h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Chris, you'll notice I left the Pixies off- though there's only one I can think of.

Speaking of "My Lovely Horse", K and I had company Friday night and we all watched that episode. Inspired by a crappy old YouTube video.

Thanks PC Apart from the cursed Monkey Gone To Heaven* and Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons, which is up for a third time, I'm stuck for other Pixies songs. I'll have a dig. Oh wait - how could I forget Caribou. Repent!

*Trufact - Black Francis wrote the lyrics as a filler but Vaughan Oliver's cover art forced him to stick with them.

Here's the full sp from me -

Aphex Twin - Wet Tip Hen Ax / Cow Cud Is A Twin / Beetles / Let My Fish Loose (N Takemura) / Pigeon Street / Jelly Fish / Upright Kangaroo / Elephant Song / Cuckoo / Gibbon / Sloth / Halibut Acid / Fenix Funk 5 / Donkey Rhubarb / Pancake Lizard
Beck - Aphid Manure Heist / Dead Wild Cat / Jack Ass / Lazy Flies / Paper Tiger / Scarecrow (?)
Belly - Slow Dog / Silverfish / The Bees
Boo Radleys - Sparrow
Breeders - Doe / Sinister Foxx / Freed Pig
Brian Eno - An Arc Of Doves / Lizard Point / Sombre Reptiles / Little Fishes / Sparrowfall I - III
Broken Flowers OST (Tennors) - Ride Yu Donkey
Calexico - Woven Birds / Whipping The Horse's Eyes
Catherine Wheel - Mad Dog / Thunderbird
Cinematic Orchestra - Night Of The Iguana / Bluebirds
CSS - Art Bitch / Poney Honey Money
Dave Brubeck - Strange Meadow Lark
Frank Black - Song Of The Shrimp / Dog Sleep / Radio Lizards
Future Sound Of London - Bird Wings / Vertical Pig / Snake Hips
Global Communication - Antacid
Half Man Half Biscuit - CORGI Registered Friends
Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady
Lawnmower Deth - I Got The Clap (bacteria are animals too!) / Sheep Dip / Sumo Rabbit And His Inescapable Trap Of Doom / Dodo Doe / Duck Off / Pogo Like A Dog
Leon OST (Eric Serra) - A Bird In New York / Birds Of Storm /
LFO - Shove Piggy Shove / Sleepy Chicken
Lush - Rupert The Bear
Massive Attack - Butterfly Caught / The Dog Obeys / Danny The Dog /
Mogwai - Oh! How The Dogs Stack Up / Ex Cowboy / Killing All The Flies / Ratts Of The Capital / Glasgow Mega Snake / I Chose Horses / Black Spider I - II
Mudhoney - Beneath The Valley Of The Underdog / Butterfly Stroke
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wings Off Flies / Black Crow King / By The Time I Get To Phoenix / Thirsty Dog / Crow Jane / Fable Of The Brown Ape
Pale Saints - Porpoise
Pixies - Caribou / Monkey Gone To Heaven / Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons / Manta Ray / Dancing The Manta Ray /
PJ Harvey - Snake / Long Snake Moan / Horses In My Dreams / Cat On The Wall / Seagulls
Portishead - Cowboys
Red Snapper - Snapper / Lobster / Get Some Sleep Tiger / Keeing Pigs Together / King Dragonfly (Susumu Yokota)
Ride - Seagull / Polar Bear / Mouse Trap / Birdman / Grasshopper
Sigur Ros - Black Dog & The Scottish Play
Silverfish - This Bug / Big Bad Baby Pig Squeal
Twin Peaks OST (Badalamenti) - The Black Dog Runs At Night
UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights
Verve - Butterfly / Catching The Butterfly / The Crab
Wedding Present - Octopussy

Damn I'm exhausted. I'm going to see Tropic Thunder soon.

Ok, who stuck me with "Rock Lobster"?

May I give you "Eric the Half-A-Bee" in return?

Scraping the barrel here, just been looking through various lists:

Slow Cheetah - Red Hot Chili Peppers (my sister's favourite song...)
Hair of the Dog - Guns 'N' Roses
Raven's March / Cantum Corvi - die Irrlichter
Das Templerschaf - Rabenschrey (a double - the sheep of the knights Templar by a band called Raven's Cry)
Hummingbird - BB King
Octopus's Garden/Blackbird/Piggies/Rocky Raccoon - The Beatles
Dance of the Octopus - Red Norvo
Mr. Slater's Parrot - Bonzo Dog Band (Double!)
Captain Coull's Parrot - Peatbog Faeries
Sugar Bee / Bullfrog Blues - Canned Heat
I Love My Dog (As Much As I Love You) - Cat Stevens (Double!)
Two Island Swans - Christy Moore
Turkey Chase - Bob Dylan
Wildgänse (Wild Geese) - Die Irrlichter
Grampa Benny's Chicken Market - Extreme Klezmer Makeover
Rainbow Trout - Gordon Lightfoot
Der kleine Rabe (the little raven) - Liederjan (same metaphor as Rainbow Trout)
Die Forelle (the Trout) - Franz Schubert (while we're on the subject...)
Superwasp - Seelyhoo
Tiger Rag - [done by just about every jazz band...)
A Horse With No Name - America
Lion In A Cage - Dolores Keane
Baby Elephant Walk / Pink Panther Theme - Mancini Pops Orchestra
George And The Dragon - Herman's Hermits (with one of the stupidest music videos of all time!)
Crawling King Snake - John Lee Hooker
Fish and Whistle - John Prine
Monkey Man - Kevin Coyne
Little Yellow Spider - Devendra Banhart
Puerto Pollo / Belly of the Snake / Monkey Medley - Monkey Island Soundtrack
The Raven/Bran (which means "Raven") - Omnia
Sparrow / El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel
Attention: Frogs! - Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra
Perrito Callejero - Tropico
Fox on the Run - The Sweet
See You Later Alligator - Roy Hall
Beetle Bug Bop - The Collins Kids
Le Loup Le Renard Et La Belette (The wolf, the fox, and the weasel) - my version's by Tri Yann
not to be confused with
Le Renard, Le Loup (The Fox, The Wolf) - Paul Piché

Oh, and of course

Donkey City - by Sir Lancelot

You thought I'd stuck you with "Rock Lobster", so you trumped it with "See You Later Alligator"?

I'll have that running through my head all night now...

Then how's about "Looking For My Leopard"?

http://www.rathergood.com/looking/

Time for another one of these?

How about "Clothing" for a topic, just at random? Or... Have we already done song titles that ask a question?

Ooh, I like both of these! We can either do "clothing" first, and then questions in a couple of days or so, or we can do both at the same time, and just make two separate lists.

Since I expect to be quite busy later this week, I'm going for the gusto and will post two lists today, just in case. So, for now I'll start with what's in my Zen, and I'll be back later when I can peruse the collection at home.

Clothing:

Flesheaters- Pony Dress
Sparks- Angst in My Pants
Madness- Baggy Trousers
Big Black- Columbian Necktie
Alexei Sayle- Dr Martens Boots
Haircut 100- Favourite Shirts
Adam Ant- Goody Two Shoes
Nigel Planer as Neil Pye- Hole in My Shoe
Gang Of Four- I Love A Man in A Uniform
Chills- I Love My Leather Jacket
Cramps- Miniskirt Blues
Jawbreaker- Shirt
Adicts- Strait Jacket
Velvet Underground- Venus In Furs
Fishbone- Where'd You Get Those Pants

Titles Which Ask Questions:

Diamond Head- Am I Evil?
Mojo Nixon & Jello Biafra- Are You Drinkin' With Me Jesus?
Chesterfield Kings- Are You Gonna Be There?
Gleaming Spires- Are You Ready For the Sex Girls?
Pop Will Eat Itself- Can U Dig It?
Vicious Pink- Cccan't You See?
Young Gods- Did You Miss Me?
Alexei Sayle- Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Rights of the Accused- Do You Love Me? (KISS cover)
Ramones- Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio? / Do You Wanna Dance?
Minutemen- Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Truth?
Huey Piano Smith/ Amazulu- Don't You Just Know It?
Buzzcocks- Ever Fallen In Love / What Do I Get? / Why Can't I Touch It?
Elvis Costello- Honey, Are You Straight Or Are You Blind?
Bad Brains- How Low Can A Punk Get?
Weirdos- What Will You Do?
Alternative TV- How Much Longer
Mental As Anything- If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
Legendary Pink Dots- Is It Something I Said?
Chameleons UK- Is It Any Wonder?
Joe Jackson- Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Ministry- So What?
Monroes- What Do All the People Know?
Clash- Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
Beastie Boys- So What'cha Want
XTC- This Is Pop?
D.O.A.- Watcha Gonna Do?
Hoodoo Gurus- What's My Scene?
Age Of Chance- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Noise?
Cabaret Voltaire- Why Kill Time When You Can Kill Yourself?
Planet P Project- Why Me?
Nik Kershaw- Wouldn't It Be Good?
Jesus & Mary Chain- Who Do You Love?

S'pposed to be doing other things so I'm gonna trawl through our iTunes library in avoidance.

Couple obvious ones in there of course.

Pixies: Where is my mind?
Air: How does it make you feel?
The Allisons: Are you Sure?
Amy Winehouse: What is it about men?
Beatkitten: Bored?
Beatles: Why don't we do it in the road?
The Beautiful South: How long's a tear take to dry?
Billy Bragg: Must I paint you a picture?
Billy Bragg: When will I see you again?
Bis: Why don't we go home?
Bis: Girl Star?
Bis: Are you ready?
Bis: How can we be strange?
Blancmange: What's your problem?
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Is this love?
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Could you be loved?
Bruce Gilbert: Where did the time go?
Buzzc*cks: What do I get?
Buzzc*cks: Ever fallen in love?
Cardigans: Do you believe?
Carole King: Will you love me tomorrow?
Charlotte Hatherley: Why you wanna?
Chemical Brothers: Got Clint?
Colin Newman - Can I explain the delay?
Compulsion - How do I breathe?
Cowboy Junkies: Where are you tonight?
CCR - Who'll stop the rain?
CCR - have you ever seen the rain?
THe Cure - Why can't I be you?
The Cure - So what?


Banco de Gaia: Glove puppet
U2: If you wear that velvet dress
Amiina: Blafeldur (you're going to have to take my word for that one)
Amy Winehouse: Fcuk me pumps
Arctic Monkeys: Balaclava (they may be referencing the place, but it IS a garment)
Bis: Burn the suit
Bloc party: Uniform



So that's A to C...
More later when i run dry with my paper

Good luck with the paper...

... and good work with the list.

Paper? Oh, right, yes, I've heard that people sometimes actually write the papers they're *meant* to be working on

Good start on those lists!

Questions:
Death Cab for Cutie - President of What?
The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
Bob Marley - How Many Times?
Bonzo Dog Band - Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?
Peter, Paul & Mary - Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?
Cat Stevens - Where Are You?
Cat Stevens - Where Do The Children Play?
Comedian Harmonists - Wie wär's mal mit Lissabon?
Comedian Harmonists - Mein lieber Schatz, bist du aus Spanien?
John Lee Hooker - Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
Keb' Mo' - Am I Wrong?
Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
Omnia - Were You At The Rock?
Ougenweide - How Can I Keep My Maidenhead?
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Invasion?
Jefferson Airplane - How Do You Feel?
U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?

Clothing:

Aoife Clancy - Mantles of Green
Morcheeba (Why they're on my computer, I don't know) - Shoulder Holster
Seeed (ditto) - Tight Pants
Bonzo Dog Band - Trouser Press
Bonzo Dog Band - Shirt
Christy Moore - Mystic Lipstick (ok, *almost* clothing...)
Elvis - Blue Suede Shoes (thought of it on finding "Blue Suede Schmooz...)
John Gorka - Thirsty Boots
Professor Longhair - 501 Boogie (I assume it's the jeans...)
Coelbeg - The Man In Black
Red Elvises - Red Lips, Red Eyes, Red Stockings

Uninspired to keep looking right now

Clothing:
Joy Division Oven Gloves - Half Man Half Biscuit.

Carry on!

Gah. I have 1500 fcuking words and I'm supposed to have 2000 and I'm completely out. It's not a lot, I know, but there's so much other stuff I'm supposed to be working on all at the same time, I'm starting to freeze. And eat

I don't do fight or flight. I do freeze.

From the other end of the collection, Z through S:

Yo La Tengo - Did I tell you?
The Wonder Stuff - Was I meant to be sorry?
Wire- Are you ready?
Van Morrison - Have I told you lately?
Van Morrison - Ain't that loving you baby?
Van Morrison - Did ye get healed?
Ultra Vivid Scene - How did it feel?
U2 - Do you feel loved?
Travis - Why does it always rain on me?
Toploader - Do you know what your future will be?
Sting - Why should I cry for you?
Shirley Bassey - Where do I begin?
Santana - Do you like the way?
Salad - What do you say about that?

Wire - Mr. Suit
Sonic Youth - Swimsuit Issue
Salad- Diminished Clothes

I love songs about oven gloves.

I doubt I'll be motivated to continue this evening, but I'll be back with more clothing soon.

Unless Mala comes up with another topic before then.

Oh, gosh, someone else has heard of the Wonder Stuff.

Ismarah, can you insert some adjectives or something to fill it out?

But first, a rant. I love this game, it's a lot of fun - but someone else is playing it, and it's Nemone on BBC digital radio channel 6 Music (1pm to 4pm weekdays).

She'll ask people to TEXT ON 64046, THAT'S 64046 (or email) suggestions of songs that, for real example, contain the same letter twice. Out of the countless thousands of texts they get she'll pick one to play at the end of the hour. And that's the Nemone Revenue Stream show.

Anyway...

Aphex Twin - Tamphex (do tampons count as clothes?)
Beck - Sleeping Bag (?)
Belly - Sad Dress
Boo Radleys - Does This Hurt?
Brian Eno - Tal Coat
Calexico - Fake Fur
Deee-Lite - Try Me On, I'm Very You / What Is Love? / Who Was That?
Frank Black - Whatever Happened To Pong? / Tight Black Rubber
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
KLF - What Time Is Love?
Mogwai - I Know You Are, But What Am I?
Mudhoney - Who You Drivin' Now?
My Bloody Valentine - Can I Touch You?
Nick Cave - Long Black Veil / Do You Love Me? / Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For? / Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?
Orbital - Are We Here?
Pale Saints - Hair Shoes / Angel? (Will You Be My)
Pixies - Where Is My Mind? / Is She Weird?
PJ Harvey - Dress / Is This Desire? / Who The F**k? / That Was My Veil / Is That All There Is?
Ride - How Does It Feel To Feel? / Deep Inside My Pocket
Smiths - How Soon Is Now? / What Difference Does It Make?
Wedding Present - Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?

Well, that game's a little different, then, if she only picks one. I got started playing this game when I was trying to help K compile a playlist for a DJ night- I think it was Labor Day and we were looking for work-related stuff. I suggested Oingo Boingo's "Wild Sex in the Working Class" and anything by the Proletariat. You lot (or some of you, anyway) helped me compile a playlist for that.

It was fun.

Tampons do not count as clothing, no. I didn't use stuff like "lipstick" or generic "leather", either, or I would have had a few more... another Buzzcocks, to boot.