The Beastie Boys? Do I win?

Bo Diddley

They all like pie.

Sasshat, who DOESN'T like pie?

Wolfdaddy and timefactor are both correct in providing other examples... but of WHAT?

Uh - there are four band members in each. You forgot - 'The Beatles.'

sorry, ericb... *buzzer sounds, trapdoor opens*

(and what the $#$%& are the four memebers of Bo Diddley? That's just not rihgt!)

:)

I thought of another semi-obscure one myself... Focus (best known for their "Hocus Pocus" song, but becasue of something else)

Bukka White. The Monks and The Wailers and three thousand other 60s garage bands (probably). Black Oak Arkansas gets honorable mention. So does Hawkwind in a roundabout way.

They all had hits with their names in it?

In a Big Country
Hey, Hey, we're the Monkees
Who are You, who, who...
etc

Yep, they all recorded and released songs with their names in the titles... but now that, by including the Beasties, I am allowing Rap artists into the list, I have made the list meaningless, since EVERY Rapper has done a song named after him/her/their self. Oh well...

sleepy_pete, would you give me some specific titles?

Bukka White had "Bukka's Jitterbug Blues", The (Bob Marley) Wailers had "I'm Still Wailin'", Black Oak Arkansas had "Jim Dandy" which was the stage name of their lead singer, right? I didn't intend for this to be so much work... FOR ME.

I don't like pie.

you commie.

I don't like pie.
posted by Eideteker 25 February | 19:16

*throws cream pie at Eideteker*

Oh, sorry. I was trying to be sneaky...

I was thinking of the Wailers from the Northwest with "Wailers House Party" (after a year in a dorm, I have finally successfully rid my brain of the Bob Marley-type Wailers, although I'm glad they had a title that worked out in my favor) and The Monks had "Monk Time" as well as the album Black Monk Time. Lemmy Kilmister, while in Hawkwind, wrote "Motorhead," which he later took as the name of his next band.

Sorry, I didn't mean for it to be so much work for you either. If it matters, I've played this game before, but it was on a long trip with nothing else to do, not on the internets. Actually, that's probably not strange.

If you were to include jazz, you could stick in Thelonious Monk with "Monk's Dream," Miles Davis "Milestones" (a little bit of a stretch), and Charlie Parker with "Parker's Mood". But there are a lot of jazz songs that have that.

Oh, there's also another stretch from my favorite sound collage artist, Vicki Bennett, who works under the name People Like Us with a couple of songs from her Thermos Explorer release called "People Like You". These are just short songs and not really her best work (I love Swinglargo personally).

However, I'm guessing these will never be hits, if that's what you were looking for.

The songs don't have to be hits, but the group/performer should be fairly well known.

But the BBoys RAWK, wendell. More than, say, Talk Talk's eponymous song. That's why I said 'em (that I couldn't think of anyone else off the toppa my head).

sleepy, i'm gagging from that! : >

more! more!