Music thoughts.

[theweaselking]

I'm making a CD. It has a theme. I need songs that fit the theme.

What I have:

Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
Traditional - The Devil Went Down To Georgia

I'm sure you can see my pattern, now. What else needs to go on this CD?

And no, "Satan Gave Me A Taco" doesn't fit.

Comments

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Van Halen, "Runnin' With The Devil"?

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Might not fit exactly, but how about a chunk of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. Featured prominently on the Exorscist sound track. AC/DC's Highway to Hell would be another possibility. Please post the final comp list when you're done. Be interested to see what you come up with.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The thing about Highway To Hell is that it's not about the devil taking personal action in the real world, preferably in a more subtle way than "Kaboom, I blow shits up now". The others are.

I'm wondering about Motley Crue's "Hell On High Heels" - it almost fits, except for being a good deal brighter and happier than the other four.

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

Well, if you were looking for a Crue song, Shout at the Devil would be a good choice.

[ucnu112.livejournal.com]

Cake, "Satan is my Motor"?

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Is that related to "Jesus Built My Hotrod?"

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

Devil with a Blue Dress/CC Rider - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (maybe)
Devil And Daughter - Black Sabbath
Devil's Island - Megadeth
Highway To Hell by AC/DC (maybe--I like it anyway)
Hell's Bells by AC/DC

Look at www.songfacts.com for more...

[mightycodking.livejournal.com]

Chris de Burgh "Spanish Train".

No, seriously :).

[gabriellion.livejournal.com]

Tenancious D - Tribute? ...if you don't mind over-hyped comedy!

[chizzer.livejournal.com]

Or Beelzeboss

[siouxsyn.livejournal.com]

Absolutely seconding this. When you've just heard "Symphony" and "Devil went down" you need "Beelzeboss".

[neobitch.livejournal.com]

I second Chris de Burg, "Spanish Train".

[drjamez.livejournal.com]

With varying degrees of success:

Morrissey - Satan Rejected My Soul

Elvis - Devil in Disguise

Eagles - Hotel California (maybe, maybe not)

DMX - Damien

You could also opt to include the Primus version of Charlie Daniels "Devil Went Down to Georgia" if you don't mind cover tunes and/or repeated songs.

Then, of course, there's Satan's song from the South Park movie, but "Up There" is designed to be more Disney-ish on purpose (think Little Mermaid).

I agree with Tenacious D, even if it part of it is a "tribute" to Devil Went Down to Georgia.

Oh, there's also Stephen Lynch - Beelz. VERY funny, but might not be entirely appropriate for a more serious-minded song compilation. Highlights: "And f*ck Charlie Daniels, I don't care if you can fiddle..." and "this is f*cking b*llsh*t because I would not be caught dead in... Georgia...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGoM5lx-irQ (Excuse the apparent Sims video, not my creation.)

- James -

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Also in the cover tunes, the Toy Dolls have "Devil Went Down to Scunthorpe"

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I'm saying this but...

"Silver-tongued devil" by Kris Kristofferson.

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

"A Touch of Evil" by Judas Priest?

Pretty sad that with all the PMRC and related people bitching about heavy metal being all Satanic in the '80s, I can't really think of much else that's outright evil/devil related off the top of my head. -_-

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

Lordi's "Devil is a Loser"? Only thing that's coming to mind.

[city-of-dis.livejournal.com]

The Devil Went Down to Ibiza - Alabama 3
Satan is My Motor - Cake
Devil's Airship - Piñataland
Sleeping in the Devil's Bed - Daniel Lanois
The Day the Devil - Laurie Anderson
Devil with the Green Eyes - Matthew Sweet
Satan in High Heels - Mundell Lowe

[chizzer.livejournal.com]

The Servant - Devil

[paradoxicmotion.livejournal.com]

Sorta-but-maybe-not-really candidates:
Let The Devil In by TV On The Radio
The Devil by The Rapture
Mogwai Fear Satan by Mogwai (quite long, wordless, so probably not)
Satan Said Dance by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Definitely needs to go on:

Devil In Her Heart by The Beatles

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

AC/DC - C.O.D?

Alice Cooper's - Last Temptation of Alice album?

Flogging Molly - Devil's Dance Floor

MC Lars - The Roommate from Hell

South Park movie soundtrack - Up there

Who does "Can you guess my name"? The Stones?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Who does "Can you guess my name"? The Stones?

That would be "Sympathy For The Devil", and yes, it's the Rolling Stones.

[sqferryman.livejournal.com]

Laibach did an excellent cover of Sympathy.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Several of them.

I'm partial to Guns 'N Roses' cover, though, if I'm going for a cover.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

I think Spinal Tap did "C.O.D."

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Who Was In My Room Last Night? by Butthole Surfers might be a close allegory.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

DEFINITELY "Titties and Beer" by Frank Zappa.

The version from the Lather album (umlaut over the "a") is the best, I think.

[caerlas.livejournal.com]

Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil
David Bowie - The man who sold the world

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

Motorhead, Orgasmatron. Though it's more of an attack on religion in general.

Maybe not quite matching your request, but...

[demongrrrrl.livejournal.com]

"Night on Bald Mountain" - Mussorgsky. Not necessarily about the devil, but Fantasia sort of cemented that image into most folks' minds. It did in mine, anyway.

[mamomo.livejournal.com]

Eagles of Death Metal have a few Satan/Hell songs, my favorite being 'Kiss the Devil.'

Also (some of these are quite silly):
Neil Sadaka: Little Devil
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins: Run Devil Run
INXS: Devil Inside
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoff: Devil Do
Future Clouds & Radar: Devil No More
Squirrel Nut Zippers: Hell
Danko Jones: Home to Hell

And I can't think of any, but Tom Waits seems like someone who would have Satan-related songs.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Half the blues songs ever written.

...okay, okay, I can be more helpful than that:

Hellhound on My Trail
Blue Spirit Blues
Crossroad Blues (Clapton's version is quite good)
Me and the Devil Blues
Devil Got My Woman

Robert Johnson did most of these.

[thormation.livejournal.com]

"Devil's Song" by Big Pig
"Devil's Onions" by Shriekback
"The Day the Devil" by Laurie Anderson
"To Hell with the Devil" by Stryper

And of course Satan singing "Up There" from the South Park soundtrack.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Don Henley--The Garden of Allah could work.

[tomtherat.livejournal.com]

Tom Waits - Jesus Gonna Save Me, right at the end.

[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

whiskey youre the devil by any one of a number of drunk irish bands

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Rolling Stones: "Dancing with Mister D"
South Park:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut: "Up There"
Spinal Tap: "Christmas with the Devil"

There's got to be a Blue Oyster Cult song that applies, but I can't think of it off the top of my head.

[kail-panille.livejournal.com]

Modest Mouse -- The Devil's Workday
Ok Go -- A Good Idea at the Time

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

Devil - Stereophonics
Devil Inside - INXS
Speak of the Devil - Chris Isaak

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

This is of absolutely no use to you, but it's a shame that the Dead Milkmen's Beelzebubba doesn't have an explicit devil song.

[ambug666.livejournal.com]

Mono Puff's The Devil Went Down to Newport.

[leighdb.livejournal.com]

"Devil's Haircut", by Beck.

This doesn't strictly fit your theme, I think, but when I saw the list I thought of "Redemption Day", by Sheryl Crow.