David - that sounds interesting. I have a very small (okay two songs that I know of) collection of songs about Corvids. (I have at least one more - but only on vinyl - Crows on a Phone Line by Let's Active - the other two are Crow from the Jim Carroll Band and Black Crow Flying from Joni Mitchell.) Anyway, I would love more.
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There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Some iTunes selections:
"Bad Seeds" - Beat Happening
"Bad Penny - Big Black
"Bad Little Girl" - The Surfadelics
"Bad Little Woman" - Shadows Of Knight
"Bad Priestess" - Mountain Goats
"Woman Gone Bad" - Scorched Earth
"One Bad Apple" - The Osmonds
Anyway, I would love more.
I'll post it. It's a dark, pretty folk song.
I also have "Silver Raven" by Gene Clark. (Not actual ravens, however.)
And the whackaloon jazz vocal version of Poe's "The Raven."
There are tons of Tom Waits crow songs! The one most appealing to a corvid fancier would be "Shiny Things" off Orphans. (Waits is the one that tipped me to crows pleasure in "anting.")
And I think the Irish folk group Altan had an album titled Red Crow.
"The Black Crow Knows" - Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
"Buzzards and Dreadful Crows" - Guided by Voices
"In Hiding From The Crow" - Zola Jesus
Cool.
There is a Japanese folk song about crows going home. Which I cannot recall the actual title to. (My mother used to sing it - actually, it may be a lullabye.)
How do I not already have "The Black Crow Knows" - what album is that on?
How do I not already have "The Black Crow Knows" - what album is that on?
Element of Light.
I don't think it was on the original LP release - I think it was an outtake that was added on the first CD release, or maybe a later CD re-release.
Also, "Black Crow King" - Nick Cave.
Bad one that I think have yet to be mentioned :
Camper Van Beethoven - "Good Guys & Bad Guys"
Flaming Lips - "Bad Days"
Go-Betweens - "A Bad Debt Follows You"
Harvey Milk - "A Maelstrom of Bad Decisions"
Richard Thompson - "Bad News Is All The Wind Can Carry"
Tammy Wynette - "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad"
X - "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts"
Sleater Kinney - "All Hands on the Bad One"
Crows & Ravens:
Beefheart - "Ice Cream For Crow"
Dylan - "Black Crow Blues"
Deerhoof - "Crow"
Earth - "Omens and Portents II: The Carrion Crow"
Leo Kottke - "Crow River Waltz"
Animal Collective - "Loch Raven"
Mendoza Line - "Tell It To The Raven"
Sandy Denny - "The North Star Grassmen and the Ravens"
I also have an mp3 of Richard Thompson covering Joni Mitchell's "Black Crow" live.
I also have an mp3 of Richard Thompson covering Joni Mitchell's "Black Crow" live.
I want that!