Just cause I think this is cool--that's why. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of perusing the great Star Maker Machine, you should . . . but wait! First, read the rest of this post since if you go there first the following game will be, well, neither challenging nor fun!
You see Start Maker Machine is a group music blog with a twist. Each week or so the group bloggers are charged with blogging on a theme. Now this could be kind of lame if it weren't for two things. First, SMM has a solid group of bloggers with eclectic tastes and a solid footing in the tunes (not to mention that they do a really nice job on the photo selections). And second, the themes are really fun.
My favorite theme so far was the "2:42" theme in which bloggers were challenged to blog on songs of that exact length. This week's theme "Adjective Noun" (in which each blogger must "post songs whose titles consist of an adjective and a noun, in that order") is generating some solid posts that I think show why SMM is so fun to track. So just for fun below I have listed the songs up at SMM for this theme and the artists--but mixed up. Take a gander, or if you are really ambitious, print it off and see how many you can match-up (yes, I know there is probably some widgetity-thig-a-ma-gig that would allow me to create an online match game--whatever!).
Okay, now you can head over to Star Maker Machine to check it out.
| Think Tank | Peter Gabriel |
| Dire Wolf | The Rolling Stones |
| Malted Milk | Butthole Surfers |
| True Colors | Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell |
| Red Rain | Cake Like |
| Simple Girl | Whiskeytown |
| Dumb Fun | Pentangle |
| Yellow Taxi | John Hiatt (or) Roseanne Cash |
| Bourgeois Blues | Richard Hell and The Voidoids |
| Silver Bell | Johnny Zamot (or) Herbie Hancock |
| Blank Generation | David Allen Coe |
| Haitian Divorce | Jeru the Damaja |
| Big Nothing | Cyndi Lauper |
| Sunny Skies | Max Stalling |
| Second Option | Juliana Hatfield |
| Wandering Star | Bob Dylan |
| Bum Leg | Randy Newman |
| Human Cannonball | Robert Johnson |
| Pink Bedroom | Beck |
| Tennessee Whiskey | Matt Costa |
| Fat Mama | Randy Newman |
| Cruel Sister | Steely Dan |
| 16 Days | Elliott Smith |
| Graycoat Soldiers | Prescott Curlywolf |
| Mental Stamina | James Taylor |
| Idiot Wind | Norman Blake |
| Hollow Log | Possessed by Paul James |
| Short People | Patty Griffin |
| Brown Sugar | Lucero |
Okay, now you can head over to Star Maker Machine to check it out.
Update: There are already two new tunes added to the theme: "High Water" and "Cold Turkey"--extra bonus points if you can name who sings those songs.
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