Game: Top Ten on-Topic Tracks

[Ozeagle]

Songs that mention TV shows
Please list The song, artist and the TV show mentioned.

1. One Week - Barenaked Ladies (Watchin' X-Files with no lights on)
2. We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel ("Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide)
3. Couch Potato - Weird Al Yankovic (Da Ali G Show, The Muppets, The Flintstones, etc. etc. etc.)
4. Ramones - Danny Says (Watching Get Smart on TV)
5. Foo Fighters - Wind Up (Manimal)
6. Pretty Fly - Offspring (You know you could always go on Ricki Lake)
7. Survivor – Destiny’s Child
7. The Buggles - Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) (Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade)

Sorry debs, silie seems to be pretty clear that the TV show has to be specifically named within the song, I don't think "inspired by" qualifies. :)

[yepp]

Songs that mention TV shows

Please list The song, artist and the TV show mentioned.

1. One Week - Barenaked Ladies (Watchin' X-Files with no lights on)
2. We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel ("Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide)
3. Couch Potato - Weird Al Yankovic (Da Ali G Show, The Muppets, The Flintstones, etc. etc. etc.)
4. Ramones - Danny Says (Watching Get Smart on TV)
5. Foo Fighters - Wind Up (Manimal)
6. Pretty Fly - Offspring (You know you could always go on Ricki Lake)
7. The Buggles - Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) (Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade)
8. Foo Fighters - Wattershed (the rest of us were watching melrose)

[ajh]

Songs that mention TV shows

Please list The song, artist and the TV show mentioned.

1. One Week - Barenaked Ladies (Watchin' X-Files with no lights on)
2. We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel ("Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide)
3. Couch Potato - Weird Al Yankovic (Da Ali G Show, The Muppets, The Flintstones, etc. etc. etc.)
4. Ramones - Danny Says (Watching Get Smart on TV)
5. Foo Fighters - Wind Up (Manimal)
6. Pretty Fly - Offspring (You know you could always go on Ricki Lake)
7. The Buggles - Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) (Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade)
8. Foo Fighters - Wattershed (the rest of us were watching melrose)
9. Eminem - Without Me (they try to shut me down on MTV...)

[Ozeagle]

Songs that mention TV shows

Please list The song, artist and the TV show mentioned.

1. One Week - Barenaked Ladies (Watchin' X-Files with no lights on)
2. We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel ("Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide)
3. Couch Potato - Weird Al Yankovic (Da Ali G Show, The Muppets, The Flintstones, etc. etc. etc.)
4. Ramones - Danny Says (Watching Get Smart on TV)
5. Foo Fighters - Wind Up (Manimal)
6. Pretty Fly - Offspring (You know you could always go on Ricki Lake)
7. The Buggles - Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) (Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade)
8. Foo Fighters - Wattershed (the rest of us were watching melrose)
9. Eminem - Without Me (they try to shut me down on MTV...)

It's been ruled that MTV is a network, not a show - this is the third elimination on that basis. :)

[ajh]

Songs that mention TV shows

Please list The song, artist and the TV show mentioned.

1. One Week - Barenaked Ladies (Watchin' X-Files with no lights on)
2. We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel ("Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide)
3. Couch Potato - Weird Al Yankovic (Da Ali G Show, The Muppets, The Flintstones, etc. etc. etc.)
4. Ramones - Danny Says (Watching Get Smart on TV)
5. Foo Fighters - Wind Up (Manimal)
6. Pretty Fly - Offspring (You know you could always go on Ricki Lake)
7. The Buggles - Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) (Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade)
8. Foo Fighters - Wattershed (the rest of us were watching melrose)
9. Eminem - Without Me (they try to shut me down on MTV...)

It's been ruled that MTV is a network, not a show - this is the third elimination on that basis. :)


Their was a show called MTV, I am sure......

Oh well, I need to find another song........

[freqin hell]

Songs that mention TV shows

Please list The song, artist and the TV show mentioned.

1. One Week - Barenaked Ladies (Watchin' X-Files with no lights on)
2. We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel ("Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide)
3. Couch Potato - Weird Al Yankovic (Da Ali G Show, The Muppets, The Flintstones, etc. etc. etc.)
4. Ramones - Danny Says (Watching Get Smart on TV)
5. Foo Fighters - Wind Up (Manimal)
6. Pretty Fly - Offspring (You know you could always go on Ricki Lake)
7. The Buggles - Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) (Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade)
8. Foo Fighters - Wattershed (the rest of us were watching melrose)
9. Eminem - Role Model (Take you on Jerry Springer, and beat your ass legally) :dD

[siliegrrl]

Songs that mention TV shows

Please list The song, artist and the TV show mentioned.

1. One Week - Barenaked Ladies (Watchin' X-Files with no lights on)
2. We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel ("Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide)
3. Couch Potato - Weird Al Yankovic (Da Ali G Show, The Muppets, The Flintstones, etc. etc. etc.)
4. Ramones - Danny Says (Watching Get Smart on TV)
5. Foo Fighters - Wind Up (Manimal)
6. Pretty Fly - Offspring (You know you could always go on Ricki Lake)
7. The Buggles - Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) (Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade)
8. Foo Fighters - Wattershed (the rest of us were watching melrose)
9. Eminem - Role Model (Take you on Jerry Springer, and beat your ass legally)
10. Everclear - AM radio
"Aw, Mom. Not that show again! I don't wanna watch that show!
Can't we watch Good Times or Chico and the Man or something cool?
Turn it off!"

I am putting this one to rest! Since I stole this idea of Cowboy, I'm handing it over to him to pick a new topic to stump us some more :)

[Cowboy]

Thank you SG. How about:

Songs Featuring Famous Australian Landmarks


Let The Franklin Flow - GOANNA (about the Franklin River in Tasmania)

[HoundsOfLove]

Songs Featuring Famous Australian Landmarks


1.Let The Franklin Flow - GOANNA (about the Franklin River in Tasmania)


Can it be an Australian place?

[club rules]

Songs Featuring Famous Australian Landmarks


Let The Franklin Flow - GOANNA (about the Franklin River in Tasmania)
Kosciusko - Midnight Oil (Kosciusko)

[Cowboy]

Songs Featuring Famous Australian Landmarks


1.Let The Franklin Flow - GOANNA (about the Franklin River in Tasmania)


Can it be an Australian place?
Nah - Places such as towns etc. are out Houndsy. Would make it too easy otherwise :)

[Rowdy]

Songs Featuring Famous Australian Landmarks


Let The Franklin Flow - GOANNA (about the Franklin River in Tasmania)
Kosciusko - Midnight Oil (Kosciusko)
Nine Miles from Gundagai - Jack Moses (The Dog sits on the Tuckerbox)

[HoundsOfLove]

Nah - Places such as towns etc. are out Houndsy. Would make it too easy otherwise :)

Hmm but aren't some places landmarks?

[Rowdy]

Hmm but aren't some places landmarks?
I think that places are more just 'land'.

[HoundsOfLove]

Let The Franklin Flow - GOANNA (about the Franklin River in Tasmania)
Kosciusko - Midnight Oil (Kosciusko)
Nine Miles from Gundagai - Jack Moses (The Dog sits on the Tuckerbox
4. Raining On The Rock - John Williamson (Uluru)

[Ozeagle]

Songs Featuring Famous Australian Landmarks


Let The Franklin Flow - GOANNA (about the Franklin River in Tasmania)
Kosciusko - Midnight Oil (Kosciusko)
Nine Miles from Gundagai - Jack Moses (The Dog sits on the Tuckerbox)
Raining On The Rock - John Williamson (Uluru)
Happy Birthday Helen - Things of Stone and Wood (Yarra river et al)

[Tonti]

Does Australiana - Austen Tayshus count as a song?

[Cowboy]

Does Australiana - Austen Tayshus count as a song?
Yeah - knock yourself out :)

[Tonti]

Songs Featuring Famous Australian Landmarks

1. Let The Franklin Flow - GOANNA (about the Franklin River in Tasmania)
2. Kosciusko - Midnight Oil (Kosciusko)
3. Nine Miles from Gundagai - Jack Moses (The Dog sits on the Tuckerbox)
4. Raining On The Rock - John Williamson (Uluru)
5. Happy Birthday Helen - Things of Stone and Wood (Yarra river et al)
6. Australiana - Austen Tayshus :p

[EMCWheels]

Songs Featuring Famous Australian Landmarks

Let The Franklin Flow - GOANNA (about the Franklin River in Tasmania)
Kosciusko - Midnight Oil (Kosciusko)
Nine Miles from Gundagai - Jack Moses (The Dog sits on the Tuckerbox)
Raining On The Rock - John Williamson (Uluru)
Happy Birthday Helen - Things of Stone and Wood (Yarra river et al)
Australiana - Austen Tayshus
Diamantina Drover - REDGUM - (Old Cork Station, Diamantina River - SW Qld for the uneducated)