Ga*ked from catamorphism

[darcydodo]

Leave a comment and I'll give you a letter. Then you must think of 10 song titles that start with that letter (as well as the artist), without using Google or other cheats.

I got Y, which catamorphism called a "fun" letter and I call an "evil" letter.

"Yesterday," The Beatles
"Yellow Submarine," The Beatles
"Yoda," Weird Al Yankovic
"Yellow," Coldplay
"YMCA," Village People
"You Showed Me," The Turtles
"You Are A Pirate," Lazy Town

Having a hard time here, and I've been thinking about this for hours... so until I come up with three more valid entries:

I also know there's a set of classical pieces named the Yangtze River Suite (vel sim.), but I have no idea who the composer is. *sigh*

And there's a piece that might be from a musical called "You," which even Googling for it, I can only find the lyrics on the cache of someone's MySpace page, and I'm entirely unaware as to who wrote it.

Can I cheat with the pronunciation of "Ukelele Lady"? :)

ETA: Of course: "You Are My Sunshine," which I'm sure counts as being by "Traditional," who's at least as prolific as "Anonymous," if not more so. OK, one down, two more to go....

And there's "You're So Vain," which grimhild says is by Carly Simon (not that he used Google, ahem), and he also says that Midnight Echo did a cover of it, which I totally think counts. :)

OK, one more....

Comments

[stellae.livejournal.com]

I want a letter!

Also, I have some more thoughts for 'Y' songs, but that might be cheating... :-P

[darcydodo]

I'm sure it would be cheating, yes. :) I'll just have to continue racking my brains. I caught sight of the Queen title "You're my best friend," but I never would have thought of it on my own, so I'm not adding it.

You get... D.

[stellae.livejournal.com]

1. Donde Esta Tu Amor? -- Menudo
2. Dame un Poco Mas -- MDO
3. Drop It on Me -- Ricky Martin
4. Doncha Go 'way Mad -- Rosemary Clooney
5. Do Nothing 'till You Hear From Me -- Ella Fitzgerald
6. Don't Stop Believing -- Journey
7. Don't Stop Thinking about Tomorrow -- Fleetwood Mac
8. Don't Stop Me Now -- Loft
9. Daydream Believer -- The Monkees
10. Dance With Me -- Debelah Morgan
11. Dancing in the Dark -- Frank Sinatra

Yay for Ballroom and my associated familiarity with latin american boy bands... ;-)

[darcydodo]

I can't believe there's a group called Menudo.

[stellae.livejournal.com]

I think they've techincally disbanded at this point... but in the 90's they were like the Backstreet Boys of Latin Pop... or maybe more like mickey mouse club since they were all kids...

[darcydodo]

I'm trying to imagine if there were a group called "Tripe and Hominy." Actually, that'd be a good pun, hominy and harmony. There should be a southern a cappella group called the "Harmony Grits." :)

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Nice one. Reminds me of "Vocal Point" (U of Rochester? don't remember...).

Oh, and it's more or less too late:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22harmony+grits%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

:)

While we were in college, some friends of mine dinked around with starting a band of sorts (guitar, piano, vocals, occasional French horn) which we decided to call "Infrasonic Trepidation". The tagline: "Not all your fears are bassless". :)

[stellae.livejournal.com]

heee. It's where Ricky Martin got his start.

I had a a discussion with a friend recently about how 'Playa Dust' would be a great name for like, a hippie folk-rock band. The kind you'd find playing with Sufjan Stevens or something. ;-)

letter me (at 'em)!

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

:)

Re: letter me (at 'em)!

[darcydodo]

No, you don't get M, you get... uhh... P.

Re: letter me (at 'em)!

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

(M? ah. Took me a sec. :) )

This is surprisingly difficult; apparently I don't think of music in this way. I'm highly amused at the variety of what I'm coming up with, though.

(I declined to use piano concerti, as that would have been too easy.)

* "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park", Tom Lehrer (I oughta get 3 points for that one. :> )
* "Pour Some Sugar On Me", Def Leppard
* "Pavane", Bobby McFerrin (can't remember the composer--Faure, maybe?--it's off _Paper Music_, in any event)
* "Paranomia", Art of Noise
* "Peter and the Wolf", Tchaikovsky
* "Pride (In The Name Of Love)", U2
* "Papageno/Papagena", Mozart (can't remember the name of the opera)
* "Pollution", Tom Lehrer
* "Painters", Jewel
* "(A) Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One", Gilbert/Sullivan
* "Poor, Wandering One", G/S

Now that I've got my 10, I took a look at iTunes...man, I missed some nice ones. :P

Re: letter me (at 'em)!

[darcydodo]

Mozart (can't remember the name of the opera)

The Magic Flute. :)

You'll appreciate my pun elsewhere in the comments, I think.... :P

[caseymae.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a challenge!

[darcydodo]

R for you, m'dear!

[caseymae.livejournal.com]

Recoil, Ani DiFranco
Rent, Rent
Roll Over Beethoven, E.L.O. [Beatles]
Ruby Red Lips, Powder
Return to Self-Loathing, Midtown [Mest]
Run to the End of the Highway, Hangnail
River of Dreams, Billy Joel
Roll With It, Ani DiFranco
Respect, Aretha Franklin
Responsibility, MxPx

Looking at iTunes, I messed up a couple, but there were only 9 more that I would have known the artist. Odd, I thought there'd be a lot more.

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

Me! Me!

[darcydodo]

Would Q be too cruel? :)

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

I suspect it would. Offhand, I can think of... well, none. Even just trying to think of likely words, there's queen, quit, quiet...

You should try Q yourself. All that Latin should help.

[darcydodo]

OK, you get... J. Still in the high-scoring Scrabble range, but much easier for songs. :)

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I'd say 'yes', unless you allow things like "Quartet for..." and "Quintet for...", in which case it becomes quasi-trivial. ;)

(My entire music collection--3000 songs or so--has exactly 2 Q-songs in it: "Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility", from _Chess_, and "Question", by the Moody Blues.)