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08 August 2007

Opposite songs. See if you can guess the real song titles disguised with antonyms... Example: "He Hates Me" -> "She Love You", "Bad Night Moonglow" -> "Good Day Sunshine"
Try "Sour Parent of Yours"→[More:]
"Little Pillow Pickle Valley"
"Father's Big Spoiler"
"The NAACP Gave Your Senior Citizen Near"
"Sour Jungle Vermont"

Use the Antonym Finder to create, but try not to use it when guessing, although it don't help much anyway.

Now you go.
post by: Hellbient at: 11:51 | 82 comments
I know we did something similar to this not too long ago, but today's brain will not let me remember what it was exactly...
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 11:52
Internet From Heaven
posted by mischief 08 August | 11:57
Ha!! Great idea.

"Boys Just Hate To Do Work"
"Fear the Stork"
"White Cat"
posted by BoringPostcards 08 August | 11:58
hellbient:

Sweet Child O' Mine
??
Mother's Little Helper
The KKK Took My Baby Away
Sweet Home Alabama?
posted by Atom Eyes 08 August | 11:59
you got 'em, Atom Eyes. Except the second one of course. Kinda hard I guess. Think Old Timey.
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 12:02
"Little Pillow Pickle Valley" - Big Rock Candy Mountain?

"Boys Just Hate To Do Work" - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
posted by LoriFLA 08 August | 12:04
you got it, LoriFLA!
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 12:15
Father's Big Spoiler -> Mother's Little Helper/19th Nervous Breakdown
posted by Joe Invisible 08 August | 12:22
"Peace outside Fiji"
"Many Boys aren't smaller than Identical"
"Pauper of Pleasure"
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 12:31
"Many Boys aren't smaller than Identical" = "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"

Lori, you were right on the Lauper one, of course!
posted by BoringPostcards 08 August | 12:34
"Pauper of Pleasure" - King of Pain
posted by LoriFLA 08 August | 12:36
War Inna Babylon?
posted by box 08 August | 12:41
Black Dog?
posted by box 08 August | 12:44
Right, box.
posted by BoringPostcards 08 August | 12:46
There's an Elvis song called 'Little Sister,' and a Stevie Wonder song called 'Big Brother.' I wonder if there are more pairs like that.
posted by box 08 August | 12:52
box: "I Just Want To Celebrate", "You Don't Send Me Flowers"
posted by mischief 08 August | 14:05
Ooh, ooh, Gary Puckett's 'Young Girl' and Neil Young's 'Old Man.'
posted by box 08 August | 14:08
"Big Rock Candy Mountain!" What do I win?
posted by BitterOldPunk 08 August | 14:14
A few more:

Go Apart
You Stabbed A Criminal
Celibacy and Vegetables
Winner
Television Incarcerate Asia
Hate Addition Organism


This is fun!
posted by BitterOldPunk 08 August | 14:23
"Yellow Submarine" : "Purple People Eater"
posted by mischief 08 August | 14:27
Come together
?
Sex and Candy
Loser
?
Love Removal Machine! (Which will now be in my head all day, thank you very much.)
posted by jrossi4r 08 August | 14:32
"Peace outside Fiji" is "Anarchy in the U.K.". Come on guys, everyone knows Fiji is the opposite of England.
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 14:37
I Shot the Sheriff
Radio Free Europe

But anarchy isn't the opposite of peace!
posted by box 08 August | 14:39
Television Incarcerate Asia = Radio Free Europe!
ah, you suck box!
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 14:41
Huh. I thought the opposite of TV was book or theatre and the opposite of Asia was Africa. Who knew?
posted by jrossi4r 08 August | 14:46
Crooner's Disgust
Up Over
Your Worst Enemy's Guy
Their Anuses aren't Open


But anarchy isn't the opposite of peace!
yes, you are right. Shoulda thought it through more.
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 14:48
?
Down Under
My Best Friends girl
?

Give you to the mountain
Little person
Got enough of me
Private Salt's Social Brain Solo
posted by edgeways 08 August | 14:55
Nah, don't sweat it. Just go with 'War Inna Babylon.'

My Best Friend's Girl
Our Lips Are Sealed
Take Me to the River

A few more:
Dying Before Noon
Cube of Understanding
Crooked Into Brentwood
You See A Soloist
Arms
posted by box 08 August | 14:56
Crooked Into Brentwood - Straight out of Compton ?
posted by edgeways 08 August | 15:00
duh, Arms - Legs
posted by edgeways 08 August | 15:01
Righty-o. Does Brentwood work as the opposite of Compton? The occasional Mike Davis book and gangsta rap lyric aside, LA geography isn't my strong suit.
posted by box 08 August | 15:02
War of Butt
Jinxed Unknown
Doesn't Smell Different from Old Flesh
Black and White You Disappointed
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 15:02
You See A Soloist - I hear a symphony
posted by edgeways 08 August | 15:03
Dying Before Noon = Living After Midnight

Private Salt's Social Brain Solo = Public Sugar's Unfriendly Butt Company!

try:
Fixing the Anarchy
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 15:11
"Crooner's Disgust" hint - think old skool.
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 15:26
Breaking the Law
Rapper's Delight
posted by box 08 August | 15:29
Cube of Understanding = Ball of Confusion
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 15:32
It isn't Ascending Women
Hate Mansion
You Weren't a Septegenerian Butterfly
None of the Old Chicks
Bourgeoisie Diddy
Begrudge I Weren't There
Earth Conformist
Easy Listening None Day
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 16:19
Love Shack
All the Young Dudes
Space Oddity
Rock 'n' Roll All Night

try:
Yesterday Always Guesses
Big Modern Sedan
I've Done Something
Maine Men
Breaking a Bump
Tomorr-you Tomorr-me Tomorrow
posted by box 08 August | 16:37
Yesterday Always Guesses -> Tomorrow Never Knows
Big Modern Sedan -> Little Deuce Coupe (?)
I've Done Something -> You Haven't Done Nothing
Maine Men -> California Girls
Breaking a Bump -> Fixing a Hole
Tomorr-you Tomorr-me Tomorrow -> Yester-me Yester-you Yesterday
posted by wendell 08 August | 16:52
It isn't Ascending Women -> It's Raining Men, duh
Begrudge I Weren't There -> Wish You Were Here
posted by wendell 08 August | 16:54
Wow, wendell, you're a machine.
posted by box 08 August | 16:56
Wendell's Bottom 10...

You Finished the Water
Electric Guitar Sunshine
Cold Blob Jefferson Davis
Follower of the Single Serving
New York City Fullback
Little Navy Blue Bus
Tall Animals
Together For the First Time Artificially
Standing Homophobe
Brother Black Bald


not for competition, but..
Kind to Be Cruel
Hard to Be Easy
White and Black

posted by wendell 08 August | 17:12
Besides wendell's above, these have yet to be solved:

Give you to the mountain
Little person
Got enough of me
Private Salt's Social Brain Solo

War of Butt
Jinxed Unknown
Doesn't Smell Different from Old Flesh
Black and White You Disappointed
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 17:25
Take Me to the River
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
posted by box 08 August | 17:30
Peace of mind (War of Butt)
Smells like teen spirit (Doesn't Smell Different from Old Flesh)
Short people (Tall Animals)
posted by dg 08 August | 17:41
War of Butt -> Peace of Mind
Doesn't Smell Different from Old Flesh -> Smells Like Teen Spirit




posted by wendell 08 August | 17:44
dang
posted by wendell 08 August | 17:44
Alone again, naturally (Together For the First Time Artificially)
Cruel to be kind (Kind to be cruel)
Can't get enough of you (Got enough of me)
posted by dg 08 August | 17:47
Wendell's Other Bottom 10

Death'll Be Bad
Succinct Woman
Fall Down Unlike an Israeli
Pry Open Yourself
You Finished a Tragedy
Be Terrorized by the Planter
Brainrepairman
Hategenius
Ignoring the Criminals
Thanks, Ms. FedEx

I once intentionally played "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" back to back on MeCha radio... maybe that's why nobody listens to me anymore.
And is "Stand" the opposite of "Turn Turn Turn"?
posted by wendell 08 August | 17:53
These should be easy:
Listen to you
Many sad nights for imprisonment
Many of those nights
Forgetting to walk
Put your clean feet on your oasis
One moon out of the sunrise
Scared
Hello kind moon
Stop listening
posted by dg 08 August | 17:53
I may have to withdraw "Standing Homophobe" as a bad antonym for "Dancing Queen", but I stand by everything else.
posted by wendell 08 August | 17:55
Listen to you -> Talk to me (?)
Many of those nights -> One of These Days (?)
Hello kind moon -> Goodbye Cruel World
posted by wendell 08 August | 17:59
Walk like an Egyptian (Fall Down Unlike an Israeli)
Watching the detectives (Ignoring the Criminals)
I started a joke (You Finished a Tragedy)
posted by dg 08 August | 18:04
Some of these may be too easy, but I CAN'T STOP!!!

He Made Me See With Magic
Suffer the Noise
Desi Off the Floor With Coal
Sober Country Banquet
I Lifted a Dud Off You
Capture (The Shirley Temple Story)
Mr. Green, I Lost an Ugly Mother
Success in the Civilization
Baptism Against an Enemy/Hate Stands Up Uninjured
The City Brown Spoilage Anarchy
If I Couldn't Listen to My Body
Squarecountry
Impotence and the Apathy
Days in Black Denim
Soloist Off the Stand
Haven't I Ever Been Spicy
Edison Boys


and nobody has done
Elevator to Hell???

I do remember a country female singer responding to Roger Miller's "King of the Road" with "Queen of the House"...
posted by wendell 08 August | 18:30
and nobody has done
Elevator to Hell???
Because it's too easy?

Enjoy the silence (Suffer the Noise)
Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Desi Off the Floor With Coal)
Capture (The Shirley Temple Story)
Mrs Brown, you've got a lovely daughter (Mr. Green, I Lost an Ugly Mother)
Hot in the city (Success in the Civilization)?
Funeral for a friend/love lies bleeding (Baptism Against an Enemy/Hate Stands Up Uninjured)
Power and the passion (Impotence and the Apathy)
Knights in white satin (Days in Black Denim)
Band on the run (Soloist Off the Stand)
Have you ever been mellow (Haven't I Ever Been Spicy)
Uptown girls (Edison Boys)?

Stop it! I need to get some work done!!
posted by dg 08 August | 19:12
Hot in the city (Success in the Civilization)?
No, maybe I should've said "Competence in the Civilization"

Uptown girls (Edison Boys)?
NO! WHO was called the anti-Edison?

You didn't give an answer for Capture (The Shirley Temple Story)... there aren't that many #1 pop hits that are BETTER known by their parenthetical subtitle...
posted by wendell 08 August | 19:25
So, this seems to be the current unsolved list:
You Finished the Water
Electric Guitar Sunshine
Cold Blob Jefferson Davis
Follower of the Single Serving
New York City Fullback
Little Navy Blue Bus
Brother Black Bald
Hard to Be Easy
Little person
Got enough of me
Jinxed Unknown
Black and White You Disappointed
Death'll Be Bad
Succinct Woman
Pry Open Yourself
Be Terrorized by the Planter
Brainrepairman
Hategenius
Thanks, Ms. FedEx
Many sad nights for imprisonment
Forgetting to walk
Put your clean feet on your oasis
One moon out of the sunrise
Scared
Stop listening
He Made Me See With Magic
Sober Country Banquet
I Lifted a Dud Off You
Capture (The Shirley Temple Story)
The City Brown Spoilage Anarchy

Squarecountry

We need to solve some of these before we add any more. As there seems to be only two of us left playing, this could take a while.

Little help, please?

Oh - If I could talk to you (If I Couldn't Listen to My Body)
posted by dg 08 August | 19:26
She Blinded Me With Science (He Made Me See With Magic)
Color Me Impressed (Black and White You Disappointed)
Hot Rod Lincoln (Cold Blob Jefferson Davis)
posted by taz 08 August | 19:40
Here are a few from your list, dg:

Hot Rod Lincoln
Leader of the Pack
Sister Golden Hair
Life's Been Good
Ramblin' Man
Lovefool
Please Mr. Postman
She Blinded Me With Science
posted by box 08 August | 19:40
taz and box are 100% on the ones I originally posted, but dg, "If I Could Talk to You"? NO! take it a word at a time, leave "If" and change "I" to "You"...
posted by wendell 08 August | 19:50
You Put Something Better Inside Of Me (I Lifted a Dud Off You)?
posted by taz 08 August | 19:52
Big yellow taxi (Little Navy Blue Bus)
I put a spell on you (I Lifted a Dud Off You)?

I got nothin'
posted by dg 08 August | 20:01
You Dropped A Bomb On Me (I Lifted a Dud Off You)
posted by bmarkey 08 August | 20:09
Don't fear the reaper (Be Terrorized by the Planter)
Can't get enough of you (Got enough of me)
posted by dg 08 August | 20:12
Fearless (Scared)
Rambling Man (Succinct Woman)
posted by taz 08 August | 20:17
oops. Box had Rambling Man.
posted by taz 08 August | 20:18
Witchita Lineman (New York City Fullback)
The Village Green Preservation Society (The City Brown Spoilage Anarchy)
posted by bmarkey 08 August | 20:20
Heartbreaker (Brainrepairman)
We Didn't Start The Fire (You Finished the Water)?
posted by taz 08 August | 20:26
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert (Put your clean feet on your oasis)
A Great Day for Freedom (Many sad nights for imprisonment)
posted by taz 08 August | 20:37
So, we're down to:
Forgetting to walk
One moon out of the sunrise
Stop listening
Electric Guitar Sunshine
Hard to Be Easy
Little person
Jinxed Unknown
Pry Open Yourself
Sober Country Banquet
Capture (The Shirley Temple Story)
Squarecountry
Success (or maybe competence) in the Civilization
Edison Boys (clue - who was the anti-edison?)

I haven't a clue for any of them (well, apart from the ones I posted). You people are smart
posted by dg 08 August | 21:03
Mandolin Rain
Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Bungle in the Jungle
posted by box 08 August | 21:06
So, I was thinking about the anti-Edison, and I started thinking that there are different kinds of opposites, or oppositional relationships, maybe you'd call 'em. Is there a subset of linguistics or philosophy or something that covers this kind of stuff?
posted by box 08 August | 21:08
Come on wendell, put me out of my misery!
posted by dg 08 August | 22:25
Here's the rundown on Wendell's Bottom 40, give or take a few...

You Finished the Water -> We Didn't Start The Fire (taz) YES!!!
Electric Guitar Sunshine -> Mandolin Rain (box)
Cold Blob Jefferson Davis -> Hot Rod Lincoln (taz)
Follower of the Single Serving -> Leader of the Pack (box)
New York City Fullback -> Wichita Lineman (bmarkey)
Little Navy Blue Bus - Big Yellow Taxi (dg)
Tall Animals -> Short People (dg)
Together For the First Time Artificially -> Alone Again Naturally (dg)
Brother Black Bald -> Sister Golden Hair (box)
Death'll Be Bad -> Life's Been Good (box)
Succinct Woman -> Ramblin' Man (box)
Fall Down Unlike an Israeli -> Walk Like an Egyptian (dg)
You Finished a Tragedy -> I Started a Joke (dg)
Be Terrorized by the Planter -> Don't Fear the Reaper (taz)
Brainrepairman -> Heartbreaker (taz)
Hategenius -> Lovefool (box)
Ignoring the Criminals -> Watching the Detectives (dg)
Thanks, Ms. FedEx -> Please Mr. Postman (box)
He Made Me See With Magic -> She Blinded Me With Science (taz)
Suffer the Noise -> Enjoy the Silence (dg)
Desi Off the Floor With Coal -> Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (dg)
I Lifted a Dud Off You -> You Dropped A Bomb On Me (bmarkey) YES!!!
Capture (The Shirley Temple Story) -> Escape (The Pina Colada Song) (box) (for those of you who don't get it, a Shirley Temple is a classic non-alcaholic cocktail)
Mr. Green, I Lost an Ugly Mother -> Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter (dg)
Success in the Civilization -> Bungle in the Jungle (box)
Baptism Against an Enemy/Hate Stands Up Uninjured -> Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (bg)
The City Brown Spoilage Anarchy -> The Village Green Preservation Society (bmarkey)
Impotence and the Apathy -> Power and the Passion (dg)
Days in Black Denim -> Nights in White Satin (dg)
Soloist Off the Stand -> Band on the Run (dg)
Haven't I Ever Been Spicy -> Have You Never Been Mellow (dg)

bmarkey... 3
taz... 5
box... 9
dg... 14

and the winner gets... the complete set of Bald Boozer books including "The Scientist's Sober", "The Patio of Revelations", "The Warden of Tell-a-Reinstate", "The Paper Cup of Water", "The Suggestion of the Albuquerque", "The Full-Phlegm Pauper" and "The Lifely Filled-Ups"...

A few clues to the unanswered (answers will be revealed in about a half-hour)...

Pry Open Yourself
The group that did this one could be considered the opposite of the title of a ZZTop song... (oh, yeah, that just confuses things more)

Sober Country Banquet
Think of a Banquet as an indoor gathering as opposed to an outdoor gathering...

If I Couldn't Listen to My Body
I am SHOCKED nobody got this classic song by Mr. Heavyhands.

Squarecountry
DON'T think of square as in shape or country as in nation...

Edison Boys
I'm declaring this one dead. Remember Orchestral Manuevers in the Dark from the 80s and "Tesla Girls"??? Huh?
posted by wendell 08 August | 22:28
wendell, you utter, utter, utter bastard ;-)

The remaining ones of mine were:
Forgetting to walk -> Learning to fly
One moon out of the sunrise -> Two suns in the sunset
Stop listening -> Keep talking

When you add the ones who got mine to the ones who got wendells, it makes the overall totals:
wendell... 3
bmarkey... 3
taz... 8
box... 9
dg... 14
posted by dg 08 August | 22:34
Okay, okay, I'll give them up now...

Pry Open Yourself?
PINCH ME!
by Barenaked Ladies, as opposed to ZZTop's Sharp Dressed Man (okay, that should be Dull Naked Lady, but it's close...)

Sober Country Banquet?
STONED SOUL PICNIC
by The Fifth Dimension, circa-1960-something

If I Couldn't Listen to Your Body?
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
by Gordon Heavyhand, I mean Lightfoot.

Squarecountry?
FUNKYTOWN
by Asshole Sole Propriator, I mean Lipps Inc.

But what about...
A Darker Sun of Tan by AntiCpl. Monogamy?
Fast Foot by the Lapdog Brothers?
Expensivewon't by Dawdle?
Gaining Your Atheism by Insomnia?
Don't Save the Day Apart by the Still Waters?
Bloodless Ill Left by Averageworker?
posted by wendell 08 August | 22:57
Hints
"You Weren't a Septegenerian Butterfly" - think rockabilly revival
"Bourgeoisie Diddy" - think seventies over-produced very expensive

More to guess:
Normal Candy
Hate Dogs
Take Away the Silence
Holy Work
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 23:18
A Darker Sun of Tan by AntiCpl. Monogamy? -> A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
Fast Foot by the Lapdog Brothers? -> Slow Hand by The Pointer Sisters
Gaining Your Atheism by Insomnia? -> Losing My Religion by R.E.M.
Don't Save the Day Apart by the Still Waters? -> Let's Spend the Night Together by The Rolling Stones
Bloodless Ill Left by Averageworker? -> Bloody Well Right by Supertramp
posted by Hellbient 08 August | 23:28
Lovecats!
posted by box 09 August | 11:18
Bring the Noise!
posted by box 09 August | 11:19
Okay, here are my 3 no one got:
You Weren't a Septegenerian Butterfly = I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Bourgeoisie Diddy = Bohemian Rhapsody
Jinxed Unknown = Lucky Star
posted by Hellbient 09 August | 16:36
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