LJ Daily Answers: 30 March 2009

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"LYRICS AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" - a predictably large number of you all

Tune in next week when we use all sports questions, mwa ha haaaa! Ours is an evil laugh!

"I was going to scream about how lyrics were the bane of my existence, but surprisingly I knew more than half of these. This must be Bizarro World LJDQ. Is Bizarro World green?" - cmzero

I hate the Bizarros.



1. Hard fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
I got no motivation
Where is my motivation?
No time for the motivation
Smoking my inspiration

"Did I ever mention that my least favorite LJDQ questions are 'fun with lyrics?' That's an oxymoron right up there with jumbo shrimp and Bush accomplishments." - drbear

"You say it's hard, so I know it must not be Sting - but you of course want me to think that! So I also know that it must be Sting. But you also mention Christmas, and Sting sings some Christmas songs, so it must be Sting! Though then again, you mention TV later on, and everyone knows you can't trust what you see on the telly, so it must not be Sting! Hey, look over there! [switches out song lyrics]" - iambickilometer

(The lesson here is, of course, never get into a lyrics war in Florin or Guilder. -CV)

"I've muttered that after 'smoking my inspiration' too, and I'm certainly not being featured on LJDQ for it." - pookykabuki

"Change 'smoking' to 'stroking', and that's the story of my life." - freezer818

"'Writing My Dissertation' by Me." - gigglingpixie, elvenpiratelady

"The Off Broadway Actors Union, 'Hire Me Please'" - ntlespino

"I hope that motivation comes in soon, or else I'll be kicking his ass." - la_trombonista

"No satisfaction by the roling stones pre-rewrite. " - b_hulsmans

"Up In Smoke - Cheech & Chong" - wiredwizard

"Aha! A TRUE stoner would be too wasted to either remember to write down the lyrics or in some cases even recall them! NARC!!!!! " - mattwolf

"I have now discovered my pick for the graduation theme song. Principal Texas Ranger & the Giant Angry Jesus are gonna smack that down so hard but I'll have forty percent of the senior vote." - reticent_lass

"My fiancé says its Green Day, but he doesn't know the song. Since he's no longer of use to me, I'm thinking of getting rid of him and buying a new laptop instead." - angelprojekt

"'Green Day Hall' was intended as an eco-friendly project at Cornell, but instead resulted in several academic vice presidents plunging to their deaths from fifth stoty windows while wearing flannel shirts and Doc Martens." - captainsblog

(We could all have been so lucky. -AL&CV)

"Seems like Californication, by Green Day" - stagemanager

"Oh, that's Green Day. I forget the title, though. It's before they got all poloitical and popular." - primavera

(When you sympathize with hoi polloi, you are poloitical. That's good to know. -CV)

"Ostensibly, a song about jacking off. Oddly, your mother doesn't appear in the credits." - etcet

Correct Answer: Green Day, "Longview"



2. Holiday fun with lyrics! Name the song whose melody was used for this Christmas carol:
This, this is Christ the King
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud
The Babe, the Son of Mary!

"We're in the middle of MARCH and you're talking about CHRISTMAS?!?" - umbralcorax, orgdotnews

"Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana" - b_hulsmans

(Actually, Jesus did not die of shotgun wounds. Although suddenly the "Buckshot Of Longinus" sounds like a great redneck mythical artifact... -CV)

"I go to a Catholic school and I don't know this? I'm ashamed of myself. It should have been beaten into my head by now." - jechocochan

(Or at least beaten into your hands. By rulers. -CV)

"while I figure it out, please bring ME some laud, I could use it. Even though I'm not Jesus. (Seriously though, what is a baby going to do with laud? I'm pretty sure a baby would rather have food. Or toys.)" - kaitimae

"Shepards guard and angels sing? How about switching that around. When the forces of evil come calling, I don't want some sheep-herder protecting the baby. I want a winged warrior with a fire sword and centuries of PMS." - lots42

"Is this a 'Yankees gloating about hundred-year-ago shit again' song?" - thepikey

"we always though the lyric was 'Haste to bring him lard.'" - buzz, the_jenny, captainsblog

(Most images of Jesus do not show him as a tremendous fatass. "Shit, Longinus, we're gonna need a stronger cross..." - CV)

"CV's been watching Snickers commercials again! Greensleeves, I name thee!" - cholma

(All I keep seeing are those Snicker "pun" ads. "Snackisfaction" and "Chewniversity", fine. But "Snaxi" on a taxicab? "Snaxi" seems like it should be a naughty word in Albanian or something. Huh huh, snaxi. -CV)

"Greensleaves, and damn you for giving me an earworm that hasn't gone away since I first read the questions on Tuesday! Make the pain stop!! My braiiiiiiiinnnnz!!!! *whimpers*" - germankitty

(As always, suffering tastes like sweet candy. -AL&CV&LL&TL)

"Greensleeves...which according to some means the young lady in question was a prostitute. NOT a very nice song to put lyrics about the Baby Jesus to, now is it!" - its_what_we_are

"I always wondered why they changed green to red. Green sleeves USED to mean a rockin' good time. Now it's a garish red light bulb. *sighs* Maybe 'green light district' just doesn't sound as seedy?" - adria_rhiannon

"I'm betting on Greensleeves, which never fails to make me think of my brother. The guy never could use a tissue." - soberloki

"I have had it credibly demonstrated that literally *anything* can be sung to the tune of Greensleeves, including the Gilligan's Island theme song, and also including your local metropolitan phone book. Try it!" - adalger

Correct Answer: Greensleeves



3. Complex fun with many lyrics! Name the band and the album featuring these lines:
Dreams, they complicate my life
and
If wishes were trees, trees would be falling
and
High on the roof, thin the blood

"How many people get this because of Rock Band?" - chezmax

(At least 5. Myself included. -CV)

"If a wish fell in a forest, would anybody be able to hear it?" - morgana006

"(wishes = trees) -> (fall(trees)), so (wishes = x) -> (fall(x))? If so, (wishes = stock market) -> (fall(stock market)), which holds." - cmzero

"Cat Bleeding On A Hot Tin Roof While I Sleep was the self-titled album. They didn't do very well." - nadat

"Must be one hell of a high roof to thin the blood. 'Live, from K2, it's Mystery LJDQ Band!' *audience does not answer, for they've forgotten oxygen tanks and have sadly perished*" - oldstarnewshine

"Zen and the Art of Pop Song Writing" - nitasee

"Stinking Hippies by The Stinking Hippies" - freezer818

"Shiny Greeny People." - captainsblog

"I bet this is something the Cure would come out with. In dark danky caves with bad make up." - akiyasan

"LJDQ, did you know that I have chronic carmedictitis? I am completely unable to hear the lyrics in songs - everything sounds like a jumble of vague, nasal 'na na mmmm I'm gng na mmma ssso nnnn!'" - pookykabuki

(So you're saying that you're like Charlie Brown? -CV)

'Did everyone do the thing where you jump around and face the different directions when listening to Stand? The song was HUGE one year on a church ski trip, and those of us who liked secular music (and were probably the most likly to gather together and jump around) would gather in the common room and scream along, mildly annoying the chaperones. All was well until we tried the same thing on the ski slope. Do I need to tell you what happens when a bunch of crazy, repressed teenagers in a line all end up with the back side of their skis facing down the mountain?" - the_jenny

(+1 just for not being dead as a result. Good show. -CV)

"I danced like a rabid kangaroo to this album on my back deck with three of my girlfriends, until Serena fell down the stairs. When we went down to make sure she wasn't dead, the litter of kittens we had was camped on her, and one of them was having a post-digestion moment on her pantleg." - soberloki

"In junior high we had a P.E. unit on aerobics. Yes, aerobics. And we had to memorize an aerobics routine to the song Stand, and then we had to perform it in front of the class so we could be graded on it. Is it any wonder my brain has developed selective amnesia covering almost all of junior high?" - marasca

(Mine was 9th grade, to "Shake It Up" by The Cars. It took an edict from my PE teacher to get me into a clique so I could do a routine. I need another beer… - LL)

(I'm sure you were the cutest little aerobicizer ever, though. -CV)

Correct Answer: R.E.M., "Green"



4. Fun with TV lyrics! Name the TV show featuring this theme:
New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

"Only if you give me Tennessee Avenue and $200!" - packbat

"If it wasn't for Nick at Nite no one would know this song." - buzz

(Well, aside from the quizlings who are over 45 years old, of course. -CV)

"I *would* answer this, but the Paper Pig just arrived and wants his two dollars." - cholma

(+1, Better Off Dead. -CV)

"Isn't TV supposed to teach us that love/ friendship is more important than money/ winning/ being famous/ getting the girl? Shame on you TV, for being a bad example!" - demon_666

"I think the picture of the sign of 'Jump you fuckers!' taken next to Wall Street would be appropriate right here." - akiyasan

"Why is it always New York, New York, New York? I'd complain, but honestly I haven't been able to say anything bad about New York since I discovered These Guys. Why are you so awesome, New York? It is no fair." - morgana006

(New York is awesome, and we are proud to be associated with it in various ways. -AL&CV&TL, but not LL, because she's one of them DC types.)

"New York is not that great. Denver is much nicer, despite the attack blizzard we all woke up to this morning." - kaitimae

(Your heresy will not go unpunished. -CV)

"The Simple Life" - b_hulsmans, etcet, howeird, marasca

"Beverly Hillbillies?" - frequencyshift, illogicalvulcan

"Is it something like a New York version of The Hills?" - dk2022

"'Lost'. Hurley has more problems then we think." - lots42

"I suppose the smell of human despair, urine, and exhaust fumes is preferable to the smell of hay." - orgdotnews

"I'm still a little traumatized from when I learned that Arnold was made out of ham and bacon and sausage." - adalger

(From that wonderful, magical animal… - LL)

"So, if a pig had a better personality, it would cease to be a filthy animal?" - thepikey

(+1, Pulp Fiction. -CV)

"I think the only reason it was popular is because Eva Gabor was on it. That and the fact that back when it was on, there weren't many channels on TV." - jmthane

"My parents remind me of Green Acres a lot. For example, my dad (who is a doctor by day) got a bug to move to the country, bought a few pearl snaps shirts and hat and then decided to use his 1947 Ford Tractor DURING A BURN BAN, caught the cut grass on fire because his blade was too low to the ground, DROVE AROUND the feed lot with flames shooting out of the underside of the tractor, SCORCHED his pants, and only came to a stop when my brother in law pulled into the driveway and yanked him off the tractor. As Dad jumped down, the back tires exploded from the heat...and he still thought the fire would somehow squelch itself out. Yes, this is the lineage I come from....which explains how I managed to drive a tractor through a chain link fence AND topple my parents satellite dish all in one day." - its_what_we_are

Correct Answer: Green Acres

"That's not right; everyone knows the lyrics are really 'dun-na dun-NA-nun. DUN! DUN!'" - angelprojekt

(Fair enough; full credit. -CV)



5. Easy fun with lyrics! Name that song:
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky

"your idea of easy is beating mine with its own fist whilst saying 'stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself'" - b_hulsmans

"My goal in life is to be invisible and I'm very good at it." - ifeedformula

"I read 'fleshy sparkles' and thought of skinny dipping." - gigglingpixie

(At least you avoided a -1 that all the Twilight fans have earned. -CV)

"Oh. How odinawwy. Get yo' fwiggen feet off da stage, mods." - reticent_lass

(+1, Blazing Saddles. -1, this is our stage. -CV)

"Salmon Chanted Evening, by Tommy Dorsal. What sole!" - i_calql8

(It was a very popular tuna. +1, Wet Dream. -CV)

"That song makes me cry almost as much as The Rainbow Connection." - sskipstress

"Godammit, now you'll make me cry, because all I can think of is this version." - wrestlingdog

"I cry every single time I hear this song, especially the Ray Charles version" - tiercel

(-1 to Ray Charles for singing this. He doesn't even know what the fuck green is! -CV)

"'It's not easy being gangrene,' if Kermit the Frog had been written by Hemingway on a Spanish Civil War battlefield." - captainsblog

"I recuse myself by reason of only knowing the MAD magazine version of that song. 'It's not easy... peeing green...'" - loopychew

"Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Greater commercial music blasphemy: 'It's Not Easy Being Green' being used for a hybrid SUV, or 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' being used for the NFL?" - illogicalvulcan

""It's Not Easy Being Green," by Shrek Bruce Banner that alien babe that Kirk boffed Kermit." - cmzero

(You left out Elphaba, J'onn J'onnz, and King Piccolo. But good show. -CV)

"'(It's Not Easy) Bein' Green', by Old Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra himself. Presumably because embedding your mobster enemies in concrete and dumping them in the river causes some bad carbon dioxide emissions and pollutes the marine environment." - lins_arosa

"It's not easy being green by Kermit the Frog, who sang and acted spectacularly well considering he had a hand jammed up his butt." - mattwolf

"'It Ain't Green (Bein' Easy)' by Phunkmaster K, a tender ode to Heavy Miss P, his porcine squeeze" - etcet

(Word, yo. -CVizzle)

"
- Hey, you old fool! You slept through the LJDQ.
- Who's a fool? You answered it!" - umbralcorax

Correct Answer: "(It's not easy) Bein' Green"



6. What's your favorite song or tune?

(angelicmuse18 gets a -1 for Rick Rolling us. For shame! -AL&CV&LL&TL)

"Hmm. Anything by Pink Floyd. Lady in Red? Something by Rhymes with Orange? Coldplay's Yellow? That obnoxious Blue song by Eiffel 65? The Indigo Girls? I know! The Rainbow Connection!" - chezmax

"The Song of Solomon, if you know what I mean *wink wink nudge nudge*." - umbralcorax

"I love 'kill yourself by timbaland' just because few songs tell their audiences to just jump off a cliff." - b_hulsmans

"Bach's Toccata et Fugue in D Minor. It's long, it's complicated, and it drowns out the insipid, pabulum crap my moronic coworker plays all the fucking time. Also, cranking classical music makes me look fucking cultured when the executives walk by, which compensates for my failure to wear dress pants most of the time." - etcet

"I'm going to be all pretentious and say Mahler's 5th Symphony, but secretly it's probably still something by Def Leppard." - orgdotnews

"I am quite partial to Tchaikovsky's Another One Bites the Dust, though Vaughan Williams' Fat-Bottomed Girls retains a place in my heart forever and always." - iambickilometer

(+1, Good Omens - LL)

"" - packbat

(What, have the dinosaurs evolved? – LL)

"This is the song that never ends!
It just goes on and on my friends!
Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was.
And they'll continue singing it forever just because....(ad infinitum)" - ifeedformula

"Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away.
The Batmobile lost its wheels and landed in the bay. Hey!" - demon_666

"The Ka-Ching of cash registers. COMMERCE BABY. IT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND!" - ntlespino

"The screams of the innocent." - freezer818

(Outdone only by the lamentations of their women. -CV)

"The Benny Hill song." - akiyasan

(Yakkity Sax is always for the win. -CV)

"Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit...." - a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

"Londonderry Air (aka "Danny Boy"). Say it outloud and you'll understand." - noelleleithe

"It's a tie between Jimmy Buffet's immoral immortal Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw and My Way as performed by the tag team of Elvis & Frankie. " - howeird

"'Closer' by Nine Inch Nails, nothing says romantic like 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'" - rancidwolves

(Not even "Let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel?" – LL&CV)

"Soco Amaretto Lime, by Brand New, which has lime in the title, which is green, which is a sign that LJDQ is a conspiracy and I need to start wearing my tinfoil hat again...and possibly paint it green." - japeningrish
"'Soco Amaretto Lime' by Brand New. The song = awesome. The drink = disgusting going down and especially not awesome coming up." - angelprojekt

"Vikings and Kittens FTW!" - germankitty

"The sound of silence after a day of teaching 14 and 15 year olds English." - ANONYMOUS

"Anything I can belt loudly and piss off my flatmates. I got a text from the girl next door going 'You can really hit those high notes!'" - puredeadthingy

"I like it when something rousing gets played on the ol' skin flute." - thepikey



It's the end of the quiz as we know it. We will all go down together, good bye yellow brick road. We don't need no education, because we built this quiz on rock and roll. And for those about to quiz, we salute you.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL&TL

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