Name that tune and then sing along...

Tour2ma
Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
edited January 2011 in Music & Movies
    First line of a song starts a "string".
    Next post names that tune and adds lines to complete verse. Throw in the refrain for good measure as well...
    First responder to name tune and add a line picks a new one...

And it's kinda like hand grenades... close counts...

If you want to stump the band with some obscure tune, that's your business. IMO more fun if it's a song folks know, but may not have thought about the lyrics in a while...

Idea came to me when song below just played on XM's classic rock station...

"I've seen the bright lights of Memphis
and the Commodor Hotel"
More later,
Tour...
Vox Copuli
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

"Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
"It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited November 2005
    Little Feat - Dixie Chicken

    "And underneath a street lamp I met a Southern belle
    Well she took me to the river, where she cast her spell
    And in that Southern moonlight, she sang a song so well"

    NEXT ->
    "Well, I followed her to the station with a suitcase in my hand"
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2005
    Stones (might be a cover) - Love in Vain

    "Yeah, I followed her to the station with a suitcase in my hand,
    Lord, its hard to tell hard to tell when all your love's in vain"


    NEXT:
    "I think I'd like to go back home and take it easy"
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited November 2005
    Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

    There's a woman that
    I'd like to get to know
    Living there

    Everybody seems to wonder
    What it's like down here
    I gotta get away
    from this day-to-day
    running around,
    Everybody knows
    this is nowhere.

    Yeah, "Love In Vain" is a cover by the Stones (they redid the lyrics a bit) of a Robert Johnson tune. Keb Mo (among others) does a pretty close rendition.

    Are we supposed to be filling "Dixie Chicken" and "Love In Vain"? I haven't had enough coffee yet to be coherent! :o

    Shite! Almost forgot.
    Next:

    "They're selling postcards of the hanging"
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited November 2005
    BlueMDPicker wrote:
    Are we supposed to be filling "Dixie Chicken" and "Love In Vain"? I haven't had enough coffee yet to be coherent!
    Nah, I edited the instructions. Simpler to just ID, complete and go... So run with it...

    Down to business...
    "Desolation Row" Robert Zimmerman (AKA Bob Dylan)

    They're selling postcards of the hanging
    They're painting the passports brown
    The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
    The circus is in town
    Here comes the blind commissioner
    They've got him in a trance
    One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
    The other is in his pants... :O

    Off of Highway 61 Revisited... A GREAT SACD reissue...

    Next Up...
    I'm up on the 11th floor and I'm watching the cruisers below
    More later,
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    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited November 2005
    David Bowie - Queen ****
    Hunky Dory - 1971

    He's down on the street
    And he's trying hard to pull sister Flo
    Oh, my heart's in the basement
    My weekend's at an all time low
    'Cos she's hoping to score
    So I can't see her letting him go
    Walk out of her heart
    Walk out of her mind
    Oh loved her

    Next:

    "My grandpa, he's ninety five"
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited November 2005
    No clue, but have to take "Queen ****" home...

    She's so swishy in her satin and tat
    In her frock coat and bippity-boppity hat
    Oh God - I could do better than that"

    Now back to BMDP's latest offering...
    "My grandpa, he's ninety five"
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited November 2005
    Okay then. Leave that one on the wall and try this one (for Gen X & Y):

    "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey"
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited November 2005
    As strongly as answering the alternative selction "BECKons" me, why not just stay with the first (which I looked up so I'm DQ'd). If no one gets it in a reasonable time, add the next line.

    Besides if we give it up to the Gen X'ers, who's going to get it back for the geezers? :D Could be some kind of Bozo nightmare and we'd just be losers, baby (and have to kill each other or something...)
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited December 2005
    "he keeps on dancing he's still alive"
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited December 2005
    Dance, Dance, Dance--Steve Miller Band?

    I would contribute, but I can't sing...
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited December 2005
    Steve Miller - Dance Dance Dance

    My grandma, she's 92
    She loves to dance
    And sing some, too

    I don't know
    But I've been told
    If you keep on dancing
    You'll never grow old

    Next:
    "All our times have come - Here but now they're gone"
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited December 2005
    Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

    ...Seasons don't fear the reaper
    Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain
    We can be like they are
    Come on baby
    ----don't fear the reaper
    Baby take my hand
    ----don't fear the reaper
    We'll be able to fly
    ----don't fear the reaper
    Baby I'm your man...

    What a great old song. I haven't heard that in ages.

    Next:

    "Saturday night and you're still hangin' around"

    EDIT: Sorry..forgot it was supposed to be the first line.
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  • MrBuhl
    MrBuhl Posts: 2,419
    edited December 2005
    BlueMDPicker wrote:
    Okay then. Leave that one on the wall and try this one (for Gen X & Y):

    "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey"

    C'mon - gotta go back to this one!!

    Beck - Loser - Mellow Gold

    ...Butane in my veins
    and Im out to get the junkie wiht the plastic eyeballs
    spraypaint the vegetables dog food skulls & the beefcake pantyhose,
    Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
    stock car flaming with a loser & the cruise control
    babys in Reno with the vitamin D got a couple of couches
    sleep on the love seat...

    (may not be exact but it's gotta be close!)

    Not sure I'm a GenXer but I dug that song!! :D
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  • ledhed
    ledhed Posts: 1,088
    edited December 2005
    ok Mr. Bull, where is your new song?
    God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8
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  • MrBuhl
    MrBuhl Posts: 2,419
    edited December 2005
    ledhed wrote:
    ok Mr. Bull, where is your new song?

    Next:

    "Every day in the week I'm in a different city"
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2005
    Sorry, Mr. B and ledhed, but cmy had the ball...
    cmy330go wrote:
    Next:
    "Saturday night and you're still hangin' around"
    Ah... some reasonably obscure Billy Joel... "Captain Jack" off of Piano Man... About the only one of his I thought he improved on Songs in the Attic

    Saturday night and you're still hangin' around
    Tired of living in your one horse town
    You'd like to find a little hole in the ground,
    ... for awhile
    So you go to the village in your tie dyed jeans
    And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens
    It's like some pornographic magazine
    ... and you smile

    Captain Jack will get you high tonight
    And take you to your special island
    Captain Jack will get you by tonight
    Just a little push, and you'll be smilin'

    Next:
    And if I say to you tomorrow
    More later,
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    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited December 2005
    What is and What Should Never Be - Led Zepplin

    And if I say to you tomorrow,
    Take my hand, child, come with me.
    It's to a castle I will take you,
    Where what's to be, they say will be.
    Catch the wind, see us spin,
    Sail away, leave today,
    Way up high in the sky.

    Next:

    "Poets, Priests and Politicians" - figured I'd throw in an easy one...
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited December 2005
    come on guys - someone keep this going...
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2005
    Maybe it's stalled for lack of an opening line... ;)
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited December 2005
    Polkmaniac wrote:
    What is and What Should Never Be - Led Zepplin

    And if I say to you tomorrow,
    Take my hand, child, come with me.
    It's to a castle I will take you,
    Where what's to be, they say will be.
    Catch the wind, see us spin,
    Sail away, leave today,
    Way up high in the sky.

    Next:

    "Poets, Priests and Politicians" - figured I'd throw in an easy one...

    Sting - De do do do, De da da da


    Poets, Priests and Politicians
    Have words to thank for their positions
    Words that scream for your submission
    And no-one's jamming their transmission
    And when their eloquence escapes you
    Their logic ties you up and rapes you

    De do do do, de da da da
    Is all I want to say to you.....

    NEXT: "You get a shiver in the dark"
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2005
    Some just jump to mind..
    It's been raining in the park but meantime
    ....
    We are the Sultans of Swing...
    .. and if you're reading this you are hearing the guitar bridge now...

    Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms"

    EDIT:
    Next...

    Taking my time...
    Choosing my line...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited December 2005
    Joe Walsh Walk Away
    Takin' my time,
    Usin' my line,
    Tryin' to decide what to do.
    Looks my my stop,
    Don't wanna get off,
    Got myself hung up on you.
    Seems to me,
    You don't want to talk about it.
    Seems to me,
    You just turn your pretty head and
    Walk Away

    Great choice Tour.

    Here ya go...

    I can feel no sense of measure...
    9/11 - WE WILL NEVER FORGET!! (<---<<click)
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited December 2005
    Frank Z wrote:
    I can feel no sense of measure...

    Good one!

    But, I had to Google it...therefore I won't answer. :rolleyes:
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited December 2005
    Another line to help out a bit...
    No illusions as we take...
    9/11 - WE WILL NEVER FORGET!! (<---<<click)
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited December 2005
    Put 'em together and added another line.
    I can feel no sense of measure
    No illusions as we take
    Refuge in young man's pleasure...
    9/11 - WE WILL NEVER FORGET!! (<---<<click)
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  • jcaut
    jcaut Posts: 1,849
    edited December 2005
    Ah! '80's

    I can feel no sense of measure
    No illusions as we take
    Refuge in young man’s pleasure
    Breaking down the dreams we make
    Real

    One down one to go
    Another town and one more show
    Downtown they’re giving away
    But she never came back

    No phone can take your place
    You know what I mean
    We have the same intrigue
    As a court of kings

    Ah Leave It


    Yes, from "90125", I think.


    Here's one I heard on XM this morning:

    I've never seen you look like this without a reason..
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2005
    Time for line #2?
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited December 2005
    Another promise fallen through
    Another season passes by you
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2005
    Well... go ahead and name it... you big, country fan, you...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2006
    Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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