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What would Darwin have on his ipod? Or even Dick Cheney?
Recently I saw Low Anthem and heard their amazing Charlie Darwin number, and that got me thinking, what would the great man actually have on his ipod if he was around today?
Looking around the net it's not an original thought as even the Rough Guide To Evolution has a play list for old CD!
But here's a few I came up with - all a bit obvious really!
Apart Low Anthem...
Bowie Changes
REM Loosing my religion (always sends shivers down my back - perhaps because I was at the time!)
Chemical Brothers It Began In Africa (perhaps you could have Toto's Africa too - but thats pushing it and would depend what degree of cool Darwin was)
Part Man, Part Monkey, Bruce Springsteen
Natural's Not In It: Gang of Four
She Blinded Me With Science: Thomas Dolby
Slightly left field
Poison Oak by Bright Eyes with all that talk of cells.
I even came across a play list for Dick Cheney....
"The Clampdown" - The Clash
"The Winner Takes All" - Abba
"Psycho Killer" - Talking Heads
"Boom Boom Pow" - Black Eyed Peas
"The Bitch Is Back" - Elton John
"Little Man" - Tom Waits
"Know Your Enemy" - Green Day
"Heartless" - Kanye West
"Hoedown Throwdown" - Miley Cyrus
"Frail Grasp On The Big Picture" - The Eagles
"So Small" - Carrie Underwood
"Bastard" - Ben Folds
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Darwin
The HJH's : Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey
might do for a start
Dave Bartholomew's
The Monkey
"And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be
Said one to other now listen, you two
“There’s a certain rumour that just can’t be true
That man descended from our noble race
Why, the very idea is a big disgrace, yea”
No monkey ever deserted his wife
Starved her baby and ruined her life
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
And you’ve never known a mother monk
To leave her babies with others to bunk
And passed them on from one to another
‘Til they scarcely knew which was their mother
Yea, the monkey speak his mind
And another thing you will never see
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree
And let all the coconuts go to waste
Forbidding other monkeys to come and taste
Why, if I put a fence around this tree
Starvation would force you to steal from me
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
Here’s another thing a monkey won’t do
Go out on a night and get all in a stew
Or use a gun or a club or a knife
And take another monkey’s life
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum
But, brothers, from us he did not come"
----there's a great version by Dr John too.
Elvis Costello - Monkey To Man (a companion song to the above)
anything by The Creation
I see him more as a Creation Rebel
kind of guy ;-)
Selfish Gene Vincent
and Little Richard Dawkins
Dick Cheney's play list
Kill em All - Metallica
Shoot you in the Back - Motorhead
Killing an Arab - The Cure
Jesus on-line - Bush
kill kill kill
by the groovy gurus from Get Smart
God made Man
But the Monkey supplied the glue.
Are We Not Men? - DEVO
Anything by
The (B)Eagles.
Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Scatterlings of Africa
They are the scatterlings of Africa
Each uprooted one
On the road to Phelamanga
Where the world began
I love the scatterlings of africa
Each and every one
In their hearts a burning hunger
Beneath the copper sun
Ancient bones from Olduvai
Echoes of the very first cry
Who made me here and why
Beneath the copper sun?
African idea
African idea
Johnny Clegg
Johnny Clegg would be particularly appropriate since he's an anthropologist as well as a singer, songwriter, guitarist and dancer.
(I know this comment is months late, but I just found it in a search.)
Darwin loves
Fish out of Water by Chris Squire, but hates Genesis
His copy of Greatest Hits by Lynx is missing
And he really likes 'I Only Have Eyes For You' but can't explain why
Darwin
The Secret Life of Plants - Stevie Wonder
Animals - Pink Floyd
Faith - George Michael
Sense Of Doubt - David Bowie
Forever Faithless - Faithless
Actually, just thinking about it
the Roger Waters album, Amused To Death, in its entirety. Many of the lyrics are especially pertinent and the cover art is too.
Try this
Nick Lawson – Natural Selection: http://open.spotify.com/track/3gS64NY6ChXrECiL2adVsJ
Darwin
Like it.
Darwin + Dick Cheney
Also hip-hop seems to have a fascination with the idea of survival of the fittest.....
I would go for Mobb Deep - Survival Of The Fittest
Dick may also like Rock The Kasbah
Darwin's Radio ?
http://www.darwinsradio.co.uk/
XTC Dear God