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Departments => Music => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 31, 2004, 02:46:22 PM
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Ok, I'm not looking for kids' music, let's get that out of the way.
I've decided I want to make a CD of goofy animal songs performed by rock groups. Here's my list so far:
Eels, "I Like Birds"
Young Fresh Fellows, "The Otter Song"
They Might Be Giants, "Flight of the Barking Death Squirell"
Dead Milkmen, "The Badger Song"
The Kinks, "Apeman" (because "Rats" is too serious)
The Beatles, "Piggies"
That's six tracks. I'd really like to make it 12 songs at least, and preferably fill an 80 minute CD. I'm thinking about adding the B-52s "Rock Lobster" which I like better than "June Bug"
Also, I don't like to have a ton of songs by the same band, 2 maybe three by the same artist TOPS. Preferably only one. So branch out for me here. Any suggestions?
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Of course you know that Ookla has an entire album that deals mostly with monkeys, but I'd recommend "Hockey Monkey"
Since I don't know any of those songs really, I'm not sure how much they deal with the animal in question, so my other suggestions you might or might not like.
Prince - When Doves Cry
Tokens - The Lion sleeps Tonight
primus - tommy the cat
Flaming Lips - Giraffe or "This here giraffe" (I don't remember)
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There is one other from TMBG: "Mammal." Thats a great goofy song.
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Yeah, "Hockey Monkey" came to mind since then. Also Devo's "Go Monkey Go" (monkeys make everything 57% more funny, so it's not surprising there are a lot of goofy monkey songs. I don't know the Giraffe song. Those other ones just don't fit in with the mood, except maybe the Primus one.
Here's some that almost work that I'll use out of desperation to finish the disc:
"Flight of the Cosmic Hippo," by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (instrumental)
"Fee" by Phish
"Love Cats" The Cure
"Hound Dog" I have versions by Elvis, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix
As for TMBG, they also have "Mammal" and "Cowtown" which would work great, but i'm trying to limit any one group's representation
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Oh, what about that one from that cartoon collection you have. "Stop that pigeon."
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Primus goes with everything - without downloading the songs you mentioned first, what kind of a mood are you going for?
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ok, culling my mp3 collection has shown me that Too Much Joy does "The Otter Song," not Young Fresh Fellows, opening up "Monkey Say" (another monkey song) for usage. plus there's the Murmurs "Bumblebees," and Shonen Knife's "I Am a Cat"
"Dr. Worm" by TMBG is actually a stronger song than "FotBDS," so I'm probably using that one instead.
"Stop the Pigeon" may work, except that it's merged with Johnny Quest.
More potentials:
Uranium Based Life Form, "Walrus X"
Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet, "Run Chicken Run"
Peter Gabriel, "Kiss that Frog" ("Shock the MOnkey is too dark)
Suicide Machines, "Sometimes I Don't Mind"
Mood: goofy. prince himself is goofy, but "When Doves Cry" is not a goofy song. It's about marital/relationship strife. "The Lion Sleeps TOnight" just doesn't do it.
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ok, i have 11 songs (12 once I decide whether I'm going to download Tommy the Cat or just settle on Too Many Puppies), but htat only puts me just over half an hour.
Maybe I'll have to use some of my less than perfect choices.
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Hawkwind - Douglas in the Jungle
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Rammstein--Fellfroshe! (Which translates to something like 'Direfrog.' Yes, that's where Fell got his nick.)
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I would suggest going to allmusic.com, clicking on the "song search" and searching for whatever animal you like.
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I know it's obvious, but has the BNL chimpanzee song been mentioned yet?
Also, I second Fuzzy's vote for the Lion Sleeps Tonight.
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oh yeah! I asked Entropy if he knew the name, and he did the online equivelant of looking at me like i was insane.
Which is how he usually treats me. But I still assuemd he didn't know.
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It's called "Another Postcard"
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Ok, I shall search for that and for the Primus song
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Well, it's probably not what you're looking for (since the only song I recognized on this whole list is Lion sleeps tonight) but there's also "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" (I think by Dr. Demento). It's worth a laugh.
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So he wasn't exactly rock, but Nat King Cole's "Straighten Up and Fly Right" is pretty animal goofy.
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Well, with all my ADD, I did actually manage to make this CD. I've given it a few listen tos, and I think I did a good job. I ended up with a list of songs that to include all would have been around 2 hours. Maybe there'll be a disc 2 someday, but I doubt it.
behold! (http://www.thelemur.net/music/aminals.html)
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No Fellfrosch? I feel personally slighted.
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as well you should, especially since as you read the list you'll see that the song Fellfrosch doesn't fit in with any of the others I've put on there, with the possible slight exception of the Primus.
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Frankly, if you can't build your whole life around me you've got your priorities in the wrong place.
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do you mind if I quote you there in the talk I give in church tomorrow?
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do you mind if I quote you there in the talk I give in church tomorrow?
*busts up laughing*
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Yay, ookla represents!!
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Yeah, I was noticing that Ookla, TMBG, B-52s, and PRIMUS of all bands were the only ones with two songs on the disc. But then most of my favorite bands: Rush, Matthew Sweet, etc, don't do many songs about animals. The Kinks do, but "Animals in the Zoo" is really hard to find on mp3 and I only have it on vynal.
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I want to know how the talk went andif you used that quote.
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oh, no, i didn't use it. As the subject was gaining a testimony of Christ, I suppose I could have adapted the quote out of context, but I choose not to break the mood that was otherwise adapting.
Though I did once quote Mystery Men in a talk I gave. "I have a gift. I shovel really well."
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I can so picture you saying that.
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Animal songs, eh??
Try "Skinny Puppy - Testure".
You won't be disappointed.