We closed Monday's collection of Superman songs with a track by Cinerama. Comic book fan David Gedge also used the name of the most bizarre Superman foe as the title of his other band's second album: Bizarro by The Wedding Present. Sadly, he never wrote a song about Bizarro... but these guys did...
The Monochrome Set - Mr. Bizarro
And this isn't too far off...
All of which brings us to another post of songs featuring the Man of Steel...
...and his friends and foes. Starting with one for Brian!
Tullycraft - Superboy & Supergirl
Actually, Supergirl appears to be far more popular with songwriters than her young male counterpart... who'd have thought it?
Donovan - Superlungs, My Supergirl
Kate Miller-Heidke - Supergirl
(That cover's from the 90s, when mullets were big.)
When he's not being Superman, Kal El goes by another name, that of mild-mannered investigative reporter...
That's not how he spells it.
Klark Kent was an alias for Stewart Copeland of The Police, recording a song that Sting didn't want for the day job. John says, "Stewart Copeland’s debut album Klark Kent was a belter."
Clark Kent works for a newspaper called The Daily Planet. On Saturday we featured a song by the title by Arthur Lee & Love. Here's another one...
Mark Hollis - The Daily Planet
And that's where Superman met the love of his life...
Weird coincidence department: all the bands I could find who wrote a song about Lois Lane (along with Sunday's Franz Ferdinand) began with the letter F.
But Lois wasn't Clark's first love though. That title would go to...
And he even had a fling with a mermaid once. Her name? Lori Lemaris. Can you spot a pattern here?
Not everybody with the initials LL loves Superman though. Let's not forget his arch enemy, Lex Luthor, a man who's jealousy of Superman might yet be explained that nobody has ever written a decent pop song in his honour...
Elvis Costello - Dr. Luther's Assistant
That was the best I could come up with, with the wrong spelling... and he's not even a doctor! No wonder he's such a bitter, twisted sociopath...
Luthor isn't Superman's only foe. We mentioned Bizarro earlier, and Braniac earlier in the week. Then there's the Kryptonian supervillain memorably played by Terence Stamp in Superman 2, General Zod...
And let's not forget the badguy who killed Superman back in 1992...
Final question for today... what do you get if you put all of Superman's worst foes together in the same room?
The Superman Revenge Squad?
That'd be a good name for a band, don't you think?
Point of order, Mr Chairman. George Best was The Wedding Present's debut album, not Bizarro.
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely correct. And I think I mentioned that last week too, so I don't know why I wrote that here!
DeleteXTC - That’s Really Super, Supergirl.
ReplyDeleteMaybe move on to rockstars wearing Superman shirts…
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