# The Song Synonym Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 9, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263 "2014-03-09T13:05:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/1 "2014-03-09T13:05:10Z")
Note: I was debating putting this in Cafe Society or the Game Room, but as it relates to music, I figured it belongs here.
So, lying in bed late last night I had one of those weird ideas you get around that time: the Song Synonym Game.
What happens is one person posts the name of a song with all significant (not the, a, etc.) words replaced with synonyms or near-synonyms. The person who figures out the song name then posts the next one.
As an example, say I wanted to do “Feeling Groovy”.“Feeling” can become “Experiencing” while “Groovy” can become “Coolness”. I’d then say “Experiencing Coolness”.
Let’s start off with an easy one: “Terraced Pathway to Utopia”.
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### Author:  [@oz0ne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oz0ne)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/2 "2014-03-09T14:23:53Z")
Stairway to Heaven
Unrestrained Feathered Creature
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/3 "2014-03-09T14:24:44Z")
You mean “coiffure path to Mr. Jobs”? (Hairway to Steven?)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/4 "2014-03-09T14:27:39Z")
> [@oz0ne](#):
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> Stairway to Heaven
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> Unrestrained Feathered Creature
Free Bird
Unusual Prestidigitation
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### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/5 "2014-03-09T14:27:55Z")
> [@oz0ne](#):
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> Stairway to Heaven
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> Unrestrained Feathered Creature
Freebird
Golden Underwater Boat
> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> You mean “coiffure path to Mr. Jobs”? (Hairway to Steven?)
😃
ETA: Beaten to it by burpo!
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### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/6 "2014-03-09T14:41:53Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Free Bird
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> Unusual Prestidigitation
Is it Strange Magic?
If so, I’ll re-submit Golden Underwater Boat.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/7 "2014-03-09T14:44:07Z")
Yellow Submarine
Heliotrope fog
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### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/8 "2014-03-09T14:57:31Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> Yellow Submarine
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> Heliotrope fog
Purple Haze
Experts of Battle
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/9 "2014-03-09T16:22:14Z")
> [@Octarine](#):
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> Purple Haze
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> Experts of Battle
Masters of War
Roaring Elevations
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/10 "2014-03-09T18:04:49Z")
> [@Octarine](#):
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> Note: I was debating putting this in Cafe Society or the Game Room, but as it relates to music, I figured it belongs here.
The coin flipped differently when it I did it – off to the Game Room.
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### Author:  [@oz0ne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oz0ne)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/11 "2014-03-15T05:46:51Z")
God damn it. I can’t figure the last one out, and this was shaping up to be a fun game. Somebody do something.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/12 "2014-03-15T14:40:18Z")
_Such Great Heights_ by Iron & Wine?
Mussorgsky’s _Night on Bald Mountain_?
_Holy Mountains_ by System of a Down?
_Twist and Shout_ by the Isley Brothers?
As a Sparrow on a Copper Strand
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/13 "2014-03-15T14:40:43Z")
> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Roaring Elevations
After 17 furious minutes of research, the best I can come up with is:
Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
BIP:
Circuitous
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/14 "2014-03-15T14:43:04Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> _Such Great Heights_ by Iron & Wine?
> Mussorgsky’s _Night on Bald Mountain_?
> _Holy Mountains_ by System of a Down?
> _Twist and Shout_ by the Isley Brothers?
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> As a Sparrow on a Copper Strand
Like a Bird on a Wire
Circuitous
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/15 "2014-03-15T15:02:25Z")
_Round and Round_ by Perry Como
A More Blanched Hue of Sallow
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/16 "2014-03-15T15:52:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> A More Blanched Hue of Sallow
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Also, I’m certain that **MrDibble’s** entry is supposed to be Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush. (Why was it so hard?)
In play: Doppler-Style Adoration
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/17 "2014-03-15T17:59:02Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Like a Bird on a Wire
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> Circuitous
Should have been “Roundabout” (Yes)
BIP: Doppler-Style Adoration
Radar Love
Next: Stride As a Pharoah
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### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/18 "2014-03-15T19:18:30Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Next: Stride As a Pharoah
Walk Like an Egyptian
Harpsichord Person
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### Author:  [@Pandoranoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandoranoid)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/19 "2014-03-15T19:26:04Z")
Piano Man
Excessive Currency, Excessive Complications
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### Author:  [@Pandoranoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandoranoid)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/20 "2014-03-15T19:29:42Z")
I forgot to quote; I was offering my solution for ‘Harpsichord Man’, if that wasn’t obvious.
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