Songs that the Muppets would seem at home singing

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What songs could you see the Muppets singing, and it not seeming like a total travesty?

A few from some of my favorite bands:

Oasis - She's Electric
KISS - Calling Dr. Love or anything from "Elder"
Queen - We Are the Champions
Killing Joke - You'll Never Get To Me
Iron Maiden - Charlotte the Harlot
Neil Young - Kinda Fonda Wonda
Rolling Stones - Don't Stop

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

The Band - The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Body Count - "Cop Killer"
Lords of Acid - "I Sit On Acid"
NWA - "Boyz In The Hood"
Mocky - "Fuck All Night"
MIA - "Galang"
Nitzer Ebb - "Join In The Chant"
Depeche Mode - "Blasphemous Rumours"
The Outhere Brothers - "I Wanna Fuck You In The Ass"
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - "The Days Of Swine And Roses"
GOD - "Fucked"
Ministry - "Flashback"
Insane Clown Posse - "Red Neck Hoe"
Ying Yang Twins - "Wait (The Whisper Song)"
Missy Elliott - "P***ycat"

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
REM - Shiny Happy People / Stand / Pop Song 89 (they actually did sing "Shiny Happy Monsters")

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

About 75% of Royal Trux's Accelerator.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Light and day
is more than you'll say
cuz all
my feelings are more
than i can let by
or not
more than you've got
just follow the day

follow the day and reach for the sun!

oh wait, there's already muppets singing that one

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

"The Prophet's Song" by Queen
"Love Reigh O'er Me" by the Who
"I Kill Everything I Fuck" by GG Allin
"Find Her, Feel Her, Fuck Her, Forget Her" by the Mentors

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Whenever i hear Yo La Tengo's "Did I Tell You" I kinda imagine it being sung by Kermit. Which is nice.

― tylerw, Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

If we're going to start listing songs we're imagining are sung by Kermit, then we might as well list the entire Dave Matthews Band catalog and lock the thread.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Three Is The Magic Number - De La Soul

― Braces Tower, Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

The first time I Heared "Summer Nights" I thought it Was the muppets.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

dan p otm - holds true for all my morning jacket songs and a lot of hidden cameras songs, too.

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Elephant Six catalogue to thread.

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Sad Kermit

― ng-unit, Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Arthur Russell - Calling All Kidss & I like You

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Velvet Underground - "I'm Sticking with You" and "After Hours"

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Everything by Canned Heat sounds like Kermit.

And I can seriously imagine Miss Piggy singing "Milkshake," with Kermit in the frenzied short-order cook role and Gonzo dinging the triangle.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

And I can seriously imagine Miss Piggy singing "Milkshake," with Kermit in the frenzied short-order BBQ cook role and Gonzo dinging the pink pork triangle.

You sick bastard!

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah - walter kranz otm. arthur russell's muppet would be the most complex muppet persona ever!

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

The Cure -"Give Me It" (sung by Fozzy)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Anything from the A.C. catalogue, but especially "Living Colour Is My Favorite Black Metal Band".

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

all songs by james taylor
most songs by U2
don't give up on us baby

― steve ketchup, Saturday, 15 October 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

The last song on T Rex's Electric Warrior, called "The Ripoff" sounds EXACTLY, I swear to god EXACTLY like a song the Electric Mayhem would've sung on the Muppet Movie. It's close to a point that I'm wondering if the Muppet band was designed around that song.

― Develop your photos or else, Saturday, 15 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Tangential question: what's the name of that Muppet (or Muppet-adopted) song that has no lyrics, but one voice goes "doot-doo, da-doo-doo," and the second voice goes "ma-nah ma-nah"? They're using it in a commercial these days, and I heard it on WFMU this morning. But I want to know the name so I can buy or download it.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 15 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

"Mah Na Mah Na"

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 15 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Boredoms - "Super Going"
Guns N Roses - "It's So Easy"
Ice Cube - "Black Korea"
Bjork - "Hyperballad"
RTX - "PB&J"
Blur - "Tender"
Cut Copy - "Time Stands Still"
Ellen Allien - "Abstract Pictures"
NWA - "Real Niggaz Don't Die"
LCD Soundsystem - "Disco Infiltrator"

― gear (gear), Saturday, 15 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Klaatu - "Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 15 October 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I could see Kermit singing every Morrissey/Smiths song with too much accuracy.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 15 October 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Anything by the Wedding Present or NoMeansNo.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Saturday, 15 October 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

arthur russell otm

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 15 October 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

"Do the Hansa"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 15 October 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Oasis, "She's Electric"

Beatles, "Your Mother Should Know"

Madvillain, "ALL CAPS"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 15 October 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

That Klaatu song actually sounds like a Muppets recording. Except better.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 15 October 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8Q7Fsa_Vs

― ian, Friday, 13 November 2009 07:40 (sixteen years ago)

Many songs by Budgie and early Rush

― Bill Magill, Friday, 13 November 2009 14:10 (sixteen years ago)

Well the lyrics are not precisely fit, but the intro/chorus to Lykke Li's Breaking it Up with the pitched multitracked vocals always remind me of the Muppets.

Also would love to suggest Feist since I've always found a certain maternal quality about her music, but she rightfully made it to the show already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9WiuJPnNA

― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Saturday, 14 November 2009 23:52 (sixteen years ago)

Oh I also have trouble not thinking about Kermit the frog when I listen to Sam Amidon. At first it sort of ruined his music for me but it gradually won me over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw7pZvQPvcg

― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Saturday, 14 November 2009 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook

sounds just like Meuupets to me

the singers sound like Electric Mayhem

― lukevalentine, Saturday, 21 November 2009 04:11 (sixteen years ago)

Muppets*

― lukevalentine, Saturday, 21 November 2009 04:11 (sixteen years ago)

Mercury Rev own this thread.

― djh, Saturday, 21 November 2009 09:33 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RhMoC6kjMQ

― meisenfek, Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:09 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGdGrTVHKI

― meisenfek, Monday, 23 November 2009 10:56 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBrmbRNSLg

― meisenfek, Monday, 23 November 2009 10:58 (sixteen years ago)

anything from Luna but especially Kermit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO2MhMVzjwM

― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:24 (sixteen years ago)

― D.V. Caputo (Digital Video Camera), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/v/zSgiXGELjbc

― D.V. Caputo (Digital Video Camera), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:38 (sixteen years ago)

(Oops, sorry about that)

― D.V. Caputo (Digital Video Camera), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:38 (sixteen years ago)

"1-2-3-4" video should be required viewing for curvy Colombian Feist haters.

― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:43 (sixteen years ago)

Rowlf the Dog could rock pretty much every Tom Waits song ever like his own. I kind of think of them as being pretty interchangeable in general.

― methanietanner, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:04 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY

― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:25 (sixteen years ago)

Shakira's "She-Wolf"

― wanko ergo surm (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:27 (sixteen years ago)

That Luna song sounds more like Kermit's cousin Robin:
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/d/dc/Robinkermit.jpg

― filthy dylan, Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:04 (sixteen years ago)

I have high hopes for "The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made" fwiw. Don't let me down Jason Segel!

― Gimme That Christian Side-hug, that Christian Side-hug (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:37 (sixteen years ago)

I just downloaded Scooter and Fozzie's version of "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" before seeing this thread.

― I Love Musing (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:47 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Haircut 100 "Favorite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)"

― Cunga, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:58 (sixteen years ago)

Speaking of Kermit:

http://i47.tinypic.com/2wdvqkz.jpg

― Cunga, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:00 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VeHmh2B5nY

always thought this sounded kermitish

― The Book of Eli Porter (ojo), Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:23 (sixteen years ago)

Everything ever released by Animal Collective, MGMT, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy and any other indie band with a weak fake Brian Wilson/Neil Young singer of the past 10 years. If you can imagine the Muppets singing it without too much effort, it's probably shit.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 January 2010 10:03 (sixteen years ago)

love grandaddy but muppet cover versions would be omg <3 <3 <3 yoga flame * 1000000

― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 21 January 2010 10:25 (sixteen years ago)

"Whatever's cool with me" Dinosaur Jr.

― Mark G, Thursday, 21 January 2010 10:38 (sixteen years ago)

Lots of Colin Moulding XTC songs
Simon Smith and his Dancing Bear

― David Katz (davek_00), Thursday, 21 January 2010 10:49 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aGTNS13SDU

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:31 (fourteen years ago)

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