Driving Game (Part 28)
3Original Explanation:
Basic Rules: Follow the posted music video with a different song, band, or musician tied directly to the previous post.
Example: I post Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal.
You could then post Michael Bolton, Jackson Browne, Outcast - Ms. Jackson, Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal, Fun Lovin Criminals…
Create a new comment for your submission and leave replies just to talk about the comment’s connection or validity.
You can veto if you don’t agree that there’s a connection. In that case, you can post your own connection to the previous song or @ the person you’re vetoing and tell them they need to make the connection clear or replace it. No hard feelings, either way, we’re just having fun sharing music. Note: If someone has already made a new connection to the song you want to veto, you missed your chance and the song stands. You can still let the person know where you found the problem and maybe they can clear things up.
The full history with links to each of the past threads can be found on the Driving Game Cheat Sheet.
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Thread picks up from:
Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson and Clover
Miley Cyrus & Joan Jett, featuring Dave Grohl and Tommy James - Crimson & Clover
That should give folks options to work with in picking something fresh.
@mike808 @chienfou
So - over and over and over!
@chienfou @Kyeh I meant in terms of what the next person can pick from, instead of some dead-end track with made up words or uninteresting rarely used words that are musical cul de sacs. It’s not “cute”. e.g. “The Frobnicators - Frobtacular”.
I don’t think that exists, but you can see why following that would be a PITA, so whomever posts tracks like that deserves all the deeply penetrative frobtacular frobnicating they will get from doing that.
@mike808 and I was referring back to @chienfou’s joke, about the refrain of the song.
@chienfou @Kyeh @mike808 Hey, easy on the Frobnicators, they’re my favorites!
@chienfou @ircon96 @mike808
Oh, but then what about “Andriy Khlyvnyuk x The Kiffness - Oy u luzi chervona kalyna?”
Which I quite like, really.
@chienfou @ircon96 @Kyeh You left out the translation which I included. Any of the words of which could have been used for the next track. Just because you don’t understand a well-known language (Ukranian) doesn’t make it a buch of “made up words”.
@chienfou @ircon96 @mike808
Oh, puleeeeeze. Ukrainian is not a well-known language. I had no problem with you posting it, I’m glad you did. But you’re just being mean and arbitrary about Tommy (common name) James (common name) and the Shondells (made-up, but similar to Martha and the Vandellas, or other crazier group names.)
Crimson - common color name. Clover - common plant name.
Don’t take me on, bro - I’ve been dealing with family turmoil and I’m just spoiling for a fight!
@Kyeh I wasn’t referring to C&C. There have been some real stinkers folks have posted that left the next person with few options. It kills the thread, IMO.
@mike808 Hmmm. Well, it seems like we have people here who take it as a challenge because I’ve seen a lot of songs I’ve never heard of before. And the game marches on!
@Kyeh @mike808 Why so little faith in the cleverness of our fellow Mehtizens, Mikey?
@ircon96 @Kyeh Experience.
@ircon96 @Kyeh @mike808
like the fact we are at #28, representing about 1500 connections?
@chienfou
And yet here you are, as you note, 28 topics later and some 1500+ tracks still playing the “simplified” version.
Q.E.D.
@mike808
?? Not sure what you’re trying to say (or imply)
@chienfou
And then you jumped in proving my point.
Well, 28 pages and 1500+ posts playing a simplistic version, as demanded by you and the other participants, is the very proof of my experience in why I have such little faith in the cleverness of our fellow Mehtizens.
@chienfou @mike808
Stealing this from mossygreen’s “It’” thread, thanks to macromeh:
/youtube The Who : Tommy Can You Hear Me?
/youtube Marshall Tucker Band - Can’t You See
Vicious Pink - Cccan’t You See
Man, the 80’s had it all! VHS videotape, teased out big hair, and “The Elaine” dance moves.
Sid Vicious - My Way.
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Best comment in the video thread:
“he was and still is the best musician who couldn’t play or sing”
@PocketBrain Robert Smith, Adam Ant, Morrisey, Elvis Costello, and several other chaps want to have a word with you.
@PocketBrain
Marc Almond, David Gahan, and Richard Butler, called and they want a word as well.
/youtube sparks when do i get to sing ‘my way’
Travis - Sing
Finally got my chance to remedy the dearth of Travis with their most entertaining video. Can’t get much better than an epic food fight, a monkey & lots o’ banjo!
Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues
this one is about as old as I am…
/youtube Stratford Mercenaries - Stratford Blues
/youtube England Dan John ford coley I’d really love to see you tonight
@lehigh How does this connect to the last song?
@lehigh @margot I’m guessing it’s from Stratford (part of London) being a town in England…?
/youtube donna summer love to love you baby
/youtube Minnie Ripperton - Lovin’ You
I only learned recently that Minnie was Maya Rudolph’s mother!
@Kyeh That song is literally her singing to Maya.
@mike808 That’s lovely.
/youtube Scorpions - Still Loving You
PUP - Scorpion Hill
/youtube tyrannosaurus rex 'pon a hill
/youtube benny hill theme song
FFR: The song is “Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax”
/youtube the shaggs gimmie dat ding
/youtube ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin’
BABYMETAL - Gimme Chocolate
/youtube syd barrett baby lemonade
@mossygreen Aww, phooey - I took too long and missed the “Chocolate” connection!
Chumped - Something About Lemons
Lemonheads - It’s A Shame About Ray
Muscles - Chocolate, Raspberry, Lemon and Lime
@Kyeh I brought it back to chocolate for you if you’re still interested… HURRY!
@ircon96 @Kyeh GO
@ircon96 @mossygreen Brilliant! Thanks!
It’s not even like HC - YST is a favorite or anything, I just went looking for it, found it, posted it, and then realized that there were already 2 songs before me.
@ircon96 @Kyeh I was coming here to reassure Kyeh that chocolate would come around again only to discover that you’d taken care of it. Bravo!
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
@Kyeh Aw, when Cards Against Humanity did that thing where you bought a tiny kingdom my national anthem was You Sexy Thing. My other national anthem was Sex Bomb by Flipper, but I’ve already posted that here.
@mossygreen Cool! I do like it…
@Kyeh @mossygreen “You Sexy Thing” & “You Can Leave Your Hat On” always make me smile cuz they remind me of that classic movie, “The Full Monty”
@ircon96 @mossygreen I’m kind of embarrassed to admit I haven’t seen it, but then I’m kind of a movie illiterate (or whatever the term is for someone whose movie viewing is woefully inadequate.)
@Kyeh @mossygreen Well worth watching…i haven’t seen it in years, but remember it fondly. Funny, quirky, heartwarming, very British, all things i like in a movie. Along with starring Robert Carlyle, one of my favorite British actors, so bonus!
@ircon96 @Kyeh I’ve never seen it either, but am familiar from various parodies and references in the '90’s. All I can think of at the moment is The Drew Carey Show.
@Kyeh @mossygreen Omg, i remember that episode, i haven’t seen that show in ages! They don’t make 'em like they used to… And you kids get off my lawn!
@ircon96 @mossygreen
It’s not that old a show … !
@Kyeh @mossygreen Lol… Sorry, but it seems like forever ago! I guess I’m just feeling old & decrepit.
/youtube KMFDM - Sex on the Flag
@Ignorant I was going to follow up with a Depeche Mode track, but it seems I was lied to my whole life and KMFDM does NOT stand for “Kill Mother-Fucking Depeche Mode” Today I learned…
@ExtraMedium @Ignorant
@ExtraMedium @Ignorant Considering their penchant for backwards phrases, i wonder if they meant, “Flag on the Sex”?
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown
/youtube Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
@Ignorant well played!
/youtube Red Hot Chili Peppers - Black Summer
@Kyeh RHCP, always a good choice!
/youtube Keith Urban - 'Til Summer Comes Around
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
/youtube Elvis - Don’t be Cruel
Elvis Presley, Junkie XL - A Little Less Conversation (Official JXL Remix)
/youtube supertramp casual conversations
@mossygreen
I really love that album cover!
@Kyeh I remember when the album came out the local record store had a huge cardboard cut-out window display that fascinated me.
@mossygreen I miss record stores!
Pollyanna - SLUT
David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody
@mike808 I don’t get this connection…what am I missing?
@mike808 OH…mehbe…TRAMP = SLUT = GIGOLO
@llangley Yep. Took me a second to get Supertramp --> Slut. So, “gigolo” being a male slut wasn’t much of a jump.
Sheet Music Singer : Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Prisoner’s Hope)
A veritable blast from the past…1864!
/youtube comus the prisoner
/youtube Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower
@ircon96 What’s the connection to “Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues”?
@ircon96 @mike808
/youtube Johnny Cash and the Carter Family - Were You There
@ircon96 @llangley @mike808
I had assumed June (Carter) Cash…
@chienfou @llangley @mike808 Yep, you guys got it! Being classic country/folk/gospel/Americana royalty isn’t what it used to be, i guess!
/youtube Jim Stafford - Wildwood Weed
/youtube the Troggs : Wild Thing
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind
/youtube king crimson i talk to the wind
@mossygreen Now THAT album cover I’ve always hated!
@Kyeh @mossygreen
Looks kind of like the aftermath of a Covid swab!
@Kyeh It’s instantly memorable and recognizable, decades later, and there’s still nothing quite like it (as far as I know). But it’s legitimately disturbing. Ages ago (20 years? 25?) I saw someone wearing a t-shirt of it at the county fair, and I was like COOL… I wouldn’t wear it.
@chienfou @Kyeh GROSS
The World Is a Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - To The Janitor, To The King
@metaphore Nice. Lots of options!
/youtube devo beautiful world
/youtube Gary Allan - Life Ain’t Always Beautiful
Nightwish - Bye Bye Beautiful
/youtube the cars bye bye love
NSYNC - Bye Bye Bye (with Full Choreography for bonus points)
Beach Death - Last Goodbyes
Hardwell & Dyro featuring Bright Lights - Never Say Goodbye
Birthday Massacre - Kill the Lights
/youtube christopher cross the light is on
The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
@ircon96 I have a nostalgic spot for Morrisey, even though the guy can’t sing.
@mike808 Me too. Something about his intonation just grabs you by the gut, i think.
Been waiting to drop this.
Fred Again ft. Swedish House Mafia - Turn on the Lights Again (featuring Future)
This perfect summer club banger is on my heavy rotation.
/youtube Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I’m A Radio
The first video played on MTV:
/youtube The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Fun Fact: Half of The Buggles is none other than Trevor Horn, who later produced Art of Noise.
@mike808 All these years of the Buggles being the answer to a trivia question, i don’t think I’d ever heard about that connection. If only i could retain information these days, i could keep that in my back pocket for when the trivia throw down starts.
/youtube talking heads radiohead
/youtube Bob Dylan - Talkin’ New York
@ExtraMedium Speaking of new, could we have a new thread, please?
Moved to Part 29!