re: Best song about another artist/band

And this one was written in response to that one:

Play it All Night Long - Warren Zevon

Grandpa pissed his pants again
He don't give a damn
Brother Billy has both guns drawn
He ain't been right since Vietnam

"Sweet home Alabama"
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

Daddy's doing Sister Sally
Grandma's dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis
We'll get through somehow

"Sweet home Alabama"
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

I'm going down to the Dew Drop Inn
See if I can drink enough
There ain't much to country living
Sweat, piss, jizz and blood

"Sweet home Alabama"
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

If you don't like Hank Williams honey, you can kiss my arse

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Elton John - Secret Garden

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Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)

I'll add:

Frank Zappa - Punky's Whips

Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne

fIREHOSE - For the Singer of REM

a light hearted jab off the great record.. "if'n"

Mojo Nixon - Don Henley Must Die

Traveling Wilbury's - Tweeter and the Monkey Man

Springsteen..

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Let's be honest though,lyrically,most of that stuff is 1D..cool to listen to,but not great song writing

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assuming you are talking about the SK song... I would say great song writing is relative, but it is a great song... and a seminal one the mid 90s

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Tribute or spoof?

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from Petty..

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Yeah, it was not meant to mock him at all. The song was supposed to. . . It started with Bob Dylan saying, "I want to write a song about a guy named Tweeter. And it needs somebody else." I said, "The Monkey Man." And he says, "Perfect, 'Tweeter and the Monkey Man.'" And he said, "Okay, I want to write the story and I want to set it in New Jersey." I was like, "Okay, New Jersey." And he was like, "Yeah, we could use references to Bruce Springsteen titles."

He clearly meant it as praise. We weren't trying to knock anybody, and there's not much of it in there anyway. So we sat and wrote the song. The English guys [George Harrison and Jeff Lynne] left, actually. It was the only song that they were like, "This is just too American. We're out on this one." So the two of us just sat there for most of the afternoon, and then we edited it down the next day.

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sometimes simple is better..

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I work on this also,the shite that rocks,that is pretty simple,makes people move,but I still won't slouch on lyrics,maybe an understandable situation without detail,just a groove.
The thoughts of a dude at the waffle house,or the strip club.