A Conversation for Songs About Instruments
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h2g2 Musicians Guild Started conversation Sep 19, 2000
If you can think of any other songs about instruments, please contribute them below.
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Sep 19, 2000
"Squeeze Box"-- The Who
"Piano Man"-- Billy Joel(this might be stretching it...)
"One Man Band"-- Three Dog Night(another stretch!??)
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h2g2 Musicians Guild Posted Sep 20, 2000
I'm afraid I've beaten you to the Piano Man. 
The other two are great additions, though. I'll pop over and add them to the list now. Thanks for contributing!
And don't worry about stretching it! This is our entry, and we can do whatever we like with it. 
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Sep 20, 2000
WOOHOO!!! ::Dances around gleefully::
!!!Y muchas gracias!!!
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Dr. Funk Posted Dec 18, 2000
I've got two:
There's "Acoustic Guitar" by The Magnetic Fields. It's played with a voice and a guitar, and indeed, the singer is singing to the guitar for the whole song. It has great lyrics like:
Acoustic guitar
If you think I play hard
Well, you could have been owned by Steve Earle
Or Charo or Gwar
I could see you tomorrow
So bring me back my girl...
Then there's that Todd Rundgren song (maybe it's on the list already...) that goes:
I don't want to work
I just want to bang on the drum all day.
Would T-Rex's "Bang a Gong" count? And is it already on the list?
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Dr. Funk Posted Dec 18, 2000
Oh yeah--then there's this song called "The Hurdy Gurdy Man," which, judging from the results on CD now, is an old song done by folks ranging from Louis Armstrong to Donovan. I know it as a Butthole Surfers song.
Then there's Firehose's "Down with the Bass." The band is Firehose (lean, mean punk oufit) not Firehouse (middling-to-poor glam rock).
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h2g2 Musicians Guild Posted Dec 20, 2000
I've added you and a bunch of your songs about instruments, Dr. Funk. Thanks for contributing!
Fragilis
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- 1: h2g2 Musicians Guild (Sep 19, 2000)
- 2: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Sep 19, 2000)
- 3: h2g2 Musicians Guild (Sep 20, 2000)
- 4: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Sep 20, 2000)
- 5: Dr. Funk (Dec 18, 2000)
- 6: Dr. Funk (Dec 18, 2000)
- 7: h2g2 Musicians Guild (Dec 20, 2000)
- 8: beafdog (Dec 8, 2002)
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