Posted on 06/14/2025 10:24:47 AM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight
“King of Suede” by Weird Al Yankovic
“Queen of Hearts” by Juice Newton
“Princes of the Universe” by Queen
The King is dead, rock is done
You might be through but I've just begun
But that's not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me
Oh, and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
We love your body in that photograph
Your home state sure must be proud
The queen of the United States
Have you lost your crown?
“All the King’s Horses” by The Firm
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the Dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
Steely Dan - King Of The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us0EsdiLBJY
Steely Dan - Kings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNBTUJbnN1o
Metallica - "King Nothing"
and one for our Quester of History SunkenCiv:
Blackmore's Night - "Catherine Howard's Fate"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYYxtkMAd8U
Bastille Day, by RUSH (live version)
And we’re marching to Bastille Day
The guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, oh choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled to let his kingdom rise.
Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago, the mold was cast
Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd Street
He drivin' a drop top Cadillac
Last week he took all my money, and it may sound funny
But I come to get my money back"
How about anything by the Queen - Elton John. Fabulous!
Oh, Lord, You’re beautiful
Your face is all I seek
For when Your eyes are on this child
Your grace abounds to me.....
Songwriters: Keith Gordon Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeEj4TGgM_Q
“There lived a king” from the G&S Opera “The Gondoliers”
“Whe everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody”
The Kaiser Waltz by Johann Sebastian Strauss in 1889.
Someone said "We need a cave, bad tuxedos, a spastic dwarf and a homeless guy throwing a goblet!" When Saturday Night Live sucked you could find stuff like Savatage's "Hall of the Mountain King" on 'Headbanger's Ball' for a good chuckle.
Bad as some of it was it was still far better than rap.
Kudos to The Who for their version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" but the beginning and lead-up within it are definitely meant to have staccato notes and pizzicato (plucked) strings. It can be done with electric guitar and bass, with mutes and focused efforts.
There's a sense of joining or "opening up" in the original that The Who doesn't capture at all.
The Who's version has a punk sound that goes in and out with almost a surf guitar sound at some points. The guitar solos don't fit in and around three minute mark the piece falls into something unrecognizable.
Not that a rock band would try to outdo Edvard Grieg, but it would be nice to hear what a version really showing what an electronic guitar, bass, full drum kit, and maybe synthesizer could do to it.
From the London Symphony Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqvHWUZZdP0
Green grass and High Tides
The Outlaws
“Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you”
The Beatles - Cry Baby Cry
The king of Marigold was in the kitchen
Cooking breakfast for the queen
The queen was in the parlour
Playing piano for the children of the king
Cry baby cry
Make your mother sigh
She’s old enough to know better
So cry baby cry
The king was in the garden
Picking flowers for a friend who came to play
The queen was in the playroom
Painting pictures for the childrens holiday
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