Anti-Valentine songs

[snorkackcatcher]

The next Sunday pub quiz I do is on 10th February -- which rather suggests a Valentine theme for the 'twelve assorted tracks to identify' at the end. However, since I have a rather 'bah, humbug!' attitude to the day, I was considering using a bunch of songs that subverted it instead. You know, something like

The Boots Are Made For Walking -- Nancy Sinatra
Where The Wild Roses Grow -- Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue
Girlfriend in a Coma -- The Smiths
Run For Your Life -- The Beatles

So, once again, I'm taking suggestions from the floor! Anyone got any other good songs for this theme?

Lyrics: Ah yes, the last one was Shop Around by the 'Miracles featuring Smokey Robinson' in 1960, and Captain and Tenille in 1976, and muggle_prof knew it. Here's an old classic:

Take out the papers and the trash
Or you don't get no spendin' cash
If you don't scrub that kitchen floor
You ain't gonna rock and roll no more (1950s)

Comments

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

If I were in that pub quiz, I would rise up and call you blessed.

Total, obnoxious humbug. (and a very find selection of music)

[snorkackcatcher]

I suppose my attitude may be biased. But I suspect it might go down well at the pub! (Especially after this week's quizmaster, who specialises in playing extremely obscure tracks recorded from scratchy vinyl onto well-used tape and played through the pub's sometimes iffy sound system, then cutting them off before they get to the point which might make them reasonably identifiable.)

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

Creep by Radiohead. A nice look at romantic love, I always say :)

[prelud.livejournal.com]

Oh, good one!

[snorkackcatcher]

That would fit -- I think I've got both the radio version and the F-word one. :) (Also, now I think about it, there's the PJ Harvey/Thom Yorke duet This Mess We're In, although I was saving that for a possible odd duets round ...)

[prelud.livejournal.com]

*snickers* I love this theme!
I myself need songs for a post-breakup Valentine`s Day playlist.

Nick Cave has plenty of such songs! Henry Lee, Kindness of Strangers, Plain Gold Ring, Loverman, I Let Love In ("Despair and deception, Love`s ugly little twins came knocking on my door, I let them in..." Perfect!), Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore, John Finn's Wife, Nobody's Baby Now, Deanna, Lucy, Wanted Man (a version of the song composed by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash), Black Hair, Long Black veil

Leonard Cohen: Chelsea Hotel, Leaving Green Sleeves, Winter Lady, So Long, Marianne, Alexandra Leaving and others

Lou Reed: NYC Man, Femme Fatale, Wild Child, Venus in Furs...

Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
Eric Clapton: Old Love
Suede: She`s Not Dead
The Clash: Should I Stay or Should I go
The Rolling Stones: Lady Jane
Aerosmith: Dude Looks Like a Lady
Erasure: Love To Hate You
Cranberries: Daffodil Lament


All this reminds me of the main character in Nick Hornby`s book High Fidelity wondering if his love for music sentenced him to unhappy love life - he listened to songs about love gone wrong all his life...

[snorkackcatcher]

Hmm, some good possibilities there ... *goes to check which ones I've got*

[prelud.livejournal.com]

I can send you MP3s if you don`t have some and want to use them. Just LMK.

[snorkackcatcher]

Thanks -- I wouldn't mind 'Lady Jane', because to my surprise I don't seem to have that. (Probably won't use it though -- I've used too many Stones tracks in these quizzes recently. :D)

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

How about Funny How, by Airhead (It’s funny how the girls you fall in love with never fancy you/Funny how the ones you don’t do) or Song for Whoever, by The Beautiful South?

[snorkackcatcher]

Both good ideas!

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

Yakkity Yak! (Don't talk back!) :D

For the theme: possibly the Cole Porter "Love for Sale" ('Old love, new love - anything but true love'), or Louis XIV "Finding out True Love Is Blind" (which is not nearly as sappy as the title suggests).

[snorkackcatcher]

Yes, it is! :)

Those could work if I can find them. (And looking to see if I have 'Love For Sale', I've just remembered 'Love Is A Battlefield' and 'Young Hearts Run Free'.)

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

I have both - let me know if you want either of them.

[snorkackcatcher]

Should be OK -- I've been hunting through the record collection and found some more I'd forgotten about, so that'll be easier. :) Thanks anyway!

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

The song is Yakkity Yak, but I have no idea who sang it :P

For anti-Valentine's Day

Love Stinks
Do You Want Fries with That?- Tim McGraw
Back to Good- Matchbox 20
Goodbye, Earl- Dixie Chicks
A Little Drop of Poison- no idea who sings it, it's on the Shrek 2 soundtrack.

[snorkackcatcher]

It is indeed Yakety Yak (by the Coasters).

And I really should have thought of country before, shouldn't I? I could probably just play twelve tracks by Loretta Lynn. :)

[ashezfanficrecs.livejournal.com]

How about "You oughta know" by Alanis Morissette?

[snorkackcatcher]

YES. And a favourite of mine, too. (And now I think about it, 'Brand New Key' also has a pleasantly stalkerish feel to it.)

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

Yellow Submarine, by the Beatles, is appropriate for every occasion.
I Hate Everything About You, by Ugly Kid Joe.
Smile by Lilly Allen.
Never There by Cake.
Rosenrot by Rammstein.
Tainted Love, by whoever you like best.
Babooshka by Kate Bush.
Addicted by Kelly Clarkson.
Norwegian Wood by the Beatles.
Solid by the Dandy Warhols.
If that doesn't put everybody off love for at least a year, I don't know what will :-)

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

And what about Every breath you take by the Police?

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

And Should I Stay or Should I go by the Clash.

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Norwegian Wood is a good one. :)

[snorkackcatcher]

They don;t strike me as an especially romantic lot anyway. :) Hmm, I should have some of those ...

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

If you want, I have some of them on my computer.

[snorkackcatcher]

Thanks for the offer -- but it's OK, I can do twelve 'from stock' as it were. :)

[jesspallas.livejournal.com]

The lyrics are Yakkity Yak though god knows the artist! As for songs - how about Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John or that phenomenially depressing Christmas one with Kirsty McColl and the man with the bad teeth from the Pogues - Fairytale of New York, is it? That'll put you off love for life!

Oh and I'm with you on bah humbug to Valentines. I consider it an insult to single people everywhere!

[snorkackcatcher]

It is indeed Yakety Yak.

I'm reluctant to use a Christmas song so soon after Christmas, but now you mention it Kirsty MacColl did do a few other somewhat cynical songs -- 'Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim', 'Caroline', and 'England 2 Columbia 0' spring to mind. :)

There have to be unValentine cards somewhere ...