Another adventure in the land of Point/Counterpoint! "Let Me Out" - The Knack "Let Me In" - The Hoodoo Gurus "Strange World" - La Luz "Ordinary World" - Riverfenix "Nothing Ever Changes" - Brainiac "Nothing Stays the Same" - Elastica "Dark Night" - The Blasters "Light of Day" - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts "Girls Got Rhythm" - AC/DC "Boys Keep Swinging" - David Bowie "Stop Thinking About It" - Joey Ramone "I Can't Stop Thinking About It" - The Dirtbombs "Keep Up the Speed" - Sahara Hotnights "Slow Down" - The Jam "Let the Day Begin" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Until the Day is Done" - R.E.M. "Keep It Tight " - Single Bullet Theory "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" - The Hombres "Going Under" - Devo "Rise Above" - Black Flag "Empty Room" - Arcade Fire "Getting Mighty Crowded" - Elvis Costello "Last Time Around" - The Del-Vetts "Next Time Around" - The Barracudas "Tell Me Lies" - The Black Keys "Gimme Some Truth" - Generation X "Don't Talk to Me About Work" - Lou Reed "Working Is No Problem" - Pylon (for Vanessa Briscoe-Hay's birthday) "Get a Job" - The English Beat "Found a Job" - Talking Heads "Anywhere's Better Than Here" - The Replacements "No Better Place" - Fountains of Wayne "Waiting for the End of the World" - Elvis Costello "Banned from the End of the World" - Sleater-Kinney https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68179#msg-68179 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:46:06 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68244#msg-68244 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68244#msg-68244
Reno, the "Valentina"/"Mustang Sally" and "Andy Warhol"/"Valerie" match-ups are inspired! (I admit, I had to do a little research to understand the latter pairing.)]]> Delvin Trouser Press Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:25:47 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68241#msg-68241 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68241#msg-68241 "(Hurt Me! Hurt Me!)...but the Pants Stay On" -Samantha Fox

"Slip Inside This House" - 13th Floor Elevators
"Get Out of My House" - Kate Bush

"Valentina" - Komputer
"Mustang Sally" - Wilson Pickett (First female Cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, vs. First female astronaut, Sally Ride)

"Here On Earth" - Love and Rockets
"Space Is Deep" - Hawkwind

"Destination Unknown" - Missing Persons
"Maps" - Yeah yeah yeahs

"Bury Me Deep In Love" - Triffids
"Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher" - Jackie Wilson

"The Maker" - Daniel Lanois
"Destroyer" - Kinks

"A Sky Full of Stars" - Coldplay
"No Stars" - Figures On a Beach

"Clocks" - Coldplay
"She Can't Tell Time" - Sam Phillips

"I Want Your Hands On Me" - Sinead O'Connor
"Don't Touch Me There" - the Tubes

"Andy Warhol" - Bowie or Dana Gillespie
"Valerie"- Richard Thompson or Quarterflash

"Open Your Heart" - Human League
"Harden My Heart" - Quarterflash

"Surprises" - Billy Joel
"No Surprises" - Radiohead

"Heaven (Must Be There)" - Eurogliders
"Hellbound" - the Breeders

"Self-Help" - Tomberlin
"I Can't Help Myself" - Icehouse

"Promises" - Buzzcocks
"No Promises" - Icehouse]]> breno Trouser Press Mon, 28 Oct 2024 01:00:36 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68211#msg-68211 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68211#msg-68211 The Police - "Bring On the Night"

Andy Prieboy - "On the Road Again"
Andy Summers - "Carry Me Back Home"

OMD -"The Lights Are Going Out"
Billy Joel - "Turn the Lights Back On"

Mighty Lemon Drops -"Between the Lines"
Stewart Copeland & Adam Ant - "Out of Bounds"

Rage Against the Machine -" Killing In the Name"
Michael Jackson - "Heal the World"]]> Fleeingbandit Trouser Press Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:03:41 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68209#msg-68209 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68209#msg-68209
"Lucky Number" - Lene Lovich
"Number 13, Baby" - Pixies

"The Flat Earth" - Thomas Dolby
"The Globe" - Big Audio Dynamite

"Somebody Got Murdered" the Clash
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" - Elton John

"Running Up That Hill" - Kate Bush
"Falling Down a Mountain" - Tindersticks

"Shame" - PJ Harvey
"Pride" - Robert Palmer

"The Chauffeur" - Duran Duran
"No one Driving" - John Foxx

"Don't You Forget About Me" - Simple Minds
"Forget About You" - the Motors

"I'm Free" - Soup Dragons
"Dad, I'm in Jail" - Was (Not Was)

"Alive and Kicking" - Simple Minds
"Long Gone Dead" - Rank & File

"Right Here" - Go-Betweens
"Over There" - Connells

"Slash Your Tires" - Luna
"Pump Me Up" - Caroline Munro & Gary Numan

"Goody Two Shoes" - Adam Ant
"I'm an Obese Alcoholic" - Jim E. White

"Wedding Song" - Psychedelic Furs
"Divorce Song" - Liz Phair

"Flowers" - Psychedelic Furs
"No Flowers for Him" - Chelsea

"Summer Song" - Chad & Jeremy
"Winter Song" - Crash Test Dummies

"Year of the Cat" - Al Stewart
"Year of the Dog" - Sufjan Stevens

"I'm the Teacher" - Ian Hunter
"Chewing Gum" - Annie (assuming teachers still hate gum as much as they did back in the day)

"Child Bride" - Lenny Kaye
"Aging Spinsters" - the 6th's

"Miami" - U2
"Seattle" - PIL

"Everything's Different Now" - Til Tuesday
"Nothing Changes Around Here" - the Thrills

"Chick Magnet" - MxPx
"Solitary Man" - Neil Diamond

"Tears on My Pillow" - Little Anthony
"Woke Up Laughing" - Robert Palmer

"Fall" - Psychedelic Furs
"Rise" - American Music Club or PIL

"I Hate People" - Jemina Pearl
"Love Everybody" - Presidents of the United States of America

"Baby's Going Underground" - Helium
"Dig Me Out" - Sleater Kinney

"Buddy Holly" - Weezer
"I'm a Little Airplane" - Modern Lovers (okay, I feel kind of guilty for that one)

"Old England" - Waterboys
"New England" - Modern Lovers

"Frederick" - Patti Smith
"Freddie's Dead" - Curtis Mayfield (another mark on my ledger in Hell)

"Breathing" - Kate Bush
"Breathless" - Jerry Lee Lewis or X

"Are You Receiving Me?" - XTC
"I Got the Message" - Men Without Hats (one for the question/answer list)

"Heads Will Roll" - Echo & the Bunnymen
"Head On" - Jesus & Mary Chain

"Discipline" - King Crimson
"No Self Control" - Peter Gabriel

"Girl of My Dreams" - Bram Tchaikovsky
"Nightmare Girl" - Aimee Mann]]> breno Trouser Press Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:04:27 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68205#msg-68205 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68205#msg-68205
"Mr. Clean" - the Jam
"I'm an Old Pervert" - Soft Boys]]> breno Trouser Press Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:45:56 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68202#msg-68202 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68202#msg-68202 Delvin Trouser Press Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:34:36 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68201#msg-68201 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68201#msg-68201 breno Trouser Press Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:56:28 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68200#msg-68200 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68200#msg-68200 MrFab Trouser Press Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:43:09 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68199#msg-68199 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68199#msg-68199 zwirnm Trouser Press Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:47:07 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68198#msg-68198 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68198#msg-68198
"Can't Stand Losing You" - The Police
"Glad To See You Go" - Ramones

"What We Do Is Secret" - the Germs
"Shout It Out Loud" - KISS

"Secret" - OMD
"Everybody Knows" - Leonard Cohen (or Concrete Blonde)

"You're Going To Lose That Girl" - Beatles
"Get That Girl" - Joe Jackson

"A Little Is Enough" - Pete Townshend
"Never Enough" - the Cure

"Start" - The Jam
"The End" - Best Coast

"Ain't No Sunshine" - Bill Withers
"Here Comes the Sun" - Beatles

"It's a Sunshine Day" - the Brady Bunch
"Total Eclipse" - Klaus Nomi

"Everybody Hurts" - REM
"I Feel Fine" - Beatles

"Everybody Hurts" - REM
"Everybody's Happy Nowadays" - Buzzcocks

"Unbelievable" - EMF
"I Believe" - Buzzcocks or REM

"I Will Follow" - U2
"You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine" - Bob Dylan

"It's Time To Party" - Andrew WK
"I Wanna Sleep" - Modern Lovers

"Dancing Shoes" - Arctic Monkeys
"Dancing Barefoot" - Patti Smith

"The Downtown Lights" - the Blue Nile
"Darkness on the Edge of Town" - Springsteen

"I Wish It Would Rain" - Wreckless Eric
"The Flood" - Blue Orchids

"Repulsion" - Dinosaur Jr
"Desire" - Anna Calvi

"We've Got Scurvy" - Pink
"Vitamin C" - Can

"Drive My Car" Beatles
"Passenger Side" - Wilco

"Out of Time" - Blur
"We Have All the Time in the World" - My Bloody Valentine (covering Louie Armstrong)

"Canary in a Coalmine" - the Police
"Found Out Too Late" - 999

"Leaving New York" - REM
"Return to NY" - Ak Momo

"Insects" - Altered Images
"Black Flag" - Kings X

"Kicker of Elves" - Guided by Voices
"Slain by Elf" - Yatsura

"The Quiet One" - John Entwistle (oops - that was actually the Who. I was thinking it was an Entwistle solo track.)
"Bigmouth Strikes Again" - the Smiths

"We Care a Lot" - Faith No More
"The Great Song of Indifference" - Bob Geldof

"Monday, Monday" - Mamas and Papas
"I Don't Like Mondays" - Boomtown Rats

"House on Fire" - Boomtown Rats
"Fire Brigade" - the Move

"Small Town" - Love Tractor
"Big Cities" - Wall of Voodoo

"This is the World Calling" - Bob Geldof
"World, Shut Your Mouth" - Julian Cope]]> breno Trouser Press Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:16:45 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68197#msg-68197 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68197#msg-68197
"Innocence" - Kirsty MacColl
"Guilt" - Marianne Faithfull

"Sitting Round at Home" - Buzzcocks
"Stepping Out" - Joe Jackson

"Girl U Want" - Devo
"Throw Her Away and Get a New One" - Sparks

"Sweetness and Light" - Lush
"Death and Night and Blood" - The Stranglers

"Joan of Arc" - OMD
"Get Started, Start a Fire" - Graham Parker

"Can We Still Be Friends?" - Todd Rundgren
"Be My Enemy" - The Waterboys

"Troy" - Sinead O'Connor
"Greek Song" - Rufus Wainwright

"I Bleed" - Pixies
"Bandages" - Hot Hot Heat

"I'm Done" - The Julie Ruin
"Undone" - Weezer

"Accidents Will Happen" - Elvis Costello
"Accidents Never Happen" - Blondie

"The Book I Read" - Talking Heads
"The Book I Haven't Read" - Lambchop

"Let Me Go" - Heaven 17
"Keep Me Around" - American Music Club

"Blue Skied & Clear" - Slowdive
"Clouds" - the Go-Betweens

"Yellow" - Coldplay
"Violet" - Hole (for those who remember their color wheel)

"Godzilla" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Tokyo" - Bruce Cockburn

"Moving To L.A." - Art Brut
"Say Goodbye to Hollywood" - Billy Joel

"English Boys" - Blondie
"Girl From Germany" - Sparks (maybe not the most current option, but 80 years ago definitely)

"Leave" - REM
"Stay" - OMD (or Lisa Loeb, I guess)

"The Girl Stands Up To Me Now" - Jonathan Richman
"Tell That Girl To Shut Up" - Holly and the Italians

"Letter Never Sent" - REM
"Put the Message in the Box" - World Party

"Close To Me" - The Cure
"Miles Away" - John Foxx

"Kennedy" - The Wedding Present
"The Love of Richard Nixon" - Manic Street Preachers

"The Office of a Busy Man" - The Ocean Blue
"Goofing Off" - Sparks

"Frigid Winter Days" - The Ocean Blue
"Hot Summer Nights" - Rick James

"Don't Cry" - Neil Young
"Cry" - Godley & Creme

"Full of Tension" - Wall of Voodoo
"Call Me Mellow" - Tears For Fears

"Johnny Cash" - Sons and Daughters
"El Condor Pasa" - Simon & Garfunkel (okay, that pairing's obscure, but I'm damn proud of it)

"Johnny Cash" - Sons and Daughters
"The Ostrich" - The Primitives (I'm damn proud of that one, too!)

And what the hell...
"Johnny Cash" - Sons and Daughters
"A Forest" - the Cure (this could a threesome with "El Condor Pasa")

"Jump Into the Fire" - Nilsson
"Walk Upon the Water" - the Move

"Shark Attack" - Split Enz
"Michael Caine" - Madness (unless anyone has recorded songs about Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw or Richard Dreyfus...)

"War" - Edwin Starr (or Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
"Peace" - Depeche Mode

"Babylon" - David Gray
"Israel" - Siouxsie and the Banshees (for the Old Testament scholars in the crowd, although technically I believe it was the nation of Judah that had to deal with Babylon, as the nation of Israel had already been carted off by the Assyrians. But whatever.)

"Perfect Skin" - Lloyd Cole
"Scar Tissue" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Roadrunner" - Modern Lovers
"Coyote" - Rank & File]]> breno Trouser Press Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:25:34 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68194#msg-68194 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68194#msg-68194 Delvin Trouser Press Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:25:34 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68192#msg-68192 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68192#msg-68192 "Mary's New Car" - Tom Petty]]> breno Trouser Press Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:01:32 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68190#msg-68190 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68190#msg-68190
"Fast Cars"- Buzzcocks
"Slow Ride" - Foghat]]> Delvin Trouser Press Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:17:08 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68186#msg-68186 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68186#msg-68186 "Fast Cars" Buzzcocks]]> zwirnm Trouser Press Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:52:33 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68185#msg-68185 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68185#msg-68185 Delvin Trouser Press Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:26:38 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68180#msg-68180 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68180#msg-68180
"I'm Not Sayin' "-Nico
"Talk Talk"-Talk Talk

"Cars"-Gary Numan
"Autogeddon Blues"-Julian Cope

"Night of the Living Baseheads"-Public Enemy
"Who's Got the Crack?"-Moldy Peaches

"Ballad of the Yellow Berets"-Bob Seger
"2+2=?"-Bob Seger]]> steevee Trouser Press Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:23:40 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68179#msg-68179 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,68179,68179#msg-68179
"Let Me Out" - The Knack
"Let Me In" - The Hoodoo Gurus
"Strange World" - La Luz
"Ordinary World" - Riverfenix

"Nothing Ever Changes" - Brainiac
"Nothing Stays the Same" - Elastica
"Dark Night" - The Blasters
"Light of Day" - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

"Girls Got Rhythm" - AC/DC
"Boys Keep Swinging" - David Bowie
"Stop Thinking About It" - Joey Ramone
"I Can't Stop Thinking About It" - The Dirtbombs

"Keep Up the Speed" - Sahara Hotnights
"Slow Down" - The Jam
"Let the Day Begin" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
"Until the Day is Done" - R.E.M.

"Keep It Tight " - Single Bullet Theory
"Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" - The Hombres
"Going Under" - Devo
"Rise Above" - Black Flag

"Empty Room" - Arcade Fire
"Getting Mighty Crowded" - Elvis Costello
"Last Time Around" - The Del-Vetts
"Next Time Around" - The Barracudas
"Tell Me Lies" - The Black Keys
"Gimme Some Truth" - Generation X

"Don't Talk to Me About Work" - Lou Reed
"Working Is No Problem" - Pylon (for Vanessa Briscoe-Hay's birthday)
"Get a Job" - The English Beat
"Found a Job" - Talking Heads

"Anywhere's Better Than Here" - The Replacements
"No Better Place" - Fountains of Wayne
"Waiting for the End of the World" - Elvis Costello
"Banned from the End of the World" - Sleater-Kinney]]> Delvin Trouser Press Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:44:26 +0000