Thursday 24 January 2008

And don't forget the Joker

Lemmy's passionate defence of gambling has once again come to my ears, and prompted me to start a list of songs mentioning cards of the playing variety.

  • The Ace of Spades - Motorhead
  • The Queen of Spades - Styx, also in Shape of My Heart - Sting.
  • The Queen of Hearts - Dave Edmunds, and in Desperado - The Eagles.
  • The Queen of Diamonds, in Desperado - The Eagles. Also a track by Chiodos.
  • The Queen of Clubs - KC and The Sunshine Band. Cheating, this one.
  • Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan
  • The Jack of Diamonds, in Shape of My Heart - Sting.
  • Jack O'Diamonds - Odetta.
  • She's Got The Jack - AC/DC. I think they may mean that metaphorically.
  • From a Jack to a King - Ned Miller
  • Deck of Cards - T. Texas Tyler and many others. And a special mention for Max Boyce for his Welsh Rugby Union Rulebook version.

Thursday 17 January 2008

Elvis lives on... through the medium of song

Scouting For Girls prompted me to kick off a list of songs that mention or allude to Elvis, e.g.

  • Scouting For Girls - Elvis Ain't Dead (Coz I Heard Him On The Radio)
  • Kirsty McColl - There's A Guy Works Down The Chipshop Swears He's Elvis
  • Kate Bush - King Of The Mountain
  • Thin Lizzy - a track off Black Rose (have to find out which one) has "The King is dead. The King of Rock 'n' Roll is dead" in the fade out.
  • Cher, Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis
  • Paul Simon - Graceland
  • Colorblind James Experience - I'm Considering A Move To Memphis
  • Elvis is Dead - Peter & The Test Tube Babies (YouTube)

but when I looked into it,
someone had done it already
, and quite comprehensively.