musical parlor game
This is fauxklore's fault. :-)
There is a parlor game called Encore, in which the object is to sing a portion of a song containing the challenge word. You have to include at least eight consecutive words (including the challenge word) for it to count. What makes this fun for the challenger (in this case, me) is to try to come up with words that aren't found in a lot of songs. (And where I fail in that, maybe I'll learn about some previously-unknown music. :-) ) I promise that I have not used any language-analysis or statistical tools in assembling this list (which I mention because I used to work for a company that did such things).
You are, of course, supposed to do this from memory, not via Google or your music collection. Let's keep this Google-free to start and we'll see what happens.
Rules: Use the challenge word as the subject of your comment, and use the comments to include your snippet of lyrics + citation. I will award 1 point each for lyrics, name of song, and source (performer, author, name of show for soundtracks, broad categorization if you think it's anonymous, etc, as appropriate). If you come up with a snippet from a song other than the one I had in mind, I'll give a bonus point. I reserve the right to award other bonus points for any extraordinary cleverness I think deserves them. Winner just gets bragging rights, unless I get organized enough to actually come up with small prizes or something. (Physical mail is my bane...) Contest is open until everything's identified or this goes three days without additional guesses.
None of the words are in the titles of the songs I have in mind. All of the songs are primarily in English (loosely speaking). Capitalization and punctuation in challenge words matter. I used a different source for each song on this list, but some performers on this list do covers of other songs on this list. All songs were at one time available in published sources. These are all songs I enjoy listening to. A few of these should be insanely easy, but a couple are pretty obscure. You might find clues in past journal entries.
There is a parlor game called Encore, in which the object is to sing a portion of a song containing the challenge word. You have to include at least eight consecutive words (including the challenge word) for it to count. What makes this fun for the challenger (in this case, me) is to try to come up with words that aren't found in a lot of songs. (And where I fail in that, maybe I'll learn about some previously-unknown music. :-) ) I promise that I have not used any language-analysis or statistical tools in assembling this list (which I mention because I used to work for a company that did such things).
You are, of course, supposed to do this from memory, not via Google or your music collection. Let's keep this Google-free to start and we'll see what happens.
Rules: Use the challenge word as the subject of your comment, and use the comments to include your snippet of lyrics + citation. I will award 1 point each for lyrics, name of song, and source (performer, author, name of show for soundtracks, broad categorization if you think it's anonymous, etc, as appropriate). If you come up with a snippet from a song other than the one I had in mind, I'll give a bonus point. I reserve the right to award other bonus points for any extraordinary cleverness I think deserves them. Winner just gets bragging rights, unless I get organized enough to actually come up with small prizes or something. (Physical mail is my bane...) Contest is open until everything's identified or this goes three days without additional guesses.
None of the words are in the titles of the songs I have in mind. All of the songs are primarily in English (loosely speaking). Capitalization and punctuation in challenge words matter. I used a different source for each song on this list, but some performers on this list do covers of other songs on this list. All songs were at one time available in published sources. These are all songs I enjoy listening to. A few of these should be insanely easy, but a couple are pretty obscure. You might find clues in past journal entries.
- asthma's
- butt
- conjugation
- Dionysus
- exortum
- fuligin
- gerbil (partial)
- Heauimiere
- intermammary
- jarl
- K-Mart
- lifeline
- meatloaf
- Nabisco
- ophthamology
- Pedder
- quislings
- Reuben (partial)
- Suvla
- tingaling
- uncontrolled
- varlots
- weary
- xenon
- yeti
- zip!
- I spent a year or so going to hear the performer of one of these songs every week.
- I spent about 15 years going to hear the performer of one of these songs every year.
- I once got a private hammer-dulcimer lesson from the performer of one of these songs.
- One of these performers stopped doing folk music to become a minister. (This one has been identified.)
- One of these songs is from a show I will see this year in Pittsburgh. (This one has been mostly identified.)
- One of these songs was on a tape given to me by Eric Bogle.
- One song title contains the name of a state.
- Two song titles are names of specific people.
- The American activist in this song should be known to most schoolkids north of the Mason-Dixon line.
- The Australian photographer/conservationist in this song was unknown to me until I heard the song, but hearing the song made me want to know more.
- This light-hearted folksong is from the Vietnam era.
- This heavy-hearted war song is from Ireland.
- This song contains the title of at least one Gene Wolfe novel.
- This song is a send-up of a pretty dreadful (IMO) poem by Rose Hartwick Thorpe.
- The author of this song has a filk "disease" named after him, and it would be either ironic or fitting if this one is not identified.
- This song is about three vices, but not quite the usual three.
- This song is not "Beware of the Sentient Chili" or "When Did We Have Sauerkraut?". (This one is likely to be hard.)
- I considered using "Fifty-Nine Cents (for every man's dollar)" instead of this song.
- Winter outings aren't always good ideas.