Boom de yada
2 July 2008 | FTW, Geek, TV, Trite and Fluff | 2 Comments
I watch the assorted Discovery Channels. Especially the Science Channel on Sundays, because they run a butt-ton of astronomy stuff. I love the Discovery Channel. Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters (I have a mad crush on Adam Savage - oh my yes), any show that’s on - I will watch.
So it’s no surprise that I fell in love with this commercial.
Then, last Friday, I found XKCD had done it’s own little tribute.
So I’ve had this song stuck in my head for the past week.
Boom de yada boom de yada…
Note: The original video I linked to was actually a live performance of Boom De Yada featuring Mike Rowe, Bear Grylls, the guys from Deadliest Catch, and some other Discovery shows. It’s still a great clip, so I suggest you watch it.
Guess what I’m listening to?
1 July 2008 | Auditory, Trite and Fluff | 2 Comments
Since I had so much fun playing the lyric game on Twitter yesterday, I decided to bring the game over here. That, and I love music lyric memes.
So, here’s some lyrics from 30 songs I listened to this morning. Play along by guessing what the artist and/or song is! Or just comment on my effed up musical tastes. Whatev.
Rules/Notes:
Comment on this post only.
If the song is a cover, I will accept the original or remake artist as a correct answer.
Try not to Google!
I used some artists twice.
1. It’s standing room only for a piece of my pigment / So excuse me a minute while I supply demand
2. I was upset you see / Almost all the time / You used to be a stranger / Now you are mine - New Order, “Regret”
3. You gotta not talk dirty, baby / If you wanna impress me / You can’t be too flirty, mama / I know how to undress me
4. I want to be all alone / To be all alone / Leave me all alone / I’m so lonely - And One, “Sometimes”
5. Save your breath for someone else and credit me with something more / When it comes to men like you / I know the score / I’ve heard it all before
6. And somewhere Alfie cries / and says “Enjoy his every smile / You can see in the dark / Through the eyes of Laura Mars” - Tori Amos, “Gold Dust”
7. If I only could / I’d make a deal with God / And get him to swap our places
8. I would go out tonight / but I haven’t got a stitch to wear / this man said “It’s gruesome / that someone so handsome should care” - The Smiths, “This Charming Man”
9. sing mit mir / und spiel mit dir / reiss an meinem steuer und / erleg das tier / wieder und immer wieder - And One, “So Klingt Leibe”
10. You think that I go home at night / take off my clothes, turn out the lights / but I burn letters that I write / to you to make you love me
11. Well I cut down women, I cut out booze / I stopped ironing my shirts, cleaning my shoes / I stopped going to work, stopped reading the news / I sit and twiddle my thumbs ’cause I got nothing to do
12. No one’s picking up the phone / Guess it’s clear he’s gone / And this little masochist / Is lifting up her dress - Tori Amos, “Hey Jupiter”
13. He’s got a watch with a minute hand / Millenium hand and an eon hand / When they meet it’s a happy land / Powerful man, universe man - They Might Be Giants, “Particle Man”
14. Though it takes forever / I’m waiting patiently / Until you are here with me / Arrogance and anger / Curve the way to light / And lead into the night - De/Vision, “Unputdownable”
15. Wunderschöne selbstverblendung / Und ich dachte ich sehe mich / Wunderschöne selbstentfremdung / Und ich dachte ich finde mich - Oomph!, “Bitter”
16. Oh I could throw you in the lake / Or feed you poisoned birthday cake / I wont deny I’m gonna miss you when you’re gone
(This song was nothing but WIN when it was played on Doctor Who - yeah, that’s a hint)
17. It’s eight fifteen and that’s the time that it’s always been / We got your message on the radio / Conditions normal and you’re coming home
18. Tell by the way that you switch your walk / I can see by the way that you baby talk / I can know by the way that you treat your man / I could you love you babys a crime
19. I don’t go out my house shorty / You just waiting to see / When I roll up in the club and then report that next week
20. I’m ok, I’m alright / Ain’t gonna face no defeat / I just gotta get out of this prison cell / Someday I’m gonna be free
21. For you I fight the light and serve the darkness / For you I’m a mockery of man / For you I bring the flood, the new world order / All your wiles were not in vain - De/Vision, “What You Deserve”
22. Open the doors that lead on into Eden / Don’t want no cheap disguise / I follow the signs marked “back to the beginning” / No more compromise
23. She took his cash / She took his checks / She took the soda pop / There was nothing left
24. Pleasures remain / So does the pain / Words are meaningless / And forgettable - Depeche Mode, “Enjoy The Silence”
25. They put a hot wire to my head / ‘Cause of the things I did and said / And made these feelings go away / Model citizen in every way
26. Oh, can’t anybody see / We’ve got a war to fight / Never found our way / Regardless of what they say
27. When you are out there on the road / for several weeks of shows / and when you scan the radio / I hope this song will guide you home
28. You want me to leave it there / Afraid of a love affair / But I think you know / That I can’t let go
29. Tonight I go to hell / For what I’ve done to you / This ain’t about regret / It’s when I tell the truth
30. Did you never call? I waited for your call / These rivers of suggestion are driving me away - R.E.M., ‘So. Central Rain”
Feel free to pass the post around so people can come over and guess.
