Marvin Hamlisch, eat your heart out

[slipjig3]

First of all, I just realized that I never wished everyone a merry Christmas. Why, yes, I do suck! Merry [belated] Christmas!

Now, on to business. There have been a few related memes going around concerning fictional band names and such. You've likely seen them: hit "random page" on Wikipedia to get your nonexistent band's name, hit it again for the album title, hit it another 15 times for the track listing, or some such. All well and good. Yes, I tried it, and thought it was rather cute.

The time for shenanigans, however, is over. It's time to put my money where my mouth is.

I want you all to respond to the following blind poll with a prospective title for a song. You can pick it at random from Wikipedia or IMDb or any other source, if you like, or you can make one up. Whatever you like. For the eighth response I receive, I will write a song with the given title. No, I'm not kidding. Yes, I've probably taken leave of my senses.

So. Take it away, Eric the Orchestra Leader:


[Poll #1111750]


I'll let you know what the winner was, and how the songwriting thing goes; also, if there are other titles that I find intriguing, there might be bonus songs coming out of this. Wish me luck.

Comments

[mentalmakeup.livejournal.com]

It is so weird that you're listening to XTC, because before I even scrolled down and saw that, the first song that popped into my head in response to your challenge was "Making Plans for Nigel".

I am still thinking of titles.

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

Please please PLEASE post all the possible song names!

[mentalmakeup.livejournal.com]

Seconded! (Also, icon love! Gloomcookie!)

[blimix.livejournal.com]

I keep a list of original bad band names, and occasionally album names. There was only one track name in the list though, so it's yours to use if you must. It was intended to be a joke, not a song.