Songs I swear the muppets should/could have done...

[acroyear]

...had the show continued into the 80s...

• Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
• B-52: pretty much ANYTHING, but particularly Rock Lobster, Channel Z, Roam, Love Shack
  
• Bangles: Walk like an Egyptian
  
• Bon Jovi: Wanted Dead or Alive
• Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
• Edie Brickell: What I Am
• Huey Lewis: pretty much anything
• Human League: wouldn't the irony of having one of their monsters sing "Human" be excellent?
• Madness: House of Fun or Our House
• Bobby McFerrin: (song that will not be named)
• Men At Work: Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive, and Who can it be now
• Rod Stewart: Love Touch (maybe some weird Midas touch where some muppet turns the others into shades of pink?)
• Thompson Twins: Doctor Doctor

any others?

update: two more came to mind

• Re-Flex: The Politics of Dancing (imagine a bunch of tie-n-coat pigs with "vote for me buttons" suddenly breaking out in song)
• Madonna: La Isla Bonita - A great one for Miss Piggy trying to be all romantic and serious, but kermit comes out with the maracas and keeps trying to make it upbeat...

Comments

[theshaggyfreak.livejournal.com]

Whip It by Devo

[capi.livejournal.com]

*laughing and laughing and laughing*

You are so VERY right! And when you're right, you're *right*! Right?

*LOL*

Rock Lobster.... Walk like an Egyptian..... YEAH!!! *gah* We need to TELL somebody!! DANG!! These need to be done!!!

[fiona64.livejournal.com]

I was so totally able to envision "Rock Lobster" that I wondered whether it had actually happened, LOL ...

[wildwose.livejournal.com]

I know, you've seen this before and I am not really answering your question, but just on the off chance that one of your readers hasn't seen this...I had to put it here.

REM and the Muppets. Furry Happy Monsters.

[ladylyonesse.livejournal.com]

I am relatively certain they did Walk Like An Egyptian. But can't remember when.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

there are some that were done for Sesame Street (as seen above) and a handful of others might have been done for the Jim Henson Hour, but i didn't see a lot of them (it was college time).

some songs they did do that I can see from the muppet wikia include "Neutron Dance", "La Bamba", "Jump (For My Love)", "All Night Party" (with Buster Poindester himself), and "On the Road Again".

Bobby McFerrin did an episode of that show, but not sure what song(s).

[immer-nachoha.livejournal.com]

Rock Lobster: Performed in episode 204 of Muppets Tonight