Songs that disparage other artists in the lyrics

Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions

 

i love this song, but if beck is a fake, where are we going??

 

Took this as a slight jab-
"I remember Penny Lane, never walked that way again. Rock N' Roll removed my soul, give me back the Same Halo.
Men Without Hats-The Same Halo

 

The first one that comes to mind is "How Do You Sleep?" by John Lennon. John rips on Paul McCartney and is accompanied by George Harrison on slide guitar.

 

There are so many Eminem songs you could pick!

 

‘Instant Club Hit’ by The Dead Milkmen takes down quite a few of their 80s contemporaries (or as the song puts it ‘Europeans who come over here with their big hairdos’)

 

German punk band The T*ts did the tasteless exploitation song ‘We’re So Glad Elvis Is Dead’ in 1978:

 

And for the benefit of any Elvis fans who were annoyed by my last post, here’s The T*ts 40 years later embarrassingly bungling their way through a slowed down version of their one mean spirited ‘hit’ as 60 something men at a punk festival. Surely a fate worse than death!



The bit where they stop the song and then start playing it again just as badly is hilariously cringe!

 

Roger Waters - It's a Miracle.

"Lloyd Webber's awful stuff runs for years and years and years....."

 

Sweet Home Alabama

 

Spike Jones’ version of Ghost Riders in the Sky is a send up that gives a dig to Vaughn Monroe.

 

Range Life by Pavement has a very funny diss of Smashing Pumpkins and Stone Temple Pilots at about 3.40

 

I still prefer Southern Man.

 

You've reminded me of this:

Not everyone in New York would pay to see Andrew Lloyd Webber,
May his trousers fall down as he bows to the queen and the crown.

From Chocolate Cake by Crowded House.

 

The Clash "1977"

'No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones... in 1977'

 

" Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust "

 

The Damned’s ‘Idiot Box’ was a pointed attack on Television after the latter threw the former off their tour. (‘Idiot Box’ being old school British slang for the television, you see)

 

“How To Be Dumb” - Elvis Costello > about Bruce Thomas

 

The Kinks ‘Prince Of The Punks’, a somewhat nasty takedown of Tom Robinson:

 

--All Men Are Liars - Nick Lowe
Do you remember Rick Astley?
He had a big fat hit that was ghastly
He said I'm never gonna give you up or let you down
Well I'm here to tell ya that dick's a clown

Ouch. That's pretty harsh, Nick. I prefer this other one that's a little poke at Paul Weller.

--Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears
Kick out the style, bring back the jam

 

The Clash: 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais':

"Punk rockers in the UK
They won't notice anyway
They're all too busy fighting
For a good place under the lighting
The new groups are not concerned
With what there is to be learned
They got Burton suits, ha, you think it's funny
Turning rebellion into money?"

 

And Alabama

New York - Sex Pistols about the NY Dolls
London Boys - Johnny Thunders about Johnny Rotten Malcolm McLaren, Sid Viscous but not Steve Jones or Paul Cook

 

Ode To A Black Man
Phil Lynott

 

100s of rap songs?

 

"I Hate The Beach Boys" ~ The Bobs