Mexican Misadventure

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OK folks, suppose Krang and the Shredder are finally gonna off the Ninja Turtles unless you can come up with a CD-R of songs having a theme of Mexican Misadventure, songs like:

Mexicali Blues - Grateful Dead
Carmelita - Warren Zevon
Come a Little Bit Closer - Jay and the Americans
El Paso - Marty Robbins
Border Affair/Spanish is a loving tongue - I forget who
and [rolls eyes] I guess we have to include: Margaritaville - J. Buff
And as a Christian Scientist, my faith forbids me from using the search function -- you give me shit for starting a redundant thread, you get Jesus on your case hardcore.

― Trafalga, Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

By the way, I've been posting under various names and lurking for two years, but I've moved away from all my real-life friends, so be nice to me because you're all I've got. Oh god, it's a good thing I'm drunk.

― Trafalga, Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

mexican radio - wall of voodoo

― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

Beck - Mexico.

sort of epitomizes the genre, I think.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

OK! Thanks, will get to downloading these things stat. How nice that people are responding -- I feel like I exist! BTW, I know that some folks, Alex in SF for instance, might say that the genre is racist and all that, but really, what the hell do I care?

― Trafalga, Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Steve Earle, "Mercenary Song" and "Goodbye"
Gary Stewart, "Make It a Double"

― mte22 (mte22), Saturday, 10 December 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

"Nuevo Laredo," Sir Douglas Quintet

― novamax (novamax), Saturday, 10 December 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

You're a fool if you don't put some Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass on the mix.

― *Jazz Douchebag* Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 10 December 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

Phoebe Kreutz, "Tijuana"

― sibsi (sibsi), Saturday, 10 December 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

steely dan - my old school

― mucho, Saturday, 10 December 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

I'd go with the Celtic Frost version of "Mexican Radio". Hell, put both versions on there.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Saturday, 10 December 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Butthole Surfers - "Mexican Caravan"

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 10 December 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Tindersticks - "Let's Pretend"

It doesn't mention Mexico in the lyric, but the Mariachi-sounding climax is swoony, doomy wonderousness.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Saturday, 10 December 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

you have to start with:

new kingdom "mexico or bust"

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 10 December 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Robert Earl Keen - "Sonora's Death Row"

― pauls00, Saturday, 10 December 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan, "Romance in Durango" !!!1

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 10 December 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

"Dirty Sanchez" - Coldplay

― Colonel K, Saturday, 10 December 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

For goodness sake:

"Down in Mexicali
There's a crazy little place that I know
Where the drinks are hotter than the chili sauce
And the boss is a cat named Joe

He wears a red bandana, plays a blues piana
In a honky-tonk, down in Mexico
He wears a purple sash, and a black moustache
In a honky-tonk, down in Mexico

Well, the first time that I saw him
He was sittin' on a piano stool
I said 'Tell me dad, when does the fun begin?'
He just winked his eye and said 'Man, be cool.'

He wears a red bandana, plays a blues pianna
In a honky-tonk, down in Mexico
He wears a purple sash, and a black moustache
In a honky-tonk, down in Mexico

All of a sudden in walks this chick
Joe starts playing on a Latin kick
Around her waist she wore three fishnets
She started dancin' with the castanets
I didn't know just what to expect
She threw her arms around my neck
We started dancin' all around the floor
AND THEN SHE DID A DANCE I NEVER SAW BEFORE.

So if you're south of the border
I mean down in Mexico
And you wanna get straight,
Man, don't hesitate
Just look up a cat named Joe.

He wears a red bandana, plays a blues pianna
In a honky-tonk, down in Mexico
He wears a purple sash, and a black moustache
In a honky-tonk, down in Mexico

Yeah, como est usted senorita
Come with me to the border, south of the border, that is
In Mexico, yeah in Mexico
You can get your kicks in Mexico
Come with me baby, come with me, come with me, crazy, yeah

Leiber/Stoller/the Coasters

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 10 December 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

A Tribe Called Quest - 'I Left My Wallet in El Segundo'

― Cramer, Saturday, 10 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Climax Blues Band - 'Nogales'

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 10 December 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

"Gimme Some Water," Eddie Money. You'll recall he was thirsty because he "shot a man on the Mexican border."

― novamax (novamax), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Ween "Buenos Tardes"

any number of ZZ Top songs.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Also "Going to Acapulco".

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

>any number of ZZ Top songs

Including but not limited to "Mexican Blackbird," "Goin' Down To Mexico" and "El Diablo." "Mexican Blackbird" is my personal favorite just for the line "They all call her puta cause no one really knows her name..."

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Mexican Seafood.
Cocaine Blues.

― js (honestengine), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Waylon Jennings' "Ain't No God In Mexico" is a must.

― Gunderson (Gunderson), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Steve Miller - "Going to Mexico"
Jefferson Airplane - "Mexico"

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

"Tijuana Jail" by the Kingston Trio!

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Los Lobos, "Will the Wolf Survive"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

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