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'A' Bomb on Wardour Street - The Jam
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Careless Whisper - Wham!
Dancing In the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Free Falling - Tom Petty
Gold - XTC
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
Kool Aid - Bad
Losing My Religion - REM
Message In A Bottle - The Police
Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode
One Love - Bob Marley
Police On My Back - The Clash
Quarter To Three - Sleater-Kinney
Radar Love - Golden Earing
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Take On Me - Aha
Under Pressure - Queen
Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
X-Ray Style - Joe
You Better You Bet - The Who
Zoo Station - U2

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daredevil wrote:
04 Jul 2025, 7:36pm
'A' Bomb on Wardour Street - The Jam
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Careless Whisper - Wham!
Dancing In the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Free Falling - Tom Petty
Gold - XTC
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
Kool Aid - Bad
Losing My Religion - REM
Message In A Bottle - The Police
Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode
One Love - Bob Marley
Police On My Back - The Clash
Quarter To Three - Sleater-Kinney
Radar Love - Golden Earing
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Take On Me - Aha
Under Pressure - Queen
Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
X-Ray Style - Joe
You Better You Bet - The Who
Zoo Station - U2
Gonna need second choices for at leasr the bolded, dd. There are others that have words too common to search for, so if anyone notices picks that they've had already, flag 'em :)
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I played this on my way to the baker's this morning and got stuck on a couple of letters. X seems particularly tough now.
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Olaf wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 4:12am
I played this on my way to the baker's this morning and got stuck on a couple of letters. X seems particularly tough now.
V, man! I did one last night and I think I was on V for about five, six minutes
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Scorps superfans revbob and myself are still good with V.
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Sure, I'll go again

Angles - xx
Be My Baby - Ronnettes
Children - Robert Miles
Dracula - Desmond Dekker
Eat to the Beat - Blondie
Fuck tha Police - NWA
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence
I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement - Ramones
Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam - Nirvana
King of Clowns - Neil Sedaka
More than a women - Beegees
Never Ever - All Saints
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Poptones - PiL
Queen Jane Approximately - Dylan
RAMONES - Motorhead
Straight to Hell - The Clash
Tired of Waiting - Kinks
Upside down - Diana Ross
Valerie - Amy Winehouse
You Do Something to me - Weller
Zero Zero UFO - Ramones
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There seem to be more and more duds on the list each time I'm repeating this exercise. So this is probably my last round.

Antmusic - Adam and the Ants
Babylon's Burning - Ruts
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
Don't Cry, Daddy - Elvis Presley
Eton Rifles - The Jam
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - The Bostweeds
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Hate and War - The Clash
Indian Cowboy - Joe Ely
Jokerman - Bob Dylan
Killer Queen - Queen
Long Shot Kick de Bucket - Pioneers
More Than a Feeling - Boston
No Man's Land - Eric Bogle
Our House - Madness
People Are People - Depeche Mode
Que Sera, Sera - Doris Day
Racing in the Streets - Bruce Springsteen
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Too Much Too Young - Specials
Urgent - Foreigner
Violence - Mott the Hoople
Whispering Pines - Johnny Horton
X-Girlfriend - Bush
You’re the One That I Want - John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John
Zebra Trucks - Young Marble Giants
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?

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Olaf wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 10:58am
There seem to be more and more duds on the list each time I'm repeating this exercise. So this is probably my last round.

Antmusic - Adam and the Ants
Babylon's Burning - Ruts
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
Don't Cry, Daddy - Elvis Presley
Eton Rifles - The Jam
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - The Bostweeds
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Hate and War - The Clash
Indian Cowboy - Joe Ely
Jokerman - Bob Dylan
Killer Queen - Queen
Long Shot Kick de Bucket - Pioneers
More Than a Feeling - Boston
No Man's Land - Eric Bogle
Our House - Madness
People Are People - Depeche Mode
Que Sera, Sera - Doris Day
Racing in the Streets - Bruce Springsteen
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Too Much Too Young - Specials
Urgent - Foreigner
Violence - Mott the Hoople
Whispering Pines - Johnny Horton
X-Girlfriend - Bush
You’re the One That I Want - John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John
Zebra Trucks - Young Marble Giants
Yeah definitely. Im still working on a first list. My mind judt goes blank for a lot of these especially if I can only list an artist once and Im supposed to do the first song that comes to mind for a specific letter.

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revbob wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 11:15am
Olaf wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 10:58am
There seem to be more and more duds on the list each time I'm repeating this exercise. So this is probably my last round.

Antmusic - Adam and the Ants
Babylon's Burning - Ruts
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
Don't Cry, Daddy - Elvis Presley
Eton Rifles - The Jam
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - The Bostweeds
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Hate and War - The Clash
Indian Cowboy - Joe Ely
Jokerman - Bob Dylan
Killer Queen - Queen
Long Shot Kick de Bucket - Pioneers
More Than a Feeling - Boston
No Man's Land - Eric Bogle
Our House - Madness
People Are People - Depeche Mode
Que Sera, Sera - Doris Day
Racing in the Streets - Bruce Springsteen
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Too Much Too Young - Specials
Urgent - Foreigner
Violence - Mott the Hoople
Whispering Pines - Johnny Horton
X-Girlfriend - Bush
You’re the One That I Want - John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John
Zebra Trucks - Young Marble Giants
Yeah definitely. Im still working on a first list. My mind judt goes blank for a lot of these especially if I can only list an artist once and Im supposed to do the first song that comes to mind for a specific letter.
Kinda funny how the brain works. I mean, come on, is it so hard to come up with a decent song starting with C?
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?

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revbob wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 11:15am
Olaf wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 10:58am
There seem to be more and more duds on the list each time I'm repeating this exercise. So this is probably my last round.

X-Girlfriend - Bush
Yeah definitely.
On the plus side, it's only 45 seconds long.
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Olaf wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 11:30am
revbob wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 11:15am
Olaf wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 10:58am
There seem to be more and more duds on the list each time I'm repeating this exercise. So this is probably my last round.

Antmusic - Adam and the Ants
Babylon's Burning - Ruts
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
Don't Cry, Daddy - Elvis Presley
Eton Rifles - The Jam
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - The Bostweeds
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Hate and War - The Clash
Indian Cowboy - Joe Ely
Jokerman - Bob Dylan
Killer Queen - Queen
Long Shot Kick de Bucket - Pioneers
More Than a Feeling - Boston
No Man's Land - Eric Bogle
Our House - Madness
People Are People - Depeche Mode
Que Sera, Sera - Doris Day
Racing in the Streets - Bruce Springsteen
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Too Much Too Young - Specials
Urgent - Foreigner
Violence - Mott the Hoople
Whispering Pines - Johnny Horton
X-Girlfriend - Bush
You’re the One That I Want - John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John
Zebra Trucks - Young Marble Giants
Yeah definitely. Im still working on a first list. My mind judt goes blank for a lot of these especially if I can only list an artist once and Im supposed to do the first song that comes to mind for a specific letter.
Kinda funny how the brain works. I mean, come on, is it so hard to come up with a decent song starting with C?
Honestly.
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Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 1:16pm
Olaf wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 11:30am
revbob wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 11:15am
Olaf wrote:
05 Jul 2025, 10:58am
There seem to be more and more duds on the list each time I'm repeating this exercise. So this is probably my last round.

Antmusic - Adam and the Ants
Babylon's Burning - Ruts
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
Don't Cry, Daddy - Elvis Presley
Eton Rifles - The Jam
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - The Bostweeds
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Hate and War - The Clash
Indian Cowboy - Joe Ely
Jokerman - Bob Dylan
Killer Queen - Queen
Long Shot Kick de Bucket - Pioneers
More Than a Feeling - Boston
No Man's Land - Eric Bogle
Our House - Madness
People Are People - Depeche Mode
Que Sera, Sera - Doris Day
Racing in the Streets - Bruce Springsteen
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Too Much Too Young - Specials
Urgent - Foreigner
Violence - Mott the Hoople
Whispering Pines - Johnny Horton
X-Girlfriend - Bush
You’re the One That I Want - John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John
Zebra Trucks - Young Marble Giants
Yeah definitely. Im still working on a first list. My mind judt goes blank for a lot of these especially if I can only list an artist once and Im supposed to do the first song that comes to mind for a specific letter.
Kinda funny how the brain works. I mean, come on, is it so hard to come up with a decent song starting with C?
Honestly.
Well he did put candle in the wind so...

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Silent Majority wrote:
04 Jul 2025, 11:10pm
daredevil wrote:
04 Jul 2025, 7:36pm
'A' Bomb on Wardour Street - The Jam
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Careless Whisper - Wham!
Dancing In the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Free Falling - Tom Petty
Gold - XTC
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
Kool Aid - Bad
Losing My Religion - REM
Message In A Bottle - The Police
Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode
One Love - Bob Marley
Police On My Back - The Clash
Quarter To Three - Sleater-Kinney
Radar Love - Golden Earing
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Take On Me - Aha
Under Pressure - Queen
Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
X-Ray Style - Joe
You Better You Bet - The Who
Zoo Station - U2
Gonna need second choices for at leasr the bolded, dd. There are others that have words too common to search for, so if anyone notices picks that they've had already, flag 'em :)
I thought I was good, guess I missed those on other lists

Debaser - Pixies
Oh Brother - The Fall
Under The Milky Way - The Church
Veronica - Elvis Costello

I'm stuck on the letter X for now

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Sparky coming in wth the Courettes song, nice touch.

A. Angelfuck - The Misfits
B. Born to Die - MDC
C. Come Together - The Beatles (you know im not faking it)
D. Death to the Poor - Paranoid Visions
E. Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath
F. Freedom - Rage Against the Machine
G. Glue Man - Kneecap
H. Hellfudge - Lard
I. Ichabod! - Th Legendary Shack Shakers
J. Just one Fix - Ministry
K. Knifeman - Sonny Vincent
L. Law and Order - SLF
M. Male Model - Undertones
N. Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Kennedys
O. Orgasmatron - Motorhead
P. Pay to Cum - Bad Brains
Q. Questions and Answers - Sham69
R. Rock n Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
S. Second Skin - The Gits
T That Woman's Got Me Drinking - Shane MacGowan
U. Underdog World Strike - Gogol Bordello
V. Viva LaQuinta Brigada -:Chrsty Moore
X. Xingu - Punho de Mahain
Y. You're a Prisoner - Death
Z. Zip a Dee Doo Dah - The Mummies


Whew, not easy, especially as more people chime in.

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I'm fairly certain these haven't been used.

Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
Big New Priest - The Fall
Cool Jerk - The Go-Go’s
Digging Your Scene - The Blow Monkeys
Extremities - Killing Joke
Flower - Sonic Youth
Guess I’m Falling in Love - Velvet Underground
Hymie’s Him - PiL
Ignition - The Charlatans
Jemal - Peter Murphy
Kookaburra - Cocteau Twins
Lloyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura
Mile High Club - Bow Wow Wow
No Aloha - The Breeders
Oblivious - Aztec Camera
Punk Rock Girl - The Dead Milkmen
Quality - Paul Simon
Rumble - Link Wray
Shake It Up - The Cars
There’s Only One Thing Left To Say - Velocity Girl
Uptight - Stevie Wonder
Valley Girl - Frank Zappa
Windout - REM
X-Box - Big Paul Ferguson
Yum Yab - Jarboe
Zeeland - Solex
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