Songs about GAMES

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I'd like to put together a mix CD of songs about games, for this variety show I'm coordinating. They can be songs that mention the word "games" directly (like Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers") or songs about individual games / game-players (Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler"; Urge Overkill's "Monopoly"). You get the picture.

Now go!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 September 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Motorhead "Ace Of Spades"

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 18 September 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Frank Black "Whatever Happened to Pong"

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Korn 'Shoots And Ladders' :(

Or you could have anything by Husker Du, since they are named after a Swedish board game.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"Flowers on the Wall" by the Statler Brothers mentions playing solitaire with a deck of 51.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Mind Games - Lennon

― David Gates of Delirium, Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Mi-Sex, "Computer Games"
Wu-Tang Clan, "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'"

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"There's More Snakes Than Ladders" by Captain Sensible

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Alan Parson's Project -- "Games People Play"

― earlnash, Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

That one that was called "Jeopardy" that was a hit in the 80s
(Was it by Greg Kihn???)

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"One Night in Bangkok" is about chess.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"Chessboards" by Killing Joke
"Follow the Leader" by Killing Joke
"Heads I Win Tails You Lose" by Cop $hoot Cop
"Take the Skinheads Bowling" by Camper Van Beethoven
"Stop This Game" by Cheap Trick
"Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak
"Games People Play" by Houdini (I think)
"Pac Man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia
"(She's playing) Frogger (with My Mind)" by Bad Religion

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"Head Games", by Foreigner
"Bowling", by Ed Hall
and maybe, "Racer X", by Big Black?

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

KHM* "Game"

*KHM = Kool Keith, H-Bomb, Marc Live

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Del tha Funkee Homosapian - "Proto Culture" = all about gaming

― BrianB, Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Yardbirds-Little Games
Wierd Al-(I Lost On)Jeopardy
Delbert McClinton-Everytime I Roll The Dice

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"Snooker Loopy" by Chas'n'Dave and the Matchroom Mob

"pot the red and screw back
for the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black"

Genius!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Tag Game" Jonathan Richman (he's got a song about everything)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"My Console" by Eiffel 65

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The Tag Game -- Jonathan Richman

Play The Game -- Queen [i first had this on 8-track]

The Name Game -- banana - fana - bo-bana

Pac Man Fever

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't Lou Reed have a song about his Red Joystick on New Sensation?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 18 September 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, everyone. These are great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 September 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"ur-quan destroyer" by three mile pilot... hell, half of chief assassin to the sinister

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The Who "Pinball Wizard"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

of course, we've got the epic that trumps them all. jewel's "foolish games"

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't the Pretenders have an instrumental called "Space Invaders"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 September 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The Spice Girls b-side to Spice Up Your Life was called "Spice Invaders," a game I wouldn't mind playing.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 September 2003 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

New Kids On The Block, "Games"

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Thursday, 18 September 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Yello: "Pinball Cha-Cha", "Vicious Games" (also, ol' Dieter's been known to both golf and gamble)
Frank Tovey: "Snakes and Ladders"
Suzanne Vega: "Knight Moves"
The Fall: "Twister", "Dice Man"

-- and of course, the wonderful Pool Song, folktronically recorded by Kev Hopper on the Stolen Jewels album.

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally has read my mind!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Elastica, "Connection"
...possibly.

― cis (cis), Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ice Hockey Hair - Super Furry Animals, feat.the classic "table tennis rules, they're so confusing it's not played by fools".

― robsell, Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The winner is of course Husker Du's "Games".

The Bad Religion song is called "Frogger", and the words in parenthesis are not in the song even as lyrics.

― John 2, Friday, 19 September 2003 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

sekiden "big crush" (many lyrics about playing atari and going roller skating)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 September 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

sherbet "howzat"

and of course "up there cazaly"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 September 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

(cricket and aussie rules football respectively)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 September 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

lightning seeds - three lions
new order - world in motion

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 September 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"frogger with my LIFE"

And no She. whatever. `Tis far from their finest hour.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 September 2003 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Pixies - "Theme From NARC"

― Simon Generic, Friday, 19 September 2003 05:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Rolling Stones - "Tumbling Dice"

― Simon Generic, Friday, 19 September 2003 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

System of a Down - "Legend of Zelda theme"

― cis (cis), Friday, 19 September 2003 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

husker du, 'games'

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 19 September 2003 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Play the Game Tonight - Kansas
Chutes & Ladders - Dave Edmunds
Playing With the Queen of Hearts - Dave Edmunds/ Juice Newton
PiL/ Public Image - "It's not a game of Monopoly"

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 19 September 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"Circus Games" - Skids

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

beanie sigel - "mac man"

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Silly Kids Games" - The Damned
"Give Him A Ball And A Yard Of Grass" - Sultans Of Ping FC
"God's Footballer" - Billy Bragg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Russian Roulette - Lords of the New Church
Poker - ELO

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Eh, Stewart, I already mentioned One Night in Bangkok.

Saddo answer I Feel Like Buddy Holly by Alvin Stardust:

"Now I sit here playing Solitaire, it's a game I know so well"

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Laura Branigan, "Solitaire"

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

depeche mode -- master and servant

― drake mccain, Saturday, 20 September 2003 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"...let's play twister, let's play risk, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah..."
&
Jane Siberry, "Hockey"
J'Tull, "Solitaire"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 20 September 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

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