Fun Music Information -> Tracy Chapman

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Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:

Song & Band Name
Song & Band Name
Comments & Submittor Name
"So What'cha Want""Fast Car," Tracy ChapmanPeter

Remove a Letter From a Song Title:

"Cod Feet" originally "Cold Feet"
Now THERE's a literally impossible title.
Shannon Ingrid Travis
"Fat Car" originally "Fast Car"
Amber Malone

Add a Letter To a Song Title:

"Fast Cart" originally "Fast Car"
Greg
"Give Men One Reason" originally "Give Me One Reason"
kozar
"Fast Carl" originally "Fast Car"
as in Carl Edwards, a NASCAR driver
Serafina
"Fast Care" originally "Fast Car"
Very important for hospitals.
Serafina
"Fast Card" originally "Fast Car"
I've never known a card to be fast
Hot D

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Change a Letter In a Song Title:

"Fast Bar" originally "Fast Car"
Joe
"Last Car" originally "Fast Car"
kozar
"Fast Cat" originally "Fast Car"
David
"Fast War" originally "Fast Car"
What Bush and Cheney wish they had.
Isaac Paul Frehley
"Give Me One Season" originally "Give Me One Reason"
nally

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Song Parodies:

Original Song Name
Parody Song Name
Parody Author
"Talkin' Bout A Revolution""Talkin' Bout The Constitution"Ryan Quinn
"Give Me One Reason To Stay Here""Give Me One Reason To Work Here"2LD4U
"Fast Car""Bad Car"Chris Bodily TM

Untapped Commercial Ideas:

Song Name
Product
Submittor
Fast CarNASCARCapitalE

Bad Choices for On Hold Music:

Song Name
Company/Organization
Submittor
Bang Bang BangNRABrett
Fast CarAny Tow Truck CompanymeQal
Fast CarHighway Patrolfolk

Duets Not Yet Performed:

First Band/Song Name
Second Band/Song Name
New Song Name
Submittor
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
   Everly Brothers
Cold Feet
   Tracy Chapman
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty, Cold Little Feet?
Marian
Fast Car
   Tracy Chapman
Crash
   12 Stones
Fast Car Crash
Erica
Give Me One Reason
   Tracy Chapman
Aliens Exist
   Blink 182
Give Me One Reason Alien Exist
Alicia Sturdivant

Misheard Lyrics:

"Talkin' about a revolution"
Misheard Lyrics:
Wasting time, in the dumb borb align
Original Lyrics:
Wasting time, in the unemployment line.
"Fast Car"
Misheard Lyrics:
I remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast until my guy was drunk
The city light scape out before us
And your arms done right strapped round my shoulder
Original Lyrics:
I remember we were driving, driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
"Fast Car"
Misheard Lyrics:
Your arms and legs wrapped round my shoulder
Original Lyrics:
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder.
"Fast Car"
Misheard Lyrics:
You got a bad a** car.
Original Lyrics:
You got a fast car.
There are additional misheard lyrics available.

Misheard Lyrics Story:

"Before Easter"
Misheard Lyrics:
Someday people Easter comes
And I won't let Jesus by me.
Original Lyrics:
Someday before Easter comes
And I won't let Jesus find me.

Story about this misheard lyric by: Liz Liz Simmons Simmons

Hey! This is serious! I was going to use this in a sermon (Easter Sunday), about how this prostitute was ashamed of what she did. But she knew Easter would be there soon, and she could turn to Jesus and be forgiven. Then I made the mistake of looking up the lyrics, and now I'm up a sermon without a paddle.

There are additional misheard stories available.

Song Parody Fragments:

"Fast Car"
Better Lyrics:
I had it feeling like a piece of wood.
Original Lyrics:
I had a feeling I could Be someone
Submitted by: ZelRiptha

Songs That Open With Their Titles:

"Fast Car"
Opening Lines:
You've got a fast car, I want a ticket to anywhere, Maybe we make a deal, maybe together we can get somewhere.
Comments:
"Fast Car" was a #8 hit for Tracy Chapman in the summer/fall 1988, but was a big seller on more charts than the pop charts. "Fast Car" was also a hit in the album rock, folk, alternative rock and soul charts which was a very unusual and at the time unheard of thing for a record to do -- to make it big in all five of those charts. In many ways, Gnarls Barkley's 2006 hit, "Crazy" owes a debt of gratitude to Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" in that many different audiences would be open to the idea of listening and buying and asking radio stations to play the same song. And it almost didn't happen that way for Tracy Chapman or "Fast Car". Tracy Chapman, who owes a debt of gratitude to Joan Armatrading (a darling of critics in the 1970's and 80's, but never a big seller of records) for the record companies to be open to the idea of allowing a black artists (and especially a black folk artists) such a Tracy and Joan to be able to sell songs and lp's. Elektra records waited a very long time though to release a first lp for Tracy, entitled just, "Tracy Chapman", unsure as to actually how or in which category her songs belonged (they are generally very folk, but with some rock and elements of soul mixed in) to. And Tracy wrote many songs that were on the self-titled 1988 debut as far back as 1982. And at first Elektra had very little faith in "Fast Car", but when first alternative and hard rock stations both started playing the tune it took off from there (as what would happen with Gnarls Barkley's tune in 2006) with pop and then soul and then easy listening stations playing it (it was also one of the earliest pop tunes heard reviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", introducing Tracy Chapman to even more wider audiences) and reached legendary status. "Fast Car" (as well as the whole debut lp) is said to have appealed to a need many felt that much of the citizens of the U.S. and the world had been left behind and to needs in all of us for something more. Tracy Chapman would also win the Best New Artists Grammy for "Fast Car" and CBS-TV went out of their way to promote Tracy Chapman singing the song live on the Grammies that year.
Submitted by: Peter
 

Song Title Anagrams:

"Ere Bore Feast" originally "Before Easter"
Submitted by: Meredith Harshaw

Song Title Spoonerisms:

"Cast Far" originally "Fast Car"
Someone threw somwthing far away.
Submitted by: Toni Minot
"Fat Scar" originally "Fast Car"
Submitted by: Lydia Idyl

Band Name Spoonerisms:

Macy Trap Chan originally "Tracy Chapman"
Submitted by: Ava Rice
Chasey Trapman originally "Tracy Chapman"
Submitted by: Peter

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