looking for songs to put on a mixtape

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i'm looking for songs that mention bugs! Thanks a lot for any responses!!!

SAMSKIEZZZZ, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

"I'm Nature's Mosquito" - Modern Lovers

Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

bug powder dust - bomb the bass
no more mosquitos - four tet

biz, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

"Cannibal King" - Shivaree

Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug

(mentions two bugs!!!)

Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Tribe Called Quest: "Buggin' Out"

footlog, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Wire - I Am the Fly
Wire - Outdoor Miner

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

"Put the waterbug in the policeman's ear" - Flaming Lips
"I'm a bug" - Urinals
"Human fly" - Cramps (I assume it doesn't have actually be the word BUGS, just bugs in general?)

Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Nina Simone, "Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter"

brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

U2, "The Fly"

brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

yeah,just bugs in general is cool!!
you guys are keepin gme busy so far,thanks

samskiezzzz, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

yeah,just bugs in general is cool!!
you guys are keepin me busy so far,thanks

samskiezzzz, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Destiny's Child - "Bug-a-Boo"

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I think there's a song by Carcass called something like "Maggot infested colon". Probably quite a few songs!

Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

The Residents - Flight of the Bumble Roach
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Ant Man Bee

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Bugs--Pearl Jam

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

boris the spider--The Who

avery_schreiber, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Centipede--Janet Jackson

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Neil Diamond - You're So Sweet, Horseflies Keep Hangin' 'Round Your Face

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Peter Hammill - A Louse Is Not A Home

Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Mean Red Spider, Muddy Waters

Shoo-Fly, Traditional (Best version: Rebirth Brass Band with Bo Dollis)

Elusive Butterfly, Bob Lind

Sting of the Bumblebee, Manowar

La Cucaracha, Traicional

Ladybird, Tears for Fears

novamax (novamax), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

flaming lips - buggin

hjkhhkjhkjhkh, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

BUG IN THE BASSBIN - CARL CRAIG (INNERZONE ORCHESTRA)

shouting to convey it's hugeness

biz, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I did a series of 60 minute tapes on this subject about 5 years ago ... sorry for the duplicates to the list above

BUGS and INSECTS

Spare Snare - "Bugs"
Not From There - "Insect World"
Billy Childish and Sexton Ming - "Insects in Your Stars"
Giant Sand - "Loretta and the Insect World"
Urinals - "I'm a Bug"
Fat Day - "Harmful Insect"
Dwarves - "Insect Whore"
Workin' Stiffs - "Bugs, Bigots and Bastards"
Cap'n Jazz - "Troubled By Insects"
Chrome - "Insect Human"
Looper - "Bug Rain"
Robyn Hitchcock - "Insect Mother"
Modern Lovers - "Hey There Little Insect"
Sportsguitar - "Chasing Bugs"
Brendan Benson - "Insects Rule"
Quintron - "Bug Attack"
Oingo Boingo - "Insects"

FLIES

Built to Spill - "I Would Hurt a Fly"
Grong Grong - "Louie the Fly"
Jesus Lizard - "Fly on the Wall"
Lonesome Organist - "Fly on My Plate"
Depeche Mode - "Fly on the Windscreen"
Cramps - "Human Fly"
Halo of Flies - "Death of a Fly"
Looper - "Burning Flies"
Firewater - "Dropping Like Flies"
Pere Ubu - "Fly's Eye"
Grifters - "Covered With Flies"
Wire - "I Am the Fly"
XTC - "Fly on the Wall"
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - "The Fly"

DRAGON, BUTTER and FIRE

Moose - "Butterfly Collector"
Crimpshrine - "Butterflies"
Mudhoney - "Butterfly Stroke"
The Lapse - "Dragonflies"
Heavens to Betsy - "Firefly"
Belle and Sebastian - "Mayfly"
The Jam - "Butterfly Collector"
Grifters - "Fireflies"
American Music Club - "Firefly"
Red House Painters - "Dragonflies"
Pearls Before Swine - "Butterflies"
The Reivers - "Dragon Flies"
Can - "Butterfly"
Magnetic Fields - "100,000 Fireflies"

BEES

Husker Du - "Do the Bee"
His Name is Alive - "The Bees"
Sugarcubes - "Bee"
Mary Timony - "13 Bees"
Jad Fair and Yo La Tengo - "Ohio Town Saved From Killer Bees By Hungry Vampire Bats"
Tullycraft - "Bee Sting Stings"
Love as Laughter - "I'm a Bee"
Monorchid - "Beard of Bees"
Rye Coalition - "Amplification of the Queen Bee"
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - "Hive"
Mercury Rev - "Chasing a Bee"
Shrimp Boat - "Bumble Bees"
Marine Research - "Queen B"
Angst - "Worker Bee"
Ween - "Bumblebee"
Brainiac - "Bee Keepers Maxim"
Asteroid #4 - "Honey Bee"
Guided By Voices - "Bomb in the Bee-Hive"

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

found one more ...

Cocteau Twins - "When Momma Was Moth"
The Ropers - "Spider Web"
Witch Hazel - "Secrets of the Spider World"
Misfits - "Queen Wasp"
Watts - "Tarantula"
Bassholes - "Cockroach Blues"
Unwound - "Caterpillar"
Steel Pole Bath Tub - "The Wasp Jar"
Adam and the Ants - "Ant Rap"
The Vapors - "Spiders"
Wire - "Follow the Locust"
The Cure - "The Caterpillar"
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - "Ant Man Bee"
Blondie - "Attack of the Killer Ants"
Iggy Pop - "Loco Mosquito"

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe no-one has said...

Insects are all around us - money mark

...especially the super funy version on Groovebox.

Ned T.Rifle, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

That should of course be 'funky'...

Ned, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Billy and Lillie - Lucky Ladybug (a total classic)

ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker - Cousin Mosquito #1 & #2
puppetmastaz - ms. bumblebee

sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

The Cure - "Lullaby"

"the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight...!"

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

isn't "Centipede" by Rebbie Jackson, not Janet?

i'll add:
Bobby Jimmy & the Critters - "Roaches"
Necro - "Cockroaches"

one time gaffled 'em up (one time gaffled 'em up), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Ivor Culter - I Believe in Bugs


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jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

quinoline yellow - no more mosquitos

sehhhl, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe someone beat me to Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson-Parker. Only on ILM.

But also:
Heart, "Dog & Butterfly"
Ramones, "Spider-Man Theme"
Jefferson Starship, "All Fly Away" (refrain of "dragon fly away")
Gloria Gaynor, "Honey Bee"

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

rolling stones, "i'm a king bee"

polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)


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