02 November 2003

Song Title Test (Updated)


Received a few emails today on this 'test' and did it myself. It's more difficult than you'd think.

Pick a band/musician and answer only using that band/musician's
song titles:


Van Morrison (the more earnest version)

1. Are you male or female?: A New Kind Of Man
2. Describe yourself: Tore Down A La Rimbaud
3. How do some people feel about you?: Rave On, John Donne
4. How do you feel about yourself?: Real Real Gone
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: Sweet Thing
6. Where would you rather be?: A Town Called Paradise
7. Describe what you want to be: Satisfied
8. Describe how you live: Into The Mystic
9. Describe how you love: Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
10. Share a few words of wisdom: Hard Nose The Highway

Van Morrison (the ironic version)

1. Are you male or female?: Back On Top
2. Describe yourself: Beautiful Vision
3. How do some people feel about you?: Wild Night
4. How do you feel about yourself?: Why Must I Always Explain?
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: T.B. Sheets
6. Where would you rather be?: Gloria
7. Describe what you want to be: Slim Slow Slider
8. Describe how you live: Listen To The Lion
9. Describe how you love: Naked In The Jungle
10. Share a few words of wisdom: Oh The Warm Feeling

Leonard Cohen

1. Are you male or female?: I'm Your Man
2. Describe yourself: Take This Longing
3. How do some people feel about you?: The Captain
4. How do you feel about yourself?: Bird On A Wire
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: The Sisters of Mercy
6. Where would you rather be?: The Land of Plenty
7. Describe what you want to be: Field Commander Cohen
8. Describe how you live: Tower of Song
9. Describe how you love: Light As The Breeze (or A Thousand Kisses Deep)
10. Share a few words of wisdom: Ain't No Cure For Love

Ray Charles

1. Are you male or female?: What'd I Say? (oddly, only Hey Mister seems to fit here)
2. Describe yourself: You Don't Know Me
3. How do some people feel about you?: I Don't Need No Doctor
4. How do you feel about yourself?: A Fool For You
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: Busted or Here We Go Again
6. Where would you rather be?: Hit The Road Jack
7. Describe what you want to be: That Lucky Old Sun
8. Describe how you live: Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon's originally, but Ray should own this song now)
9. Describe how you love: A Song For You (originally Leon Russell's, but see above)
10. Share a few words of wisdom: Uh-Huh and Shake Your Tail Feather

Bob Dylan

1. Are you male or female?: Man Of Peace
2. Describe yourself: Like A Rolling Stone
3. How do some people feel about you?: Shelter From The Storm
4. How do you feel about yourself?: Jokerman
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: Rainy Day Women # 12 and 35
6. Where would you rather be?: Seeing The Real You At Last or All Along The Watch Tower
7. Describe what you want to be: Precious Angel
8. Describe how you live: I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
9. Describe how you love: This Wheel's On Fire
10. Share a few words of wisdom: Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word and/or It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Joni Mitchell

1. Are you male or female?: Blue Boy
2. Describe yourself: River
3. How do some people feel about you?: My Old Man
4. How do you feel about yourself?: The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: The Same Situation
6. Where would you rather be?: A Free Man In Paris
7. Describe what you want to be: All I Want
8. Describe how you live: Turbulent Indigo
9. Describe how you love: A Case of You
10. Share a few words of wisdom: Sex Kills and Come In From The Cold

John Lee Hooker

1. Are you male or female?: I'm Bad Like Jesse James
2. Describe yourself: I Cover The Waterfront ("drinkin' black coffee and smokin' 40 cigarettes")
3. How do some people feel about you?: Serves You Right To Suffer
4. How do you feel about yourself?: Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: Kiddio
6. Where would you rather be?: Doin' The Shout
7. Describe what you want to be: Mr. Lucky
8. Describe how you live: Whiskey and Wimmen or One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
9. Describe how you love: Boom Boom (Boom Boom) aka Bang Bang Bang Bang
10. Share a few words of wisdom: Don't Look Back

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