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By Any Memes Necessary

Via pianomomsicle; a meme:

  1. What’s your favorite song about growing up? “The River” by Springsteen.
  2. 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.
  3. What’s your favorite song whose title is a person’s name? Um, “Rosalita” by…yeah, Springsteen.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

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21 responses to “By Any Memes Necessary”

  1. flash Avatar
    flash

    What’s your favorite song about cars or driving?

    Red Barchetta – Rush

  2. LearnedFoot Avatar
    LearnedFoot

    Flash –

    Read my mind.

  3. nerdbert Avatar
    nerdbert

    Flash, LF – my choice, too, and the first thing that came to mind.

    4 – Never been any reason, Head East.

  4. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    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…”

  5. Master of None Avatar
    Master of None

    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

  6. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    NW – Radar Love is in the top five.

    MoN – Pump it Up – oh, yeah. Great one.

  7. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    The answer to all these questions is exceedingly simple.
    “After the Flesh”, by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

  8. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    Red Barchetta – hadn’t thought about that one. Good one. On my top twenty list.

  9. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    “After the Flesh”, by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

    I was saving that for “favorite wedding songs”.

  10. Badda Avatar
    Badda

    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.)

  11. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    But… dance?

    Remember – I grew up in the seventies and eighties. When white kids would “dance” to Led Zeppelin.

    Yes, we did.

  12. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    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.

  13. angryclown Avatar
    angryclown

    Me and Elvis never worried ’bout the cops
    He flashed that badge he got from Nixon every time that we got stopped

  14. Master of None Avatar
    Master of None

    >Raises hand

  15. Master of None Avatar
    Master of None

    ***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.

  16. Master of None Avatar
    Master of None

    sorry about the frick’in tag

  17. Badda Avatar
    Badda

    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.
    😉

  18. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    Die italics, die!
    Does that fix it?

  19. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    Nobody likes “Jesus Built My Hotrod”?

  20. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    Don’t know that one, believe it or not.

    I could add “Twin Cadillac Valentine” by the Screaming Blue Messiahs.

  21. Badda Avatar
    Badda

    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.

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