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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 11:52 am 
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Myabe we'll stir up some interest from our wacky upstairs neighbors this week: the topic is comic book/comic strip characters. Since the options may be limited, feel free to include lyric quotes in addtion to titles. And if you include a well-known theme song, please choose a cover by a group or artist.

Superman--REM/Clique
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman--Kinks
Sgt. Rock--XTC
Snoopy vs. the Red Baron--Royal Guardsmen
Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future)--Elton John
Charlie Brown--Coasters
Spiderman--Ramones
Rip Her To Shreds--Blondie ("thinks she's Brenda Starr...")

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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:02 pm 
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Theme From Spiderman - Aerosmith
Superman - Five For Fighting


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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:08 pm 
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Sgt Fury - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:14 pm 
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Who are those guys?

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The Archies!!!


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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:19 pm 
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Superman - Barbra Streisand
Alley Oop - Hollywood Argyles

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Streisand Superman

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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:28 pm 
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Electric Barbarella — Duran Duran (Double Points)
Plastic Man — Kinks
Batdance — Prince
Superman (It's Not Easy) — Five for Fighting
I'm Your Superman — Rick Springfield
Kryptonite — 3 Doors Down
Superwoman — Karyn White

Lyrics:
Catch Me Now I'm Falling — Kinks ("This is Captain America calling.")
You Don't Mess Around with Jim — Jim Croce (“You don't tug on Superman's cape.")
Holding out for a Hero — Bonnie Tyler ("It's going to take a Superman to sweep me off my feet.")
Save Me — Aimee Man ("Like Peter Pan or Superman you will come to save me.")
Don Quixote — Nik Kershaw ("Here I am, Superman, Lois Lane, saved the world, back again.")
Precious — Pretenders ("Now Howard the Duck and Mr. Stress both stayed
trapped in a world that they never made.”)

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Blondie
Duran Duran took its name from a character in the Barbarella comic strip
Thomson Twins are named for characters in the comic strip TinTin


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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:31 pm 
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Billy The Mountain - Frank Zappa

Contains Studebacher Hoch - fantastic new super hero of the current economic slump, who looks like Zubin Mehta, can sing like Neil Sedaka, and runs the The Studebacher Hoch Dancing Lesson & Cosmic Prayer For Guidence.

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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:33 pm 
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Superman - Ides of March


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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:40 pm 
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This is a fun CD that I have:


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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:52 pm 
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Jam On It - Newcleus ("Well, Superman looked up at me, he said "You rock so naturally")
Surfing With The Alien - Joe Satriani (Silver Surfer)
Superman - Willie Nelson

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Surfing With the Alien - Joe Satriani


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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 3:40 pm 
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The Late John Garfield Blues -- John Prine
Drinkin' Wine SpoDee Odie -- Stick McGhee, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc.

(OK, so that covers the "Garfield" newspaper comic strip: Garfield, Odie & Jon) :wink:

Jimmy Olsen's Blues -- Spin Doctors
Batman Theme -- The Jam
Iron Man -- Black Sabbath
Magneto And Titanium Man -- Paul McCartney & Wings
Peter Stays and Spider-Man Goes -- Mike Ragogna
Dr. Octopus Pt. 2 -- Crack The Sky


Songs for the Daily Planet (album) -- Todd Snider

ALBUM: Spider-man: Rock Reflections Of A Superhero -- Various Artists (including Crack The Sky)


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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 4:03 pm 
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Sunshine Superman - Donovan

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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 4:08 pm 
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Forgot all about Garfield. There's a various artists CD from 1991 called "Garfield: Am I Cool or What?" with 10 tracks that are all about the feline Macy's balloon:
1. Shake Your Paw - The Temptations
2. I Love It When I'm Naughty - Patti LaBelle
3. Fat Is Where It's At - Carl Anderson
4. Long 'Bout Midnight - Natalie Cole
5. Nine Lives - The Pointer Sisters
6. Here Comes Garfield - Lou Rawls
7. Next to You I'm Even Better - Diane Schuur
8. Spare Time - Valerie Pinkston
9. Up on a Fence - Desiree Goyette
10. Monday Morning Blues - B.B. King


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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 4:21 pm 
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batman theme - the standells

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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 4:34 pm 
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Batman Theme - The Kinks (on Live at Kelvin Hall)

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:TheBeatles:
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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:13 pm 
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I'm No Superman (Scrubs Theme) - Lazlo Bane
The Joker - Steve Miller Band

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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 10:51 pm 
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BB King-Joe Cool
Dave Grusin-Linus And Lucy
The Coasters-Charlie Brown
Spider-Man-Aerosmith (might've been just Joe Perry-I forget)
Ziggy Stardust-David Bowie (in honor of "Ziggy" the comic)
Kartoon Komments-Ape Cafe (my old band-on this song our singer made observations about various comic strips to our attempt at being avante-garde Zappa-esque with some sort of weird jazz/rock. I wrote it and I thought I made some valid points-i.e. why does Henry wear shorts in the middle of winter? We played it live twice-it went down quite poorly!)

band:Pearls Before Swine
band:Poco (were known as Pogo before lawsuit was threatened by comic Pogo's creator)

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PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2009 10:10 am 
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The Pope of Pop!

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O Superman--Laurie Anderson
Superman's Big Sister--Ian Dury
That's Really Super, Supergirl--XTC
Particle Man--They Might Be Giants
Batman--The Who
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill--Beatles (Captain Marvel)

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