - same old song

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link

70. britney spears - lucky

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link

67. L.L. Cool J "I Need a Beat"

64. The Prodigy - 'Poison'

63. limp bizkit - rollin'

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link

62. digital underground - the humpty dance

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link

61. scatman john - scatman

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link

60. The KLF - Gary Joins The JAMM

60. Cornelius - 'Mic Check'

57. John Lennon - Glass Onion

56. Spandau Ballet - "True"

(thx Radio 1 for that one)

55. Weird Al -- "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long"

AND THAT'S A GOOD LINE TO TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE.

Barry Manilow - "I Write the Songs"

54. They might Be Giants - Number Three

Grand Popo Football Club - One More Song On The Market

51. The Philistines Jr. - Analog vs. Digital

50. abba - thank you for the music

― artiste, Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link

DJ Tocadisco - Nobody Likes The Records That I Play

48. Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

Vicki D - 'This Beat Is Mine'

45. Bis - 'This is Fake DIY'

44. B&S 'This is Just a Modern Rock Song'.

43. PiL 'This is not a love song'.