Inspired by Radcliffe & Maconie's BBC 6 Music (which have never featured my suggestions) How about our own TZ chain of songs. Just post yours here & explain the link. I'll kick off with ...
Egyptian Reggae
By Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
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Wonderful life - black
Link = black
Girls On Film - Duran Duran (Bands whose name is a word repeated twice)
Bikini Girls with Machine Guns - The Cramps
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Cars, Gary Numan.
Real name Gary Webb.
Doctor Doctor - UFO
Link - Paul (Tonka) Chapman
Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam - the Vaselines (also covered by Nirvana)
Link Jesus
Triumph - Wu-Tang Clan (link Triumph Sunbeam)
Beastie Boys - Hello Brooklyn
Link: Wu Tang Clan was formed in Brooklyn
Wild Boys - Duran Duran
link = Boys
Go Wild In THe Country - Bow Wow Wow
Link: wild
Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen
Link - USA is a Country :-)
Bryan Adams - everything I do
Link: bow (the song was on the sountrack of Robin Hood)
How You Remind Me - Nickelback
Link: They are also Canadian and,of course,Canada is also a country thus providing a link to both the previous links above!
Pink Floyd ....Money.....link Nickel is a source of currency.
Cigarettes and alcohol - Oasis (Link, Keith Floyd)
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - George Thorogood and The Destroyers
Moon of Alabama - Bertolt Brecht (and Kinks) link being "oh show me the way to the next whisky bar".
Rocks - Primal Scream (Whiskey on the rocks)
Don't Go Down to the Quarry - Peter, Paul and Mary (rocks > quarry)
Pure Shores - All Saints (from the DiCap movie The Beach)
What can you do for me ? Utah Saints. Link=Saints.
Losing my religion - REM
link : saint -> religion
Tell god I've had enough by please return my dog
link> religion > god
My Generation - Limp Bizkit (from the album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water)
LINK: Dogs favourite treat, biscuit
Half man half biscuit - I hate Nerys Hughes (with all my heart)
Link - Biscuit
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward. (Lyric , 'Live in solitude like Howard Hughes')
Tracks of my tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
Link = Tears
Soul Asylum – Runaway Train
Link: tracks
Bark at the moon - Ozzy Osbourne (Asylum > madness)
Blue Moon - Supra
link = moon
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Link:blue
My vision....Seal (Sound track from the Shawshank redemption ) Link..... Prison
The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin ( link song)
For your love - The Yarbirds (Jimmy Page was a member before Led Zep)