Song Suggestions
I have a lot of songs in my library, but there are always more songs to add. The problem is that I’m running out of ideas. I’m coming to you…
If you have a song that you’d like to have played at the Tone Deaf Challenge, just leave the suggestion here. Please remember that this should be a fairly popular song that is known well enough that people can answer it.
If I get enuogh songs, I will start to spotlight them during the game (maybe one a night or one a round). I will make note of which team suggested the song and if they are in line to get it, the song will be skipped. (It’s only fair.)
So, let’s get crackin’. Think of songs and leave them as comments.
I’m waiting!
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Let’s stump them…
Sarina Paris – Look at us now
The Time – Jungle Love
Ini Kamoze – Here Comes the Hotstepper
K7 – Come Baby Come
Toadies – Possum Kingdom
Lit – Miserable
That should give you a start.
“Alien ant farm” summer or smooth criminal
“dragonforce” evening star
“ICP” tilt a while
“hinder” by the way
“hammerfall” born to rule
“mxpx” the darkest place
“kenny loggins” danger zone
“fort minor” remember the name
“seether” remedy or fine again
“story of the year” until the day i die, park avenue, or take me back
“meagdeth” peace sells
this is for all the rockers that get nothing in the current music
Micheal Jackson- Black and White
Bobby Darin- Beyond the sea
Luther Vandross- House is not a Home
Zapp and Rog- Computer Love
Lionel Richey- All night long
For the oldies, how about some Tommy James and the Shondells, Grateful Dead, Steppenwolf…I’ll think of more later!
“Sick of myself” Matthew Sweet
“Jump Right in” The Urge
“Leech” Eve 6
“Silver & Cold” AFI
“Shame” Stabbing Westward
“Letting the Cable Sleep” Bush
“Stuck on You” Failure
“Suffocate” Cold
“Getting Away with Murder” Papa Roach
“The Ghost of You” My Chemical Romance
“Redundant” Green Day
“Lakini’s Juice” Live
“Tear Away” Drowning Pool
“Life” Our Lady Peace
“Hell” Squirrel Nut Zippers
Trevor Dobson or “T” is Team TROCK
Grateful Dead- Truckin
Pink Floyd- shine on you crazy diamond
Jeremy Jordan- right kind of love
suki yaki-4pm
I got 5 on it- Luniz
There, that’s 5!
Oldies:
Wilson Pickett – Land of 1000 Dances
America – Sister Golden Hair/Horse with no name
Peter Frampton – Do you feel like we do?/Baby I love your way
Sam Cooke – Twistin’ the night away
Blue Oyster Cult – Burnin’ for you/Godzilla
The Knack – My Sharona
Nazereth – Hair of the Dog/Love Hurts
Aerosmith – Train Kept a Rollin’
The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
The Who – Behind Blue Eyes
80s:
Huey Lewis & The News – Back in Time/Stuck with You/The Heart of Rock n’ Roll
Tears for Fears – Shout/Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance
Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight/Shakin’
90s:
Kenny Wayne Sheppard – Blue on Black
Weezer – El Scorcho/Say it ain’t so
Coolio – Fantastic Voyage
Citizen King – Better Days
Fuel – Shimmer
Garbage – Push It
Rusted Root – Send my on my way
Spacehog – In the meantime
Verve Pipe – Villains
Train – Meet Virginia
Lenny Kravitz – Are you gonna go my way?
Neve – It’s over now
Live – Selling the Drama
Stroke 9 – Little Black Backpack
Green Day – Basket Case/When I Come Around
Tonic – Open Up Your Eyes
Current:
Ingram Hill – Almost Perfect
Raconteurs – Steady, as she goes/Old Enough
The Clarks – Hell on Wheels
Outkast – Roses
Boom Boom(Let’s Go Back to My Room) by Paul Lekakis
All Cried Out by Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam Feat. Full Force
Wouldn’t It Be Good by Nik Kershaw
Fish Heads by Barnes and Barnes
Do Anything by Natural Selection
Kick Some Ass by Stroke Nine
If It Were Up to Me by Rooney
Because I Got High by Afroman
Do It For You by Ballas Hough Band
1, 2, 3, 4 by Plain White Ts
Just a few suggestions provided by Don’t Stop Me Now.
Wow… You threw out Neve – It’s Over Now! AWESOME SONG! Still on my MP3 player to this day.
Fastball – The Way
Motley Crue – Kickstart My Heart
Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
The Darkness – I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Midnight Oil – Beds are Burning
Less Than Jake – All My Best Friends are Metalheads
Outlaws – Green Grass and High Tides
Primus – Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver
Foo Fighters – The One
Reel Big Fish – The Set Up (You Need This)
Goldfinger – $.20 Goodbye
Mighty Mighty Bosstones – She Just Happened
Dick Dale and the Deltones – Miserlou
Three Dog Night – Joy to the World
Less Than Jake – Johnny Quest (Thinks We’re Sellouts)
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
Alan Parsens(sp?) Project – Games People Play
…to name a few
MC Hammer- 2 Legit 2 quit
Fresh Prince- Parents Just don’t understand
TLC- Baby Baby
Bobby Brown- My Prerogative
Micheal Jackson- Man in the mirror
I heard “Get the Funk Outta My Face” today, and would love to hear some Brothers Johnson in the near future.
I tried to put together some songs that would be likely to be recognized but with not-so-obvious titles:
For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield (1966)
Space Oddity – David Bowie (1969)
Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & The Wailers (1977)
Blue Monday – New Order (1983)
Bizarre Love Triangle – New Order (1986)
Touch of Grey – Grateful Dead (1987)
What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) – Information Society (1988)
Tom’s Diner – Suzanne Vega (1987) re-released as Suzanne Vega & D.N.A. (1991)
Plowed – Sponge (1994)
Love Spreads – The Stone Roses (1994)
In the Meantime – Spacehog (1995)
Banditos – The Refreshments (1996)
Touch, Peel and Stand – Days of the New (1997)
Flagpole Sitta – Harvey Danger (1997)
Anthem for the Year 2000 – Silverchair (1999)
Had some category ideas for either the lightning rounds or the last round:
1. Humorous songs(or song parodies)
2. Movie music or artists who also act
3. Jock jams
4. “Girl power” bands
5. Club music
6. Dazed and confused(Trippy music from the 70s)
7. Power ballads
8. Better off without you(People with strong solo careers after leaving bands)
9. Shut yo mouth or bring on the funk
10. Grunge
11. Child sensations
12. Always a bridesmaid(Huge hits that only made it to #2)
13. You should hear my…(People who have famous relatives who sing)
14. Blame it on the rain(Songs about the weather)
15. These are the days(Songs with days of the week in them)
I know some of them are kind of weak, but I’m just trying to toss some stuff out there and see it helps you think of some.
That’s very helpful! Thanks Jeremy!
Some additional final round categories:
1) Lilith Fair
Two for the show (Famous Duos)
2) Big Bands & Crooners
3) Classical (just to put a touch of class & snootiness in our life)
4) Disco
5) Folk
6) Pop/Mainstream Instrumentals
7) Piano playing front-men/women
9) Care for a sample? (play the mixed version and teams have to identify the song sampled within)
10) New Age
11) Original Artists (play the original versions of songs that were made much more popular by later artists covering the original)
12) One Album Wonders (songs from artists who had multiple hits off of one album, and no other hits outside of that album)
PS. I learned today that an 8 before a closed parenthesis results in a sunglass wearing emoticon. I think i just became a bit more hip and relevant to the young text-messaging whippersnappers of today. Yep, i think my street value just went up.
With Beatles Rock Band coming out this week, I thought it might be a fun idea to do covers of Beatles songs for the sellout round.
Some more sellout round suggestions:
MIDI – play MIDI versions of popular songs
Movie Themes – songs made famous by being featured in a movie
I’ll add a few more songs to the suggestions list that I haven’t heard for a while:
1. Look Away – Chicago
2. Object of My Desire – Starpoint
3. Blowin’ Me Up(With Her Love) – J.C. Chasez
4. Nothin’ My Love Can’t Fix – Joey Lawrence
5. Dream Warriors – Dokken
6. Why Can’t I – Liz Phair
7. The Weakness in Me – Joan Armatrading
8. The Perfect Way – Scritti Politti
9. Something About You – Level 42
10. No Myth – Michael Penn
TV Theme Songs
* Veronica Mars
* Entourage
* Trueblood
* Daria
* Beavis and Butthead
TV themes
Moonlighting*
F-troop*
The Avengers
Johnny Quest*
Dennis the menace* (both cartoon and tv show)
Mythbusters*
Scrubs*
Dragonball Z*
Jake and the Fatman*
Xena*
Topcat*
Silverhawk* for those who know the thundercats spin off
there are more but this should start
kris “dont stop me now”
Since the college basketball season just started, I thought it may be fun to do bonus rounds with mascot names in them. You know, like “Rock Me Like a Hurricane” or something.
Oh, and I know you watch Pscyh, but for some reason, I can’t remember you ever using any of the USA original series for the TV themes. And keep in mind Monk has had two different themes. I think the Randy Newman one is much more popular though.
Good point!
That’s a possibility. Hmm.
I hope I don’t overwhelm you with song suggestions, but I like to write them when I’m thinking of them so I don’t forget:
1. Cause I’m a Blonde – Julie Brown
2. Do the Ricky Bobby – B-Hamp
3. Shimmer – Fuel
4. Hunger Strike – Temple of the Dog
5. Pop, Lock and Drop It – Huey
6. Make Me Lose Control – Eric Carmen
7. Country Girl – DF Dub
8. Country Boyz – Nappy Roots
9. Oh Boy – Cam’Ron
10. I Write Sins Not Tragedies – Panic at the Disco
11. He’s the Greatest Dancer – Sister Sledge
12. Forget Me Nots – Patrice Rushen
13. Flavor of the Month – Black Sheep
14. They Want EFX – Das EFX
15. Send Me an Angel – Real Life
16. The Bum Bum Song – Tom Green
17. What About Me? – Moving Pictures
18. Old Man and Me – Hootie and the Blowfish
19. Be Without You – Mary J. Blige
20. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) – Sly and the Family Stone
No… please keep them coming. It’s nice to have options.
A few more possibilities:
1. Right Place Wrong Time – Dr. John
2. Underneath Your Clothes – Shakira
3. I’ll Make Love to You – Boys II Men
4. The Weight – The Band
5. Baby, Now That I Found You – The Foundations
6. Edge of a Broken Heart – Vixen
7. Veronica – Elvis Costello
8. Mayor of Simpleton – XTC
9. Undone – Weezer
10. Electric Blue – Icehouse
Nine Inch Nail – The Perfect Drug
Powerman 5000 – Super Villain
Suggestions for Lightning Rounds (I haven’t been there in a while, so hopefully I’m not suggesting something you’ve already done)
1. Song titles with a word repeated; such as George Strait’s ‘EASY come, EASY go’
2. Song titles with opposites within; such as George Strait’s ‘Easy COME, Easy GO’
3. Songs from artists who have ‘found religion’; such as M.C. Hammer
4. Popular songs which have been the subject of copyright infringement suits; such as Bittersweet Symphony & Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
TV Themes
Veronica Mars (“We Used to be Friends” by the Dandy Warhols)
Ed (“Next Year” by Foo Fighters)
Dexter
Magnum, P.I.
Hawaii Five-O
Oldies
Escape – Rupert Holmes
Piano Man – Billy Joel
Frankenstein – Edgar Winter Group
Take Me Home Country Roads – John Denver
Surfin’ Bird – The Trashmen
80’s
Easy Lover – Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
Sunglasses at Night – Corey Hart
The Reflex – Duran Duran
One Night in Bangkok – Murray Head
Cheap Sunglasses – ZZ Top
Turning Japanese – The Vapors
Give it to me Baby – Rick James
Toy Soldiers – Martika
90’s
Superman’s Dead – Our Lady Peace
Creep – Radiohead
Whoomp! There it is! – Tag Team
Blackhole Sun – Soundgarden
Army – Ben Folds Five
All I Want – Toad the Wet Sprocket
Stay – Lisa Loeb
Current
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows – Brand New
Spellbound – Lacuna Coil
I Get Off – Halestorm
Afterlife – Avenged Sevenfold
Got a Little Crazy Last Night – Kenny Chesney
Falling Down – Atreyu
Rockin The Suburbs – Ben Folds
Again – Flyleaf
Invincible – Adelita’s Way
My song suggestions this week are all inspired by rewatching Better Off Dead (the movie, not the team of the same name):
1. One Way Love – Elizabeth Daily
2. Goodbye to You – Scandal
3. Everybody Wants Some – Van Halen
4. Like to Get to Know You Well – Howard Jones
5. Arrested by You – Rupert Hine
Hey Tim, I just wanted to let you know that I was wrong about Glass Tiger being a one hit wonder. They made it to number 7 on the U.S. charts with a song called Someday. I looked it up on youtube and didn’t recognize it though. They had two other U.S. top 40 hits that I didn’t recognize either. But I was correct about the fact that they are Canadian and that Bryan Adams did backing vocals on Don’t Forget Me(When I’m Gone).
Hmm… Thanks Jeremy!
Evans Blue – Cold (But I’m Still Here)
Evans Blue – Bulletproof
AFI – Miss Murder
Halestorm – It’s Not You
Flyleaf – Cassie
Flyleaf – I’m So Sick
The Used – Blood on my Hands
The Used – The Taste of Ink
Peter Gabriel – Shock The Monkey
Skillet – Monster
Monifah – Touch It
Three Days Grace – Break
Breaking Benjamin – I Will Not Bow
Live – Selling The Drama
Temple of the Dog – Hunger Strike
After The Fire – Der Kommisar
US3 – Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Sick Puppies – You’re Going Down
Saliva – Your Disease
Rise Against – Audience of One
1. Houses of the Holy – Led Zeppelin
2. I’ll Be Your Shelter – Taylor Dayne
3. Angie – The Rolling Stones
4. Naughty Girls Need Love Too – Samantha Fox
5. Rock and Roll Heaven – The Righteous Brothers
Few more TV themes:
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (How is it possible that I don’t ever remember you playing this?)
2. Sailor Moon
3. Denver, the Last Dinosaur
4. Rules of Engagement
5. The Daily Show
No Buffy as of yet… crazy, I know. Good suggestions, Jeremy!
1. Come Clean – Hillary Duff
2. Candy – Mandy Moore
3. Pieces of Me – Ashlee Simpson
4. Could’ve Been – Tiffany
5. I Think I Love You – David Cassidy
6. Hold On – Jamie Walters
7. On the Way Down – Ryan Cabrera(I also would not mind True)
8. Superman’s Song – Crash Test Dummies
9. All I Need – Jack Wagner
10. Where’s the Love – Hanson
11. Iesha – ABC(Another Bad Creation)
12. Cameltoe – Fanny Pack
13. Rollin’ with Kid ‘N Play – Kid ‘N Play
14. Leave(Get Out) – Jo Jo
15. Let U Go – Ashley Parker Angel
Thanks, Jeremy! There are some good ones there. (Some I have used, too!)
your face
songs from the movie “once”
JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS
shera princess of power
daria
my so called life
paula abdul blowin kisses in the wind
samantha fox
butthole surfers
all4one
jordan knight – give it to you
eamon – fuck it (i don’t want you back)
NKOTB – this ones for the children
jordan knight – give it to you
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Avenged Sevenfold – Scream, Afterlife, Gunslinger
Skillet – Superhero
Heard it on 9 from the 90s today – Low-Fidelity All Stars “Battle Flag”