2010-07-09

Songs about octopuses ...or octopi

In light of the fame acquired by Paul the Octopus, the soccer prognosticating octopod in the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen Germany, I have put together a list of songs having to do with octopuses ahead of the 2010 Soccer World Cup Final. The Beatles' "Octopus's Garden" is the most well known and most covered of these songs by far.

Songs with an Octopus title
Kiss of the Octopus - Blood Brothers
Octopus - Van Der Graaf Generator [a Dutch band!!! See the hint?]
Octopus - Jonathan Coulton
Octopus (aka 'Clowns and Jugglers') - Syd Barrett
Octopus's Garden - The Beatles













Pearl Octopus - Distorted Penguins

Songs with octopus lyrics
Abnegation - Vert
AG pleez deddy (The ballad of the southern suburbs) - Jeremy Taylor
Chorus And The Ring - REM
Duso's Dead - 3DOB
Excentrifugal Forz - Frank Zappa
Family - Nas
If I lived under the sea - Barney
Judas Sheep - Hunters and Collectors [unclear reference to ...tentacle]
Mighty D-Block (2 Guns Up) - Sheek Louch
Siamese Gun - Blood Brothers
Strip - Adam Ant
Tonight - Eminem
Transparent - Darwin's Waiting Room
Underwater [Explicit] - Ghostface Killah
Underwater rhymes - Digital Underground
WTFWJD - I Set My Friends On Fire
You ain't got nuthin' - Lil' Wayne


Albums with octopus titles
Octopus - Gentle Giant
Octopussy (OST) - John Barry
Red Octopus, by Jefferson Starship

Octopus related bands
The Red Octopuses. I guess they got their name from the Jefferson Starship album.
There is a pop/electronica music project named Bubblegum octopus. Here is the MySpace site.
The Octopus Project is a band that has been around since 1999.
... and finally, we have the band Octopodes with only a 2009 album under their belt.

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