What is all this U2 name game stuff?

[Layton]

Sorry to start a new thread about this, but I didn't want to interupt the game thread. Basically my question is, What the hell is going on with those threads? I don't get the game.

 

[Axver]

It's very simple. You name a song beginning with the last letter of the song previously named, i.e. City Of Blinding Lights --> Surrender --> Red Hill Mining Town.

 

[timothius]

Red Hill Mining Town.

New Year's Day...

Oops wrong thread .

 

[Layton]

Thanks. How does this game end then? Seems like you could go forever with this.

 

[corianderstem]

Ohhhh, I get it. I'm glad someone else asked, because I was too shy to pipe up and ask what the hell that was all about.

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

Funny someone makes this question, just a few minutes ago I posted on that thread for the first time. I like it.

 

[timothius]

Thanks. How does this game end then? Seems like you could go forever with this.

It doesnt

You will notice that we are already onto game... 20 .

 

[corianderstem]

Yeah, but only because you get a new thread once you hit 500 posts, right?

I'm having fun with it now, but how does it keep going on? You keep recycling through the same songs, because so many words end in "e" and there are only so many songs that start with "e."

Poor Vertigo or Beautiful Day will never get used, because how many songs end in V or B?

 

[timothius]

I'm having fun with it now, but how does it keep going on? You keep recycling through the same songs, because so many words end in "e" and there are only so many songs that start with "e."

The biggest repition seems to be Yahweh. Because of all the day songs and only one Y song.

 

[corianderstem]

Two! Your Blue Room, which I just used.

Also, would The Ocean be a "T" or an "O" song? Conventional wisdom might tell you to file it under "O," because if you're alphabetizing stuff, you'd file it as such.

Plus, it might give this game a little more variety.

 

[youtwohearts]

I think we try to do it as it appears in the song title so it would be "T".

Try the abbreviated name game too. That one is harder and requires a lot more thinking to play.

 

[corianderstem]

I've gotten stumped in the abbreviated thread more often than I care to admit.

 

[youtwohearts]

I still cheat and look on my itunes library because I am always stumped, that is why I started the thread to begin with. When they do the older or covered songs then it gets rough but the more you play the more you get them.

 

[Pero]

Once, Aardvark, Axver and me were repeating Dirty Day -> Yahweh -> Heartland with many many drools.
I think we filled like 5 pages.

 

[miss becky]

Poor Vertigo or Beautiful Day will never get used, because how many songs end in V or B?

Actually, thanks to Numb, Beautiful Day does get a chance.

 

[Lemonfix]

This sounds like a very dumb game. A very dumb game that I could see overtaking my life