Are there any good songs about the pope?

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Or indeed, any at all?

― everything, Sunday, 3 April 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Nothing Compares 2 U.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Sunday, 3 April 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

Ain't Hey, Luciani! about JP1?

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 3 April 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

Nuclear Assault "Hang The Pope"

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 3 April 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

The Pope Smokes Dope
David Peel & The Lower Eastside

Chorus:
The pope smokes dope, God gave him the grass
The pope smokes dope, he likes to smoke in mass
The pope smokes dope, he's a groovy head
The pope smokes dope, the pope smokes dope
(oh yeah! 3x)

God is high on mescaline, Satan's high on smack
Popes in Rome get stoned on grass, Jesus freaks are back
Jesus Christ a super-hippie never shoot up junk
Popes in Rome get stoned alone, priests, in church get drunk

(Chorus)

Now Jack 'n' Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water
Jill forgot to take her pill, now she's got a daughter
Taking pills is not a joke for a groovy Pope
Birth control can be a toke of marijuana smoke

(Chorus)

The pope is getting higher (re: higher! higher! - 4x)

(Chorus)

Cha! Cha! Cha!

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 3 April 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

Meryn Cadell:

THE POPE
It began as a regular day in my room
with a cup of hot black coffee
Sure, I was depressed but I always am
Some people love life, well not me

But then the choppers came,
two by two by ten
announcing apocalypse of a different kind
So I ran out of my room, ran down the stairs
Down the street into Nathan Phillips Square
People, people running and horses everywhere

Yeah, the Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope Pope
We're all here to see the Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope Pope

Well you got yer pope pennants, buttons,
yer pope clothes
You got yer pope binoculars to see him up close
and I cried when I saw that man in white
I cried much to my surrounders' delight
I cried because I couldn't breathe anymore
I cried because people were stepping on my feet
Hey, hey Mr. Holiness, way over there,
maybe we love you but we're sadly lacking air

Well, I love that man, Pope John Paul III
I love him probably more that he deserves.
Okay, so he persecutes homosexuals,
does not believe in abortion,
visits with Kurt Waldheim
and tells us not to take the Pill,
there's still a certain je ne sais quoi...
Some peace, some love, some goodwill

(repeat chorus -- Yeah, the Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope Pope...)

Then he scooted away in that great Pope-Mobile
I was feeling so trampled
I didn't know what else to feel
Then we all kissed the ground
where John Paul had been.......
I can hardly wait
til someone famous comes to town again

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 3 April 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

(il) Papa Don't Preach

― Lee F# (fsharp), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Conversely, there's Gregory Gray's "The Pope Does Not Smoke Dope" but that's actually about homosexual leanings or something of the sort.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Sunday, 3 April 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

My favourite bad lyric.
No-one to call him on the phone, 'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 3 April 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/music/Pope+John+Paul+II

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone remember the extent to which any of these are actually about the pope?

Denis Leary - "Fuck the Pope"
The Prats - "Disco Pope"
The Fall - "Papal Visit"

I hope Crass did a pope song somewhere!

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

ninetynine, "Popemobile"

― mike a, Sunday, 3 April 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

The Fall also have a good song about the first Pope JP: "Hey! Luciani."

― mike a, Sunday, 3 April 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Pope Muzik - M
This Is Pope - XTC
Pope Goes My Heart - Men Without Hats
Pope - *N'Sync

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 3 April 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

POPE by PRINCE

― nerdburg esquire, Sunday, 3 April 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

The chorus of The Zero Boys "Civilizations Dying" has lines about Reagan, John Lennon and Pope John Paul II getting shot.

― earlnash, Sunday, 3 April 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm going back to church tonight
Just like back when I was eight
But I don't mean to pray
I'm gonna nick the collection plate

I've got nothing against church
Only people who go there
And show they're
Plain ignorant and don't understand
A congregation at weekends won't change their behaviour
So many people are weak enough to have
To seek answers from the peddlers of hope
I should know
I used to go there myself
Not since the day I became Antipope

There's gonna be some fun tonight
Spread the news around the town
That the vicar's a transvestite
With a fetish for robes and gowns

Religion doesn't mean a thing
Its just another way of being right wing
I think sex films are okay
I don't dig that Pope no way

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Sunday, 3 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

"Bar-b-q Pope" by The Butthole Surfers, though I can't remember the lyrics.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 3 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh, duh! "Vatican Rag" by Tom Lehrer:

First you get down on your knees
Fiddle with your rosaries
Bow your head with great respect
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect

Do whatever steps you want if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff...

― dlp9001, Sunday, 3 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Half Man Half Biscuit - Vatican Broadside

The singer out of Slipknot went to rome to see The Pope
The singer out of Slipknot went to rome to see The Pope
The singer out of Slipknot went to rome to see The Pope
And The Pope said to his aide...

Who the fucking hell are Slipknot?
Who the fucking hell are Slipknot?
Who the fucking hell are Slipknot?
In relation to me getting out of bed.

― dan jonze, Sunday, 3 April 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

(weird capitalisation courtesy of whatever identikit lyrics site i pasted that from. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF THEM?)

― dan jonze, Sunday, 3 April 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Grace Slick has a few very bitter lines about the Pope in the Jefferson Airplane's "Easter?"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 3 April 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

The President woke and he called the Pope
The Pope climbed to heaven on a golden rope
P.S. the Lord raised Michaelangelo from the dead
So he can make a fresh painting of my head
Then I hung out with a king and a queen
And the queen put me down with her polo team
The way I scored points all around the clock
I had her daughter, the princess ridin my jock
I knocked the freak off like a crazy retard
Then I took a little trip into a deck of cards
The diamond jack joker and the ace of spades
Was amazed at greater Cut Creator on the fade
Then I played cards with the queen of clubs
The queen of hearts with me cold fell in love
As for the queen of diamonds, she don't like men
Because you know that a diamond is a girl's best friend
The double-trouble spade was named the deuce
And the joker acted stupid, so we gave him the news
There was 52 cards, and I met everyone
That story is over, but my rhyme ain't done

― Nicholas, Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

This Is Pope - XTC

Hahahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

What about songs recorded by the pope?

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 4 April 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

" Thousands of people are queueing in the rain to meet the Pope
(Meet the Pope, meet the Pope, meet the Pope)
I wonder what they're feeling
Well I hope its O.K."

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

all this way down before someone says 'reverend black grape' ???

― piscesboy, Monday, 4 April 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

"Sonic Reducer" Dead Boys

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

"Anti-Pope" by the Damned

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Shoot The Pope - RPA

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I Bonked The Pope - Chaotic Dischord

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Amazed nobody has mentioned "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by the Beatles, which, okay, may or may not be a good song (you decide - I have no opinion myself), but which is not only about the Pope, but even MORE appopriate this week, since it's about THE RITUAL THAT TAKES PLACE RIGHT AFTER A POPE DIES; i.e. of the cardinals bonks him on the head with a silver hammer three times to make sure he is, in fact, dead.

I am not making this up!

― xhuxk, Monday, 4 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

The ritual part is true, Chuck, but is the song actually about a Pope? I can't remember the lyrics, honestly, apart from someone being quizzical and studying metaphysical science.

I thought it was about a murderer.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

I think Chuck is joking, but that was also the first thing I thought of when I heard about the silver hammer ritual.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 4 April 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Believe it or not...
http://www.recordresearch.com/Album_Photos/images/Pope%20John%20Paul.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 4 April 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon his head
Bang, Bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that he was dead

If it was literally about the Pope, it would have to be "Bang bang bang" not "Bang bang", right?

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 4 April 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

the pope gets shot along with reagan in Sucidal Tendencies "I Shot Reagan"?

errr. no he gets it with Lennon...

Rot in heaven, you're too bad for hell
Rot in heaven, cause you're forgiven in hell

I shot Lennon, I shot the Pope
I shot the devil now you ain't got no hope
You're gonna rot in heaven, hear an Angels voice
You're too bad for hell although it's your first choice

― b b, Monday, 4 April 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Who sang that song about Frank Sinatra beating up the Pope? Sounded very Residents/Ralph Recs-ish.

― mike a, Monday, 4 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

The pope also participated in the video of Genesis' "Land Of Confusion", playing guitar with his trademark sunglasses on.

Oh, wait, it was a doll... :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Mike that was on "Trilogy", last disc, I think

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

There's a CD called Abba Pater on some major label, which is the Pope speaking over ambient trip-hop. It's like a Joe Frank episode, but it's the Pope.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Multi x-post:

Sinatra beating up the Pope?!

No clue. All I can think of is Bongwater's "Frank". Ann Magnuson pretends she's Frankie himself on a drunken rampage, spitting venom at everyone in sight, punctuating each verbal barrage with a satanic-sounding "Shoo be doo be doo!", inviting Mia Farrow (I think) to slash her wrists, and finally demanding the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award! Absolutely classic.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000HSH.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg?

― Telephonething, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

i seem to remember JP2 being sampled by Psychic TV, i think the track was called Papal Breakdance

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

i seem to remember JP2 being sampled by Psychic TV, i think the track was called Papal Breakdance

yes -- and damn, you beat me by ONE POST!

there was another psychic tv song that sampled the pope -- it's on one of their best-ofs.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

speaking about papal breakdances:

http://wiw.org/~jess/weblog/breakdance.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

there was another psychic tv song that sampled the pope

"Satan is Thee Bishop Ov Rome" or something like that. On a live album from 1988 in Germany this gave Genesis the chance to REALLY pour on the rants.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

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