Songs that mention "Michael"

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Can anyone name any songs that feature "Michael" in the lyrics?

I'll start

Broadcast - Michael a Grammar

― wireless, Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Geno Washington - Michael the Lover

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Fatboy Slim 'Michael Jackson'
Franz Ferdinand 'Michael'

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

fairport convention "crazy man michael"

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Red House Painters "Michael"

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Dionne Warwick - "Message to Michael"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

oooh... anyone care to YSI some good ones? I have a crush on a Michael right now. Hee.

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Most of the above are quite good! Strangely enough!

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Awesome. *trots off to slsk.*

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm sure there's a smiths/moz song...can't think of it though.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

"michael take a bow"

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Morrissey - Michael’s Bones

― wireless, Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Prefab Sprout - Michael

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Thursday, 1 December 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Duran Duran, "Michael, You've Got A Lot To Answer For"
Joni Mitchell, "Michael from Mountains"

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Does Mike count? There's The Magnetic Fields' "Papa Was a Rodeo", off "69 Love Songs":

I like your twisted point of view, Mike
I like your questioning eyebrows
You've made it pretty clear what you like
It's only fair to tell you now
that I leave early in the morning
and I won't be back till next year
I see that kiss-me pucker forming
but maybe you should plug it with a beer, cause

(C): Papa was a rodeo
Mama was a rock'n'roll band
I could play guitar and rope a steer
before I learned to stand
Home was anywhere with diesel gas
Love was a trucker's hand
Never stuck around long enough
for a one-night stand

etc etc

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Secession - "Michael"

― Tony Bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah, Mike's too easy, must be Michael

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

The shout at the beginning of Blur's Miss America. "MICHAEL!"

Not necessarily lyrics, but still makes it a Michael song.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

"Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" (traditional)

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Beastie Boys - "Pass the Mic(hael)"

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Frank Sinatra - "Michael & Peter", beautiful!

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

angels of light "michael's white hands"

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's one that's NOT a good song: Clint Holmes' sickening sing-songy "Playground In My Mind." It was the scourge of my childhood for this verse:

My name is Michael, I got a nickel
I got a nickel, shiny and new
I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy
That's what I'm gonna do

Even in the mid-70s, a nickel didn't buy shit candywise.

― mike a, Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Toni Basil 'Hey Michael'

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Mu - Stop Bothering Michael Jackson

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Fields of Athenry (Michael they have taken you away)

Eminem's 'Just Lose It' (I done touched on everything, but little boys
That's not a stab at Michael. That's just a metaphor...)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

It seems like Michael Jackson lyrics should be excluded from this list.

― mike a, Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Neil Michael Hagerty, "Rockslide" from the Neil Michael Hagerty & the Howling Hex album where Rockslide appears as a live track, NMH intros the song, "Neil Michael Hagerty Band, first song, 'Rockslide'"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Nick Cave - "15 Feet Of Pure White Snow": "Where is Michael / Where is Mark" blah blah blah rhymes with dark.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Kanye - "Gold Digger"

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

XTC, "Making Plans for Michael"

And there was a song called "Michael Stipe," wasn't there? Or rather, isn't there?

― Justin, Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Madness - My Name is Michael Caine

― herbert hoover, Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

And fine, so Mike isn't allowed, but in "Burning Down," Michael Stipe sings "Johnny Mike is reading in the yard," referring to himself.

/ So there.
// No slashes on ILM.

― Justin, Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, R.E.M.'s cover of Wire's "Strange": "Michael's nervous and the lights are bright."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Fatima Mansions - Shiny Happy People:

"Michael Stipe likes to smoke a big pipe"

(or something like that)

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Roy Davis Jr. - Michael (Love From San Francisco mix)

― biz, Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Obscure alternate Basement Tapes version of Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" has the lyric:

Just pick up that oil cloth
cram it in the corner
I don't care if your name is Michael,
you gonna need some boards
Get your lunch
you foreign bib
You ain't goin' nowhere

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

All I came with were that Broadcast song and "Playground In My Mind," which latter, unfortunately, is now IN MY MIND! But now I'm thinking- isn't there some old-timey Irish song with the title, or at least the lyric, "Shake Hands With Your Uncle Mike"?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"My Name Is Michael," the Miracles, from "City of Angels."

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 1 December 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

At the beginning of "Rudie Can't Fail," Joe Strummer asks Mick Jones to "Sing, Michael, sing"

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Lots of songs by Mikey Dread.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

The Frank & Walters - "Michael"

Oh Michael, don't you know you were meant to ride your bicycle
That car of yours does not suit the colour of your eyes my friend,
So smile and ride your bicycle,
So smile and ride your bicycle,
So smile and ride your bicycle,
So smile and ride your bicycle.

You never really look down
'Cause you're afraid that you'll see the ground
And maybe you're afraid of heights
You've got an awfully long way to fall my friend,
So cycle with your head in the clouds
Cycle with your head in the clouds.

And nobody'll know that your there my friend
And if they did they wouldn't care
And nobdy'll know that your there my friend
And if they did they wouldn't care
But we care Michael we care
And we'll always be shouting for you
No matter what you say or do
We will always be shouting for you.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

wire, "pieta".

"which way, michael?"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Mt St Michael + Saint Michael's Mount - afx

― powpowpow, Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

"This is Michael" - Phillip Boa and the Voodoo Club

― Pangolino 2, Friday, 2 December 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Steely Dan - "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again"

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link

YSI:
http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3VPZDQP3SFCBW2K8BQOS1RVG1G

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Jandek, "Michael"

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Friday, 2 December 2005 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link

timex social club - rumors

― mucho, Friday, 2 December 2005 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link

isnt that XTC track called "making plans for NIGEL?
also Franz Ferdinand has a decent tune simply titled "Michael"

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure that XTC thing was a joke, and someone already mentioned the Franz Ferdinand song.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Mi-chael wants to party all the time party all the time party all the time!

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Able Tasmans - "Michaels"
Able Tasmans - "Michael Fay"
uh, they probably have some more.

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Those still interested, I ended up with this cd:

01 - Broadcast - Michael A Grammar
02 - Franz Ferdinand - Michael
03 - Game Theory - One More for Saint Michael
04 - Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band - Michael, the Lover
05 - Dionne Warwick - Message to Michael
06 - The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail
07 - Blur - Miss America
08 - Fairport Convention - Crazy Man Michael
09 - Joni Mitchell - Michael from Mountains
10 - Red House Painters - Michael
11 - Jandek - Michael
12 - The Angels of Light - Michael's White Hands
13 - Morrissey - Michael's Bones
14 - Grandaddy - Michael Barry
15 - Strawberry Switchblade - Michael Who Walks by Night

Cheers for the help

― wireless, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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