Answers & Points - Lyrically Speaking - 3/4/09
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:12 am
It's time for my annual journey into the wonder that is Mecca Radio, or as we like to call it down at the Home Office, The Audio Torture Network. And for your listening pleasure, 12 of the finest songs we play over and over and over and over again, just for our one million slav.... er, associates worldwide.
Mecca radio was a bit different this year, as LB noticed. Back in May, we experimented with silencing the overhead muzak during operating hours, so the only thing that could be heard anymore was the overnight and morning shows. Of course, we had to get rid of this so we could play our 24 hour Christmas music beginning brigth and early on midnight November 1st. And now.... well, Mecca Radio has reverted back to its good old days of all the same stuff all the time. We don't even take requests anymore...
One cool thing about this game for those who love bonus points. LB, being the oddball he is, noticed that during that May-October stretch where there was no overhead radio before midnight we would play one song at 11 PM every night, then go back to dead air for another hour.... and furthermore, he noticed over time that there was a certain song played for each day of the week. LB was quickly able to figure out which song was played on the 5 nights he works (Friday through Tuesday), and his co-workers, who are used to dealing with his crippling mental disabilities, were able to give him the Wednesday night song. All 6 of those songs are among the 12 below, and you can earn bonus points if you can manage to identify the 6 nightly songs by their designated night of the week. Heck, even if you put the wrong day next to one of the 6 nightly songs, you'll still get a point.... so unless you are the worst guesser in the entire world, you should earn a few bonus points just by randomly assigning a day of the week to 6 of the songs below.....
Remember, when identifying the nightly songs, that you are to use each day of the week except Thursday, and you may guess at the songs even if you don't know them....
1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, 1 point for identifying one of the 6 nightly songs with an incorrect day, and 3 points for identifying one of the nightly songs with the correct day....
1. My heart is old, it holds my memories
My body burns a gemlike flame
Somewhere between the soul and soft machine
Is where I find myself again
2. I don't know where
I don't know how
I don't know when
But I'll tell you right now
3. I wear tight clothing and high heel shoes
That doesn't make me a prostitute
I like rap music, wear hip hop clothes
That doesn't mean that I'm sellin' dope
4. Sitting on the doorstep of the house I can't afford
I can feel you there
Thinking of a reason, well, it's really not very hard
to love you even though you nearly lost my heart
5. You've been up all night
Thinking it was over
He's been out of sight
At least for the moment
6. The way that you touched me made me believe
You never love any other the way that you loved me
When you said forever I thought it was true
We'd be together our whole lives through
Well, I got to hand it to you
7. You and me girl got a highway to the sky
We can turn away from the night and day
And the tears you had to cry
You're my life..
8. I can't get out of bed today
Or get you off my mind
I just can't seem to find a way
To leave the love behind
9. Flower’s bloomin’, mornin’ dew
And the beauty seems to say
It’s a pleasure when you treasure
All that’s new and true and gay
10. Take a step back and see the little people
They might be young, but they're the ones that make the big people big
So listen as they whisper:
11. Rich man grew old, owned a mansion on top of the hill
Now he's sitting at the table with his lawyer
Goin' over his will 'cause he's Ill
The kids don't call, they're waitin' for the man to die
12. Where ya at?
Where ya at?
Where ya at?
Where ya at?
Now
There ya go
There ya go
There ya go
There ya go
Mecca radio was a bit different this year, as LB noticed. Back in May, we experimented with silencing the overhead muzak during operating hours, so the only thing that could be heard anymore was the overnight and morning shows. Of course, we had to get rid of this so we could play our 24 hour Christmas music beginning brigth and early on midnight November 1st. And now.... well, Mecca Radio has reverted back to its good old days of all the same stuff all the time. We don't even take requests anymore...
One cool thing about this game for those who love bonus points. LB, being the oddball he is, noticed that during that May-October stretch where there was no overhead radio before midnight we would play one song at 11 PM every night, then go back to dead air for another hour.... and furthermore, he noticed over time that there was a certain song played for each day of the week. LB was quickly able to figure out which song was played on the 5 nights he works (Friday through Tuesday), and his co-workers, who are used to dealing with his crippling mental disabilities, were able to give him the Wednesday night song. All 6 of those songs are among the 12 below, and you can earn bonus points if you can manage to identify the 6 nightly songs by their designated night of the week. Heck, even if you put the wrong day next to one of the 6 nightly songs, you'll still get a point.... so unless you are the worst guesser in the entire world, you should earn a few bonus points just by randomly assigning a day of the week to 6 of the songs below.....
Remember, when identifying the nightly songs, that you are to use each day of the week except Thursday, and you may guess at the songs even if you don't know them....
1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, 1 point for identifying one of the 6 nightly songs with an incorrect day, and 3 points for identifying one of the nightly songs with the correct day....
1. My heart is old, it holds my memories
My body burns a gemlike flame
Somewhere between the soul and soft machine
Is where I find myself again
2. I don't know where
I don't know how
I don't know when
But I'll tell you right now
3. I wear tight clothing and high heel shoes
That doesn't make me a prostitute
I like rap music, wear hip hop clothes
That doesn't mean that I'm sellin' dope
4. Sitting on the doorstep of the house I can't afford
I can feel you there
Thinking of a reason, well, it's really not very hard
to love you even though you nearly lost my heart
5. You've been up all night
Thinking it was over
He's been out of sight
At least for the moment
6. The way that you touched me made me believe
You never love any other the way that you loved me
When you said forever I thought it was true
We'd be together our whole lives through
Well, I got to hand it to you
7. You and me girl got a highway to the sky
We can turn away from the night and day
And the tears you had to cry
You're my life..
8. I can't get out of bed today
Or get you off my mind
I just can't seem to find a way
To leave the love behind
9. Flower’s bloomin’, mornin’ dew
And the beauty seems to say
It’s a pleasure when you treasure
All that’s new and true and gay
10. Take a step back and see the little people
They might be young, but they're the ones that make the big people big
So listen as they whisper:
11. Rich man grew old, owned a mansion on top of the hill
Now he's sitting at the table with his lawyer
Goin' over his will 'cause he's Ill
The kids don't call, they're waitin' for the man to die
12. Where ya at?
Where ya at?
Where ya at?
Where ya at?
Now
There ya go
There ya go
There ya go
There ya go
