A Sharper Variation On The Name Game

namegame.jpgA few years ago, I read something by critic Frank Kogan where he described a game he played with song and album titles. The rule was simple: simply add the words “with a butcher knife” to the end of whatever name comes up. A few nights ago, out with friends at a bar, we played the game and came up with a few great ones: He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper With A Butcher Knife; Standing on the Verge of Getting It On with a Butcher Knife; Still Caught Up With A Butcher Knife; “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow With A Butcher Knife?” Tell us–which ones did we miss? Your best efforts only, of course.

 
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  1. DaeSu  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots with a Butcher Knife”
    “There is Nothing Left to Lose with a Butcher Knife”
    “In the Wee Small Hours with a Butcher Knife”
    “I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You with a Butcher Knife.”

  2. cyruscope  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    First one that popped into my head: Judy and the Dream of Horses with a Butcher Knife.

  3. Ted Striker  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    The Crane Wife With A Butcher Knife

  4. Christopher R. Weingarten  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    …”In bed.”

  5. ozacrot  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Well, there’s You’d Prefer an Astronaut with a Butcher Knife.

    Also, “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)(With a Butcher Knife).”

  6. mozicodo  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Don’t forget the ever popular song from Color Me Badd, “I Wanna Sex You Up With A Butcher Knife”

  7. Ned Raggett  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    In the Zone With a Butcher Knife

  8. Jay-C  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Hail to the Thief with a Butcher Knife and Don’t Look Back in Anger with a Butcher Knife…

  9. natepatrin  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    -Can’t Buy a Thrill With a Butcher Knife
    -Dig Your Own Hole With a Butcher Knife
    -Icky Thump With a Butcher Knife
    -Music Has the Right to Children With a Butcher Knife
    -Good Girl Gone Bad With a Butcher Knife

  10. brotherfromanother  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    “Cut You Up With a Linoleum Knife With a Butcher Knife,” by Mastodon.

    “The First Cut is the Deepest With a Butcher Knife” by various artists.

  11. Chris N.  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    All-Beatles “Butcher cover” memorial edition:

    “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window with a Butcher Knife”
    “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road with a Butcher Knife?”
    “Fixing a Hole with a Butcher Knife”
    “She Loves You with a Butcher Knife”
    “Baby, You’re a Rich Man with a Butcher Knife”
    “Dig a Pony with a Butcher Knife”
    “Here Comes the Sun with a Butcher Knife”
    “I’ll Be Back with a Butcher Knife”
    “Run for Your Life with a Butcher Knife”
    “You Won’t See Me with a Butcher Knife”

  12. SomeSound-MostlyFury  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    “Because I got high with a butcher knife”- Afroman
    “She wants revenge with a butcher knife” – She Wants Revenge
    “Tear you apart with a butcher knife” -She Wants Revenge
    “I was better off with a butcher knife” – Phantom Planet

  13. Jon Can Dance  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    “I’m Too Sexy” …with a butcher knife

  14. molecule  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Who’s that lady with a Butcher Knife?

  15. The Illiterate  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Between the Buttons With A Butcher Knife
    Total Destruction To Your Mind With A Butcher Knife
    A Hard Days Night With A Butcher Knife
    It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me With A Butcher Knife
    Up For the Down Stroke With A Butcher Knife
    Cut The Cake With A Butcher Knife

  16. ghostyhead  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Pick Up The Pieces With A Butcher Knife
    Crazy With A Butcher Knife
    A View To A Kill With A Butcher Knife
    Pump Up The Volume With A Butcher Knife
    Because I Love It With A Butcher Knife

  17. DaeSu  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    “Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues with a Butcher Knife”
    “My Aim is True with a Butcher Knife”
    “Everybody Wants to Rule the World with a Butcher Knife”
    “Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk with a Butcher Knife”
    “Sucker MCs with a Butcher Knife”
    “Brass Monkey with a Butcher Knife”

  18. silkyjumbo  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Who Let the Dogs Out With a Butcher Knife?”

    …the Vick Remix.

  19. Tennessee  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Dude Looks Like a Lady With a Butcher Knife

  20. The Illiterate  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Bringing It All Back Home With A Butcher Knife
    What We Did On Our Holidays With A Butcher Knife
    Sex Machine With A Butcher Knife
    Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches With A Butcher Knife

  21. Dickdogfood  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Bob Dylan, Self-Portrait With a Butcher Knife
    Massive Attack, No Protection With a Butcher Knife
    Little Peggy March, “I Will Follow Him (With a Butcher Knife)”
    Various Artists, One Kiss Can Lead To Another With a Butcher Knife

  22. Tenno  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    If I was the Sheriff with a Butcher Knife
    Come To Daddy with a Butcher Knife
    Pretty Little Hate Machine with a Butcher Knife
    When I was Young with a Butcher Knife
    12 Inches of Sex with a Butcher Knife
    Any Way You Choose To Give It with a Butcher Knife
    Confessions of a Knife with a Butcher Knife
    With Lasers With a Butcher Knife
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a Bucther Knife
    The Knife with a Butcher Knife
    The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed with a Butcher Knife
    God Save The Queen with a Butcher Knife

    and i’m done…

  23. Jasonbob7  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Lots of Grateful Dead song titles work…

    “Playing In the Band With A Butcher Knife”
    “One More Saturday Night With A Butcher Knife”
    “Hurts Me Too With A Butcher Knife”
    “Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks With A Butcher Knife”
    “Friend of the Devil With a Butcher Knife”

    and album titles…
    Go To Heaven With a Butcher Knife
    In The Dark With a Butcher Knife
    American Beauty With a Butcher Knife

  24. SAShepherd  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga with a Butcher Knife.

    Nope, still not getting it.

  25. Cassiel  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Genius + Soul = Jazz With A Butcher Knife
    The Beach Boys Love You With A Butcher Knife
    Who’s Next With A Butcher Knife
    A Night At The Opera With A Butcher Knife
    Born To Run With A Butcher Knife

  26. rogerniner  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Classic grindhouse movie…

    “Dusty in Memphis…with a Butcher knife!”

  27. dippinkind  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Accidents Will Happen with a Butcher Knife
    Love is Like a Butterfly with a Butcher Knife
    The Last Time I Saw Richard with a Butcher Knife
    This Night Has Opened My Eyes with a Butcher Knife
    Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl with a Butcher Knife)
    For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her with a Butcher Knife

  28. Tenno  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Forbidden Planet Explored with a Butcher Knife
    Actual Sounds & Voices with a Butcher Knife
    Dead Combo with a Butcher Knife
    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts with a Butcher Knife
    Making Me Money with a Butcher Knife
    The Payback with a Butcher Knife
    Skuffed up My Huffy with a Bucther Knife
    Frankenstein Girls Will seem Strangely Sexy with a Butcher Knife
    Back to Mine with a Butcher Knife
    Johnny are you Queer with a Butcher Knife?
    Hosannas From The Basement of Hell With a Butcher Knife

  29. Jon Can Dance  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    “I Shot the Sheriff” …with a butchers knife

  30. queensissy  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Pretty much any of Montreal song, but in the interest of brevity:

    How Lester Lost His Wife With a Butcher Knife

  31. DaeSu  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant with a Butcher Knife

  32. Chris N.  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    “Come On in My Kitchen with a Butcher Knife”

  33. DaeSu  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    The Needle and the Damage Done with a Butcher Knife. (Lordy, somebody stop me!)

  34. bruzie  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Knives Out with a Butcher Knife
    Get Up On It Like This with a Butcher Knife
    In My Time Of Dying with a Butcher Knife
    Journey To Arhhemland with a Butcher Knife
    Light My Fire with a Butcher Knife
    Mean Mister Mustard with a Butcher Knife
    Over The Rainbow with a Butcher Knife
    Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box with a Butcher Knife
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond with a Butcher Knife

  35. bruzie  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    See Emily Play with a Butcher Knife
    Since I’ve Been Loving You with a Butcher Knife
    Stand By Me with a Butcher Knife
    Stuck In The Middle With You with a Butcher Knife
    Under The Bridge with a Butcher Knife
    Ziggy Stardust with a Butcher Knife

  36. Tennessee  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    I Shot the Sheriff With a Butcher Knife

  37. Tennessee  |   Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007

    Give Peace a Chance With a Butcher Knife
    Love the One You’re With With a Butcher Knife
    Safety Dance With a Butcher Knife
    Satisfaction With a Butcher Kife

  38. deusdiabolus  |   Posted on Aug 3rd, 2007

    Some Have To Dance, Some Have To Kill With A Butcher Knife
    The Fragile With A Butcher Knife
    The Last Temptation Of Reid With A Butcher Knife
    Lust With A Butcher Knife
    Stick It To Ya With A Butcher Knife
    Licensed To Ill With A Butcher Knife
    Falling Into You With A Butcher Knife
    Musick To Play In The Dark With A Butcher Knife
    Get Some – Go Again With A Butcher Knife
    Reign In Blood With A Butcher Knife


    Songs:
    The Power Of Love With A Butcher Knife
    Love In An Elevator With A Butcher Knife
    Modern Day Delilah With A Butcher Knife
    Run To You With A Butcher Knife

  39. FionaScrapple  |   Posted on Aug 3rd, 2007

    Black Sabbath (chronological):
    Behind the Wall of Sleep with a Butcher Knife
    Paranoid with a Butcher Knife
    Iron man with a Butcher Knife
    Children of the Grave with a Butcher Knife
    Solitude with a Butcher Knife
    Under the Sun with a Butcher Knife
    Killing Yourself to Live with a Butcher Knife
    A National Acrobat with a Butcher Knife
    The Thrill of it All with a Butcher Knife
    You Won’t Change Me with a Butcher Knife
    Never Say Die with a Butcher Knife
    Die Young with a Butcher Knife
    Country Girl with a Butcher Knife
    Falling off the Edge of the World with a Butcher Knife
    Disturbing the Priest with a Butcher Knife
    Born Again with a Butcher Knife!

  40. DaeSu  |   Posted on Aug 3rd, 2007

    All Mahalia Jackson edition:

    Up in Jerusalem with a Butcher Knife
    Prayer Changes Things with a Butcher Knife
    I’m on My Way to Canaan with a Butcher Knife
    How I Got Over with a Butcher Knife
    Come to Jesus with a Butcher Knife
    I Gave Up Everything to Follow Him with a Butcher Knife
    It Pays to Serve the Lord with a Butcher Knife
    Jesus Met the Woman at the Well with a Butcher Knife
    Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen with a Butcher Knife
    He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands with a Butcher Knife

  41. drjayphd  |   Posted on Aug 6th, 2007

    You guyyyys, how did you miss:

    * A Weekend In the City With A Butcher Knife
    * Walking With Thee (With A Butcher Knife)
    * Turn On the Bright Lights With A Butcher Knife
    * This Is Meant To Hurt You With A Butcher Knife
    * Seven’s Travels With A Butcher Knife
    * Return to Cookie Mountain With A Butcher Knife
    * Please Describe Yourself With A Butcher Knife
    * My Aim Is True With A Butcher Knife

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