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#21851 02/01/11 07:24 PM
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OK

Stringy Bob (and others) have been very supportive of my birding challenge.
In honour of that, and in deference to the sanderling [sic] in HMHB's National Twite Day (see what I did there??)... here's a little game thingy we can do.

What other songs are there what mention birds in the lyric - or title?

I feel another list coming on...

Marc Almond - Storks from Heart on Snow


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#21852 02/01/11 07:29 PM
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Excellent Birds by Peter Gabriel and Laurie Anderson

There's my own track, The Flight of Birds, the title of which I nicked from a verse in Peter Gabriel's White Shadow. I'm sure there are numerous other bird references in Gabriel lyrics.

There's "A murder of crows" in All This Time by Sting, Black Dove by Tori Amos, Hummingbirds by Venus Hum, and don't forget "Standing in the door of the Pink Flamingo" from Say hello, Wave Goodbye.

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Is the track from History Of Modern featuring a Chiff Chaff allowed for this thread?

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Even better - birdsong in songs??

John Foxx would win hands down! BUt of course, why not - if you can identify them!!


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Mockingbird Barclay James Harvest
Fly like an Eagle Abba
Stoolpidgin Kid Creole and The Coconut
Wren will I see you again ? The 3 Degrees
Snowgoose Camel

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Kate Bush - Ariel (disc2):
Prelude, Prologue, Aerial Tal, Aerial.

Boards Of Canada: Eagle In Your Mind, Peacock Tail.

Broadcast: Hawk.

Can: Sing Swan Song.

David Sylvian: A Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky.

The Besnard Lakes: Albatross.

Ulrich Schnauss/Mojave 3: Bluebird Of Happiness.

Fleet Foxes: Meadowlarks.

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Oh, too easy!!

Titles

Tom Waits - Rainbirds
Be Bop Deluxe - Sister Seagull
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
Channel Light Vessel - Fish Owl Moon
John Cooper Clarke - Evidently Chickentown
Robyn Hitchcock - Acid Bird
Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa
The Human League - A Crow And A Baby
Jimmy Cliff - Keep Your Eyes On The Sparrow
Horace Andy - Skylarking
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
John Foxx - Revolving Birdsong
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Red Byrd - The Red Bird

Artists

The Housemartins
Red Byrd
The Eagles
The Byrds

All of the above are from my own music collection.

Birds mentioned in lyrics is not quite so easy but here we go:

"Found a dead wading bird. Took it home, parcelled it up and sent it off to the rubber-faced irritant Phil Cool with a note inside which read 'Is this your Sanderling?' "

and

"His skull a perch for the quartering crow"

Both from "National S***e Day" - Half Man Half Biscuit

"Their games, their shapes, their capers, their japes
Destroyed by a thoughtless shitehawk"

From "He Who Would Valium Take" - Half Man Half Biscuit


"My heart is full of singing birds" - From "Spinning Around" by Bill Nelson

"Punctuated birds on the powerline
In a Studebaker with the Birdie Joe Hoaks" - From "Get Behind The Mule" by Tom Waits

"Bluebird of friendliness" - From "Birdhouse In Your Soul" by They Might Be Giants

"Cantan las aves de flor en flor" (translates as "The birds sing from flower to flower") from "Al son de los aroyuelos" by Red Byrd

Since 99.93517% of the music I write is instrumental, there are no bird lyrics but a few bird titles:

At Dusk We Hear Birdsong
When The Rain Stops The Pigeons Return
The Day We Found A Whimbrel
Another Day, A Different Whimbrel
Whimbrel In Flight
Birdwatching In Omsk
God Bless This Electric Duck
The Great And Fearful Storm On The Planet Of Electric Birds

OK, that's enough brain stretching for one day, I'm off to lie down in a darkened room for an hour!

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How about something by Hawk-Kestrel Manoeuvres In The Dark?

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Eagle - Abba
Norwegian wood (this bird has flown) - Beatles
And Your Bird Can Sing - Beatles
Blackbird - Beatles
Free as a bird - Beatles
The Birdy Song - The Tweets (?)
A Crow and a Baby - Human League
The Ugly Duckling - ?
Rockin' Robin - ?
Magpie Theme - ? (telly program)
I'm Like a Bird - (female vocalist, name escapes me)

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Duck Rock - Malcom McLaren
No Birds (Do Sing) - Pil
Albatross - Pil
The Chinese Nightingale - Bill Nelson
A Bird Of The Air Shall Carry Thy Voice - Bill Nelson
Owl - Druidspear
Painted Bird - Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Raven - The Stranglers
Birds Spin In Magnetic Milk - Man In Formaldehyde
Night Of The Swallow - Kate Bush
Battery Birds - Apparatus And Hand (from 'Musical Noisebox)

Bands

A Hawk & A Hacksaw
Swans
A Flock Of Seagulls
Hawkwind
The Eagles
Wings

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