Mar 132013
The Rock Town Hall game anyone can play gets easier than ever with a special word-association edition. The rules are simple: give your first music-related response that pops into your head to the following list of words. It can be an artist’s name, a song, an instrument, an album title, a subgenre, you name it. All we ask is that it’s the first musically relevant word that pops into your head. Are you ready? Let’s get it on…after the jump!
- Motorcycle:
- Lizard:
- Beach:
- Lipstick:
- Monkey:
Ready for a few more? I thought so!
- Snarl:
- Gum:
- Comb:
- Ring:
- Suede:
Lemmy
Motorcycle: Dylan and The Accident
Lizard: the King Crimson album
Beach: The Gorillaz album Plastic Beach
Lipstick: the cover of Some Girls
Monkey: the Toots & the Maytals song Monkey Man
Snarl: Elvis
Gum: girl groups
Comb: the Tin Huey song The Comb
Ring: The Elvis song Wear My Ring
Suede: the Morrissey song Suedehead
I didn’t realize we got to do each word individually. When I saw Motorcycle, I pictured Lemmy from Motorhead for some reason. Going back over the list, I’m afraid I am pretty uncreatively literal in my responses:
Lizard: The Doors
Beach: Beach Boys
Lipstick: “Lipstick Traces”, book by rock critic Greil Marcus
Monkey: The Monkees
Snarl: Elvis (although his thing is more of a sneer than a snarl)
Gum: “Rockaway Beach” by the Ramones
Comb: “Nitcomb” by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
Ring: “Wedding Ring” by the Sting-Rays (80s UK band)
Suede: the Morrissey song Suedehead
• Motorcycle: Rob Halford
• Lizard: Jesus
• Beach: Boys
• Lipstick: Vogue
• Monkey: Davy Jones
• Snarl: Sid Vicious
• Gum: Archies
• Comb: Elvis
• Ring: Wear my Ring Around Your Neck
• Suede: Shoes
• Motorcycle: Black Motorcycle club (if that’s the name)
• Lizard: King, Morrison
• Beach: Boys
• Lipstick: Vogue
• Monkey: the Monkees
• Snarl: Sid Vicious
• Gum: ??
• Comb: Sha Na Na
• Ring: ??
• Suede: Blue Suede Shoes
Motorcycle: Love and Rockets
Lizard:on a windowpane
Beach: Dirty
Lipstick: Traces
Monkey:Man, and you are my monkey woman
Snarl: Sidney Vish
Gum: Your words aren’t clear, better spit out your:
Comb: Rooster on the cover of a Pavement EP
Ring: Skull
Suede:head
Let me play now, so I can read your responses without influencing my own gut responses.
Motorcycle: Steppenwolf
Lizard: Big Lizard in My Backyard
Beach: Rockaway…
Lipstick: …Vogue
Monkey: …Man
Snarl: Exile on Main Street
Gum: Rockaway Beach
Comb: Springsteen
Ring: This Diamond…
Suede: Stephen Stills
• Motorcycle: the soundtrack for “Rumble Fish” by Stewart Copeland, with Mickey Rourke as Motorcycle Boy
• Lizard: Steven Tyler
• Beach: Reach the Beach, great album by The Fixx
• Lipstick: the album cover of The Cars
• Monkey: Peter Gabriel’s make-up in the video for “Shock the Monkey”
• Snarl: one of Carrie Browstein’s facial expressions in Portlandia
• Gum: Go Go’s, Belinda Carlyle
• Comb: Questlove
• Ring: 70’s Elvis
• Suede: I know it’s probably leather, but David Crosby’s fringed jacket
•Motorcycle: Brando in the Wild Ones
•Lizard: Jim Morrison
•Beach: “Beach Baby”
•Lipstick: “Lipstick Traces”
•Monkey: “Mickey’s Monkey”
•Snarl: Billy Idol
•Gum: “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It’s Flavor
On The Bedpost Overnight/”
•Comb: “Kookie,Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb”
•Ring: “Ring of Fire”
•Suede: The Brit band from the 90s
Interesting… It’s possible that I have mixed up my Crosby and Stills wardrobe choices.
I was thinking the exact opposite when I read your response! This is all about gut responses, however, so we’re close enough. If I had to do it over again I would have been safe saying “CSNY.”
There’s no “right” answer, but Billy Idol for “snarl” comes real close. (Sid Vicious, which I think cdm said first, is another good one.)
Motorcycle: Bad (I realize nobody gets this. There was a song named “Bad Motorcycle”, two versions of which charted in Detroit in the early sixties. I can’t find anything about it on either Google or Youtube. Snippets from the lyrics include:
My little baby she rides a motorcycle
She drags everybody down Sixty-third Street
She calls it Nitro)
Lipstick: On Your Collar
Lizard: Jim Morrison
Beach: Boys
Monkey: Mickey’s
Snarl: nothing comes to mind
Gum: John Lennon (I’m thinking of the video of him doing Mother at Madison Square Garden)
Comb: Kookie
Ring: Around Your Neck
Suede: Shoes
This really dates me around here.
Motorcycle: Don’t Touch Me There
Lizard: King, I can do anything
Beach: baby beach baby give me your hand
Lipstick: and Leather
Monkey: If man is 5 and god is 6 and devil is seven, is Monkey 4? Or are dolphins 4 and Monkey 3?
Ready for a few more? I thought so!
Snarl: Billy Idol’s mouth
Gum: Lou Reed
Comb: Cookie
Ring: This diamond ring doesn’t shine like it did before
Suede: Ooga Chaka
Funny, Lennon is who I had in mind for “gum” when I chose the question. Then I forgot about it and answered something different. I’m glad you came up with that one.
I did this without looking at the other responses so there may be some overlap:
Motorcycle: Judas Preist
Lizard: King (Jim M)
Beach: Neil Young’s On The …
Lipstick: “… Vogue”
Monkey: Business, as in “No More …
Snarl: Traffic
Gum: Ball Rally (a 70’s movie, probably not as rocking as “Death Race 2000” or “Cannonball Run”)
Comb: Over (is that Paul’s real hair?)
Ring: … Of Fire
Suede: Head (I think that’s a Morrisey solo record)
That’s a great one for Monkey. I think it’s:
“if man is 5 … then the devil is 6 … and if the devil is 6 … then god is 7 … this monkey’s gone to heaven”
I don’t think there are any lower numbers mentioned there.
Yeah, lotsa fringe on those guys. Crosby seems to be the main hit on a web search, with Neil coming in second.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aZcqneiGJ8o/TQwEHwfJfEI/AAAAAAAAADU/VUSCMdYfNiw/s1600/David_Crosby.jpg
http://whenyouawake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/David-Crosby-II.jpg
Motorcycle: Lucinda Williams — her notable quote The perfect man is “a poet on a motorcycle.”
Lizard: Blue Oyster Cult Godzilla!
Beach: Now the band Beach House is top of mind for me.
Lipstick: David Johansen
Monkey: Lancelot Link — Secret Chimp Theme Song
Snarl: Chrissie Hynde singing “Precious”
Gum: Doublemint Twins Theme from the 70s
Comb: Bowie’s hair combed perfectly on several album covers.
Ring: The Clash — “Ring, ring it’s 7 a.m . . . ” The Magnificent Seven
Suede: Bloodsports — the new album by the band.
Most of my associations were boring and already covered above, but I do like my association for lizard which no one else has: “If you squeeze my lizard, I’ll put my snake on you”. Best Motorhead lyric ever!
This was a very appreciated way to end the day, Mod. Putting no thinking into something is perfect for my level of exhaustion.
I haven’t looked at anyone else’s responses yet, but Mr. Royale tells me I’m right at the center of the bell curve. Drat! In a group of music nerds, I guess I’m really not nerdy enough…
Motorcycle: “Speeding Motorcycle” – the Yo La Tengo cover of Daniel Johnston’s song
Lizard: The Flying Lizards and their cover of “Money”
Beach: Beach House (who I admit to really liking despite the blandness of their last album)
Lipstick: “Lipstick Traces” by Greil Marcus
Monkey: “Monkey Gone To Heaven” by Pixies
Snarl: Billy Idol
Gum: K Pop
Comb: I just have this image of a disco diva with a pick extended from a shapely ‘fro.
Ring: Ringo Starkey
Suede: the band of the same name, of course! “She’s In Fashion” is a favorite song of mine.
Nope, there’s no lower numbers. The word reminded me of the song, and the song always makes me wonder what number monkeys are, since it’s called Monkey Gone to Heaven. Man, devil and god all get numbers, but monkey goes to heaven.
That’s the kind of stupid stuff I think about when I’m left to my own devices.
Motorcycle. Born to be Wild. Original. Mars Bonfire.
Lizard Jim Morrison. Lizard King
Beach “Beachboys:
Lipstick Courtney Love, glamor version
Monkey. ” Monkeys”.
Snarl. Elvis Presley growling
Suede Carl Perkin’s “Blue Suede Shoes”
or I think its a Dutch group “Blue Suede”
Gum Bubblegum rock.
Ring “Ring of Fire” Johnny Cash
Comb. Ed Brynes. “Kookie lend me your comb”
Isn’t that Dutch band, Blue Swede (like the vegetable)? Just checking…
* Motorcycle: “Cycle Annie” by The Beachnuts (Lou Reed and the Pickwick Records gang)
* Lizard: The Lounge Lizards
* Beach: Blanket Bingo
* Lipstick: Debbie Harry’s mouth
* Monkey: “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show”, I’ll go with the ’65 Joe Tex version.
* Snarl: Jerry Lee Lewis
* Gum: ♪♫♪”Chewin’ out rhythm on my bubblegum…”♫♫♪
* Comb: Filter
* Ring: Modulator
* Suede: Buffalo Springfield
Yep, that’s what I thought of first, even though it’s Swede and not Suede. Now I’ll have that song stuck in my head all day again.
Motorcycle: Mama
Lizard: Jim Morrison
Beach: On the Beach
Lipstick:Rolling stones
Monkey:Monkey see Monkey do
Snarl:Sid V
Gum: ???
Comb: John Travolta-Grease
Ring:Ringo
Suede:Elvis
* Motorcycle: Flunk Punks
* Lizard: King
* Beach: Beatnik Beatch
* Lipstick: Can’t Buy a Thrill
* Monkey: Monkey Man
* Snarl: Elvis
* Gum: Grease
* Comb: Paul Simonon’s hair
* Ring: Ringo in “Help”
* Suede: Carl Perkins
Whenever I hear “Carl Perkins” I think of this scene: Even in Japanese with Portuguese subtitles, you get the idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFVprIjtpw