Songs About Go
Go players have been creating some songs to honor Go. Titles and lyrics can be found below. Some songs and lyrics are based upon "traditional songs". Perhaps some SL user might want to create a sound archive ... :-)
External Links
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AGA Song Book (
PDF)
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http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cardigans/myfavouritegame.html - strangely relevant lyrics (even if it isn't really about Go)
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http://menashi.tripod.com/go-songs.htm - Finnish GO songs
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http://omniheurist.net/archives/misc/gofilk.html - just one song here: Opposing Player, based on Voltaire's Ex-Lover's Lover
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http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~gnik/go/songs/ - The Go Player's Song Archive
Song Titles as Go Proverbs
A list of song titles, which are suitable to become a Go proverb (or to provide tips for common game "dilemmas"):
Japanese Music
- "Tsuru no Sugomori" (traditional piece for shakuhachi)
English Song Titles
- 3LW: "Gettin' Too Heavy"
- Abba: "The Winner Takes It All"
- Abba: "Waterloo"
- AC/DC: "Highway to Hell"
- Arch Enemy: "Dead Eyes See No Future"
- Beatles: "Help"
- Beatles: "Let It Be"
- Bocelli, Andrea: "Time to Say Goodbye"
- Buckley, Jeff: "EternalLife"
- Cardigans: "My Favorite Game"
- Carmen, Eric: "Hungry Eyes"
- Children Of Bodom: "Towards Dead End"
- Cline, Patsy: "Baby You're Stronger Than Me"
- Cradle Of Filth: "Dusk and Her Embrace"
- Dido: "This Land Is Mine"
- Dimmu Borgir: "In Death´s Embrace"
- Dimmu Borgir: "Master of Disharmony"
- Doors: "Break on Through"
- Dylan, Bob: "Quit Your Low Down Ways"
- Europe: "Final Countdown"
- Eurythmics: "Let's Go!"
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood: "Relax! (Don't Do It)" (applies if you are in doubt whether or not to dare a risky move)
- Guns N' Roses: "Live and Let Die" (originally by Paul McCartney & Wings)
- Guns N' Roses: "Welcome to the Jungle"
- Halen, Van: "Jump"
- HIM: "Resurrection"
- Hirai Ken: Aika (Elegy) (refrain: kono te de... with this hand)
- Houston, Whitney: "I Have Nothing"
- Idol, Billy: "Eyes Without a Face"
- In Flames: "Like You Better Dead"
- Jocasta: "Go"
- Jovi, Bon: "Living on a Prayer"
- KISS: "Nowhere to Run"
- Kool & the Gang: "Cherish the Life"
- Korn: "Alive"
- Lennon, John: "Give Peace a Chance"
- Mamas and the Papas: "Daydream Believer"
- Mayfield, Curtis: "Stone Junkie"
- Megadeth: "Wake Up Dead"
- Metallica : "Shoot Me Again" (.. I´m not dead yet)
- Metallica: "To Live Is to Die"
- McCartney, Paul: "Live and Let Die"
- Moyet, Alison: "Go Weak in the Presence of Beauty"
- Modern Talking: "You Can Win the Race"
- Modern Talking: "You Can Win If You Want"
- Motörhead: "Stone Dead Forever"
- Nazareth: "Expect No Mercy"
- Nazareth: "Love Hurts"
- Necrophagia: "To Sleep with The Dead"
- Newman, Randy: "I'm Dead (and I Don't Know It)"
- Nightwish: "Dead to the World"
- Nightwish: "End of All Hope"
- NoFX: "Don't Call Me White"
- Offspring: "Come out and Play" ("You gotta keep'em separated")
- Pink Floyd: "Another Brick in the Wall"
- Pink Floyd: "Time"
- Police: "Don't Stand Close to Me"
- Queen: "All Dead, All Dead"
- Queen: "Another One Bites the Dust"
- Queen: "Don't Stop Me Now"
- Queen: "Great Pretender"
- Queen: "I Want It All"
- Queen: "I Want to Break Free"
- Queen: "Killer Queen"
- Queen: "Kind of Magic"
- Queen: "Thank God It's Christmas"
- Queen: "The Show Must Go On"
- Queen: "Under Pressure"
- Queen: "Who Wants to Live Forever"
- Queen: "We Are the Champions"
- Real McCoy?: "
Run Away"
- Run DMC: "Proud to Be Black"
- Sepultura:"War for Territoy"
- Sigue Sigue Sputnik: "Atari Baby"
- Simon & Garfunkel: "Bridge over Troubled Waters"
- Simon & Garfunkel: "Bright Eyes"
- Simon & Garfunkel: "Patterns"
- Sinatra, Frank: "Teach Me Tonight"
- Slade: "Run, Runaway"
- Springsteen, Bruce: "Born to Run"
- Soulfly: "Eye for an Eye"
- Stevens, Cat: "The First Cut Is the Deepest"
- Talking Heads: "Road to Nowhere"
- Tracid, Kai: "BadShape"
- Twain, Shania: "You Don't Impress Me"
- Waits, Tom: "Dead and Lovely"
- Waits, Tom: "Looks Like I'm up Shit Creek Again"
- Waits, Tom: "The Part You Throw Away"
- Waits, Tom: "Time"
- Wham!: "Wake Me up Before You Go Go"
- Yazoo: "Don't Go"
- Zevon, Warren: "Play It All Night Long"
C.S. Graves: A lot of these English titles seem to be a real stretch! Many have nothing to do with go, other than some containing the english verb.
argybarg?: Indeed, I defy anyone to explain what "Thank God It's Christmas," "Time" or "Love Hurts," among others, are doing on this page. They don't even suggest go to me. Sorry!
German Song Titles
- Alexander, Peter: "Die süssesten Früchte ..."
- Deutscher, Drafi: "Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht"
- Ebstein, Katja: "Wunder gibt es immer wieder"
- Jürgens, Udo: "Alles im Griff auf dem sinkenden Schiff"
- Lage, Klaus: "Tausendmal berührt"
- Mitteregger, Herwig: "Immer mehr"
- Nena: "Nur geträumt"
- Nicole: "Ein bisschen Frieden"
- Werding, Juliane: "Wenn du denkst, du denkst, dann denkst du nur: du denkst"
Song Lyrics as Go Proverbs
English Lyrics
- "Going To A Go Go" by Smokey Robinson:
Well there's a brand new place I found People coming from miles around They come from everywhere If you drop in there You see everyone in town It doesn't matter if you're black It doesn't matter if you're white Take a dollar fifty A six pack of beer And we goin' dance all night
- "I've Seen All Good People" by Yes
Move me on to any black square, Use me any time you want, Just remember that the goal 'Sfor us to capture all we want, anywhere, Yea, yea, yea.
Don't surround yourself with yourself, Move on back two squares, Send an Instant Karma to me, Initial it with loving care Don't surround Yourself. 'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
- "Good Mourning" by Talib Kweli
You are only scared to die when you ain't living right
- "This Land is Mine" by Dido
This land is mine but I’ll let you rule I let you navigate and demand Just as long as you know... this land is mine So find your home and settle in Ohhh, I’m ready to let you in Just as long as we know... this land is mine
- "I Can't Win" by The Strokes
That was you up on the mountain All alone and all surrounded Walking on the ground you're breaking Laughing at the life you're wasting 1 - 2 tries won't do it You do it all your life and you never get through it Everything they had to say Had been erased in just one day
"Good try We don't like it" "Good try We won't take that shit."
I can't win.
- "Wake me up before you go go" by Wham!
Wake me up before you go go, Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo. Wake me up before you go go, I don't wanna miss it when you hit that high Wake me up before you go go, 'Cause I'm not planning on going solo. Wake me up before you go go, Take me dancing tonite. I wanna hit that high...
- "3k*", sung to the tune of Deep Purple's "Highway Star" (and originally meant as a complaint about the IGS rating system...)
Nobody's gonna take my stones, Now that they're on the board again. Nobody's gonna take my stones, I'm gonna keep them till the end. They are killer machines, they got everything Like a killing power, lots of eyeshape, everything I love them, I need them, I feel them Four corners, all mine All right, hold tight, I'm a 3k*!
- "Run on" by Moby
You might run on for a long time Run on, ducking and dodging Run on, journey, for a long time Let me tell you God Almighty gonna cut you down
German Lyrics
- "Orpheus and Euridike", opera by Gluck:
Ach ich habe sie verloren, all mein Glück ist nun dahin. Wär', ach wär' ich nie geboren, weh, dass ich am Leben bin!