Favorite songs about houses that are on fire

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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 desire
This 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 hands
And preyed on his last ditch desire
Let's take a match, to this, my husband's house
And 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 House
Revolving Paint Dream - (Burn this House) Down to the Ground
Flying 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 home
Your 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 Fire
AC/DC - This House is on Fire
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - House Fire

the who cares (okamax), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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)


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