By Any Memes Necessary
By Mitch Berg
Via pianomomsicle; a meme:
- What’s your favorite song about growing up? “The River” by Springsteen.
- What’s your favorite song about cars or driving? “Racing In The Streets” by – yep – Springsteen. Although it’s more about…well, growing up. Or more like “being ambushed by the realization that you’re an adult now”. But I’m going to list it here, because the first two verses are about drag-racing. The song always kills me.
- What’s your favorite song whose title is a person’s name? Um, “Rosalita” by…yeah, Springsteen.
- What’s your favorite get-up-and-dance song? All right, a non-Springsteen entry. That’d be “Shotgun” by Junior Walker and the All-Stars (although Springsteen has covered it). Or “It’s A Long Way To The Top” by AC/DC.
- What’s your favorite novelty song? “Raspberry Beret” by the Hindu Love Gods. Honorable mention – a thrash-punk version of Prince’s “Kiss” that is lost to history. That, and/or Killdozer’s version of “I Am, I Said”.
That is all.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:05 am
What’s your favorite song about cars or driving?
Red Barchetta – Rush
December 18th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Flash –
Read my mind.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Flash, LF – my choice, too, and the first thing that came to mind.
4 – Never been any reason, Head East.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:08 am
I, too, could pretty much go all BRUUUUUCE on this, but my favorite driving song happens to be the first song I heard on the radio after getting my driver’s license: Golden Earring’s Radar Love.
… and it’s half past four and I’m shifting gear…”
December 18th, 2007 at 10:29 am
1. What’s your favorite song about growing up?
Bastards of Youth — Replacements
2. What’s your favorite song about cars or driving?
Hot Rod Lincoln — Commander Cody
3. What’s your favorite song whose title is a person’s name?
Doreen — Old 97’s
4. What’s your favorite get-up-and-dance song?
Pump it up — Elvis Costello
5. What’s your favorite novelty song?
Dare to Be Stupid — Weird Al Yankovic
December 18th, 2007 at 10:34 am
NW – Radar Love is in the top five.
MoN – Pump it Up – oh, yeah. Great one.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:34 am
The answer to all these questions is exceedingly simple.
“After the Flesh”, by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
December 18th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Red Barchetta – hadn’t thought about that one. Good one. On my top twenty list.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:36 am
“After the Flesh”, by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
I was saving that for “favorite wedding songs”.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Am I the only one who wonders how you “get up and dance” to It’s A Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock n/ Roll). Don’t get me wrong, it is a fine song. (Every bit as enjoyable as Whole Lotta Rosie or Jailbreak, if you’ll permit me to submit my AC-DC credentials.)
But… dance?
(I might have to second Master of None’s novelty song… it is either that, or Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper’s “Elvis is Everywhere” or perhaps “The Curly Shuffle” by Jump n’ The Saddle.)
December 18th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
But… dance?
Remember – I grew up in the seventies and eighties. When white kids would “dance” to Led Zeppelin.
Yes, we did.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Skid Roper’s “Elvis is Everywhere”
!!!!!
“Ain’t gonna carry no ID no more.
Ain’t gonna carry no ID no more!
Can’t you suckers see, that it’s
ME ME ME!
Ain’t gonna carry no ID no more”.
Good times.
December 18th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Me and Elvis never worried ’bout the cops
He flashed that badge he got from Nixon every time that we got stopped
December 18th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
>Raises hand
December 18th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
***Raises hand****
I’ve danced to KISS. It was sort of required.
KISS played on the air force base I used to live on in Alaska. This was back in 1974, before I moved there, but many of my friends saw them up close. One got fake blood and lighter fluid on him from their stage act. Anyway, because of that concert, there were way too many rabid KISS fans in my school.
December 18th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
sorry about the frick’in tag
December 18th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Mitch, I grew up in (a good part of) that time… I recall seeing folks “dance” to Zep, AC-DC, and even Priest.
That doesn’t mean it was actual dancing. Partying, Hell yeah… just not dancing.
😉
December 18th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Die italics, die!
Does that fix it?
December 18th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Nobody likes “Jesus Built My Hotrod”?
December 18th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Don’t know that one, believe it or not.
I could add “Twin Cadillac Valentine” by the Screaming Blue Messiahs.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Oooh, I could have put down “Stairway to the Stars” by Blue Oyster Cult… stictly speaking it isn’t about a car, but it is mentioned a couple of times. Same with “Last Days of May”.
Ah… nostalgia.