Friday Coffee Break: Animal Songs
Posted at 8:21 AM on March 26, 2010
by Steve Seel
(70 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break
(updated below)
If you heard our conversation with MPR's Movie Maven Stephanie Curtis this morning, you might know why we're talking animals for today's 9:30 Coffee Break. In short, the phrase "bear sex" was uttered. Never mind why. Anyway, always appreciative of a good conceptual segue, we're making songs about animals our topic for today's coffee break. What are some songs with some kind of animal in the title? (Not the word "animal," but actual examples - bird, dog, wolf, elephant ...). Let the stampede begin.
Update: Tough choices today. We could have built a whole set around just Beatles songs about animals. We went with:
1) Pixies: "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
2) The Beatles: "I Am the Walrus"
3) Neko Case: "The Tigers Have Spoken"
4) Rufus Thomas: "Bear Cat"
5) Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Gold Lion"
6) The Stooges, "I Wanna Be Your Dog"
Comments (70)
How about Ape Man by the Kinks?
I would LOVE to hear "Bull Dog" by the Shangri-La's!!
Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
Wolf Like Me by TV On the Radio.
I was surprised that you didn't include this in your 'Wolf' songs set a while back, so you have to play it today!
Platypus (I Hate You) – Green Day
Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie – Joanna Newsom
Penguins & Polar Bears – Millencolin
Panda Bear – Of Montreal
Honeybear – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Elephant Gun – Beirut
Eating Styes from Elephants' Eyes – The Shins
Peter Gabriel, "Shock the Monkey"
Neko Case, "The Tigers Have Spoken"
REM, "Swan Swan H"
They Might Be Giants, "Snail Shell"
Feist, "Sealion"
Matthew Sweet, "Dinosaur Act"
Platypus (I Hate You) – Green Day
Hey Bulldog – The Beatles
I Am the Walrus – The Beatles
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) – The Beatles
Diamond Dogs – David Bowie
I Wanna Be Your Dog – Iggy Pop
Hound Dog – Elvis
Mean Eyed Cat – Johnny Cash
A Caution to the Birds – The Frames
Fish And Bird – Tom Waits
Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie – Joanna Newsom
Penguins & Polar Bears – Millencolin
Panda Bear – Of Montreal
Honeybear – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Elephant Gun – Beirut
Eating Styes from Elephants' Eyes – The Shins
Primus: Wynona's Big Brown Beaver.
It's a Friday kind of song too.
Neko Case - People Got a Whole Lot of Nerve - (Killer Whales!)
Beatles - Rocky Raccoon
"Dead Skunk"- Loudon Wainwright III
"Shock the Monkey"- Peter Gabriel
"Game without Frontiers"- Peter Gabriel****
"Blackbird"- Beatles
"Wild Horses"- Rolling Stones
"Crocodile Rock"- Elton John
3 Little Birds - Bob Marley
Kitty or Boll Weevil - Pres. of the USA
Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymnoceros - Flight of the Conchords
Neko Case - People Got a Whole Lot of Nerve
Beatles - Rocky Raccoon
The Cat Came Back
I Can Be A Frog - Flaming Lips
I think this might be the song that mentions the most animals.
"Apeman" The KInks---PLAY IT!
Bowie-"Diamond Dogs"
Stooges-"I Wanna Be Your Dog"
Shearwater - Rooks
It's a band named after a bird and a song named after a bird. And lots of other birds in the song.
"Bear Cat" by Rufus Thomas - It was Rufus Thomas' answer to Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog."
Penguins- Jazz butcher
"I'm Gonna Buy Me a Dog" by The Monkees.
Double score!!
Second "Wild Horses" but by the Sundays instead of the Stones.
Cows - Suburbs
I have the perfect song!!!! Sixteen Animals by local artist Mark Mallman. One of my favorit Mallman songs.
Sweet! An outlet for my awesome primate playlist! I'll show a little restraint though...
Brass Monkey - The Beasties
Monkey Man - Toots or The Stones
Smartest Monkeys - XTC
Monkey Feelings - Spoon
I am the walrus-The Beatles
Baracuda-Heart
"Black Snake Moan" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"I Cut Like a Buffalo" by The Dead Weather
Eels: I Like Birds
Eagle on a Pole - Conor Oberst
Tom Waits - Puttin' on the Dog
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Sparrow and the Medicine
Sunset Rubdown - Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!
Seasick Steve - Thunderbird
Nickel Creek - The Fox
Spirit - Animal Zoo
Pink Floyd - Pigs on wings
"Prom Night in Pig Town" either the original by John Gorka or the (in my opinion superior) cover by Trout Fishing in America
Jackass - Beck
Hornets Hornets - The Hold Steady
Crawlin' King Snake - John Lee Hooker
Eels - Little Bird
Bjork - Human Behavior - Yes, humans are animals.
Pink Floyd - Seamus - or a bunch of songs off of Animals
Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs, Piggy
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Bob Marley & The Whalers - Three Little Birds
Morris Day & The Time - The Bird
Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies
Bring on the Dancing Horses - Echo & the Bunnymen
Oh, how about "Monkey to Man" by Elvis Costello?
Matthew Sweet's "Dinosaur Act" would be nice too.
Stray Dog and The Chocolate Shake - Grandaddy
Birds sing why the caged I know - Atmosphere
Love Cats - The Cure
Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
Mr. Rabbit - Paul Westerberg
The Underdog - Spoon
Oh man, I forgot
Modest Mouse - Wild Packs of Family Dogs
Songbird - Oasis
Sheep - Pink Floyd
Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might be Giants
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Black Dog - Zeppelin
Al Stewart - The Year of the Cat
Secret & Whisper - "Great White Whale"
65daysofstatic - "Lyonesse"
Sigur Rós - "Flugufrelsarinn" (which means "The Fly's Savior")
Ratatat - "Desert Eagle". "Wildcat", or "Falcon Jab"
Owl City - "Early Birdie" (his older stuff is much better than the stuff you'll hear on the radio)
This might be a bit of a stretch, but Russian Circles - "Death Rides a Horse"?
Horse Pills - Dandy Warhols
New Monkey - Elliot Smith
Hummingbird - Wilco
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Presidents of the United States of America - Kitty
Red Fox Run by Twin Tigers
Twin Tigers rule. They destroyed SXSW!
Mai Doi Todd -- Courting
"If I were a kangaroo,
I’d wanna carry you in my pocket.
If I were a koala bear,
I’d wanna always have you there in my pocket."
COME ON!! you cannot NOT play this one :)
Pixies - Caribou
Powderfinger- Treat me like a dog
Iggy Pop- I want to be your dog
Grateful Dead- Dire Wolf
sorry but
Duran Duran-
Union of the snake
hungry like the wolf
Please Play "Pigs" from the Pink Floyd Animals album
Animal of Choice
Daredevil Christopher Wright :D
Love em
Love that song
I Wanna Be Your Dog - Iggy Pop
Cat Scratch Fever - The Nudge
Small Swift Birds - Cowboy Junkies
The Lovecats - The Cure
Seahorse - Devendra Banhart
Lullaby Of Birdland - Ella Fitzgerald
Salty Dog Blues - is there a Cat Power cover out there?
Locusts - The Frames
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - Frank Sinatra
The Jack-Ass Song - Harry Belafonte
Octopus's Garden - Beatles
Stork And Owl - TV on the Radio
Village Gorilla Head - Tommy Stinson
Rock Lobster - B52's
Guided by Voices - Chicken Blows
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
that would be sweet.
cat scratch fever cuz nugent loves the animals
you HAVE to play a they might be giants song! birdhouse in your soul
mammal
cowtown
and so many more!!!
How 'bout these...?
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor (sorry about this one!)
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Maybe a mythical "animal?"
Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul and Mary
How about horses?
King Horse - Elvis Costello
Mine's Not a High Horse - The Shins
One Horse Town - The Thrills
leonard cohen: bird on a wire
ween: mr., would you please help my pony?
black sabbath: war pigs
b-52s: rock lobster
Hopefully not too late - The Lobster Quadrille by Franz Ferdinand (a new song on the Almost Alice soundtrack)!
WAR PIGS!
yes! i can't believe no one else suggested it! please play ozzy on this friday morning, it will make my day!
Portions for Foxes, by Rilo Kelly
Looking at this, I think we need a sea creatures/ocean theme for a coffee break one of these days!
Dang, lots of songs
Chicken Payback - Band of Bees (that's an animal two-fer)
Animals - Pink Floyd (tho utterly unplayable on the radio)
Penguins - Lyle Lovett
Furr - Blitzen Trapper
I Wanna Be like You (The Monkey Song) - Los Lobos
Will the Wolf Survive - X
Feather Pluckin' - President of the United States of America
"Ten thousand monkeys all pick up guitars. Nobody taught them how. Ten thousand piggies rockin' really really really hard. Nobody taught them how"
Oh I know i'm late, but I wanted to give a shout out to Boris The Spider by The Who
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