"Ça plane pour moi" has all 26 letters of the English alphabet (Q, J, Z much easier in French, X appears in "cheveux chinois", but he also gets not-so-French letters W, K and Y from "en buvant tout mon whisky"
― ⍨ (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 11 January 2010 18:35 (sixteen years ago)
inspired by the word squeeze, another tori amos one - "concertina" - http://www.last.fm/music/Tori+Amos/_/Concertina - which reaches the goal by midway through the 7th line:
Clouds descendingI'm not policing what you think and dreamI run into your thought from across the roomJust another trickCan I weather thisI've got a fever above my waistYou got a squeeze box on your kneeI know the truth is in between the 1st and 40th drink
haha xps yeah her weirdo electronic experimentation period went pretty much unnoticed critically, but she went way, way out there; try "iieee", "hotel", "juárez" and "liquid diamonds" too
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 11 January 2010 18:38 (sixteen years ago)
i had no idea tori amos ever had a weirdo electronic experimentation period!
i'll check out those others you suggest - thanks
― Richard D JAMMs muthafuckas! (Karen Tregaskin), Monday, 11 January 2010 18:42 (sixteen years ago)
yeah it's a pity that only live versions seem to be on youtube/last.fm - basically from the choirgirl hotel (1998) and to venus and back (1999).
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 11 January 2010 18:48 (sixteen years ago)
The Who's "Squeeze Box," alas, is missing a J.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Monday, 11 January 2010 18:48 (sixteen years ago)
Ooh! Lost the TV show is based off Joni Mitchell's "Jungle Line": discus
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Monday, 11 January 2010 18:54 (sixteen years ago)
Cole Porter's "Now You Has Jazz"
― lex submerge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 January 2010 18:58 (sixteen years ago)
jawdrop buzz, quickly sexing up MTV (cf. Shakira).
― dad a, Monday, January 11, 2010 11:46 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Fixed.
― dad a, Monday, 11 January 2010 19:01 (sixteen years ago)
If only Franz Ferdinand's Jacqueline had been sixteen instead of seventeen.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Monday, 11 January 2010 19:03 (sixteen years ago)
Another "A is for ..." song - "Alligators All Around" - wonderfully written by Maurice Sendak, perfectly performed by Carole King.
― dad a, Monday, 11 January 2010 19:49 (sixteen years ago)
The Flaming Lips get through the alphabet in the first verse of "The Ceiling Is Bendin'":
Well it's midnight in a liquor store in Texas on HalloweenSalvador Dali watches from his window in a dreamJesus is a rock star who destroys all he seesGodzilla is a cowboy who is dressed up as a queen
― dad a, Friday, 18 June 2010 15:40 (fifteen years ago)