Tuesday 20 January 2009

Birds

A list of pop songs featuring our feathered friends. No generic "bird" songs, please (sorry Lynyrd Skynyrd).

  • Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
  • Bird of Paradise - Snowy White
  • Blackbird - The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan
  • Mexican Blackbird - ZZ Top
  • Blue Jay Way - The Beatles
  • Buzzards and Crows - Dirty Pretty Things
  • El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel
  • Dodo - Genesis
  • Eagle - ABBA
  • Swan Swan H(ummingbird) - R.E.M. Listed as Swan Swan H on the album.
  • Nightingale - Julie Cruise (YouTube)
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite - The Beatles
  • Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty
  • Parakeet - R.E.M.
  • Peacock Suit - Paul Weller
  • Pelican - The Maccabees
  • Rockin' Robin - The Jackson 5
  • Little Red Rooster - Rolling Stones
  • Seagull - Bad Company
  • Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton
  • No Tit - The Queers. The Ramones would have been proud.
  • Ride A White Swan - T. Rex

We could do bands as well:

  • Sheryl Crow
  • Counting Crows
  • Doves
  • The Eagles
  • Guillemots
  • Gil Scott-Heron
  • The Housemartins
  • The Partridge Family
  • Edith Piaf - which apparently is colloquial French for "sparrow"
  • Lieutenant Pigeon
  • Rooster
  • A Flock of Seagulls

4 comments:

Stewart said...

Bands:

Rooster
Counting Crows
Lieutenant Pigeon (!)

Stewart said...

Album titles:

A Crow Left of the Murder (Incubus)
Blackbird - Alter Bridge

Bands / Artists:

Sheryl Crow
The Partridge Family (sorry)
The Eagles

Songs:

Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan
Mexican Blackbird - ZZ Top

(Running out of ideas now)

Stewart said...

Ooh, ooh...

Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty

Unknown said...

"No tit" by the Queers


And how about
"Tern, tern, tern" by the Byrds
(should score double)