JFF Lyrically Speaking

[SportsFan68]

Sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen, but I just can't spend any more time on this. Here are the numbers of the songs, titles, and artists. I know it looks awful; it's the best I can do.

Anna Molly, Incubus 1
Because the Night, Patti Smith 2
Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown), Tenacious D 3
Business Time, Flight of the Conchords 4
Conquistador, Procul Harum 5
Crazy, Patsy Cline 6
Dreams, Van Halen 7
Fiddler's Green, Marley's Ghost 8
Hate Me, Blue October 9
I think we're alone now, T. James & Shondells 10
If I could turn back the hands of time, Tyrone Davis 11
Joey, Bon Jovi 12
Let It Rock, Kevin Rudolf 13
Life on Mars, David Bowie 14
Shades of Gray, The Monkees 15
Shattered, O.A.R. 16
The angels want to wear my red shoes, Elvis Costello 17
Time Warp, Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast 18
Vive La Vida, Coldplay 19
White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane 20
You have placed a chill in my heart, Eurythmics 21
Endicott, Kid Creole & the Coconuts 22
Moondance, Van Morrison 23
I Will Find You, Clannad 24
So What, Pink 25
Inside Out, Eve 6 26
Itchycoo Park, The Small Faces 27
Mountain Goats, No Children 28
Every sperm is sacred, Monty Python 29
Big Bottom, Spinal Tap 30
City of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie 31
Rambin Rose, Nat King Cole 32
Galileo, Indigo Girls 33
Drunken Sailor, Great Big Sea 34
South City Midnight Lady, Doobie Brothers 35
Seven Little Girls, Paul Evans and the Curls 36
Joey, Sugarland 37
Gives you Hell, All American Rejects 38
Millie and Bille, Alice Cooper 39
Lay Lady Lay, Bob Dylan 40
Keep Fishin, Weezer 41
Unforgettable, Nat King Cole 42
Pure and Easy, The Who 43
Pretty Ballerina, Left Banke 44
Free Man in Paris, Joni Mitchell 45
Coming Up Close, Til Tuesday 46

[Sisyphean Fan]

Thanks so much for doing this, Sprots. I know it was a lot of work for you, especially the schmancy scoring. But it had to be done. Because every song request is sacred!

Also, yay me! Wow, 2 points, poor T-Bone. Kevin Rudolf might have cost you the win, but I agree that it's better for you to not listen to the voices in your head. I listened to mine once and now they won't leave me the hell alone!

I hate to impose upon you further, but could you also give us the answers as to who requested which songs? Or maybe I"m the only one that is interested in that. If you're fagged out from all the answering and scoring, maybe lb can do us a solid? Cause we all know he still has the list....ha!

[minimetoo26]

Thanks so much for doing this, Sprots. I know it was a lot of work for you, especially the schmancy scoring. But it had to be done. Because every song request is sacred!

Also, yay me! Wow, 2 points, poor T-Bone. Kevin Rudolf might have cost you the win, but I agree that it's better for you to not listen to the voices in your head. I listened to mine once and now they won't leave me the hell alone!

I hate to impose upon you further, but could you also give us the answers as to who requested which songs? Or maybe I"m the only one that is interested in that. If you're fagged out from all the answering and scoring, maybe lb can do us a solid? Cause we all know he still has the list....ha!

I got most of my points from knowing my own songs, I bet! It was an advantage to have three on the list.

People assigned me some cool songs, and then gave my songs to clem, who is the resident whippersnapper. So it was all good for me! I feel young again...

[Vandal]

I can lay claim to songs 7, 23 and 33.

Dreams by Van Halen
Moondance by Van Morrison
Galileo by The Indigo Girls

[T_Bone0806]

My songs were "Vida La Vida" by Coldplay (my favorite song of 2008 as some remembered) and "Pretty Ballerina" by The Left Banke (one of my favorite songs EVER).

I was surprised that none of the..ummm..more seasoned vets here got Ballerina. The piano part (and verse) is so haunting and eerily beautiful as it switches from a sprightly, happy sounding melody to a ghostly, off-center one all within the confines of a single line. If you have never heard this, or have forgotten it, seek it out!

The Left Banke put out 2 of the best singles in pop music history ("Walk Away Renee" being the other one) in my rather boisterous opinion, and disappeared. As far as I know of, the only member who ever resurfaced was Michael Brown, who formed Stories ("Brother Louie") with Ian Lloyd.

[Big-Haired Mini]

I was surprised that none of the..ummm..more seasoned vets here got Ballerina.

Some of these I don't know titles for. Like a bunch of people got Itchycoo Park, and I'm going "the Hell?", then I listened to it, and of course I know the song but had zero clue what it was called.

Like Solsbury Hill and Creeque Alley. I guess those Obscure Place Name songs throw me off a lot...

[Sisyphean Fan]

Mine were

Let It Rock - Kevin Rudolf f/Lil' Wayne
So What - Pink
Gives You Hell - All American Rejects

I think the few people who got Gives You Hell chose me on that one, but I've mentioned several times how much I like AAR. Most people gave Pink to Mini, which is reasonable because I think she likes Pink and, if I hadn't known it was mine, I probably would have chosen her as well.

[Sisyphean Fan]

Well, I whiffed on Vandal (unless I blindly guessed Galileo right, because I don't know that song).

I remember you talking about Vida La Viva, T-bone. Have you talked about OAR as well, or was I making up that part?

And, damn, Pretty Ballerina! I really don't know if I've heard it by Left Banke (although I bet I have), but Alice Cooper did a version of it a few years ago.

I think I remember Mini owning up to OAR, but what were your other two?

The funniest one for me was that Panic in Detroit didn't know Life on Mars when, after Hottie's Millie and Billie, that was one of the one's that I was most confident about. Maybe just because when I saw Bowie in concert (the Glass Spider tour) he did Life on Mars and Panic in Detroit one after the other. Life on Mars is one of my favourite Bowie songs and, like Oh You Pretty Things, I think it's underappreciated.

[SportsFan68]

Aargh! The easiest thing to do, taking 3.5 seconds, and it didn't occur to me to do it.

I was sleep-deprived. We'll make that our excuse du jour . . .

I want to thank everybody who mixed up MsPeacock and me -- way fun!

And another note I forgot -- I think it's way cool that the only double artist was Nat King Cole. Unforgettable.

TLITF:
1. Mountain Goats - "No Children"
3. Patti Smith - "Because the Night"

mini:
Keep Fishin', by Weezer.
Shattered (Turn the Car Around), by O.A.R.
Inside Out, by EVE 6

Fanny:
2. Gives You Hell - All-American Rejects
3. Let it Rock - Kevin Rudolf (I just found out during the NBA Skills Challenge that this guy is white!)
4. So What - Pink

HSoB:
Millie and Billie - Alice Cooper
Life on Mars - David Bowie

Marley:
2. Wha'll Be King But Cherlie? - Silly Wizard (A Glint Of Silver, 1986)
3. Drunken Sailor - Great Big Sea (Great Big Sea, 1993)
4. Fiddler's Green - Marley's Ghost (Live at The Freight, 2001)
5. I Will Find You (Theme from The Last of The Mohicans) - Clannad (Banba, 1993)

Pea:
Seven Little Girls (Sitting in the Back Seat) - Paul Evans and The Curls
I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James and the Shondells

Panic:
2. Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces
3. Anna Molly - Incubus

Clem:
Choice #1 - Joey by Sugarland
Choice #3 - Joey by Bon Jovi

DaveSenior:
South City Midnight Lady--The Doobie Brothers
Hate Me--Blue October

Kroxquo:
Big Bottom - Spinal Tap (or anything else by Spinal Tap)
Business Time - Flight of the Conchords
Endicott - Kid Creole & the Coconuts

Estonut:
1) Pure and Easy - The Who (Nearly any single line is enough for a Who fan to identify the song. One that might drive players nuts is "The simple secret of the note in us all.")
2) The Time Warp - RHPS cast

elwood:
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
Conquistador - Procol Harum

Carmelo:
1. "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing", Leo Sayer
3. "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time", Tyrone Davis

Kay:
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
Shades of Gray - The Monkees

starfish:
You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart - Eurythmics
Coming Up Close - Til Tuesday

megaaddict:
2. Every Sperm Is Sacred, Monty Python
3. Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown), Tenacious D

vandal:
Galileo - Indigo Girls
Dreams - Van Halen
Moondance - Van Morrison

TBone:
"Pretty Ballerina" by the Left Banke.
"Viva La Vida" by Coldplay..

KT:
1. THE ANGELS WANT TO WEAR MY RED SHOES - ELVIS COSTELLO
2. UNFORGETTABLE - most memorably by NAT KING COLE

Bob78164:
Free Man in Paris by Joni Mitchell
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.

Sprots:
Ramblin Rose - Nat King Cole
Crazy - Patsy Cline

[Sisyphean Fan]

Fanny:
2. Gives You Hell - All-American Rejects
3. Let it Rock - Kevin Rudolf (I just found out during the NBA Skills Challenge that this guy is white!)
4. So What - Pink

Me too! I walked into the living room just as it was starting, looked at the tv, and said, "Who's that white guy doing Let It Rock?" My nephew just rolled his eyes at me and then my sister walks in, looks at the tv and says, "Kevin Rudolf is white?" Then my nephew's eyeballs snapped out of their sockets, rolled across the room and we had to go retrieve them. Ha!

HSoB:
Millie and Billie - Alice Cooper
Life on Mars - David Bowie

Bowie AND Alice??? Oh, Hottie, I love you even more........

Sprots:
Ramblin Rose - Nat King Cole
Crazy - Patsy Cline

Now, THIS is funny. I gave you Unforgettable and even mentioned that you were probably Ramblin' Rose instead. Since my "I think Pea likes C&W" worked for Toby Keith, everybody was probably looking at Pea for C&W songs. If I had some other C&W for her, I would have chosen you for Crazy, because I know how much you like Patsy Cline.

[MarleysGh0st]

Marley:
2. Wha'll Be King But Cherlie? - Silly Wizard (A Glint Of Silver, 1986)

This is the one you didn't include in this JFF LS.

I thought it was fitting to offer as a choice for beast, given how he sometimes recycled a classic LS game, since this was one of the songs I used when I hosted Timeline, way, way back!

Everybody else would have just identified it as one of my old fogey songs, but I bet Estonut has this CD in his collection, too!

[SportsFan68]

Fanny:
2. Gives You Hell - All-American Rejects
3. Let it Rock - Kevin Rudolf (I just found out during the NBA Skills Challenge that this guy is white!)
4. So What - Pink

Me too! I walked into the living room just as it was starting, looked at the tv, and said, "Who's that white guy doing Let It Rock?" My nephew just rolled his eyes at me and then my sister walks in, looks at the tv and says, "Kevin Rudolf is white?" Then my nephew's eyeballs snapped out of their sockets, rolled across the room and we had to go retrieve them. Ha!

HSoB:
Millie and Billie - Alice Cooper
Life on Mars - David Bowie

Bowie AND Alice??? Oh, Hottie, I love you even more........

Sprots:
Ramblin Rose - Nat King Cole
Crazy - Patsy Cline

Now, THIS is funny. I gave you Unforgettable and even mentioned that you were probably Ramblin' Rose instead. Since my "I think Pea likes C&W" worked for Toby Keith, everybody was probably looking at Pea for C&W songs. If I had some other C&W for her, I would have chosen you for Crazy, because I know how much you like Patsy Cline.

Credit where credit is due dept.: I don't get any credit for knowing if Kevin Rudolf is white, black, or purple. I copied LB's PM just as he sent it to me; that was his astute observation.

That last paragraph shows how you won -- I can't remember the last time I mentioned how much I like Patsy Cline, but you did! Again, congratulations.

[Sisyphean Fan]

Credit where credit is due dept.: I don't get any credit for knowing if Kevin Rudolf is white, black, or purple. I copied LB's PM just as he sent it to me; that was his astute observation.

That last paragraph shows how you won -- I can't remember the last time I mentioned how much I like Patsy Cline, but you did! Again, congratulations.

That makes it even better! I doubt that lb knows Kevin Rudolf from a pile of poop and doubt even more that he would watch the NBA Skills Competition. Which means that I was agreeing with my own observation to begin with. Ha!

[littlebeast13]

Credit where credit is due dept.: I don't get any credit for knowing if Kevin Rudolf is white, black, or purple. I copied LB's PM just as he sent it to me; that was his astute observation.

That last paragraph shows how you won -- I can't remember the last time I mentioned how much I like Patsy Cline, but you did! Again, congratulations.

That makes it even better! I doubt that lb knows Kevin Rudolf from a pile of poop and doubt even more that he would watch the NBA Skills Competition. Which means that I was agreeing with my own observation to begin with. Ha!

LOL... and so true....

lb13

[Estonut]

Marley:
2. Wha'll Be King But Cherlie? - Silly Wizard (A Glint Of Silver, 1986)

This is the one you didn't include in this JFF LS.

I thought it was fitting to offer as a choice for beast, given how he sometimes recycled a classic LS game, since this was one of the songs I used when I hosted Timeline, way, way back!

Everybody else would have just identified it as one of my old fogey songs, but I bet Estonut has this CD in his collection, too!

That's the only one of yours I don't know/have. Had you picked a different, non-Traditional Marley's Ghost song, I wouldn't have known that, either!

[MarleysGh0st]

Marley:
2. Wha'll Be King But Cherlie? - Silly Wizard (A Glint Of Silver, 1986)

This is the one you didn't include in this JFF LS.

I thought it was fitting to offer as a choice for beast, given how he sometimes recycled a classic LS game, since this was one of the songs I used when I hosted Timeline, way, way back!

Everybody else would have just identified it as one of my old fogey songs, but I bet Estonut has this CD in his collection, too!

That's the only one of yours I don't know/have. Had you picked a different, non-Traditional Marley's Ghost song, I wouldn't have known that, either!

Well, when I picked these, I was only trying to make sure that beast had at least one song in his players' choice edition that wasn't rock/pop/rap/metal/grunge/hip-hop/etc. Sprots decides to used the rest of the choices later.

Wha'll Be King But Cherlie? is a fine, old Jacobite song of defiance that appeals to me a lot (when I'm grumbling about TPTB, for instance). Silly Wizard play an instrumental lead-in/lead-out (or whatever the musical terminology is for that) called The Secret Portrait; to me, this part suggests fading in and out through the mists of time to travel to the '45 and back again.