What song is this?

[malcom]

I used to hear this program on a local snday mornin "live and unplugged" radio program, the refrain was something like

"Hey, hey
my oh my
rock n’ roll will never die
just grow your hair down
in your eyes,
you’ll make a million, that’s all right."

The song was about some band moving to seatle to form a grunge group, which is so alternative they won’t play any of their songs.

Anybody able to recognize it?

[rosa]

Hey Malcolm,

That would be "Hey Hey, My My" by Neil Young. I think there might have been covers done, but it’s his song.

xo
Rosa

[malcom]

Hey Rosa, I’m checking it out, seems kinda funny though, I remember the singer being in tune,

[malcom]

Steeeriike one!

any other contenders?

[rosa]

proof

Note that Neil Young gets the songwriting credit. You probably heard a cover. You might want to do a search on cdnow or amazon for that particular song, and see what comes up.

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[jasper]

"just grow your hair down
in your eyes,
you’ll make a million, that’s all right."

That’s not Neil! So the first lines may have been no more than a quote in Neil’s honor. Right?

[malcom]

Rosa, It isn’t Neil Young, You’d be surprised how many songs came up under "hey hey, my my"

This song is a sort of midtempo piece, not a dirge like Neils.

[SG]

Todd Snider?
I remember him singing a song about grunge years ago.

[rosa]

My bad. Rosa is a big fat dummy! Ignore any posts where I claim to know anything.

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Rosa

[malcom]

And the award goes to Salamiguy, and his infinate knowledge of the music business

[Bucky Ramone]

Great song, with great lyrics by the way…..

Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
Todd Snider

Hey, hey, my, my
Rock n’ roll will never die
Just hang your hair down in your eyes
You’ll make a million dollars

Well, I was in this band goin’ nowhere fast
We sent out demos but everybody passed
So one day we finally took the plunge
Moved out to Seattle to play some grunge
Washington state that is…
Space needle, Eddie Vedder
Mudhoney

Now to fit in fast we wear flannel shirts
We turn our amps up until it hurts
We’ve got bad attitudes and what’s more
When we play we stare straight down at the floor
Woweee! Pretty scary
How pensive
How totally alternative

Now to fit in on the Seattle scene
You’ve got to do something they ain’t never seen
So thinkin’ up a gimmick one day
We decided to be the only band that wouldn’t play a note
Under any circumstances
Silence…
Music’s original alternative
Root’s grunge

Well we spread the word through the underground
That we were the hottest new thing in town
The record guy came out to see us one day
And just like always we didn’t play
It knocked him out

He said he loved our work
He said he loved our work, but he wasn’t sure if he could
Sell a record with nothing on it
I said tell ’em we’re from Seattle
He advanced us two and half million dollars

Hey, hey, my, my
Rock n’ roll will never die
Hang your hair down in your eyes
You’ll make a million dollars

Well they made us do a video but that wasn’t tough
‘Cause we just filmed ourselves smashing stuff
It’s kind of weird ’cause there was no music
But MTV said they’d love to use it

The kids went wild, the kids went nuts
Rolling Stone gave us a five star review
Said we played with guts

We’re scoring chicks, taking drugs
Then we got asked to play MTV Unplugged
You should have seen it

We went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions
of the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place
Then we smashed our shit

Well we blew ’em away at the Grammys show
By refusing to play and refusing to go
And then just when we thought fame would last forever
Along come this band that wasn’t even together
Now that’s alternative
Now that’s alternative to alternative
I feel stupid…and contagious

Well our band got dropped and that ain’t funny
‘Cause we’re all hooked on drugs but we’re outta money
So the other day I called up the band
I said boys I’ve taken all I can
Shave off your goatees, pack the van
We’re going back to Athens…

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