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A B-52 is a type of bomber; then were from Athens, Georgia as (I think) were Pylon. 'Piley-On' is a terrific and violent game from my youth, in which anyone who happened to fall over in the yard at school was immediately set upon by everyone in the vicinity, until an enormous tottering mass of pre-adolescent humanity is formed, with the poor soul at the bottom suffering lasting damage to their rib-cage.

Hence:

Glen Campbell's "Where's The Playground, Susie?"

― Michael Jones, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

[then = they, meaning the B-52s]

― Michael Jones, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Where's The Playground, Susie" was written by Jimmy Webb who was also responsible for "Macarthur Park" which was recorded by, among others, Donna Summer.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Cree Summer appeared on A Different World with Cosby kid Lisa Bonet, who was married to ol' Romeo Blue, Lenny Kravitz. Kravitz was the son of Roxie Roker of the Jeffersons, a show which once had a guest appearance by Sammy Davis, Jr. Therefore: the dark lord himself, Mr. Satan, surely the guiding force behind all rock and roll musik today!

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Bette Davis Eyes"

― Stevie Nixed, Saturday, 23 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm assuming you're backing up one step and connecting to Sammy Davis Jr, instead of Satan.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 24 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Okay okay: DJ HELL then.

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Hell is for CHildren', Pat Benatar

― tarden, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"The Devil Is My Friend" - Pat Fish, aka the Jazz Butcher.

― masonic boom, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Kiss My Jazz with "Burn in Hell"

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Continuing on the Satan them: Knights in Satan's Service with their fab hit "Black Diamond".

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Black...satan.... Black Sabbath: Master of Reality!

― bnw, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

master of Puppets by metallica, also had an album that came to be galled the Black album, after taking a bit from the Beatles and the White album. White is a color, like Pink, which is a bad song by Aerosmith and an irritating little white girl rap/singer thing. She's in the Lady Marmalade bit with Mecha-Christina and Mya, who, as I stated perviously, has nice thighs.

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Was that 'perviously' on purpose, jimmy? I like it.

― Nick, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Guilty!

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't like the direction this is heading, so let's pull this back to Satan. American Thighs was the name of a Veruca Salt album, and it was named after a line in "You Shook Me All Night Long" By AC/DC, who were Against Christ / Devil's Children, and who were once on the HIGHWAY TO HELL.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

ACDC also did Highway To Hell. Life is a Highway is a song that's advertised late at night on comp discs. Comp discs are good when they're put out by good lables like Darla, or Kill Rock Stars, which had a band called Bikini Kill. Kathleen hannah was in Bikini kill and also did a cover of a song called "I Wish I Was Him." Then she went and did that Julie Ruin ep and later did that Le Tigre thing with that indie filmmaker that I hate. The Moral? kathleen hannah was an ex-stripper and has nice thighs.

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Someone else who stripped, prior to her music career, was Traci Lords, who is not to confused with Lords of the New Church, a project put together by Stiv Bators (and oddly enough, a group that covered "Like a Virgin" by Madonna, another artist with a quasi- religious name). As an added aside, Stiv used to be in the Dead Boys, where he performed the classic number "Sonic Reducer"; this fab number was later covered by the faux-punk reunion band Hard Core Logo, the frontman of whom was played convincingly by Hugh Dillon, the lead singer of Headstones...something which you will often find near dead boys.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave" was sung by Charlie Rich, who once, while presenting an award a country music ceremony, got his lighter out and set fire to the envelope declaring John Denver a winner.

― Patrick, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

John Denver is Dead. Like Keith Moon.

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Keith Moon's 1975 solo album was called 'Two Sides Of The Moon' and featured Ringo Starr, who used to be in an obscure 60s pop act called The Beatles.

― DG, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Beatles->Yesterday->Envogue->Suck->Suck my Kiss - RHCP->Take out the c, you have RHP->Red House Painters->Mark Kozalek (who has released an enitre album of ACDC covers)->Almost Famous (kozalek was the bass player)->Banky (who was the singer)->Alanis Morisette (who was god in DOgma)(and who also sux)->Morrisey->last Night on Maudulin St.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I would imagine Maudlin St. to be somewhere near Facination Street, non?

― JM, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Fascination Street is a place where you'd Keep Feeling Fascination as long as you were there, making you a member of the Human League. One of the cohorts of the Human League was Giorgio Moroder, who also worked with Heaven 17, who took their name from A Clockwork Orange. Therefore: Ludwig Van Beethoven.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

What a coinky-dink! Ludwig has the same last name as Camper!

― JM, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Camper took the skinheads bowling and The Big Lebowski was about bowling and Beefheart was on the soundtrack with a song about eyes being a million blue miles, and Miles Davis sold millions of his album Kind Of Blue.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Too many pills, too little time to do them."

Make Up's "Blue is Beautiful" from the album _I Want Some_

― bnw, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Yummy Fur have a song called 'I Am 'Consumer Man'' and another version of it called 'I Am 'Cosmetic Man''.

― youn, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

One of the most popular cosmetics is lipstick. Lipstick Traces was a book (and now a musical!) by Greil Marcus. Betcha think I'm going to take this to one of the subjects of his books, right? Nope: The Rock Bottom Remainders, in which he performed periodically (also featuring other authors such as Stephen King, Amy Tan, Roy Blount, Jr. and more!)

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Amy Tan had a novel named Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. Jazz standards are performed from Fakebooks, and who wrote more standards than George Gershwin? Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue became the theme to Delta airlines. Delta 72 is a band.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

delta blues genre with john lee hooker

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Interesting leap you made from Amy Tan to Maxine Kingston there, Sterl.

― Josh, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Funky Kingston' - Toots

― tarden, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Whoops...let's go back and close that gap up. "Delta 88" was a song from the Rheostatics, from Toronto (a town with hookers). Rheostatics opened up one of the tours from Canada's most popular band, the Tragically Hip, who are from Kingston, Ontario...so Toots and the Maytalls' "Kingston Town".

By the way, Josh...are any of us getting anywhere CLOSE to winning conditions?

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm not sure I have any way to judge that.

Town? Chicago is a town. A city, you might say. And also a band.

― Josh, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Damn you and your pedantry, Josh. But yr. right. So. Amy Tan had a book named The Kitchen God's Wife. The Godz' first album was named Contact High. City High is produced by Wyclef, who had a hit song based around a Bee Gees sample. The Bee Gees soundtracked Saturday Night Fever, along with The Trammps. The Lady And The Tramp is a Disney film about dogs. Iggy wanted to be your dog. The Stooges coalesced around Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor is relatively close to Chicago. Chicago named their albums with numbers, as did Led Zepplin. Zepplin sucked. The Supersuckers' first album was called The Smoke of Hell.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"John E Smoke" was a song from the Butthole Surfers. The Beach Boys were probably the most famous people who sang about surfing, and one of the members was Mike Love. Love recorded "Alone Again Or", which was later covered by The Damned.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Goddamn those half-japanese girls' sez Rivers Cuomo on El Scorcho off of Pinkerton, Weezer's second album. Half-Japanese is a band with a song called "Red Dress." Lady In Red is a song. A song that sucks. It sucks in the way that "Ska Sucks."

― JM, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

In the same way that Primus sucks?

― bnw, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Primus->Southpark theme->Chef->Suck on my chocolate salty balls->I once had a girlfriend who did that to me->She also had an affair (not while with me) with Silvio Rodriguez->He is cuban, so hasta Siempre, Comandante is dediccated to Che Guevara, which could link us up with the manics->If it does, well there's richy, and hey->Happy Days theme, via Cuninghams.

― Geoff, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Happy Days" = '70s version of "That '70s Show" ("Dazed & Confused" = "American Grafitti")->"In the Street" by Big Star. = crappily obvious MOJO-magazine band...MOJO -> Jim Morrison -> the Doors did a "song" called "Horse Latitudes", Elvis Costello did 1 called "King Horse" on an album that started with IIRC a Sam & Dave song...

― duane, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

(hey sorry to interrupt the flow, but Mike Love recorded "Alone Again Or" - where, when?)

― duane, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

(Jump from Mike Love to the band Love.)

― Josh, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Sam & Dave's big hit was 'Soul Man', which lent its title to a dreadful 1986 film in which C. Thomas Howell blacks up in order to win a ethnic minority scholarship to Harvard. I see that Howell's illustrious Hollywood career extends to small part in 1995 Liz Hurley flash-vehicle 'Mad Dogs & Englishmen', named after the Noel Coward song.

― Nick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Mad Dogs & Englishmen also being a live Joe Cocker album -> doo-wop group the Spaniels.

― Patrick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

When cocker spaniels are young and thin (like Jarvis), they would be a Skinny Puppy. The Pup moved from Nettwerk to American, the home of Wesley Willis. Wesley Willis not only wrote a song called "I Whipped Batman's Ass", he also wrote an ode to Silverchair.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Silverchair are a Nirvana from Australia, and Savage Garden are from Australia but more like Erasure. Eraser Errata are a art-punk girl band who opened for Unwound. Unwound's newest album is "Leaves Turn Inside You" and Sonic Youth had an album titled "A Thousand Leaves" and a thousand is 1k and Sleater-Kinney had a song about Y2k titled "Banned From The End of The World" and it was on their album "The Hot Rock" and "Hot Rocks" of course was the title of the Rolling Stones best-of, and a man was murdered when the stones played Altamont, and Ornette Coleman played ALTO SAX. Coleman played jazz, but if he played rock he might have had more groupies and then ALOT OF SEX, and David Lee Roth of Van Halen did indeed have many groupies.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

David Lee Roth to Dave Lee Travis. Travis is a band that a lot of people on this board find intensely annoying. However, members of Travis have been known to be fans of... THE LOLLIES!!!

― masonic boom, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Lollies are of course d**mpatrol's favorite band, said individual notoriously being an alleged friend of Alan McGee, which leads us to "Me And Bobby McGee" by Kris Kristofferson.

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Kristofferson was a Rhodes scholar, as was Bill Clinton, who became synonymous with certain activities, thus "The Bitch Sucks Dick" by Oaktown's finest Too $hort

― tarden, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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