Heston and Marky's Friday Top 5

[revbob]

Batman Theme - The Who
Spiderman - The Ramones
Automatic Man - Bad Religion
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Sidekick - Rancid

[Marky Dread]

Top 5 songs about record companies/labels.



1. Complete Control - The Clash
2. E.M.I. (Unlimited Edition) - Sex Pistols
3. Mercury Poisoning - Graham Parker & The Rumour
4. Rough Trade - Stiff Little Fingers
5. I Love My Label - Nick Lowe

[JoseUnidos]

Workin' for MCA - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Have a Cigar - Pink Floyd
The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man - Rolling Stones
Here Comes Dumb George - Van Morrison
Zanz Kant Danz (Vanz Kant Danz) - John Fogerty

[Dr. Medulla]

Pull My Strings - Dead Kennedys
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby - The Smiths
This Note's For You - Neil Young
Seymour Stein - Belle & Sebastian
and, um, Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

[101Walterton]

What is that Cockney Rejects song line em up against the wall and shoot them?

[daredevil]

Paint A Vulgar Picture - The Smiths
MCA - Joan Jett

[Silent Majority]

Are all Smiths songs just about the record company and I was too dense to realise?

[tepista]

EMI times one billion

[Dr. Medulla]

Are all Smiths songs just about the record company and I was too dense to realise?

It's you. The meat in Meat is Murder is the cold sound of digital pushed by the recording industry, and Vicar in a Tutu is about David Geffen serving hamrolls.

[revbob]

1. Bring Me The Head Of David Geffen - Mojo Nixon & the Toadliquors
2. Pull My Strings - Dead Kennedys (this song has perhaps the best chorus of any song ever)
3. EMI - Sex Pistols
4. Complete Control - The Clash
5. Rough Trade

[gkbill]

EMI times one billion

Hello,

Agreed.

[Flex]

Obviously, most of the real top songs have been covered, but here's some more good ones:

1. Reel Big Fish - Sell Out
2. NOFX - Dinosaurs Will Die
3. Jeffrey Lewis - Don't Let The Record Company Take You Out For Lunch
4. GZA - Protect Ya Neck
5. Against Me! - Unprotected Sex with Multiple Partners

[revbob]

Obviously, most of the real top songs have been covered, but here's some more good ones:

1. Reel Big Fish - Sell Out
2. NOFX - Dinosaurs Will Die
3. Jeffrey Lewis - Don't Let The Record Company Take You Out For Lunch
4. GZA - Protect Ya Neck
5. Against Me! - Unprotected Sex with Multiple Partners

I. Need to hear .more Jeffrey Lewis. I only know the Crass covers (which are awesome ).

[drowninghere]

Tough one - a few others:

The Smiths - Frankly Mr. Shankly
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Write Record Release Blues
Arctic Monkeys - Perhaps Vampires is a Bit Strong But...
Carbon Silicon - Gangs of England

[Marky Dread]

Obviously, most of the real top songs have been covered, but here's some more good ones:

1. Reel Big Fish - Sell Out
2. NOFX - Dinosaurs Will Die
3. Jeffrey Lewis - Don't Let The Record Company Take You Out For Lunch
4. GZA - Protect Ya Neck
5. Against Me! - Unprotected Sex with Multiple Partners

I thought that either tep or you would be a safe bet for Be Stiff by Devo