Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Namesakes #101: Tiger Lily


It's time to say it with flowers: Lilium lancifolium, to be specific.


TIGER LILY #1

Before John Foxx formed Ultravox, he was in Tiger Lily. Here they are in 1975 with a cover of the Fats Waller song, sounding like Roxt Music doing Noel coward. Vienna, it is not. 

Tiger Lily - Ain't Misbehavin'

TIGER LILY #2

1977 disco tune that owes a huge debt to Car Wash. Can't find the A Side, Hopeahope, but the B Side is more than adequate...

Tiger Lily - Flying

TIGER LILY #3

All-female LA power-pop band who formed in 1981 and supported the Ramones and the Bangles, among others.

Tiger Lily - Die Laughing

TIGERLILY #4

21st Century Japanese rockabilly band...

Tigerlily - My Boy Elvis

TIGERLILY #5

Nordic folk-jazz from 2003...

Tigerlily - Lucky Jim

TIGER LILY #6

Danish singer and rapper who doesn't appear to have released any solo material (according to discogs) but is featured on a bunch of other people's songs. Here she is in 2007 with Delicious...

Delicious feat. Tiger Lily - Yours

TIGER LILY #7

Fresno doom-merchants from 2013 who need to spend more time looking at the flowers.

Tiger Lily - The Devil

TIGER LILY #8

If this is what passed for punk (even pop punk!) in 2014 Oklahoma, they've clearly never heard of the Ramones...  

Tiger Lily - Seventeen

TIGER LILY #9

He's called Anthony and he comes from Sacramento. This is his jam. 

And his camera needs a new flash.

Tiger Lily - A Sky Full Of Ghosts

TIGER LILLY #10

Apparently, Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates's daughter was called Tiger Lily. Quite a few people on youtube seem put out that this isn't her. Instead it's a contemporary UK pop rock singer whose singles are "a consistent mainstay in the UK’s Top 40 Unsigned Chart". Whatever that is.

Tiger Lilly - Affair

TIGERLILY #11

Aussie DJ and producer from the now.

Tigerlily - Feel The Love

TIGERLILY #12

The interweb has tried to convince me that this singer of nice lo fi acoustic tunes is the same Tigerlily as the one above. I find that hard to believe.

Tigerlily - Sleepyhead

Twelve Tiger Lillies to pick... but which is the tiger and which just silly?


3 comments:

  1. it took less than 24 seconds for me to loathe with a passion #1. Mr CC should put his listening ears for #5, it's the one to beat. I don't recommend anyone listening to a single second of #7. I'm sure Anthony from Sacramento is a lovely young man but man alive this track is absolute pish. The other tracks kept me company whilst I swept the yard. So it's #5 for me.

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  2. 21st Century Japanese Rockabilly 1
    Nordic Folk-Jazz 0

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  3. Thanks for that, CC. It's good for someone else to disagree with George in Ernie's absence.

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