I love the Moody Blues. One of their songs is entitled Tuesday Afternoon, which is very appropriate for today’s article, being published on a Tuesday and all.
Tuesday Afternoon.
The Trees are drawing me near.
I’ve got to find out why.
Those gentle voices I hear.
Explain it all with a sigh.
I could build a deck with trees, voices, and the relentless search for truth. I don’t think that deck would be any good, however, so let’s move on to a different song deck.
This deck is simply built. You want to annoy your opponents by having a separate song for each card. You don’t expect to win the game, except maybe by annoying opponents enough that they concede. Each individual song deck is different, but here is how I’d build mine.
There’s a little bit of a game in here. I’ve listed the cards I’d include for my deck, and then given a clue in parentheses for you to guess the song. Feel free to try and guess all of the songs. Post answers in the forum.
Here is the song deck in all of its glory:
Sing a Song for Me
1. Mother of Runes (90’s guitar song)
2. Wall of Wonder (British Band)
3. Bad Moon (CCR)
4. Bayou (Also CCR)
5. Balance (Depeche Mode)
6. Clone (Parody)
7. Fireball (50’s)
8. Benalish Hero (Any one of a half dozen songs)
9. Hurricane (Air Shows)
10. Jump (umm…kid rap group?)
11. Karma (do you really need a clue?)
12. Mountain (70’s folk singer)
13. Savannah (Erasure)
14. Tradewind Rider (A song by a guy whose group had his name in the title)
15. Hush (Bjork)
16. Holy Day (“Just a <blank> day” Duran Duran remade this.)
17. Bottle of Suleiman (Somebody needs to be rubbed the right way)
18. Kiss of Death (A Prince song remade with Tom Jones?)
19. City of Brass (some consider this the worst song of all time in rock history)
20. Steam Blast (Phil Collins’ predecessor had a hit named …..)
21. Hammer of Bogardan (A more popular hit by the above artist)
22. Frozen Solid (A single by the original queen of pop)
23. Searing Rays (another single by the same)
24. Flood (Popular guitar Christian hit, played on Top 40 radio)
25. Now I Know my ABCs (Let’s go with Jackson Five instead of the obvious)
26. Poison Arrow (Song by a group mentioned in 25 (but not the Jackson Five)
27. Tainted Pact (Don’t you already know this song?)
28. Mind Bomb (Tom Jones recently remade this song. “Baby you can turn me on”)
29. Mind Stone (“I want to know. What you’re thinking. There are some things…”)
30. Conviction (Good luck with this one. Carmen.)
31. Mind’s Eye (dc Talk)
32. Question Elemental? (I am thinking of two answers. Chicago and The Moody Blues)
33. Stream of Life (Anything Box)
34. Defense of the Heart (Nikki French remade this)
35. Beacon of Tomorrows (Jon Secada thinks tomorrow is nothing)
36. Lightning Blast (“When I say lips, baby, to be kissed, I can’t stop…)
37. Night/Day (Old swing/jazz song)
38. Fade Away (Real McCoy or Del Shannon)
Add 22 Land to make the deck halfway playable.
What would be really neat is if you could arrange it so that every land was a song as well. I don’t know that many geographic songs, but if you did, you could really make the deck hum.
Remember, you can play what cards you want on your own. Maybe you have a great rap song or something that I’ve never even heard of that will fit perfectly with a card. You could have oodles of country songs on tap (ick, country.) Whatever you have available to you, feel free to use away. You could even play straight up Musician, Angel’s Trumpet, Goblin Lyre, Tragic Poets, and whatnot just for the fun of it. Too bad you can’t play Goblin Polka Band, from the Astral Set.
The beauty of today’s deck is that is really builds itself. The decklist really is the article. Hope you enjoy it!
Until Later,
Abe Sargent