Game: Compilations & Mix Lists

[DollEyes]

The Silver Screen Collection 3: The Saga Continues:

 

"Straight Outta Compton" & "Boyz N Da Hood": NWA

"Natural Born Killaz": Dr. Dre & Ice Cube

"Sweet November": TROOP

"Girl Can't Help It": Journey

"Moonrise Kingdom": Angel Haze

"I Saw the Light": Hank Williams Sr.

 

To be continued....

Edited September 13, 2015 by DollEyes

[Bort]

Other Summer songs:

Cool for the Summer - Demi Lovato

Endless Summer Nights - Richard Marx

Girls of Summer - Aerosmith

Gold in the Summertime - Matt Nathanson

Red Summer Sun - Third Eye Blind

Suddenly Last Summer - Motels

Summer - Calvin Harris

Summer (Can't Last Too Long) - Asia

Summer Love - Justin Timberlake

Summer Shudder - AFI

Summer Town - Third Eye Blind

Summer's Comin' - Clint Black

Summerboy - Lady Gaga

Summerland - Everclear

This Summer's Gonna Hurt - Maroon 5

Honorable Mentions:

Cruise - Florida Georgia Line

Escapade - Janet Jackson

Too Much Time on My Hands - Styx

[Rick Kitchen]

Another summer song:

 

"Pontoon" - Little Big Town

[DollEyes]

The Silver Screen Collection, Part IV:

 

"Eyes Without A Face": Billy Idol

"In the Navy": The Village People

"Back In the Day": Ahmad

"Bad Company": Five Finger Death Punch

"The Game": Queen

"Out On A Limb": Teena Marie

"Summer": WAR

"Suddenly, Last Summer": The Motels

"Into the Blue," which is a lyric from Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime"

"The Sweetest Thing": Juice Newton

"Suspicion": Eddie Rabbitt

"Crossroads": Bone Thugs N Harmony

"I Love You To Death": David Hodo/The Village People

"Riptide": Vance Joy

"Warrior": Scandal featuring Patty Smyth

"Just Friends": Musiq Soulchild

"Wild": Jessie J. Featuring Big Sean & Dizzee Rascal

"First Love": Avant featuring KeKe Wyatt

"This Christmas": Donny Hathaway

 

More to come....

 

"House Party": Sam Hunt

"Pursuit of Happiness": Kid Cudi

"Evolution": Korn

"Scorpio": Dennis Coffey/Detroit Guitar Band

"The Impossible": Joe Nichols

"The Funeral": 50 Cent

"Along Came A Spider": Alice Cooper

"Rock the Casbah": The Clash

"Rio": Duran Duran

"Dare": Gorillaz

"Holiday": Madonna & Green Day

"Drive": Incubus & REM

"Dark Horse": Katy Perry featuring Juicy J

"Addicted": Saving Abel

"Ghost Town": Adam Lambert

"The Hills": The Weeknd, which features the line "The Hills Have Eyes," which is the title of the Wes Craven horror classic

"Head Over Heels": The Go-Gos

"Spotlight": Jennifer Hudson

"Stuck On You": Kenny Rogers

"Nights In White Satin": The Moody Blues

"Seventh Son": Johnny Rivers

"Angel Eyes": Jeff Healey Band

"The Way": Arianna Grande

"Mad Love": Linda Ronstadt

"I Will Follow": U2

"Get Up (I Feel Like A Sex Machine)": James Brown, which includes the lyric "Get on up," which is the title of the James Brown biopic

Edited September 25, 2015 by DollEyes

[Bort]

I made a playlist of songs that have excessive cursing. It really turned out fun, although I can't play it in public, it's strictly a car playlist.

Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit

Tonight (feat. Ludacris) - Enrique Iglesias

Talking Body - Tove Lo

Bad Habit - Offspring

This Summer's Gonna Hurt - Maroon 5

Y'all Want a Single - Korn

Fuckin' Perfect - Pink

Closer - Nine Inch Nails

Crazy Bitch - Buckcherry

Boyz N Tha Hood - Eazy E

Survival of the Sickest - Saliva

Longview - Green Day

Not a Bad Thing - Justin Timberlake

Bad Girlfriend - Theory of a Deadman

It's Been Awhile - Staind

Last Resort - Papa Roach

Little Lion Man - Mumford and Sons

The Hills - The Weeknd

Fuck You - Cee Lo Green

Down with the Sickness - Disturbed

Whatever - Godsmack

Killing in the Name - Rage against the Machine

Sober - Tool

Creep - Radiohead

She Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd

Monster - Lady Gaga

[BW Manilowe]

Same Song, Same Artist, Different Versions

Can ya'll think of anymore?

First off, apologies... My musical tastes run more to what used to be called "soft" or "light" rock, now more likely to be categorized under "Traditional Pop Vocals", vs. a good chunk of the songs I'm seeing in the posts (though I also do like stuff outside the "Traditional Pop" genre, including some songs named here).

The Captain & Tennille did 2 different versions (& I don't mean "studio" vs. "live"--they never did a live album) of their song Gentle Stranger, on their 1st album, in 1975 (I think), then on their final "major" album in 1980. Apparently the newer version was done the way Toni Tennille always envisioned it sounding (though there wasn't an issue of "fast" vs. "slow"; it was always a "slow" song--the 2nd version was more of a redo on the arrangement... & I like it better than the original).

Also, in the 1980's, Melissa Manchester recorded her song Come in From the Rain (coincidentally also done, in the 1970's by Captain & Tennille) twice. Again, this wasn't a "live" vs. "studio" version thing; both versions were "studio" versions & Melissa has also never released a "live" album/CD... Though she has released at least 1 song that was recorded live.

In 1996, Barry Manilow recorded Never My Love on his Summer of '78 CD (covers of songs popular in 1978). In 2006, his medley of Never My Love & I Swear appeared on a bonus disc that came with his CD The Greatest Songs of the Sixties if you bought that CD from QVC.

And in 2007, Barry Manilow released a CD called The Greatest Songs of the Seventies. The 1st 12 tracks were covers of other artists' songs from the 1970's; the last 6 tracks were new, acoustic versions of songs Manilow himself made famous in the 1970's (a deluxe version of this CD included additional new acoustic versions of Manilow's 1970's hits).

I saw Hold On by Wilson Phillips mentioned under a category named something like "Music to Listen to While On Hold" (sorry if I got that name wrong). It's actually being used in a new Progressive Insurance commercial with that premise.

Carnie Wilson--1 of the Wilsons in the group--is on hold with her insurance company, trying to report an accident or something, & the hold music (which we hear) ends up being her group's song Hold On. While she's listening Progressive's spokescharacter, Flo, ends up on the scene & tells her--of course--if she had Progressive she wouldn't have to put up with being on hold because (& she lists why); &--again, of course--puns are made about the song in that situation & lyrics are spoken &/or sung.

Edited December 24, 2015 by BW Manilowe

[beadgirl]

In honor of Opening Day (... which has been postponed until tomorrow for many of us in the NE), my favorite baseball songs (guess which team I root for!):

 

Fanatic of the B Word -- De La Soul

Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball? -- Count Basie

Baseball Boogie -- Mabel Scott

Talkin' Softball -- Terry Cashman (Simpsons' satire of his Talkin' Baseball)

Bagged Me a Homer -- Lurleen Lumpkin

Centerfield -- John Fogerty

Sweet Caroline -- Neil Diamond

Tessie -- Dropkick Murphys

Dirty Water -- the Standells

[AntiBeeSpray]

Songs about Video Games/Games in general/from Video Games

Pinball Wizard -- The Who and Elton John

My Console -- Eiffel 65

"Super Mario Bros. 3 Main Theme" - Super Mario Bros. 3

"Lavender Town" - Pokemon Red/Blue

"Opening Theme" - Pokemon Red/Blue

Green Hill Zone -- Sonic The Hedgehog

Chemical Plant Zone -- Sonic The Hedgehog 2

[BetterButter]

Video Games by Lana Del Rey

Pac Man Fever by Buckner & Garcia

[Sandman87]

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines had a couple of impressive licensed songs:

"Swamped" - Lacuna Coil

"A Smaller God" - Darling Violetta

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There's a group called The Minibosses who did a bunch of rock versions of old video game music.

[InDueTime]

More Video Game Songs:

Human Video Game--DJ Jazzy & The Fresh Prince

Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle--The Mountain Goats

"Go Go Mario!!" (The Super Mario Bros. theme song)

[Sandman87]

More tunes from video games.

The entire Sims franchise has a ridiculous number of catchy tunes on the various radio stations, many of which are by well known artists, and all of which are original and have lyrics in "Simlish." Here's my list of good stuff from just The Sims 3 and a couple of its expansions:

(Expansion - radio station - song title - artist)

Supernatural - Dark Wave - "Hurricane" - MS MR

Supernatural - Dark Wave - "Kill the Light" - Lacuna Coil

Supernatural - Dark Wave - "Not Your Kind of People" - Garbage

Late Night - Electronica - "M.A.D." - Hadouken!

Late Night - Electronica - "Young Estrucians" - Ladytron

Late Night - Indie - "Juice and Sim" - The Young Punx *

Late Night - Indie - "Na Na Na" - My Chemical Romance

Late Night - Indie - "The Best You Got" - Darrell Brown

Late Night - Pop - "Mama Do" - Pixie Lott

(* The singer on "Juice and Sim" somehow manages to sing in Simlish with a Jamaican accent.)

[AntiBeeSpray]

Just thought of one! Not really video game related, but it was used in a video game.

"You Belong to the City" -- Glenn Frey (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City)

[Sandman87]

Speaking of GTA: Vice City:

"Dangerous Bastard." - Love Fist

My favorite original song in the whole franchise.

[Twilight Man]

On 11/6/2014 at 6:06 AM, BizBuzz said:

Same Song, Same Artist, Different Versions

 

Breaking Up is Hard to Do (fast) ~ Neil Sedaka

Breaking Up is Hard to Do (slow) ~ Neil Sedaka

Layla (fast) ~ Eric Clapton <-- this is a live version and gives me goose bumps, Eric is my fave guitarist of all time.

Layla (slow) ~ Eric Clapton

Walk this Way ~ Aerosmith

Walk this Way ~ Aerosmith with Run DMC

Don't Stand So Close to Me ~ Police

Don't Stand So Close to Me ~ Sting <-- great version, just awfully soft, sorry

Hello It's Me (original) ~ Todd Rundgren

Hello It's Me ~ Todd Rundgren

Behind the Lines ~ Phil Collins

Behind the Lines ~ Genesis (with Phil Collins)

 

Can ya'll think of anymore?

This is The Way We Roll - M.C. Hammer

This is The Way We Roll (Oaktown Version) - M.C. Hammer

Interesting side note, in the music video, you can see in some scenes, he's dressed in a white gangster suit surrounded by his crew dressed in black.  He supposedly was 'dissing' Michael Jackson (like he did in his other video "2 Legit To Quit") by dressing like MJ did in his "Smooth Criminal" video.  Hammer considered himself "The King of Rap" and thought himself to be better than MJ.  Keep thinking that, Hammer.  We barely remember you while we continue to honor MJ.

[beadgirl]

Eclipse playlist:

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler (because why not jump on the bandwagon?)

Eclipse by Pink FLoyd

Black Sun by Death Cab for Cutie

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden

Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen

Ain't No Sunshine by a bunch of people

[Sandman87]

On Monday, August 21, 2017 at 10:46 AM, beadgirl said:

Eclipse playlist:

Klaus Nomi - "Total Eclipse"

[Sandman87]

Songs about dogs or which mention dogs. (Literal dogs with fur and tails, not metaphorical dogs):

 

Various artists - "How Much is that Doggy in the Window?"

Various artists - "B-I-N-G-O"

Lobo - "Me and You and A Dog Named Boo"

 Jerry Jeff Walker (and others)- "Mr. Bojangles" (Devotes several lines to the character's dog and how sad he is that it died years ago)

GWAR - "I'm In Love with a Dead Dog"

Rufus Thomas - "Walking the Dog"

Frank Zappa - "Stinkfoot" (The dog is not amused at being made to fetch stinky slippers.)

Frank Zappa - "Dirty Love" (Whatever that woman is doing with her dog, it probably isn't legal.)

Frank Zappa - "Evelyn, A Modified Dog"

Frank Zappa - "Cheepnis" (Describes a fictitious monster movie about a giant poodle.)

Neil Young - "Old King"

 Red River Dave - "I'd Like To Give My Dog to Uncle Sam" (A WWII propaganda song about a blind boy enlisting his dog in a K9 unit.)

Alice Cooper - "For Veronica's Sake" (A patient in a mental institution plans to escape because he's worried about his dog.)

Alice Cooper - "I'm Alive (That Was the Day My Dead Dog Returned to Save My Life)"

Hank Williams - "Move It On Over"

The B-52s - "Quiche Lorraine"

Hank Stu Dave and Hank - "My Dead Dog Rover"

Ogden Edsl - "Dead Puppies"

 

ETA:

The Monkees - "Gonna Buy Me A Dog"

Edited October 17, 2017 by Sandman87