Name That Song (given a lyric)
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Mon, 04/07/2003 - 06:17
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- That thunder in your heart / At night when you're kneeling in the dark / It says you're never gonna leave her (She's The One, Bruce Springsteen, thanks to lbangs)
- When you were a child, you were treated kind / But you were never brought up right / You were always spoiled with a thousand toys / But still you cried all night (19th Nervous Breakdown, Rolling Stones, thanks to lbangs)
- Because something is happening here / But you don't know what it is / Do you, Mister Jones? (Ballad of a Thin Man, Bob Dylan, thanks to lbangs)
- The situation's fraught / Fraughter than I thought / With horrible, impossible possibilities (Impossible, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, thanks to stumpy)
- Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads (We Want a Rock, They Might Be Giants, thanks to taryn)
- I've got this great idea / Why don't we pitch it to the Franklin f*ckin' Mint? (Battle of Who Could Care Less, Ben Folds Five, thanks to stumpy)
- I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes / And the wonder of it all is that you just don't realize / How much I love you (Wonderful Tonight, Eric Clapton, thanks to taryn)
- Tattoo-Tony and his cool muscle shirt / Maria on the corner lookin' good in a skirt (This Bud's For You, thanks to stumpy)
- Doesn't it matter that I have to feed the both of us? / Employment's down (Manic Monday, Bangles, thanks to taryn)
- If I get home before daylight / I just might get some sleep tonight (Friend of the Devil, Grateful Dead, thanks to lbangs)
- Slow down, Joe, I'm a rock and roll man / I've twiddled my thumbs in a dozen-odd bands (Holiday Inn, Elton John, thanks to stumpy)
- We saw the man from across the road / With the sunshine in his eyes / Well he lived all alone in his own little home / With a great big gallon jar (And It Stoned Me, Van Morrison, thanks to taryn)
- Every day is like survival / You're my lover, not my rival (Karma Chameleon, Culture Club, thanks to taryn)
- They knew we were lying but they smiled just the same / It seems they'd already forgotten we'd came (Walk on the Ocean, Toad the Wet Sprocket, thanks to taryn)
- The kingdom of this world is become / The kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ, and of His Christ (The Messiah, Handel, thanks to stumpy)
- Here I sit, life goes on / End of tunnel, TV set / Spot in the middle / Static fade, statistical bit / And soon I'll fade away (Warehouse, Dave Matthews Band, thanks to stumpy)
- I know a man ain't supposed to cry / But these tears I can't hold inside (I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Marvin Gaye [or CCR], thanks to lbangs)
- Couldn't ask for a better day, two by two / To the ring, to the right point of view / Each retreat to the corner that's defined by you / To the ring, to the right point of... (The Boxer, Carbon Leaf, thanks to stumpy)
- They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em (Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell, thanks to stumpy)
- We remember our first visit / The service was exquisite / Why Joseph, I had no idea! / Come on now, you were working here (from the Simpsons, actually called We Put the Spring in Springfield, but we can forgive AAA)
- I said, "Even though you know what you know / I know that I'm ready to leave / 'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born" (She Said She Said, Beatles, thanks to lbangs
- Face down right to the the practice room / Tension and fame's our career, career, career, career, career... (Cut Your Hair, Pavement, thanks to lbangs)
- Would you please ignore / That you found me on the floor / Trying on your camisole? (Alcohol, Barenaked Ladies, thanks to AAA)
- What's your name? / Who's your daddy? / Is he rich like me? (Time of the Season, Zombies, thanks to stumpy)
- I can't stand to fly / I'm not that naive / Men weren't meant to ride / With clouds between their knees (Superman, Five for Fighting, thanks to dgeiser13)
- I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem / That time that you made it with the whole hockey team / You used to think I was nice / Now you tell all your friends that I'm the Antichrist (You Don't Love Me Anymore, Weird Al Yankovic, thanks to AAA)
- Well he turned and screamed at Linda Lu / And that's the break I was looking for / And you could hear me screaming a mile away / As I was headed out towards the door (Gimme Three Steps, Lynyrd Skynyrd, thanks to stumpy)
- And his mama cries / 'Cause if there's one more thing that she don't need / It's another hungry mouth to feed (In the Ghetto, Elvis Presley, thanks to stumpy)
- Hindu, Taoist, Mormon spill theirs just anywhere / But God loves those who treat their semen with more care (Every Sperm Is Sacred, Monty Python, thanks to lbangs)
- She is like a cat in the dark / And then she is the darkness / She rules her life like a fine skylark / When the sky is starless (Rhiannon, Fleetwood Mac, thanks to stumpy)
Author Comments:
Feel free to consult any of my lists to see which songs I like. Of course, this list has influence from my favorite artists / songs, but there are some choices here from artists I'm less familiar with as well, along with some selections that are just plain weird.
Bonus question: One of the songs on here, I have actually never heard, but just looked up the lyrics online. If you can name it, kudos to you.
Hints:
Here we have songs by Eric Clapton, Ben Folds Five, Elton John, Five for Fighting, Carbon Leaf, Fleetwood Mac, Dave Matthews Band. Also one from a musical, one from a commercial, and one from some classical music.
19. Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
24. Time of the Season – Zombies
27. Gimme Three Steps – Lynyrd Skynyrd
28. In The Ghetto – Elvis
3. ???? - Bee Gees
17. ???? - Four Tops
It's 2:30 in the morning, what am I doing???
Right for 19, 24, 27, and 28. Wrong artists for 3 and 17. Nice going, stumpy.
1 - She's the One - Springsteen
2 - 19th Nervous Breakdown - Stones
3 - Ballad of a Thin Man - Dylan
10 - Friend of the Devil - Dead
17 - I Heard it Through the Grapevine - CCR or Gaye
21 - She Said She Said - Beatles
22 - Cut Yo Hair - Pavement (Great song)
23 - Boy, that sounds familiar...
29 - Every Sperm is Sacred, Python
Good job, Stumpy! I couldn't think of Taxi though I sat here racking my brain. Then I saw I didn't have to - you already had!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Well done across the board!
ok i think i have a few:
5 - everybody wants a rock by they might be giants
9 - manic monday by the bangles
13 - karma chameleon by culture club
14 - walk on the ocean by toad the wet sprocket
and i can sing 25 but i don't think i actually know who it is...
oh oh another one came to me:
12 - and it stoned me by van morrison...
love that tune!
Well done!
20. "Maison Derriere" - The Simpsons
23. "Alcohol" - Barenaked Ladies
26. "You Don't Love Me Anymore" - Weird Al Yancovic (I'm not sure about the song)
Aha, I knew you'd get 23 and 26! All correct, of course, AAA.
No one's posted here for a week and a half, but I still get more reads each day. I can only assume that this means that people keep checking the list but find my lyrics too hard. Therefore, in an effort to spark some more action, I'm posting some hints.
One of these songs is a popular Ben Folds Five song
And one is a popular Five for Fighting song
One is from a famous musical
And one is from a famous commerical
One is from a famous Eric Clapton song
And one is from a famous Fleetwood Mac song
And one is from a famous Dave Matthews Band song
One is a fairly obscure Elton John song
And one is from the most famous song by the fairly obscure band Carbon Leaf
Finally, one is from a famous piece of classical music
I will also post these hints in the Comments section above.
ok i'll bite, but i think i only know one more...
is number 7 clapton's "wonderful tonight"?
It is indeed!
25 is Five for Fighting. But I don't know the song name.
Eh, whatever, I'll give it to you. The song is called "Superman."
30. Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
6. Battle Of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds Five
18. The Boxer - Carbon Leaf
11. Holiday Inn - Elton John
4. Impossible - from "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum"
16. Warehouse - Dave Matthews
and 15. just for Easter... Sounds like something by Handel, but don't know the title.
Nice, all correct. I'm impressed that you got the Carbon Leaf song - I love "The Boxer." And the Handel song is "The Messiah", I'll give it to you.
Now the only one left is that one from the famous commercial.
I cheated just for curiosity for the commercial lyric, so I'll let somebody else claim it legitimately. You did pick a pretty obscure one Bud.
Since I am a completist, how about someone guessing the song for #8? It's a famous commercial and stumpy gave you a pretty obvious hint.
After that, anyone wanna see a sequel of these? Or are we all tired of song guessing games?
I'm going to keep annoying everyone until someone guesses this damn song. Here's a bigger hint: the clue that stumpy gave you was "Bud." "Bud" is not only in the title of the song, it's also an abbreviation for the name of the product being advertised. Search for it on Google, I don't care. But as I am a completist, someone better name this song.
Okay, here are some more hints. The product name is Budweiser. The "Bud" in the song title actually has an apostrophe-S on the end, so it's "Bud's." There are four words total in the title of the song.
Other words in the title of the song include "This", "For", and "You." "This" is the first word, "Bud's" is the second word, "For" is the third word, and "You" is the fourth word.
It's "This Bud's For You"! "This Bud's For You"! For the love of God, someone please put this list out of its misery and guess "This Bud's For You"!!!
O.K. I'm gonna take a wild guess on #8 and say "This Bud's For You". THERE somebody finally smoked that sucker! @; )
Wow! That's right, stumpy! Good job, that was a hard one!
Boy I was so close too. It was right on the tip of my tongue. It seems obvious now that I know the answer!