any thoughts on these section ideas?  these have been kicking around in my "maybe" file for quite some time now... I'm trying to add as many new sections this week as possible, and would like to include any that people think might be viable.

1) Is it possible to reuse all the words from a song or passage in a substantially different order to come up with an entirely new work?  Maybe four lines, reuse every word with none left over.

2) Performer anagrams?  Song anagrams?

3) Ungrammatical lyrics", other than "ain't" or double negatives.  the "ain'ts" would just be too numerous to mention.  One example- of a non-ain't grammar error  "he know just exactly what the facts is" from Steve Miller's "Take the Money and Run".

4) Strange trivia about a performer

5) replace a single word in a lyric line

6) opposites... replace a word in a song in order to make a song about the exact opposite? maybe generate too many

7) Albums that are not named after a song? I think this would have too many entries

I've struck out the ones Im not doing

any thoughts on these section ideas?  these have been kicking around in my "maybe" file for quite some time now... I'm trying to add as many new sections this week as possible, and would like to include any that people think might be viable.

1) Is it possible to reuse all the words from a song or passage in a substantially different order to come up with an entirely new work?  Maybe four lines, reuse every word with none left over.

2) Performer anagrams?  Song anagrams?

3) Ungrammatical lyrics", other than "ain't" or double negatives.  the "ain'ts" would just be too numerous to mention.  One example- of a non-ain't grammar error  "he know just exactly what the facts is" from Steve Miller's "Take the Money and Run".

4) Strange trivia about a performer

5) replace a single word in a lyric line

6) opposites... replace a word in a song in order to make a song about the exact opposite? maybe generate too many

7) Albums that are not named after a song? I think this would have too many entries


1) This would be quite time-consuming for the author (and perhaps the editor as well), but sounds quite interesting.

2) Sounds great, and I'm sure a few people, whose intials are Luke Brattoni, would LOVE this section.

3) Sounds great as well, though given the number of borderline illiterate comments that already accompany the submissions I have to edit, this could wind up being an editor's nightmare.

4) Verifying facts may be difficult, but I like the idea of this section a lot.

5) Not sure about this one: For the most part, I think the add a letter, change a letter, and parody fragments sections already cover this.

6) Every song with an absolute in the title could be entered. "Always a Woman" by Billy Joel could be "Never A Woman", etc. Lots of entries, but I think the creativity of entries for this section would be rather limited.

7) There would be tons of entries for this section. It would be interesting to see though, just as a section for song titles that aren't actual song lyrics (like "Smells Like Teen Spirit") would be.

I'm all for them save #5

5) Not sure about this one: For the most part, I think the add a letter, change a letter, and parody fragments sections already cover this.

6) Every song with an absolute in the title could be entered. "Always a Woman" by Billy Joel could be "Never A Woman", etc. Lots of entries, but I think the creativity of entries for this section would be rather limited.

7) There would be tons of entries for this section. It would be interesting to see though, just as a section for song titles that aren't actual song lyrics (like "Smells Like Teen Spirit") would be.



5) I swear I saw a site do something interesting along these lines once, but have no idea what they did that made me take notice.  I went back awhile later and it was gone.  Maybe the fragments already does a good enough job of it.

6) I was thinking the same thing, too easy, too many similar entries. Probably going to skip this

7) I downloaded the Free CDDB database ages ago, I could probably just run a search against it to create this kind of list.  Not sure if a big database like that would really be all the fun.  I know for instance, Duran Duran's first four albums, only one had a song with the same title as the album.

I think before I do the others, I should try them out as threads on this board, to see whether people like doing them

  1) Is it possible to reuse all the words from a song or passage in a substantially different order to come up with an entirely new work?  Maybe four lines, reuse every word with none left over.
I'd be really curious to see this. The possibility also exists for 'charades', a favorite game of cryptic puzzlers, wherein the spacing of words makes a whole new statement.
(just an example!)

2) Performer anagrams?  Song anagrams?Can see some moments of clever satire here...songs might be too tough for many submissions

3) Ungrammatical lyrics", other than "ain't" or double negatives.  the "ain'ts" would just be too numerous to mention.  One example- of a non-ain't grammar error  "he know just exactly what the facts is" from Steve Miller's "Take the Money and Run". Sure, why not? ;D

4) Strange trivia about a performer Done in many other web sites and books, hard to verify such things

5) replace a single word in a lyric line To what end?

6) opposites... replace a word in a song in order to make a song about the exact opposite? maybe generate too many Yeah, too many

7) Albums that are not named after a song? I think this would have too many entries Yeah, too many.