After last week's Top Ten Psycho Songs, I was inspired to compile a list of songs that share a name with other famous Hitchcock movies...
10. Duran Duran - Notorious
Hands up if you, like me, used to sing "Mo-mo-monotonous!" whenever this came on the radio. Looking back through nostalgic goggles, it's not that bad.
Is it?
9. Ash - Spellbound
Tim Wheeler's got us in his spell...
8. The Libertines - Vertigo
There may be a U2 song with the same title. You won't find it here.
7. Foo Fighters - Rope
Wonder if the Foos recorded this in one take, as Hitch tried to do with Rope?
6. Television - Torn Curtain
Very unsettling, like all the best Hitchcock movies.
5. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Frenzy
Great lip-gargling on this track from 1957.
4. Beth Orton - Shadow Of A Doubt
It's true that I have got a head full3. Elvis Presley - Suspicion
Of voices saying the first thing that's in their heart
And I go to throw a ball with my best intention
And it gets caught up and carried away
In completely the opposite direction
From the legendary songwriting partnership of Pomus & Shuman. Gee. Knee. Us.
2. Amanda Palmer & Neil Gaiman - Psycho
Of course, the Elvis Costello version is better, but I made that a Number One already. So here's the wonderful Amanda Palmer with her slightly less wonderful hubby on vocals. It shouldn't work... and yet, it kinda does.
Download this, free & legal, along with Amanda's version of Lana Del Rey's Video Games, and more... by clicking here.
1. Elbow - The Birds
Like much of Guy Garvey's songwriting, there's a drama here that's really quite sinister...
The birds are the keepers of our secret
As they saw us where we lay
In the deepest grass of springtime
In a reckless guilty haze
OK, those were my favourite songs that share a title with Hitchcock films. Do you have a Rear Window, North By North West or To Catch A Thief in your record collection?
