[Brian,
Saturday October 4, 2008 at 6:46pm]
Outburst Squared
I saw Chad Orzel's two-word lyric quiz and instantly thought of outburst. A great idea, Outburst. It takes something everyone knows, but rotates it orthogonally. Kind of like asking people to name words that have "K" as the fourth letter. You never think about it that way. Anyway, I got none of them right, but I had a few hours drive time so I thought of some. Add your own.
From the following two words, can you name any of these songs? Answer in the comments, but just give a full line from the song...) and feel free to leave more. Hopefully I've put a few gimmes in, but these are surprisingly hard (for me at least).
- my anaconda
- protein pill
- fruit machine
- hickory stump
- liar's chair
- screaming argonauts
- beat incomplete
- Doris Day
- tension wires
- passionate guy
- lonely satellite
- doubly blessed
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
Well I'm not the world's most passionate guy
13. lost shaker
14. cartoon balloons
15. supermarket checkout
I think I know what song #8 is from but I have no hope of quoting that particular line.
13. "Searching for my lost shaker of salt."
And I always thought it was "Countless screaming argonauts" ... good thing I used the last two words.
12. Ain't no doubt about it, we were doubly blessed
'Cause we were barely seventeen and we were barely dressed.
14. Levon sells cartoon balloons in town.
And yet more:
16. Beardsley prints
17. gypsy leathers
18. one-way street
19. ragged people
20. mohair suit
8. Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
11. I xxxxxxx Cold Day xxxxx a Lonely Satellite [Just can't figure out those words)
16. your fashion sense, Beardsley Prints
19. Seeking out the poor quarters where the ragged people go
20. she's got electric boots and a mohair suit
21. This monstrosity
22. Suburban skies
23. Leper messiah
18. Going' the wrong way down a one-way street.
24. Italian poet
25. Spiral light
26. Crab-tree sticks
24. Italian poet
25. Spiral light
26. Crab-tree sticks
and more notably I actually heard one of Brian's original 12 on my Ipod this morning. I was singing along and BAM!
9. With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound he pulled the xxxxxx high-tension wires down. Godzilla!
and more notably I actually heard one of Brian's original 12 on my Ipod this morning. I was singing along and BAM!
9. With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound he pulled the xxxxxx high-tension wires down. Godzilla!
After all Nabakov : Dante : : Sting : Dylan, right? It's an easy mistake to make.
some specials and rat food
I actually had another song in mind for one-way street. It might be too common a two-word phrase.
I had no idea which song that uses that phrase you had in mind :) It's in a bunch of them. There's also "You're headin' down a one-way street," which is also pretty common.