We saw the Mothers, the Modern Lovers

The story:

I just noticed it. It's the opening theme of Dan Bodah's program, and I was looking up some OTHER of its lyrics when I was disabused of my notion about the above. I had thought it was making reference to both the Mothers of Invention and the Modern Lovers, rather than just the latter band twice.

The authentic lyric can be taken as either honoring Jonathan Richman's band as an influence, or boasting that they were better than that band. In the version in my head, they were referencing both his and Frank Zappa's, so my version was either twice as thankful or twice as boastful.