Talking Heads - "Burning Down the House"Shawn Colvin - "Sunny Came Home"Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three - "The Roof is On Fire"
― Jomanda Lepore (Stevie D), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:12 (seventeen years ago)
oh man, you didn't even mention Jimi in the opening post, that counts as bare-faced challopry
― Mequophidiophobia: fear of the beer snake (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:13 (seventeen years ago)
Talking Heads, Love Goes to Building on Fire
― Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:14 (seventeen years ago)
X: Burning House Of Love
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:14 (seventeen years ago)
Tom Waits - Clap Hands MENTIONS a house on fire
― Mequophidiophobia: fear of the beer snake (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:15 (seventeen years ago)
Shawn Colvin - "Sunny Came Home"
This is the David Ackles' song?
― Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:16 (seventeen years ago)
Tears for Fears - Mother's Talk mentions a house on fire.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:19 (seventeen years ago)
xp no, it's completely different and way better.
― Jomanda Lepore (Stevie D), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:23 (seventeen years ago)
blank dogs -- setting fire to your house
― 69, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:26 (seventeen years ago)
"Pyromaniac" by The Verlaines is about setting stuff on fire (obviously); I would assume this includes houses.
― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:26 (seventeen years ago)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xj8KQeX0Se8/R1JJHSQdYII/AAAAAAAAAK8/JxhevZkDDv4/s400/the%2Broof%2Bis%2Bon%2Bfire.jpg
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:27 (seventeen years ago)
Speaking of Tom Waits, can't forget "Frank's Wild Years"
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:27 (seventeen years ago)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:30 (seventeen years ago)
I'll go with Rick Springfield's "Rock of Life" ("waking up blind with the house on fire").
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:39 (seventeen years ago)
First verse of Is that all there is? (Peggy Lee, PJ Harvey, Chaka Khan, etc, choose your version)
― woofwoofwoof, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:45 (seventeen years ago)
"Angel from Montgomery":
If dreams were thunder, and lightning was desireThis old house woulda burnt down a long time ago
― Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:51 (seventeen years ago)
Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three - "The Roof is On Fire"
Just got outbid on a 12" of this on Ebay :(
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:53 (seventeen years ago)
Oh and my wife has this here disc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_to_Shine_(DVD_series)#Volume_1:_Washington_DC_01.14.2004
In which Bob Mould and Ted Leo and various other DC-related musicians play songs in a house that is about to be on fire.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:54 (seventeen years ago)
Sleeper - Pyromaniac I love you
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:57 (seventeen years ago)
The Jam - Set the House Ablaze
― dad a, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:42 (seventeen years ago)
great now you're making me wonder if I left the toaster on this morning...
― henry s, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:27 (seventeen years ago)
As It Is When It Was - New Order
"i always thought, we'd get along like a house on fire"
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:28 (seventeen years ago)
Palace Brothers, Merida, sort of -- house fire proposed but not acted on. Still though:
She lifted his face from her chest with her handsAnd preyed on his last ditch desireLet's take a match, to this, my husband's houseAnd warm ourselves in the fire
― dad a, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:51 (seventeen years ago)
Cocteau Twins - "Iceblink Luck"
You're the match of Jericho that will burn this whole madhouse down
― Blimey G. Blamegarten (unregistered), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:54 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.georgejones.com/store/images/large/GJ_PlayHouse_LRG.jpg
― dad a, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:58 (seventeen years ago)
Killdozer - Burning HouseRevolving Paint Dream - (Burn this House) Down to the GroundFlying Lutenbachers - Coffeehouse in Flames
― Michael Train, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:07 (seventeen years ago)
house on fire -- bernie and the burns
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:10 (seventeen years ago)
Warren Zevon - "I Was in the House When the House Burned Down"
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 03:51 (seventeen years ago)
http://image.maniadb.com/images/album/160/160913_1_f.jpg
― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 07:09 (seventeen years ago)
Hey little bird, fly away homeYour house is on fire, your children are alone
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 07:34 (seventeen years ago)
House On Fire by The Clientele.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 08:21 (seventeen years ago)
House Burning Down by Hendrix.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 08:24 (seventeen years ago)
'reptilia' the strokes
― vain_bowers, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 09:02 (seventeen years ago)
Cut Copy - Houses on Fire
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 09:40 (seventeen years ago)
Didn't Stevie Nicks have some 'Rooms on Fire'...
― sonnyboy, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)
Leiber & Stoller / Peggy Lee / Cristina - Is That All There Is?
― the who cares (okamax), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 20:07 (seventeen years ago)
Oops. Didn't see that already mentioned...
― the who cares (okamax), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 20:08 (seventeen years ago)
Alice Cooper - House of FireAC/DC - This House is on FireSomeone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - House Fire
― the who cares (okamax), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 20:19 (seventeen years ago)
BT Express - This House Is Smokin'(by deductive inference via Johnnie Taylor - When There's Smoke, There's Fire)
― dad a, Monday, 9 March 2009 19:14 (sixteen years ago)
The Star Spangles - "Which Of The Two Of Us Is Gonna Burn This House Down?"
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 March 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)
If mentions are sufficient, then the only lines I have managed to decipher in nearly two decades of listening to Voivod's "Psychic Vacuum" are "my head is like a burning house / what can I do for my rescue?"
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 9 March 2009 20:48 (sixteen years ago)
...well, not continuously, I mean
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 9 March 2009 20:49 (sixteen years ago)
Midnight Oil - Beds are burning
― ANML, Monday, 9 March 2009 20:55 (sixteen years ago)
Bloodhound Gang - Fire water burn
― ANML, Monday, 9 March 2009 20:57 (sixteen years ago)
Eventide Fire A Disaster - Barrington Levy / General Echo
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 9 March 2009 20:58 (sixteen years ago)
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 9 March 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)
"Burn My Stillhouse Down" by Gillian Welch.
― banjoboy, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 01:23 (sixteen years ago)
MC 900ft Jesus - The City Sleeps
(about an arsonist gleefully tripping about town at night, igniting domiciles)
― Bernard's Butter (sic), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 02:57 (sixteen years ago)