What do they all have in common?
Bill van Heerden
what it is? This is by no means a comprehensive list, and I am adding
more songs all the time. Once you figure out what the common thread is to
the songs, see if you can add to the list.
"L'Affair Dumoutier" by The Box
"Angel from Montgomery" by John Prine, Leslie Spit Tree-O
"Baba O'Reilly" by The Who
"Badge" by Cream
"Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order
"Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin
"Blue Sunday" by The Doors
"Brain Damage" by Pink Floyd
"Chance" by Big Country
"Chant No. 1" by Spandau Ballet
"Crumblin' Down" by John Cougar Mellencamp
"A Day in the Life" by The Beatles
"The Dean and I" by 10cc
"December 1963" by The Four Seasons
"Do You Think I'm Sexy" by Rod Stewart
"D'Yer Mak'Er" by Led Zeppelin
"Epic" by Faith No More
"Family Snapshot" by Peter Gabriel
"The 59th Street Bridge Song" by Simon and Garfunkel
"Flashdance... What a Feeling" by Irene Cara
"The Fly" by U2
"For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield
"Gerundula" by Status Quo
"Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr.
"The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" by Cyndi Lauper
"Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth
"Hit the Road Jack" by Ray Charles
"Hot Dog" by Led Zeppelin
"How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths
"Instant Karma" by John Lennon
"Johnny and Mary" by Robert Palmer
"Karn Evil" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
"Life During Wartime" by Talking Heads
"Lithium" by Nirvana
"Livin' in the 90's" by Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts
"Living Loving Maid" by Led Zeppelin
"Locked in the Trunk of a Car" by The Tragically Hip
"Long Train Runnin'" by The Doobie Brothers
"Lovefool" by The Cardigans
"Maggie May" by Rod Stewart
"The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
"Moon at Noon" by Leslie Spit Tree-O
"New Song" by Howard Jones
"Nighttime for the Generals" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
"No Rain" by Blind Melon
"Open Letter (to a Landlord)" by Living Colour
"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" by Bob Dylan
"Screaming Night Hog" by Steppenwolf
"Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat
"Smells Like Nirvana" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
"Song 2" by Blur
"Space Oddity" by David Bowie
"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" by
Primitive Radio Gods
"Swamp" by Talking Heads
"Sympathy for the Devil" by The Rolling Stones
"Teen Angst" by Cracker
"Thank You" by Led Zeppelin
"Ting Ting" by David Wilcox
"Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega/ Suzanne Vega and DNA
"Tokoloshe Man" by John Kongos
"Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba
"Valotte" by Julian Lennon
"Warm It Up" by Kriss Kross
"The Weight" by The Band
"What Have They Done to My Song, Ma" by Melanie
"What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes
"White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane
"Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who
"You, Me and Mexico" by Edward Bear
Good luck!
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And all-around Nice Guy
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Karl Kuenning
They've all been parodied by Weird Al Yankovich?
They all were soundtrack fodder for really bad movies?
Karl the Ex-Roadie @ Roadie.net
DuqEgghead
They all have extremely simple back-up music. While I don't know all
the songs on the list, the ones I do have back-up music that is very
repetitive and and quite easy to play. For example, "Tubthumping" uses
only four chords in the entire song and they repeat throughout the whole
song. "Standing Outside A...Phonebooth" only uses four chords. And
don't get me started on how repetitive "Tom's Diner" is!
As for the other attempts made:
>Ahhh, they vibrate and move air when played?
All songs do that.
>They've all been parodied by Weird Al Yankovich?
Al has only parodied/polka-ed three of the songs on the list. Besides,
how could he parody himself?
>They all were soundtrack fodder for really bad movies?
"Smells Like Nirvana" and "Tubthumping" have never been used on a movie
soundtrack, near as I can figure out. And "Interview With The Vampire"
and "Fallen" were not 'really bad movies' ("Sympathy For The Devil")
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Jesus not only saves, he also makes frequent backups.
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Tuomo Lindholm
DuqEgghead kirjoitti viestissä <36DE140B...@duq.edu>...
>I'm gonna say:
>
>They all have extremely simple back-up music. While I don't know all
------------SNIP --- Have you ever heard the black dog ? I think that's not
very simple...
>the songs on the list, the ones I do have back-up music that is very
>repetitive and and quite easy to play
Zeppelin songs are pretty difficult actually.. timings and all the f'n
breaks.
For example, "Tubthumping" uses
>only four chords in the entire song and they repeat throughout the whole
>song. "Standing Outside A...Phonebooth" only uses four chords. And
>don't get me started on how repetitive "Tom's Diner" is!
>
>As for the other attempts made:
>
>>Ahhh, they vibrate and move air when played?
>
>All songs do that.
>
>>They've all been parodied by Weird Al Yankovich?
>
>Al has only parodied/polka-ed three of the songs on the list. Besides,
>how could he parody himself?
>
>>They all were soundtrack fodder for really bad movies?
>
>"Smells Like Nirvana" and "Tubthumping" have never been used on a movie
>soundtrack, near as I can figure out. And "Interview With The Vampire"
>and "Fallen" were not 'really bad movies' ("Sympathy For The Devil")
>
Ronald Osher
Ron
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Ghostbusters word...
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Tuomo Lindholm
C
> Title of song appears nowhere in the lyrics.
>
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Oh Yeah? I didn't know "Ghostbusters" never appeared in its song...
C.
Tuomo Lindholm
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> Title of song appears nowhere in the lyrics.
Then explain Ghostbusters??? and others?
Maybe they have all been used in movies??
Grant
Gareth Owen
>
> Title of song appears nowhere in the lyrics.
I really liked that answer, but I don't think its true of "Won't Get
Fooled Again", and its definitely not true of "Instant Karma", "Maggie
May", or "Hit The Road, Jack". Its true of a lot of the others tho' so
maybe this started out the answer, but the question got corrupted.
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Gareth Owen
The boy was in the hallway,
Drinking a glass of tea.
Bill van Heerden
: Title of song appears nowhere in the lyrics.
The nut who posted the quiz here...
A few of you have responded to mavco's message as wrong... let's just say
it was on the right track.
HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT
S.D. Rhodes
> what it is?
As others have noted, this appears to be a list of songs whose title
does not appear in the lyrics (more accurately, non-instrumental songs
whose title does not appear in the lyrics", but also as others have
noted, if so then there are some errors in the list.
BTW...
> "Karn Evil" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
This song's title is "Karn Evil 9". When Keith Emerson referred to the
song in a TV interview, he pronounced it "Carnival Nine". Either way,
none of these are mentioned in the song.
A few others to add to the list, assuming we've got the category right
(an asterisk means the lyrics come very close to including the title,
but never quite do it). I've ignored cases where the title starts with
"A" or "The" and the title without that word appears, but not the title
with it. (There are a rather large number of these, actually.)
Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights, The Saxophone Song, James and the Cold
Gun, Symphony in Blue, In Search of Peter Pan, Houdini, Waking the
Witch, Jig of Life, The Morning Fog
Dead Can Dance: The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove, Tell Me About the Forest
(You Once Called Home)*
Sandy Denny: Late November, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens,
It'll Take a Long Time*, The Pond and the Stream
Devil Doll: Eliogabalus
Thomas Dolby: Europa and the Pirate Twins, The Flat Earth*
Electric Light Orchestra: 10538 Overture; Oh No Not Susan; Dreaming of
4000; Illusions in G Major; Yours Truly, 2095*
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer/Powell: The Sage, The Curse of the Baba Yaga,
Tarkus, Mass (Tarkus Pt. 4), The Endless Enigma, Trilogy, I Believe in
Father Christmas*, The Miracle*
Family: Sat'd'y Barfly, Burning Bridges*, Bolero Babe, Broken Nose*
Peter Gabriel: Flotsam and Jetsam, Wallflower
Genesis (who must be the champion in this category): Stagnation, Dusk,
The Musical Box, For Absent Friends, The Return of the Giant Hogweed,
The Fountain of Salmacis, Time Table, Can-Utility and the Coastliners,
Supper's Ready, Dancing with the Moonlit Knight*, Firth of Fifth, Fly on
a Windshield, Broadway Melody of 1974, Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, A
Trick of the Tail, One for the Vine, Undertow, Ballad of Big, Snowbound,
The Lady Lies, Behind the Lines, Duchess, Heathaze, Guide Vocal, Fading
Lights*
Gentle Giant: Alucard; Pantagruel's Nativity; The House, the Street, the
Room; Black Cat; Mister Class and Quality?*, The Advent of Panurge,
Knots, River
Joe Jackson: Tuzla, Song of Daedalus
Jethro Tull: Song for Jeffrey; Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square; For
Michael Collins, Jeffrey, and Me; Cheap Day Return; Hymn 43; At Last,
Forever
King Crimson: Pictures of a City, In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard,
Prince Rupert Awakes (Lizard Pt. 1), The Battle of Glass Tears (Lizard
Pt. 3), The Letters, Book of Saturday*, Exiles, Lament, The Mincer,
Indiscipline,
Pink Floyd: Summer '68, Echoes, Dogs, Sheep
The Police: Synchronicity II
Yes: Siberian Khatru, The Gates of Delirium, Into the Lens
(Yes, I was bored. <g>)
Chris Gilbert
>Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights
the words 'Wuthering Heights' *do* appear in this track
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Bill van Heerden
mystified by such songs as "Ghostbusters" and "Hit the Road Jack", whose
titles DO appear in the songs.
The answer.... (drum roll)...
...is that the none of the songs' titles are said by the credited artist.
Ray Charles' background singers sing the title as the chorus. And Parker
would only agree to sing the song as long as he didn't have to say the
word "Ghostbusters", though "Bustin' makes me feel good" and "I ain't
'fraid of no ghosts" really doesn't seem all that much worse.
A number of the songs have subtitles that were said ("She's Just a
Woman", "Feelin' Groovy", etc.).
Bill
C
How about '"What Have They Done to My Song, Ma" by Melanie' ?
Don't tell me it's not her who sings that thing all the time (is there
anything else to sing in that song?)
Cheers,
C.
mavco
Inside-Looking Out - Animals
New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees
D.O.A. - Bloodrock (yuk!)
My Back Pages - Dylan
The Rain, The Park & Other Things - Cowsills
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - CSN
Sunshine Superman - Donovan (he says both, but not together)
Epistle To Dippy - Donovan
Positively 4th Street - Dylan
Ode To Billie Joe - Bobby Gentry (name is mentioned, but not the word "ode")
7 And 7 Is - Love
Creeque Alley - Mammas & Pappas
Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen (both mentioned, but not together)
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto (hehehe)
A Lover's Concerto - Toys
The American Eagle Tragedy - Earth Opera
Roads To Moscow - Al Stewart
Karl Kuenning
Grant Lund
> Bill van Heerden wrote:
>
> All of the following songs have one thing in common. Can you
> figure out
> what it is? This is by no means a comprehensive list, and I
> am adding
> more songs all the time. Once you figure out what the common
> thread is to
> the songs, see if you can add to the list.
>
What is the answer - I know a lot of people have said "title not in
lyrics" but there are some songs which do. What exactly is the common
thread if that is not the answer??
Grant
Leslie Kaye
Grant Lund wrote:
> >
> > Bill van Heerden wrote:
> >
> > All of the following songs have one thing in common. Can you
> > figure out
> > what it is? This is by no means a comprehensive list, and I
> > am adding
> > more songs all the time. Once you figure out what the common
> > thread is to
> > the songs, see if you can add to the list.
> >
>
Bill Kinkaid
>
>House at Pooh Corner by Loggins and Messina
>
>
The refrain goes:
So help me if you can
I've got to get back to the house at Pooh Corner by one
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S.D. Rhodes
>
> the words 'Wuthering Heights' *do* appear in this track
Oops. You're right.