Vulcan Hit Parade
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The following table was reconstructed from memory because I couldn't find the original list.
Song Title | Artist |
---|---|
Allow It to Exist (alt: Leave It Undisturbed) | The Beatles |
Circumlocutory | Yes |
Domicile of Baked Earthen Parallelepipeds | The Commodores |
Invoke the Second Person Singular, Invoke the First Person Singular | Lionel Ritchie |
Maintaining Metabolic Functionality | The Bee Gees |
Nonfunctional (alt: Invalid) | Michael Jackson |
Rotate Three Times | The Byrds / Pete Seeger |
Here's the original list, eventually to be incorporated into the above table:
Approximate renderings in English of the Vulcan translations of titles to many songs popular on Earth during the second half of the 20th century.
- Not Good (Michael Jackson)
- Love is More Viscous than H2O (Andy Gibb)
- I Have Failed to Encounter That for Which I Was Searching (U2)
- Red Hat (Prince)
- High Temperature Amusement During the Warm Season (Sly & The Family Stone)
- Rotate and Yell (The Beatles)
- I Wish to Grasp Your Manual Appendage (The Beatles)
- My Physiology Seems to be Functioning Satisfactorily (The Beatles)
- Return (The Beatles)
- Avoid Lowering Me (The Beatles)
- Allow It to Exist (The Beatles)
- Coalesce (The Beatles)
- Express Affection to Me as if to a Hard Agglomeration of Minerals (Paul Simon)
- Love Has an Unpleasant Aroma (J. Geils Band)
- Large Device for Converting Rotational Energy to Electricity (Yes)
- Invoke the Second Person Singular, Invoke the First Person Singular (Lionel Ritchie)
- Singularity (Three Dog Night)
- Decomposition is Difficult (Neil Sedaka)
- Coat It With a Low-Albedo Surfacing (The Rolling Stones)
- Do Not Dwell Upon Adverse Possibilities; Attain a State of Felicity (Bobby McFerrin)
- Untamed Entity (The Troggs)
- I Wish to Obtain a Hitherto Unknown Variety of Pharmaceutical (Huey Lewis & The News)
- Maintaining Metabolic Functionality (The Bee Gees)
- You Have Done Something (Stevie Wonder)
- Beethoven*0.2 (Walter Murphy)
- Viscous Petrolium-Based Lubricant (Frankie Valli)
- Circulatory Pumping Organ Composed of Transparent Silica (Blondie)
- I Wish to Define the Term "Love" (Foreigner)
- A Failure Rate of 1/3 Is Acceptable (Meatloaf)
- He Has Low Mass -- He Is My Male Sibling (The Hollies)
- Thoroughly Agitated (Elvis Presley)
- Given Birth To for the Purpose of Performing Rapid Pedal Locomotion (Bruce Springsteen)
- Do Not Execute Me in That Manner (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
- (Perform a Jig, Mate Briefly, and) Descend During the Dark Portion of Today's Diurnal Cycle (K.C. and the Sunshine Band)
- Re-Dismantle It (Tears for Fears)
God's Fave Tunes
- Your Sweet Lord (George Harrison)
- If Not for Me (Bob Dylan)
- It's the End of the World As You Know It (and I Feel Fine) (REM)
- In My Country (U2)
- Why the Heck Should I Buy You A Mercedes Benz? (Janis Joplin)
- Dear Me (XTC)
- Me (John Lennon)
- Me part II (U2)