Negative Music Quiz
Music unites us. It gives us a sense of self and belonging. It connects us to our dreams and brings us closer to the world. It’s astonishing what songs can do - they are like snowflakes, in that no two are the same until you try to describe them, and when you do, you understand them less.
The other day I sent a colleague a link to this, which was the first time I saw Rage Against The Machine on TV in 1992. I was blown away. Tom Morello was a freak of nature and a force of it at the same time. His mastery of the guitar was the product of a kid who has spent far too much time up in his bedroom, and Zack de la Rocha’s outbursts indicated that he had not spent long enough in his.
But we put our headphones on, and when they hit the second verse we turned to each other with a look like we’re going ninety miles and hour.
Music rocks. Especially rock music. I get my rocks off at how much rock music rocks.
On Friday I promised the Negative Music Quiz, where I post all the songs I own that begin with the word “don’t”, and true to my word, fuck me, here it is.
Negative Music Quiz
1. Don’t Bang The Drum
2. Don’t Be Afraid
3. Don’t Cha
4. Don’t Cha Wanna Ride
5. Don’t Cry
6. Don’t Cry Sister
7. Don’t Dream It’s Over
8. Don’t Ever Leave Me
9. Don’t Feel Right
10. Don’t Get Carried Away
11. Don’t Go
12. Don’t Know How
13. Don’t Leave Me Now
14. Don’t Let Me Down
15. Don’t Let Me Down
16. Don’t Let The Sun Down On Me
17. Don’t Lie
18. Don’t Look For Me
19. Don’t Look Now
20. Don’t Make My Brown Eyes Blue
21. Don’t Mess With My Man
22. Don’t Phunk With My Heart
23. Don’t Put All Your Dreams In One Basket
24. Don’t Say Nothin’
25. Don’t Smoke In Bed
26. Don’t Stand So Close To Me
27. Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
28. Don’t Stop Movin’
29. Don’t Think Of Me
30. Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right
31. Don’t Wait
32. Don’t Wait Up
33. Don’t Want To Know
34. Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely
35. Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing
Answers on a post comment.
Score
1-7 Don’t you come back no more, no more, no MORE, no more
8-14 Don’t call me daughter
15-21 Don’t have much money, but boy if I did
22-28 Don’t need no education
29-35 Don’t go changing to try to please me
Answers tomorrow
February 6th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Numbers 3 and 28 concern me particularly as they are Pussycat Dolls and S Club 7 songs respectively. I don’t want to believe that you own those…
February 6th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I thought that, Sam, but also they were easy so I’m quite happy with them being there.
Ah, Tom Morello. I battled with him on Guitar Hero III and kicked his sorry ass. The fact that it was on easy makes no difference.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:21 am
7. Don’t Dream It’s Over - Crowded House.
16. Don’t Let The Sun Down On Me - Elton John.
22. Don’t Phunk With My Heart - Black Eyed Peas.
26. Don’t Stand So Close To Me - Sting.
27. Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson.
28. Don’t Stop Movin’ - Soul II Soul
35. Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing - Stevie Wonder.
I didn’t include the Pussy Cat Dolls, and I am delighted to say that I know nothing of S Club 7. But apart from that - dammit, I am sure I should know more of these.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:23 am
You don’t know how tempting it was to google everything I didn’t know and pass it off as my own knowledge. My mother always said that the trouble with cheating is that you’re only cheating yourself, which is rubbish, isn’t it? You aren’t cheating yourself at all. You’re cheating everyone else, which is the whole POINT of cheating.
I am going away now to be amoral on my own.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Also, I had a highly unauthentic Rage Against The Machine t-shirt when I was sixteen, which I wore until it fell apart. Fuck YOU, I won’t do what you tell me.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I’m afraid that 28 was S Club, whose party the likes of which there isn’t. It’s a great pop song.
“MMM. Yeah. A’come on.”
What?
Sam - Yes, two points.
Wendy - Well played. With two brigades of Knights Templar on Medieval Total War, I once defeated the whole Byzantine army. Pussies.
Full scores tomorrow. No googling. Katy
February 6th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
If I’d googled I’d have got more than seven of them. Srzly.
February 6th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
1-7 Hit the Road Jack
8-14 No idea
15-21 Your Song
22-28 Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 2
29-35 Just the Way You Are
February 6th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Ed - Daughter by Pearl Jam, but that’s not th -never mind.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
25 is Nina Simone I just realised.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
And 22 is the Black Eyed Peas.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Oh, Katy already got that one.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
But YES - number 4 is Joss Stone. Had that stuck in my head.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I’m going now.
February 6th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
14 is The Beatles.
20 is Crystal Gayle.
16 is Elton John
26 is The Police
February 6th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
23:39 is too late to be trying to this shit.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:03 am
There’s no 39, Wendy!
February 7th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Does she mean her age?
February 7th, 2008 at 9:06 am
And look! It wasn’t even 23:39! It was 23:40! I don’t know. What am I like?
February 7th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Honestly?