Sorry I haven’t blogged lately, blah blah blah. Due to a lack of creativity, I’m stealing this meme that’s been going around — and, in my usual flavor, I’ll be a smart-ass about it. 
UPDATE: I’m re-posting this because I realized that some of you thought that the lyrics posted were actually fabricated by me. Well - they’re not. And because of this, I’ve made it incredibly easy for you all to cheat. I’ve assembled all snippets belong into an audio file.
I challenge you all to identify the lyrics below without the sound file. But if you get stuck — feel free to use it.
Here Be Rules:
1. Put your mp3 player or music player on your computer on random. When you think about it, can this be completely random? I have music and sound files all over the place, and simply grouping it together is still an unrandom subset. So I might as well just choose myself.
2. Post the first four lines from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song (Skip repeat artists). Some songs don’t even have four lines. Some of them are just far too obvious with four lines. Thus — I’ll give you an excerpt. Could be four lines, could be less.
3. Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
4. Don’t fucking cheat, you Google whores! Please cheat if you so desire.
Ready? Set? Go!
1. Na na na na na, Na na na na na, Na na na na na na na, Na na na na na / Na na na na na na …
Roxette - The Look
2. Na na na na na na na na / Na na na na na na na na na na / Na na na na na / Na na na na na na…
Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous
3. Na na na na na, na na na na, na na na na na na na na na na na.
Gwen Stefani - Rich Girl
4. Na na na na na na na / Na na na na…
The Beatles - Hey Jude
5. Na na na na na na na, Na na na na na…
Wil Smith - Gettin’ Jiggy With It
6. Na na na na, Na na na na / Na na na na na na — Na na na na…
Bruce Willis - Respect Yourself
7. Na na na na na na, Na na na na na na / Na na na na na na na na na na na…
Journey - Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’
8. Sha na na na na na na na, Sha na na na na…
The Brady Bunch - Time to Change
9. Sha la la la la la la la la da la de da…
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
10. Bomp Bomp Oh Yeah / Chick, Chick-chickahhhhh…
Yello - Oh Yeah
11. *instrumental*
The Allman Brothers - Jessica
12. … why / Why, why, why, why…
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
13. Shoop shoop ba-doop, shoop ba-doop, shooop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop…
Salt n’ Pepa - Shoop
14. Be my little baby / Baby my darling / Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh…
Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
15. Ay-yay-yay-yay-yay-yay-yay-yay-yay-yay-yay / Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh yea-ah …
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
16. *instrumental*
Jan Hammer - (Theme to) Miami Vice
17. *silence*
John Cage - 4″33
18. Ah ah ah / Ah ah ah / Oh oh oh / Oh oh oh / Ah Hah ah / Ah Hah ah / Doo doo doo La la la la la…
Wham! - Everything She Wants
19. Diggy dang diggy dang da dang dang da diggy diggy diggy dang dang / Diggy dang diggy diggy…
Newcleus - Jam on It
20. Oh oh oh oh oh / Oh oh oh oh / Oh oh oh oh oh …
New Kids on the Block - The Right Stuff
Good luck!
July 30th, 2008 - 3:39 pm
That’s a lot of na-na!
Dave2s last blog post..Coinage
July 30th, 2008 - 3:59 pm
I knew it was real! I still stick by my original answer.
Poppys last blog post..You are the beary best
July 30th, 2008 - 4:00 pm
Except #17 is Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence”.
Poppys last blog post..You are the beary best
July 30th, 2008 - 4:02 pm
Wait, you took away the original post?! I forgot what my answer was!
Poppys last blog post..You are the beary best
July 30th, 2008 - 4:08 pm
1. Roxette - You’ve Got The Look
2. Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous
3. Gwen Stefani something or other, haha.
4. Hey Jude (do I really need to say the band?)
5. Will Smith - Gettin’ Jiggy Wit’ It
6.
7. Journey - Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’
8. The Brady Bunch - Time To Change
9. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
10. Yello - The Ferris Bueller Song (or “Oh Yeah” if you’re nasty)
11.
12. Oasis - Chanpagne Supernova
13. Salt N Pepa - Shoop
14. Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
15. Pearl Jam - Jeremy
16. Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme or whatever
17. Seriously?
18. Wham - Everything She Wants
19. Some old school rap shit
20. NKOTB - The Right Stuff
Shazam, bitches!
July 30th, 2008 - 4:12 pm
1. You’ve Got the Look by Roxette
2. Kind & Generous by 10,000 Maniacs
3. Rich Girl by Gwen Stefani
4. Hey Jude by The Beatles
5. Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It by Will Smith
6. — No Idea —
7. Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’ by Journey
8. — No Idea (WTF? Is that the Brady Bunch?!?) —
9. Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison
10. Oh Yeah by Yello
11. — From “Thelma & Louise” but can’t think of the name. —
12. Champaigne Super Nova by Oasis
13. Shoop by Salt-N-Pepa
14. Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money and Ronnie Spector
15. Jeremy by Pearl Jam
16. Theme from Miami Vice by Jan Hammer
17. — No Idea. (SILENCE?!? WTF?) —
18. Everything She Wants by Wham!
19. — No Idea. (Sounds like Q*Bert!) —
20. The Right Stuff by New Kids on the Block
Dave2s last blog post..Coinage
July 30th, 2008 - 4:22 pm
Phew - at least Mr. Music (that’d be Davey Joe) was stumped on a couple as well.
July 30th, 2008 - 7:36 pm
oh my fucking dog, i so love you! this had my hands thrown in the air, “singing” along.
well done, o shiny one!!!
(dammit, like every comment i leave over here says well done. i need a new phrase or you need to stop being so fucking phenomenal.)
August 3rd, 2008 - 10:34 am
Congrats to Miss Hilly Sue for getting the most answers correct! (Which only happened to be one more than Dave2)… And props to Poppy for guessing with gumption.
The answers are:
1. Roxette - The Look
2. Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous
3. Gwen Stefani - Rich Girl
4. The Beatles - Hey Jude
5. Wil Smith - Gettin’ Jiggy With It
6. Bruce Willis - Respect Yourself (remember this one? I certainly hope not…)
7. Journey - Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’
8. The Brady Bunch - Time To Change
9. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
10. Yello - Oh Yeah
11. The Allman Brothers - Jessica (I’m surprised you didn’t get that)
12. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
13. Salt n’ Pepa - Shoop
14. Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
15. Pearl Jam - Jeremy
16. Jan Hammer - (Theme from) Miami Vice
17. John Cage - 4′33 (Yes. It’s a track with four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. And yes, there was a plagiarism suit by an artist who wanted to make a tribute to Cage in his own song where he simply had silence. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3.)
18. Wham! - Everything She Wants
19. Newcleus - Jam On It
20. New Kids on the Block - The Right Stuff