A third animal hunted by man in this case as Oscar Wilde said “‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!'” By this she meant the Reynard The Fox.
“Dead Fox” is a song by Courtney Barnett from her 2015 album ‘Sometimes I Just Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit’. Barnett describes the story of this track, which touches on issues of consumer choice. “At the time I was writing this song there was this huge shark thing – someone got eaten by a shark in Australia, so they went killing sharks. That was happening at that time,” she explained. “But it’s also just about big business taking the small business, local becoming global. A consumerism criticism. I support the local shops, I always buy there instead of big supermarkets, I try to avoid them, It’s a bit harder on tour, but you know, I try to avoid McDonalds, also because I don’t eat meat.”
“The Fable of the Urban Fox” was recorded by Arab Strap for the album ‘As Days Get Dark’. Released in March 2021, it became their most successful record to that date, topping the Scottish albums chart and peaking No.14 in the UK. Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat recounts the story of how once British foxes started getting hunted, they moved into the cities from the countryside, but the urban population saw them as “scruffy scrounging parasites” rather than wily predators. Moffat explained that he found inspiration for the song after a small family of foxes started wandering around near his flat. He decided to learn more about them and read Lucy Jones’ book, Foxes Unearthed, about Britain’s complex relationship with the cunning canines. Moffat reflected on how the treatment of foxes parallels our relationship with migrants. He told Uncut magazine he wrote the track “after it struck me that the tabloid papers have treated foxes in entirely the same way as refugees and immigrants. They paint them as an enemy, demonize them. It’s an obvious metaphor in the context of the song.”
“Fox on the Run” is a song written by Tony Hazzard, first recorded by the band Manfred Mann. They were an English rock band, formed in London in 1962. The group were named after their keyboardist Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. The band had two different lead vocalists during their period of success, Paul Jones from 1962 to 1966, and Mike d’Abo from 1966 to 1969. This song was released as a single in November 1968. It reached No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart in late January 1969. The track runs 2 minutes and 44 seconds long with a C key and a major mode.
“Fox on the Run” is a song by the glam rock band Sweet, first recorded in 1974. It was the first Sweet single written by the band, rather than producers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and was their 14th single overall. The song became the best charting single in Australia in 1975, with six weeks at number one. Two versions were recorded by Sweet. The original version was produced by Mike Chapman in association with Nicky Chinn on the European version of the 1974 album Desolation Boulevard. Sweet also recorded and produced a more pop-oriented version as a 7″ single in 1975, which is the more familiar version of the song. The 1975 single version was included on the Capitol Records version of Desolation Boulevard.
“Like Foxes Do” was the first song written by Louisa Rose Allen, better known by her stage name Foxes, is an English singer and songwriter. She wrote it when she was 13 years old, and it ultimately was also one of the origins of her stage name. It remains formally unreleased at the present time but this version of the song has leaked out on to YouTube. She is best known in the United States as the vocalist for Russian-German dance music producer Zedd’s 2012 single “Clarity”.
