Songs with Comic book references

[THB]

XTC.......

 

[snitzer]

one better...this includes "comic collecting..." and leave your sensibilities at the door before playing...

 

[cd4ever]

Barenaked Ladies, One Week.

 

Hold it now and watch the hoodwink

As I make you stop, think

You'll think you're looking at Aquaman

[thecollectron]

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick. I can't remember if it's side one or two (vinyl ) but somewhere in the middle are some lines about rising up from the pages of your comic books, we'll have Superman for president, let Robin save the day.

[goldust40]

David Bowie had a song called The Supermen, but that was probably more to do with Nietzsche than Siegel and Shuster.

 

And then there's Laurie Anderson's O Superman....

[Dick Pontoon]

Celi Bee and the Buzzy Bunch and Superman.

 

[Dick Pontoon]

Herbie Mann covering Celi Bee and the Buzzy Bunch.

 

 

 

I think you need a picture to make it complete.

 

[jools&jim]

 

Bruce Springsteen, "I'm a Rocker" from The River:

 

"I got a Batmobile so I can reach ya' in a fast shake / When your world's in crisis of an impendin' heartbreak..."

 

 

[jools&jim]

 

[Dick Pontoon]

The Clique - I Am Superman.

 

[jools&jim]

 

[Dick Pontoon]

Donovan - Sunshine Superman.

 

[Dick Pontoon]

Barbra Streisand Superman.

 

[Dick Pontoon]

Gil Scot Heron - Ain't No Such Thing As Superman

 

[Dmac538]

[jerome34]

In the early 1950's Ewan MacColl wrote a song about two kids, the

younger had a gun and killed a cop. He was to young to die but the

older one was old enough and was hanged. If I remember correctly, it

is on his album "bad Lads and Hard Cases."

 

The chorus was:

"It was guns and comics, films of war,

that made their education."

[Gatchaman]

Ronnie James Dio - Sunset Superman

[mystrymachine]

T-rex

Whatever happened to the Teenage Dream

 

" silver surfer

and the ragged kid

are all sad and rusted"

[Maccai3]

Amy Winehouse mentions Superman in Tears Dry On Their Own

[webeloobie]

"Captain America's been torn apart

Now he's a court jester

with a broken heart

He said-

Turn me around and

take me back to the start

I must be losin' my mind-

"Are you blind?"

I've seen it all a million times"

 

 

 

When this came out I thought it was cool that Axl (or whoever wrote the lyrics) was reading Cap's stories with USAgent taking over for two years while Rogers was simply "The Captain".