Musical equations
(Madonna – bombshell) x 3 = Lady Gaga
Kate Bush – wackiness + overblown melodrama = Tori Amos
Metallica – good writing = 90s/00s Metallica
(Missing Persons + Siouxsie and the Banshees) – fashion sense = The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sex Pistols + bubblegum + 1/4U2 = Green Day
Death Cab For Cutie + penpal = Postal Service
Pantera – masculinity = Slipknot
Radiohead – snobbishness = Coldplay
Rebecca Black + black guy = Lil Waybe
Smashing Pumpkins – annoyingness = Silversun Pickups
Fergie + dancing = awkward sweat spots
James Brown + Jimi Hendrix + 1/2 Michael Jackson = Prince
Your turn, what you got?
(This was concocted during a 90 minute car ride. Extra points if you can figure out which of the above were two made up by my daughter and which there were by my son.)
Posted on April 7, 2011, in Music. Bookmark the permalink. 24 Comments.
Joy Division – Joy Division = Interpol
(note that I’m still a huge fan of Turn on the Bright Lights)
REM – teen angst = U2
Jimmy Hendrix – three fingers = Eric Clapton
(Music from 1960 to 2011) – Bob Dylan = (Music up to 1960)
crap + John Mayer = more crap
(Moby + Chemical Brothers)/(Daft Punk + Fatboy Slim) = Oh noes, I just broked the universe!
pretentious smartasses – taste + oh so clever musical equations = a shitload of enemies.
Just sayin’
That’s the spirit, MCQ.
I should’ve included some Elton John in that Lady Gaga one.
love the metallica one susan!
rage against the machine + awesomeness = at the drive-in
(Nina Hagen – German Accent) + Icelandic Accent = Bjork
Bjork – screaming = St. Vincent
St. Vincent + Prozac = Bat For Lashes
Bat For Lashes + Lithium = Clare and the Reasons
Just saw a headline in the NY Times that reads: “James Brown and Al Pacino, Salsa Added” which I guess adds up to John Leguizamo.
Joy Division + NYC hipster = Interpol
The Cure – guitars = Crystal Castles (feat. Robert Smith)
Big Star + reverence = Teenage Fanclub
(America * CSNY)^2 + medicinal marijuana = Fleet Foxes
Danger Mouse + The Shins = disappointing
The Beautiful South – acidity + bookish Scots = Belle and Sebastian
Sufjan Stevens – banjo = Self-indulgent and unfocused beepy stuff I’m really not that interested in listening to
Haha. Awesome.
Inequalities would be fun, too, but then we’d really be venturing into Your-Favorite-Band-Sucks territory.
(Katy Perry – raunchy lyrics)/pro production team = Rebecca Black
(America * CSNY)^2 + medicinal marijuana = Fleet Foxes
The “+ medicinal marijuana” is actually redundant.
Bono – rock star pretentiousness = 80′s U2
U2 – rock = Coldplay
Radiohead – originality = Muse
Eric Clapton + Dave Matthews – writing talent = John Mayer
I was actually just going to do inequalities (Kate Bush > Tori Amos) but equations make you get more creative.
The cure + the smiths – linear narrative – make up = the national
Led Zeppelin – John Bonham – John Paul Jones + The Pixies = White Stripes
White Stripes + Drummer + shoe polish = The Black Keys
The Byrds – Gene Clark – David Crosby – Michael Clarke + Gram Parsons + Gene Clark – Gene Clark + Kevin Kelly – Gram Parsons + Clarence White – Kevin Kelly + _Gene_ Parsons – Chris Hillman + John York – John York + Skip Batten -Gene Parsons + John Guerrin – John Guerrin + Dennis Dragon – Skip Batten + Chris Hillman – Clarence White – Dennis Dragon – Chris Hillman – Roger McGuinn = Silence
John Lennon + ABBA + Tennis = Bjorn Borg
Given: Radiohead – artier-than-thou arrogance = Muse
Originality =/= artier-than-thou arrogance
Radiohead – originality = Muse is False
Anyone done this one yet:
Radiohead + easy listening = Coldplay.
I see that Jacob M had this: “U2 – rock = Coldplay” but I’ve always heard more Radiohead than U2 in Coldplay myself.
I had “Radiohead – snobbishness = Coldplay” in the original post.
Sorry, Susan, I saw that after I wrote my comment.
There’s all kinds of ways of arriving at Coldplay, I guess!