Animal Night Rate
- 21 Mar 07, 09:44 AM
Question: what are the best songs ever recorded with animals in the title? Answer, Rufus Thomas with ¡®Can Your Monkey Do The Dog¡¯ and Kate Bush with ¡®The Hounds Of Love¡¯. We can also accept The Cure with ¡®Lovecats¡¯ and George Clinton¡¯s ¡®Atomic Dog¡¯. Oh alright then, let¡¯s also be hearing Neil Hannon bellowing out ¡®Frog Princess¡¯ and The Pixies with ¡®Monkey¡¯s Gone To Heaven¡¯.
Music trivia: ain¡¯t it fun? I was thinking such things while I prepared my upcoming Radio Ulster show on Friday night (that¡¯s 10pm until midnight, music lovers). For one week only, it will be two hours of animal magic, including the aforementioned songs, plus Suede, The Byrds, The Cramps and Elvis Costello. We remember the activities of Echo And The Bunnymen, who once plotted out a tour of the Outer Hebrides in the shape of two rabbits ears. Bless. And of course they had a cool song called ¡®Crocodiles¡¯.
The Beatles have so many possibilities. They¡¯ve given us ¡®Blackbird¡¯, ¡®Hey Bulldog¡¯, ¡®Octopus¡¯s Garden¡¯, ¡®Piggies¡¯ and more. And did you know that Iggy is short for Iguana, a good prompt for his immortal lyric, ¡®I Wanna Be Your Dog¡¯.
These days, anyone presenting a theme programme on radio must be thinking of Bob Dylan and his wonderful shows. He plays the best music with funny, wise and cryptic links between. We can only marvel. So a Bob song had to be in my show. Not ¡®Cat¡¯s In The Well¡¯ or even ¡®Leopardskin Pillbox Hat¡¯. It had to be ¡®Man Gave Names To All The Animals¡¯. And it goes out to the man with the greatest of affection.
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hi
really enjoyed the alan simpson show yesterday (outside broadcast) showcasing home grown talent - cat malojian were absolutely brilliant - very different from the norm....
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Best song - (Hey hey we're) 'The Monkees'
though perhaps you had to be there
way back when
Worst song?
'Three Lions'
There are a few decent tunes about fish, but they might not be the correct class of beast?
'Fish Licence' is useful listening, at some stage, but it's more... spoken word, I suppose.
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Don't worry, a fish-related playlist is imminent. Obvious contenders would be 'Octopus's Garden', 'Troutmask Replica', 'Moby Dick', Van Morrison warbling how "we let the goldfish go" and anything by The Barracudas.
Any other suggestions? No terrible puns about 'Cod Only Knows', please.
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Fish ¨C I feel that the Folk Worlde would hold rich pickings and certainly there's many a fine version of 'Shoals of Herring' out there (and 1975's Electric Muse collection has a fab piece of Old Fisherman vox pop with it) but, well, I'd be satisfied with a whole evening of 'Catfish' variations, including the Tasty enough version by Rory and the local boys.
Rick Wakeman's 'Flying Fish' is best avoided.
Instead, dip into The Irresistible Force's 'Fish Dances' collection, which includes a touch of the exotic: 'Nepalese Fish Dances' as remixed by Fila Brazilia. From there it's a short leap to splash into Fila Brazilia's 'The Life and Times of Phoebus Brumal' wherein lies 'Blowhole'. For the purpose (porpoise?) of this enquiry, I chose to interpret that title in relation to the great whale.
Not sure if a whale is a fish, mind you?
Dolphins give the same classification problem, but ought to be allowed ¨C in order to accommodate the glorious Mr Buckley.
Strangely, Ian Brown claims that 'Dolphins Were Monkeys', which doesn't ring true, but neatly brings us full circle, back to the previous post's suggestion of The Monkees Theme as best animal track. Ship-shape. Bristol fashion.
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What about
Werewolves of London by the late great Warren Zevon
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