The Scattergories Song Tournament
 

Scattergories will consist of songs that follow whatever theme or category the participating member chooses. The participating member will indicate what the theme of their songs are. There may not be 2 identical themes or categories. So, if two people want to select "Apples" as their theme, whoever posts their songs first gets through, the other will have to think of a different theme or category.


Please Note: There have been a lot of drop-outs from these tournaments recently, so if you're not planning to vote throughout the entire tournament, you're welcome to comment and join the discussion, but please don't join the tournament just to drop out later. It affects the flow of the tournament, and upsets the host.

Plus, due to the fact that it's unfair to the other members of the tournament, the new rule is that if you drop out, your songs will automatically be eliminated, and if necessary, whatever songs they're up against will get a free pass to the next round.


Rules:
All genres are eligible, with no limitations on genre as listed above. In addition, songs that are previous tournament winners and songs that are over 10 minutes long are NOT eligible.

I think it's safe to assume that everyone will be able to nominate at least eight songs, so you can start posting your nominations as soon as you join the tournament. Please keep your nominations in one post. You can edit your nominations up until the time the nominations close, but please make a new post to let everyone know that your nominations have changed.

Any song is allowed as long as you can provide a link to it. Everyone uses YouTube, but you can also link from other sites if you prefer, as long as they don't require anyone to sign up for the site to listen to the song.

To be fair to everyone, you must listen to both songs to vote. You must vote from the beginning of the tournament to continue voting throughout the tournament. Unless a tie-breaking vote is requested, anyone who hasn't voted consistently will not be allowed to vote in the final rounds.

If you have any questions, please ask.

The Players
Mojo Filter
Derek Vinyard
Swan
Sexy Celebrity
gbgoodies
Omni
Tugg
SilentVamp
Gatsby
Citizen Rules
Mistique
Christine
CiCi
Chypmunk
Destiny
Cricket
HoneyKid

The Lists

1. The Best Songs Named After US Cities by Destiny
Frank Sinatra ~ New York, New York
Marc Cohn ~ Walking In Memphis
Billy Joel ~ Allentown
Tony Bennett ~ (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco
Kiss ~ Detroit Rock City
Randy Newman ~ I Love L.A.
The Monkees ~ Last Train to Clarksville
Waylon Jennings ~ Luchenbach, Texas

2. Songs about Heaven and Angels by gbgoodies
Alabama - Angels Among Us
Terry Fator - Horses in Heaven
Steve Wariner - Holes in the Floor of Heaven
Mark Wills - Wish You Were Here
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Tim Mcgraw - If You're Reading This
George Strait - Heaven Is Missing An Angel
Ricky Van Shelton - Don't Send Me No Angel


3. Perseverance Songs by Tugg
Gabrielle "Rise"
Aaliyah "Try Again"
Destiny's Child "Independent Women, Pt. I"
Destiny's Child "Survivor"
Atomic Kitten "The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)"
Kesha "Tik Tok"
Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe"
Katy Perry "Roar"

4. Animals by Swan
Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)
St. Vincent - Rattlesnake
The Roots - Baby
Micachu and the Shapes - Vulture
The Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues
Feist - Sealion
Clark - Snowbird
Flying Lotus - Camel

5. Home, House and Places by Derek Vinyard
Bon Jovi - Who Says You Can't Go Home
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
Three Days Grace - Home
Home Sweet Home - Motley Crue
Avenged Sevenfold - Coming Home
Supertramp - Take the Long Way Home
Men At Work - Down Under
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues

6. Satire and Humor by Gatsby
The Police - On Any Other Day
Beck - Satan Gave Me a Taco
Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango
Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah Hello Faddah
Fishbone - Another Generation
Weird Al Yankovic - Like a Surgeon
The Replacements - Gary's Got a Boner
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

7. Banana Themed Songs by Citizen Rules
Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song
Guy Marks - Loving You Has Made Me Bananas...*
The Banana Splits - Tra La La Song...*Christine
Raffi - Bananaphone....*Swan
Chiquita Banana Song....*GBG
Donovan - Mellow yellow
Carmen Miranda - The Lady In The Tutti Frutti Hat
Bananarama - Shy Boy

8. Four Seasons by SilentVamp
A Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon & Garfunkel
It Might as Well Be Spring - Ella Fitzgerald
Summer In the City - The Lovin' Spoonful
Hot Fun In the Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone
Autumn Leaves - Nat 'King' Cole
A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft
4 Seasons of Loneliness - Boyz II Men

9. The Elemental Wheel (of Video Games) by Omnizoa
FIRE
Under The Star of Destiny by Junichi Nakatsuru, Yoshihito Yano, Asuka Sakai, Rio Hamamoto, Ryuichi Takada & Junichi Takagi (Soul Calibur II)
WIND
Passion/Sanctuary (Kingdom Orchestra Instrumental) by Utada Hikaru & Yoko Shimomura (Kingdom Hearts II)
ELECTRICITY
Some Assembly Required by Mike Morasky (Portal 2)
EARTH
Asphalt and Ablution by Martin O’Donnell & Michaol Salvatori (Halo 3: ODST)
WATER
Dire Dire Docks by Koji Kondo (Super Mario 64)
ICE
Hopeless Desire by Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy X)
LIGHT
Behave Irrationally by Matoi Sakuraba (Valkyrie Profile)
DARKNESS
Master of Tartarus by Shoji Meguro (Persona 3)

10. Neighbors by HoneyKid
Rogue Traders ~ Voodoo Child
Torn~ Natalie Imbruglia
Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
Spinning Around - Kylie Minogue
Don't It Make You Feel Good - Stefan Denis
Born To Try - Delta Goodrem
Kiss Kiss - Holly Valance
Suddenly - Angry Anderson

11. I'm Horny by Cricket
Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight
Foreigner-Hot Blooded
Donna Summer-Love to Love You Baby
Bruce Springsteen-I'm Goin' Down
KC and the Sunshine Band-Give it Up
Paul Lekakis-Boom Boom
Labelle-Lady Marmalade
Bad Company-Feel Like Making Love

12. Weather-theme Songs by Mojo Filter
Cat Stevens - The Wind
Crowded House - Weather With You
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
George Michael & Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Live - Lightning Crashes
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)

13. Bodily Fluids by Chypmunk
Bile - Submission
Blood - Wanna Be Your Man
Earwax - Full Moon
Phlegm - Emulgade
Saliva - Ladies And Gentlemen
Snot - Snooze Button
Left/Right - Sweat
The Tears Of Joy - You Been So Good

14. Family by Christine
David Bowie - Kooks
Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
Sly Stone - Family Affair
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colours
Peter Tosh - Shame and Scandal in the Family
The Cox Family - I Am Weary Let Me Rest
Bruce Springsteen - Independance Day
Bill Withers - Grandma's Hands

15. Rebel Without A Category by Sexy Celebrity
John Parr - "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)"
Inner City - "Good Life"
Vanilla Ice - "Ice Ice Baby"
Abba - "Waterloo"
Sheryl Crow - "All I Wanna Do"
House of Pain - "Jump Around"
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine - "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You"
David Bowie - "Lazarus"

16. Peace by Mistique
Elvis Presley – Peace in the Valley
Bob Marley – One Love
Norah Jones – Peace
Lenny Kravitz – We want peace
John Lennon – Give Peace a chance
Curtis Mayfield – We got to have peace
Paul McCartney – Pipes of Peace
The New Seekers - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing

17. One Hit Wonders by CiCi
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
Boy Meets Girl - Waiting for a Star to Fall
The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Robin Beck - First Time
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Toni Basil - Mickey

This is my first EVER tournament that I will be running. I hope it's a smooth and fair competition.


Special SHOUT-OUT to Sexy Celebrity, Swan, and Destiny (am I forgetting anyone?) for coming up with the idea and name of the Tourney. The next tourney I make will be my own!


Let's all have some fun!

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I feel this tournament I'm in! My nomination will come soon

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Start posting your 8 songs, MoFo's!


Don't forget to include your Theme/Category as a heading to your list.

Yeah, congrats Sexy on coming up with my idea!

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Was it you? Sorry, I'll change/add you to the shout out :(

Awesome idea bro! Hope you participate in this one man :D

And Destiny's!

Repost or re-edit and USE LINKS, please

Don't be sad. I had the initial spark, and Sexy refined it.

I'm in, but I haven't decided on my theme yet.

Edit: I decided my theme will be "Songs about Heaven and Angels"

Alabama - Angels Among Us
Terry Fator - Horses in Heaven
Steve Wariner - Holes in the Floor of Heaven
Mark Wills - Wish You Were Here
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Tim Mcgraw - If You're Reading This
George Strait - Heaven Is Missing An Angel
Ricky Van Shelton - Don't Send Me No Angel

I'm not really sad. Glad to know you're not.
It's all good, now

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I don't consider this one mine, at all. I was fixed on emotions, only. I love both ideas, though, and I hope everyone can keep them separate enough for both ideas to work.

The top of my post says that I am working them. It's funny that you quoted it all, though. ;)

I overlooked it :D

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Considering that the forum has MoFo's from across the globe, I will wait until tomorrow evening (when I get back from work) to start randomizing songs and kicking off the tourney. Hopefully we'll have at least 15 members by then.
Thanks gbg for the heads up!

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Seems cool, but I won't be able to get a list in for at least another 7 hours.

That's ok!
Waiting on your list!

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LOVE THIS IDEA! Love it!

But I'm not sure what category I can do now..............

Me neither! I'll think of one tomorrow. Time for bed here.
Keep those lists coming in. Can't wait to see your themes, MoFo's!
Goodnight...

I was having trouble naming my theme, even though I knew what I was going for. I PM'd mojofilter with three words to help describe the mood. He gave me a fantastic "theme title" to go with in response. Thanks dude!

Basically, this is music that is in your face and visceral. I think all music makes you have some sort of emotional response, and these songs/artists represent the "negative" extremes on the emotion/mood spectrum. It is music people often hate for being so abrasive. Words like anger, grime, depression, trashy, help give an idea of what I'm going for. The perfect music to listen to on a rainy night... while lying in the gutter next to a dark alleyway full of garbage.

My theme is...

The Grimy, the Abrasive, and the Filthy

Goodnight. I'm sure that I'll think of a theme by tomorrow.

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I think Citizen Rules said he was taking food.

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Good night, MoJo. Swan, that is going to be very interesting. I hope you name at least some of them tonight.

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can I choose Die, Angry and Misery ?

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I have ten freakin' songs. What a pain, trying to ditch two of them.

We need 128 songs to have a proper tournament, so if we don't get enough songs, Mojo will have to figure out how to bring the total to 128 songs. That usually means giving each person an extra song or two, so you might get a chance to use them, but there's no guarantee.

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Maybe we should have done Emotions..... I can only really think of an emotion theme now.........

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I'm going to take **** the world for mine, list up soon.

Perseverance songs:


Gabrielle "Rise"
Aaliyah "Try Again"
Destiny's Child "Independent Women, Pt. I"
Destiny's Child "Survivor"
Atomic Kitten "The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)"
Kesha "Tik Tok"
Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe"
Katy Perry "Roar"


I might change some of them later.

I'm curious how these will differ from mine? Aren't we supposed to pick themes that are different from other peoples? I feel like you guys just took my theme and gave it a different name.

I am really pushing for variety with this tournament. I think we should be conscious of our themes and try to do stuff that is different and unique from what's been done. I don't mean to tell you guys what to do, if I have to be the one to change my theme - as much as I don't want to - I will.

Especially with the dark, angry music. If it was just me I'd be game, of course, but I know that kind of music might turn some people off of the tournament, and I don't want that to happen.

Yep, that's why I left them up. Just in case. I truly have no idea what to get rid of. I love my list.

I know how you feel.

Great list, Tugg.

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I'm just gonna pick songs I want and make up some kind of theme out of them.

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I wonder how many can be found that contain some sort of clothing.

These Boots are Made for Walking
Baby Makes her Blue Jeans Walk
Raspberry Beret
Whose Bed have Your Boots Been Under . . .

I'm a angry guy that like die angry music :p not my fault

Conway Twitty - Tight Fittin Jeans

Mel McDaniel - Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On

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Velcro Fly and Sharp Dressed Man may even count.

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This is cool. I could make these lists all day.

That doesn't make it a different theme. If somebody else picked your theme first, you should pick a different theme, not just rename it and duplicate his theme.

You missed the last one I added.

And "Blue Suede Shoes" by either Elvis Presley or Carl Perkins.

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We should do Country Music sometime soon.

Sorry. I quoted the post first, then it took me a few minutes to get the links for the songs. :shrug:

I would love that, but when we did country music a while back, everyone nominated old country music, like Patsy Cline and Merle Haggard. Non-country music fans don't seem to realize that there's been country music through the years, and there's still country music today, and some of it is even better than the old songs.

I missed that. Maybe it could be for Country music 1970 to today. I dunno. That sucks, though.

I think Destiny is setting a really good example with her theme ideas (I noticed you posted US Cities and clothing). One of the neat things about this tournament is how creative we can be with our themes. It could be really fun and varied. They can be specific and still be something that resonates with us. I know mine is kind of lame but it was the theme I had in mind when I suggested an Emotion Song Tournament.

That would work for us, but I don't know if anyone else here would join, or even be able to find songs to nominate. :shrug:

There were some amazing country songs in the 80's and early 90's.

I agree. I think cities was a perfect example of the way a theme tournament should be done. Clothing is another great example. Also, if Citizen Rules does his foods theme, that was a great idea too.

Other ideas include things like transportation, colors, etc.

I said I wasn't going to do another one for awhile, but I might as well join this one, too. :rolleyes:


My theme will be the four seasons.

But I have to get off of here now. I will add my songs tomorrow.

Thank you, and I do like your theme. I also agree that the others need to go in another direction. When I scroll through my Zune music, I come up with a lot of ideas . . .

Dwight Yoakam ~ Guitars, Cadillacs
Billy Joel ~ The Piano Man
Johnny Lee ~ Cherokee Fiddle

Dwight Yoakam ~ Guitars, Cadillacs
Prince ~ Little Red Corvette
John Denver ~ On a Jet Plane

Come on guys, I know we are all too creative. ;)

I decided to change my theme, not because of the Derek or ATC, just because I started thinking I could be a little more creative.

So I'm going to change my theme to Animals.


Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)
St. Vincent - Rattlesnake
The Roots - Baby (humans are animals, too ;))
Micachu and the Shapes - Vulture
The Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues
Feist - Sealion
Clark - Snowbird
Flying Lotus - Camel

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Great idea for a song tournament Sexy Swan, I'll post my theme in a few minutes. Props to Mojo for hosting.

Oh, that's a very good idea. I'll stay mute this time on ideas. :p

Honestly I mostly just wanted to nominate Bon Iver. :D

I was also thinking of doing astronomy.

By the way, if anyone does that, or something related to planets, y'all should nominate "Venus as a Boy" by Bjork. Great song.

Oh wait, just realized I don't have enough songs for my theme. Back to square one...

Try doing a Google search. There may be more songs that you're forgetting, or don't know.

Those are great ideas, and I will be listening to your list in a moment. I don't actually know a lot of those songs, so that makes this a lot more interesting.

It's a shame The Monkees are referring to people, when they sing Star Collector. :p I love that song. It's pretty much my favorite song from them.


Of course I also love Mary, Mary.


. . . and Mary, Mary . . .


Wait, that's not them.

That's actually another idea, possibly. Names, people in general, etc . . .

I could seriously do this all night. :D

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I believe we have 12 people already. How many do we need again?

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Home, House and Places (I've decided to switch too):
Bon Jovi - Who Says You Can't Go Home
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
Three Days Grace - Home
Home Sweet Home - Motley Crue
Avenged Sevenfold - Coming Home
Supertramp - Take the Long Way Home
Men At Work - Down Under
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues

wow SC! No Africa by Toto :sick:

16 people with 8 songs each would be 128 songs in the tournament.

That's a great list, Derek. It reminds me of a favorite song I have right now. I'm not sure how popular Gwyneth Paltrow is around here. Her singing, that is. I think she's great . . .

Just Bananas that's my theme. So others can do food if they want:) Good night and I will come up with my songs tomorrow.

Thanks! I keep forgetting all those numbers. Silly me.

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No. My theme is about living a good but wild and crazy and fun life. "Africa" doesn't really work.

ohh all good !

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I'll like to join this :)

It's only 8.34 AM here, so I'll pick my theme now, and come up with the songs later.

My theme is: Peace

http://www.peace-not-war.org/images/...ewcolours2.jpg

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If I did it right, we have 13, and I bet and hope Christine joins in.

MoJo
Derek
Swan
Me
SC
GBG
Omni
AboveTheClouds
Tugg
SilentVamp
Gatsby
CR
Mistique

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I hope Chyp join too

That's a for sure. I wuv Chyp. That'll be just about enough, too.

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I sure hope I have that number accurate. CiCi will join. Chyp is now on, and will hopefully join in. If Christine joins in, then we are set.

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I'm in and my category will be family. I'm at work, it's 9.15am so won't be able to do my list till this afternoon/evening.

I decided my theme will be "Songs about Heaven and Angels". I'll edit my post on the first page with my song list later.

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Count me in but I've no idea what my theme might be, I'll have to work on that and try to come up with something when the brain is more in gear (late night last night and a late start this morning).

Christine, Chypmunk, and CiCi. I do believe we have our 16.

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Damn, I have to delete two songs.

I can just as easily un-join if you want hun ;)

Ok - assuming Lisa doesn't prefer I back out in order to perhaps let her keep one of her excess allowance (can you spell the word 'greedy' hun? ;)) - I shall go somewhat lateral in thinking with my theme and choose Fred Astaire. Why is that lateral you may ask ..... well all will become apparent when I put my list of nominations up ..... later.

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Fred Astaire! looking forward to that one!
So how many songs do we have each? 10?

Just the eight for now - nice try though ;)

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eight, dammit not enough!
Mojo can you edit your first post and write in who is taking part and their category and eventually their song links. I often refer back to that when I want to replay a song, it's much easier to go back to the first post than to trawl through pages
ta!

You know better than that. Just give up two of your songs. :p

Yes, G-R-E-E-D-Y! :D

That all depends on how many songs Chyp gives up. ;)

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OK, I ditched two songs, and if someone else wants to join, I have no problem getting rid of one more.

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ok - I'm out of this tournament!!!!!


















just kidding

That only worked because I hadn't scrolled the page down far enough. You booby!


I just looked, and I found out by comparing the lists, that Honeykid, Hubby, and Cricket aren't in this set. If we all drop one song each, that would be seven songs for each of us, and the two of them, and then 2 songs to start, for the third person. I will give up another song, as well, to make it six for me, and three for that person. Is this how we fix the problem, or what exactly? I've only been in two tournaments, so far, so I'm a little lost.

Can you tell I feel bad about this?!?

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Doesn't everyone just have 8?

Yep! Sixteen members, times the eight songs each, is the 128 songs needed. We shared some songs last time with Tugg, although I didn't get back in time to do that for him. I would have, though, and I will now, for these others. I'll feel bad, if they miss out.

I'll take a break from this one:)

Satire and Humor

The Police - On Any Other Day
Beck - Satan Gave Me a Taco
Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango
Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah Hello Faddah
Fishbone - Another Generation
Weird Al Yankovic - Like a Surgeon
The Replacements - Gary's Got a Boner
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Hey MoFo's! I am at work now and will not be able to update anything or post my list until around 6 p.m. Eastern Time!

My theme will be Weather-related songs, so if anybody decides to do it now, too late!

Why? I was looking forward to compete against you

You have enough people I thought

Somebody will have to explain how many members and how many songs each will allow the tourney to function correctly.
Remember, empowering the host to improve and do right will make it a great experience for all 😃

Ah g'wan join in - wouldn't be the same without ya crick :yup: :nope: (couldn't make my mind up which was suitable without looking sarcastic - now I just look totally schizoid :eek:)

I'm home around 5:00 today; I'll join then if a spot is needed. I'm happy either way.

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If cricket needs a spot I'd be happy to give mine up. I'm not a very good player.

I'm not playing, I don't even know what the rules are, but scrolling through I saw a list that needed adding to, so...

"Famous Blue Raincoat", Leonard Cohen
"You Can Leave Your Hat On", Joe Cocker
"The Jean Genie", David Bowie
"Bell Bottom Blues", Derek and the Dominoes
"Devil in a Blue Dress", Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
"Zoot Suit Riot", Cherry Poppin' Daddies
"Fu*k-Me Pumps", Amy Winehouse
"Thong Song", Sisqó


You're welcome?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVbr37_yPeY

Changing my theme ever so slightly to: Fred Astaire and other dancers

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Good Lord, people. I posted right above all this, that all we have to do, is give up one song each. We'll have seven songs each, instead of eight. That way, Cricket and one other member can join in. Honey and Hubby haven't been on to say if they'd like to join. If they do, I am sure we can make this work, without anyone needing to bail.