songs with fire in the title,or about fire.

[chazegee]

Burning Spear - Fire down below

 

[Magic Sam]

Koko Taylor- Fire
Lavern Baker - Soul on fire
Piano Red- wild fire
The dixon brothers- school house fire
Roosevelt Sykes- Fire detective blues
Byther Smith- Housefire
John Lee Hooker- The motor city is burning
Blind Willie Johnson- Keep your lamp trimmed and burning
Deep Purple- Burn
Free- Fire and Water

 

[Slow Hands]

Fire Brigade by The Move

and...

Straight Outta Trumpton by Black Grape

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I'd completely forgotten about The Move and Fire Brigade....I've just had a little wallow in nostalgia.....

 

[moose]

Babylon's Burning

 

[Lub]

the color of the fire - boards of canada
farewell fire - boards of canada

 

[cybertect]

There's loads. Quick wander through my iTunes...

Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
London's Burning - The Clash
Burn it Down - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Burning With Optimism's Flame - XTC
Books Are Burning - XTC (featuring that rarest of things on an XTC track, a guitar solo )
Sacrificial Bonfire - XTC
I'll Set Myself On Fire - XTC
Great Fire - XTC (detecting a pattern yet )
Fire And Water - Free
Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash
Prairie Fire - The Long Ryders
Fireplace - REM
Have A Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) - The Soft Boys
Fire In Cairo - The Cure
Playing With Fire - Stereo MCs
Firepile - Throwing Muses
Has My Fire Really Gone Out? - Paul Weller
Bonfire - Lamb
Fire - Jimi Hendrix
Fire In The Belly - van Morrison
If Your House Is On Fire - Peter Bruntnell
Light my Fire - The Doors
On Fire - Spiritualized
Out Of The Blue (Into The Fire) - The The
Putting Out Fires - The Bluetones
Rock And Roll Preacher (Hallelujah I'm On Fire) - Slade
Still On Fire - Aztec Camera
This Wheel's On Fire - Bob Dylan / The Byrds / Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger
World On Fire - Tanya Donnelly
We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
Set The House Ablaze - The Jam
Fire Engine - 13th Floor Elevators
Walk In The Fire - Doves
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - David Bowie

Is that all there is? - Peggy Lee (fire theme in the spoken intro)
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

I suppose there's Lemon Fire Brigade by Haircut 100 too

 

[django]

Forest Fire - Dead Kennedys
Fire Ball Red - Guitar Wolf
On Fire - Van Halen

 

[Mrs Magpie]

....I've just had a little wallow in nostalgia.....

...and again....www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_rQ8Tr-XHA

 

[Mrs Magpie]

....and yet again...



eta

My God! David Jacobs when he was young!

 

[mauvais]

Ween - Cover It With Gas And Set It On Fire

 

[wishface]

surely deep purple

whoops, but the song is about a zappa gig so...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Another moment of nostalgia......Mitch Mitchell used to live above a greengrocer's in Acton and grew up with a mate of mine called Eileen...God, I haven't seen Eileeen for about 30 years.....

 

[Big Jim]

Disco Inferno - The Trammps
Fire - Ohio Players
Relight My Fire - Dan Hartman
Fire On The Bayou - The Meters
Firecracker - Mass Production
Fire & Desire - Rick James

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

He did feature in the song though, eh?

His name is mentioned in the lyrics.

I'm On Fire For You Baby - April Wine

Fire Down Below - Bob Seger

Baby's On Fire - Brian Eno

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

This Wheel's on Fire - Bob Dylan

 

[billy_bob]

Attack Ships on Fire - Revolting Cocks

 

[cybertect]

Another one just popped into my head

Fire in the Engine Room - Richard Thompson

 

[purves grundy]

Flaming lips- lightning strikes the postman (or anything by them now i think about it, 'flaming' lips init...)

I thought that. That's my fave FL's riff

 

[cybertect]

and 'Fire' by the Pointer Sisters / Bruce Springsteen

 

[ringo]

Babylon's Burning - The Ruts
Burning & Looting - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Catch A Fire - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Blood & Fire - Niney The Observer
Jah Fire Will Be Burning - Hugh Mundell
No Fire It - Mac Warner
Through The Fire I Come - Heptones
Fire Stick - I Roy

 

[sojourner]

His name is mentioned in the lyrics.

Is there an echo in here?

 

[chazegee]

More fire crew - Burning you

 

[quiet_rob]

Probably already been mentioned....

R.E.M. - The One I Love

I was at a performance by REM tribute band "Stipe" last year and they asked for requests so this drunk guy kept shouting "Play fire!" I think they got the jist as they played The One I Love straight away. hehe

 

[cybertect]

This House is on Fire - Natalie Merchant
Burn Hollywood Burn - Public Enemy & Ice Cube