Guess Ten, Last 2006 Edition
December 29, 2006
Time to close out 2006 with a Guess Ten.
Ten lyrics. You tell me the song name and the performer(s). No Google.
# Way down south in Fargo, whenever we needs a little something extra…
# Barenaked Ladies, “Blame it On Me” [ "Jess":http://wiw.org/~jess/ ] -You think you’re so smart, but I’ve seen you naked.-
# Don’t you know you’re sleeping in a spotlight?
# The Beatles, “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” [ "Fred":http://www.unreality.net/weblog/fishes.html ] -So I quit the police department.-
# Led Zeppelin, “In My Time of Dying” [ "Shaun":http://upper-left.blogspot.com/ ] -If my wings should fail me, Lord, please meet me with another pair.-
# Funkadelic, “Everybody Is Going to Make It This Time” [ "Laundro":http://olympus-mons.com/ ] -Our country and our cities, they have been betrayed for money.-
# But you came to my aid, instead.
# They Might Be Giants, “Women and Men” [ Lasloo ] -Two by two they enter the jungle, and soon they number more.-
# Paul Simon, “Peace Like a River” [ "Karan":http://www.flummel.com/ee ] -Misinformation followed us like a plague.-
# Pink Floyd, “Jug Band Blues” [ "Karan":http://www.flummel.com/ee ] -And I’m most obliged to you for making it clear that I’m not here.-
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December 29th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
#2 is “Blame It On Me” by the Barenaked Ladies.
December 29th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
#4 is “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” by the Beatles (or maybe Joe Cocker)
December 29th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
#6 is Funkadelic (Everybody is Going to Make it)! Nice!
Fred, you were right the first time. Joe covered it.
December 29th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Jess, Fred: you’re right. Laundro: Close enough for jazz (considering how long the name is).
December 30th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Misinformation followed us like a plague. -Peace Like a River - Paul Simon
December 30th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
10. And I’m most obliged to you for making it clear that I’m not here. Jugband Blues - Pink Floyd
December 30th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
#5 would be In My Time Of Dying. I’m partial to Rev. Gary Davis myself, but you’re probably looking for Led Zeppelin.
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:45 am
Once in a blue moon, John throws me a bone with these song lyrics cause he knows that all I remember are the dozen or so albums we listened to in college.
In any case, I am very saddened that I didnt get hear sooner to be the first one with the Pink Floyd reference. Out of any band, that is probably the closest piece of music that I consider myself an expert in. Jugband Blues was the only song written and performed by Syd on the album Saucerful of Secrets. And what a prophetic song. Awesome stuff.
In any case, let’s take the lyric:
But you came to my aid, instead.
this one I believe is a Tori Amos lyric… but honestly, I cant remember what song or album… After Boys For Pele, all of her future stuff (while musically brilliant at times) became too lyrically obscure for my tastes. I was working way too hard to enjoy it.
And finally, the lyric:
Two by two they enter the jungle, and soon they number more.
Ahhh… They Might Be Giants… Joe introduced me to this band back in high school. Of course he showed me all the non mainstream songs and albums… so it was only later in college that I really fully heard all of Flood… which is the album most people recall when they think of a TMBG album. And it was on this album, on a song I believe called “Women and Men” that this lyric is in.
Woohooo… trip down memory lane… btw, I haven’t heard from Joe in a long time… John, have you?
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:00 am
Dude, I haven’t heard from Joe in ages. Last I heard he’d become a quasi-hermit in the mountains of California. Either that or he’d transformed into a were-egret and was feeding on toy dogs Los Angeles.
You’re right about the TMBG; the Tori Amos lyric is _Boys for Pele_ era — I haven’t had much patience for anything past that. Truth be told, I didn’t have much patience for _BfP_.
I’m surprised you don’t know number 3. Think 80’s. When reading the lyric, put a significant pose between “in a” and “spotlight” and it’ll probably ring the bell more loudly.