Pretty self explanatory. The band’s namesake does not have to be a real person.
For Bonus Points, please include a few words describing who the namesake is. I’ll start things off:
Lynyrd Skynyrd: The band members’ high school gym teacher.
Nov 232009
Nov 132009
After a marathon REM CD-A-Thon last weekend (aka many hours working in the garden w/my iPod boom box) The song “I Believe” from Lifes Rich Pageant jumped to the front of the pack. (I never considered this song one of their best or one of my favorites until now.)
I especially like the line “I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract”
and later … “I believe my throat hurts”
So my Last Man Standing Challenge is: Songs with “I Believe” in the title or a line in the song.
Nov 062009
This Last Man Standing competition may be wide open: we’re looking for songs with lyrics that spell out one or more words in the song’s title. The reason we’re limiting this to words within the title is to create at least some difficulty for this challenge. Three songs immediately come to mind for me, led by the following and its amusing video clip:
Oct 272009
Limiting ourselves to a representation of one of each body part, how many body parts can identify through song titles? The song titles may contain more than one body part, such as the Smokey Robinson & The Miracles song I’ve cited in the title, but once a part has been cited in one song title, it cannot be cited in another. This may be a tough one with these conditions, but I want to prevent against the 8 billion song titles featuring parts like “head” and “heart.”
So two body parts (head and toe) are down with who knows how many more to go!
Oct 072009
To help distract me from the major annoyances that have followed skidding out on a slick road this morning, barely hitting the back of an SUV, then getting hit in the back by a car that did likewise to my back end, I’d like to throw down this Last Man Standing challenge.
We can include songs about motorcycle and bus accidents, but not surfing wipeouts, plane crashes, train derailments, or nuclear rocket sled explosions.
If you’re interested, the SUV suffered the slightest nick that may cost me a couple of hundred dollars to buff out (the driver was extremely cool about the whole thing, so hopefully there will be no additional problems from him). The back end of my car bumper has yet another tiny nick that’s no problem for me, regarding the woman who skidded into me. The hood of my car, however, is badly damaged thanks to SUVs having to sit so high up. Ugh. Most importantly, everybody’s healthy and the Phillies kick off their defense of their 2008 World Championship.
Sep 222009
The title of this thread is self-explanatory, no? This may not be a long-running Last Man Standing, but I’ll leave two or three of the most obvious examples on the table for you to cite. I’ll open with a slightly less-obvious one, or at least one that I haven’t heard on the radio for years until tonight:
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Sep 172009
In honor of Peter, Paul, and Mary’s Mary Travers, who died last night, what’s the first “drug song” you were aware of as a child? By “aware,” man, I mean, like, cognizant of the fact that adults around you were mumbling about the song’s true meaning. As a young boy, I was aware that “Puff the Magic Dragon” has something to do with smoking…something. A couple of years later, I started hearing about the “true” meaning of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
Considering the demographic of our regular participants, it wouldn’t surprise me if these two songs end up being the first two gateway drug songs for the majority of us. However, rumor has it that some of you may not have been shaving until 1980 or later. What would younger folks’ first gateway drug songs have been in the second half of the ’70s, the ’80s, or – if our youngest Townspeople care to participate – the ’90s?
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