A real life story
Not sure how well it'll translate into words, but here goes.

To pass by long and boring physics lessons at college, a friend and I, with similar music tastes, would take it turns to draw pictures trying to express song names in as elegant and obscure a way as possible. Obviously, the more obscure and elegant the better.

I can't remember a lot of what we drew, but my proudest moment came one rainy friday afternoon when I came up with possibly the ultimate in pictorial punnage.

The Cat Empire have a song called 'One Four Five' (so named, I believe, because that was the chord progression). So, I mulled for a while, how best to depict this title in pictures?

A little more mulling, then aha! I had it.

I drew, amateurishly (drawing has never been my strong point) a stick man with a sombrero and a droopy moustache, followed by a heart, then a map of the UK with an arrow pointing to a region of Scotland on the east coast, about half way up.


clearly, it was [A mexican called] Juan 4 Fife.

He got it. The bastard got it.
(WarneMarsh My priority for frivolity begets quality jollity, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 19:11, 1 reply)

There's a party on a hill, would you like to come?
And chord progression is a far better explanation! I'd always thought it was some obscure reference to 45 rpm, silly me. Have a click for good musical taste (and puns based thereupon)
(James?, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 21:55, closed)