Awesome Song Thread!

Mingus.

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Do we have any Ian Dury on here? Just listening to this right now…

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Snuff. Fuck, yeah, Snuff.

It’s probably up thread. None the less, people aren’t making things easily searchable so here it (may) be again.

Boing Boom Tschak. Kraftwerk.

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The theme to Black Belt Jones

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The unofficial Canadian Anthem…

And now The Residents, Third Reich and Roll

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I’ll see your avant-garde collective, and I’ll raise you an even earlier one:

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Patti Smith singing “You Light Up My Life” on Kids Are People, Too.

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New York Dolls - Frankenstein

Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead

Fred Schneider - Monster

Kate Bush - Hammer Horror

PiL - Annalisa

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Serge Gainsbourg - Chatterton

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Garbage - Queer

I’m expecting more of these spilling over from the stringent rules over here:

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I’d forgotten about Mano Negra for years.

Kaneda - Geinoh Yamashirogumi

Airbag - Easy Star All Stars

Black Rain - Soundgarden

Clap Hands - Tom Waits

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Sixto Rodrigues - Sugar Man

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And I have to say, this song blows me away. I love what she does with the dancers.

Sia - Bird Set Free (SNL Live)

Emily Kempf - Dynamite

And this, Holy shit this.

related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssYFxD6Huq0

even more related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ooCnVuRc4&feature=youtu.be

Theme for Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.

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alright, three great songs that I know primarily because they were sampled or remixed:

Archie Shepp - Blues for Brother George Jackson

Billy Cobham - Heather

Ike Turner - Getting Nasty

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I’m wondering how many members of my family I’d offend if I had this played at my funeral.

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