Heavy Meta: Difference between revisions

** The lyrics seem to be more about someone who [[Drives Like Crazy]] in a really fast car.

** "Caught In A Mosh" by [[Anthrax]], on the other hand, is unambiguously about moshing to heavy metal.

* "Overkill" by [[Motorhead]].

* [[Helloween]] with "Heavy metal (is the law).", "Are You Metal?" and "Metal Invaders". Also, in perhaps one of the strangest examples, "Heavy Metal Hamsters".

* Saxon love doing this, with songs like "Denim and Leather", "And the Bands Played On" and, of course, "Heavy Metal Thunder".

* Of course, [[This Is Spinal Tap|Spinal Tap]] had to take a stab at this, with their classic anthem "Heavy Duty". And to a lesser extent, "Rock N' Roll Creation".

* "Kill for Metal" by Iron Fire.

* "Living for Metal" and "Metal is Forever" by Primal Fear.

* "Heavy Metal Pirates" by [[Alestorm]].

* "Heavy Metal Fire" by Stormwarrior.

* Lee Aaron, "Metal Queen"

* "Heavy Metal Breakdown" by Bitch

* "Rock and Roll All Nite" by [[KISS]] and other arena rock songs like that.

* [[Chuck Berry]] - "Roll Over Beethoven."

* [[Velvet Underground]] - "Rock And Roll."

** "Rock And Roll Heart" by [[Lou Reed]], and "Dirty-Ass Rock And Roll" by John Cale.

** Pata solo: "Story Of A Young Man"

* Argent - "God Gave Rock'n'Roll To You."

** The chorus is supposed to be ''part of the song they're singing in the bar,'' which implies that [[Recursive Canon|they're singing the song they're in.]] It just disappears into itself. [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|It also implies what is clearly a statutory rape in progress,]] but nobody notices that part.

* Within-fiction example: a tract by [[Jack Chick]] features a "[[The Moral Substitute|Christian rock group]]" (who later fall under Satan's power, apparently because [[The New Rock and Roll|all rock music is inherently evil]]) who sing a song with the lyrics "[[Narm|We're gonna rock, rock, rock with the rock!]]".

* "Rockabilly Rules OK" by the Stray Cats. It's about the song itself, which is about the genre.

** By the same band, "Rock This Town."

** Also "Prisoners of Rock'n'Roll", "Born To Rock" and, in a subversion, "Are You Ready For The Country?"

** Don't forget "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" and its variation "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)". ''"Rock and roll will never die..."''

** The lines about coming ''out of the Virginia swamps cool and slow / with a backbeat narrow, and hard to master'' clearly reference the birth of rock from the (southern) primordial ooze of the blues. Also, the lines about some regarding it as ''heavenly in its brilliance'' and others ''mean, and ruthful of the Western dream'' could easily reference the [[Your Mileage May Vary|differing attitudes]] people had for rock & roll, especially during the 1960s.

* "Halloween in Heaven" by [[Type O Negative]].

** Also "The Entertainer"

* "Heart of Rock and Roll" by [[Huey Lewis and the News]].

* "Rock and Roll Tonight" by Grim Reaper.

* "If You Don't Like Rock N Roll" by [[Rainbow (band)|Rainbow]].

* ''Heart Songs'' by [[Weezer]], consists of the band members' favorite song titles, lyrics, and bands, as well as several lines dedicated to Nirvana's Nevermind album.

* "Number 3" by [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]].

* "Chickenshit Conformist" by Dead Kennedys is about the state of punk rock.

** Speaking of which, Wire's debut album ''Pink Flag'' is pretty much made of meta, with "It's So Obvious" (about the failure of punk's revolution ''before it even ended'') and "Brazil" (a subtly hilarious satire of The Ramones) being the shining examples.

* Every reggaeton song ''ever''.

* "We Found A Place" by Justin Sane of Anti-Flag

* "Thurston Hearts The Who" by [[Bikini Kill]], where they umm, read a review of one of their own performances.

* "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" By Duke Ellington.

* "Litmus" by [[Five Iron Frenzy]], a [[Christian Rock]] song criticizing Christian Rock.

* [[The Who]], Pete Townshend in particular, loves this trope; he often overlaps it with [[Rockstar Song]] and extends it over entire albums. The single "Long Live Rock" is probably the best example.

** Addressing a more-specific subject over a much-longer format (double-LP in this instance), ''[[Quadrophenia]]''. Combining memories of the band's [[Shout-Out|early days]], a history of the Mods & Rockers rivalry, critiques of fashion and conformity: all wrapped up in the [[Coming of Age|first-person story]] of a British youth whose head is crowded with these issues and more, including a [[It Runs in The Family|difficult life at home]] and possible [[Sanity Slippage Song|mental illness]]. Complete with four [[Leitmotif|leitmotifs]], one for each member of [[The Who]]. Couldn't be any more [[Post Modern|Meta]] unless it was [[Shaped Like Itself]].

* TZDF by Faderhead is about the Industrial music scene: "This is a song about the German clubs", "This is a song for all the Rivetheads"

* "This is the Hook" by B.S.O.D (Also known as Deadmau5), satirically gives instructions on how to make cliche House music. Ironically, it was also his first House hit.

{{quote|''4/4 time is boring''

''And I'm so sick of''

* Similarly, [[Billy Connolly]]'s "Nine And A Half Guitars": "Hey, Jimmy! Gonnae gie us 'Ten Guitars'?"

* [[Freezepop]]'s "Pop Music is not a Crime."

* The [[Elton John]] song "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" is about...well, [[Captain Obvious|sad songs]]

* Propagandhi's "Ska Sucks" is a ska song about what a stupid movement ska is.