Pop music about the historical figures with long gray beards

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"Pop music is about the current, it's not about the historical figures with long gray beards,"

It's up to ILM to shatter this oppressive stereotype.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 12 September 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

1. Herman's Hermits - "I'm Henry VIII, I Am"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 12 September 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

2. Boney M- Rasputin

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

3. Kanye West- Jesus Walks

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Peter Gabriel - "Shock the Monkey"

I don't know why. It should be on every song list.

― Voodoo Child, Monday, 12 September 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

5. Beastie Boys- Shadrack, Meshach, Abednego

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

6. Neil Young - Cortez the Killer

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Pavement "Give it a Day" about Increase and Cotton Mather

― mitch dub (ano ano), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

but a google image search shows neither had beards. damn.

― mitch dub (ano ano), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Randy Newman - "Sigmund Freud's Impersonation Of Albert Einstein In America"

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

P. Diddy - "William Henry Harrison, The Realest Nigga Alive"

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 12 September 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Anything by Da Vinci's Notebook

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Associates - "Bap de la Bap" (rather loosely pop, but it contains the line "Vasco de Gama only voyaged with intent to stare!")

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 12 September 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Black Sabbath - "The Wizard"
Wu Tang Clan - "Cash Still Rules"
Pixies - "Alec Eiffel"
R Kelly - "I Wish"
Fairport Convention - "Ye Mariners"

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

hydroplane / the shapiros - when i was howard hughes

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

The end of Belle & Sebastian's "I Could Be Dreaming" has a reading of a part of the second chapter of Rip van Winkle.

― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Anything by Robert Wyatt - now there's a historical figure with a long grey beard who's worth following.

― mike a, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

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