On one of the message boards where I contribute we've got a game called "Concept Album". One poster will select a song that meets the criteria of a concept that is chosen by the person who entered the 12th song in the previous list. So what you have in the end is a 12 song collection of tracks that have a similar theme. The only rule (other than the obvious) is that you cannot enter a band/artist more than once in any particular concept album.

Not long ago the topic was "songs in which another band/artist is referenced, either in the song or in the title. I was the twelfth entry so I got to choose the next topic. I liked this one so much that I decided to make it a double album and we were off again for 12 more.

Below each entry the reference was provided. I don't really have time to go back and retrieve all of them, but I would like to reproduce the playlist we came up with:

CD 1
1. Surrender - Cheap Trick
2. Range Life - Pavement
3. El Scorcho - Weezer
4. London Calling - The Clash
5. History Lesson, Pt. II - The Minutemen
6. Hey Hey My My - Neil Young
7. You Better You Bet- The Who
8. "Thunder Road" - Bruce Springsteen
9. Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel
10. "Cruiser" - Red House Painters
11. True - Spandau Ballet
12. "Rock and Roll Nigger" - Patti Smith

CD 2
1. "Jail Guitar Doors" - The Clash
2. Whiplash - Metallica
3. "All the Young Dudes" - Mott the Hoople
4. Runnin' Blue - The Doors
5. Oh You Pretty Things - David Bowie
6. "The Wake-Up Bomb" - R.E.M.
7. Musicology - Prince
8. "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" - Reunion
9. Funky Cold Medina - Tone-Loc
10. Unseen Power of the Picket Fence - Pavement

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I came up with the following "Bonus" tracks after the "concept album" round ended:

~~~Alex Chilton - The Replacements
("Children by the millions wait for Alex Chilton to come 'round" & "You never travel to far, without a hit from Big Star")

~~~Life in a Northern Town - the Dream Academy
("John F. Kennedy and the Beatles")

~~~The Beatles and the Stones - The House of Love"
("The Beatles and the Stones sucked the marrow out of bones")

~~~Song for Bob Dylan - David Bowie
("Hear this, Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, 'bout a strange young man called 'Dylan' with a voice like sand and glue")

~~~Glenn Tipton - Sun Kil Moon
("Some like KK Downing more than Glenn Tipton, Some like Jim Nabors, some Bobby Vinton, I like 'em all")

~~~The Mighty K.C. - For Squirrels
(K.C. stands for Kurt Cobain)

~~~Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
("Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the best place around")

~~~Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
("Roll over, Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news")

~~~Buddy Holly - Weezer
("...just like Buddy Holly")

~~~John McLaughlin - Miles Davis
(It must be nice to have a legend like Miles Davis name a song after you...not only that, but a song you're playing on)

~~~L.A. Woman - The Doors
("Mr. Mojo Rising"...everyone knows this is a synonym for 'Jim Morrison')

~~~Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
("James Brown! James Brown!"...and a reference to Kurtis Blow)

~~~Luckenbach Texas - Waylon Jennings
("Let's go to Luckenback Texas, Waylon and Willie and the boys..")

~~~The Ride - David Allan Coe
("He said 'you don't have to call me Mister, mister...the whole world called me Hank" [Williams])

That's about all I can think of for now...

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Others who contributed to this "artist/band reference" concept album were Frag, Paul, Thorn, Kool, Brian & Rocky.

Nice work, gentlemen!

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