Opposite songs

[Wildcatblue7]

[Tom]

nice list. i'll play

"Ocean's Apart" The Fire Theft / "Close to You" The Carpenters

[murlough23]

These pairings are actually back-to-back on mix CD's that I've made:

Do Not Move (David Crowder Band) / Motion (Plumb)
Summer (Christine Dente) / Winter (The Echoing Green)
White Trash Wedding (Dixie Chicks) / The Dress Looks Nice on You (Sufjan Stevens)
With You (Delirious?) / Through with You (Maroon5)
One Last Breath (Creed) / Oxygen (Avalon)
I Feel Fine (Nine Days) / Unwell (Matchbox Twenty)
Sleep (Riley Armstrong) / Wake Up Call (Relient K)
Revenger (Fold Zandura) / Forgive + Forget (Avalon)
You Make Me Mad (Third Day) / Portrait of an Apology (Jars of Clay)
No Higher Place (Sierra) / Higher (Eric Champion)

And here are some others that I haven't used, but that I find amusing:

Amazon (M.I.A.) / eBay (Weird Al Yankovic)
This Is a Heart Attack (Blindside) / Jumpstart Your Electric Heart! (Kevin Max)
Atmosphere (Toby Mac) / Hooray, It's L.A. (Blindside)
Be Still (Newsboys) / A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left (Andrew Bird)
A Man and a Woman (U2) / Ballad of San Francisco (Caedmon's Call)
Flip-Flops (Paul Wright) / Platform (Kevin Max)
Clarity (John Mayer) / Gibberish (Relient K)
Flood (Jars of Clay) / Drought (Vienna Teng)
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (The Flaming Lips) / No No No (The Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Blind (Jars of Clay) / Telescope Eyes (Eisley)
Makes Good Sense (The Elms) / Ridiculous (P.O.D.)
Throw Me (Chasing Furies) / I Can't Catch You (Sixpence None the Richer)
Can't Complain (Nickel Creek) / To the Tune of 5,000 Screaming Children (The Juliana Theory)
Front Row (Alanis Morissette) / The Mezzanine Floor (Delirious?)
The Downtown King (The Elms) / Uptown Girl (Billy Joel)
Bella Luna (Jason Mraz) / Beautiful Sun (Delirious?)
Good Behavior (Plumb) / I Wanna Be Bad (Willa Ford)
Muzzle of Bees (Wilco) / The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! (Sufjan Stevens)
Solid Rock (Delirious?) / Shifting Sand (Caedmon's Call)
People Get Ready (Curtis Mayfield) / I Wasn't Prepared (Eisley)
Fix You (Coldplay) / I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Wilco)
Goldie's Last Day (PfR) / My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found (The Fiery Furnaces)
Progress (Mute Math) / Professional Daydreamer (Over the Rhine)
Cover Me (Mae) / Naked as We Came (Iron & Wine)
The Red (Chevelle) / The Color Green (Rich Mullins)
Such Great Heights (The Postal Service) / Vertigo (U2)
Best Kept Secret (Skillet) / Somebody Told Me (The Killers)
Lift Me Up (The Benjamin Gate) / Bring Me Down (Pillar)
Free Falling (Tom Petty) / Suspension (Mae)
Plenty of Paper (Eisley) / Blank Page (Shaun Groves)
The Big Surprise (The Elms) / No Surprises (Radiohead)
The Grudge (Tool) / Truce (Jars of Clay)
Hurry (Sleeping at Last) / The World Can Wait (Over the Rhine)
Superman (Luna Halo) / American Kryptonite (Five Iron Frenzy)
Animal Skin (Joe Henry) / A Skeleton of Something More (Sleeping at Last)
Sober (Tool) / Intoxicating (David Crowder Band)
Disease (Matchbox Twenty) / Cure (Plumb)
Bleeding (Sixpence None the Richer) / Tourniquet (Plumb)
Rest (Skillet) / Momentum (Toby Mac)
Naive (Chris Rice) / Jaded (Aerosmith)
One of You (Vertical Horizon) / Schizophreniac (Earthsuit)
One Time (Earthsuit) / Repeating, Repeating (The Juliana Theory)
Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who) / Everybody's Fool (Evanescence)
Harbor (Vienna Teng) / Lost at Sea (Eisley)
Television (Dryve) / Reality (Big Dismal)
This Week the Trend (Relient K) / Radio Cure (Wilco)
Original (Silage) / Handbook for the Sellout (Five Iron Frenzy)
Basic Instructions (Burlap to Cashmere) / Complicated (Avril Lavigne)
Resolution (Supertones) / Blurry (Puddle of Mudd)
Existence (Kevin Max) / No Such Thing (John Mayer)
Skin Is Burning (Burlap to Cashmere) / Fireproof (Pillar)
Mountains High (Delirious?) / Ocean Floor (Audio Adrenaline)
Same Side of the Moon (Corrinne May) / Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
Richest Man in the World (Dakona) / We Are the Beggars at the Foot of God's Door (The Normals)
Blackhole Sun (Soundgarden) / Light Reflected (Iona)
You Are There (Ashley Cleveland) / You're Not There (Jaci Velasquez)
Company Car (Switchfoot) / Bus Driver (Caedmon's Call)
Wedding Dress (Derek Webb) / Divorce (Burlap to Cashmere)
Natural (Eric Champion) / Supernatural (dc Talk)
Mercury (The Prayer Chain) / Pluto (Plumb)
Black or White (Michael Jackson) / Fade to Grey (Jars of Clay)
Life Is Worth Fighting For (Church of Rhythm) / Goodbye Cruel World (Whitecross)

And of course, you could try doing three at a time:

The Beginning (Lifehouse) / The Middle (Jimmy Eat World) / The End (Abra Moore)

Last but not least - and this is really hard - opposites by the same artist:

Typical (Mute Math) / Peculiar People (Mute Math)
Control (Mute Math) / Chaos (Mute Math)
Spin (Lifehouse) / Wash (Lifehouse)
The Coffee Song (Jars of Clay) / Tea and Sympathy (Jars of Clay)

[Wildcatblue7]

A Man and a Woman (U2) / Ballad of San Francisco (Caedmon's Call)

ROFL

this one for the win.

[enemy anemone]

too fun!

To Be Myself Completely (Belle and Sebastian) / Who Am I (Margaret Becker)
Hello Stranger (Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue) / Hello Old Friend (Rich Mullins)
Hello Old Friend (Rich Mullins) / Goodbye (Emmylou Harris OR Patty Griffin OR Mary Gauthier)
Easy On Your Way Out (Eleni Mandell) / When It Don't Come Easy (Patty Griffin)
Dancing With Danger (Leslie Phillips) / Don't Dance With Danger (Scarlet Red)
Good Morning Sunshine (various) / Goodnight Moon (Shivaree)
Don't Let the Devil Ride (Julie Miller) / Raining Angels (Chris Thomas King)
Love Broke Thru (Phil Keaggy OR Keith Green OR Randy Stonehill) / Love Comes Tumbling (U2)
We Are Water (Patty Griffin) / I'm On Fire (Chris Thomas King)
Wade in the Water (Patty Griffin) / Walk Through the Fire (Mary Gauthier)
Let Him Fly (Patty Griffin) / Get Him Back (Fiona Apple)
I Can Let Go Now (Alison Krauss) / Hold On, Hold On (Neko Case)
A Good Man (Kim Taylor) / Wicked Man (Ben Harper & tBBoA)
Troubled Mind (Kim Taylor) / Satisfied Mind (Ben Harper & tBBoA)
Well Well Well (Ben Harper & tBBoA) / Oh Well (Fiona Apple)
Come Here (Kath Bloom) / Keep Your Distance (Buddy & Julie Miller)
Look at Me (Keri Noble) / Don't Look at Me (Stacie Orrico)
Waterslide (Patty Griffin) / Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
Hard (Rich Mullins) / Ever Easy (Mary Gauthier)
I Had a Real Good Mother and Father (Gillian Welch) / People Ain't No Good (Nick Cave)
Heaven Is Waiting (Kid Brothers of St. Frank) / Holding on to Earth (Sam Phillips)
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall) / Blue Pony (Julie Miller) OR White Horse (Over the Rhine)
Here's My Heart (David and the Giants) / Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Stevie Nicks)
It's Not Over (Alison Krauss) / Forever Has Come To an End (Buddy and Julie Miller)
Sleep Baby Jane (Over the Rhine) / Wachet Auf (tr. Sleepers Wake)(Bach) OR Wake Up (The Arcade Fire)
I Never Knew You From the Sun (The Innocence Mission) / More Like the Moon (Wilco)
Shoot the Moon (Norah Jones) / Sunrise (Norah Jones)
Breaking Skin (Patty Griffin / Heal Over (KT Tunstall)
Top of the World (Patty Griffin) / I Went Over the Edge of the World (Kevin Max)
Sweet Old World (Emmylou Harris) / When the World is New (Leslie Phillips)
Don't Leave Home (Dido) / Goin' Out West (Tom Waits) OR Come On Up To the House (Tom Waits)
Stay (Lisa Loeb) / Gotta Keep Moving (Willy Mason)
House Where Nobody Lives (Tom Waits) / Breaking Up Somebody's Home (Patty Griffin)
Blood Red River (Beth Orton) / Little Blue River (Over the Rhine)
So Black, So Bright (Kim Taylor) / Whiter Shade of Pale (Sarah Brightman)
Blackbird (Beatles) / White Dove (Patty Griffin)
One Step Closer (U2) / Too Far Gone (Sixpence None the Richer)
Here I Am (Emmylou Harris) / You Don't Have Me (Patty Griffin) OR There She Goes (Sixpence None the Richer OR The Las)
I'll Fly Away (traditional) / Both Feet on the Ground (Rich Mullins)
Tell Me What You Think (Gillian Welch) / Don't Tell Me (Buddy and Julie Miller)
Happy With Myself (Over the Rhine) / Troubled Mind (Kim Taylor)
Dark End of the Street (Buddy Miller with Patty Griffin) / Sunny Road (Emiliana Torrini)
Give Me an Ocean (Julie Miller) / The Ocean Doesn't Want Me (Tom Waits)
Making Time (Gillian Welch) / Wasting My Time (Sam Phillips)
Who Is Golden (Kim Taylor) / Silverlake Babies (Eleni Mandell)
Wiggley Fingers (Patty Griffin) / Strong Hand (Emmylou Harris)
Don't Set Me Free (Ray Charles) / Set Me Free (Mary Gauthier)
Nobody's Crying (Patty Griffin) / I Cry (Russ Taff) OR I Still Cry (Julie Miller)
Pain of a Troubled Life (Alison Krauss) / Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
Cain (Patty Griffin) / He Is Able (Praise and Worship song)
A More Vengeful Final Ninja (A Parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's "A More Humane Mikado Never") / The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (Veggie Tales)
(okay, so I haven't exactly heard the ninja song but I couldn't resist.)

opposites by the same artist:
I'm Over You (Gillian Welch) / I Love You More Than Ever But You're Gone (Gillian Welch)
I'll Go On Downtown (Gillian Welch) / I Don't Want to Go Downtown (Gillian Welch)

I don't know what to call this but it amuses me.
All I Need is Everything (Over the Rhine) / I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2) / You Never Get What You Want (Patty Griffin)

three:
Maggie (Kim Taylor) / Pauline (Eleni Mandell) / Margaret vs. Pauline (Neko Case)

and this is just strange.
Pictures of Jesus (Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama):
Chocolate Jesus (Tom Waits) / Jesus In New Orleans (Over the Rhine) / Elvis and Jesus (Kim Taylor)
(does this mean I'm a heretic?)

[Aaron]

o.k...get some sun..............................

[enemy anemone]

what, and get sunburned?

which makes me think of...

Soak Up the Sun (Sheryl Crow) / Under These Clouds (Patty Griffin)

[bloop]

Kid A (Radiohead)/Plan B (Badly Drawn Boy)