Decipher the Song Titles, Name the Artist

[murlough23]

I think I've done this game on the boards before, but probably under a different name, or before we had the Games sub-phorum. Anyway, the objective is to figure out what song titles I'm alluding to by way of synonyms and/or puns, and then name the artist who all of those song titles belong to. (Usually, the second part is much easier than getting all of the first part figured out.)

Set #1: Thrice (Solved)

Already solved:
Striped origami felines. (Paper Tigers)
Sailor's delight and/or warning. (Red Sky)
Conduct an emotional appraisal of yourself while erect. (Stand and Feel Your Worth)
Quickly grasp optimism. (Hold Fast Hope)
Inconspicuous cutting tool. (A Subtle Dagger)
Our world doesn't sing through its nose. (The Earth Isn't Humming)
Military advice to a homosexual. (Don't Tell and We Won't Ask)
Descendant of minute solid particles. (Child of Dust)
Peaks getting evicted. (Moving Mountains)
Small poultry's prophecy. (The Sky Is Falling)
Most direct route despite land-based obstacles. (As the Crow Flies)
Misplaced landmass. (Lost Continent)
The person you shouldn't shoot when disappointed. (The Messenger)
Rear involuntary conscription. (Backdraft)
Bandmate to Robert Nesta. (The Whaler)
Creative being whose vehicle runs red lights. (The Artist in the Ambulance)
Dragon. (Firebreather)
An event measuring on the Richter Scale shall occur. (The Earth Will Shake)
Transparent JPEG. (Image of the Invisible)
Half of Marshal Mathers' movie (assuming correct grammar). (For Miles)
On the way from the last chapter to our failed polygraph. (Between the End and Where We Lie)
Labyrinth architect. (Daedalus)
Double-stacked checkers on a lion's neck (Kings Upon the Main)
Empty space before Simon, Paula, and Randy (Where Idols Once Stood)
Alfred Hitchcock profile (Silhouette)
Everything that the Democrats typically stand for. (All that's Left)

Set #2: Bjork (Solved)

Already solved:
Jefferson's original vehicle. (Aeroplane)
Recently downgraded dwarf. (Pluto)
Imitate an opossum. (Play Dead)
Pre-nuptial maiden. (Bachelorette)
Roaming mental adultery. (Wanderlust)
Massive temporal eroticism. (Big Time Sensuality)
Oral baby bed. (Mouth's Cradle)
Prepubescent. (Immature)
Pupal casing. (Cocoon)
Decadal midpoint. (5 Years)
Feasible uncertain response. (Possibly Maybe)
Common response to knocking. (Who Is It?)
State preceding proven culpability. (Innocence)
Location to go seek. (Hidden Place)
Affection pervades. (All Is Full of Love)
Situation caused by a loose thread. (Unravel)
Control Z. (Undo)
Heathen verse. (Pagan Poetry)
The disposition of homo sapiens. (Human Behaviour)
Delighted, Tarantino-style. (Violently Happy)
One spinal component at a time. (Vertebrae by Vertebrae)
Totally similar to a noble gas. (All Neon Like)
Cardiovascular pwnage. (Triumph of a Heart)
What happens between snoozes. (Alarm Call)
Xanthic Beatle dwelling. (Submarine)
Notable individual made of crystalline precipitation. (Frosti)
You tower over it. (It's Not Up to You)
4-dimensional narrative song. (Hyper-Ballad)

[Aaron]

I think I know the artists but can't really decipher the song titles.

[murlough23]

I'll add a slightly easier one for the CCM fans.

Group #3: Kutless

Grant you passage. At unspecified astronomical coordinates. Prevent me from scoring. Women's TV network pledge. Regis Philbin. Pillow stuffing. Acceleration affects us at 9.8 meters per second squared. The Oxford's unabridged contents. Outlawing the sale of alcohol. Unpatriotic disloyalty.  Variances in appearance due to angular diameter. Atmospheric displacement containing metallic currency. Subterranean. Formidable skyscraper. Singular diarrhea.

Already Solved:
Sketch me in the vicinity. (Draw Me Close)
24 hours are superior. (Better Is One Day)
Group of lions elsewhere. (Pride Away)

[murlough23]

I think I know the artists but can't really decipher the song titles.

Feel free to list the ones you've figured out. Maybe keep the artists a secret so others can guess that part, too.

[enemy anemone]

I thought I deciphered one title (origami), then I googled to see who recorded such a song, then went to last.fm to see what other songs they've done to see if there are any that match some of the vague ideas I got from the other titles (Richter scale event). since I am not familiar with the artist, I got distracted with making up new titles based on the puzzle ones. but posting them would probably be an obnoxious game-derailment so I will refrain.

[Aaron]

Feel free to list the ones you've figured out. Maybe keep the artists a secret so others can guess that part, too.

The thing is: I can't really think of the song titles.  Once someone figures them out, I'll be like "damn it why wasn't it that obvious to me?" 

[Wildcatblue7]

Set 1 = Thrice.  The Earth Isn't Humming, Paper Tigers, Red Sky...etc.

Striped origami felines = Paper Tigers
Sailor's delight and/or warning = Red Sky
Conduct an emotional appraisal of yourself while erect. = Stand and Feel Your Worth
Quickly grasp optimism = Hold Fast Hope
Inconspicuous cutting tool = A Subtle Dagger
Our world doesn't sing through its nose = The Earth Isn't Humming
Small poultry's prophecy = Hoods on Peregrine?  or Phoenix Ignition?
Military advice to a homosexual = Don't Tell and We Won't Ask
Everything that the Democrats typically stand for = Cold Cash and Colder Hearts (ba dum shish!  no, i dunno)
Descendant of minute solid particles = Child of Dust
Peaks getting evicted = Moving Mountains

and i'm stumped on the rest.

For a minute I thought set two was Dream Theater, because of what looked like Erotomania, but I don't know.  Or...this is out of left field, but Queen?

[Aaron]

Set 1 = Thrice.  The Earth Isn't Humming, Paper Tigers, Red Sky...etc.

For a minute I thought set two was Dream Theater, because of what looked like Erotomania, but I don't know.

You're right on set 1.  At first I thought it was Peter Tosh (but that didn't make sense because why would murlough think about Tosh?). 

[Ian]

Set 2 is Bjork.

Jefferson's original vehicle = Aeroplane
Recently downgraded dwarf = Pluto
Totally similar to a noble gas = Aurora
Xanthic Beatle dwelling = All Neon Like
Imitate an opossum = Play Dead
Pre-nuptial maiden = Bachelorette
Roaming mental adultery = Wanderlust
Massive temporal eroticism = Big Time Sensuality
Oral baby bed = Mouth's Cradle
Prepubescent = My Juvenile/Immature ?
Pupal casing = Cocoon
Decadal midpoint = 5 Years
Feasible uncertain response = Possibly Maybe
Common response to knocking = Who Is It
State preceding proven culpability = Innocence
4-dimensional narrative song =
Location to go seek = Hidden Place
You tower over it =
Affection pervades = All Is Full of Love
Notable individual made of crystalline precipitation =
Situation caused by a loose thread = Unravel
Control Z = Undo
What happens between snoozes = It's Oh So Quiet
Heathen verse = Pagan Poetry
The disposition of homo sapiens = Human Behavior
Delighted, Tarantino-style = Violently Happy
Cardiovascular pwnage = Pneumonia
One spinal component at a time = Vertebrae by Vertebrae

And I really can't figure out what the 3 I'm missing are.

[Aaron]

Ahh yes...set 2 would be the one and only insane Icelander, Bjork.

[murlough23]

Set 1 = Thrice.

Yes.

Striped origami felines = Paper Tigers
Sailor's delight and/or warning = Red Sky
Conduct an emotional appraisal of yourself while erect. = Stand and Feel Your Worth
Quickly grasp optimism = Hold Fast Hope
Inconspicuous cutting tool = A Subtle Dagger
Our world doesn't sing through its nose = The Earth Isn't Humming
Military advice to a homosexual = Don't Tell and We Won't Ask
Descendant of minute solid particles = Child of Dust
Peaks getting evicted = Moving Mountains

All correct.

Small poultry's prophecy = Hoods on Peregrine?  or Phoenix Ignition?

No. This one's a little tricky because you have to figure out what "small poultry" is and then what its prophecy would be.

Everything that the Democrats typically stand for = Cold Cash and Colder Hearts (ba dum shish!  no, i dunno)

No, but you win the creativity award. (I wanted to do one for that song title, but couldn't think a way to not make it obvious.)

For a minute I thought set two was Dream Theater, because of what looked like Erotomania, but I don't know.  Or...this is out of left field, but Queen?

No on both counts. I think its someone that enough folks here listen to, but I know not everyone does.

[murlough23]

Set 2 is Bjork.

Indeed.

Jefferson's original vehicle = Aeroplane
Recently downgraded dwarf = Pluto
Imitate an opossum = Play Dead
Pre-nuptial maiden = Bachelorette
Roaming mental adultery = Wanderlust
Massive temporal eroticism = Big Time Sensuality
Oral baby bed = Mouth's Cradle
Pupal casing = Cocoon
Decadal midpoint = 5 Years
Feasible uncertain response = Possibly Maybe
Common response to knocking = Who Is It
State preceding proven culpability = Innocence
Location to go seek = Hidden Place
Affection pervades = All Is Full of Love
Situation caused by a loose thread = Unravel
Control Z = Undo
Heathen verse = Pagan Poetry
The disposition of homo sapiens = Human Behavior
Delighted, Tarantino-style = Violently Happy
One spinal component at a time = Vertebrae by Vertebrae

All correct.

Prepubescent = My Juvenile/Immature ?

I was thinking "Immature", but I guess either one works.

Totally similar to a noble gas = Aurora
Xanthic Beatle dwelling = All Neon Like
What happens between snoozes = It's Oh So Quiet
Cardiovascular pwnage = Pneumonia

These are incorrect.

[NinjaRob17]

Set #3 is Kutless. I don't know many Kutless songs, but I guess I know enough.

Sketch me in the vicinity = Draw Me Close?
24 hours are superior = Better is One Day
Group of lions elsewhere = Pride Away

[murlough23]

Set #3 is Kutless. I don't know many Kutless songs, but I guess I know enough.

Sketch me in the vicinity = Draw Me Close?
24 hours are superior = Better is One Day
Group of lions elsewhere = Pride Away

All good so far; keep up the good work.

(And yes, I am that perverse, to make a game out of Kutless song titles, generic as they often are.)

[enemy anemone]

small poultry prophecy must be The Sky Is Falling!

(poultry = domestic fowl, like chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese)

[murlough23]

since I am not familiar with the artist, I got distracted with making up new titles based on the puzzle ones. but posting them would probably be an obnoxious game-derailment so I will refrain.

I think that would be funny, actually.

[murlough23]

small poultry prophecy must be The Sky Is Falling!

(poultry = domestic fowl, like chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese)

Good job.

[enemy anemone]

I think that would be funny, actually.

haha, okay, well, I came up with "Gimli Got Fired" for "Recently Downgraded Dwarf".

and "Scissors Hides From Paper and Rock" for "Inconspicuous cutting tool". I don't know.

I just now saw "Most direct route despite land-based obstacles"--must be something like As The Crow Flies. and I actually thought of Vertebra by Vertebra but wasn't sure about the singular/plural. funny name for a song either way.

[murlough23]

haha, okay, well, I came up with "Gimli Got Fired" for "Recently Downgraded Dwarf".

Heh. Classic.

I just now saw "Most direct route despite land-based obstacles"--must be something like As The Crow Flies.

Yes, that is actually one of Thrice's song titles. What's funny is that I use that phrase often when differentiating between direct distance and "Google maps" distance (i.e. driving directions), but I haven't heard it widely used, and on the same day I used it to describe something to a co-worker, I found out it was the title of a song on Thrice's new album.

and I actually thought of Vertebra by Vertebra but wasn't sure about the singular/plural. funny name for a song either way.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

[NewDimension]

Yes, that is actually one of Thrice's song titles. What's funny is that I use that phrase often when differentiating between direct distance and "Google maps" distance (i.e. driving directions), but I haven't heard it widely used, and on the same day I used it to describe something to a co-worker, I found out it was the title of a song on Thrice's new album.

Google maps are cool, especially the satelite part. I'm gonna check out China later.

[murlough23]

What the hey, I'll cobble one together for schil that has to do with an artist she's actually familiar with. (Hopefully the song titles I found aren't too obscure for your average fan of said artist. Don't shoot me if they are.)

Set #4: Patty Griffin (Solved)

Accept his boarding pass. (Let Him Fly)
Aerial gymnastic apparatus. (Trapeze)
Take precautions. (Be Careful)
Humid peninsula. (Florida)
Ghetto dwelling. (Poor Man's House)
Galen Tyrol. (Chief)
Futile ambitions. (Useless Desires)
Frustrated evangelical journey. (Mad Mission)
Singular TV show about polygamy. (One Big Love)
Composition to be sung merrily in a round while pondering one's existential nature. (Rowing Song)
Amundsen-Scott on an inverted globe. (Top of the World)
Absolute zero. (Cold as It Gets)
Frozen stalactites. (Icicles)
Cereal endorsing tiger. (Tony)
Writhing digits. (Wiggley Fingers)
on-deceptive graphite variant. (Truth No. 2)
Ballad of pulling one's pants down. (Moon Song)
Madonna. (Mother of God)
Vermillion loafers. (Burgundy Shoes)

[murlough23]

Google maps are cool, especially the satelite part. I'm gonna check out China later.

Planning a little espionage, are we?

Nah, just kidding. The street view feature is the real show-stopper, though it's kind of creepy to think that somebody can look at my apartment building.

[Ian]

Oh.

Totally similar to a noble gas = All Neon Like
Cardiovascular pwnage = Triumph of a Heart

Now for those other 5...

[murlough23]

Oh.  Totally similar to a noble gas = All Neon Like

Yeah, you had that title for the wrong song before, and I almost gave it to you 'cause I wasn't paying attention.

[Ian]

Is What happens between snoozes = Alarm Call?

and curse you and your ninja posting speed, beating my edits >:|

edit: this might be a stretch, but could You tower over it - Submarine? :/

[murlough23]

Is What happens between snoozes = Alarm Call?
Cardiovascular pwnage = Triumph of a Heart

These are both correct.

and curse you and your ninja posting speed, beating my edits >:|

We're online at the same time, whaddya want?

[Ian]

Oh wait, Xanthic Beatle dwelling = Submarine

[murlough23]

Oh wait, Xanthic Beatle dwelling = Submarine

Good job; I thought I might have to give a hint on that one.

[Ian]

You tower over it = Where is the Line
Notable individual made of crystalline precipitation = Frosti

I put that one way earlier, then removed cuz I was was like, "wait, frosties aren't notable individuals."  Wasn't thinking of Frosty the Snowman. ^_^

Clueless on the 4 dimensional narrative song.  I'm guessing it has to do with time, the 4th dimension.  One Day is the only thing I see that has to do with time, and that doesn't fit the narrative part.... hmm..

[enemy anemone]

ha! for #4 the artist is Patty Griffin but I haven't figured out all the titles yet and I don't want to consult my mp3 folder or any song lists.

Accept his boarding pass. (Let Him Fly)* (I kept getting Ticket To Ride stuck in my head, which totally did not help.)
Aerial gymnastic apparatus. (Trapeze)
Take precautions. (Be Careful)
Humid peninsula. (Florida)
Ghetto dwelling. (Poor Man's House)*
Vermillion loafers. (this must be Flaming Red; it could be mistakenly titled Red Shoes.)
Galen Tyrol. (Chief)
Futile ambitions. (Useless Desires)
Frustrated evangelical journey. (Mad Mission)
Singular TV show about polygamy. (One Big Love--I didn't know about the tv show though. and oh! that must be why Dr. House nicknamed the LDS Fellow "Big Love". I thought it had to do with his big hair/afro but that didn't make much sense.)
Composition to be sung merrily in a round while pondering one's existential nature. (Rowing Song)*
Amundsen-Scott on an inverted globe. (Top of the World)
Absolute zero. (Cold As It Gets)
Frozen stalactites. (Icicles)
Cereal endorsing tiger. (Tony)
Writhing digits. (Wiggley Fingers)
Non-deceptive graphite variant. (Truth #2)
Ballad of pulling one's pants down. (what?!?!) (Kite Song? is "kite" slang for pulling one's pants--oh. Moon Song. augh!)*
Madonna. (Mary) (also could be Mother of God)*

*these are the ones I couldn't get and finally looked at lists to figure out.

fun!

[enemy anemone]

I thought "Notable individual made of crystalline precipitation" was the Abominable Snowman/Yeti. and "Cardiovascular pwnage" could be half of Heartattack and Vine. XD

[murlough23]

You tower over it = Where is the Line

No.

Notable individual made of crystalline precipitation = Frosti

Yes.

Clueless on the 4 dimensional narrative song.  I'm guessing it has to do with time, the 4th dimension.  One Day is the only thing I see that has to do with time, and that doesn't fit the narrative part.... hmm..

It doesn't have anything to do with time.

[murlough23]

Accept his boarding pass. (Let Him Fly)
Aerial gymnastic apparatus. (Trapeze)
Take precautions. (Be Careful)
Humid peninsula. (Florida)
Ghetto dwelling. (Poor Man's House)
Galen Tyrol. (Chief)
Futile ambitions. (Useless Desires)
Frustrated evangelical journey. (Mad Mission)
Singular TV show about polygamy. (One Big Love)
Composition to be sung merrily in a round while pondering one's existential nature. (Rowing Song)
Amundsen-Scott on an inverted globe. (Top of the World)
Absolute zero. (Cold As It Gets)
Frozen stalactites. (Icicles)
Cereal endorsing tiger. (Tony)
Writhing digits. (Wiggley Fingers)
Non-deceptive graphite variant. (Truth #2)
Ballad of pulling one's pants down. (Moon Song)

Looks like you got almost every single one!

Madonna. (Mary) (also could be Mother of God)

I didn't notice that there was a "Mary". Der. You get bonus points for getting 'em both.

Vermillion loafers. (this must be Flaming Red; it could be mistakenly titled Red Shoes.)

That's not it.

[Ian]

You tower over it = It's Not Up to You

Heh, clever, if that's what it is.

[enemy anemone]

ah, Burgundy Shoes. Patty has mentioned red shoes in like three different songs.

also, the color-picky part of me has to insist that vermillion is not burgundy!

[murlough23]

ah, Burgundy Shoes. Patty has mentioned red shoes in like three different songs.

That's the ticket.

also, the color-picky part of me has to insist that vermillion is not burgundy!

Eh. Close enough. I'm a guy.

[Ian]

Aaaaaand 4 dimensional narrative song = Sun In My Mouth

I know, I'm stretching it. >_<

[murlough23]

Aaaaaand 4 dimensional narrative = Sun In My Mouth

Nope.

[Ian]

I've got it, it's Hyperballad.  I honestly still don't get the 4 dimension part, but ballad has to go with narrative song.

btw, is it cool if other people try making one of these?  I'd like to do one.

[murlough23]

I've got it, it's Hyperballad.  I honestly still don't get the 4 dimension part, but ballad has to go with narrative song.

"Hyper" is a prefix in mathematics used to denote 4 or more dimensions, such as a "hypercube", or "hyperspace".

btw, is it cool if other people try making one of these?  I'd like to do one.

Absolutely. I was hoping that people would be encouraged to try their hand at it.