This song was covered by NOFX on their album titled 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records, and also appears on the Fat Wreck Chords compilation Survival of the Fattest.

In 2008, New York City radio station Q104. 3 FM WAXQ named Don McLean's " American Pie " number 37 in their 2008 Top 1, 043 Songs Of All Time listener-generated countdown.

The first influences of African American Culture into hymns came from Slave Songs of the United States a collection of slave hymns complied by William Francis Allen who had difficulty pinning them down from the oral tradition, and though he succeeded, he points out the awe inspiring effect of the hymns when sung in by their originators.

The following year finally marked the release of Snow Patrol's second album ' When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up ', which, despite slightly disappointing initial sales, would eventually go gold in the wake of the band's later fame, along with their debut ' Songs For Polarbears '.

Songs were sung to children who passed them on to their children.

In 2008, the rapcore band Hollywood Undead achieved success with their debut album Swan Songs.

Video footage of the tour was shown on their controversial November 30 television special Songs of America, which TV sponsors refused to endorse because of its distinct anti-Vietnam War message.

* 2000: The song was covered by the Tiger Lillies on their album Circus Songs.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

More Songs ... cover of Al Green's " Take Me to the River " broke Talking Heads into general public consciousness, and gave the band their first Billboard Top 30 hit.

In the Song of Songs, Gregory metaphorically describes human lives as paintings created by apprentices to a master: the apprentices ( the human wills ) imitate their master's work ( the life of Christ ) with beautiful colors ( virtues ), and thus man strives to be a reflection of Christ.

* British — Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).

The band themselves in 2007, tongue-in-cheek, described their own output merely as: " Songs about Death and Water since 1979 ..."

The concept of the State Songs project is intentionally misleading: U. S. states feature prominently in the title and chorus of each song, but have very little to do with their actual narratives.

The best known of these is the Bee Gees parody The Hee Bee Gee Bees, with their song " Meaningless Songs ( In Very High Voices )", which became a moderate hit.

The 1999 triple album 69 Love Songs showcased Merritt's songwriting abilities and the group's musicianship, demonstrated by the use of such varied instruments as ukulele, banjo, accordion, cello, mandolin, flute, xylophone, and Marxophone, in addition to their usual setting of synthesizers, guitars, and effects.

The band's recent albums, i ( 2004 ) and Distortion ( 2008 ), both followed the album theme structure of 69 Love Songs: The song titles on i begin with the letter ( or, in the case of half the songs ' titles, the pronoun ) " I ", whilst Distortion was an experiment in combining noise music with their typically unconventional musical approach.

* The a cappella group The Bobs ' song " Santa Ana Woman " from their 1988 album Songs for Tomorrow Morning has the line " The Santa Ana winds had come back / And the whole city of LA was acting like it had PMS.

Sting performed " Come Down in Time ", for the album which also features other popular artists and their renditions of John / Taupin Songs.

In the UK, NME magazine made Deserter's Songs their Album of the Year.

* Brobdingnagian Bards on their album Songs of Ireland.

* Ryan's Fancy on their album Newfoundland Drinking Songs.

Indeed, with fear and terror I imagine the time, when those dark iconoclasts come to power: with their raw fists they will batter all marble images of my beloved world of art, they will ruin all those fantastic anecdotes that the poets loved so much, they will chop down my Laurel forests and plant potatoes and, oh !, the herbs chandler will use my Book of Songs to make bags for coffee and snuff for the old women of the future – oh !, I can foresee all this and I feel deeply sorry thinking of this decline threatening my poetry and the old world order-And yet, I freely confess, the same thoughts have a magical appeal upon my soul which I cannot resist ….

They were Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake featuring their song " Affectionate Dan ", Sissle and Blake Sing Snappy Songs featuring " Sons of Old Black Joe " and " My Swanee Home ", and Eubie Blake Plays His Fantasy on Swanee River featuring Blake performing his " Fantasy on Swanee River ".

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

* Song of Songs ( 2005 ) a Josh Appignanesi and Jay Basu film-a study of belief and desire, set in the cloistered world of London's Orthodox Jewish community.

In November 2005, Venue Songs was released as a two-disc CD / DVD set narrated by John Hodgman.

The Marian hymns from the 1605 Gradualia are set in a light line-by-line imitative counterpoint with crotchet pulse which recalls the three-part English songs from Songs of sundrie natures ( 1589 ).

Rouget de Lisle wrote a few other songs of the same kind as the Marseillaise and in 1825 he published Chants français ( French Songs ) in which he set to music fifty songs by various authors.

On January 27, 2004, Elektra / Asylum / Rhino Records released Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings, a two CD set compilation, with 31 digitally remastered songs, four of them demos and one unreleased.

which was set to music in 1917 by Charles Ives as part of his cycle Three Songs of the War.

Capitol's first record album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm record set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford, and the Pied Pipers, all with Paul Weston's Orchestra.

In 1607, he wrote and published a masque for the occasion of the marriage of Lord Hayes, and, in 1613, issued a volume of Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry, set to music by John Cooper ( also known as Coperario ).

When she released her sophomore studio effort in 1997, You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs, she moved towards country pop material, which set the trend for a string of albums released into the next decade.

American composer Phil Kline set Rumsfeld's lyrics to music in " Rumsfeld's Songs ", a song cycle released on Zippo Songs ( 2004 ).

Woodfall's poem was set to music, as a ballad, by the time of the appearance in 1805 of James Plumptre's Collection of Songs, where it was # 152 in the first volume.

Songs with a fixed set of verses, or ballads, which tell a story, were not so well suited to tasks that could end abruptly at any time or that might require extending.

It was under the final title that Edward Hughes set it as the first of ten " Songs from Aesop's fables " for children ’ s voices and piano, in a poetic version by Peter Westmore ( 1965 ).

The late 1990s saw a renewed interest in Kossoff, and another career retrospective was released, 1997's 14-track Blue Soul ( actually a reissue of a double vinyl release from the mid 1980s of the same name ), as well as the five-disc Free box set Songs of Yesterday, and a Free biography entitled Heavy Load: The Story of Free.

* Songs of Yesterday ( 2000 ) ( 5 disc box set )

In November 2008, the band returned to the recording studio to perfect their new material, and thus, set a release date for a six-track EP, entitled Pop, Songs & Death, Vol 1: The Lightning EP.

Songs in Peking opera are proscribed by a set of common aesthetic values.

A poetic version was set for children's voices and piano by Edward Hughes in his Songs from Aesop's Fables ( 1965 ) and Bob Chilcott included the fable as one of the five pieces in his Aesop's Fables for piano and choir in 2008.

* Amanda Pitt ( soprano ) David Owen Norris ( piano ) Songs & Piano Music by Edward Elgar AVIE AV 2129 ( played on Elgar's 1844 Broadwood square piano and set in Elgar's original keys )

Serving as its lead-off single was the song " Baby Girl ", which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and set a record for the longest chart run since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990 ; it was also the highest-peaking debut single for a group in 13 years.

His 1857 poem " Roses and Thorns ", in a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev, was set for voice and piano by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as " Legend ", No. 5 from " Sixteen Songs for Children ", Op.

Songs associated with Hated and Proud were first played at the now famous 9: 30 Club, formerly at the corner of 9th and F Streets in DC, as part of a revamping of the band's former live set which members felt was stagnant.