Word Sets: A Game

I do quite like Sebadoh by the by.

Fascist game-spoiler sez: words should preferably be frequently used as well as emblematic! Otherwise we run toward cheap caricature. And thinking over actual word frequency is a good way of either confirming or refuting your gut-level sense of what X band is on about.

You forgot 'I' and 'me,' dammit.

Some of those might more accurately be expanded to generic supersets (eg summer -> seasons, allez! -> "go!" in various languages, sister -> relatives, etc etc bla), but I, er, didn't like that option so much. OK, I'll shut up with my pointmissing nonsense now.

Time, kill(er), road/street(s), fire, night, woman/girl, tell, Indian, promise, lizard/snake/toad [reptiles]

Or:

Cry, need, love, baby, today, motherfucker, generation, world(s)/earth, you, enemy

Or:

Desperation, green, floating, home, dead/dying/died, crazy/lunatic, wake/sleep, eiderdown, stay/leave, (bull)shit

[girl's name], river, time, [name of a day of the week], day/night/rain/sun/moon/stars [or other meteorological/astronomical element], know, road, never, come/go/leave, fly/fall

explosions, fireworks, volcanoes, flames, showers, burning, thunderclaps, emotions, stumbling, galaxies.

this is pretty much the dramatic nature of the lyrics of Crowded House. fitting because neil finn probably doesn't realise how cliche and boring those words are, just like his music.

I'm guessing the Doors, the Manics, Pink Floyd, and Nick Drake. Fairly certain about all but the Manics, which is a wild guess.

(And yes, I think the distance between Nick Drake and Donovan is a short one, or at the very least there's a connection there. I like both, though, so...)

joint(s), Brooklyn/Crooklyn/BKLYN/New York/uptown/downtown, cream/creamin'/creamy, [name of insect], cats, black, [astronomy reference], funk/funky/funkay, nation, beats

Blood, God, [the word "city" or the name of an American city], power, hot, feel, man/woman/girl/lady, give, rock, sex/dick/suck/motherfucker/etc.

2) Heaven, hell, saints, reward, fleas, paradise, diseases, hospital, tonsils, gashing.

3) God, lust, erotic, cross, heaven, lace, kiss, badness, royal, funk.

4) Muscle, hate, force, machine, chant. (This should be a gimme.)

5) Satan, surf, sex, Christians, devil, murder, flesh, Jesus, killer, movie.

6) Blunt, spliff, dope, hash, pot, weed, hash, ganja, shotgun, Latino.

If you're familiar with the bands, these are all really easy.

1) the Cure

2) ???

3) Prince

4) NIN (or Henry Rollins)

5) White Zombie

6) Cypress Hill

I was really proud of the Cypress Hill one.

it is probably worth pointing out that i know the FULL WORDS ACCURATELY to possibly no songs at all…

Nearly passes the google test, too.

A Google search on "Crooklyn, creamy, insect, cats, black, funk, nation, beats" yields one hit, and it's a good one.

A Google search on "Blood, God, city, power, hot, feel, girl, give, rock, sex" yields 15,000 hits, and look what comes up first!

And a search on "Desperation, green, floating, home, died, crazy, sleep, eiderdown, stay, shit" gets two hits, both Pink Floyd.

#4 should be much easier than people are making it. The big clue is that all of those words come from one song. I would only expect Brian MacDonald to recognize #2.

Hey now, so I've got a head full of thunder, which is only natural, so now I think I'm going to stumble to my knees in the kitchen on the burning beach and then I'd better be off to go make a hole in the river.

I just wuv him. I can't help it.

That sentence is false in so many different ways.

*Astoundingly* easy I'd have thought. But I do like Nitsuh's explanation, the poor bastard.

I actually spent my time on Nantucket wandering the streets peering in at galleries, buying fudge and a pair of KICK-ASS Merrill boots that I probably can't afford but had to own. I also spent a lot of time eating food that was far too rich (cheese tortellini in a gorgonzola cream sauce with gorgonzola sprinkled on top = TOO MUCH FUCKING GORGONZOLA; I am a bloated mess). Overall, the Nantucket Christmas Stroll is a little anticlimactic; we waited two hours for a "parade" which ended up being Santa riding in a car up a street approximately 800 yards long. Still, can't argue with free housing in the summer house of the editor of PC Computing... Viva Ziff-Davis!

Hrmph. Tear Garden? Delerium?

I actually spent my time on Nantucket wandering the streets peering in at galleries, buying fudge and a pair of KICK-ASS Merrill boots that I probably can't afford but had to own.

Dude, come out to Carmel with Joei and stay with me and my family, you'll get all that and you won't freeze. ;-)

I also spent a lot of time eating food that was far too rich (cheese tortellini in a gorgonzola cream sauce with gorgonzola sprinkled on top = TOO MUCH FUCKING GORGONZOLA; I am a bloated mess).

You are a sick fuck. Empanadas are my cuisine discovery of the weekend, Argentinian nummy things that are like big fancy tasty dumplings with all sorts of fillings and styles that don't taste too heavy. Amazing.

Still, can't argue with free housing in the summer house of the editor of PC Computing... Viva Ziff-Davis!

I'll grant you that. ;-)

Now Ned. Think of Nettwerk bands that both Brian and I are obsessed with. Then think of the words "gashing" and "tonsils".

Dude, come out to Carmel with Joei and stay with me and my family, you'll get all that and you won't freeze. ;-)

We'll have to spend more than $150 just to get out there, though. Still, I might have a job by the end of the week *fingers crossed*, so price might not matter.

You are a sick fuck.

It wasn't my recipe, yo.

Empanadas are my cuisine discovery of the weekend, Argentinian nummy things that are like big fancy tasty dumplings with all sorts of fillings and styles that don't taste too heavy. Amazing.

YUM. Empanadas are wonderful.

It strikes me that maybe this should go to email... :)

I was trying to think of a word set for New Order, but couldn't come up with a good one.