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@ 2008-10-09 07:49:00
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Song Lyric Meme, the Super-Challenge Edition

How many of these songs can you name, along with the artist and/or source? (Using Google or other search engines is, of course, forbidden.) Comments are screened so that you can still try to guess even after the first person got it right, and I'll post the answers (with video links where applicable) later.

  1. There's nothing sicker in society than a lack of liquor and sobriety. – Q
  2. Well, it's wrinkly and crinkly and covered in hair; and I don't know what I'd do if it was not there – x0arkadia0x
  3. Zankoku na tenshi no you ni, shonen yo, shinwa ni nare… – phil_g (partial credit), seaya (full credit)
  4. Let me give you some green color and you will ask for more, you will see that you never felt this way before – techempage
  5. Follow orders as you're told, make their yellow blood run cold; fight until you die or drop, a force like ours is hard to stop – techempage
  6. Boom goes London, boom Paris, more room for you and more room for me – aerindipity
  7. Dipidapi dallaa ruppati rupiran kurikan kukka ja kirikan kuu – seaya (partial credit)
  8. A million times I ask you; and then, I ask you over again; you only answer [song title] – outcastspice
  9. Every time I put my hand upon her knee, baby gets angry with me; cuz she's a good girl, I'm a bad boy, but I turn into a sad boy when she says, "Hey take your hands off of me." – howlingcoyote
  10. You smell nice and you're groovy, and we both like foreign movies; my mother says you have that touch of class… – radiant_one
  11. And I don't want to die, I want to see the flowers bloom, don't want to go kaput, kaboom¹
  12. Oh wait I've got one, this'll be a good one, all we've got to do is run up some stairs from the [song title] – Q
  13. Yappappa yappappa, ii shan ten; hashagu koi wa ike no koi – jeriendhal (partial credit), deathquaker (full credit)
  14. I want a girl who will fit me to a T, a woman who'll look good on me… – deathquaker (partial credit), techempage (full credit)
  15. You know it was her own damned fault when God turned that bitch to salt.
  16. Good heavens, Miss Sakimoto, you're beautiful! – jeriendhal
  17. I saw her walking on down the line (yeah), you know I saw her for the very first time – dibob50
  18. tlhIngan SuvwI' qan jIHbe', 'ach SuvDI' vay' ghIH vaj bom vIchennISmoH jIH 'e' vIHarbejtaH.
  19. Do the tears on your pillow roll down as you turn, do they short out the blanket and make the sheets burn? – blargblarg (partial credit)
  20. That was a joke, ha ha, fat chance. – jeriendhal

¹This song contains lyrics in three languages. I was nice and picked out some of the English lines.

EDIT: I'm only listing the person who got it right first, except for partial credit/full credit situations. However, after I post the answers, I'll come back and unscreen all comments here so you can see how many you got correct even if you weren't the first. I'll also unscreen them because some of your comments are amusing.

EDIT: Just in case anyone is wondering, you need to provide as a minimum the song's title in order to get full credit. Partial credit has been awarded (thus far) to people who could not identify the title or artist, but provided enough other information to be worthy of mention. If someone else got partial credit, it's not too late to provide the title and get full credit.


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[info]jeriendhal
2008-10-09 12:26 pm UTC (link)
13. Ranma 1/2 Theme Song, (no idea)
16. She Blinded Me With Science, Thomas Dolby
20. Still Alive, Coulson

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[info]outcastspice
2008-10-09 12:44 pm UTC (link)
#8 is "perhaps, perhaps, perhaps", which has been done by many people. wow, i dont know any of the rest. :)

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-09 05:20 pm UTC (link)
wow, i dont know any of the rest. :)

I wasn't kidding when I called it "the Super-Challenge Edition". However, obscure though they may be (excepting the fact that videos for several of them have been posted in this very journal¹ in the past), there's not a one of them that shouldn't be known to somebody on my friend's list.

¹No fair going back in my journal to look for them, either. And if you're my wife, no fair going through the "My Music" folder on my computer either – although at least three of the songs as yet unidentified should be a breeze for Q if she decides to participate.

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[info]radiant_one
2008-10-09 01:06 pm UTC (link)
Is # 10 "Do you take it" by The Wet Spots?

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-14 12:49 pm UTC (link)
Adorable

Reliable

Ass Bandit

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[info]phil_g
2008-10-09 01:20 pm UTC (link)
The only one I recognize is #3, which is the opening music for Neon Genesis Evangelion.

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[info]deathquaker
2008-10-09 01:33 pm UTC (link)
The only two I recognized jeriendhal got -- #13 is "Ja ja uma ni sasenaide" from Ranma 1/2, and 20 is "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton.

#14 sounds like something from "Silence of the Lambs: the Musical." ;) (If there is actually such a thing, I'm booged.)

#3 has something to do with an angel, a boy, and wanting to be a "shinwa."

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-09 05:12 pm UTC (link)
That was very impressive, by the way. You didn't even know that there was such a thing as a Silence of the Lambs musical, but you were able to deduce its existence from that short quote. Bravo.

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My Baby Does the
[info]dibob50
2008-10-09 01:36 pm UTC (link)
17. Hanky Panky - Tommy James and the Shondells

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[info]dibob50
2008-10-09 01:40 pm UTC (link)
Of course, I now have Hanky Panky running through my head!

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-09 05:26 pm UTC (link)
Of course, I now have  censored  running through my head!

A few of the songs are fighting for dominion of my cranium right now. I had to listen to most of them to get the lyrics I wanted (although seaya was correct that I needed Google to get the proper spelling for number seven), and then I hunted down YouTube videos for most of them when I wrote the answer key.

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[info]x0arkadia0x
2008-10-09 01:50 pm UTC (link)
2. The Scrotum Song...I have no idea who does it. I've always known it as a good sing along song for road trips...

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-09 05:29 pm UTC (link)
2.  censored ...I have no idea who does it. I've always known it as a good sing along song for road trips...

We have to use discretion in choosing our singalong songs these days, given how well Richard picks things up. But his cover of AC/DC's "Big Balls" is just so darned cute and funny!

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[info]bmajors
2008-10-09 02:00 pm UTC (link)
10 is do you take it in the ass by the wet spots. Love them! Got to see them do their live show when they were in Chicago a few years ago. The video for that song is great, all of their stuff is though.

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-14 12:51 pm UTC (link)
I've seen some of their other videos, but that's the only one of their songs on my hard drive.

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[info]yermie
2008-10-09 02:07 pm UTC (link)
8. Cake - Perhaps
16. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded me with Science
20. Jonathon Coulton - Portal end credit song.

The others? no real idea. :)

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[info]howlingcoyote
2008-10-09 02:17 pm UTC (link)
The only one I can name is #9, "That's a No No..." by Dicky Hart and the Palpitations (aka Richard O'Brien and friends.)

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[info]seaya
2008-10-09 04:45 pm UTC (link)
Number 7 is the song that's on leekspin. It's a nonsensical section of a finnish folk song. I forget the name of the group, but I know that's the song. I also know that you probably googled to get the lyrics ;).

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-09 06:43 pm UTC (link)
Number 7 is  censored  …I also know that you probably googled to get the lyrics ;).

I used Google for all four of the non-English songs, although I would have almost gotten the two in Japanese correct even if I hadn't. I've never made a serious effort to learn Klingon.

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[info]seaya
2008-10-09 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Number 3's title is Cruel Angel's Thesis, I believe. It's the theme to Neon Genesis Evangelion, which phil probably already said. I may be wrong ont he exact title though.

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[info]seaya
2008-10-09 08:27 pm UTC (link)
I think 5 is something from Kilroy was Here, so I'm going to guess "Mr. Roboto" since it seems like it could be something about the racist Japanese robots.

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-09 08:42 pm UTC (link)
I think 5 is something from Kilroy was Here, so I'm going to guess "Mr. Roboto" since it seems like it could be something about the racist Japanese robots.

Sorry, not even close on this one. "Yellow" in this context implies cowardice, not an Asian slur. That being said, until I watched that video again recently, I had completely forgotten how insultingly stereotypical the Robotos looked in the "Mr. Roboto" video. Whenever I heard the song, the robots I saw in my head were the ones from the Doctor Who (Tom Baker era) episode "Robots of Death".

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[info]seaya
2008-10-09 08:46 pm UTC (link)
Yeah I had something nicer in my head as well. I wasn't thrilled to find out the robotos were so terrible.

Oh well, it's still a good song.

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[info]aerindipity
2008-10-09 10:29 pm UTC (link)
6. Randy Newman, Political Science

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[info]ironkite
2008-10-10 12:21 am UTC (link)
The insane part is the only one I could guess off the top of my head was #3. And I got it in one word. Been guessed, but it's Neon Genesis Evangelion for the record.

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-10 12:36 am UTC (link)
The insane part is the only one I could guess off the top of my head was #3. And I got it in one word. Been guessed, but it's  censored  for the record.

That's not actually the song's title, but it would have gotten you partial credit (if phil_g hadn't already gotten partial credit the same way). However, although that might be the only one off the top of your head, I'll bet there are more in the middle of your head somewhere. If you'd like, I can send GWIII (who had damned well better recognize #1) over with some power tools to extract them.



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[info]ironkite
2008-10-10 12:48 am UTC (link)
Please send GWIII over, any excuse to visit him, even if he's drilling holes in my head. I'll provide the drill so he doesn't mess up his.

Yes yes, I know it's not the title, sorry I put it that way. :) I'm still shocked I got it in ONE word. Time to go cut up 4 lbs of roast, finish making home made tomato sauce and otherwise make fixings for Kaddo Borawni.

http://www.recipesdiscovered.com/2008/01/31/kaddo-borawni/

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[info]pixelene
2008-10-10 03:30 pm UTC (link)
I suck at these things. #20, "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton, is the only one I even recognize.

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-10 04:12 pm UTC (link)
I suck at these things.  censored  is the only one I even recognize.

Then just think of the fun you'll have when you're introduced to the other nineteen songs once I post the answer key! (I found videos for 16 or 17 of them, the rest I could only link to MP3s.)

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[info]techempage
2008-10-10 04:12 pm UTC (link)
Let me give you some green color and you will ask for more, you will see that you never felt this way before

Move your dead bones

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[info]techempage
2008-10-10 04:23 pm UTC (link)
Dipidapi dallaa ruppati rupiran kurikan kukka ja kirikan kuu

If I were a Deep One?

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-10 04:27 pm UTC (link)
That's a good guess, made me snicker. But no, I didn't think to include anything from "A Shoggoth on the Roof". Not this time, at least.

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[info]techempage
2008-10-10 04:24 pm UTC (link)
I want a girl who will fit me to a T, a woman who'll look good on me

Are you about a size 14.

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[info]techempage
2008-10-10 04:29 pm UTC (link)
Follow orders as you're told, make their yellow blood run cold; fight until you die or drop, a force like ours is hard to stop

March of Cambreadth

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[info]liritsvoice
2008-10-11 02:20 am UTC (link)
Phil told me to take a look at your post to see how many I could guess. Yeesh, you've got crazy taste in music, I hardly recognize any of these!! I'll have to check back for the answers in a bit. ;-)

I've heard #3 in Neon Genesis Evangelian (or however that's spelled). #8 is "Perhaps" which has been covered by Cake, but I forget the original artist. I'm pretty sure it's on the Strictly Ballroom soundtrack somewhere.

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-11 05:09 am UTC (link)
Phil told me to take a look at your post to see how many I could guess. Yeesh, you've got crazy taste in music, I hardly recognize any of these!! I'll have to check back for the answers in a bit. ;-)

Since Monday's a holiday, I'll probably post them on Tuesday. Yeah, I've got a very eclectic collection, and I deliberately tried to make this list as diverse as possible (which is why I called this "Song Lyric Meme, the Super-Challenge Edition").

I've heard #3 in  censored  (or however that's spelled).

Correct.

#8 is  censored  which has been covered by  censored 

That's the version I have on my hard drive, although I do reference another source in the answer key.

but I forget the original artist. I'm pretty sure it's on the  censored  soundtrack somewhere.

Yes it is, according to Wikipedia. I've never seen that movie, however.

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[info]blargblarg
2008-10-12 01:38 am UTC (link)
Nice Elvis parody in #19. I can't remember the name of the movie I heard it in, tho... Also I'll spin your leek in #7 (Loituma?)

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[info]allah_sulu
2008-10-12 01:46 am UTC (link)
 censored  #19.  censored 

I think I can give you partial credit for that.

 censored  #7  censored 

You would have gotten partial credit for the source (but that name you gave was the artist, not the title) if partial credit hadn't already been awarded for that one.

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