WWTBAM Bored

This is the moment where the teacher says there's going to be a test on the subject, and the entire class moans in unison because nobody was paying attention to the lesson. Yes, we've reached the portion of our decades LSWE game where we enter the current millennium. However, rather than choose a single year, I decided to just pick 12 of my absolute favorite songs of the past quarter of a century to present in this game. Yes, there is still good music out there.... not so much in the 2020's in my opinion, but the era from the late 00's to about 2015 was red hot with great stuff. I know, your mileage may vary.... but here's a chance to see the fun and articulate lyrics you've missed from years beginning with a two!

1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist....


1. I was broken from a young age
Taking my sulking to the masses
Writing my poems for the few
That look at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me

2. You got a new horizon, it's ephemeral style
A melancholy town where we never smile
And all I wanna hear is the message beep
My dreams, they got a kissing
'Cause I don't get sleep, no

3. Lights go down, it's dark
The jungle is your head, can't rule your heart
A feeling's so much stronger than a thought
Your eyes are wide and though your soul, it can't be bought
Your mind can wander

4. Dirty babe (uh-huh)
You see these shackles baby, I'm your slave (uh-huh)
I'll let you whip me, if I misbehave (uh-huh)

5. The city's cold and empty (oh)
No one's around to judge me (oh)
I can't see clearly when you're gone

6. I never miss a beat
I'm lightnin' on my feet
And that's what they don't see, mm-mm
That's what they don't see, mm-mm

7. Like the legend of the phoenix, huh
All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planet spinning, ah
The force from the beginning

8. I'll be your ghost, your game, your stadium
I'll be your 50 thousand clapping like one
And I feel alright, and I feel alright
'Cause I worked it out, yeah, I worked it out

9. I had a summer lover down in New Orleans
Kept him warm in the winter, left him frozen in the spring
My, my, how the seasons go by

10. The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason
But your love keeps on coming like a thunderbolt
Come here a little closer
'Cause I wanna see you, baby, real close up

11. I hopped off the plane at LAX
With a dream and my cardigan
Welcome to the land of fame excess (woah)
Am I gonna fit in?

12. Whatcha gon' do with all that ass
All that ass inside them jeans?


Kroxquo Bonus: Name a song with artist from anytime since the year 2000.

Image Bonus: She me something you might've seen on TV in the past 25 years.

littlebeast13 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:04 am

This is the moment where the teacher says there's going to be a test on the subject, and the entire class moans in unison because nobody was paying attention to the lesson. Yes, we've reached the portion of our decades LSWE game where we enter the current millennium. However, rather than choose a single year, I decided to just pick 12 of my absolute favorite songs of the past quarter of a century to present in this game. Yes, there is still good music out there.... not so much in the 2020's in my opinion, but the era from the late 00's to about 2015 was red hot with great stuff. I know, your mileage may vary.... but here's a chance to see the fun and articulate lyrics you've missed from years beginning with a two!

Spoiler

Needless to say I'm taking a zero on this one.

Kroxquo Bonus: Name a song with artist from anytime since the year 2000.
UPTOWN FUNK - Mark Ronson

Image Bonus: She me something you might've seen on TV in the past 25 years.

1. I was broken from a young age
Taking my sulking to the masses
Writing my poems for the few
That look at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me
Believer - Imagine Dragons (This would be my likely choice for best song of the 2000's so far. And I don't think there's another act, solo or band, from this century that has more songs I'd consider faves...)

2. You got a new horizon, it's ephemeral style
A melancholy town where we never smile
And all I wanna hear is the message beep
My dreams, they got a kissing
'Cause I don't get sleep, no
Feel Good, Inc. - Gorillaz (One of the most killer bass lines in any song ever. And one of the few songs with an inserted rap where the rap might actually be better than the song itself! Only other one I can think of offhand is the remade version of Lady Marmalade...)

3. Lights go down, it's dark
The jungle is your head, can't rule your heart
A feeling's so much stronger than a thought
Your eyes are wide and though your soul, it can't be bought
Your mind can wander
Vertigo - U2 (It took U2 twenty fucking years to make a song I actually love. See, not everything musical in the 80's was good....)

4. Dirty babe (uh-huh)
You see these shackles baby, I'm your slave (uh-huh)
I'll let you whip me, if I misbehave (uh-huh)
Sexyback - Justin Timberlake

5. The city's cold and empty (oh)
No one's around to judge me (oh)
I can't see clearly when you're gone
Blinding Lights - The Weeknd (Had the honor of being the final Boney #1, sniff....)

6. I never miss a beat
I'm lightnin' on my feet
And that's what they don't see, mm-mm
That's what they don't see, mm-mm
Shake It Off - Taylor Swift (Taylor's lone good era coincided with the 2012-14 run of killer music I was really digging at the time, and this is the one and ONLY of her songs I will unabashedly admit my love for. I air drum those three beats every time they're played in this song...)

7. Like the legend of the phoenix, huh
All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planet spinning, ah
The force from the beginning
Get Lucky - Daft Punk (Which will always be associated with Blurred Lines by me for many obvious reasons.... and though I love that song as well, I left it out to limit the amount of Pharrell in this game)

8. I'll be your ghost, your game, your stadium
I'll be your 50 thousand clapping like one
And I feel alright, and I feel alright
'Cause I worked it out, yeah, I worked it out
Love Runs Out - OneRepublic (This song got played ad nauseum on my radio station in 2014 and at Mecca [and still does], yet it seems like even most current music listeners don't know it. Hands down their best....)

9. I had a summer lover down in New Orleans
Kept him warm in the winter, left him frozen in the spring
My, my, how the seasons go by
Ex's and Oh's - Elle King (This seemed to be the one song that even some of the classic rockers could pick out of the game....)

10. The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason
But your love keeps on coming like a thunderbolt
Come here a little closer
'Cause I wanna see you, baby, real close up
Hella Good - No Doubt

11. I hopped off the plane at LAX
With a dream and my cardigan
Welcome to the land of fame excess (woah)
Am I gonna fit in?
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus (Another one I unashamedly love. Everything she's done since Wrecking Ball, and they play the shit out of her current music at Mecca, is utterly dreadful....)

12. Whatcha gon' do with all that ass
All that ass inside them jeans?
My Humps - Black Eyed Peas (I'd forgotten all about the Alanis version, which was only good in a mocking kind of way. If I hated the original, I'd probably love it [a la the Tori Amos and Paul Anka versions of Smells Like Teen Spirit], but that's obviously not the case..... far from it.)


Image Bonus: She me something you might've seen on TV in the past 25 years.

I quit watching TV in the 90's, and since I've been on my own in 2009, I've really stopped. I had the cable yanked in 2019 and haven't even turned it on since. Anyway.... the mashup of Sesame Street and Game of Thrones is interesting. Explain that one to the kiddies, Elmo. IBB for melly!

JJC Points:


mikeh gets 2 JJC points for good Ed Sullivan songs, and watching too much politics...

Weasel gets a JJC points for Schitt's Creek, which I only know because of Mecca and the licensed merch. We sold a SC mug in my department for a couple years...

ear gets a JJC point for taking a zero...

Panc gets a JJC point for the extra e...

Krox gets 2 JJC points for knowing two songs (one with a Weird Al connection, surprise), and for his Billie Eilish and Doctor Who fetish (I hear Billie's name dropped on the Mecca Radio shows all the time, and I still don't know who the fuck she is. I'm sure they play her songs, but they obviously aren't ones I've liked enough to look up at home)...

frank gets 3 JJC points for Gordon, and not going with more shameless self promotion...

Vandal gets 2 JJC points for, what I'm pretty sure, was the last Super Bowl moment I ever watched...

jarnon gets a JJC point for noting the absence of Charlie Brown's Teacher (I didn't use her last year either... I think the usable subjects have been exhausted already)....

BiT gets 3 JJC points for a Fall Out Boy fetish, and the Iwo Jima of my generation...

Search gets 3 JJC points for Bored legend * Van * singing well into his 90's...

melly gets 2 JJC points for dragons and incest on The Street...

elwood gets 2 JJC points for proving what a crapshoot winning the World Series is (had it been their 2004 and 2015 teams, nobody would have batted an eye)...

Hottie gets a JJC point for radio station changes (I think we've all been through that)...

Sprots gets 2 JJC points for directing me to a website that wanted me to subscribe to it, so I signed her up....

Earl gets 3 JJC points for dissing some of my faves, and including Spilly... even though she pulled a Weasel and screwed herself out of a possible IBB by sticking with her feline fetish....


Points:

mikeh 7+2
Weasel 17+1
ear 7+1
Panic 27+1
Krox 11+3
frank 19+3
Vandal 9+2
jarnon 15+1
BiT 8+3
Search 19+3
melly 20+2+5
elwood 9+2
Hottie 7+1
mrk 17
Sprots 7+2
Earl 27+3

littlebeast13 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:35 am

JJC Points:


frank gets 3 JJC points for Gordon, and not going with more shameless self promotion...

I didn't even think of it! Besides, I'm not the only one on here who could have gone that route.