friday fun: i can name that song in two words
Eleven days before the election and I just want to write about anything but the election. I just want it to be over already and writing about it isn't going to make it come any faster or go any better than I want it to. How many times do you really want me to write a post about how your life depends on this election, anyhow? You want meaty election-related posts? Try Tom Maguire, BfT, Michael Totten, PoliPundit or VodkaPundit, among other...pundits.
Me, I'm going to follow in Ace's footsteps (who may have been following in mine, making it a bit like a circle jerk, without the messy cleanup) and do a lyrics quiz. Ace's quiz was better than any of my previous lyrics quizzes for the simple fact that he strived to make it hard by using just fragments of sentences instead of a whole lyric. So I'm going to be like the guy who buys an Expedition because his neighbor bought an explorer and make mine even harder! And bigger! And faster!
Quiz below. Some of the songs are obscure, some are not. There's no rhyme or reason to the songs I chose, except that I was browsing art of the mix tape all morning. They span all genres and many years, so no one (I think) will get them all on the first comment. Try not to look at the previous comments before you give your answers because that's like cheating and cheaters just suck, man. Also, no Googling. Google, being much like and evil Santa Claus, will know if you are cheating on a quiz and will send electric shocks through your computer and into your brain, turning you into a zombie, just in time for Halloween! Winner gets a handful of leftover Halloween candy, with the Smarties removed.
[It's really not as hard as I made it out to be]
1. three sad semesters
2. no more flippin' burgers
3. perfect as cats
4. easier by three
5. harlots of my perils
6. the path is chainlinked
7. bus boy, bartender
8. holes in my jeans
9. choo-choo train
10. my dad's the mayor
11. expanding man
12. archetypal suicide
13. suffering, perversion, calamity
14. and your strain
15. bad skin
16. looked up my bottom
17. all the veins
18. put on a gown
19. my slow reply
20. and dancing bones
21. the old man's Ford
22. vcr's and vasoline
23. a gentle bossanova
24. my jammy
Ok, there's only 24 songs because I've got work to do. But I have about 100 more and if this goes well, I'll use them later.
Comments
I can safely say that I dont any songs with any lyrics like those above. Thank goodness.
Posted by: Val Prieto | October 22, 2004 11:31 AM
10. Bitchin' Camaro, Dead Milkmen
Posted by: Eric Akawie | October 22, 2004 11:33 AM
7. Workin' for a Livin', Huey Lewis. I am embarassed to know that.
Posted by: Mark Aase | October 22, 2004 11:57 AM
4. Glycerine, Bush. Great song!
Posted by: Mark Aase | October 22, 2004 12:01 PM
I cannot recall any of them.
Thank you, Dr. Mierzwiak.
Posted by: Laurence Simon | October 22, 2004 12:03 PM
They're all Helmet songs. OK, just #12 (Unsung)
Posted by: norbizness | October 22, 2004 12:07 PM
8. Story of My Life, Social D. Ok, this is fun but I need to get back to work. I think I'm stumped on the rest, but my daughter probably knows all the rest.
Posted by: Mark Aase | October 22, 2004 12:09 PM
11) Deacon Blue, Steely Dan
And Embarrassed to say I know:
21) Talk Dirty to me, by Poison
Posted by: MKH | October 22, 2004 12:10 PM
(sigh) #20
Don't Pay the Ferryman...
and if Mark thinks he's embarrassed...
Posted by: SemiOnager | October 22, 2004 12:52 PM
... oh, and if you didn't think it was embarrassing enough already, Chris DeBurgh wrote it and inflict... uhh,,, performed it. (and to make matters worse, I could go look at the vinyl disc to see if I spelled his name right, but I'm just not gonna do it)
Posted by: SemiOnager | October 22, 2004 12:57 PM
1. Ben Folds Five, Army
2. Reel Big Fish, Sellout
13. Faith No More, Surprise, You're Dead! (FNM only No. 13?)
23. Petula Clark, Downtown (a nod to Seinfeld?)
Posted by: George | October 22, 2004 02:39 PM
24's a B-Boys song.
I can't remember exactly which one, but it's definitely B-Boys.
Posted by: Sigivald | October 22, 2004 02:43 PM
Rhymin' and Stealin'.
There we go.
Posted by: Sigivald | October 22, 2004 02:44 PM
Hah. NO. Not even the Beasties.
Posted by: michele | October 22, 2004 02:51 PM
If 24 ain't the B-boys, then it's got to be ... Mama Said Knock You Out? "When I pull out my jammy, get ready 'cause it might go BLAOW, how you like me now"?
Posted by: Jason | October 22, 2004 06:04 PM
Jason got it. And the rest of you who guessed, got them right.
Posted by: michele | October 22, 2004 06:08 PM
#3 - Let's Go To Bed - The Cure
#22 - Cake & Sodomy - Marilyn Manson
Posted by: creativelyevil | October 22, 2004 06:14 PM