This is a spin off from the Guess the Book thread.
You have to guess the song by its lyrics. Its a game. Whoever gets the next one right, gets to give a song lyric, and it continues on and on and on…
K? Ready? Here we go.
I’ve never done good things
i’ve never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue
I want an axe to break the ice
I want to come down right now…
Any takers?
“Ashes to action, fun to funky
We know Major Tom’s a junkie…”
Or something like that? David Bowie’s “Major Tom,” I believe. The follow-up to “Space Oddity.”
I didn’t earn it, but Major Tom is from Scary Monsters, one of the best albums ever imho, so I’ll continue…
“we got four more years of the same ol’ jive, and you must be wonderin’ how we’re gonna stay alive, well take a tip from one who knows, and I will point the way to go. Romeo Romeo there’s gotta be a show… (you can’t disable a tank in urban warfare when you’re blobbin’ out in the living room chair): the horses are on the track…”
The horses gave it away –
Bottom Line by Big Audio Dynamite.
Here’s mine . . .
I don’t want your history,
I don’t want that stuff
I want you to shut your mouth
That would be enough.
Yeah you got it. Song title is actually Ashes to Ashes, but you knew it…
Here is a poser.
“On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
One smell of colitas
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heacy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night.”
Tricky, eh?
That’s more-or-less Hotel California by the Eagles, Doc.
My contribution:
“Let the sun beat down upon my face
Stars to fill my dreams.
I am a trav’ler of both time and space
To be where I have been.
Sit with elders of a gentle race
This world is seldom seen
Talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed.”
Kashmir by Led Zep!
I hope I’m first. . . that would make my day!
Here’s my song–
“By order of the prophet
we ban that boogie sound
degenerate the faithful”
“Rock the Casbah”, The Clash
Hey boy, take a look at me,
Let me dirty up your mind…
“The queerest of the queer.
the strangest of the strange
the coolest of the cool
the lamest of the lame”
I love that song. Queer. Garbage.
Ok, I KNOW I could bring the a screeching halt. I could come up with something so damned obscure…
But here’s something I know lots of people on this board should know.
“Well ya play that Tarantella
All the hounds they start to roar.
The boys allgo to hell
Then the Cubans hit the floor
They drive along the pipe line
They {title of song}
They take apart there nightmares
and they leave them by the door.”
Wait! Can do two?
“Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine.”
Love that line.
#2: Gloria, from Patti Smiths inimitable Horses lp, the first punky reggae album to come into my Bob Dylan house when I was very young.
“She said that she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use, her perfume was unspeakable-it lingered in the air…”
Hey dustMagnate, did I get your entry from above? It seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle . . .
Excuse me. Yes you did. The quote I provided was actually the rap from the 12" single which wasn’t included on the album (BAD) or the subsequent CD release. The disco single was released at the beginning of Reagan’s second term back when music seemed to matter.
For convenience I reprinted your offering here, which I do not know:
don't want your history,
I don't want that stuff
I want you to shut your mouth
That would be enough.Here’s a tough one-
But if only you could see them
You would know from their faces
They’re were kings and Queens
Followed by princes and princesses
They were future power people
Throwin’ love to the loveless
Shinning the light ‘cause they wanted it seen
Well there were cries of “oh why”
Followed by cries of “why not”
Can I reach out for you
If that feels good to me
And the writers will not stop us
'cause the only love they’ll find is paradise.
Ahh, crap. I didn’t know there was a song pending. Figures. The one song on the list I don’t know. I’m thinking though…
Yup. Best version ever.
Anybody want to take a crack at the other one? I know he has fans around here.
Tom Waits, Tango til They’re Sore.
How bout this:
[ul]…did you just touch my hand?
…and did you just kiss my shoulder?
ah, life’s a mystery…
…and do you have your hand on my knee
and are you moving it extremely slowly?
every time I look into your eyes
all the dancing all the music dies
even with the people streaming by
such is the mystery of love
from down below or somewhere up above
every time I look into your eyes[/ul]
Oh, that one’s not so tough for some of us! “Future Love Paradise” by Seal from his first self-titled album.
Since there’s another one (or is it two?) still pending, I will refrain from posting another one just yet.
Well anyone know lissener’s?
I didn’t think anyone would get Hotel California. Not like they play that song more than twice an hour.
What about these, listed roughly in order of increasing obscurity…
“Don’t you think the Joker laughs at you?”
“Put up a bunch of ugly boxes and Jesus-people bought 'em”
“They left their childhood on every acre”
“Jesus was a black man… No, Jesus was Batman”
“I dreamt that I slept next to plastic”
“But even a gypsy caravan was too much settling down”
“Get ready, get set, for imagination day”
“Is mankind evolving, or is it too late?”
“What’s he building in there?”
“Because they’re a bunch of arrogant bastards with no sense of humour”