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     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Music quiz. Name the song and the original artist. One point for each. 1 – Tell tale talking of the last cigarette, Marking time in the packet as the whisky sweat Lies like discarded armour on an unmade bed 2 - Isn't it nice Sugar and spice Luring disco dollies To a life of vice 3 - The love we share Seems to go nowhere And I've lost my light For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night 4 You better make your face up in Your favourite disguise With your button down lips and your Roller blind eyes 5 Hush little baby, don’t say a word, And never mind that noise you heard It’s just the beast under your bed 6 I knew you’d love me as long as you wanted Then someday you’d leave me for somebody new 7 Life is white, but I am black Jesus and his lawyer, are coming back 8 If you’ve got the money, honey, we’ve got your disease 9 I was a dreadful scholar, I found all the lessons hard. The one thing that I knew for sure, that three feet make a yard. 10 Libraries gave us power | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
You've stumped me, Weber! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.91 |
#2: "Sex Dwarf," Soft Cell | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
2 points to Craig | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.91 |
#8: "Welcome to the Jungle," Guns 'N' Roses | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.91 |
#3 - "Tainted Love," by - um - the guy from Soft Cell - Mark something?... right?... | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I'm an ejit... No. 10 is the Manics 'Design For Life' - best damn band of the 90s!! The rest of them mean diddly squat but I'm crap at remembering lyrics anway. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Tainted Love... of course! But wasn't that a cover version! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Another 3 points to Craig as Mr Walsh is correct. 2 points to Mr walsh | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Number 9 has already been mentioned on another thread today | ||
| Clive (Clive) Username: Clive Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 81.104.165.168 |
>>7 Life is white, but I am black Jesus and his lawyer, are coming back<< Eels - Novocaine for the soul. Apart from the Manics one i have no idea on the others. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
The 3 least obscure ones are still there. 2 points to clive. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.249.146 |
I've just sneaked into Mr. Walsh's flat and stolen 1 point from him, so I'm up to 4 now. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
No you're not, because you got the title but not the artist for Tainted Love... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
In fact you were up to five points anyway. If you want 4 points, you're welcome. Well done for getting Sex Dwarf BTW, I thought that would be a tricky one. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.236 |
Jake the Peg by Rolf Harris. | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.164.67.73 |
4 - Run Like Hell The Floyd, that shows my age.. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.251.83 |
Back in the day, Weber, "Sex Dwarf" got constant air-play out here on KROQ... those were the days... well, they were days, at least.... Hard to believe a group like Depeche Mode came out here to L.A., there was a mob riot, they had to call off their album signing, and so they issued a special mix of "Something to Do" on cassette tape passed out to radio listeners only, as an apology. Back in the day when Morissey was a veritable rock-star to KROQ-ers. Ugh. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.97.79 |
#1 is a Marillion song, yes -- something from Clutching at Straws. "Hotel Hobbies"? | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.97.79 |
#5 is Enter Sandman by Metallica | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.164.67.73 |
Hotel Hobbies is right Chris, I knew I had heard that before. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
You know, it's about time someone did a music quiz from the 60s and 70s - stuff I've actually heard of. Never heard of half the things you guys are talking about!  Mind you, I did get Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" before I'd looked at the answers. Hey, here's an easy one from back when music really WAS music (if Weber doesn't mind me thread-jacking him?): "Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way" If you young 'uns get that one I might try thinking up some more.  | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.164.67.73 |
Bridge Over Troubled Water | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.164.67.73 |
But I did prefer Trouble over Bridgewater by Half Man Half Biscuit, Paul Simon never wrote lyrics like this - Now the graveyard is calling The sky’s getting greyer I’ll drink the warm blood of The Borough Surveyor And I’ll murder the verger I’ve seen how he gawps And I’ll write on his headstone: “Here lies Jones the Corpse” | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.164.67.73 |
From "With Goth On Our Side" of course. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
OK, you've asked for it - now I've got to go and think of a more obscure one from the heydays of popular music ...  | ||
| Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
I got only Hotel Hobbies. Clutching at Straws might just be my favourite album of all time. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 217.43.29.197 |
Who wrote Der Freischütz? | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.164.67.73 |
Wasn't me... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 217.43.29.197 |
No, you're right, it was Weber. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
I believe it was my mum… no? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>No, you're right, it was Weber.<< He's right, you know - it was! Right, early 70s is the era - any ideas on these (somewhat more obscure than my first one): 1. Open up the window, let some air into the room I think I'm almost choking from the smell of stale perfume And that cigarette your smoking? Well, it scares me half to death Open up the window, someone Let me catch my breath 2. Nightclub - I paid in Got a stamp on my skin The main attraction was dead on his feet Black man rhythm with a white boy beat 3. After many days journey we came to a hill Where the beast gazed abroad and cried out We followed his gaze and we thought that maybe we saw A spire of gold, that's all But the beast was gone and a voice was heard And less obscure, from the same era: 4. Did you write the book of love And do you have faith in God above If the Bible tells you so Do you believe in rock and roll Can music save your mortal soul And can you teach me how to dance real slow | ||
| Nathaniel Tapley (Natt) Username: Natt Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 78.149.238.109 |
(I shall pretend I don't know that (3) is Genesis - Trick Of The Tail) 4. American Pie - Don Maclean I have a suspicion that (2) is Dr Feelgood, but nothing to back it up... | ||
| Clive (Clive) Username: Clive Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 81.104.165.168 |
1 - 'Mama told me not to come.' I'm ashamed to say that i only know the Tom Jones cover from a few years ago and have no idea who did the original. 4 - Must be 'American Pie' by Don someone or other. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
You young 'uns are cleverer than I thought!  I didn't think anyone would get Trick of the Tail (I used to drive my college digs mates mad playing that over and over again). I need a bit more on (2) though, and anyone know (1)? Here's an even more obscure one - late 60s (I've been rummaging through my old vinyl this evening): 5. (following from the others) When Mama sacrificed her pride the neighbours started talking But we were much too young to understand the things they said All we really cared about were Mama's chicken dumplings And a goodnight kiss before we went to bed | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Sorry, Clive - we were posting at the same time. I was responding to Natt. Yes, 4 is Don Maclean's American Pie. I didn't know Tom Jones had covered Mama Told Me Not To Come. No points till someone gets the original artistes. | ||
| Clive (Clive) Username: Clive Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 81.104.165.168 |
>>I didn't know Tom Jones had covered Mama Told Me Not To Come.<< Yep, duet with the Stereophonics... (link doesn't give the original artist away so safe to click on) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpJvK16Ikfk | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
#1, "Mama Told Me Not to Come" is Three Dog Night (I think). #4, "American Pie", Don Maclean's album American Pie, which also had his only other big hit: "Vincent" (which has the famous opening line that is not the title, "Starry, Starry Night…"), probably 1973 on Arista Records. I have the LP — yes, I said "LP" — but can't be arsed to go downstairs and check. …and that's all I can see that works for me. So, I'm old. Actually, if someone throws out some jazz stuff, I'm killer from 1952–1974! Tough to quote instrumentals, though… | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
4 points for Chris. No one's got number 6 yet - and that one is from your era Caroline. No one's got the artist for Tainted love yet either... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
2 points each to Colin and Steve B as well | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Caroline - 2 - milk and alcohol - dr feelgood | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.160 |
...when they had Gypie Mayo instead of Wilko Johnson, so only 75% Dr Feelgood really :-) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.160 |
No one's got the artist for Tainted love yet either... Gloria Jones, wasn't it? I'm an old git but only heard the original a couple of years after Soft Cell released their version. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.160 |
Caroline - 5 - Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp - bugered if I can recall who sang it though. Wasn't the guy who did "Patches", was it? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
another point to Mick. Number 6 is an old old song - originally done by a man - most famous of the several versions is by a woman, and the best version appears in Bride of Chucky. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.109.254.19 |
Ah - No. 6 is "Craaaaaazy"! The only two people I can think of singing this are Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
and two points more to the mickster | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.230.177 |
See if you can crack these (no googling!): 1. Existence is a stage on which we pass A sleepwalk trick for mind and heart It's hopeless I know But onward I must go 2. Your admirers in the street have to hoot ands stamp their feet In the heat from your physique 3. Fuck the mothers kill the others Fuck the others kill the mothers I'm out of my mind with you It's heaven and hell with you 4. Fifty-thousand men were sent To do the will of one His claim was phrased quite simply Though he never voiced it loud: I am he the chosen one 5. We scale the face of reason To find at least one sign That could reveal the true dimensions Of life lest we forget 6. I've never fallen for A little boy before 7. I came across a cache of old photos And invitations to teenage parties 8. Move slow now your time's at hand Take heed 'cause our love has passed 9. Your ballroom days are over baby 10. When I woke up this morning I found myself alone I turned to touch her hair But she was gone, she was gone | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
7 is pulp - Disco 2000? 4 - Iron Maiden - Moonchild? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.230.177 |
Nope. And nope. Sorry, Weber. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Pet shop boys - being boring # 7 | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Is #3 from the soundtrack to Bambi? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.230.177 |
Being boring it is, Bambi it is not. I have half a mind to try 3. out on Bambi - would be shocking beyond belief, especially to very small children. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.160 |
6 - Kate Bush - The Infant Kiss - never get away with that song the other way around! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I thought it was a bit of a wild chance that it was from Bambi... Hmmm... I now have the Pet shop boys song as a mindworm and can't get rid of it. Good thing it's one of my favourite PSB. Not a patch on It's a Sin though. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.230.177 |
You've nailed it, Mick. Thought you would  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
6 - Kate Bush - The Infant Kiss - never get away with that song the other way around! Check Gary pucket and the union gap - Young girl get outta my mind... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.230.177 |
My current PSB favourite is "King's Cross", though I have no idea what it's about. I guess you have to be a Londoner. The best songs from Actually and Behavior would make the ultimate PSB imho. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
There was a fire in Kings Cross underground station about 6 months before that album came out | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.230.177 |
About "The Infant Kiss": I seem to recall an interview with la belle dame wherein she stated the song was meant to be a kind of follow-up to "The Man With the Child in His Eyes." Some think the lyrics are shocking, I think it's a marvelous song; the way it segues into "Night Scented Stock" is pure magic. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.97.79 |
#3 = "Nightshift" by Siouxsie and the Banshees (from the "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.164.67.73 |
#4 Genesis - One For The Vine (remind me someone, is it now cool again to admit to liking Genesis?) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.160 |
Never was, never is, Colin! And I'm speaking as someone who was a fan of Yes... | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.164.67.73 |
>>Never was, never is<<....good, I don't like them then | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.230.177 |
Right on, Chris and Colin! As for Genesis, if it weren't for them and King Crimson I'd never have taken up the guitar myself. Is it possible to be a hardcore fan of both Genesis (emphasis on the early years) and Siouxsie? It sure is! Punk was mostly rubbish, but a few good bands evolved out of the movement (if it can be called that). Siouxsie and the banshees was probably the best of them. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>Caroline - 5 - Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp - bugered if I can recall who sang it though. Wasn't the guy who did "Patches", was it?<< Brilliant, Mick! It was OC Smith who sang Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp. Clarence Carter was the guy who did Patches. Ian - yes, it was Three Dog Night who first did Mama Told Me Not to Come. And Weber - yes, Milk and Alcohol was the Dr Feelgood one. Sorry for nicking your thread, Weber - can you forgive me? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>(remind me someone, is it now cool again to admit to liking Genesis?)<< I hope not! I've always liked early Genesis and I'm definitely not cool! (Yes were pretty good too - and King Crimson) | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.230.177 |
Ah, a kindred soul. Did/do you sense that otherworldly magic (for want of a better word) when listening to Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, Carolinec . . . ? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I don't know Trespass, Hubert - is that a later one? But, yes, I think "otherworldly magic" is an excellent way to describe early Genesis. My particular favourite is the album containing A Trick of the Tail, with tracks like Dance on a Volcano, and so on. Brilliant! Another album (different band) I have from around that time - Wishbone Ash's Argus - that's another one I'd describe as "otherworldly magic". | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.230.177 |
Trespass is from 1970, the first 'proper' album they did after their Charterhouse days. Trick of the Tail has a great atmosphere, too. I saw them perform this album live in 1976 - my first ever concert! They began with "Dance on a Volcano". At the time they were very unsure about their music and performance because it was the first time they went on the road without Peter Gabriel. Incredible. Wishbone Ash? Aren't they more blues-oriented? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.102.160 |
They are, Hubert - and still touring as "Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash" - in fact they played my local blues club a few weeks back. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.236 |
Anyone know how Three Dog Night got their name? (I love this story). | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I'm dead envious of you Hubert - seeing Genesis live in their early days. It must have been after Trespass that I got into them then - I'll have to look out for that one on eBay or somewhere. Wishbone Ash, blues? I've only heard the one album - Argus - and I definitely wouldn't describe it as blues. Perhaps they changed direction quite a bit. Argus is more folk-orientated I'd say, but it's quite difficult to describe really. The best way to describe it is probably like reading a sword and sorcery fantasy novel! But I love the blues too, so maybe I'll look out for Wishbone Ash the next time I see a concert near me. Go on, Steve, tell us how Three Dog Night got their name - I've no idea ... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.224.191 |
I'm dead envious of you Hubert - seeing Genesis live in their early days The truly early days were when Peter Gabriel was their frontman - up to 1975. I remember The lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour they did the previous year, but alas I didn't have the money to go to Brussels, let alone buy a ticket  The Trick of the Tail concert was marvelous, they played the whole album (minus the title song an Mad Man Moon) and the best of their earlier stuff. Plus they had Bill Bruford on drums when Collins was singing, an added bonus. I remember they had a standing ovation. Collins said "Thanks for buying the tickets", imagine. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.236 |
** Go on, Steve, tell us how Three Dog Night got their name - I've no idea ... ** "The official commentary included in the CD set Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965-1975 states that vocalist Danny Hutton's then-girlfriend June Fairchild suggested the name after reading a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground whilst embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and if a night was especially cold, it was a "three dog night". I love that. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Brilliant! |