One of the last times I was up in Montreal, I was having drinks amongst some members of a local rock band- let’s call them Rolf Crusade- who’d devised a pretty childish word game, wherein you substitute a word in a given album title with the word “dump”. Examples are, but not limited to, PJ Harvey’s “To Bring You My Dump”, Gravediggaz’s “6 Feet Dump”, Brian Eno’s “Another Green Dump”, Queen’s “Sheer Dump Attack”, Radiohead’s “Hail to the Dump”, and Velvet Underground’s “White Light/White Dump”, amongst countless others. Completely infantile, yes, but quite addicting.
So last night, while, funny enough, i was taking a dump, I had the nerve to take the game to the next level: removing the predicate entirely while retaining the reference to defecation. This time, the scatological humor is entirely suggested which ratchets up the intensity of an album titles potential shit allusions.
It isn’t so much a game as something to think about while you wait to board a train, or tire of the waiting room copy of a reader’s digest. Examples include, but again, are never limited to: Busta Rhymes’ “The Coming”, Wolf Parade’s “Apologies to the Queen Mary”, Islands’ “Return to the Sea”, Neil Young’s “After the Goldrush”, Hot Chip’s “Made In the Dark”, Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”, The Breeders’ “Last Splash”, The Smiths’ “Louder than Bombs”, and on and on it goes. This fun activity also works as an ice-breaker, in socially awkward situations. Won’t you give it a go?
-Nick Diamonds I S L A N D S
Howie Doo
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We used to kind of play this game with the word ‘dick’ and Beatles songs.
Dick Me Do (Love Me Do)
Dick Together (Come Together)
Dick a Pony (Dig a Pony)
Dick (Yesterday)
12.03.08 at 10:54 am
you are boring
12.03.08 at 11:09 am
You can do it with movies too:
“There will be blood”
“I served the King of England”( my personal favorite).
12.03.08 at 11:29 am
why didn’t you say you were doing booger sugar with leonard cohen at all??
12.03.08 at 12:17 pm
Addictive = a fun adjective, which has the advantage of being a real word
Addicting = nope. not even.
12.03.08 at 12:25 pm
gay.
12.03.08 at 12:37 pm
the “addicting” word is a TVC reference. In the thing about moshing the newscaster goes, “and like a lot of things that are bad for you, moshing is addicting, Barry?”
“Thanks Sandrah.”
then the other anchorlady back at the station goes,
“Have you tried moshing?”
and he goes,
“I’ve tried noshing.”
12.03.08 at 12:47 pm
My friends did that with “Lame” and movie titles. We spent a good week last summer just coming up with faux titles.
12.03.08 at 1:07 pm
marry me. seriously.
12.03.08 at 1:10 pm
oh yeah there’s this thing called myspace where they do that all the time.
what’s next, are you gonna post a survey about what you’re listening to right now and who the last person you told a secret to was?
12.03.08 at 2:04 pm
SOAD’s “toxicity”?
and there’s this album from metallica : “kyle, will you please eat my dump?”
12.03.08 at 3:14 pm
Haha @ 4 real’s comment. When I was in college my friends & I had a game where we would replace “love” with “rat” in song lyrics: Rat You Can Drive My Car, “What is love? Rat don’t hurt me,” etc. It was hilarious, but we were kind of dorky undergraduates.
12.03.08 at 5:59 pm
you guys are blowing it. the best game in this, erm, genre, is obviously adding ANAL to the name of a car while you are your idiot friends are on a long roadtrip.
examples include but are not limited to:
anal-explorer; anal-cougar; anal-hummer; anal-patriot.
the list goes on, and in fact gets funnier the more you use names of cars that are driven by dickweeds.
godspeed.
12.03.08 at 7:03 pm
in high school we did this with movie titles and ‘pants.’
ferris bueller’s pants off, for instance
12.03.08 at 8:52 pm
“here come cowboys” by psychedelic furs…
i know its a song and not an album but…
noink noink
12.03.08 at 9:27 pm
wait…
“my ARSEnal” by morrissey
12.03.08 at 9:29 pm
this game was in fucking Thrasher when I was 16… except it’s movie titles that could be farts.
Ex: Raging Bull, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Terminator…
12.03.08 at 10:47 pm
Well researched site – will look to incorporate some of your ideas into my site. Thanks!
07.09.09 at 4:00 pm
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10.11.10 at 11:28 pm