Songs about Hair

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Other than songs from "Hair" ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Not a song, but a whole BAND called Bobby Gillespie's Hair. My favourite bandname EVER.

Oh, and Hair Like Alain Delon by ... erm, some Spin Art band I've forgotten! Oh no!

― kate, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

.. Or accouterments.

Such as "The Comb" - Waitresses

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"Haircut" -Jonah Lewie (I think that's the spelling)

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

babybird - losing my hair

''Will you still love me, when i'm old and bald''

so, a song about no hair really.

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The Barbarians -

''Are you a boy or are you a girl?
With your long blonde hair you like like a girl.
You may be a boy. You look like a girl.''

(This track rocks!!! And it's about hair)

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Talking Heads' "Warning Sign"..."move my hair/move it around a lot/I don't care what I look like".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(although it's not actually exactly about hair)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"ich hockey hair" super furry animals. i'm not sure if it's *about* hair, but hey, hair is mentioned.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"I've changed my hairstyle
So many times now
I don't know what I look like"

Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Wimple Winch - Marmalade Hair

Is this the Spin Art band?

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Divine Comedy - Bernice bobs her hair

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Curly Locks by Junior Byles has to be the one

― Robert Moore (treble), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

ooohhh your hair is beautifu-u-u-u-ul
oh toni-ight

a sausage

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I've just googled and it's White Town.

― kate, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Little Jimmy osmond - Long-haired lover from liverpool

(i'm not claiming to own this one though)

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Morrissey - "hairdresser on fire"

― rexJr., Friday, 2 May 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

momus - hairstyle of the devil

(I'm beginning to think my entire record collection is about hair)

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The Lollies - Channel Heaven

(Oh, sorry, I just haaaaad to. "Hey there, you don't care, beautiful boy with the dirty hair...")

― kate, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Timbuk Three - Hairstyles and Attitudes

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

..Never studied the lyrics past the title, but I think "Camarillo Brillo" might be...?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

2nd Morrissey entry = "Suedehead"

― Robert Moore (treble), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Nancy (Let Your Hair Down For Me)" - Prefab Sprout

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"I never wanted to be a hairdresser anyway I wanted to be a lumberjack, Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Colombia...."

The Lumberjack Song - Monty Python

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Devil's Haircut" - Beck

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"I wore my fringe like Roger McGuinn's.." Orange Juice, Consolation Prize

― bham, Friday, 2 May 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hair Pie" - Captain Beefheart

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

international noise conspiracy - united by haircuts
eric's trip - smother
pavement - cut your hair
pets - wind blows through your hair
beach boys - she's goin' bald
cat stevens - bald-headed woman
kool keith - bald-headed girl
lady of rage - afro puffs

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hair Of The Dog" - Nazareth

or, alternatively:

"Hair Of The Dog" - Bauhaus

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Wind Blows Your Hair" The Seeds / Naz Nomad & The Nightmares

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Sloan - I Hate My Generation

"What could you both possibly share, other than the colour of your hair?"

― kate, Friday, 2 May 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"almost cut my hair " by david crosby ( which i've never heard), "all black & hairy" by screamin lord sutch which [ditto], "get a haircut' by max merritt & the meteors (early NZ rock'n'roll circa 1959)

― duanE, Friday, 2 May 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

roy orbison (or johnny cash originally, i think) - you're my baby

"love your hair, long and black, hangin' down to the middle of your back, don't cut it off whatever you do, i need it to run my fingers through"

xzibit - choke me, spank me, pull my hair

maybe not.

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

another maybe not:

kool g rap - talk like sex

"only nineteen and over permitted, no matter how much young girls wanna be wit' it, you ain't ready for the bed, you still got a pussy like isaac hayes' head, come back in five years, when you grow some hairs and when you started drinkin' beers"

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"you still got a pussy like isaac hayes' head"

Thank you brian, I have now got to find a way of cleaning up all the tea that I've just spat all over my VDU and keyboard.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

poole- mary shakes her hair

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

pond- glass sparkles in her hair
magic dirt - redhead

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of hair and keyboards, i cleaned mine out yesterday and it looked like someone had shaved my cat's back when i was through. cleaning my keyboard should be a fear factor stunt.

anyway, uh, "gonna wash that man right outta my hair" - who is this by? i only know it from a shampoo commercial.

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"Well, I was walking down the street with your girl the other day."
"Ah-ha."
"And the wind was blowin' real hard."
"Is that right?"
"And the wind blew her hair into my face."
"Ah-ha."
"You know what else happened?"
"What happened?"
"The wind blew her hair into her face."
"Yeah?"
"And we went a little further; you wanna hear the rest of it?"
"I might as well."
"The wind blew her hair into the street."

- Bo Diddley, "Say Man"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Beach Boys - "She's Goin' Bald" (Just had a thought is this song the follow up to "Caroline No": "Where did your long hair go?" Probably not!)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hair Pie" - Captain Beefheart
Bake 1 or Bake 2? cuz I'll mention wichever you didn't mean.

gonna wash that man right outta my hair
.. From South Pacific I think. Rogers & Hammerstein?/Hart?

The commercial was "gonna wash that GREY right outta my hair"

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ahhh!

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hair Pie" refers to, how can I put this, feminine hair not found on the head but, errrrrrrrr, in another part of the anatomy.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

mm pie

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Might this possibly be a part of the anatomy that no longer resembles Isaac Hayes' head, Dadaismus?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Let Your Hair Down" - Matt Pond PA

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Let them brush your rock & roll hair.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Mercury Rev - "Car Wash Hair"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"somewhere on a desert highway
she rides a harley davidson
her long blonde hair, flying in the wind"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince-"She's Always in My Hair"
Elvis Costello-"Baby's Got A New Hairdo"
America(?)-"Sister Golden Hair"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"on a dark desert highway.. cool wind in my hair..."

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

(what is it about desert highways and hair?)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Gonna wash that man right outta my hair" is from "She-La-Na-Gig" by PJ Harvey.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

'golden hair' - syd barrett

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

""Gonna wash that man right outta my hair" is from "She-La-Na-Gig" by PJ Harvey."

Actually it originally comes from a song in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "South Pacific" - the same one that gave us "Some Enchanted Evening", "There Is Nothing Like A Dame" and of course "Happy Talk".

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tremeloes-Let you Hair Hang Down

― Paul R (paul R), Friday, 2 May 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Budgie - "Rape of the Locks"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 2 May 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, thanks for the enlightenment, Stewart! Excellent.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, holy nuts, how could I forget "Screaming Infidelities" by Mr. I'll Get Laid For The Rest Of My Life - Dashboard Confessional. "Your hair is everywhere, screaming infideliteeees" blahbitty blah blah.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

well, uh, the mc5? "black to comm" - 'let your hair hang down baby, in the midnight hour - let your hair hang down, down down!'

― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"uh-oh, wrong haircut" - ben vaughn combo
"my baby's got big hair" - fred eaglesmith and the flying squirrels

― pauls00, Friday, 2 May 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh your hair is beeeyoootiful!!!!!
aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh toniiiiiight.....

ATOMIC!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"divine can't define my style is so deep, like pussy
my low-cut fade stays bushy
like a porcupine
i part backs like a spine"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

—Capadonna </designed to piss ethan off>

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Hound Dog Taylor-"Gimme Back My Wig"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot believe nobody has said "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair"! Made famous by (among others) Nina Simone and, er, Patty Waters.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Angela Davis Hair"-The Jupiter Effect

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 3 May 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Half Man Half Biscuit - Hair Like Brian May Blues

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Sunday, 4 May 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

hair - graham central station

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 4 May 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

beautiful bald woman - charles wilp
bald headed - doctor john

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 4 May 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Pavement, "Cut Your Hair"

They played it aaaaaaallllll the time ca. 1994 on the [college] radio station I used to listen to.

― Dee the Semi-Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 4 May 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The notorious laugh version of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" has an obvious hair reference. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 5 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Too Much Joy - "Long Haired Guys From England"

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Suicide Blonde"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Type O Negative - Black #1
Low - Cut

― Elliot (Elliot), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

jacob miller - tenement yard

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 12 February 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Porch -- "Your Hair"

Nick Cave -- "Black Hair"

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 12 February 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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