Insects in music

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Fly on the Windscreen (Depeche Mode)
Fly in the Ointment (Wire)
Fly on the Wall (xtc)

Boris the Spider (a Spider is close enough)

Buddy Holly & the Crickets

Insects Featured In Rock & Roll Cover Art

etc ....

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0438,kogan,56911,22.html

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Beetlebum
Ladybird
Dragonfly
that 'kinky daddy long legs' song as performed by Buddy Holly in The Young Ones
Crickets Sing For Ana Maria

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

"Adaption & Survival" by Tribes of Neurot (two fuggin' discs worth of bug noises - top that)

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Flight of the Bumblebee

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Four Ton Mantis - Amon Tobin (crunch crunch crunch)

― vacasmagras (vacasmagras), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Buggin' - Flaming Lips
Crickets - Matt Pond PA

― someteenpartying (someteenpartying), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Graeme Revell - The Insect Musicians (just preceeding his soundtrack career)

― 35 Hertz (35 Hertz), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

The Flys

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

The Music for Insect Minds comp by Halo of Flies contains a tune called "Death of a Fly", as well as swell covers of the Cramps' "Human Fly" and the Urinals' "I'm a Bug".

Speaking of that:

"Human Fly" - The Cramps
"I'm a Bug" - The Urinals
"Halo of Flies" - Alice Cooper

Others:

The Locust - as a band, as a sound, as look and as a lifestyle
"Maggots" - The Plasmatics
"I'm Bugged" - XTC
"I Am the Fly" - Wire
"Insect Mother" - Robyn Hitchcock
"Bug Powder Dust" - Bomb the Bass (go for the K&D rmx)
"Stay Fly" - Three Six Mafia
"The Fly" - U2
"There's Spider Eggs in Bubba Yhum" - Mercury Rev

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Uh, THE BEATLES...

also

Digable Planets (Butterfly, Doodlebug & Ladybug)

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Money Mark "Crickets Are All Around Us"!!!! So, so good.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

The Insect Trust
The Katydids
Weevil
Butterflies of Love
Papa Roach
Caterpillar
Alien Ant Farm
Ant-Bee
W.A.S.P.
Magiccicada

Spiders are arachnids.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

spiders count.

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

spiders count.

...only to 8.

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

so do worms and stuff.

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

so do worms and stuff.

Do You Dig Worms - Beach Boys

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

"Madonna of the Wasps" = Robyn Hitchcock

Papa Roach

― someteenpartying (someteenpartying), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm say Papa Roach

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Oops

― someteenpartying (someteenpartying), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

that horrible butterfly kisses song

Luna

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Oingo Boingo - "Insects"

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

that's a great Kogan article chuck linked to: Insects will be performing Monday, September 27, at 1 a.m. in Prospect Park.

thread on I Hate Music right now focusing on Insect Concréte: http://ihatemusic.bagatellen.com/viewtopic.php?p=73527#73527

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Rebbie Jackson - "Centipede"

― hank (hank s), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

The Detachment Kit - "Spider"
The Dismemberment Plan - "Spider in the Snow"
Stan Ridgeway - "Twisted" ("just like a bee, buzzin' in a jar")
The Blam - "How Did the Flies Get In?"
Don Dixon - "Praying Mantis"

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:36 (twenty years ago)

"Lady Bug (I Just Wanna Be Your)" - Bumblebee Unlimited

― davelus (davelus), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Costello, "Hurry Down Doomsday (the Bugs Are Taking Over)."

There's also the Insect Surfers.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.likemovinginsects.com

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:04 (twenty years ago)

"You've been laying eggs under my skin
Now they're hatching out under my chin
Now there's tiny insects showing through
And all them tiny insects look like you"

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:07 (twenty years ago)

Money Mark "Crickets Are All Around Us"!!!! So, so good.

it's called "Insects are all around us" but yeah it's great!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Peter Eotvos - Cricket Music (Made from samples of cricket noises)

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:18 (twenty years ago)

M. Ward - Transfiguration #1

― Emily B (Emily B), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

magic whispers 'examine the insects and hit them'. don't know who did the original version.

― keyth (keyth), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Summer's Cauldron - XTC (lots of insect sounds)

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

i'm so, so sorry to reference this but:

crazy town - butterfly

― cate flamingo (cate flamingo), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 05:53 (twenty years ago)

Four Tet - "No More Mosquitoes"

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 05:57 (twenty years ago)

the Flaming lips - "moth in the incubator"

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 05:59 (twenty years ago)

Altered Images - Insects

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Let's not forget the recent UK 'pestival' (if you will) devoted to the theme of insects in music and art: http://www.pestival.org/

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 06:06 (twenty years ago)

oh. shonen knife -- butterfly boy

― cate flamingo (cate flamingo), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Wire, "Outdoor Miner"

― xero (xero), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 07:28 (twenty years ago)

the Doors, "No Me Moleste Mosquito"
Genesis, "Fly On A Windshield"
Pearl Jam, "Bugs"
Soundgarden, "Drawing Flies"
Ween, "Flies On My Dick"

― LC (Damian), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:22 (twenty years ago)

"The orchestral version of Nunu and Mira Calix made their live debut
together at The Royal Festival Hall on 8 March that year as part of the Ether Festival where she performed the track with living insects on stage in a collaboration with The London Sinfonietta"

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Scott Walker's Tilt features "locust noises", it says.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:00 (twenty years ago)

"cause he's a fat little insect" - Nick The Stripper, The Birthday Party

― emekars (emekars), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

The Cure - "The Caterpillar"
The B-52's - "Junebug"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hereinmyhead.com/collect/collab/ridgef.jpg

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Matthew Barney's "Cremaster 2" movie features a song ("The Man In Black," Jonathan Bepler) that consists of drumming by Slayer's Dave Lombardo and the buzzing of, purportedly, 200,000 honeybees.

― skoolbus39 (skoolbus39), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b5/08/3d03024128a0a90cf70b9010.L.jpg

― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

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