I don't want anybody else...
As I've been doing for more than a year now, my post titles are always song lyrics or song titles (or some bastardization thereof). And this theme of mine has always made me wonder about a possible challenge involving all of you, my dear readers.
However, I've held off on this idea for a few months now for a couple of reasons. 1) I wasn't sure if there would be any interest; and 2) I'm afraid of what you all will come up with.
Having Chase chime in with continued lyrics to yesterday's post title (which was George Michael's "One More Try," by the way) made me realize that #1 need not be a concern. At least a few of you might be interested. #2 still worries me, though. But I'm going to muscle through my initial trepidations and see what happens.
What I want to do is have all of you suggest lyrics for me for a post. I will pick out a few of my favorite suggestions and blog using them as the driving theme. Whether the post actually winds up being what you expect it to be is something we'll all discover together. I will try to blog about something that has or will soon actually happen to me in real life, but I can't guarantee it. If I only get a few suggestions, I'll eventually post about them all. If I get a ton, we may hold a vote to get the "People's Choice," per se.
A few caveats...
- These must be real songs and ones that I either already know or are verifiable by listening to the song on iTunes or having you all send me the track so I can hear that it's real and you're not just making stuff up to screw with my head. So, in addition to the specific lyric, I will also need the band/artist name and song title.
- KISS - Keep It Short and Sweet. I try to keep my post titles to a single line on my blog. Don't send me the entire chorus. Just pick a single line from the song.
- Be creative; but don't frighten me, please.
- No DiVinyl's "I Touch Myself." 'Nuff said.
The posting schedule remains to be determined based on participation. Depending on the popularity of this idea, I may try to make it a regular occurrence. I'll post revisions to this challenge in the comments.
No matter how you look at it, it sounds like an interesting challenge to me in terms of creative writing.
I'm either extremely brave or insanely friggin' stupid.
So who will be the daring first challenger?
UPDATE (9/12): The first round of Kapgar's Lyrical Challenge is now closed. However feel free to make suggestions here for the second round. Here are the resulting nominations and first-round voting. And here are the resulting posts:
It will be meeeeeeeeeee! :)
"The wisdom of a fool won't set you free" ('Bizarre Love Triangle', New Order)
"I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery" ('Disentigration', The Cure)
"The world is ending, there's a party by the bay" ('Sound of Pulling Heaven Down', Blue October)
I'll refrain from going on and on. :)
Posted by: Chase | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 11:39 AM
From Van Halen's Ain't Talkin' Bout Love...
"You know youre semi-good lookin and on the streets again."
By the way - nice job picking D. Davis in football! Ha!
Posted by: Brandon | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 11:40 AM
Oh...number 2 will DEFINITELY rear its ugly head...
"Let's put our clothes back on, and by the way girl, what's your name again?" (Aerosmith, F.I.N.E.)
"I used to love her, but I had to kill her, I had to put her six feet under, and I can still hear her complain." (GNR/that's the name of the song)
"Your sister's gone out, she's on a date, but you just sit at home and masturbate." (Billy Joel/Captain Jack)
"But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best." (AC/DC/Big Balls)
HAHA, you thought the Divynals bar would protect you!!!
Okay, now some serious and intentionally challenging, ones:
"And I thought I was beyond all this, I found my one and only good night kiss..." (Rufus King/Mr. Impervious) (ok, not too hard, but I just love that lyric)
"I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies..." (Billy Joel/Honesty)
"One drink to remember then another to forget" (Dave Matthews Band/Grace is Gone)
"Please please please don't drag me down" (Jack Johnson/Flake)
"To riding your bike midday past the three-piece suits..." (La Vie Bohem/Rent)
"Don't ever trust a needle, it lies..." (The Needle Lies/Queensryche's Operation:Mindcrime)
"Will you build an Emerald City with these grains of sand?" (Meatloaf/I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That))
Let me know if you need more:)
Posted by: BA | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 12:17 PM
my favourite lyric of all time:
"so you can make me come, that doesn't make you jesus" (tori amos/precious things)
Posted by: suze | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 12:51 PM
Chase, I knew it'd be you. Good starts with those choices. Only one I don't know is Blue October.
Brandon, a classic. Bite me on Davis. You'd think Yahoo would pull those that are on season-ending IR. Bastards. Now I just have to wait for the waiver pick-up to go through.
BA, did you forget any? Sheesh. I actually know all those save for the Billy Joel ones. He wrote about masturbation? Who knew.
Suze, oh boy.
Posted by: kapgar | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 01:33 PM
"Did you find the directing sign on the
Straight and narrow highway?" -Spinning Wheel; Blood, Sweat, & Tears
"when I want to run away
I drive off in my car" everyone must know this- In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel
"Well I suppose it’s up to me to juxtapose myself." -Midgets with Guns, Pain
"Three motels, dusty cars
A movie show and a dozen bars" Hey lawdy mama, Steppenwolf
"got time to wander, to waste, and to whine" -My number, Tegan & Sara
Posted by: claire | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 06:28 PM
"Nobody loves me. It's true. Not like you do." (Portishead, Sour Times)
"The earth can be any shape that you want." (Thomas Dolby, The Flat Earth)
"I'm not the only one that holds you. I never ever should have told you you're my only girl." (Toto, Georgy Porgy)
"I never agreed to be your holy one." (Depeche Mode, Barrel of a Gun)
Hmmm. Maybe I should start listening to cheerier stuff.
Posted by: Dagny | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 07:11 PM
Oooh . . . I'll have to think of some good ones . . .
Posted by: Rabbit | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 08:30 PM
How long do we have to submit ideas?
Posted by: Rabbit | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 08:32 PM
Oh hot damn, I love it! I almost always use song titles too, so let me think and leave this window open as I do other stuff.....
"I'm Not Afraid Of My Destiny" - Nobody Owns Me by Belinda Carlisle (since she was your crush and all).
"I Got Shit Running Through My Brain" by Ben Folds.
"I'm Free If That Bitch Dies" from Buffy The Musical.
"I Give In To My Sins" - duhhhh Depeche Mode
"I Want To Be Good, Is That Not Enough?" - Squeeze
"Open My Eyes and Listen" - Lone Justice
"What If The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease?" - Joan Osborne
Uh I could go on for days, so let me stop before all I do is bug you all night long.
Posted by: Hilly | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 09:04 PM
How fun!
'Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head?' One, U2
'You can never win or lose if you don't run ther race.' Love My Way, Psychedelic Furs
'I remember hating you for loving me.' The Metro, Berlin
'Eep, ipe, ork, aha, that means I love you!' Eep ipe ork aha, Judy Jetson
Posted by: francesdanger | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 09:49 PM
"I can't believe its happening to me. Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this." -- Kelly Clarkson, A Moment Like This.
Posted by: Neil | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 11:07 PM
Driving home, I thought of another.
"And at that moment, I thought of my mother." (Thomas Dolby, Key to Her Ferrari)
And then, of course, I had Dolby stuck in my brain.
"Like the time we stole a Datsun and drove it to the Everglades." (Thomas Dolby, I Love You Goodbye)
Posted by: Dagny | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 01:14 AM
I'm hooked on "Under the Milky Way" by The Church right now. So that's my 80's vote :)
Posted by: Alissa | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 09:03 AM
Claire, "Midgets With Guns"? Can't say I'm familiar with that one.
Dagny, you're just full of ideas, aren't you? ;-)
Rabbit, I think I'll give until sometime Saturday as I want to post top choices that day for you all to vote on.
Hilly, wow. Some nice choices.
Francesdanger, Judy Jetson?!? Oh that could just be too much fun! Welcome over, by the way. I know you from Blogography, don't I?
Neil, I was waiting for someone to suggest Kelly. I knew someone would. If not you, then MrJerz.
Alissa, any specific lyric from the song?
Posted by: kapgar | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 09:22 AM
Hmmmm.... I like the whole thing, but how about the chorus?
"Wish I knew what you were looking for. Might have known what you would find."
Of course you could break it up too if that works better for you :)
Posted by: Alissa | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 09:28 AM
"So this is the cage that I built, why I built it I don't know." - "Free," Rick Springfield.
"I hope you know that this will go down in your permanent record." - "Kiss Off," Violent Femmes.
"Time passes, you got to reel against it." - "My Valentine," Rhett Miller.
Posted by: Karl | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 11:15 AM
"Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes" - Jethro Tull, "Aqualung"
"She won't do it, but her sister will..." ZZ Top, "Tube Snake Boogie"
"Letters I've written, never meaning to send..." Moody Blues, "Nights in White Satin?"
Posted by: Rick | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 11:16 AM
I've been gone so long Kapgar forgot my info. Sad. :(
Here are mine.
"And Webster yeah Emmanuel Lewis cause he's the anti-christ" - From Blood Hound Gang's "Fire, Water, Burn"
"Somedays I just pray to the God of Sex and Drums and Rock'N Roll" - From Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell"
Posted by: Dustin | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 11:31 AM
"I am a rock. I am an island." - S&G I Am A Rock
Posted by: Anomie-Atlanta | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 11:43 AM
Alissa, that works!
Karl, at least it wasn't "Jessie's Girl." You've got the corner on that one in a blog.
Rick, ah the classics. Great ones! Especially Jethro Tull.
Dustin, I remember you. You forgot me! Sniffle. Good choices.
Anomie, who is S&G?
Posted by: kapgar | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 11:47 AM
Yikes! Some people went crazy. That's a lot of song lyrics to choose from.
Posted by: Brandon | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 12:04 PM
"Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang"
Witch Doctor
by Ross Bagdaserian
Posted by: schrodingerskitten | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 12:50 PM
Love in an elevator!
Psychokiller!
Ground Control to Major Tom!
Posted by: C(h)ristine | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 01:23 PM
Brandon, 'tis a ton. But I think I've got a plan...
Schrodingerskitten, ha ha ha! I used to love that song as a kid.
C(h)ristine, which lyric from each would you like to use. Obviously on the last one, that is the lyric you want from Bowie's "Space Oddity." But I would need specific lyrics from the first two.
Posted by: kapgar | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 02:20 PM
I can't believe you don't know who S&G are from the lyrics! Simon & Garfunkel.
Here are mine:
So you stole my world
Now I'm just a phony
Gary Allan - Best I Ever Had
If you're gonna run with me
It's gonna be a wild ride
Tim McGraw - Real Good Man
See them with their trousers off they're never quite as grand
Lovely Ladies - Les Miserables
Posted by: Allison | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 02:58 PM
Yes, I post to Blogography, but actually came over because Hilly told me you use a Mac (long story). I sure picked a great day to show up!
Posted by: francesdanger | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 04:27 PM
Allison, why would I know? I've never been a big Simon & Garfunkel fan. I've heard, maybe, a handful of their songs in my life (Mrs. Robinson, Cecilia, Hazy Shade of Winter, Bridge Over Troubled Waters). Even my parents weren't big fans. So I never heard them play it. That might explain why I don't know their stuff. I prefer Paul Simon solo. And even that I only know a little of. Folksy pop music never really did it for me. I even had trouble making it through The Graduate because of that one song that keeps getting played, ad nauseum (not "Mrs. Robinson," but the other one), every time he was driving after her in the second half of the movie.
francesdanger, ah yes, I am a proud Mac user.
Posted by: kapgar | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 04:29 PM
1. Unforgiving/ the choice still is/The language or the kiss "Language or the Kiss", Indigo Girls
2. Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin world go round "Fat Bottomed Girls", Queen
Posted by: rennratt | Thursday, 07 September 2006 at 08:49 PM
"night falls like people into love..." (ani difranco/not angry any more)
"we learn like the trees how to bend, how to sway..." (also ani difranco/not angry any more)
"if you complain once more, you'll meet an army of me..." (bjork/army of me)
these are perhaps more bloggable than the other suggestion i made. However, I have many ideas on how that other suggestion could be blogged...;)
Posted by: suze | Friday, 08 September 2006 at 07:55 AM
"I's the b'y that catches the fish and brings 'em home to Liza" (don't know but we sang it in grade school)
"Do you really want me baby?" (Salt n Peppa)
"I can tell that we are gonna be friends" (White Stripes)
"How do you solve a problem like Maria" (Sound of Music)
"There's a rumpus in the rainforest today" (Rumpus in the Rainforest, a musical)
Posted by: The lyrics 'ho' | Friday, 08 September 2006 at 08:35 AM
Little Jackie wants to be a star (lisa lisa and cult jam) (sorry had to make this about me somehow)
You know she wants a dry kind of love (U2 the Sweetest thing)
Posted by: The lyrics 'ho' | Friday, 08 September 2006 at 08:38 AM
rennratt, ah, nothing like politically incorrect Queen songs. I love 'em!
Suze, I love Bjork. Great choice. And I have an idea what I'd do for the Tori Amos one, so no worries.
Sorry ho, but the first one doesn't work because you can't give me an artist and album. Dem's da rules. Sorry. Rumpus in the Rainforest?
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 08 September 2006 at 08:40 AM
I've been thinkin' bout my doorbell. When ya gonna ring it? When ya gonna ring it? (White Stripes)
Posted by: jax | Friday, 08 September 2006 at 06:32 PM
Ah, nice one.
Posted by: kapgar | Saturday, 09 September 2006 at 06:56 AM