90210
John E. Davis
Theme song from the TV show "Beverly Hills 90210".
A Very Intense Battle
Jason Schimmel, David Murray; lyrics: David Murray
Buck Fever
The main theme was introduced 7/28/2000 during Hunger Strike. The song was originally arranged for guitar and drums only, but eventually incorporated the whole band and vocals.
What does today bring
all is well, downtown
how will I help myself
to this land!
Battle!
cutting, gouging, slicing for God
the savages here are so very intense.
bathe in a fountain of blood
and sip victorious the divine plan.
War makes peace?
then it's all for sale.
buildings hold down the dead
this is what the eagle sees.
Battle!
So how's that coffee,
very intense?
tell me now, can you taste the blood.
Sunday we'll go for a hike
but Monday I'll destroy that forest.
There's no peace
only now we'll eat
from plastic and stone
this is what the eagle sees.
I'm scared to close my eyes
to hear the chanting below, downtown
we shall arise
Afro Blue
Mongo Santamaria
Jazz song popularized by John Coltrane.
Ah Ya Bibi
Fanfare Ciocarlia
The Silent Elk of Yesterday, These Are The Days
Based on a song performed by the Romanian horn-based group Fanfare Ciocarlia. While it is written as "A Tune by FFC" on the Silent Elk live EP, Esphere's version is often referred to as simply "Ciocarlia."
All Of Me
Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks
Jazz standard.
All The Things You Are
Jazz standard.
AM Dusk / AM PM
Tentative title. Also known as "AM Dusk" because the original studio demo sounded like a generic PM Dawn song.
American Woman
Bachman-Cummings-Kale-Peterson
Cover of the song by the Guess Who.
Another One Bites the Dust
John Deacon
Queen song
At Least we Have Today
Tim Smolens
Quadropus
Au Privave
Charlie Parker
Jazz standard.
Aunt Nellie's Love Gravy
Jason Schimmel
The Silent Elk of Yesterday
[From Tim's YouTube: "[...] largely unknown Estradasphere song from deep in the vault. It is a Jason Schimmel composition that was rarely played live and never recorded in the studio. The title likely would have changed if on an album."]
Autumn Leaves
Joseph Kosma; Lyrics: Jacques Prevert, Johnny Mercer
This song was originally written for the french film Les Portes De La Nuit. The french lyrics were written by Prevert and translated into English by Mercer.
Back in Black
Johnson/Young/Young
AC/DC song
Backstreet Boys medley
Littrell, Lundin, Martin, Pop
Medley of Backstreet Boys covers, including "Backstreet's Back" and "Larger Than Life." Music was sequenced by Tim, featured a dance number by Estradasphere.
Barefoot Construction
bass solo
Tim Smolens
Bat Cave
Battle of Aughrim
Irish Traditional
Bawitdaba
Kid Rock
Kid Rock cover.
Besame Mucho
Consuelo Velasquez
Salsa-esque cover.
Big Mon
Bill Monroe
Bluegrass standard.
Bill Cheatham
Traditional
bluegrass
Blue Moon
Rodgers & Hart ?
Jazz standard.
bluegrass
???
generic bluegrass song??
Body Slam
John Whooley
Quadropus
Kid Rock - style metal song about professional wrestling.
Body Slam
Don't get in my way
My special move will put you out for the fight ya'll
Body Slam
You'll feel what I say
I'll slam you down to the ground if you get in my way
Rowdy Roddy Piper once told me to say
That the only move you'll ever need
to master to play
Is better than the suplex, elbow or chair
Off the top rope don't begin to compare
The suplex hurts but you're not dead
The head butt kills but it's only your head
The figure four will take you out
from beneath your legs
But the only move thats most approved to take you down straight to the ground is
[Chorus]
Bombtrack
Rage Against the Machine
Boss 2
Tim Smolens
Bride of the Buck
Tim Smolens
Buck Fever
New age song.
Buck Fever
Jason Schimmel
Buck Fever
Lyrics for this song were taken from a sweatshirt. Features surf rock and a solo by Jason.
Don't describe it
Don't compare, talk or lie about it
Just, show me the deer
Burnt Corpse
Jason Schimmel, David Murray; lyrics: David Murray
The Silent Elk of Yesterday, Buck Fever
Death metal song.
Oh! Burnt corpse
how's this for a light
it's my pleasure to burn you
'well done'
why wait for cancer
when it can be done in a flash.
fire throwin' gas is flowin'
awaiting the next cool guy
to sweep under the rug.
*Chameleon
Chippie
Ornette Coleman
50's jazz tune.
CHiPs
John Parker
Theme song from the TV show CHiPs, starring Erik Estrada.
*Chugs
*Circus Theme
Cloud Land
Tim Smolens
It's Understood
Video game song.
Combat for the Angel
Trey Spruance?
Secret Chiefs 3 song.
Come Out and Play
Offspring
Grunge song from Offspring's 1994 Album, Smash.
Contra
Konami Kukeiha Club
Theme from the video game Contra.
Court Yard Battle 1
Tim Smolens
It's Understood
Video game song.
Crag Lake
Tim Smolens
The Silent Elk of Yesterday, Buck Fever
Video game song.
Crazy Train
Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley
Ozzy Osbourne cover.
Crocodile Rock
Elton John; Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
From Elton John's 1973 album "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player."
Crystal Blue
John Whooley
Quadropus
Danse of Tosho & Slavi / Randy's Desert Adventure
John Whooley, Jason Schimmel, lyrics: David Murray
It's Understood, These Are The Days
Most often composed of two songs: "Danse of Tosho & Slavi," and "Randy's Desert Adventure." "Tosho" is a Gypsy flavored song that bursts into metal for "Randy's," mellows out, then picks back up into the "Tosho" theme.
Hey!
Hey Hey!
Go into the sand, cell-phone in hand, but with no bottled water
Big Sun-I praise you, the only one that can kill me with passivity
Lavaging, as you pour down invisible death tentacles of no mercy
Blood rushes to my head
my knee hits the hot earth
The heat-it burns!!!
My pores, Blood boils- Skin peels as you....
DIE!!!!!!!!!
This adventure I regret as death tears into me from above
My body-now a well I've abandoned for modernity
This cell-phone can't save from the swelling dunes that wait to cover my charred corpse
My flesh cooks-insipid, and is ripped apart by vultures
From severed eyes I take a final look into the sky
Radiance blinding as it gives-and now takes.
YEAH!!!!!!!
will they miss me Monday morning.
Days of Our Lives
Charles Albertine
TV theme.
Db Hell
John Whooley, Jason Schimmel
It's Understood, These Are The Days
"D-flat Hell."
Disco Time
Don Salsa
The Silent Elk of Yesterday
Dolphin Dance
Herbie Hancock
Jazz standard.
Don't Stop Me Now
Freddie Mercury
Cover of the Queen song.
Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
Brian Wilson and Tony Asher
Song by the Beach Boys.
Donna Lee
Charlie Parker
Jazz standard
Doogie Howser, MD
Mike Post
Theme song to the television show.
drum solo
Dubway
Quadropus
Duck Tales
Mark Mueller
Theme song of the television show Disney's DuckTales.
Earth Angel
Cleve Duncan and the Penguins ?
Cover incorporating both traditional and metal styles.
Ethiopian Song #2
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Dall, DeVille, Michaels, Rockett
Bluegrass rendition of a Poison song.
*Facts of Life
Fall Creek
Fame
Dean Pitchford & Michael Gore
Theme song cover.
Feed Your Mama's Meter
John Whooley
Buck Fever
Includes portions of "Jove Malle de Mone," a traditional Bulgarian tune. Portions of the Buck Fever studio version features "remix 2001" techno parodies
Flamenco Song
Flower Garden of an Evil Man
Estradasphere
Palace of Mirrors
Free Bird
Allen Collins, Ronnie VanZant
Lynyrd Skynyrd cover.
Freedom Jazz Dance
Eddie Harris
Giant Steps
John Coltrane
This jazz standard is also played by The Phree Radicals.
Girl from Ipanema
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Cover of the standard.
Girls on the Beach
Brian Wilson
A song by the Beach Boys.
Good Vibrations
Brian Wilson and Mike Love
Beach Boys cover.
Goonies
Dave Grusin ?
Theme from the film The Goonies.
Green Hill
Tim Smolens
Buck Fever
Video game song.
Gummi Bears
Michael Silversher & Patty Silversher
Theme song from Disney's animated television series.
Gypsy Waltz
Traditional
Hangin' Tough
Maurice Starr
New Kids on the Block cover.
Happy Birthday
Patty & Mildred Hill
"Happy Birthday" uses the melody from "Good Morning to All," which was composed in 1893 by two kindergarten teachers. The lyrics were changed to the modern "Happy Birthday" in 1935, but there is no record of the person responsible for the current lyrics.
Hardball
Estradasphere
Quadropus
Epic song with gypsy inspiration
Harlodic Tendencies
John Whooley
Harvest Home Hornpipe
Irish traditional
The Silent Elk of Yesterday
Formerly known to esphere fans as simply "Irish." Appearing on the Silent Elk live EP, it's written as "Some Irish Song."
Have You Met Miss Jones?
Richard Rodgers; Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
A widely covered jazz standard.
Healing
Usually a monologue/skit from spiritual advisor Mike Seifert.
Here Comes the Night
Brian Wilson and Mike Love
A song by the Beach Boys.
Hora Bucharestu
Traditional?
Klezmer-sounding.
Hot For Teacher
Van Halen
Hunger Strike
Jason Schimmel & Tim Smolens
It's Understood, The Silent Elk of Yesterday, These Are The Days
Gypsy Jazz
Hungry Blues
*Hunnahpu & Xbalanque
I Don't Know
Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley
Ozzy Osbourne cover
I Got You (I Feel Good)
James Brown
James Brown cover.
Impressions
John Coltrane
Jazz standard
In Bloom
Nirvana
In My Room
Brian Wilson & Gary Usher
Beach Boys cover.
Instant Coffee
John Whooley & Netwerk:Electric
jammy Netwerk:Electric song.
It's So Easy
West Arkeen, Del James, W. Axl Rose and Slash
Guns N' Roses cover.
jam
nondescript jam
Jewel in the Lotus
?
John looping solo
John Whooley
John/Moriah jam
Johnson Boys
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Bluegrass tune.
Juicy Fruit
TV commercial jingle.
Jungle Warfare
Jason Schimmel
Quadropus
Metal song.
Keep an Eye on Summer
Brian Wilson and Bob Norman
Cover of the song by the Beach Boys.
Khoomi
John Whooley
Known also as "Tuvan Song" or simply "Tuvan."
King Krab Battle
John Whooley
Quadropus
King Solomon
John Whooley & George Smith
*Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Knight Rider
Glen A. Larson
These Are The Days
TV show theme song.
Know Your Enemy
Rage Against the Machine
Kyle's Mom's a Bitch
Trey Parker
From the television show South Park
Lasting Impressions
Jason Schimmel
This song has vocals!
Let There be Light
Song from a play Estradasphere was involved in at the 2000 Burning Man festival.
Lift Your Skirt
Tim Smolens
A jazzy tribute to Scottish men.
Livin' La Vida Loca
Desmond Child and Luis Gomez Escolar
Metal cover of the Ricky Martin song. Arranged by Dave Murray.
Los Dias Sin Dias
Tim Smolens
It's Understood, The Silent Elk of Yesterday
Apparently about the weekend - the "days without Days."
Louie Louie
Richard Berry
Mario 2
Koji Kondo? Traditional?
Buck Fever
Theme music from the video game Super Mario Bros. 2. Estradasphere's studio song "Super Buck II" (on Buck Fever) sounds very very reminiscent of this song.
Mario Castle
Koji Kondo
Castle music (Level 1-4, etc.) from Super Mario Bros.
Mario Medley
Koji Kondo
Usually a medley of the overworld, underworld, and waltz (underwater) themes.
Mario Overworld
Koji Kondo
Overworld theme (Level 1-1, etc.) from Super Mario Bros.
Mario Underworld
Koji Kondo
Underworld (Level 1-2, etc.) music from Super Mario Bros.
Mario Waltz
Koji Kondo
Underwater theme from Super Mario Bros.
Material Girl
Peter Brown and Robert Rans
Madonna song
Medley #1
Various
Medley of different songs: Mission Impossible theme, Sanford & Son theme, "When the Saints go Marching," "Material Girl," Pippy Longstockings theme, "Pop Goes the Weasel," Beethoven's Fifth, "Mr. Brownstone" (Guns N' Roses), "Sweet Child o' Mine" (Guns N' Roses), circus theme, then Mission Impossible again.
Medley #2
Various
A rare medley that often includes: Peter Gunn (TV theme), Scooby Doo (TV theme), Gummi Bears (TV theme), Duck Tales (TV theme), "Hangin' Tough" (New Kids on the Block), Facts of Life (TV theme), Happy Days (TV theme), "Paranoid" (Black Sabbath), "Every Rose has its Thorn" (Poison), Diff'rent Strokes (TV theme), "Sweet Emotion" (Aerosmith), and then Peter Gunn again.
Medley #3
Various
The Silent Elk of Yesterday
This medley features the songs "No Greater Love," "Miserlou," and "Girl from Ipanema."
Mekapses Yitonisa
Greek traditional
The Silent Elk of Yesterday, Quadropus
The title translates to "Neighbor, what have you done to me?!"
Meteorite Showers
Tim Smolens, lyrics: Tim Smolens and David Murray
These Are The Days, Buck Fever
Song features a vocal-based doo-wop section.
Mi Machino
Millennium Child
John Whooley
The Silent Elk of Yesterday, Buck Fever
Features a ballad introduction that is often isolated, as on Silent Elk. The Buck Fever version has the prog-rock-parody song in full.
Open your eyes little baby
mother has given you life
be not afraid little baby
you're born to be Millennium Child
What will you see
as the world turns round you
and time has found you,
a place to see
minds dissolve into solace times
while you grow up strong
known right from wrong
do what you can
my baby
On your own feeling no disguise,
show us all how to live...
Miserlou
Nicholas Roubanis
"Miserlou" was first published in sheet music form in the 1930's by Nicholas Roubanis, a music scholar studying in Greece at the time. It is actually an Americanized form of a traditional Greek song.
*Mission: Impossible
Misty
Johnny Burke & Erroll Garner
A jazz standard ballad, John on vocals.
Moon River
Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer
*Money for Nothing
Mr. Brownstone
W. Axl Rose, Slash, Stradlin, McKagan and Adler
Guns N' Roses cover.
Musicawi Silt
Girma Beyene
Ethiopian funk cover. Formerly known here as simply "Ethiopian Funk."
*My Life
Narodnokolo
Gypsy Song.
New Age Bubbles
*new Irish song
Nightclub 1960
Astor Piazzolla
Nnamreh fo Abakrem
Tim Smolens
Norwegian Wood
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Beatles cover from "Rubber Soul".
I once had a girl Or should I say she once had me She showed me her room Isn't it good Norwegian wood? She asked me to stay And she told me to sit anywhere So I looked around And I noticed there wasn't a chair I sat on a rug biding my time drinking her wine We talked until two and then she said "it's time for bed" She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath And when I awoke I was alone This bird had flown So I lit a fire Isn't it good Norwegian wood?
Nothin' but a Good Time
Poison
Poison song
Now It's Time to Die
Various
Ad-libbed conglomeration of doowop songs.
Nutch
OG
John Whooley
Paradise City
Rose, Slash, Adler, Stradlin' and McKagan
Guns N' Roses cover.
Piggies
George Harrison
From The Beatles' self-titled "White Album."
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt?
And for all the little piggies,
Life is getting worse;
Always having dirt to
Play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to
Play around in.
In their styes with all their backing,
They don't care
What goes on around.
In their eyes there's something lacking.
What they need's a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives.
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives.
Clutching forks and knives to
Eat their bacon.
Piledriver
John Whooley
Formerly called "John's 5-minute 15-minute Latin Song."
Planet Sparkle
Tim Smolens
It's Understood
Video game song.
*PM Dusk
Police Squad
Ira Newborn
TV show theme.
Poochie Pie
Tim Smolens
Powerhouse
Raymond Scott
Que Lindo
Real title: "Que Lindo Paisaje" ??
Randy's Desert Adventure
Jason Schimmel
It's Understood, These Are The Days
"Randy's Desert Adventure" is combined with "The Danse of Tosho and Slavi" on It's Understood.
[see "Danse of Tosho & Slavi / Randy's Desert Adventure" for lyrics]
Redemption
Bob Marley
riff-a-thon tease medley
a short medley of recognizable guitar riffs
Rise 'n Shine
John Whooley, Jason Schimmel
Contains parts of Don Salsa's "The Deck."
Rumi Bluegrass
Estradasphere
Bluegrass song, lyrics from a poem by Rumi.
Salt 'n Pepper jam
sax solo
John Whooley
Say Your Prayers
An original instrumental. Originally called simply "Indian" in the show archive.
Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer
Metal cover.
She's a Girl
Tim Smolens
Song from Tim's ISS group.
*Shitlit
Sirba
Traditional?
Slowly Growing Deaf
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle song.
Small Ones
Tim Smolens
Vocal harmonic cover of a popular ISS song.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana cover
Smooth Chase
Solea
Flamenco guitar song performed by El Douje (aka Doug Smolens)
Some Turkish Song
Turkish traditional
The Silent Elk of Yesterday
Speck
Jason Schimmel
Quadropus
Run from all that hides
Boundless in disguise
Be a friend to all
Walk across the sea
Inside your cell
you'll find the key
With silent mind
I heard you sing
The treasure's lost,
you've gone too far
Far from here is where we turn to face the rising sun
there we stare through the glasses of the little one (the only one)
Outside yourself internally Far from here is where we turn to face the rising sun there we stare through the glasses of the little one (the only one)
Spreading the Disease
David Murray, Tim Smolens, G. Light
It's Understood
New age song.
Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin song
Summer of '69
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams cover, lead vocals by Tim.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Richard Sherman & Robert Sherman
A classic song from the soundtrack of Mary Poppins.
Surf's Up
Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks
Song by the Beach Boys.
Sweet Child o' Mine
Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagen, Izzy Stradlin'
Guns N' Roses cover
Sweet Emotion
Steven Tyler & Tom Hamilton
Aerosmith cover.
Sweet Home Alabama
Gary Rossington, Ed King, Ronnie Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd cover
Take On Me
P Waaktaar/M Furuholmen/M Harket
Song from the band A-Ha.
Tantra
John Whooley & Netwerk:Electric
jammy Netwerk:Electric song.
Techno in the Style of Burning Man
Estradasphere
The Silent Elk of Yesterday
Guitar-based techno-parody jam.
Territorial Pissings
Kurt Cobain & Chet Powers
Bluegrass cover of Nirvana song.
The Bounty Hunter
Jason Schimmel
Buck Fever
Studio version features 70 tracks of audio!
The Dapper Bandits
Jason Schimmel
The Silent Elk of Yesterday, These Are The Days, Buck Fever
Formerly titled "Frostor." Studio version on Buck Fever features narration by Mike Seifert; studio version on Silent Elk does not.
The Penguin
Raymond Scott
The Silent Elk of Yesterday
Song written by jazz musician (and electronic music pioneer!) Raymond Scott.
The Princes
Tim Smolens
It's Understood, The Silent Elk of Yesterday
The Silent Elk of Yesterday
Jason Schimmel, David Murray; lyrics: David Murray
The Silent Elk of Yesterday, Buck Fever
Death metal song. This song has a music video directed by David Murray and Chip Yamada.
Guns,
Scent destroyers,
Chainsaws,
Timber...
And here I am
destined north from here
to colder climes, where a few might stand.
Beyond this ridge I go
in search for fertile land.
Soon you'll feel my pain
because I am your future son.
Man and earth as one
or I ride on through your cancer haze.
Blackened days,
thick with shame.
The Master:
"As fluid as melting ice
Receptive as a valley
Clear as a glass of water
Do you have the patience to wait
till the mud settles."¹
"Success is as dangerous as failure
Hope is as hollow as fear."²
Victory is a cluttered home and when
it kills you to step outside!
Tree stands,
Ghost forest,
Carbon,
Red Moon,
Now I lay.
Victim of the modern world
underneath I plant three seeds
and giveth my body - decompose
to let grow from soil once me.
In Satan's name
you're exculpated from blame
for your world turning to black.
Alas the deer shot back
before we destroy it all.
The deer shot back,
White tail attack.
¹Tao Te Ching: I chapter 15; Translated by S. Mitchell
²Tao Te Ching: I chapter 13; Translated by S. Mitchell
The Transformation
Jason Schimmel
It's Understood, These Are The Days
The Ventriloquist Choir
Jason Schimmel
The Silent Elk of Yesterday
Jazz song.
*There is No Greater Love
throat chanting
John
Thunderkiss '65
White Zombie
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Tim's E-flat rock & rant
Tobacco Patch
Tocatta in D minor
Johann Sebatian Bach
Baroque masterpiece
*Top of the Mountain
Trampoline Klan
Tim Smolens
Buck Fever
Video game song.
Trials and Tribulations
Traditional
It's Understood
Full title: "The Trials and Tribulations of Parking On Your Front Lawn." Traditional bluegrass song "Crawdad Hole" with some extra lyrics by John Whooley.
Tugboat
Cheezy lounge song.
Turkish Techno
Estradasphere / Turkish traditional
A combination of "Some Turkish Song" and "Techno in the Style of Burning Man."
Turtle Power
James P. Alpern and Richard A. Usher Jr.
Originally performed by Partners in Kryme, this is the end credit music for the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.
U-Mass
Black Francis
Cover of the song by the Pixies.
Walk like an Egyptian
Liam Sternberg
Bangles tune from their 1985 Album, Different Light. Estradasphere's arrangement is instrumental with heavy ornamentation.
Walk This Way
Aerosmith
Welcome to the Jungle
W. Axl Rose, et al.
Guns N' Roses song
What Deers May Come
David Murray
Buck Fever
New age song. Studio version features Mike Seifert as the Corporate Cock. Formerly titled "19.5."
What Goes On
John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Bluegrass version of the Beatles tune.
When I'm 73 I'll Still Love High School Girls
Tim Smolens
XQuiQ
Tim Smolens
It's Understood, The Silent Elk of Yesterday
Pronounced "squeak." Part of Tim's "Princes of Xibalba" song cycle.
Yiddish Song 1
*Zelda 2 Cave
*Zelda 2 House
Zelda 2 Medley
Koji Kondo
A medley usually incorporating overture, town, cave, palace, and house themes from the video game Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
*Zelda 2 Overture
Zelda 2 Palace
Koji Kondo
Theme from the palace/castle levels of the video game Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
Zelda 2 Town
Koji Kondo
Town/village music from the video game Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
Zelda Dungeon
Koji Kondo
Theme from the dungeon levels of The Legend of Zelda.
Zelda Medley
Koji Kondo
These Are The Days
A medley of themes from the video game The Legend of Zelda. Usually incorporates overture, overworld, dungeon and reprise themes.
*Zelda Overture
*Zelda Overworld
Zelda Reprise
Koji Kondo
Music from the video game The Legend of Zelda.