Weekend Listomania (Special The Simple Pleasures Are the Best Video Edition)

Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental strumpet aroma therapist Fah Lo Suee and I are off to join Emily Litella at an all-weekend protest outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan. I'm not exactly sure what it's about, but I think it has something to do with the guys in The Lettermen insulting Bullwinkle the Moose. Actually, I've always loved The Lettermen's music, but you do what you have to do.

In any case, posting by moi will doubtless be sporadic for a couple of days while the Mossad interferes with Twitter.

So, in the meantime, here's another little project for you all to contemplate:

Most Memorable Post-Elvis Song Referencing a Home of Some Sort in Either the Title or the Lyrics!!!

No arbitrary rules this time, you're welcome very much. It can be an actual building, a home town, whatever. As long as the point of the song is a place where somebody or something lives.

And my totally top of my head Top Six is:

6. Madness -- Our House



Honorable mention: The CSNY song of the same name.

5. The Kinks -- Dead End Street



As in "People are living in..."

4. Talking Heads -- Once in a Lifetime



As in "You may find yourself in a shotgun shack..." I'm getting kind of predictable here, aren't I?

3. The Smashing Pumpkins -- My Blue Heaven





Yes, the Fats Domino song. It was actually an official Pumpkins b-side in Japan.

"You'll see a smiling face
A fireplace, a cozy room
A little nest
That's nestled where the roses bloom

Just Molly and me
And baby makes three
We're happy in my blue heaven"

Because we needed Billy Corgan's pretentious dyed-hair noggin yet again, obviously.

Oh, and yes, I know it's not strictly speaking a Fats Domino song.

2. Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Sweet Home Alabama



Did I say predictable? Hey, what can I tell you -- this had to be on the list.

And the numero uno paean to hearth and home quite obviously is...

1. The Guess Who -- Runnin' Back to Saskatoon





As in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which is where they were from. Almost got a hit out of it, too. I love this song, actually, and I don't care who knows it.

Which leads us, inexorably, to -- awrighty then, what would your choice(s) be?

[Oops -- forgot my Shameless Blogwhoring: My parallel Cinema Listomania -- theme: most memorable Surrealist films, intentional or otherwise -- is now up over at Box Office. As always, if you could see your way to going over there and conning management into believing we're A-List, I'd be eternally in your debt.]