You guys better tell me if this is too nerdy for these boards, but here's a new Idea for a game along the lines of the person below thread and stuff like that.

I'm guessing there are only a limited number of these so let's try not to repeat untill we've gonethrough them all.

Here's how it will work. Name a TMBG song with a reference to a musical artist, and the artists name.

bands and individuals count
real people only - no fictional bands
if the song names more than one artist, pick only one
no repeats please

I'll start -

Where Your Eyes Don't Go - Kurtis Blow

I forgot to mention, they don't have to say the name. It could be a song with the same title as another popular song, or a song that reworks or samples existing lyrics or a cover of another band's song.

i love games!!!

Why Must I Be Sad? ~ Alice Cooper

(i hope i did that right)

Rhythm Section Want Ad - The Eurythmics

They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants

Do I win?

Boat Of Car has Johnny Cash samples.

that counts, right?

I'd like to think so.

We're the Replacements - The Replacements

ok, this might be a bit of a roundabout one, but here goes.

in Your Own Worst Enemy there's the part that goes...

And the song they play
Is that guy with the messed up face
Going, "Precious and few are the moments that you
And your own worst enemy share."


the guy who sang the song "Precious And Few" is "Sonny Geraci" of the band Climax. his face isn't messed up though. he's a regular lookin guy. i think they were really talkin about this other singer i can remember from the 70s who's face was all pock marked, but i can't quite put my finger on who he was anymore.

but i could be totally wrong. here's Sonny. you be the judge...

Well, you know Linnell was referring to some real-life musician in that song, so that should count...

Au Contraire - David Bowie

Welcome to the Jungle - (was also the name of a popular song by) Guns 'n' Roses.

Lincoln, Washington, & That Jefferson Guy - Lincoln, Washington, & That Jefferson Guy

haha, that was funny biff

Santa's Beard - Santa Claus

thanks! ditto back at'cha.

rumor has it that Hot Cha is about Flansy's brother... but he's not famous or anything.

just for good measure, i'll do another one...

James K Polk ~ James K Polk

these are great!

Okay, I'll try one

um...'Weep Day' has the lyric: "it's samba time for Tambo and weep day for Urine Man" refering to Bob Dylan's 'Mr. Tambourine man'

is that right?

i didn't know that, but it sounds right to me.


She Thinks She's Edith Head ~ Edith Head

Damn Good Times - David Lee Roth

good one.

The Day ~ Marvin Gaye & Phil Ochs

The Guitar - The Tokens

Did I do it right?

XTC vs Adam Ant: XTC

XTC vs Adam Ant ~ Adam Ant

Twisting - Young Fresh Fellas

Violin ~ George Washington's head

Twisting - the dB's

Everything Right Is Wrong Again ~ Lucille Ball in "The Long Long Trailer"

(cute movie, btw, if you've never seen it)

Oh I forgot this one..

XTC vs Adam Ant - Anabella Lwin (the singer from Bow Wow Wow)

oh yeah!

in Robot Parade/Shoehorn With Teeth (from Late Night with Conan O'Brien) talks about

"John, i think we're losing the crowd"

XTC vs. Adam Ant - The Beatles (as in "Beatle-based pop")

New York City ~ Dylan... or King Kong... depending on which version you go with.

Happy Doesn't Have To Have An Ending - Mr. Peter Tork (of The Monkees)

good one.

It Was A Very Good Year ~ Joey Heatherton, Margaret Thatcher, & the Trilateral Commission

The World's Address - Copernicus

Vestibule ~ Senator Arlen Spector

Meet James Ensor - James Ensor

Critic Intro ~ Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass, & Tom Poston... not to mention They Might Be Giants

See The Constellation - the counting part is a Ramones sample

does that count?

i think samples count. Johnny Cash did.

Brooklyn ~ Marty Markowitz

ok, i'll go again then.

Mario Speaks ~ They Might Be Giants, Flansburgh, & Linnell

Purple Toupee - President Johnson (sort of)

good one!

P.S.O.K. - Paul Stanley Of Kiss

She's An Angel - The Shriners

All MacGyver On It - MacGyver aka Richard Dean Anderson

Youth Culture Killed My Dog - Burt Bacharach...right?

Yep.

Youth Culture Killed My Dog - Hal David

Absolutely Bill's Mood ~ Bill Krauss (who i guess is mostly just famous to TMBG fans)

We're The Replacements - The Replacements!

Walt Whitman ~ Walt Whitman

Ohhhhhhprahhhhhh - Oprah

:P
BigJohn

Tom Cruise Makes Me Nervous ~ Tom Cruise

The Edison Museum - Thomas Edison

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Ike Was a Handsome Man ~ Dwight Eisenhower

Peter Fonda - Mexican Drill

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Tom Landry, Existentialist, Dead At 75 ~ Tom Landry

"the Greek guy" (who wrote the allegory of the people in the cave) - No One Knows My Plan

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i think it's supposed to be a celebrity.

Rosa Parks, C'est Moi ~ Rosa Parks

James K. Polk - Martin Van Buren

Cyclops Rock ~ Chucky

Cyclops Rock (Demo) - Nixon

Kiss Me, Son of God ~ Jesus

GOOD one!

Au Contraire - Jodie Foster

Wicked Little Critta ~ John(?) Havlicek

Birdhouse In Your Soul - Jason and the Argonaughts

Meet James Ensor ~ James Ensor

Wicked Little Critta - Bobby Orr

A Self Called Nowhere ~ IT

Oddball - Mr. Frank Black

(does that count?)

BigJohn

I think it does. (this from the chick who thinks IT & Chuckie count)

umm...

Robert Lowell ~ Robert Lowell

She's Actual Size (live) - Animal from the Muppet Show

Walt Whitman ~ Walt Whitman

Hey Mr DJ - Chess Piece Face

Disappointing Show - Joseph Stalin

Purple toupee "They stepped on my hair and told me I was Fat" was a ref to John Lennon when he first came to the US with the Beatles.

excellent.

The Mesopotamians - Sargon, Hammurabi, Asurbanipal, Gilgamesh

Someone Keep Moving My Chair - Mr Horrible

Cut The Strings - Isaac Newton

Damn Good Times - David Lee Roth

Theme From McSweeney's - Timothy McSweeney

The Day, mentions Marvin Gaye

(kind of hard to see if we are doing repeaters here...)

i don't think the repeat police are even looking.

Weep Day ~ The Oakland Raiders

oh good. still i dont't think this one was done

Youth Culture Killed My Dog - Burt Bacharach

i can't remember if it was or not. you know my memory...

King Weed ~ Ted Koppel

Au Contraire - Bach (had 3 of a kind)

Announcement A ~ Donovan Leitch

Hey, Mr DJ - Rabid Child

John Lee Supertaster ~ John Lee

Oh, nice one, how did I miss that!?

They got Lost - They Might Be Giants ( )

same way i missed that one!

They Got Lost ~ Julie at the station

(i imagine she's famous at whatever station they were talking about)

1985 Radio Hello - Tina Turner

Phew! I didn't think I'd be able to think of one!

good job, ignatz!

Rest Awhile ~ Ruy Lopez *a Spanish priest from the sixteenth century who wrote a book about chess*