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Andrew Gigacz's avatar

From Pink Floyd's 'The Wall', let's not forget 'Mother', complete with the perfect cricketing reference: "Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?"

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Fisher Classics's avatar

Solid reference, that... thanks for playing along

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Stone Cold Steve Baker's avatar

"ooooooooh-ah, mother should I build the [defensive batting] wall?"

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Greg Manning's avatar

'Play Mumma, Sing Me a Song', by John J. Francis (Newcastle boy). The song was known to everyone by its first line, 'Play Mumma Play'. I'd always wondered what she was playing -- now I know.

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Fisher Classics's avatar

Seems that Mumma was playing T20 in Dallas needing at least 2 runs a ball...

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Mick Bourke's avatar

Mother People by Frank Zappa

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Tony Korman's avatar

Love the Beasts of Bourbon "Psycho”

Songs:

Dominion / Mother Russia - Sisters of Mercy

Mother - John Lennon

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! - Allan Sherman

Artists:

Big Mama Thornton

Mamas and the Papas

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Fisher Classics's avatar

This could be its own playlist. Love it.

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Paul Robilliard's avatar

Fantastic Four, Mamas & Papas; and of course Freak Out! from the Mothers, both anticipating 20/20 by many years.

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JT's avatar

Mother Mother - Tracy Bonham, just the perfect amount of unhingedness

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Chuck's avatar

Can't go past P-Funk's Mothership Connection (and you could - at a stretch - apply the refrain "swing down, sweet chariot, stop, and let me ride" to a batsman smashing one)

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Andrew Gigacz's avatar

Another one I just remembered: From the Police's 1983 album 'Synchronicity', the (seemingly mandatory on Police albums) one track written by Andy Summers was 'Mother', which includes a line that always amused me: "Every girl I go out with becomes my mother in the end".

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