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Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed Into Single Sentences

They've made a list over at McSweeney's. Some highlights:

Marvin Gaye, "Let's Get It On"
I want to do it with you.

Led Zeppelin, "Whole Lotta Love"
I want to do it with you.

R. Kelly, "I Believe I Can Fly"
I believe I want to do it with you.

Frank Sinatra, "Strangers in the Night"
I'm drunk and I want to do it with you.

Little Richard, "Good Golly Miss Molly"
I'm doing it with Miss Molly, and she's totally into it.

Pulp, "Common People"
I once met a stuck-up European who wanted to do it with me.

Radiohead, "Creep"
I'm filled with self-loathing, and, though outwardly I hate everything you represent, I want to do it with you.

Let's add some of our own, shall we?

Cheap Trick, "I Want You to Want Me"
I want you to want to do it with me.

KISS, "Rock and Roll All Nite"
I want to rock and roll all nite and party every day.

The Kingsmen, "Louie Louie"
I wanna mumja deesel aye-aye-aye.

Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run"
I want to do it with Mary in the backseat of my hemi-powered machine and then die in a cloud of mist in the shadow of an amusement park.

The Vapors, "Turning Japanese"
I want to do it with myself.

Nick Lowe, "Cruel to Be Kind"
I want to do it with someone nicer than you.

Derek and the Dominoes, "Layla"
I want to do it with George Harrison's wife.

Barry White, all songs
I want to do it with you.