Song Contest Part XIX, Host: GreyCrow, Theme: Free For All, Votes Due: Wednesday, 10pm AEDT

[TubbsFarquhar]

5. I Don't Want To Go To Mars - White Lies
4. Taxman - The Beatles
3. LOCKED UP - SPINIFEX GUM ft Briggs & Marliya Choir
2. Conspiracy - Paramore
1. Bad Things (That Make You Feel Good) - Mini Mansions

Billy: Every Breath You Take - The Police

Glad the creepiest song in existence didn't win.

Not even the creepiest Police song. Don't Stand So Close to Me takes that title.

The music and lyrics of the song were written by the lead singer of The Police, Sting. The song deals with the mixed feelings of lust, fear and guilt that a school teacher has for a student and the fallout when the inappropriate relationship is discovered by other adults. The line "Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov" alludes to Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, which covers somewhat similar issues.[5] The line was criticised for rhyming "shake and cough" with Nabokov.[6] Sting replied, "I've used that terrible, terrible rhyme technique a few times."[6]

Before joining The Police, Sting had previously worked as an English teacher. He referred to the song's story progression as "the teacher, the open page, the virgin, the rape in the car, getting the sack."[6]

Don't Stand So Close to Me - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[eth-dog]

Not even the creepiest Police song. Don't Stand So Close to Me takes that title.

Don't Stand So Close to Me - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I'd forgotten about that one. Make that the second creepiest song in existence

 

[Chipmunk]

I'd forgotten about that one. Make that the second creepiest song in existence

Harsh on Blurred Lines

 

[por_please_ya]

Not even the creepiest Police song. Don't Stand So Close to Me takes that title.

Don't Stand So Close to Me - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I loved that song as a kid and then realised what it all meant when I was older LOL

 

[Ulahoopski]

Alright you mother****ers.

Theme is WACKEN FESTIVAL
Any band that's played it.

Wacken line ups

Noms due Thursday 9pm

and no previous noms or double ups.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Harsh on Blurred Lines

Creepy songs were discussed last year. There's Into the Night by Benny Mardones:

She's just sixteen years old
Leave her alone, they say
Separated by fools
Who don't know what love is yet
But I want you to know

If I could fly, I'd pick you up
I'd take you into the night
And show you a love
Like you've never seen, ever seen

I'm On Fire by Bruce Springsteen:

Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire

Oh, oh, oh
I'm on fire

And this from Oingo Boingo:

I, I, I love little girls
They make me feel so good
I love little girls
They make me feel so bad
When they're around
They make me feel like I'm the only guy in town
I love little girls
They make me feel so good

That's Danny Elfman btw.

 

[por_please_ya]

Alright you mother*ers.

Theme is WACKEN FESTIVAL
Any band that's played it.

Wacken line ups

Noms due Thursday 9pm

Oh good lord

 

[Ulahoopski]

Creepy songs were discussed last year. There's Into the Night by Benny Mardones:

She's just sixteen years old
Leave her alone, they say
Separated by fools
Who don't know what love is yet
But I want you to know

If I could fly, I'd pick you up
I'd take you into the night
And show you a love
Like you've never seen, ever seen

I'm On Fire by Bruce Springsteen:

Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire

Oh, oh, oh
I'm on fire

And this from Oingo Boingo:

I, I, I love little girls
They make me feel so good
I love little girls
They make me feel so bad
When they're around
They make me feel like I'm the only guy in town
I love little girls
They make me feel so good

That's Danny Elfman btw.

What have you got against Dwarf pr0n? Heightist!

 

[GreyCrow]

Young Girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run girl
Youre much too young girl

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap

 

[Back One Out]

Not even the creepiest Police song. Don't Stand So Close to Me takes that title.

Don't Stand So Close to Me - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I'll see your Sting and raise you a Gene


She drives me crazy
I want to give her what I've got
And she's hot every day and night
There is no doubt about it

I don't usually say things
Like this to girls your age
(Christine, sixteen)
But when I saw you coming
Out of the school that day
That day I knew, I knew
I've got to have you, I've got to have you
(Christine, sixteen)

 

[the fly]

I love that song

What's so creepy? Isn't it about their relationship falling apart... his woman falling out of love with him?

Falling out of love? She was banging Billy Thorpe (and Max performed it at Billy's funeral)!

 

[por_please_ya]

I reckon I could nom from only three bands from all those lists LOL!

Makes it easy for me then

Agent93 might like this round........

 

[Purple7x08_24]

I reckon I could nom from only three bands from all those lists LOL!

Makes it easy for me then

Agent93 might like this round........

Ivé found about 6 artists. Gonna be a tough one.

 

[Drunkgoliath]

5. Grimes & i_o - Violence _ por_please_ya
4. Spinifex Gum ft. Briggs & Marliya Choir - Locked Up _ Ulahoopski
3. Ghostface Killah, Nate Dogg & Mark Ronson - Ooh Wee _ Chipmunk
2. Tash Sultana - Murder to the Mind _ TubbsFarquhar
1. White Lies - I Don't Want To Go To Mars _ Riviat

Billy: Britney Spears - Criminal _ @MP__

 

[Ulahoopski]

I reckon I could nom from only three bands from all those lists LOL!

Makes it easy for me then

Agent93 might like this round........

Or you could explore and nom something new? Just a suggestion.

 

[por_please_ya]

Or you could explore and nom something new? Just a suggestion.

Nah I just put my nom in lol

 

[Raveneyes]

I reckon I could nom from only three bands from all those lists LOL!

Makes it easy for me then

Agent93 might like this round........

I feel spoiled for choice.

All a matter of perspective.

 

[Drunkgoliath]

Pretty sure I've nommed a lot of these bands already

 

[SM]

5. The Killers
4. The Beatles
3. King Cannons
2. Briggs
1. Ghostface Killah
BM. Paul Cauthen

 

[SM]

Or you could explore and nom something new? Just a suggestion.

I know a few songs from bands on the list so it's fine, but I've never understood the idea that there should be an encouragement for people to nom blind when surely the idea of the contest is to discover music that others love rather than discover songs that people have never heard before but are nomming.

 

[HahnPremium]

I know a few songs from bands on the list so it's fine, but I've never understood the idea that there should be an encouragement for people to nom blind when surely the idea of the contest is to discover music that others love rather than discover songs that people have never heard before but are nomming.

Musical tastes are beautiful. Tangential shifts in choosing is even moreso.
Applying logic to subjective tastes is somewhat not really feasible. The SC is a contest masquerading in rules and and stringent regimens.....but at the end of every fine day...its the music that overlaps all. I enjoy the thread so much. Bickering is a tickle, but its more the actual musical choices straddling the restraint of themes which I enjoy as a viewer. Rules applied to music? Death knell. Express and explore and enjoy.
The rules I get as a working function but in reality, its just loose enforcement. Nominate, create. feel and share. And dig it all in the spirit of every individuality. And go with the flow and float downstream.

 

[Ulahoopski]

Ten noms in. Who’s gonna make it go to eleven?

 

[Ulahoopski]

For those inspired to go…. It’s sold out

 

[Chipmunk]

For those inspired to go…. It’s sold out

Must be all those fans going to see Limp Bizkit reform.

 

[JoshWoodenSpoon]

Purple7x08_24 - new round is on. Looks like it will have something for everyone!