Music about cats or with cats

Christ, I don't even remember who did it. It was this fantastic hardcore 7" that I had in about 1986/7 or so. Maybe it was Apple Maggot Quarantine Area, but I can't remember.

Questionable: "How to Skin a Cat" by Hüsker Dü.
Segue material (even more questionable): any cat-related anecdotes from Steve Martin's albums ("That cat was the best %$@! I ever had").

Also Joe The Lion (David Bowie), Lion (Burning Spear), Ocelot (Eggs), Pink Panther or Tiger Style (Ganja Kru), Tiger Tiger (Head), Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle)(Joe Hill Louis or Rufus Thomas, who is the emperor of animal songs), Soccer Lions (Thomas Mapfumo), Lion In The Hall (Monkey Mafia), Wild Tiger Woman (Move), Lion in a Jungle (Naturalites), I've Got a Tiger By the Tail (Buck Owens), Panther Power (Paris), Feed Them to the (Linden) Lions (Pavement), The Lion (Lee Perry), Tiger Rag (Louis Prima - Disney's #1), Lions After Slumber (Scritti Politti), Liquid Lynx (Shafie), Lion And The Lamb (TV Smith), Tiger Rag (Art Tatum), Jungle Lion (Upsetters), Jaguar (Who), Ex Lion Tamer (Wire), Tissue Tigers (The Arguers)(XTC).

MC Skat Kat & The Stray Mob, The Adventures Of... (1991) The Adventures Of MC Skat Kat stands as the least essential album ever recorded by a sassy animated cartoon feline, surpassing even Garfield's 1991 album Am I Cool Or What? The rapping cat, who made his debut alongside Paula Abdul on the cheesy 1989 single "Opposites Attract," got his own 50-minute album a full two years later, allowing impatient Skat Kat completists the opportunity to hear him rock the mic on such tracks as "I Ain't No Kitty," "No Dogs Allowed," and "New Kat Swing."

(It would have been a B if you could actually slap the kittens; nothing like animal cruelty to make the familiar seem funny.)

"Kitty Come Home" - Kate and Anna McGarrigle

What is pussy? - old ska tune can't remember by who.....

"An Cat Dubh" - U2
"All Cats Are Grey" - The Cure
"Wild Cat Blues" - Sidney Bechet, Fats Waller, ISB, etc.
"Three Cool Cats" - The Coasters
"Cat in the Window" - Turtles
"What's New Pussy Cat?" - Tom Jones
"Feline" - Bobby McFerrin

Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - Prospect Hummer

The Residents - "Aircraft Damage"

Do you ever?
Do you ever wonder who you are?
Well, kick a cat
Kick a cat
Kick a cat today!

Michael Rother - Katzenmusik
DJ Koze - "Don't Feed the Cat"

As a young man you were shooting rats
By accident you hit the farmyard cat
He ran for the fields and
came back the next day
You had blown out his eye
and you could see his brain
Your dad said "Boy, there are some things in life.
You don't want to do but you know is right.
So take him out back and finish him off."
You got your gun off the shelf
it only took one shot

Kathleen Edwards, "Scared At Night"

Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause - 'I Confess'.

I confess that I killed the cat
That cat was speckled and fat
It was an angry cat
But I thought it was laughing

;_;

Chuck Brodsky - "3rd Dead Cat"

65daysofstatic - This Cat is a Landmine (4:45)
Albert Collins & Johnny Copeland - Black Cat Bone (4:58)
Ass Ponys - Kitten (6:06)
Bailter Space - Big Cat (3:49)
Big Bill Broonzy - Pussy Cat Blues (2:44)
Big Black - Kitty Empire (4:01)
Bix Beiderbecke - Krazy Kat (3:03)
Black Mountain - Black Cat (2:51)
Blitzen Trapper - Star Me Kitten (2:43)
Bob Seger System - Cat (6:16)
Bricks - Spy Kitty (4:36)
Broadcast - Black Cat (3:58)
Califone - Our Kitten Sees Ghosts (2:47)
Cassetteboy - Gold Small Cat (1:46)
Charles Mingus - Pussy Cat Dues (9:14)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Le Chat du Café des Artistes (4:02)
Chris Forsyth - Paranoid Cat, Parts 1-3 (21:13)
Cluster - Für Die Katz' (3:09)
Des_Ark - No More Fighting Cats, OK? (2:22)
Dirty Three - Au Revoir Petit Chat (8:20)
Dolly Rathebe - Kitty's Blues (3:00)
Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk (6:43)
Donald Fagen - Morph the Cat (6:49)
Elton John - Honky Cat (5:13)
Elvis Costello - Leave My Kitten Alone (3:20)
Franco Campanino - Gatto Nero (0:55)
Ganger - Cats, Dogs and Babies Jaws (5:59)
Hot Chip - Alley Cats (5:21)
Index - Turquoise Feline (3:37)
Jim White - Kitty Litter (2:59)
John Coltrane - Cat Walk (7:11)
Julee Cruise - Kool Kat Walk (6:23)
Katie Webster - Pussycat Moan (6:04)
Kelly Hogan - Senor Don Gato (3:37)
Kenny Dope - Superkat (3:09)
Ladytron - Black Cat (5:08)
Laika - Black Cat Bone (4:24)
Laika - Itchy & Scratchy (0:54)
Lee Morgan - Tom Cat (9:44)
Look Blue Go Purple - Cactus Cat (3:26)
Lou Barlow - The Ballad of Daykitty (4:02)
Luna - City Kitty (5:54)
Luna - The Owl & the Pussycat (3:49)
Lush - Cat's Chorus (3:24)
Malt Swagger - It Sucks to Be the Kitty (3:22)
Mark G. - Have You Seen This Cat? (2:40)
Mary Timony - Dr. Cat (2:33)
Mind Sirens - Cat (1:55)
Mogwai - Batcat (5:24)
Morphine - Sheila (2:48)
Nellie McKay - Pounce (0:56)
Palace Music - Cat's Blues (3:18)
PJ Harvey - Cat on the Wall (3:03)
Placebo - Kitty Litter (3:47)
Pram - Track of the Cat (4:13)
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Wildcat (3:12)
Psapp - Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat (3:45)
R.E.M. - Star Me Kitten (3:16)
Red House Painters - Three-Legged Cat (1:41)
Richard C. Sanders - Afrocat (1:03)
Roni Size/Reprazent - Mad Cat (4:55)
Seam - The Wild Cat (5:24)
Seks Bomba - The Cat (3:37)
Shudder to Think - Rain-Covered Cat (3:10)
Sonic Youth - Purr (4:22)
Superchunk - Bye Bye Kitty Cat (2:55)
Tensnake - Coma Cat (6:56)
The Bar-Kays - Copy Kat (2:23)
The Cannanes - Kitten on the Keys (0:48)
The Clean - Big Cat (1:41)
The Karl Hendricks Trio - How's the Cat? (2:29)
The Kills - Cat Claw (3:32)
The Mice - Bye Bye Kitty Cat (2:57)
The Rosebuds - Wildcat (2:39)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Hello Kitty Kat (4:32)
The Spinanes - I Love That Party With the Monkey Kitty (2:46)
The Weakerthans - Plea From a Cat Named Virtute (3:48)
The Weakerthans - Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure (4:16)
Underworld - Kittens (7:31)

Sometimes when my cat is around I sing "It's a....nice day for a....white kitten!"

larry by buffalo tom

yessss xp

there is no song in existence i can't turn into a ditty about one or both of my cats

examples pls

there's a formula

change one-syllable words to 'cat'
any names to cat's name
two-syllable words = "kitten"

etc

unsatifying, tbh

I don't kitten stay at your kitten
I don't kitten talk with your friends
I don't kitten vote for your president
I just kitten be your kitten kitten
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd be kitten
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd be kitten
I don't kitten stay at your kitten
I don't kitten talk to your friends
I don't kitten vote for your president
I just kitten be your kitten kitten
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd be kitten
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to see
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd be kitten

cat cat kitten cat cat kitten kitten

tbf it is probably not quite that straightforward

: /

(can you tell i miss lyle?)

No one can top mine

The Association, Rose Petals, Incense and a Kitten

http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2012/09/va-kitty-comp-2012-burger.html

I sing reggae songs to my cat when I feed him, but I change the lyrics. For example, the Congos, "Row Fisherman Row": "Lots of hungry belly kitty cats on the floor / Millions of them!" or Jacob Miller's "Healing of the Nation": "Kitty cat has been good / so we give him him cat food / let them, let them know / it's the feeding of the kitty".

Save the Birds - His Name is Alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bETCusT5kNM

My favorite: The Light Crust Doughboys, "Pussy Pussy Pussy":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXiIx4OqcXw

http://www.tokafi.com/news/terry-fox-labyrinth-scored-11-cats/

Terry Fox: "The Labyrinth Scored for 11 Different Cats"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdD5_1sxas

For years I thought the Who's "Athena" was about Pete Townshend's cat. Turns out it's about Theresa Russell.

EXTREME MUSIC FROM CATS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONJfp95yoE

Someone alert Susan Lawly.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/d90152148894c5c4627c30e2f1baccea/tumblr_mw0bvleJLh1srzpwbo1_500.jpg

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-3787441-1344411538-3222.jpeg

WILD MOOSE PARTY by The Cosmopolitans!!!

"I miss my afternoon naps
My kitty cat sleeping on my lap
But she died August two-thousand eleven
Just got back from Norway
When she slipped off to kitty heaven"

Mark Kozelek & Desertshore - "Tavoris Cloud"

"Avenging Annie" - Andy Pratt, opens with a cat's meow. Not sure what it has to do with the rest of the song

file with the Light Crust Doughboys... Harry Roy and his Orchestra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

"Wop-a-din-din" - Red House Painters
Any others for this?

― frankE (frankE), Monday, June 14, 2004

this is the most beautiful song ever from a cat owner to their pet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8TdHn1vlCY

Starting at about 4:05 in. If you have any cats in the room, they will spend the next few minutes freaking out!

thread does not seem to mention my two favorites:
Belle & Sebastian - “A Century of Elvis”
The Only Ones - “Out There in the Night”

"All Dead, All Dead" by Queen was written by Brian May in memory of the passing of his childhood pet cat. Hard to listen to this song without tearing up, just a little.

Ann Magnuson "Ghost Cat"

Joni Mitchell - "Man From Mars".

"Kitty Come Home" - Kate and Anna McGarrigle

This, of course, is not about a cat but written by Anna to Kate about her failing marriage.