Summer In The City by The Lovin' Spoonful.
So, that's where They Might Be Giants got Birdhouse In Your Soul from.............
The 1st day of summer is upon us, what with it's oppressive heat and cloudless skies. I suppose this sums it up perfectly.............
Except it fails to mention the sunburnt blondes, the hideous fashion disasters and pissed up neds shouting and breaking bottles outside your house........ I feel certain that John Sebastian held back on those verses to improve the songs commercial potential ;)
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That's one of our songs and what a great song it is!
It should be summer by now here too but it snowed about a foot here, sucketh.
Snow in May? Cool!
I've always wondered why Birdhouse In Your Soul by They Might Be Giants sounded so familiar the 1st time I heard it. I think I know why now, they stole the riff off the LS.... Great song, as good as anything Brian Wilson ever wrote, loads of great changes and movements within it's two-odd minutes. Love the lyrics too.
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