Songs about Museums
In the three hours I drove from my one home to my other home today, I was thinking about songs about museums - sadly and surprisingly, I could think of very few. Here's what I have so far:
Donovan, Museum, 1966 [covered by Herman's Hermits in 1967]
"Meet me under the whale at the Natural History Museum..."
Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna, 1966
"Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial..."
Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi, 1970
"They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum..."
Eric Idle, The Getty, 1999-2000
"There's a new place in LA, I go there every day, it's the Getty..."
So far, we have two natural history museums (one is used for erotic encounters, the other overcharges for admission), and two art museums (one with ugly paintings of women, the other with rather sexier pictures of women...). Any other ideas? I was thinking Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition, too, but that was inspired by a temporary exhibition, and as such, I'm not sure it counts... Google brings up only people I've never heard of...
Donovan, Museum, 1966 [covered by Herman's Hermits in 1967]
"Meet me under the whale at the Natural History Museum..."
Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna, 1966
"Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial..."
Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi, 1970
"They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum..."
Eric Idle, The Getty, 1999-2000
"There's a new place in LA, I go there every day, it's the Getty..."
So far, we have two natural history museums (one is used for erotic encounters, the other overcharges for admission), and two art museums (one with ugly paintings of women, the other with rather sexier pictures of women...). Any other ideas? I was thinking Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition, too, but that was inspired by a temporary exhibition, and as such, I'm not sure it counts... Google brings up only people I've never heard of...
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(Ceri's really the girl for this sort of thing - she's a playlist demon!)
Their house is a museum / When people come to see 'em / They really are a scre-am / The Addams Family
Muse, 'Muscle Museum'
And a few I've never actually listened to...
Emmy the Great, 'On the Museum Island'
Paul Weller, 'The Strange Museum'
The Future Sound of London, 'Museum'
They Might be Giants, 'The Edison Museum'
We definitely need a museum playlist for the symposium soirees. ;)
OK, how about songs whose videos take place in museums - Sheryl Crow, "If It Makes You Happy"...
lyrics:
There's a dream he dreams where the high school is dead and stark
It's a museum and we're al locked up and after dark up in it and after dark
Where the walls are lined all yellow gray and sinister
Hung with pictures of our parents prime ministers
If I were to walk to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Well, first I'd go to the room where they keep the Cezanne
But if I had by my side a girlfriend
Then I could look through the paintings
I could look right through them
Because I'd have found something that I understand
I understand a girlfriend.
Ed: Thanks, this is a great one. I even know where the Cezannes are hung in teh MFA, so it's very evocative!
"He was not that much older than I was / He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum / He asked us what our favorite work of art was / But never could I tell it was him"