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January 16, 2005
Burning question; your musical assistance needed!
There's the R.E.M. song "End of the World as We Know It" and the Billy Joel "We Didn't Start the Fire," both of which offer fast-paced cultural catalogues. What other songs do this?
Posted by senioritis at January 16, 2005 10:24 AM
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Well, there's Simon and Garfunkel's "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" from the _Parsely, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme_ album. (Don't know if anyone else remembers that tune, though...)
Posted by: Jon Benda at January 16, 2005 11:07 AM
Yer a genius. I've got it on LP, and I've got a CD player that will record from LP, and-- . This is going to become part of a compilation tape, so I need more songs, everybody!
Posted by: senioritis at January 16, 2005 11:14 AM
"Numb" by U2 from Zoo Ropa is largely a listing of ad slogans/cliched television terms. Does that fit?
"1985" by Bowling for Soup
I'm not familiar with many songs that do this. Or, if I am, I just can't think of them right now. There are specific songs, like "Nightmare on My Street" that parody/pay homage to specific culture cues, but nothing like the scope of the two songs you've listed.
--TR
Posted by: TR at January 17, 2005 04:32 PM
Excellent, and thank you! I'll have to track these two down. Also today I thought of another: Lou Reed's "Sick of You." And Tom has added Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues."
Posted by: senioritis at January 17, 2005 07:01 PM
How about the Beatles, Lady Madonna
and John Lennon's God
Posted by: Rahul at February 20, 2005 05:54 AM