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* The Music/DeadKennedys had a legendary performance of "Pull My Strings" at the Bay Area Music Awards in 1980. Asked by the organizers to play "California Über Alles" to give the event some "New Wave credibility", the band played the intro of the song before lead singer Jello Biafra stopped the band and mockingly said "we're not a PunkRock band, we're a NewWave band"; the band then began playing "Pull My Strings", a song making fun of record industry politics and manufactured artists.

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* The Music/DeadKennedys had a legendary performance of "Pull My Strings" at the Bay Area Music Awards in 1980. Asked by the organizers to play "California Über Alles" to give the event some "New Wave credibility", the band played the intro of the song before lead singer Jello Biafra stopped the band and mockingly said "we're not a PunkRock band, we're a NewWave {{New Wave|Music}} band"; the band then began playing "Pull My Strings", a song making fun of record industry politics and manufactured artists.
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* The back cover of Music/TheReplacements' ''Let It Be'' is a picture of graffiti the band members had written on a door, including "Twin/Tone eats slotty crap" (or possibly "...''sloth'' crap"). The Replacements were signed to the label Twin/Tone at the time, and what makes it even funnier is that on some editions of the album, the Twin/Tone logo is positioned directly beneath that message.

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* The back cover of Music/TheReplacements' ''Let It Be'' is a picture of graffiti the band members had written on a door, including "Twin/Tone eats slotty crap" (or possibly "...''sloth'' crap").crap" depending on how you interpret the scrawled handwriting). The Replacements were signed to the label Twin/Tone at the time, and what makes it even funnier is that on some editions of the album, the Twin/Tone logo is positioned directly beneath that message.
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* Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's contribution to the soundtrack of the 1998 remake of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' was the song "No Shelter", a four-minute ProtestSong about how Hollywood supports the spread of consumerist values and [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld American hegemony]] worldwide. It includes a direct TakeThat at the film it's supposed to be promoting, in the form of the line "Godzilla, pure motherfucking filler, to keep ya eyes off the real killer". And just to drive the point home, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEoesmnYU4 the video]] makes reference to, among other things, the Hiroshima bombing -- the event that [[Film/{{Gojira}} the original film]] was a commentary on (commentary that was, [[LowestCommonDenominator of course]], scrubbed from the remake).

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* Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's contribution to the soundtrack of the 1998 remake of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' was the song "No Shelter", a four-minute ProtestSong about how Hollywood supports the spread of consumerist values and [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld American hegemony]] worldwide. It includes a direct TakeThat at the film it's supposed to be promoting, in the form of the line "Godzilla, pure motherfucking filler, to keep ya eyes off the real killer". And just to drive the point home, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEoesmnYU4 the video]] makes reference to, among other things, the Hiroshima bombing -- the event that [[Film/{{Gojira}} [[Film/Godzilla1954 the original film]] was a commentary on (commentary that was, [[LowestCommonDenominator of course]], scrubbed from the remake).
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* ''Music/MikeOldfield'''s song "Make Make" from the album ''Heaven's Open'' is a jab at his then-publisher Creator/VirginRecords. It even calls them on the name, in case someone would have missed the reference.

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* ''Music/MikeOldfield'''s Music/MikeOldfield's song "Make Make" from the album ''Heaven's Open'' is a jab at his then-publisher Creator/VirginRecords. It even calls them on the name, in case someone would have missed the reference.



* After ''Music/CrowdedHouse'''s first two albums were somewhat successful in the US, they released "Chocolate Cake" as the lead single for their third album ''Woodface''. The song, which also opens the album, is a satire of American excess. ''Woodface'' remained the band's least popular album there until 2021's ''Dreamers Are Waiting'', while being at least as successful as their first two albums everywhere else.

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* After ''Music/CrowdedHouse'''s Music/CrowdedHouse's first two albums were somewhat successful in the US, they released "Chocolate Cake" as the lead single for their third album ''Woodface''. The song, which also opens the album, is a satire of American excess. ''Woodface'' remained the band's least popular album there until 2021's ''Dreamers Are Waiting'', while being at least as successful as their first two albums everywhere else.
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* After ''Music/CrowdedHouse'''s first two albums were somewhat successful in the US, they released "Chocolate Cake" as the lead single for their third album ''Woodface''. The song, which also opens the album, is a satire of American excess. ''Woodface'' remained the band's least popular album there until 2021's ''Dreamers Are Waiting'', while achieving comparable or greater success everywhere else.

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* After ''Music/CrowdedHouse'''s first two albums were somewhat successful in the US, they released "Chocolate Cake" as the lead single for their third album ''Woodface''. The song, which also opens the album, is a satire of American excess. ''Woodface'' remained the band's least popular album there until 2021's ''Dreamers Are Waiting'', while achieving comparable or greater success being at least as successful as their first two albums everywhere else.

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