KINK, 8/22/06: Mystery Theme

[RGMike]

The Who : Baba O'Riley  
The Beatles : Two Of Us
R.E.M. : The One I Love  
Police : Every Breath You Take
Queen : Bohemian Rhapsody
Led Zeppelin : Stairway To Heaven
Green Day : Time of Your Life
Phil Collins : In The Air Tonight
Bruce Springsteen : Born In The USA
Kingsmen : Louie Louie  

OK, put on yer thinking caps. I've no clue what the theme is here.

[urth]

The Who : Baba O'Riley  
The Beatles : Two Of Us
R.E.M. : The One I Love  
Police : Every Breath You Take
Queen : Bohemian Rhapsody
Led Zeppelin : Stairway To Heaven
Green Day : Time of Your Life
Phil Collins : In The Air Tonight
Bruce Springsteen : Born In The USA
Kingsmen : Louie Louie  

OK, put on yer thinking caps. I've no clue what the theme is here.

No clue about the theme here either, and there are some decent songs in there. But with the exception of Louie Louie, that set looks like a mid-80s classic-rock playlist. (OK, you can leave out the Green Day song, too, since it wasn't recorded yet, although she didn't get the name right either--it's called Good Riddance.)

[Gazoo]

The Who : Baba O'Riley  
The Beatles : Two Of Us
R.E.M. : The One I Love  
Police : Every Breath You Take
Queen : Bohemian Rhapsody
Led Zeppelin : Stairway To Heaven
Green Day : Time of Your Life
Phil Collins : In The Air Tonight
Bruce Springsteen : Born In The USA
Kingsmen : Louie Louie  

OK, put on yer thinking caps. I've no clue what the theme is here.

I'm stumped too.  The Green Day and Phil Collins songs were repopularized by TV shows and the Queen and Kingsmen songs were repopularized by movies (not that the Kingsmen needed it), but that doesn't help out on the rest AFAIK.

[mshray]

The Who : Baba O'Riley  
The Beatles : Two Of Us
R.E.M. : The One I Love  
Police : Every Breath You Take
Queen : Bohemian Rhapsody
Led Zeppelin : Stairway To Heaven
Green Day : Time of Your Life
Phil Collins : In The Air Tonight
Bruce Springsteen : Born In The USA
Kingsmen : Louie Louie  

OK, put on yer thinking caps. I've no clue what the theme is here.

I'm stumped too.  The Green Day and Phil Collins songs were repopularized by TV shows and the Queen and Kingsmen songs were repopularized by movies (not that the Kingsmen needed it), but that doesn't help out on the rest AFAIK.

I just talked to Inessa about today's (thurs) set & also asked her about this.  I think it's in fact a great theme, but by definition almost completely unguessable.  The Top 10 Most Misunderstood songs.  

I said that's a pretty cool theme, but it might just be more accurate to say that "Born In The USA" was a top 10 Misappropriated Song, everyone BUT Reagan knew what Bruce was singing about.  She agreed in principle & clearly is no more fond of Ronnie than any of us.

[RGMike]

The Who : Baba O'Riley  
The Beatles : Two Of Us
R.E.M. : The One I Love  
Police : Every Breath You Take
Queen : Bohemian Rhapsody
Led Zeppelin : Stairway To Heaven
Green Day : Time of Your Life
Phil Collins : In The Air Tonight
Bruce Springsteen : Born In The USA
Kingsmen : Louie Louie  

OK, put on yer thinking caps. I've no clue what the theme is here.

I'm stumped too.  The Green Day and Phil Collins songs were repopularized by TV shows and the Queen and Kingsmen songs were repopularized by movies (not that the Kingsmen needed it), but that doesn't help out on the rest AFAIK.

I just talked to Inessa about today's (thurs) set & also asked her about this.  I think it's in fact a great theme, but by definition almost completely unguessable.  The Top 10 Most Misunderstood songs.  

I said that's a pretty cool theme, but it might just be more accurate to say that "Born In The USA" was a top 10 Misappropriated Song, everyone BUT Reagan knew what Bruce was singing about.  She agreed in principle & clearly is no more fond of Ronnie than any of us.

That IS a great theme. REM could have several on the list, actually: Stipe has said that "Fall on Me" isn't about the arms race (everyone sure thought so) and that "Losing My Religion" isn't about seroconverting (which a lot of people also assumed).

"Two of Us" was misunderstood as ... what? being about John & Paul when it's really about John & Yoko? or vice-versa?

[Gazoo]

The Who : Baba O'Riley  
The Beatles : Two Of Us
R.E.M. : The One I Love  
Police : Every Breath You Take
Queen : Bohemian Rhapsody
Led Zeppelin : Stairway To Heaven
Green Day : Time of Your Life
Phil Collins : In The Air Tonight
Bruce Springsteen : Born In The USA
Kingsmen : Louie Louie  

OK, put on yer thinking caps. I've no clue what the theme is here.

I'm stumped too.  The Green Day and Phil Collins songs were repopularized by TV shows and the Queen and Kingsmen songs were repopularized by movies (not that the Kingsmen needed it), but that doesn't help out on the rest AFAIK.

I just talked to Inessa about today's (thurs) set & also asked her about this.  I think it's in fact a great theme, but by definition almost completely unguessable.  The Top 10 Most Misunderstood songs.  

I said that's a pretty cool theme, but it might just be more accurate to say that "Born In The USA" was a top 10 Misappropriated Song, everyone BUT Reagan knew what Bruce was singing about.  She agreed in principle & clearly is no more fond of Ronnie than any of us.

That IS a great theme. REM could have several on the list, actually: Stipe has said that "Fall on Me" isn't about the arms race (everyone sure thought so) and that "Losing My Religion" isn't about seroconverting (which a lot of people also assumed).

"Two of Us" was misunderstood as ... what? being about John & Paul when it's really about John & Yoko? or vice-versa?

To say that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is misunderstood suggests that there's a means of understanding it.  What is it about?  (If anything, I think *that* song's about seroconverting: "Put a 'gun' against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead" -- pretty unnerving stuff in light of his demise.)

[RGMike]

To say that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is misunderstood suggests that there's a means of understanding it.  What is it about?  (If anything, I think *that* song's about seroconverting: "Put a 'gun' against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead" -- pretty unnerving stuff in light of his demise.)

Well, ironic anyway. Of course it was written in 1975...

[mshray]

To say that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is misunderstood suggests that there's a means of understanding it.  What is it about?  (If anything, I think *that* song's about seroconverting: "Put a 'gun' against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead" -- pretty unnerving stuff in light of his demise.)

Well, ironic anyway. Of course it was written in 1975...

okay Gaz & Mike, now that i figured out what seroconverting is, maybe one of you can write a wikipedia article, because they're blind to tihs term.

[RGMike]

To say that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is misunderstood suggests that there's a means of understanding it.  What is it about?  (If anything, I think *that* song's about seroconverting: "Put a 'gun' against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead" -- pretty unnerving stuff in light of his demise.)

Well, ironic anyway. Of course it was written in 1975...

okay Gaz & Mike, now that i figured out what seroconverting is, maybe one of you can write a wikipedia article, because they're blind to tihs term.

sorry, I guess it's one of those words that's common vernacular to gay men but that doesn't exactly come up in everyday speech for most folks.

[mshray]

To say that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is misunderstood suggests that there's a means of understanding it.  What is it about?  (If anything, I think *that* song's about seroconverting: "Put a 'gun' against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead" -- pretty unnerving stuff in light of his demise.)

Well, ironic anyway. Of course it was written in 1975...

okay Gaz & Mike, now that i figured out what seroconverting is, maybe one of you can write a wikipedia article, because they're blind to tihs term.

sorry, I guess it's one of those words that's common vernacular to gay men but that doesn't exactly come up in everyday speech for most folks.

Well after that, I found that Wikipedia does have a 'seroconversion' article, but still they need to have link between seroconverting & seroconversion.  This is just basic public health policy.

[RGMike]

Well after that, I found that Wikipedia does have a 'seroconversion' article, but still they need to have link between seroconverting & seroconversion.  This is just basic public health policy.

don't get me started on Wikipedia:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902

[Gazoo]

To say that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is misunderstood suggests that there's a means of understanding it.  What is it about?  (If anything, I think *that* song's about seroconverting: "Put a 'gun' against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead" -- pretty unnerving stuff in light of his demise.)

Well, ironic anyway. Of course it was written in 1975...

okay Gaz & Mike, now that i figured out what seroconverting is, maybe one of you can write a wikipedia article, because they're blind to tihs term.

sorry, I guess it's one of those words that's common vernacular to gay men but that doesn't exactly come up in everyday speech for most folks.

Well after that, I found that Wikipedia does have a 'seroconversion' article, but still they need to have link between seroconverting & seroconversion.  This is just basic public health policy.

Proven By Science: Wikipedia is populated and composed far more by experts on Lindsay Lohan than experts on public health policy.  Like Christmas, we get the encyclopedia we deserve.

[urth]

To say that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is misunderstood suggests that there's a means of understanding it.  What is it about?  (If anything, I think *that* song's about seroconverting: "Put a 'gun' against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead" -- pretty unnerving stuff in light of his demise.)

Well, ironic anyway. Of course it was written in 1975...

okay Gaz & Mike, now that i figured out what seroconverting is, maybe one of you can write a wikipedia article, because they're blind to tihs term.

sorry, I guess it's one of those words that's common vernacular to gay men but that doesn't exactly come up in everyday speech for most folks.

Well after that, I found that Wikipedia does have a 'seroconversion' article, but still they need to have link between seroconverting & seroconversion.  This is just basic public health policy.

Proven By Science: Wikipedia is populated and composed far more by experts on Lindsay Lohan than experts on public health policy.  Like Christmas, we get the encyclopedia we deserve.

Yup. I'm getting more and more disturbed by the fact that wikipedia is being considered absolute fact rather than subjective, incomprehensive contributions of biased and often misinformed netizenry. Not to devalue its worth, but people should realize it ain't the gospel--just like everything else on the inter-web.

[ggould]

Well after that, I found that Wikipedia does have a 'seroconversion' article, but still they need to have link between seroconverting & seroconversion.  This is just basic public health policy.

don't get me started on Wikipedia:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902

As a science teacher, I really like Wikipedia.  I have found it very useful, and have also realized that not all traditional reference work is 100% accurate either.  I think some studies have shown it just as accurate as other encyclopedias.

[Gazoo]

Well after that, I found that Wikipedia does have a 'seroconversion' article, but still they need to have link between seroconverting & seroconversion.  This is just basic public health policy.

don't get me started on Wikipedia:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902

As a science teacher, I really like Wikipedia.  I have found it very useful, and have also realized that not all traditional reference work is 100% accurate either.  I think some studies have shown it just as accurate as other encyclopedias.

It's good for initial entry into a subject, kind of like what "Ask Jeeves" thought it was going to be, but it's certainly not to be taken as gospel, and the Village Voice specifically asked fact-checkers not to use it as such.  I'm delighted that it exists, but I find myself wishing they'd do like the All Music Guide and pay recognized experts (or at least knowledgeables) in fields to fill in gaps and make it something appropriately Alexandrian for the Instant Information Age.