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kleenexwomanAnswers to my lyrics meme
1. "Revolution" by the Beatles.
So you say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world. But if you're talking 'bout destruction, don't you know that you can count me out.
I used the louder version off the Blue Album; if I'd used "Revolution 1" off the White Album, it would have gone "I feel I must inform you that you may(not) rely on my assistance or support."
2. "Iron Man" by Black...Sabbath.
Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind? Is he alive or dead? Has he words within his head?
I think I jigsawed the lyrics a little.
3. "Surrender" by Cheap Trick.
Mother told me, yes she told me, I'd meet girls like you. She also said to stay away, you never know what you'll catch.
The first time I ever heard this song, I was staring at a picture of a suburban 1950s mom and dad sitting at a breakfast table with their 1980s punked-out kids. But the mom and dad were ROBOTS. It freaked me out.
4. "Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie.
Got your mother in a whirl, she doesn't know if you're a boy or a girl. Hey babe, your hair's all right; hey babe, let's go out tonight.
The word "coiffure" makes me giggle.
5. "Holiday In Cambodia" by the Dead Kennedys.
So you been to school for a year or two, and you know you've seen it all. In your daddy's car thinking you'll go far, back East your kind don't crawl.
Nobody got this one. Jello Biafra is very disappointed in you.
6. "Hello, I Love You" by the Doors.
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name. Hello, I love you, let me jump in your game.
I left out the part about "Won't you tell me your name." :headslap:
7. "Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting" by Elton John.
It's getting late, have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here. It's seven o'clock and I wanna rock, I wanna get a belly full of beer.
The CMU radio station plays this when the cafeteria is closing on Saturday. The DJ must have a weird sense of humor.
8. "No Action" by Elvis Costello.
I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch. I don't wanna see you 'cause I don't miss you that much.
One of the best rock songs ever recorded, IMHO.
9. "Paradise City" by Guns 'N' Roses.
Take me down to the Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh won't you please take me hoooome...
I have very fond memories of doing karaoke to this one.
10. "Raw Power" by Iggy Pop.
Dance to the beat of the living dead! Lose sleep, baby, and stay away from bed! Raw power is sure to come running to you.
Iggy Pop's voice makes me want to melt all over the floor.
11. "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.
One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all.
I wrote a Harry Potter filk to this once. Yes, me = geek. Moving on.
12. "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix.
Purple haze, all in my brain. Lately things just don't seem the same. Acting funny, and I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
Come on, this one was too easy.
13. "Stairway to Heaven" by Led zeppelin.
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
Again. Too easy.
14. "Waiting For My Man" by Lou Reed.
I'm waiting for my man, twenty-six dollars in my hand. He's never early, he's always late...first thing you've got to learn to do is wait.
May have jigsawed the lyrics here too.
15. "The Dope Show" by Marilyn Manson.
The drugs they say make us feel so hollow, we love in vain, narcissistic and so shallow.
Funny thing about M.M., his covers sound like originals and his originals sound like covers. Anybody else notice this?
16. "Kick Out The Jams" by the MC5.
Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!
OK, that one was fun. Interestingly enough, this isn't an actual lyric, it's just what John Sinclair yells out before he starts singing. Except when says "brothers and sisters" instead, which is much less fun.
17. "Too Young To Fall In Love" by Motley Crue.
You say our love is like dynamite. Open your eyes, it's like fire and ice.
I couldn't find the trade name for dynamite. Oh well.
18. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.
With the lights out, it's less dangerous. Here we are now, entertain us. I feel stupid and contagious.
I like my version better.
19. "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo.
I was struck by lightning walking down the street. I was hit last night sometime in my sleep. It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?
This was actually the first one I thought of for this meme.
20. "Have A Cigar" by Pink Floyd.
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far...you're gonna fly high, you're never gonna die. You're gonna make it if you try--they're gonna love you.
I totally love the guitar on this song. Love it.
21. "Beat on the Brat" by the Ramones.
Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat. What can you do with a brat like that?
I love what I did with this one. I want to make an icon out of it.
22. "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones.
Oh, a storm is threatening my very life today. If I don’t get some shelter, oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away.
This was easy, guys. And yet nobody got it.
23. "Anarchy in the U.K." by the Sex Pistols.
I am an anarchist! I am the Antichrist! Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it!
Every well-educated young punk knows that the Sex Pistols are posers. I don't care, I still like this song.
24. "Everything You Did" by Steely Dan.
Where did the bastard run, is he still around? Now you gotta tell me everything you did, baby. I'm gonna get a gun, shoot the lover down. Are you gonna tell me everything you did, baby?
OK, so this one's a little obscure. It's hard to intellectualize Steely Dan lyrics.
25. "Burning Down The House" by Talking Heads.
Watch out, you might get what you’re after. Cool babies, strange but not a stranger. I’m an ordinary guy...Burning down the house!
I have a ton of Talking Heads songs downloaded, but I just started listening to them all last week. And almost nothing but.
26. "Doctor Worm" by They Might Be Giants.
They call me Doctor Worm...I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm.
I did research for this one. Yay for Latin name databases.
27. "Winter of '79" by the Tom Robinson Band.
All you kids who just sit and whine, you should have been there back in seventy-nine.
I know very few people who are even aware of the existence of Tom Robinson. Go download some TRB songs, I'll wait.
28. "My Girlfriend's Dead" by the Vandals.
Once I had a girlfriend, but then one day she dumped me, and everywhere I went people always asked me where she was. I don't want to talk about her, someone always asks about her, so I tell them all my girlfriend's dead.
Catchy song, but there was a minor misunderstanding over its presence in my Livejournal last night.
29. "Anything Can Happen" by Was Not Was.
She took me in the bedroom to show me her computer. She asked me if I liked it, I told her she was cuter. She wasn't that great, but it was getting kind of late.
I have fond memories of this song. When I was taking basketball lessons (ha, me playing sports) my dad would play this song in the car right before he dropped me off. He said it was to get me "pumped up" for playing. (It didn't work. I just sang while I tried to make it in the basket.)
30. "Pinball Wizard" by the Who.
Ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver ball. From SoHo down to Brighton, I must have played them all.
I really have no idea where Brighton is. Or where SoHo is, outside of New York. I just kind of guessed.
Good job, guys!
1. "Revolution" by the Beatles.
So you say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world. But if you're talking 'bout destruction, don't you know that you can count me out.
I used the louder version off the Blue Album; if I'd used "Revolution 1" off the White Album, it would have gone "I feel I must inform you that you may
2. "Iron Man" by Black...Sabbath.
Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind? Is he alive or dead? Has he words within his head?
I think I jigsawed the lyrics a little.
3. "Surrender" by Cheap Trick.
Mother told me, yes she told me, I'd meet girls like you. She also said to stay away, you never know what you'll catch.
The first time I ever heard this song, I was staring at a picture of a suburban 1950s mom and dad sitting at a breakfast table with their 1980s punked-out kids. But the mom and dad were ROBOTS. It freaked me out.
4. "Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie.
Got your mother in a whirl, she doesn't know if you're a boy or a girl. Hey babe, your hair's all right; hey babe, let's go out tonight.
The word "coiffure" makes me giggle.
5. "Holiday In Cambodia" by the Dead Kennedys.
So you been to school for a year or two, and you know you've seen it all. In your daddy's car thinking you'll go far, back East your kind don't crawl.
Nobody got this one. Jello Biafra is very disappointed in you.
6. "Hello, I Love You" by the Doors.
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name. Hello, I love you, let me jump in your game.
I left out the part about "Won't you tell me your name." :headslap:
7. "Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting" by Elton John.
It's getting late, have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here. It's seven o'clock and I wanna rock, I wanna get a belly full of beer.
The CMU radio station plays this when the cafeteria is closing on Saturday. The DJ must have a weird sense of humor.
8. "No Action" by Elvis Costello.
I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch. I don't wanna see you 'cause I don't miss you that much.
One of the best rock songs ever recorded, IMHO.
9. "Paradise City" by Guns 'N' Roses.
Take me down to the Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh won't you please take me hoooome...
I have very fond memories of doing karaoke to this one.
10. "Raw Power" by Iggy Pop.
Dance to the beat of the living dead! Lose sleep, baby, and stay away from bed! Raw power is sure to come running to you.
Iggy Pop's voice makes me want to melt all over the floor.
11. "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.
One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all.
I wrote a Harry Potter filk to this once. Yes, me = geek. Moving on.
12. "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix.
Purple haze, all in my brain. Lately things just don't seem the same. Acting funny, and I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
Come on, this one was too easy.
13. "Stairway to Heaven" by Led zeppelin.
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
Again. Too easy.
14. "Waiting For My Man" by Lou Reed.
I'm waiting for my man, twenty-six dollars in my hand. He's never early, he's always late...first thing you've got to learn to do is wait.
May have jigsawed the lyrics here too.
15. "The Dope Show" by Marilyn Manson.
The drugs they say make us feel so hollow, we love in vain, narcissistic and so shallow.
Funny thing about M.M., his covers sound like originals and his originals sound like covers. Anybody else notice this?
16. "Kick Out The Jams" by the MC5.
Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!
OK, that one was fun. Interestingly enough, this isn't an actual lyric, it's just what John Sinclair yells out before he starts singing. Except when says "brothers and sisters" instead, which is much less fun.
17. "Too Young To Fall In Love" by Motley Crue.
You say our love is like dynamite. Open your eyes, it's like fire and ice.
I couldn't find the trade name for dynamite. Oh well.
18. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.
With the lights out, it's less dangerous. Here we are now, entertain us. I feel stupid and contagious.
I like my version better.
19. "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo.
I was struck by lightning walking down the street. I was hit last night sometime in my sleep. It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?
This was actually the first one I thought of for this meme.
20. "Have A Cigar" by Pink Floyd.
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far...you're gonna fly high, you're never gonna die. You're gonna make it if you try--they're gonna love you.
I totally love the guitar on this song. Love it.
21. "Beat on the Brat" by the Ramones.
Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat. What can you do with a brat like that?
I love what I did with this one. I want to make an icon out of it.
22. "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones.
Oh, a storm is threatening my very life today. If I don’t get some shelter, oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away.
This was easy, guys. And yet nobody got it.
23. "Anarchy in the U.K." by the Sex Pistols.
I am an anarchist! I am the Antichrist! Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it!
Every well-educated young punk knows that the Sex Pistols are posers. I don't care, I still like this song.
24. "Everything You Did" by Steely Dan.
Where did the bastard run, is he still around? Now you gotta tell me everything you did, baby. I'm gonna get a gun, shoot the lover down. Are you gonna tell me everything you did, baby?
OK, so this one's a little obscure. It's hard to intellectualize Steely Dan lyrics.
25. "Burning Down The House" by Talking Heads.
Watch out, you might get what you’re after. Cool babies, strange but not a stranger. I’m an ordinary guy...Burning down the house!
I have a ton of Talking Heads songs downloaded, but I just started listening to them all last week. And almost nothing but.
26. "Doctor Worm" by They Might Be Giants.
They call me Doctor Worm...I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm.
I did research for this one. Yay for Latin name databases.
27. "Winter of '79" by the Tom Robinson Band.
All you kids who just sit and whine, you should have been there back in seventy-nine.
I know very few people who are even aware of the existence of Tom Robinson. Go download some TRB songs, I'll wait.
28. "My Girlfriend's Dead" by the Vandals.
Once I had a girlfriend, but then one day she dumped me, and everywhere I went people always asked me where she was. I don't want to talk about her, someone always asks about her, so I tell them all my girlfriend's dead.
Catchy song, but there was a minor misunderstanding over its presence in my Livejournal last night.
29. "Anything Can Happen" by Was Not Was.
She took me in the bedroom to show me her computer. She asked me if I liked it, I told her she was cuter. She wasn't that great, but it was getting kind of late.
I have fond memories of this song. When I was taking basketball lessons (ha, me playing sports) my dad would play this song in the car right before he dropped me off. He said it was to get me "pumped up" for playing. (It didn't work. I just sang while I tried to make it in the basket.)
30. "Pinball Wizard" by the Who.
Ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver ball. From SoHo down to Brighton, I must have played them all.
I really have no idea where Brighton is. Or where SoHo is, outside of New York. I just kind of guessed.
Good job, guys!
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