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I have one of their albums, Dreams Dreams or something like that. I haven't played it in years, but there are a couple of great songs on it.
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Manson Family + Up With People = Polyphonic Spree
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Ray Charles
Neil Young
Stevie Wonder
Bob Dylan
Jeff Beck
Ray Davies
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Has anyone heard State Songs by John Linnell? I found an advance copy at a yard sale. He wrote a song for a bunch of states, but they weren't THE state songs, just weird little ditties with a state name in them. There are 16 tracks on this CD, but I read that he completed all of the states.
Woman says, "I thought he was with you."
Woman says, "I thought he was with you."
They slowly back away from him
At best he's very interesting
His brushes with success were just an accident
No one likes New Hampshire Man
Broken-hearted old man of New Hampshire
Flower-sniffing poet of New Hampshire
Charming witty drunk
Gate-crashing parasite
Self-pitying, embittered, morose New Hampshire Man
Woman wonders, "Who's your itchy friend?"
Woman says, "I thought he was with you."
Woman says, "I thought he was with you."
They slowly back away from him
At best he's very interesting
His brushes with success were just an accident
No one likes New Hampshire Man
No one likes New Hampshire Man.
Maine
------They Might Be Giants
Relaxing on my* hands and knees
Relaxing on my* face
Reclining in the bear-trap of its tender warm embrace
Glazed with coniferous green
Glazed with excitement and dread
Exhausted from oversleep
Awake but still in bed
The shaving razor's rusty but the sting brings you exactly back to
Maine
Is** the world that went south
Maine
Is** a punch in the mouth
Maine
At the top of the chart
Has crushed my evil heart
Maine
Is the devil you know
Maine
Is the heaven below
Maine
At the top of the chart
Has crushed my evil heart
I love you anyway (I love you anyway)
I promise there's no other state (there's no other state)
But only if you stay away (but only if you leave)
And leave me to my ugly state*** (me to my ugly state)
And give me back my evil heart so I can see you as you are in
Maine
Is the world that went south
Maine
Is a punch in the mouth
Maine
At the top of the chart
Has crushed my evil heart
Maine
Is the poison you love
Maine
Is the hell from above
Maine
At the top of the chart
Has crushed my evil heart
South Carolina
------They Might Be Giants
The other day my neighbor has a dented bike
Second day he called me from intensive care
Says he needs a picture of the dented bike
For the evidence of what a wreck he had
Accident
Accident
Lift that fork, eat that snail
Garcon summoned, have a new cocktail
Lift that fork, eat that snail
Garcon summoned, have a new cocktail
Crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
In a big South Carolina wreck
I crash my bicyle
Crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
In a big South Carolina wreck
I crash my bicyle
And I won some damages and they were punitive
By which I mean the punishment was damaging
It crushed my head
It crushed my head
Garcon, where's my drink?
Wreck!
Observe the front wheel spinning upside down
Wreck!
The red reflector fragments strewn around
Wreck!
The back wheel's 'O' is now a letter 'D'
Wreck!
I was an 'I' and now I am a 'V'
Lift that fork, eat that snail
Garcon summoned, have a new cocktail
Lift that fork, eat that snail
Garcon summoned, have a new cocktail
Crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
In a big South Carolina wreck
I crash my bicyle
Crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
In a big South Carolina wreck
I crash my bicyle
If I had to do it all again, buy* bicycle
If I had to do it, I would crash my bicycle
I'd crush my head
Collect the bread
Crash my bicycle
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Fork (fork)
Snail (snail)
Garcon (garcon)
Cocktail (cocktail)
Fork (fork)
Snail (snail)
Garcon (garcon)
Cocktail (cocktail)
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Oregon
------They Might Be Giants
Oregon is bad
Stop it if you can
Here it comes
Here it comes
Now it's after you
Flee to someplace new
Run away
Run away
From the penthouse to the prison
to the humble piedáterre
Are they taking up the cry
In the brothel
In the castle
On the crowded boulevard
Do they sing the dreadful words
Oregon is bad
Stop it if you can
Here it comes
Here it comes
Oregon is bad
Stop it if you can
Run away
Run away
Nevada
------They Might Be Giants
Nevada, Nevada
The dream of every girl
Nevada, Nevada
The acorn of the squirrel
Ladies falling from the treetops
Calling out in heaven's name
Parachutes of dresses
Saving every dame
Nevada, Nevada
The dream of every gal
Nevada, Nevada
The helper and the pal
Arkansas
------They Might Be Giants
The designers of the Arkansas
Were inspired to choose a form that was
The exact dimensions and the shape
Of the state whose name she bore
Yes, the ship was shaped like Arkansas
And the hull was formed without a flaw
Every detail had been reproduced
On a scale of 1:1
I was on the coast of Arkansas
When I saw her colors from the shore
And I sadly waved my hankerchief
As the ship began to sing:
"I'm the ship that's shaped like Arkansas
And my hull was formed without a flaw
Every detail has been reproduced
On a scale of 1:1
Avast me hearties!
A blimey state!
Ahoy there!
Avast there!
Ahoy there me hearties!"
When the rising tide engulfs the shore
And the waves roll over Arkansas
Will the ship return to anchor there
And replace the sunken state?
For the ship was shaped like Arkansas
And the hull was formed without a flaw
Every detail had been reproduced
On a scale of 1:1
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Beware of Dog
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I would agree that Zappa is my favorite, followed in no particular order by
Adrian Belew
David Hidalgo
Jeff Beck
Dave Davies
Steve Hillage
Steve Cropper
Neil Young
Steve Stills
Tom Verlaine
Richard Lloyd
the guy in Talk Talk
Hendrix/Page/Clapton
Albert King
Albert Lee
Andy Partridge/ David Gregory
Richard Thompson
Roy Buchanon
John Fogerty
Sonny Sharrock
John McLaughlin
Robert Quine
Don Rich
Eddie Hazel
Ernie Isley
Teeny Hodges
Smoky Hormel
Nels Cline
Too many more to get them all. The lists in the Guitar Player and Rolling Stone are ridiculous, Adrian Belew wasn't ranked in either one. Gimme a break.
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That one line in Lady Marmalade is pretty good. I have the 45 of Shock The Monkey in German, and 99 luftballoons in German. Also, I Want To Hold Your Hand in German. I Think We're Alone Now by Lene Lovich in Japanese is pretty cool.
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Check out The Beastie Boys In Sound From Way Out, Money Mark,Dirty Dozen Brass Band,Sly & The Family Stone,The Meters,Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Beck-Midnite Vultures,Tower of Power,MFSB,Maceo Parker,Ray Charles ,James Brown, I could go on and on, but I wont.
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They are an excellent Texas Swing band. Think of Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys. Google 'em.
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Meatloaf sang on a Nugent album before he hit it big with Bat Out Of Hell. Andy Summers was in The Animals before the Police. I guess that's not a lead singer, but oh well.
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The apron would have to have the Wonder Bread logo.
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I wish Bread was still together so I could be a BreadHead and follow them around selling grill cheeses.
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Tumbling Dice? It's more of a rock tune. The biggest country crossover I can think of is Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music by Ray Charles. Yeah, the Stones had a ton of them: Dear Doctor, You Got The Silver, etc.
Phish does a great version of Rocky Top.
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Buffalo Springfield/ Iron Butterfly (When I was 9)
Styx
Blue Oyster Cult
Rush/Uriah Heep
Van Halen
Doobie Bros.
Journey/Montrose
Cheap Trick/Sweet
Randy Newman
Mellencamp/Heart
Fleetwood Mac (Tusk Tour)
R.E.M./Dream Syndicate
Pat Metheny
Joan Baez
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Leon Russell/ Edgar Winter
Robin Trower
David Lindley (at least 5 times)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
B-52's
Tori Amos
Sam Phillips
Michelle Shocked
Zero (many times)
Grisman/Fleck/O'Connor
Pentangle/John Renbourn
Neil Young/Sonic Youth
Grateful Dead (10 times)
Phish (8 times)
Robyn Hitchcock (4-5 times)
David Byrne solo
Bela Fleck & Flecktones (5 times)
Tom Petty
Meat Puppets
Bjork
King Crimson
Tool
Cracker
Little Feat
Indigo Girls
Camper Van Beethoven
Los Lobos (6 times)
Jonathan Richman
Pavement
Jambay
John Prine
Sheryl Crow
Furthur Fest '96
Bill Frisell
Richard Thompson (4 times)
Maceo Parker
Built To Spill 5-6 times
Tom Waits
Modest Mouse 2 times
Love
Gong
Trey Gunn
H.O.R.D.E:Neil Young/Primus/Big Head Todd/Sky Cries Mary/I forget what else
Chuck Berry
Stevie Wonder
They Might Be Giants
Ween
War
Holmes Brothers
Parliament
King Missile
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Memory of a Free Festival-Bowie
The Night Chicago Died-Paper Lace
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Play Cinnamon Girl as loud as you can stand it. I don't know what grunge means, music isn't a contest, AIC and SG both rocked.
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You never know exactly what Neil means, and maybe he didn't always either.
"Mr. Soul"
Having the momentum of a song on the charts, the Buffalo Springfield went into a studio in New York on January 9, 1967. They cut their first version of Neil's new song, "Mr Soul." Having a riff very similar to the Stone's "I Can't Get no Satisfaction," it was a hard-driving rock song. In the lyrics, Young excoriated the music business that he was now deeply in the vortex of, using the metaphoric "Mr. Soul" to represent it. The theme is similar to the just-released Byrds' hit, "So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star," only much darker and so very personal. He couldn't believe that, due to a hit record, people would assume that they knew him personally:
"Well, hello Mr. Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason
For the thought that I caught that my head was the event of the season
Why in crowds just a trace of my face could seem to pleasin'
I'll cop out to the change but a stranger is putting the tease on
I was down on the frown when a messenger brought me the letter
I was raised by the praise of a fan who said I upset her
Any girl in the world could have easily known me better
She said, You're strange, but don't change, and I let her
In a while will the smile on my face turn to plaster?
Stick around while the clown who is sick does the trick of disaster
For the race of my head and my face is moving much faster
Is it strange I should change" I don't know, why don't you ask her?"
(1967 Cotillion, Ten East, Springalo Tunes, BMI)
Interestingly, Otis Redding was interested in the recording the song, but Neil refused to allow it.
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Is this it?
Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
( Wayne Newton )
The love between the two of us was dying
And it got so bad I knew I had to leave
But halfway down that highway when I turned around I saw
My little daughter running after me
Crying
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, slow down some 'cause you're makin' me run
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Now, it broke my heart to tell my little daughter
That her daddy had to run to catch a train
She had no way of knowin' I was leavin' home for good
I turned around and there she was again
As she said to me
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, slow down some 'cause you're makin' me run
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
If only for the sake of my sweet daughter
I just had to turn back home right there and then
And try to start a new life with the mother of my child
I couldn't bear to hear those words again
She cried and said
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
(My daughter cried)
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, slow down some 'cause you're makin' me run
Daddy, don't you walk so fast
Daddy, slow down some 'cause you're makin' me run
Oh, daddy, don't you walk so fast
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Iron Man=The new Free Bird
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I pulled out the Sgt Pepper movie soundtrack (Bee Gees/Frampton) for the first time in a while the other day. I hated it when it first came out, but now it sounds great. Steve Martin on Maxwell's Silver Hammer is hi-larious. And most of the other tracks have the Jeff Beck Group of that era. Oh, yeah songs that are hard not to like; MMMMBop, read the lyrics some time.
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Page & Diddy used part of "Kashmir" didn't they? On SNL?
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Or, "Censorship Is Ugly" by skook
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IF I ever get married, I would choose "Too Drunk To [bleep]"-Dead Kennedy's.
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To own a small recording studio in my house to record and accompany myself and other musicians. Wait, I already have that, but do it for free.
Split Enz
in Get the Word Out
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Dizrhythmia is my favorite.