This week at WAIM, we are spending an hour with the smallest animals on Earth. It's a full sixty minutes of songs about ants, beetles, caterpillars, and more. What is your favorite song about bugs?
Ha! For me it was the Kool Keith, one of the best surrealyricists of the past 40 years. If I looked at his Four Horsemen lyrics I'd probably find some locusts. Dr. Octagon, just saying. Like Prince and Ween had a baby raised by Eminem on Spahn Ranch.
It's got to be "The Roach" by Gene and Wendell. It spawned a mini-dance craze, a mashup of the Mashed Potato and The Fly, popularized in "Hairspray." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JEcGmpcQVs
How about Spiders and Snakes by comedy singer Jim Stafford?
Don’t know this one. I’ll have to check it out.
Dog & Butterfly (Heart)
Nice
Robyn Hitchcock ~ The Fly
Gene and Wendell ~ The Roach fr Hairspray
Jurassic 5 ft. Kool Keith ~ DDT
Huge shout for the Jurassic 5 reference!
Ha! For me it was the Kool Keith, one of the best surrealyricists of the past 40 years. If I looked at his Four Horsemen lyrics I'd probably find some locusts. Dr. Octagon, just saying. Like Prince and Ween had a baby raised by Eminem on Spahn Ranch.
The Oh Sees- Web
Wire- I Am the Fly
Wire- Outdoor Miner (sort of about a type of worm)
Crazy Town- Butterfly
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Mosquito
Herb Alpert- Little Spanish Flea
ATCQ-Buggin' Out
Bedbugs & Ballyhoo by Echo & the Bunnymen
Madonna of the Wasps by Robyn Hitchcock
Ants Marching by Dave Matthews
Can't Stop The Honey by The Blue Bonnets
Pill Bug Blues.by The Gourds
Honey Bee by Taj Mahal
Simulation Swarm by Big Thief
This is sort of about bugs… https://open.spotify.com/track/5nVE45ithgyVocZp5XLAk6?si=OKkCQIkYRN-qqLOxfqqZcw The Bug Collector - Hayley Heyndericksx
I love Hailey. Such a terrific songwriter. Great pick, Joel.
Buzzin’ Fly by Bonny Light Horsemen
There was a little Spanish Flea
A record star he thought he'd be
He'd heard of singers like Beatles & Chipmunks he'd seen on TV
Why not a little Spanish Flea?
(sung to the tune of Little Spanish Flea, of course - but only in Homer Simpson's voice)
Thank you for clarifying that the Homer J. Simpson version of this is the only acceptable answer.
It's got to be "The Roach" by Gene and Wendell. It spawned a mini-dance craze, a mashup of the Mashed Potato and The Fly, popularized in "Hairspray." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JEcGmpcQVs
DF
Ha! Forgot about this one.
How about Pearl Jam’s “Bugs” which is a really weird number.
Super weird.
Boris the Spider The Who
https://youtu.be/Vgx7abJH6uI?si=f1RaST9JvqhXzlpd
And I’m with Kristin with her pick: Madonna of the Wasps by Robyn Hitchcock
Oingo Boingo “insects”
https://youtu.be/cTzItOizzlE?si=1orMReZWcM4nU4Gm
Human Fly - The Cramps