Song prequel giggles

[annathepiper]

Those of you on Twitter may have seen the #songprequel trending topic, wherein the idea was to post titles of songs that came before actual songs. Much hilarity ensued!

With a hat tip to technoshaman, spazzkat, solarbird, and fredpdx, here are the Great Big Sea ones we all came up with so far:

• Young Brown’s Mother
• Acting Third Lieutenant Taylor
• The Day Pat Murphy Got Sick
• Nagging Girlfriend
• Showing Up At the Kitchen Party With Mrs. White

Dara and Paul and I also came up with these:

• Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Bedtime” and “School is Just Starting”
• Simon and Garfunkel’s “Construction Crew Arriving at Bank of Troubled Water”
• Elvis Presley’s “(You Ain’t Nothin’ But a) OMG PUPPY” and “I’ll Do Anything to Get Into Some Blue Suede Shoes”
• Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the Colonies, I Was”
• The Day the Music Bought a Cheap Ticket on a Small Plane in Bad Weather
• Slightly Darker than Usual Day of the Heart
• Radio Killed the Vaudeville Star
• From O Brother, Where Art Thou?, “Boy of Periodic Sadness”
• Kenny Rogers’ “You Picked a Fine Time for Our First Date, Lucille”
• Duran Duran’s “Peckish Like the Wolf Cub”
• Kiss Him Hello (may be more obvious if you sing “na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, HELLO”)
• And last but definitely not least, from Dr. Horrible, “Misbehaving Pony Solo”

Got more? Drop ‘em in the comments!

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Comments

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

The Day the Music Bought a Cheap Ticket on a Small Plane in Bad Weather really does it for me.

[annathepiper]

spazzkat was really on with that one, yeah!

[alfvaen]

The Evening The Lights Began To Flicker In Georgia
Purchase A Heart-Sized Cemetery Plot At Wounded Knee
Like A Rounded Stone Teetering At The Top of A Hill

[annathepiper]

Hee hee hee "The Evening The Lights Began to Flicker in Georgia"! Good one!

[alfvaen]

Saturday Bruised Saturday
Blocks of Cut Stone Beside Your Heart
Money's Just Tight Enough To Mention
Walk Toward The Wild Side
Over There, In Just A Little While

[annathepiper]

Hee! I get a couple of these but not all of them!

[alfvaen]

"Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Fortress Around Your Heart", "Money's Too Tight To Mention", "Walk On The Wild Side", and "Right Here Right Now".

[annathepiper]

Cool!

Hm.

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

1. "What Do You Do with a Slightly-Buzzed Sailor (Earlye in the Evening)?"
   
2. "The Ballad of Gilligan's New Sailing Job"
   

Less nautically:

1. Queen's "Romantic Rhapsody"
   
2. Elton John's "Please Make The Sun Come Up On Me"
   
3. Phil Collins' "First Day in Paradise"
   
4. Aerosmith's "Janie's Going To The Gun Show"
   
5. Starship's "We Planned This City"
   

Fun. Must Tweet some of these. :)

Re: Hm.

[annathepiper]

LOL! I like "Janie's Going to the Gun Show". :D