Comments on: Help me compile a mix of songs about Star Wars!

Question: Help me compile a mix of songs about Star Wars!

alpha_betty — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:39:51 -0800

Help me compile a mix of songs about Star Wars!

I'm looking for songs about any of the Star Wars movies or characters for a mix cd. About, not from, so nothing from the soundtracks, please. Examples include Fett's Vette by MC Chris and A New Hope by Blink 182. Any genre accepted.

Additionally, an appropriately awesome title for the mix is needed. Suggestions for songs and title would be greatly appreciated!

By: olinerd

olinerd — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:51:03 -0800

How about Weird Al's songs "Yoda" and "The Saga Begins"?

PS > Please send me a copy of this mix :)

By: jadepearl

jadepearl — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:51:49 -0800

Weird Al Yankovick's "Yoda" is so on the money here....

By: specialagentwebb

specialagentwebb — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:56:07 -0800

Richard Cheese's Star Wars Cantina.

By: Bobby Bittman

Bobby Bittman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:56:08 -0800

R2-D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas

By: Ponderance

Ponderance — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:56:48 -0800

Richard Cheese's "Star Wars Cantina" (to the tune of Copacabana)

Dan Ackroyd singing the lyrics to the star wars theme from the SNL skit.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:59:13 -0800

Gotta include Nick's lounge version of the theme.

Also: "Michael Romeo, guitarist for progressive metal band Symphony X, did his own rendition of music from Star Wars. The song is entirely done on guitar, with only minor drums throughout. It is rumoured that the piece uses 25 guitar tracks. It is featured on Symphony X's demo disc "Symphony X: Rarities and Demos", an album only available through the Symphony X official fanclub, Church of the Machine. Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan performed their own version of the theme song under the pseudonym Mariachi Los Vargas under the title "La Guerra de las Galaxias"."

By: bottlebrushtree

bottlebrushtree — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:03:13 -0800

Bill Murray sings 'Star Wars'

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:04:08 -0800

Smog - "I Am Star Wars Today"

I am star wars today
I am no longer english grey

By: specialagentwebb

specialagentwebb — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:04:20 -0800

Also, there's a John Williams tribute with the music from his songs and lyrics about Star Wars in particular. LINK

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:05:30 -0800

Pretty Fly for a Jedi by Chris Bodily TM.

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:06:41 -0800

Also, in Family Guy's Blue Harvest Star Wars Tribute special features some choice moments when characters riding an elevator in the Death Star enjoy the Star Wars theme Muzak-style.

By: steef

steef — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:08:25 -0800

From the Clerks soundtrack, "Chewbacca," by Supernova.

By: jhighmore

jhighmore — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:09:57 -0800

Chewbacca by Supernova

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:14:41 -0800

I'm trying to remember -- do the Nerf Herders have any songs about Star Wars, or did they just steal the name from there?

By: specialagentwebb

specialagentwebb — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:24:07 -0800

Sorry to keep posting more (what am I apologizing for?). Here are a few more I've come across:

Steven Cavanagh did a whole pile of Star Wars parody songs.
Richard Cheese - Imperial March (no lyrics, but a lounge mix of it)
What Can You Get A Wookie For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb)

By: TeachTheDead

TeachTheDead — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:25:16 -0800

Atom and His Package- The Palestinians Are Not the Same Thing as the Rebel Alliance, Jackass

Strange guy, hilarious words, very catch 80's pop inspired music.

By: polyester.lumberjack

polyester.lumberjack — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:55:46 -0800

sorry for the lack of links here, but hopefully there will be something in here for your mix:

• neon neon (side project of rhys from super furry animals) - "i told her on alderaan"
• the coctails - "luke? luke?" "the hell to pay" and "alderaan" (all from the popcorn box set, or the hello music club ep)
• thingy (old band of rob crow from pinback) - "semolina/kessel run" "o.b.1." and "revolution in a box"
• rose melberg - "the wookiee that i loved"

great idea for a mix!

By: mandal

mandal — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:05:03 -0800

Death Star - The Presidents of the United States of America

By: Zed_Lopez

Zed_Lopez — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:08:40 -0800

So Long Princess' oeuvre is songs about Star Wars.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:13:14 -0800

DJ Z-Trip fed the Imperial March into his Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 mix. It is awesome. You can download it here.

By: AwkwardPause

AwkwardPause — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:14:34 -0800

If you want something leftfield, Swedish singer/songwriter Oscar Danielson had a song called "Star Wars" on his 1996 album "Schysst & Populär." The song is in Swedish, but the Star Wars theme features prominently, so should make sense to non-Swedish speakers, too. It doesn't seem to be readily available in the US, so send me a MeMail if you'd like a copy.

By: wrnealis

wrnealis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:14:51 -0800

MC Chris of Aqua Teen Hunger Force fame... Fett's Vette

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:16:23 -0800

More Rob Crow (from his My Room Is A Mess album): Jedi Outcast
Sith spit!

By: dripdripdrop

dripdripdrop — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:54 -0800

Meco's Star Wars disco is a classic

By: jferg

jferg — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:28:41 -0800

It's a bit of a stretch, but The Bloodhound Gang "Fire Water Burn" has a line in it about "kinda like Han Solo, always stroking my own Wookie". But it's more of a passing mention than the song being about S.W.
Also: Tom Smith, "Rock Me Amidala"

By: jferg

jferg — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:30:48 -0800

Also also, MC Frontalot, "Yellow Lasers"

By: The Man from Lardfork

The Man from Lardfork — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:43:29 -0800

I downloaded this once from some dude's blog. I think most of the songs suggested above were on it, and it came with cover art, all in one giant zip. It had a good name too.(Gooooooooogling...)

Found it!

Senator Palpatine's Lonely Darth Command

Alas, the download is disabled. Still, the whole playlist is there. That might help.

By: stavx

stavx — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:51:37 -0800

About 10 years ago, there was this mashup release using samples from the movies mixed with dj beats etc.
It was called suckadelic Star Wars Breakbeats and it was pretty cool.

megaupload link via a blog review from a few weeks ago that hopefully might still be up.

By: dfan

dfan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:56:02 -0800

My band has one (written and sung by our bass player, not my fault): Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives - Tatooine. You can buy the song individually on iTunes or wherever.

By: arniec

arniec — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:38:44 -0800

Coctails In The Cantina is swing versions of Star Wars songs. a VERY good album

I'm also a fan of the Jedi Drinking Song on this album: Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales

If you can find the SNL skit, Jimmy Fallon does a bit during the release of Phantom Menace where he sings to the tunes of "every Morning", "My Name Is..." and one other 90s popular song.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:49:52 -0800

Oooh Ooh

Droid by The Selby Tigers (free mp3 from label, Hopeless Records)

By: box

box — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:54:36 -0800

A beats/breaks record, intended for battle DJs and whatnot: Boba Fettucini's Jawa Breaks.

And I think Last Emperor's 'Echo Leader' has a bunch of Star Wars references.

By: TeachTheDead

TeachTheDead — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:28:03 -0800

I know I posted earlier, but Hip Hop Group Jedi Mind Tricks and super geek Josh Eppard's solo Hip Hop guy Weerd Science has several references to the Star Wars universe in his only CD.

By: originalname37

originalname37 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:43:07 -0800

How about: "Conversational Bocce" for a title?

By: Lokheed

Lokheed — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:51:32 -0800

Yoda Sunscreen

"Get to know your father. You never know if Darth Vader he will turn out to be..."

By: inging

inging — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:00:52 -0800

Oh No! Oh My! has a song called Oh Be One which fits the bill.

By: phritosan

phritosan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:18:37 -0800

if crude and rude are okay, i always get a chuckle from the Star Wars Gangsta Rap from Bentrame

By: extraheavymarcellus

extraheavymarcellus — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:30:14 -0800

Fett's Vette by mc chris.

By: alpha_betty

alpha_betty — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:58:19 -0800

Whee! Thanks for the responses, everyone! I'll take a listen to all that I can find and knock a list together.

The Man from Lardfork! That is an excellent resource. Thank you!

By: Sublimity

Sublimity — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:05:55 -0800

I think I just got an idea for a great Christmas present for my husband here. Thanks, alpha_betty! (And hey, if you pull together a CD, could I get you to burn one for me too? I'm pretty remedial about the whole digital media thing...)

By: gueneverey

gueneverey — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:16:50 -0800

Arniec's suggestion, Jedi Drinking Song, also has a free download here.

By: O9scar

O9scar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:54:07 -0800

The Star Wars gangsta rap is pretty damn funny (and profanity-laden). You could extract the audio fairly easily.

By: Sprocket

Sprocket — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:06:17 -0800

A long time ago in 90's Portland, there existed a Star Wars cover band named
Twin Sister. Their original name was Boba Fett, but according to the myth, Lucas found out and forced them to change it.

A few qenuine mp3s as well as little info can be found here.

Virtually all the lyrics are quotes from the movies.

Sadly, I never got to see them live, but I did manage to snag one of their cd's before they faded away.

By: TheSecretDecoderRing

TheSecretDecoderRing — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:25:19 -0800

While it's a variation of the soundtrack, a snippet of the aforementioned Meco disco versions has just gotta be worked in somehow. And/or Symphony X's metal instrumental version. I'm grateful for those recommendations of Richard Cheese... I'd never heard him before.

As for compilation titles, I got a million of 'em.

R2-DTunes
12-Parsec Blues
Lightsaber Lullabies
Starfighter/Star Destroyer/Stormtrooper/Sith Lord Singalongs
Cantina Classics: Live from Mos Eisley
Songs for X-Wingin' Lovers
Kessel Run Revisited
Alderaan Calling
The Ballad of the Bearded One... and Other Classics from a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
I Can Has Star Wars Music? (or maybe not... unless you can find a hilarious Star Wars/kitty photo)

And maybe go with a two-part title in order to maximize Star Wars musical pun-age.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:55:12 -0800

How could I have forgotten Mclusky's Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues? [WATCH. THIS. VIDEO.]

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:07:05 -0800

Brian Dewan has covered R2D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

By: ChurchHatesTucker

ChurchHatesTucker — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:47:31 -0800

Late to this game, but Star Wars, The Musical (one of several over the years) cannot go unmentioned.