Category: Music

Same deal as the last game: Each of the following pairs of words is taken from a pop song, where they are set up to rhyme (many of the phrases don’t really rhyme, but they’re treated as if they do). Your job is to guess the song based on the rhyming pair.

A slightly different twist on the occasional guess-the-lyrics game. The following list gives pairs of rhyming words from a song that I think can be used to identify a specific song. So, for example, the pair: diplomat/ Siamese cat identifies “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan, thanks to the lines: You used to ride… Continue reading Guess-the-Lyrics: Unusual Rhyme Edition

I bought a bunch of stuff recently, and as is my usual practice, iTunes has been shuffle playing the recent purchases for the last couple of weeks. The albums in question: Janelle Monae, the Arch-Android. Not usually my sort of thing, but I saw a bunch of absolutely rapturous reviews calling it groundbreaking, etc, so… Continue reading Recent Pop Music

I’ve got multiple home improvement projects that need work while SteelyKid is out of the house and the weather is reasonably nice, so no deep thoughts about science today. Instead, here’s some silly pop culture: a selection of songs from my music collection starting with numbers from one to ten: “One,” U2 “Two,” Ryan Adams… Continue reading My iPod Counts to Ten