I'm talking about songs that suggest the singer is an actual pet owner, not Nugenty animal-sex metaphors
Get myself a steady jobsome responsibilitycan't even feed my caton social security
AC/DC, "Down Payment Blues"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 12:40 (fourteen years ago)
Rose Tattoo "Stuck On You"
He accidentally murders several pets, IIRC.
― the morals of a tomcat and the manners of a wolf (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 12:42 (fourteen years ago)
yup!
I had a colored parrot, but it made me cry I just forgot to feed it, and the little bugger died I had a fish named Sam, he lived in bowl I heated up the water, so he wouldn't get cold Now he's gone, now he's gone
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)
By-Tor & The Snow Dog!
Actually I'm not sure if the Snow Dog is exactly a pet but he does have disciples.
― brio, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:42 (fourteen years ago)
I was about to mention Snow Dog but I dont think he's a pet. Apparently he saves civilization in that song, so I don't think he's necessarily domesticated.
― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:44 (fourteen years ago)
it's always cracked me up how Alice In Chains made the phrase "household pet" sound so ominous on "The Rooster"
― lamp kind (some dude), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:51 (fourteen years ago)
I'm not endorsing it, but...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ssOBkwJYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:03 (fourteen years ago)
booooooooo, so doesn't qualify
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:32 (fourteen years ago)
though apparently poison does have at least one song that counts
from "Shut Up, Make Love":
Can't find a good wife can't find a good jobCan't find the keys to my carI lost my dog I lost my brainI lost my girl to a big movie star (whatever)
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:34 (fourteen years ago)
Paranthetical whatever = genius from on high.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:41 (fourteen years ago)
the ban on Nugenty animal-sex metaphors really limits things.
― brio, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:41 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpSzCPmeLmw
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:49 (fourteen years ago)
Nazareth - Woke Up This Morning
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:04 (fourteen years ago)
any rocker can be a dog in heat, it takes a special rocker to feed & provide for one.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:11 (fourteen years ago)
those nazareth lyrics
Woke up this morningMy dog was deadSomeone disliked himAnd shot him through the headI woke up this morningAnd my cat had diedI'm gonna miss herSat down and criedCame home this eveningMy hog was goneThe people here don't like meI think I'll soon move on
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:13 (fourteen years ago)
Did Alice Cooper never write a song about his snake?
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:14 (fourteen years ago)
Alice has a ditty called "I'm Alive (That Was the Day My Dead Pet Returned to Save My Life)" though it appears to be about a cowboy's ghost horse or something.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:18 (fourteen years ago)
Yes - 'Owner Of A Lonely Hart'
― PG Harpy (Doran), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:07 (fourteen years ago)
The Who, "Melancholia" (yeah, it's hard rock):
"The dust is thick/ the dog is sick/ the kids have picked most all the flowers"
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:33 (fourteen years ago)
Horses and dragons don't really count as pets do they?
― Bass Solo (Matt #2), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)
If someone refers to OWNING a dragon as a pet, I'm almost tempted to allow it
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)
slaying a dragon or describing a wizard who owns a dragon def doesn't count, though