*Black Superman - Muhammad Ali - Johnny Wakelin
Our last butterfly song
*Don't Let Us Bug Ya - Andy Partridge
*La Cucaracha - Cumbia Kumbia Kings
I don't speak Spanish to know exactly what's been done to this lyrically, but this version of the cockroach song apparently somehow ends up involving marijuana. Maybe the cockroaches are getting into their stash.
*Day of the Locusts - Bob Dylan
*Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
*Never Swat a Fly - Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band
*The Blue Tail Fly - Leadbelly
Pure rough acapella blues
*Baby Bumblebee - Disney Silly Songs
A twenty second version apparently sung by Goofy
*Buggin' - The Flaming Lips
Quite a pretty song, really
*Buzzin' Fly - Tim Buckley
*Boll Weevil - Walter Brennan
*Flight of the Bumblebee - Beethoven
Finishing up with a couple of bee related items
*King Bee - Muddy Waters
It's only appropriate to let the alpha-insect have the last word.
Some spare parts and groovy stuff left off for length that may suit you as substitutions:
Doin' the Cockroach - Modest Mouse
The Spider and the Fly - The Rolling Stones
A Flea and a Fly in a Flue - Sharon, Lois & Bram
Bug - Phish
Human Fly - The Cramps
I'm Bugged - XTC
Spider Webs - No Doubt
Animals and Insects - The Stills
The Insects Will Get You - Retard Choir
The Love Bug - George Jones
The Locust Girl - Sondre Lerche
A Song From Under the Floorboard - Magazine
These songs are mostly pretty easy to find, but if you're particularly needing a couple of the more obscure ones and aren't having much luck with P2P, drop me an email.
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Special shout out for consultation and mp3 files from Jim Carruthers (For a dirty Canuck, he ain't such a bad fella), Tom Johnson, Steve Rubio and the Duke de Mondo.
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
dude, how could you leave off thewedding staple (father-daughter dance) "Butterfly Kisses"? It's a guaranteed weeper.
2 - Eric Olsen
And no "Antmusic" by Adam and the Ants? Sacrilege
3 - Al Barger
Forgot all about the Antmusic- which is silly since I've been listening to "Goody Two Shoes" in my workout mix.
As to the "Butterfly Kisses," I'ma have the cockroach come over from Cincinnati and eat that guy so I never have to hear that treacly song again.
4 - Jim Carruthers
re: "Butterfly Kisses", wouldn't one of those bugs from Omnicron Seti 6 in "Star Trek II: Khan Gets Peeved" be a better choice?
Which is probably what happened to Adam Ant, since he has gone bug-fuck nuts (dressing up like a cowboy and then threatening to kill people who laughed at how crazy he looked).
5 - Phillip Winn
Eric, I have two daughters, and I *still* hate that stupid Bob Carlisle song. Ugh -- no thanks for causing me to think of it!
6 - Eric Olsen
I was mostly joking about "Butterfly Kisses," which is horrifyingly manipulative and saccharine.
BUT, I guarantee you, if you are at an actual wedding, and if that song is played for the father-daughter dance (as it so often is), and if you have one or more daughters, you WILL weep. It's an involumtary reflex.
7 - Jim Carruthers
It's an involumtary reflex.
Sorta like throwing up in your mouth a little bit?
8 - Eric Olsen
very similar
9 - Al Barger
Perhaps we could pump "Butterfly Kisses" really loud into Saddam's cell 24/7. That'd serve the bastard right.
10 - Jim Carruthers
Our Pal Al rites: Perhaps we could pump "Butterfly Kisses" really loud into Saddam's cell 24/7. That'd serve the bastard right.
I'd rather see it beamed into Shrub's brain chip implant everytime there is a reference to whatever his daughter's-names-are linked to a bar or club on the AP and Reuters newswire with an RSS. Not that the seizures would be any different from his day-to-day activities.
11 - Al Barger
Yes Jim, but thing is, Dubya's twisted enough that he might LIKE the song.
12 - Jim Carruthers
I have to make a full disclosure, the head of the Olympic drug tribunal is a Canadian, and his name is Dick Pound.
Make of it what you will, after you've finished rolling around laughing
And I think the audio loop which is running in Shrub's head is more like he is channeling Jasper and making up lyrics to "Summer Song".
13 - Al Barger
Remind me to kick my own ass later. I forgot to include "The Fly" by U2, which is a big fave of mine. It was on the working list of suggestions, and I have it on the hard drive. Just slipped my mind.
I may end up having to make a second volume.
14 - Jim Carruthers
Why should we stall ass kicking 'till later, why not do it now?
Hell, every day should be an Al Ass Kicking Day! Hurrah!!
We could even come up with a jingle.
15 - Al Barger
Oh yeah, Jim. Bring that on. It'll be you, Terence, Philip and the Canuck army versus me and the dogs.
Anyone want to make book on this?
Perhaps we could set it up on pay per view.
16 - JR
"Spider Web" by Joan Osborne (from Relish). Although that song seems to be more about Ray
Charles. How's that for synchronicity?
17 - Bridget
I'm quite a bit late in making this suggestion, but if you're anything like me, you're always editing and improving upon these tracklists anyway.
You're missing a true gem- "Lullaby" by the Cure.
"On candystripe legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
Suddenly!
A movement in the corner of the room!
And there is nothing I can do
When I realise with fright
That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!
Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
Creeps closer now
Closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"
And I feel like I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning I will wake up
In the shivering cold
And the spiderman is always hungry... "