I saw this on another forum on a website far, far away and thought it looked like fun enough to bring to your attention.
To put it simply:
We create a fictional compilation album consisting of total 12 songs each. Each user has to copy and paste adding only one song to the album, so in the end it's 12 songs, one per user, and each album has to have a different theme.
Whoever adds the last song on the album gets to decide the theme for the next album and then it starts all over again. Please avoid using multiple songs from the same artists in each category.
For example:
Poster 1: "Songs about or that reference U.S.A.
- Tom Petty - American Girl"
Poster 2: "Songs about or that reference U.S.A.
- Tom Petty - American Girl
- Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A."
...Until Poster 12: "Songs about or that reference U.S.A.
- Tom Petty - American Girl
- Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A.
- Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
- David Bowie - Young Americans
- The Beach Boys - Surfin' U.S.A.
- The Sounds - Living in America
- Marina & Diamonds - Hollywood
- The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
- Testament - True American Hate
- U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
- Green Day - American Idiot
- Don Mc Lean - American Pie
New Compilation: Songs that are over 10 minutes long.
- Avantasia - The Seven Angels"
The topic can and preferably will be more specific and imaginative than 'Songs about U.S.A.' It can be anything! Your favourite song by your favourite artist, songs about wild animals, songs that feature over 2 minutes of guitar solos, a song that reminds you of last summer. Go wild!
To start this off with something relatively easy, I'm going to go with this:
Songs about burning or fire.
- The Trammps - Disco Inferno
edited 18th May '13 10:52:16 AM by Xeroop
The Topic Slayer
1. P!nk - "True Love"
2. Aurelio Voltaire - “Stuck With You”
3. Taylor Swift - "The Way I Loved You"
4. Florence + the Machine - "Kiss With A Fist"
5. The Divine Comedy - "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World"
6. Tom Lehrer - "She's My Girl"
7. Hozier - "Take Me To Church"
8. Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy"
Oh no! The DREADED AQUAE MORTIS! No, wait, it's just your imagination.
1. P!nk - "True Love"
2. Aurelio Voltaire - “Stuck With You”
3. Taylor Swift - "The Way I Loved You"
4. Florence + the Machine - "Kiss With A Fist"
5. The Divine Comedy - "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World"
6. Tom Lehrer - "She's My Girl"
7. Hozier - "Take Me To Church"
8. Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy"
9. Passion Pit - "Carried Away"
Anime Guy
1. P!nk - "True Love"
2. Aurelio Voltaire - “Stuck With You”
3. Taylor Swift - "The Way I Loved You"
4. Florence + the Machine - "Kiss With A Fist"
5. The Divine Comedy - "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World"
6. Tom Lehrer - "She's My Girl"
7. Hozier - "Take Me To Church"
8. Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy"
9. Passion Pit - "Carried Away"
10. James - "Laid"
I’m sorry, but you have Stage 9 Animes.
1. P!nk - "True Love"
2. Aurelio Voltaire - “Stuck With You”
3. Taylor Swift - "The Way I Loved You"
4. Florence + the Machine - "Kiss With A Fist"
5. The Divine Comedy - "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World"
6. Tom Lehrer - "She's My Girl"
7. Hozier - "Take Me To Church"
8. Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy"
9. Passion Pit - "Carried Away"
10. James - "Laid"
11. Baths - "Lovely Bloodflow"
Will D. Downing
- P!nk - "True Love"
- Aurelio Voltaire - “Stuck With You”
- Taylor Swift - "The Way I Loved You"
- Florence + the Machine - "Kiss With A Fist"
- The Divine Comedy - "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World"
- Tom Lehrer - "She's My Girl"
- Hozier - "Take Me To Church"
- Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy"
- Passion Pit - "Carried Away"
- James - "Laid"
- Baths - "Lovely Bloodflow"
- Sonia - "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You"
- The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
The Undercover Troper
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
Orcus on His Throne will always be my pet peeve.
The Topic Slayer
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
4. Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
Oh no! The DREADED AQUAE MORTIS! No, wait, it's just your imagination.
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
4. Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
5. Conway Twitty - "Saturday Night Special"
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
4. Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
5. Conway Twitty - "Saturday Night Special"
6. Alice Cooper "Guilty"
Genius In The Lamp
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
4. Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
5. Conway Twitty - "Saturday Night Special"
6. Alice Cooper - "Guilty"
7. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
Lemon curry?
The Undercover Troper
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
4. Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
5. Conway Twitty - "Saturday Night Special"
6. Alice Cooper - "Guilty"
7. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
8. Foster the People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
Orcus on His Throne will always be my pet peeve.
Fairy-type Iris
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
4. Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
5. Conway Twitty - "Saturday Night Special"
6. Alice Cooper - "Guilty"
7. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
8. Foster the People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
9. Federico Soler - "Recoil Force"
"I usually specialize in Dragon-types, but now I'm a fairy and specialize in Fairy-types. See the irony?" - Iris
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
4. Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
5. Conway Twitty - "Saturday Night Special"
6. Alice Cooper - "Guilty"
7. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
8. Foster the People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
9. Federico Soler - "Recoil Force"
10. Julie Brown - "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun"
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
4. Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
5. Conway Twitty - "Saturday Night Special"
6. Alice Cooper - "Guilty"
7. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
8. Foster the People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
9. Federico Soler - "Recoil Force"
10. Julie Brown - "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun"
11. The Offspring - "Bad Habit"
1. The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
2. Steve Earle - "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Gorillaz - "Kids With Guns"
4. Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
5. Conway Twitty - "Saturday Night Special"
6. Alice Cooper - "Guilty"
7. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
8. Foster the People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
9. Federico Soler - "Recoil Force"
10. Julie Brown - "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun"
11. The Offspring - "Bad Habit"
12. Def Leppard - "Billy's Got a Gun"
Songs with Bait-and-Switch lyrics that may seemingly say something explicit but it doesn't.
1. Will Smith - "Nice Guy" ("Wendy Williams, you don't know me. I'm not your punching bag, you gon' blow me... up")
Anime Guy
1. Will Smith - "Nice Guy" ("Wendy Williams, you don't know me. I'm not your punching bag, you gon' blow me... up")
2. Meghan Trainor - "Dear Future Husband" ("Open doors for me and you might get some… kisses")
I’m sorry, but you have Stage 9 Animes.
1. Will Smith - "Nice Guy" ("Wendy Williams, you don't know me. I'm not your punching bag, you gon' blow me... up")
2. Meghan Trainor - "Dear Future Husband" ("Open doors for me and you might get some… kisses")
3. Roy Zimmerman - "Summer of Loving" ("Find a white dress or a tux, It ain't nobody's business who a person... marries")
I'm Only Sleeping
1. Will Smith - "Nice Guy" ("Wendy Williams, you don't know me. I'm not your punching bag, you gon' blow me... up")
2. Meghan Trainor - "Dear Future Husband" ("Open doors for me and you might get some… kisses")
3. Roy Zimmerman - "Summer of Loving" ("Find a white dress or a tux, It ain't nobody's business who a person... marries")
4. The Killers - "Mr. Brightside" ("Now they're going to bed/And my stomach is sick/And it's all in my head/But she's touching his... chest now")
INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.
The Topic Slayer
1. Will Smith - "Nice Guy" ("Wendy Williams, you don't know me. I'm not your punching bag, you gon' blow me... up")
2. Meghan Trainor - "Dear Future Husband" ("Open doors for me and you might get some… kisses")
3. Roy Zimmerman - "Summer of Loving" ("Find a white dress or a tux, It ain't nobody's business who a person... marries")
4. The Killers - "Mr. Brightside" ("Now they're going to bed/And my stomach is sick/And it's all in my head/But she's touching his... chest now")
5. Aerosmith - "Big Ten Inch Record" ("But I really get her going/When I whip out my big ten inch/Record of a band that plays the blues")
Oh no! The DREADED AQUAE MORTIS! No, wait, it's just your imagination.
1. Will Smith - "Nice Guy" ("Wendy Williams, you don't know me. I'm not your punching bag, you gon' blow me... up")
2. Meghan Trainor - "Dear Future Husband" ("Open doors for me and you might get some… kisses")
3. Roy Zimmerman - "Summer of Loving" ("Find a white dress or a tux, It ain't nobody's business who a person... marries")
4. The Killers - "Mr. Brightside" ("Now they're going to bed/And my stomach is sick/And it's all in my head/But she's touching his... chest now")
5. Aerosmith - "Big Ten Inch Record" ("But I really get her going/When I whip out my big ten inch/Record of a band that plays the blues")
6. Stöj Snak - "The Plague's Song" ("Your blood is boiling, your headache split / You'll lose your lunch and smell like... uh, something nasty")
"Humans and robots living together in harmony and equality. That was my ultimate wish."
The show must go on
1. Will Smith - "Nice Guy" ("Wendy Williams, you don't know me. I'm not your punching bag, you gon' blow me... up")
2. Meghan Trainor - "Dear Future Husband" ("Open doors for me and you might get some… kisses")
3. Roy Zimmerman - "Summer of Loving" ("Find a white dress or a tux, It ain't nobody's business who a person... marries")
4. The Killers - "Mr. Brightside" ("Now they're going to bed/And my stomach is sick/And it's all in my head/But she's touching his... chest now")
5. Aerosmith - "Big Ten Inch Record" ("But I really get her going/When I whip out my big ten inch/Record of a band that plays the blues")
6. Stöj Snak - "The Plague's Song" ("Your blood is boiling, your headache split / You'll lose your lunch and smell like... uh, something nasty")
7. Maneskin - "BLA BLA BLA" (Then I drove into a parking lot/ She smiled and told me, "You have a massive... car")
1. Will Smith - "Nice Guy" ("Wendy Williams, you don't know me. I'm not your punching bag, you gon' blow me... up")
2. Meghan Trainor - "Dear Future Husband" ("Open doors for me and you might get some… kisses")
3. Roy Zimmerman - "Summer of Loving" ("Find a white dress or a tux, It ain't nobody's business who a person... marries")
4. The Killers - "Mr. Brightside" ("Now they're going to bed/And my stomach is sick/And it's all in my head/But she's touching his... chest now")
5. Aerosmith - "Big Ten Inch Record" ("But I really get her going/When I whip out my big ten inch/Record of a band that plays the blues")
6. Stöj Snak - "The Plague's Song" ("Your blood is boiling, your headache split / You'll lose your lunch and smell like... uh, something nasty")
7. Maneskin - "BLA BLA BLA" (Then I drove into a parking lot/ She smiled and told me, "You have a massive... car")
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Lyre of Orpheus" (Orpheus looked at his instrument / And he gave the wire a pluck / He heard a sound so beautiful /He gasped and said O my God)
Now we're so young, but we're probably gonna die
1. Will Smith - "Nice Guy" ("Wendy Williams, you don't know me. I'm not your punching bag, you gon' blow me... up")
2. Meghan Trainor - "Dear Future Husband" ("Open doors for me and you might get some… kisses")
3. Roy Zimmerman - "Summer of Loving" ("Find a white dress or a tux, It ain't nobody's business who a person... marries")
4. The Killers - "Mr. Brightside" ("Now they're going to bed/And my stomach is sick/And it's all in my head/But she's touching his... chest now")
5. Aerosmith - "Big Ten Inch Record" ("But I really get her going/When I whip out my big ten inch/Record of a band that plays the blues")
6. Stöj Snak - "The Plague's Song" ("Your blood is boiling, your headache split / You'll lose your lunch and smell like... uh, something nasty")
7. Maneskin - "BLA BLA BLA" (Then I drove into a parking lot/ She smiled and told me, "You have a massive... car")
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Lyre of Orpheus" (Orpheus looked at his instrument / And he gave the wire a pluck / He heard a sound so beautiful /He gasped and said O my God)
9. The Stupendium - "Vending Machine of Love" (So if you think we're just some obscene cannery / All our cans are over 18 calories!")
The things in my dreams wish they could chase me!
1. P!nk - "True Love"
2. Aurelio Voltaire - “Stuck With You”
3. Taylor Swift - "The Way I Loved You"
4. Florence + the Machine - "Kiss With A Fist"
5. The Divine Comedy - "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World"
6. Tom Lehrer - "She's My Girl"
7. Hozier - "Take Me To Church"
Yeah, maybe annoying is too specific, I'm ok with songs where the singer adoringly describes their lover in ways most people would find negative (or even praises them for being that way); or songs about couples that disagree all the time, or have hurt each other in the past, but are still together in the end because the good ended up being greater than the bad / they have learnt to be better to each other.
I find it kinda weird, to be honest, that there aren't more songs where singers complain about their lovers for MUNDANE reasons considering how prevalent used to be the idea that married life was monotony hell and yet still worth it. As far as I know love/hate is a pretty common and board supertrope, but for some reason most songs I find about that tend to focus on the hate/despair/toxicity part of it: Three Days Grace - I hate everything about you, In This Moment - The promise, Rihanna - Love the way you lie... And don't get me wrong, I do find those enjoyable at times, because I'm a fan of enemies to lovers realationships and Slap-Slap-Kiss. But I'm also a fan of Opposites Attract where even if they get in each others toes at first, they end up making each other better in the end, or couples were Belligerent Sexual Tension last even after they get together, not because unresolved issues but because they simply like it that way.
Edited by Gabo352 on Apr 27th 2024 at 3:09:48 AM