So the Just Pants … er … Posts are up at Collecting Tokens, and I’m inspired to take a step back from my recent (and ongoing) ire over the NYT‘s intrusion into my First Lady’s personal life and be out and out foolish for a moment.
Alejna, whose long and storied history with pants can only be hinted at here, has tagged me for a decidedly silly and fabulous meme. (Oh yes, I obviously need to just shut up about the memes, right? Clearly, I love them … Ok, yes I do, but I’m just as clearly conflicted. Never mind.)
For the rules of this meme, I’ll quote Alejna:
If you want to join in, the game is played thusly: set your iPod to shuffle, and make a note of the songs that come up. Append the phrase “in my pants.” As many songs as you choose. If you have no iPod, come up with a list of songs of your choosing. If you have no pants, you may want to append instead the phrase “without pants.” Or you can write a 500-word essay discussing your current state of pantslessness.
So, without further ado, here is my Playlist of Pants:
- Tramp the Dirt Down in my pants — Elvis Costello
- Harry in my pants — Macy Gray
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is in my pants — Chicago
- In the Basement in my pants — Etta James and Sugar Pie DeSanto
- A Sunday Kind of Love in my pants — Etta James
- Out of This World/So in Love in my pants — Nancy Lamott
- Come Tomorrow in my pants — Patti Scialfa
- Take My Anthem in my pants — Live
- Un Día Normal en mis pantalones — Juanes
- Stompin’ at the Savoy in my pants — Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
- Wake Me Up in my pants — Nora Jones
- Little Red Rooster in my pants — Sam Cooke
- All Good Things (Come to an End) in my pants — Nelly Furtado
- Fat Bottomed Girls in my pants — Queen
- Don’t Stop Believin’ in my pants — Journey
- French Fries with Pepper in my pants — Morphine
- Helpless in my pants — Crosby, Stills and Nash
- Just Another Movie in my pants — Timbuk 3
- You Got the Look in my pants — Prince
- A Foggy Day in my pants — Mel Tormé
- Stone Free in my pants — Jimi Hendrix
- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man in my pants — Prince
- Dear Little Nightingale in my pants — Michael Franks
- Bad Luck in my pants — Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes
- He Never Got Enough Love in my pants — Lucinda Williams
It’s quite wonderful to see that my music is so pants-ified. Prince, for example, turns out to be all about pants (“Erotic City in my pants,” “Raspberry Beret in my pants,” “Little Red Corvette in my pants,” “The Pope in my pants” …). And all this time I thought he was singing about sex. Silly me. But it seems everyone’s singing about pants — from Jill Sobule’s “Little Guy in my pants” to Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier in my pants,” my whole playlist is pants!
You’re thinking this can’t be true. What about jazz? “Take Five in my pants,” anyone? “Round Midnight in my pants,” perhaps? Oh, what about classical music? Hmm, “Hungarian Dances in my pants,” could get us started, and then we could move on to “Walking the Dog in my pants” and the numerous iterations of “Prelude in my pants.”
I’m just astounded by all of this. Quite revelatory.
As for the tagging, Alejna tagged eleven. I’ll let you tag yourselves. Don’t have a blog, don’t want to post something so silly on your blog? You could post your playlists in the comments …
That is very funny! Thank you for 25 little chuckles.
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Thanks, Linda … but where’s your list? Don’t let my pants have all the fun!
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It amuses me the extent to which this amuses me. I’m so very glad you played along. And I must say that your playlist looks really good in pants. “Little Red Rooster in my pants” makes me giggle. Plus it’s fun to see what music is on your iPod.
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I know! I kind of want to see everyone I know do this meme for both of those reasons. Thanks for tagging me!
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I get far too much joy out of these “in my pants” tunes. My humor is way juvenile. Look out for those French Fries with Pepper in your pants…seems like that would burn and possibly lead to a UTI.
I do love your taste in music. A fellow Prince fan, we’re a special breed, you know. 🙂
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I think my humor’s on the same level as yours. I’ve been having such fun with these lists! And as for his purpleness, we Prince fans are a special lot, indeed!
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I think I like you, you with your wonderful playlist.
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Thanks! I love your playlist, too … particularly “Freight Train In My Pants.”
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