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Cats: the musical.

― A Nairn, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'my kitten went to london' - kid 606 isn't there an old 60's garage tune called 'leave my kitten alone'? i've got a version by the sonics but i don't think they wrote it. there's also a song by milky wimpshake and the chorus goes "meow, meow, meow, meow, mee-ow!" in a suitably twee manner, but someone else wrote that as well. god knows who. there's loadsa twee pop songs about cats i imagine. i've got a mentalist casio glitch-core song called 'my cat is harder than yr cat' if that helps.

― sean fuck, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend once put together a video of cute kittens doing cute kitten things, all set to "Take on Me" by A-Ha.....

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I demand a link to that video NOW.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

merzbow and bastard noise - 'cat scratch fever dreams' not as good as it sounds sadly belle and sebastian - a century of elvis is allegedly about a cat

― jack frobisher, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.rsub.com/thebluedot/borderequalszero/kittens/index.html

not what you asked for dan (not sure if a link exists for that); this is from karl ackermann of surely-momus-must-click-here http://www.milkyelephant.com

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Leave My Kitten Alone (Solomon Burke), Mean-Eyed Cat (Johnny Cash), Fat Cat (Bootsy Collins), Pads, Paws and Claws (Elvis Costello), Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? (Cramps), Pussycat Meow (Deee-Lite), Cats In A Bowl (Dinosaur Jr), Pussy Heroin (Alec Empire), Bimbo (Five Keys - I used to have a cat called Bimbo), Kitten Moon (Fluke), Two Cats (Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson), Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Phil Harris - second best Disney singer), Black Cat (Lightnin' Hopkins), Maltese Cat Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson), Leave My Kitten Alone (Little Willie John), Cat In The Hat (Little Benny And The Masters), Puss In Bag (Lee Perry), Wild Cats of Kilkenny (Pogues), Stray Cat Blues (Rolling Stones), Bear Cat (Rufus Thomas's reply to Hound Dog), Crosseyed Cat (Muddy Waters).

Also Joe The Lion (David Bowie), Lion (Burning Spear), Ocelot (Eggs), Pink Panther or Tiger Style (Ganja Kru), Tiger Tiger (Head), Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle)(Joe Hill Louis or Rufus Thomas, who is the emperor of animal songs), Soccer Lions (Thomas Mapfumo), Lion In The Hall (Monkey Mafia), Wild Tiger Woman (Move), Lion in a Jungle (Naturalites), I've Got a Tiger By the Tail (Buck Owens), Panther Power (Paris), Feed Them to the (Linden) Lions (Pavement), The Lion (Lee Perry), Tiger Rag (Louis Prima - Disney's #1), Lions After Slumber (Scritti Politti), Liquid Lynx (Shafie), Lion And The Lamb (TV Smith), Tiger Rag (Art Tatum), Jungle Lion (Upsetters), Jaguar (Who), Ex Lion Tamer (Wire), Tissue Tigers (The Arguers)(XTC).

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From the Onion AV Club Least Essential Albums of the 1990's list:

MC Skat Kat & The Stray Mob, The Adventures Of... (1991) The Adventures Of MC Skat Kat stands as the least essential album ever recorded by a sassy animated cartoon feline, surpassing even Garfield's 1991 album Am I Cool Or What? The rapping cat, who made his debut alongside Paula Abdul on the cheesy 1989 single "Opposites Attract," got his own 50-minute album a full two years later, allowing impatient Skat Kat completists the opportunity to hear him rock the mic on such tracks as "I Ain't No Kitty," "No Dogs Allowed," and "New Kat Swing."

― Mr Swygart, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cats, a Dutch band from Volendam featuring one Arnold Muhren (yes, he was a relation), were 'the house musicians for Ajax and the Dutch national team in the 1970s' according to David Winners 'Brilliant Orange- the Neurotic genius of Dutch Football'. Not bad.

― Snotty Moore, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.rsub.com/thebluedot/borderequalszero/kittens/index.html Bah! No a-ha, plus someone sent me this link last year. C+

(It would have been a B if you could actually slap the kittens; nothing like animal cruelty to make the familiar seem funny.)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, my parents have an album by The Cats. Considering they aren't Dutch, that's quite impressive...

― Mr Swygart, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Girlfrendo - Cat Heaven

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i REALLY LOVE "The Cat Is Dead" bu Danny Elfman from a musical he never finished. DOWNLOAD IT!

― chaki, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Catwalk', a Siouxsie and the Banshees b-side

― Paz, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Cat Wants to Be Dog" by Macha

― macy, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the kinks - phenomenal cat

― brains, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gerardo - "Here Kitty Kitty"

― Gordon Krauthamer, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

kinghts of the jaguar - rolando/the aztec mystic

― jayque, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cathouse. Danielle Dax. The T.S. Eliot thing that Lloyd Webber did. Anything by the Stutzbear cats. Meeeowwws that by Sherbert.

― Kris England, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"No ue to complain If you're caught out in the rain You're mother's quite insane Cat Food Cat Food Cat Food Again" "Cat Food" King Crimson from the album "In The Wake of Poseidon"

― jonathan thrak, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Catblower by Download

― Ken Boone, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Invasion of the Gabber Robots" was inspired by and features a conversation between The Captain and Cats.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"cat man" by gene vincent & isnt there a carl perkins song called "put yr cat clothes on"? i guess there's tons of rockabilly & r'n'b songs with "cat" in them that aren't even about cats tho'.

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had Jingle Cats on a comp few years back.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Might have been mentioned already, but there's a fine little comp on Projekt inspired by cats called A Cat-Shaped Hole in My Heart. Aw.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Band names include Kittie and Kittens. "Kitty" by Presidents of the U.S.A. "Clyde," by the Twilight Singers (one of the members has a cat named Clyde).

― j.lu, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"china cat sunflower" by the grateful dead

― unknown or illegal user, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a compilation on Project which features a bunch of goth bands educating the listener about the dangers of feline leukemia virus...I think it is called, "The Cat Shaped Hole In My Heart."

― Ryan McKay, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

APPLE MAGGOT QUARANTINE AREA!!! IF ANYONE HAS ANY OF THERE MUSIC...ESPECIALLY THE SONG ABOUT THE KITTY....EMAIL ME

― Sedusa, Sunday, 29 December 2002 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Meow Mix commercial.

― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 29 December 2002 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)

no mention of queen's "delilah"?

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 December 2002 02:56 (twenty-three years ago)

some of dem cats, 'fcourse, are found but a whisker-width away from whence the mice are, thence
"...And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps", J.Tull

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 29 December 2002 02:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I don;t know if anyone has mentioned it because I am too tired to read the whole thread, but Basemnt Jaxx's "Rendes Vous" has a cat in it.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 29 December 2002 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dude The Cat" by The Leaving Trains

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 29 December 2002 04:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"...and mean cats chew on licorice
and cannot climb the trees..."
--Parakeet, R.E.M

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 29 December 2002 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Meow Mix commercial.

The sound of those meowing in tune cats used to haunt me in kind of a spooky way.

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 29 December 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"Big Electric Cat" by Adrien Belew
"Tom Cat" by New Lost City Ramblers

― bflaska, Sunday, 29 December 2002 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"Black Cat Moan" by Don Nix
(lots of blues and jazz tunes about cats)

― bflaska, Sunday, 29 December 2002 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

there should be cats in more bands!

― rr, Sunday, 29 December 2002 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Grove Amanda remix

Man I hope this wasn't a typo.

Anyway: "I Am A Cat" by Shonen Knife is a personal favourite.

― Charlie (Charlie), Sunday, 29 December 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw a great video in the early '80s (mixed in with some Residents) of a handsome darkhaired fellow whose be-yoo-tee-ful cat was playing the conga drums

― bflaska, Sunday, 29 December 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Calico Cat - Shonen Knife

Big Bikes - Kyuss

― mei (mei), Sunday, 29 December 2002 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

'I am the cat' Jackson Browne

― pete porchos, Monday, 30 December 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Laura Nyro "The Cat Song"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Farmyard Cat - Prefab Sprout

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the greatest songs ever written: "Kitty In A Coma", by James Kochalka Superstar. (Available at http://www.mp3.com/jks )

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 30 December 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a kitten-kahimi karie

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 08:19 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

"Wop-a-din-din" - Red House Painters

Any others for this?

― frankE (frankE), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i was actualyl doing this exact same thing the other day. well it was going to be as cats vs dogs mix. the response song to "houndog", "bearcat" is just as good as the original. i dont have all my music on this computer but i never could fill up an entire cd. ill come back with more later.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Current 93 "The Bloodbells Chime" from "All the pretty little horses." The song refers to Tommy Catkins at the Somme, after a painting by Louis 'Catland' Wain.

― paul c (paul c), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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yessss xp

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 02:55 (fourteen years ago)

there is no song in existence i can't turn into a ditty about one or both of my cats

― lawrence and the machine (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 02:58 (fourteen years ago)

examples pls

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 03:00 (fourteen years ago)

there's a formula

change one-syllable words to 'cat'
any names to cat's name
two-syllable words = "kitten"

etc

― lawrence and the machine (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 03:06 (fourteen years ago)

unsatifying, tbh

I don't kitten stay at your kitten
I don't kitten talk with your friends
I don't kitten vote for your president
I just kitten be your kitten kitten
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd be kitten
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd be kitten
I don't kitten stay at your kitten
I don't kitten talk to your friends
I don't kitten vote for your president
I just kitten be your kitten kitten
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd be kitten
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd like to see
It's a place I'd like to be
It's a place I'd be kitten

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 03:16 (fourteen years ago)

cat cat kitten cat cat kitten kitten

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 03:18 (fourteen years ago)

tbf it is probably not quite that straightforward

― lawrence and the machine (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 03:26 (fourteen years ago)

: /

(can you tell i miss lyle?)

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 03:30 (fourteen years ago)

No one can top mine

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 04:33 (fourteen years ago)

The Association, Rose Petals, Incense and a Kitten

― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 11:29 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2012/09/va-kitty-comp-2012-burger.html

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:55 (thirteen years ago)

I sing reggae songs to my cat when I feed him, but I change the lyrics. For example, the Congos, "Row Fisherman Row": "Lots of hungry belly kitty cats on the floor / Millions of them!" or Jacob Miller's "Healing of the Nation": "Kitty cat has been good / so we give him him cat food / let them, let them know / it's the feeding of the kitty".

― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:08 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

Save the Birds - His Name is Alive

― john. a resident of chicago., Monday, 15 October 2012 21:42 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bETCusT5kNM

― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Monday, 15 October 2012 21:52 (thirteen years ago)

My favorite: The Light Crust Doughboys, "Pussy Pussy Pussy":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXiIx4OqcXw

― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Monday, 15 October 2012 21:53 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.tokafi.com/news/terry-fox-labyrinth-scored-11-cats/

Terry Fox: "The Labyrinth Scored for 11 Different Cats"

― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 October 2012 21:56 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdD5_1sxas

― suggest butt (Pillbox), Monday, 15 October 2012 22:00 (thirteen years ago)

For years I thought the Who's "Athena" was about Pete Townshend's cat. Turns out it's about Theresa Russell.

― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 02:12 (thirteen years ago)

EXTREME MUSIC FROM CATS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONJfp95yoE

Someone alert Susan Lawly.

― alb indys, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 02:32 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/d90152148894c5c4627c30e2f1baccea/tumblr_mw0bvleJLh1srzpwbo1_500.jpg

― mookieproof, Monday, 11 November 2013 00:36 (twelve years ago)

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-3787441-1344411538-3222.jpeg

WILD MOOSE PARTY by The Cosmopolitans!!!

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 02:18 (twelve years ago)

"I miss my afternoon naps
My kitty cat sleeping on my lap
But she died August two-thousand eleven
Just got back from Norway
When she slipped off to kitty heaven"

Mark Kozelek & Desertshore - "Tavoris Cloud"

― djh, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 19:08 (twelve years ago)

"Avenging Annie" - Andy Pratt, opens with a cat's meow. Not sure what it has to do with the rest of the song

― Lee626, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 19:36 (twelve years ago)

file with the Light Crust Doughboys... Harry Roy and his Orchestra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

― Lee626, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 20:01 (twelve years ago)

"Wop-a-din-din" - Red House Painters
Any others for this?
― frankE (frankE), Monday, June 14, 2004

this is the most beautiful song ever from a cat owner to their pet

― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 20:52 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8TdHn1vlCY

Starting at about 4:05 in. If you have any cats in the room, they will spend the next few minutes freaking out!

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:00 (twelve years ago)

six years pass...

thread does not seem to mention my two favorites:
Belle & Sebastian - “A Century of Elvis”
The Only Ones - “Out There in the Night”

― Lidsville U.K. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 December 2019 17:04 (six years ago)

"All Dead, All Dead" by Queen was written by Brian May in memory of the passing of his childhood pet cat. Hard to listen to this song without tearing up, just a little.

― henry s, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:24 (six years ago)

three years pass...

Ann Magnuson "Ghost Cat"

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 3 November 2023 22:34 (two years ago)

Joni Mitchell - "Man From Mars".

"Kitty Come Home" - Kate and Anna McGarrigle

This, of course, is not about a cat but written by Anna to Kate about her failing marriage.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 4 November 2023 00:08 (two years ago)

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