My kids are always singing made up songs. They often involve colors. Today, I issue the challenge that everyone come up with a color list of songs. Just 1 song for each of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. No repeating songs someone else has already used. If you blank on one, that's okay, come back to it later, or not at all.
Let's see if this works?
Also, drop your list, or discuss music. It's all good.
1. Lana Del Rey “Blue Jeans” Born to Die
2. The Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian” Party Starter: 80s Mix
3. Suede* “Shipbuilding”* Help
4. Jen Trynin “One Year Down”* Cockamamie
5. Vampire Weekend “Mansard Roof” Vampire Weekend
6. Ozomatli “Cut Chemist Suite”* Ozomatli
7. "Wierd Al" Yankovic “Now That's What I Call Polka!” Mandatory Fun
8. Patsy Cline “Crazy” Heartaches
9. Jan St. Werner “Kroque AF”* Felder
T. Lush “Single Girl” Lovelife
E. Yello “Oh Yeah” Stella
*Notes:
3. Or, "The London Suede", according to their releases in the US.
The song is an Elvis Costello cover.
4. Definite foreshadowing of Courtney Barnett.
6. Cut Chemist gets his name in the title, but this is all about Chali 2na's verses.
9. I still imagine "AF" here means "As F---" but I could be wrong. JSW is German, so maybe there's something else.
Realized I got two colors there without trying.
1. The Dodos - Red & Purple - Visiter
2. mewithoutYou - Orange Spider - Brother, Sister
3. Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat - Catching Fire Soundtrack
4. Gorillaz - O Green World - Demon Days
5. Eiffel 65 - Blue - Europop
6. Limp Bizkit - Indigo Flow - Three Dollar Bill, Yall$*
7. Coldplay - Violet Hill - Viva la Vida
6. I am...annoyed that I am aware of this song's existence. It is not in my music library.
The "colored spider" series on Brother, Sister also includes entries for "red" and "brownish".
All Guided By Voices or Robert Pollard related:
Red Flag Down
Marchers in Orange
Yellow Wife No. 5
King Green Stamp
Lugnut Blues
Demons of the Purple Subway
Brown Submarine
She Hides in Black
Striped White Jets
Waves of Gray
She Wore Green and Blue
There's a lot more...
New Primordial dropped a couple days ago! I've only given it one listen so far, but its their best since To the Nameless Dead. (which is a masterpiece I'm not sure anyone will ever top).
Phil, are you aware of Ken Nordine's spoken-word and jazz album Colors? (If you want to learn more about the album, you can check the liner notes at that link. Or just listen...)
"Red Rain", Peter Gabriel
"Orange", Meat Puppets
"Yellow", Coldplay
"Green Green Grass of Home", Merle Haggard (though I assume someone else recorded it first)
"Into the Blue", Moby (I have a lot of songs that fit)
Indigo?
"Violet Eyes", Meat Puppets
"Purple Sage in the Twilight", Gene Autry (leaving an easy one there for others)
Also:
"Pink Steam", Sonic Youth
"White Sportcoat", Marty Robbins (I know it from a Meat Puppets cover)
Gray?
"Black Betty", Ram Jam
"Brown Paper Bag", Roni Size/Reprazent
"The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)" Deep Dish feat. Everything but the Girl
Is the word "Rhyme" missing from the post title?
"Mr. Blue Sky" -- ELO
"It's Not Easy Being Green" -- The Muppet Show
"Red Skies" -- The Fixx
"Red Barchetta" -- Rush
"Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape" -- Porcupine Tree
"Purple Rain" -- Prince (!)
"Red's Song" - The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
"Tree In Orange" - Walt Mink - Bareback Ride
"Yellow Sun" - The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
"All The World Is Green" - Tom Waits - Blood Money
"Blue Flowers" - Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
"Mood Indigo" - Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington
"Violet" - Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings and All