The Frog Princess - Divine Comedy
The Frog Prince - Keane
Froggy - BMX Bandits
Kiss That Frog - Peter Gabriel
Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog - Three Dog Night

How about songs mentioning (or about) birds ?

Birds come back to the palm to talk - CH
Songbird - Bernard Fanning
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
Russell Morriss - On The Wings Of An Eagle
Wind beneath my wings - B. Middler.


5 Songs that mention purple

1. Purple Rain - The Great Purple One.

2. Purple People Eater - The Artist formerly known as Sheb Wooley.

3. Purple Haze - Himmy Jendrix.

4. I Can See A Rainbow - Arther Hamilton & the Revolution.

5. America the Beautiful - The Katherine Lee Bates & Samuel A. Ward Experience!

5 Weird Song Titles...

1. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard -- Wilco

2. Shoo-B-Doop And Cop Him -- Betty Davis

3. Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon -- Flaming Lips

4. Furry Green Atom Bowl -- Robyn Hitchcock

5. Holy Roller Novocaine -- Kings of Leon


Next, one-word song titles... of songs that DO NOT have anything to do with love...

1. Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
2. Heroine - Suede
3. Electioneering - Radiohead
4. Starstruck - The Kinks
5. Epitaph - King Crimson

The 5 most pretentious song titles (here's a free one: Memory of a Free Festival - David Bowie)

1. "Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Dancing With A Pict" - The Pink Floyd.

2. "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board Or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)" - The Faces.

3. "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld" - The Orb.

4. "My Cosmic Autumm Rebellion (The Inner Life As Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism As Celestial Spear of Action)" - Those Flaming Lips

5. & my personal fave...."The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience, But You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, "I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!"" - Sufjan Stevens.

5 Songs That Mention Apples & Or Cider (preferably both!!)

Apple songs....hmmmm.....

Apples & Oranges - The Pink Floyd
Apple Scruffs - George Harrison
Adam's Apple -Aerosmith (a guilty pleasure...)
Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Songs - Todd Rundgren (written by Gilbert & Sullivan)
The Who - Cache Cache ("with apple cores and mice along...")


OK, next topic: TOP 5 EPIC SONGS (i.e., songs more than 10 minutes in length.)

I have 5 where they are all approximately 15 minutes long:
When Heart Is Open - Van Morrison
Less Than You Think - Wilco
Iowa - Slipknot
Voodoo Chile - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Why am I so Tired? - Smashing Pumpkins

Top 5 songs you used to get the lyrics wrong for (aka Mondegreens). And please include what you mistakenly used to sing. ...so we can laugh at you...

Well this is fun...

1. "Help Me Rhonda" (Beach Boys) - Misheard: "Well since she put me down / There's been owls pukin' in my bed". Real lyric: "Well since she put me down / I've been out doin' in my head"

2. "Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix) - One of the more famous ones. Misheard "Excuse me while I kiss this guy". Real lyric "Excuse me while I kiss the sky"

3. "When I Grow Up" (Pussycat Dolls) - The latest one. Misheard "I wanna have boobies". Real lyric: "I wanna have groupies"

4. "Reckless" (Australian Crawl) - With a singer like James Reyne, almost every lyric is misheard. Misheard "She don't like / Fat Canada graveyard". Real lyric "She don't like / That kind of behavior"

5. "King Of Wishful Thinking" (Go West) - one of the more funnier ones. Misheard lyric "I'll pretend my s**t's not stinking". Real lyric "I'll pretend my ship's not sinking"

Next: Top 5 Great Songs on Otherwise Really Bad Albums (This being completely subjective of course!)

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Well this is fun...

1. "Help Me Rhonda" (Beach Boys) - Misheard: "Well since she put me down / There's been owls pukin' in my bed". Real lyric: "Well since she put me down / I've been out doin' in my head"

2. "Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix) - One of the more famous ones. Misheard "Excuse me while I kiss this guy". Real lyric "Excuse me while I kiss the sky"

3. "When I Grow Up" (Pussycat Dolls) - The latest one. Misheard "I wanna have boobies". Real lyric: "I wanna have groupies"

4. "Reckless" (Australian Crawl) - With a singer like James Reyne, almost every lyric is misheard. Misheard "She don't like / Fat Canada graveyard". Real lyric "She don't like / That kind of behavior"

5. "King Of Wishful Thinking" (Go West) - one of the more funnier ones. Misheard lyric "I'll pretend my s**t's not stinking". Real lyric "I'll pretend my ship's not sinking"

Next: Top 5 Great Songs on Otherwise Really Bad Albums (This being completely subjective of course!)

They were hilarious, Dazz! Thanks for the laugh (albeit at your expense).
Re: Reckless, I remember Molly Meldrum saying he had people request on Countdown that they play the "Dead Canada Beaver" song. Sing it - it works! The other one he used to get was "Alex the Seal"("Our Lips Are Sealed" by the Go-Gos!)

Oh those mondegreens are priceless (in a good way,Dazz)

Another one I like is from Bad Moon Rising

"There's a bathroom on the right" (there's a bad moon on the rise)

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Next: Top 5 Great Songs on Otherwise Really Bad Albums (This being completely subjective of course!)

Well, this will end up being a case of guilty pleasures for me....

1. Def Leppard - "Hysteria" (Hysteria) What a great bridge this song has.

2. The Bee Gees - "How Deep is Your Love" (Saturday Night Fever) I didn't come to appreciate this song until recently. It's an amazing chord progression. It took some real tallent to write this one.

3. Madonna - Ray of Light (Ray of Light) I really hope nobody I know is reading this.....

4. Electric Light Orchestra - "Don't Bring Me Down" (Discovery) Unlike the above acts where that is the only song I like by them, I am a huge ELO fan, but for me, Discovery was where things really started to go wrong for Jeff Lynne. This one track stands out though as a representation of his former glory.

5. Pink Floyd - "Marooned" (The Division Bell) The two Floyd albums that Dave Gilmour made without Waters were both huge disappointments to me. This one track though has a great feel to it. One of those real nice Rick Wright chord progressions with some great guitar work from Gilmour.

NEXT TOPIC: Top 5 Concept Albums

Hysteria is a really bad album?

Ray Of Light is crap?

Discovery not worth a toss?

Hmmm... I knew it'd be subjective but that must be taking the piss

Anyway, here goes

1. Tommy - The Who (and the least pretentious believe it or not!)

2. War Of The Worlds - Jeff Wayne (don't care what YOU think, I say this kicks ass)

3. I Robot - Alan Parsons Project (All their albums were concepts but this is still the one for me)

4. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces (okay, only side two was the concept side and even that's a little flimsy. I just wanted a plug for one of the best albums ever)

5. The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table - Rick Wakeman (Completely over-the-top in a 1975 prog rock way. If you make it through all of it without wincing, you're just as demented as me. Very much a guilty pleasure!)

BTW, I side with John Lennon in saying that Sgt.Pepper... wasn't really a concept album beyond the first two songs so it doesn't qualify.

Next: Top 5 Albums That Nobody Would Claim To Own And Play Regularly... But Actually Do!

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Ray Of Light is crap?

I confess - I REALLY like 'Frozen'.

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Originally posted by Dazz:
that must be taking the piss

Not at all.

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Next: Top 5 Albums That Nobody Would Claim To Own And Play Regularly... But Actually Do!

1) Xanadu - Olivia Newton John & ELO
2) All or Nothing - Milli Vanilli
3) Osmond Family Christmas Album - The Osmonds
4) Greatest Hits - Air Supply
5) Anything by Yoko Ono

The 5 Most Popular Albums That Your Parents Probably Owned In the 70's...

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The 5 Most Popular Albums That Your Parents Probably Owned In the 70's...

1. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
2. Imagine (John Lennon)
3. A Best of the Beatles (they were cranking those out at least two a year during the 70s)
4. All Things Must Pass (George Harrison)
5. A Bee Gees album, either Main Course or Here At Last The Bee Gees Live

Next:
5 Top Classical Pieces

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5 Top Classical Pieces

My top 5 won't match any scholar's top 5...

1. Bagatelles by Alexander Tcherepnin
2. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff
3. L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato by George Frideric Handel
4. Albinoni Adagio by Remo Giazotto
5. Symphony No 5 by Gustav Mahler

1 and 2 represent my deepest classical interest, Russian pianists. 3 is an amazing ode based on a Milton poem. 4 and 5 are for when you need to cry in your beer.

My next challenge requires you to rhyme a synonym for rooster with the word rock. That's right... your top 5 cockrock songs! Uh huh, think "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC and the like...

Nice choices double-h. Particularly Mahler's 5th (though I prefer the 10th myself).

Cockrock songs?

1. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
2. Afterglow - Small Faces
3. Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf
4. Parisienne High Heels - Streetwalkers
5. Ladies of the Road - King Crimson

Number three I don't consider to be a good song, I was running out of ideas!

Next - Top 5 Jazz pieces (songs or instrumental)