My younger son has gotten into The Fiery Furnaces. Last night, as we listened to “Tropical-Iceland” for the third time in a row it occurred to me that there probably aren’t too many songs that reference puffins. That got me thinking whether we could put together a special kind of Last Man Standing: Noah’s Rockin’ Ark. Here’s the deal:
- Can we cite pairs of animals referenced in 2 different songs?
- No pairs of animals may be repeated; once a pair of animals has been loaded that animal is accounted for.
- If you know of 3 songs referencing a certain animal—or 300—we don’t care. Just list the 1 animal referenced in 2 songs.
- To conserve RTH Rock Police resources, I will allow us to cite up to 3 different animals from the same song.
For instance, Noah’s Rockin’ Ark includes ponies: the ponies from both The Fiery Furnaces’ “Tropical-Iceland” and The Beatles‘ “I Dig a Pony.” Ponies are loaded on Noah’s Rockin’ Ark. Ponies are off the board. It’s time we move onto to a new pair of animals, perhaps puffins.
Here’s an earlier Last Man Standing that will get you half the way there.
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Rufus Thomas “Can Your Monkey Do the Dog” The Specials “Do The Dog” which knocks out monkeys *and* dogs.
Ponies, monkeys, and dogs are locked and loaded!
Rufus Thomas’s “Bear Cat”
Gene Vincent’s “Cat Man”
Does that take care of cats, bears and men, or just cats?
Point of order: does the animal have to be in the title?
No, it does not.
Just cats. Cats are locked and loaded!
Wild Horses!
I assume you’re referring to the Osmonds and the Stones song. Nice!
I’m hoping it’s a big ark, because I’m bringing whales: B-52s -“I’ve got a Cadillac as big as a whale” (Rock Lobster) and Eugene Church and the Fellows “Even a-when I sail/Mermaids ridin’ on whales” (Pretty Girls Everywhere)
“Ride The Tiger” – Jefferson Starship
“Wild Tiger Woman” – The Move.
“Lion’s Share” – The Germs
“Ex Lion Tamer” – Wire
Elephants
King Crimson – Elephant Talk
The Chuch – Metropolis
“Back in Metropolis, circuses and elephants
Where the oranges grew…”
Wasn’t that Crazy Horses?
T Rex – Rabbit Fighter
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Oh rabbits, that was supposed to be down the bottom
“Do the Frog” – Bo Diddley
“Peace Frog” – The Doors
TV on the Radio — Snakes & Martyrs
Little Feat — Snakes on Everything
“Penguin In Bondage” – Frank Zappa
“Funky Penguin” – Rufus Thomas
I think they are two different penguins !
“Human Fly” – The Cramps
“Funky Fly” – Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds
The Rolling Stones “The Spider and the Fly”, The Who “Boris the Spider”
“Fly Like an Eagle” – Steve Miller Band (I never understood why Steve says he wants a fly like an eagle)
“Fly, Robin, Fly” – Silver Convention — the most peculiar inter-species love sandwich ever chronicled in pop music
The White Stripes – “I Think I Smell a Rat”
The Pogues – “Gartloney Rats”
Saint Etienne “Night Owl” and Bobby Day, “Rockin’ Robin” (The wise old owl, the big black crow/Flappin’ their wings singing go bird go) so owls, get on board….
Little Red Rooster – The Stones
Rough Justice – The Stones
The rooster in Rough Justice is here:
One time you were my baby chicken
Now you’ve grown into a fox
Once upon a time I was your little rooster
But am I just one of your cocks
Man, that song sucks. But I got rooster in, and used the same band to do it!
“How Will the Wolf Survive” Los Lobos
“Hungry Like the Wolf” Duran Duran
Mrs. funoka says it is “Will the Wolf Survive” and is, as alway, correct.
Madness “Wings Of Dove” Prince “When Doves Cry”
That’s “Wings Of A Dove”
The rattlesnakes from CPatton’s “Rattlesnake Blues” and WZevon’s “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead” (“I was working on a steak the other day when I saw Waddy in the the Rattlesnake Cafe”).
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LD
“Bat Chain Puller” by Capt.Beefheart and “Release The Bats” by The Birthday Party.
Bats: check!
Earth – “The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull”
Belly – “The Bees”
U2’s “11 O’Clock Tick Tock” and the Vaughan Brothers’ “Tick Tock”
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LD
Sabbath “War Pigs” and the Beatles’ “Piggies.” Or if pigs and piggies are different, let’s go with “Piggy in the Middle” from the Rutles
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LD
“Do You Like Worms?” from “SMiLE” and “Waiting for the Worms” from “The Wall”
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LD
P.i.L. & Fleetwood Mac’s different takes on “Albatross”
“If that chick don’t want to know, forget her” Thin Lizzy – Boy Are Back In Town
“All the cats and chicks gonna get their kicks at the hop” At the Hop – Danny and the Juniors
Cow Cow Boogie – Ella Mae Morse
Milk Cow Blues (Boogie) – Elvis/Cochran/Kinks/take your pick
Sheep – Pink Floyd
It’s Sheep We’re up Against – The Housemartins
There’s a song called “Lazy Day” by Us3 that references smoking blunts in the lyric “I’m puffin’ on the hay…”
Let’s match that with The Fiery Furnaces.
See you Later, Alligator – Bobby Charles
Alligator – The Grateful Dead
Mrs. Jade’s beloved Magnetic Fields: Zebra
Hendrix’s Little Wing: “butterflies and zebras..”
Syd Barrett – Octopus
Beatles – Octopus’s Garden
Tom Waits: “Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought six”
GBV: Buzzards and Dreadful Crows
Are lambs out of it because sheep are on board? Probably, but
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – Genesis
Dope Nose – Weezer (with the immortal lyric “cheese smells so good on a burnt piece of lamb/ fag of the year who could beat up your man)
Good question! We will accept babies of adult animals.
“Crocodile Rock” by Elton John and “Substitute” by the Who which mentions “crocodile tears”….
Season of the Shark (Yo La Tengo) & Shark in the Dark (Dwight Twilley Band) & Shooting Shark (BOC)
Animal Collective – Loch Raven
Lou Reed – The Raven
“Ape Man” by the Kinks and “Shock the Monkey” (“you can ape the ape…”). Apes and monkeys are different, you know.
A dip into the 70’s pond: 3 Dog Night’s “Joy To The World” and Jim Stafford’s “Spiders and Snakes” both contain frogs.
Only two frogs are allowed on board. Sorry.
Beetles
Ready Steady Go – Gen X
King of Rock – Run DMC
I don’t understand the need to board water animals during a flood. Am I just being myopic?
“I Got Ants in My Pants (And I Wanna Dance)” – James Brown
“Athena” – The Who (“Felt like one of those flattened ants you find on a crazy path”)
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LD
Hogs =/= pigs
I’m a Hog For You Baby – the Coasters
Wart Hog – Ramones
Oops! And I thought I scoured the list well before welcoming those amphibians aboard.
Regardless, I’m gonna add Tom Waits’ “The Earth Died Screaming” for it’s lyric about raining trout, and “Trout” by Neneh Cherry with Michael Stipe.
“Coyote’s Song” by Mystic Chords of Memory, and RHCP’s “True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes”
Water Boarding is very controversial these days.
My post from last night appears to have vanished so here it is again:
Dolphin’s Smile – the Byrds
Blue Heaven – the Pogues (“dolphin’s who leap…”)
“Mad bull lost its way” from “Gimme Shelter” and Rage’s “Bulls on Parade.” Otherwise them cows on board are only gonna last so long.
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LD
Cocteau Twins: When Mama Was Moth
Kristin Hersh: White Suckers “You come off like a distant moth, aimless and driven.”
Ah, those early 90’s bands loved their snow:
Both Ride and Charlatans (UK) recorded their own “Polar Bear”
Johnny Cash – the Dinosaur Song
Was Not Was – Walk The Dinosaur
Hampton the Hamster – The Hamsterdance Song
Elvis Costello – New Hamsterdam
I’ll get my coat !
More cute baby animals!
From The Sound of Music’s “Favorite Things”: “whiskers on kittens…”
and REM’s “Star Me A Kitten.”
I mean “Star Me Kitten”
Bullet with Butterfly Wings by the Smashing Blumpkins.
Little Wing by Hendrix “Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams…”
Chili Peppers – Apache Rose Peacock
Paul Weller – Peacock Suit
Adrian Belew – Lone Rhinoceros
Wild Man Fischer – Go To Rhino Records
My earlier entry for “Shock the Monkey” also has “fox the fox, rat on the rat”. Add “Fox on the Run” by Sweet since we’ve already got rats.
Alright, someone had to do it, so I’m taking the horse by the horn:
The Irish Rovers – The Unicorn
Wolfmother – White Unicorn
“Clap for the Wolfman” and “Werewolves of London” then. The ark had some people on there too
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LD
North Mississippi All Star’s “Mississippi Boll Weevil” and Elvis “Little Sister” is “mean and she’s evil like that little old boll weevil”
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LD
From Pebbles Vol. 1, the immortal
“Beaver Patrol” – The Wild Knights
and from Memphis, Tenn., the even more immortal:
“Eager Beaver Baby” – Johnny Burnette & the Rock and Roll Trio