A song that features great Rock vocals – a lot to pick from in this category, I choose Fire by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, starting with his shouted proclamation of “I am the God of Hellfire” the song precedes from nuanced subtlety in his voice to shrieks, screams and wild laughter… Arthur’s vocals on this are really great! So is the manic keyboard of Vincent Crane…Enjoy!
I misread the subject and thought it was about a country bordered on the south by water. So I was gonna go with “Wild Man From Borneo” by Kinky Friedman.
Then I saw it was a song from an artist from a country, etc, etc.
So after much consideration, I’m still going with this one.
1: Kinky spent a couple years in Borneo when he was in the Peace Corps, so he’s sorta from there.
2: Kinky is a Texan and if you’ve ever lived there you know that Texas considers itself another country.
3: The Gulf of Mexico borders both the USA and Texas on the south so we’re good to go…….
A song by an artist from a country bordered by water on the south – France fits that description so my song choice is Laisse Tomber les Filles, pop rock gem written by Serge gainsbourg, and originally performed by France Gall, if you don’t recognize the title, you might recognize the tune, it was covered by many artists including April March, and used in numerous film soundtracks including Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof…
Splitsville.
Older, fatter, creaky punks
Still going at it when they’re not going their separate ways, it the Circle Jerks!
This is the GOOD version:
“Wild In The Streets”
Well, it’s a song about a crime. So I assume there was a criminal involved somehow. I was gonna go with Alien Ant Farm’s cover of “Smooth Criminal” but this one is old school and louder.
Song about rulers or leaders- Jean Paul Marat said:
“Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder
and say that there is no inequality worth speaking of, and no more reason to fight, because if you believe them, they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretense of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they will send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can, with the flick of a finger, tear a million of you to pieces” Sounds true even today, but he said that in approximately 1790 in France during the French Revolution… Jean-Paul Marat of the French Revolution, seems an unlikely subject for a NYC punk band to sing about, but my choice song here is the excellent MARAT/SADE by the FALSE PROPHETS… an iconoclastic band that had a lot to say about leaders and rulers… In another one of their songs (Faith) they sing “I don’t recognize your leaders, Rulers just measure the extent of your ignorance…”
River of shit
River of shit
Flow on, flow on, river of shit
Right from my toes
On up to my nose
Flow on, flow on, river of shit
I’ve been swimming In this river of shit
More than 20 years, and I’m getting tired of it
Don’t like swimming, hope it’ll soon run dry
Got to go on swimming, cause I don’t want to die
(spoken with gospel sound in background):
Who dealt this mess, anyway?
Yea, it’s an old card player’s term
But sometimes you can use the old switcheroo and it can be applied to …
Frontal politics
What I mean is …
Who was it that set up a system
Supposedly democratic system
Where you end up always voting for the lesser of two evils?
I mean, Was George Washington the lesser of two evils?
Sometimes I wonder …
You got some guy that says
“For God sake, we’ve got to stop having violence in this country.”
While he’s spending 16,000 dollars a second snuffing gooks
A song with midnight or night in the lyrics- I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night by the Electric Prunes… Great song covered
by many bands, but this is the original…1967, like far out man!
A song that refers to a trick or treat – First thing that came to mind was Halloween by Siouxsie and the Banshees, where the chorus goes “trick or treat, trick or treat, the bitter and the sweet”, but I think someone else might pick that one, so I’m going deeper and picking a rare song by Alice Cooper, No Tricks, a non-lp track, it was the B-side to the single How You Going to See Me Now. An outtake from the sessions for the lp From the Inside…
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