Lyrics > The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Flavor

Writers: Campbell/Spencer/Explosion
Published: Cyanide Breathmint Music, BMG Songs inc. ASCAP/Dirty Shirt, BMI
From: Orange + Experimental Remixes [2010] (2xCD, US)
Source: Pop Catastrophe
Notes: Text in BLUE is sung by Beck, text in RED is incorrect. The Ida Red in this song is probably a reference to the traditonal American song titled Ida Red (“Ida Red’s identity is unknown, but is feminine in most uses.”) which is cited as being the model for Maybellene by Chuck Berry (“It was an old fiddle tune called ‘Ida Red.’ I changed the music and re-arranged it, Chuck re-wrote the words”). The Beck / Mike D remix of this song has a different version of the Beck vocal and Flava Flav samples (REMIX LYRICS).
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Almost Too Much
Attack
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Back Slider
Bacon / Bacon (Sansano)
Bag of Bones
The Ballad of Joe Buck
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Beat of the Traps
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Burn It Off
Buscemi
Calvin
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Calvin's On a Bummer
Can't Stop
Caroline
Chase Me
Chicken Dog
Chicken Legs
Chowder
Cold Cold Eyes (Demo)
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Confused
Confused (Zebra Ranch)
Cooking For Television
Cool Vee
Cowboy
Crossroad Hop
Crunchy
Damage
Dang
Desperate
Devil Got My Woman
Dial Up Doll
Diamonds
Ditch
Dissect
Don't Smile
Don't Wanna Live Like The Dead (Short Version)
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Do The Get Down
Down and Out
Down In The Beast
Down Low (Studio)
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Do Ya Wanna Get It?
Do You Wanna Get Heavy?
Dynamite Lover
Electricity
Eyeballin'
Fed Up And Low Down
Firefly Child
Flavor
Flavor (Remix)
Flavor (MTV)
Frosty Junction
Fuck Shit Up
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Fudgy The Whale
Full Grown
Funeral
The Funky Gremlin
Get Down Lover
Get Old
Get Over Here
Get With It
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Get Your Pants Off
Get Your Pants On (Daytrotter)
Get Your Pants On (KEXP)
Greyhound
Ghetto Mom
Give Me A Chance
Grinding
Grudge Match
Happy Birthday Elvis Presley
Heavy (Remix) / (Simulated Dummies)
Hell
Help These Blues
Hey Mom
High Gear
History Of Lies
Hold On
Honey Bee
Hot Gossip
Hot Shot
Human Fly
Human Obscene
Identify
Inside The World Of The Blues Explosion
I Wanna Make It All Right
I Wanna Make It All Right (Zebra Ranch)
Jailhouse Blues
Kawasaki ZII750 Rock 'n' Roll
Killer Wolf
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Lap Dance
Latch On
Leave Me Alone So I Can Rock Again
Like a Bat
Lost Someone
Love Ain't On The Run
Love All of Me
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Lovin' Up A Storm
Magical Colors
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Mars, Arizona
Maureen
Mean Heart
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Meet Me In The City
Memphis Soul Typecast
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Money Rock 'N' Roll
More American Nightmare
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Naked
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No Reservations
Not Clear Still
Not Yet
Ole Man Trouble
Orange
Over And Over
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Pant Leg
Point of View
Push Some Air
Rattling
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Right Place Wrong Time
Rivals
R.L. Got Soul
Rob K / Rob K is President
Rocketship
Rocket USA
Rock Hard
Roosevelt Hotel Blues
Shake A Leg
Shake ‘em On Down (Edit)
Shakin' Rock 'N' Roll Tonight
She Said
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She's On It
Shhh
Showgirl Pts 1 & 2
Sideways Soul
Skunk
Son of Sam
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Soul Letter
Soul Trance
Soul Typecast
Special Rider Blues
Spoiled
Sticky
Strange Baby
Sweet N Sour
Sweat
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Tales of Old New York: The Rock Box
Talk About The Blues
T.A.T.B. (For The Saints and Sinners Remix)
Tell Me That You Love Me
Texas Blues
That's All Right
Then Again I Will
There Stands The Glass
There Won't Be Anymore
Thunderbird ESQ
Tore Up & Broke
Torture
Train #1
Train #2
Try a Little Tenderness
2Kindsa Love
Unclear
Unknown Title #1
Unknown Title #2
Unknown Title #3
Unknown Title #4
Unknown Title #5 / KRCC
Very Rare
Wail
Wail (Video Mix)
Wait A Minute
Wax Dummy
Welcome To Daytrotter
Wet Cat Blues
What Love Is
White Jesus
White Jesus (Live)
White Jesus Part I / II
World Of Sex
Yer Blues
You Been My Baby
Zimgar
SPOKEN: Aright, I’d like to dedicate this song to Mr. Gerard Cosloy.
Lead singer of the rock group Envelope

Walking down Avenue B
Crazy
Man, how he
Think about a sound
Way back
Blues

Well, Ida Red
You got the taste
Explosion man
He got the flavor
No history
Don’t got to know
Well, Ida Red
It takes you there

You got to know
I tell you the blues
It start the feeling
You got the flavor
Well, Ida Red, it tastes like this
I don’t got the tongue
Nobody do

Well, Ida Red
Woman of love
The girls will tell ya
I get down, babe
You can’t be cooler
No rock ‘n’ roller
Well, Ida Red, she got the flavor

A long time ago
There was a king
Jumped over the wall
In Africa
I came on home
I play it interstate
My baby crazy
She got the taste

Sinful

You got the flavor
You got the flavor
You got the flavor
You got the flavor

It tastes of this
It tastes of that
It tastes of this
Like that

Damn

Damn

Punk ass mother humper
Everybody scared

Oh, hey
People are crazy
Try something new

Way back

Yeah

Way back
Way back
Way back

Russell
Russell Simins
Judah
Mr Judah Bauer
Jon
The number one blues singer in the country

Blues Explosion!

Yeah, that’s right, we’re number one

Number one in Philadelphia
Number one in D.C.
Number one in Chicago
Number one in Detroit
Number one in Austin
Huston, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver
We’re number one in New York City, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Cincinnati, Jackson Mississippi
I said the blues is number one
The blues is number one

Soul!

Feel so good about a piece of trash
Prefer it to drugs
Drink it from my glass
The worms are hungry
Looking for my guitar
White lightning
No fruit jar
I get juiced
From Africa to Spain
Ghetto blastin’ the diamond lane
Fix my strings in the sycamore shade
Dig my grave with the silver spade
Makin’ a list, I’m takin’ requests
Flip ’em the blues outta your vest
Strictnine, hit ’em with the thud
Strip-mine goes the flood
When you dig up the past
The bones is just toys
Beat your fists through the static and the noise
‘Cause I got the blues
And I can’t be satisfied
Get the blues
Gonna catch that train and ride

Yeah
Got it
That good?
Got it
All right
You want me to do one more?

You got the flavor
You want me to do one more?
You got the flavor
You got the flavor
You got the flavor
You got the flavor
You got the flavor
You got the flavor