Guess the Song

[BobSchroeck]

*Originally posted by betenoir *
**Bob- then you add insult to injury by spelling my name wrong. **

Argh. Force of habit, what can I say? I was well-trained in high school French class.

All is forgiven. But I expect to see those points in the mail!

I’ll express’em to you, how’s that? <grin>

Actually I’m just pissed because nobodies tried my earlier ones- they’re right there at the bottom of page one!

Let me tell you a secret… I posted those 15 of mine because everything I could identify someone beat me to, and what was left I didn’t know… And I wanted to get in on the action somehow.<sigh>
– Bob

[Totoro]

*Originally posted by Totoro *
**
Oh her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcedental wind,
and she wonders without knowing, where did we begin? **

I was really hoping someone would get this one, but if anyone wants a hint, it’s off the “Dumb And Dumber” Soundtrack (No, I didn’t buy it, I pirated, like every one else.)

Here’s another kinda hardcore song.
This town don’t feel mine,
fast to get away,
far.
I dressed you in her clothes,
so drive me,
far away.

[RocknRoll_Killing_Machine]

Here’s some other fairly easy song lyrics:

Stolen from an african land / Chased out with a knife / With a face like Bob Marley / and a mouth like a motor bike / Oh well the bars are always open / and the time is always right / And if God’s good word goes unspoken / well the music goes all night.

“Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I’ve rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I’m
sittin’ here on the bench, I mean I’m sittin here on the Group W bench
‘cause you want to know if I’m moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug.”

[Cisco]

Stolen from an african land / Chased out with a knife / With a face like Bob Marley / and a mouth like a motor bike / Oh well the bars are always open / and the time is always right / And if God’s good word goes unspoken / well the music goes all night.
Why that, of course, is “Don’t Push” by Sublime. (It’s kinda hard to miss that song, it was on every single album they ever put out except their self-titled one.)

[Totoro]

*Originally posted by Havok *
**

“Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I’ve rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I’m
sittin’ here on the bench, I mean I’m sittin here on the Group W bench
‘cause you want to know if I’m moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug.”

**

This Is Alices Restaurant. Arlo Guthrie.

[Cisco]

Oh my god, I cant believe i didnt get that one, the Sergeant part threw me off and made me think “military” instead of “cop”. I should have known though right at litterbug…
::D’oh::

[Gyrate]

*Originally posted by Cisco *
**Oh my god, I cant believe i didnt get that one, the Sergeant part threw me off and made me think “military” instead of “cop”. I should have known though right at litterbug…

:: D’oh :: **

I think the sergeant in question is military, but never mind…

But on that note:

“We’re down on our knees/'Cause no-one wants a fella with a social disease”

jr8

[Saturn]

*Originally posted by GRJ *
2. "Because my love for you could break my world in two,
If you should fall into my arms and tremble like a
flower."

Just to be a pain in the bum, it’s “break my heart in two”…sorry, Bowie fan here you know.

[betenoir]

*Originally posted by jr8 *
**

“We’re down on our knees/'Cause no-one wants a fella with a social disease”

jr8 **

“Officer Kruskey (sp?)” from West Side Story.

Interesting the lines you picked out.

Should I do another one? Nobody’s answered my others, and I’m despondent.

Ok, also punk rock. And appropo of the past month:

“Honest to goodness
the bars wern’t open this morning
they must have been voting for the president or something…
It was better before, before they voted for what’s-his-name…”

[RocknRoll_Killing_Machine]

Here’s some more lyrics
#1

I wanna smash it up, for the people. And for our right to be, to be treated equal. I wanna smash it up, for all my friends. I hope you stick around until the very end.

#2

A tank of gas is a treasure to me / I know now that nothing is free / I talk to you every now and then / I never felt so alone again

#3

Please let me take them / I don’t want to be an idiot / ritalin will make me smart / at least that’s what my teacher said / all the other kids take them / I think I am the only one / I need something to slow me down / I talk too much cuz I am dumb

#4

For I am no one. I am nothing. Mold me, make me into something you find worth in, deem special.

#5

So don’t let the world bring you down / Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold /Remember why you came and while you’re alive / Experience the warmth before you grow old

#6

They call it a scene / I call it disaster / down here the kids grow up faster / scared they’re scared to the bone / like a pack of wolves they don’t run alone / one on one they won’t look you in the eye / but when the pack’s together there’s a battle cry / I saw it, fifteen on one / when the crowd dispersed the kid was done

#7

Yeah, I sweat a lot / Pants fall down every time I bend over / And my feet itch / Yeah - I married a scarecrow / I hate you / Talkin’ to myself / Everybody’s starin’ at me / I’m only bleedin’ / Someone taps me on the shoulder every 5 minutes / Nobody speaks English anymore / Would anyone tell me if I was gettin’ stupider?

most of these are punk, #1 is questionable, and #5 and #7 aren’t.

[Crusoe]

Originally posted by picmr *
7. I feel so extraordinary.
Something’s got a hold of me.
True Faith New Order***

Also one of the ones on my list, which was…

1. The Verve, “The Drugs Don’t Work” – guessed by GRJ

2. Blur, “Chemical World”

3. Pulp, “Disco 2000” – guessed by GRJ

4. New Order, “True Faith”

5. Pet Shop Boys, “So Hard”

[Freudian_Slit]

*Originally posted by BobSchroeck *
**I might as well throw in a few…

1. I’m so scared in case I fall off my chair
   And I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs
   **

God my thread got long! I don’t know if anyone has answered-but Stealer’s Wheel: Stuck in the Middle With You.

[pezpunk]

*Originally posted by Havok *
**Here’s some more lyrics

#6

They call it a scene / I call it disaster / down here the kids grow up faster / scared they’re scared to the bone / like a pack of wolves they don’t run alone / one on one they won’t look you in the eye / but when the pack’s together there’s a battle cry / I saw it, fifteen on one / when the crowd dispersed the kid was done

**

NO MORE BAD TOWN!!! - op ivy

[Cisco]

So don’t let the world bring you down / Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold /Remember why you came and while you’re alive / Experience the warmth before you grow old
Incubus - Warmth
Bah, I guess no one is going to answer any of mine. Look back on page one if youre interested though, i think some of them are punk but i can’t even remember which ones I posted now :rolleyes:

[RocknRoll_Killing_Machine]

I’ve looked at them, I just don’t know them.

[afireinside]

*Originally posted by broccoli! *
**More punk, but newer…

1. mom and dad don’t look so hot these days, they’re getting over the hill

2. Friday night we’ll, be drinking Maneschevitz (sp?), goin’ out to - terrorize Goyem

3. We went to the philly pizza company and ordered some hot tea, the waitress said well, no - we only have it iced, so we jumped up on the table and shouted anarchy, and someone played a beach boys song on the jukebox. it was california dreamin’ and someone started screamin’ on such a winter’s daaay!

If you want harder punk songs just ask
broccoli!

**

#3 is “Punk rock girl” by the Dead MIlkmen. (One of the best songs ever.)

[afireinside]

*Originally posted by Havok *
**Here’s some more lyrics
#1

I wanna smash it up, for the people. And for our right to be, to be treated equal. I wanna smash it up, for all my friends. I hope you stick around until the very end.

#2

A tank of gas is a treasure to me / I know now that nothing is free / I talk to you every now and then / I never felt so alone again

#3

Please let me take them / I don’t want to be an idiot / ritalin will make me smart / at least that’s what my teacher said / all the other kids take them / I think I am the only one / I need something to slow me down / I talk too much cuz I am dumb

#4

For I am no one. I am nothing. Mold me, make me into something you find worth in, deem special.

#5

So don’t let the world bring you down / Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold /Remember why you came and while you’re alive / Experience the warmth before you grow old

#6

They call it a scene / I call it disaster / down here the kids grow up faster / scared they’re scared to the bone / like a pack of wolves they don’t run alone / one on one they won’t look you in the eye / but when the pack’s together there’s a battle cry / I saw it, fifteen on one / when the crowd dispersed the kid was done

#7

Yeah, I sweat a lot / Pants fall down every time I bend over / And my feet itch / Yeah - I married a scarecrow / I hate you / Talkin’ to myself / Everybody’s starin’ at me / I’m only bleedin’ / Someone taps me on the shoulder every 5 minutes / Nobody speaks English anymore / Would anyone tell me if I was gettin’ stupider?

most of these are punk, #1 is questionable, and #5 and #7 aren’t.
**

#1 is the International Noise Conspiracy’s “smash it up.” You guys have great musical taste. Try these:

1. “I’ve got a bone to pick with capitalism…and a few to break.”

2.“Every time I make my mother cry and angel dies and falls from heaven.”

3. “War is sexy, war is fun…”

4. “I remember the day the sun went out.”

[RocknRoll_Killing_Machine]

ahaha, I was going to post a Refused song lyric, but I was thinking about doing protest Song '68, with

“To sing, you must first open your mouth. you must have a pair of lungs and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordian or guitar. The essential thing is that I want to sing. Then this is a song, I’m singing.”

The one you choose though was “I’ve got a bone to pick with capitalism…and a few to break.” which is Worms of the Senses.

“I remember the day the sun went out” is Slice Paper Wrists by Poison The Well.

[lissener]

What’s my prize for twice stumping the panel? Should I go for three?

[betenoir]

*Originally posted by afireinside *
**3. “War is sexy, war is fun…”

**

Dead Kennedys. Ranbozo the Clown
Oh com’on. You’re posting the Germs and the DK’s and you can’t get my first one (back where I answered yours)? Quintessential 80’s west coast punk. Come to think of it so is my last one.

That said I haven’t gotton your other ones- damn, some of them sound familar.