{"id":3946,"date":"2009-07-31T15:26:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/31\/two-word-lyrics-proper-name-ed\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:26:36","slug":"two-word-lyrics-proper-name-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/31\/two-word-lyrics-proper-name-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Word Lyrics: Proper Name Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I should queue up some more PNAS posts, but I think I’m going to save a bunch of them for when we’re at Worldcon. And I do have more serious science-related stuff that I’ve marked to talk about, but it’s Friday, and everybody could use a break. So here’s a silly pop-music thing instead.<\/p>\n

As with past editions<\/a>, the following two-word phrases are taken from pop songs, and (I think) uniquely identify a single song. At least, I can only think of one song in my collection for each of them. The twist this time around is the each of the two-word phrases is a person’s name.<\/p>\n

If you think you know the song, leave a comment guessing it, and post your own two-word phrase for other people to guess. Here are the names:<\/p>\n

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  1. Father McKenzie<\/li>\n
  2. Beth McKenzie<\/li>\n
  3. John Berryman<\/li>\n
  4. Ezra Pound<\/li>\n
  5. Wilson Pickett<\/li>\n
  6. Desmond Dekker<\/li>\n
  7. Jean Content<\/li>\n
  8. Merle Haggard<\/li>\n
  9. Sloppy Sue<\/li>\n
  10. Mojo Nixon<\/li>\n
  11. Billy Idol<\/li>\n
  12. Billy Shears<\/li>\n
  13. Rocco Sifretti<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Note that while some of these people did songs in which they speak of themselves in the third person, the song I have in mind is by a different artist. There’ are two bands that appear twice (Edit: counting error corrected.<\/i>), otherwise they’re all by different people.<\/li>\n

    Good luck!<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I should queue up some more PNAS posts, but I think I’m going to save a bunch of them for when we’re at Worldcon. And I do have more serious science-related stuff that I’ve marked to talk about, but it’s Friday, and everybody could use a break. So here’s a silly pop-music thing instead. As… Continue reading Two-Word Lyrics: Proper Name Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}