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Post by Mary on May 31, 2004 16:30:18 GMT -5
OK so before rs.com went kerplunk, we were having tons of fun at the RS Project board trying to identify the source of various lyrics. I figured we could have a board here devoted to such music geek games. I'll start with a relatively easy lyrics ID game. Identify the song and artist from which the following lyrics come, whichever ones you can get. No cheating and looking 'em up on yahoo or anything!
1) You hit me with a flower
2) Gary and his eyes have parted company
3) The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky
4) He's slipping all the way to Texas
5) And the music was soothing, and they all started grooving
6) I didn't get laid, I got in a fight
7) I'm not the kind that needs to tell you just what you want me to
8) We all came out to Montreux
9) Street signs glowing, but it doesn't leave a mark on you
10) They carried out the wishes of the landlord and his son
that's it!
Cheers,
M
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on May 31, 2004 16:33:27 GMT -5
1. Lou Reed - Vicious
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Post by rockysigman on May 31, 2004 18:18:31 GMT -5
1) You hit me with a flower
Lou Reed--"Vicious"
10) They carried out the wishes of the landlord and his son
Fugazi--"Cashout"
And, uh...that's all I know
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Post by rockysigman on May 31, 2004 18:46:02 GMT -5
I like this stuff too much to let there be such little traffic here. Let's get a few more lists, eh? Here's one from me
1. You have many contacts among the lumberjacks
2. I don't know why I feel so tongue tied
3. The light bulb's getting dim
4. Other boys could offer more, but she loved the boy next door
5. It's so easy to fool with the sound
6. Kiss me in the shadow
7. Like a Friday fashion show teenager
8. Fill your heart with smoke
9. I think I spread myself a little too thin
10. Oh kiss me cunt and kiss me cock
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Post by Dr. Drum on May 31, 2004 19:07:19 GMT -5
10. Oh kiss me cunt and kiss me cock
Pixies - "U-Mass".
Have to think on the rest.
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Post by Mary on May 31, 2004 20:50:38 GMT -5
1. You have many contacts among the lumberjacks
This is definitely Bob Dylan, but I'm not 100% sure of the song. Desolation Row?
6. Kiss me in the shadow
Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt
That's all I can get now....
Cheers,
M
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Post by rockysigman on May 31, 2004 22:37:34 GMT -5
Yes, it's Dylan, but "Desolation Row" isn't right. Correct album though.
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Post by PC on Jun 1, 2004 0:08:56 GMT -5
2. I don't know why I feel so tongue tied
Radiohead "Myxomatosis" (sp?)
9. I think I spread myself a little too thin
I don't know, but it sounds really familiar...
~PunkChick
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Post by tuneschick on Jun 1, 2004 8:58:14 GMT -5
And the music was soothing, and they all started grooving
Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
) I didn't get laid, I got in a fight
Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford (yeah! Listened to this on the way to work this morning!)
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Post by Kensterberg on Jun 1, 2004 12:25:58 GMT -5
Mary's list ...
5) And the music was soothing, and they all started grooving
and then the man in the back said "everyone attack" and it turned into a "Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet (I think that's the right act).
7) I'm not the kind that needs to tell you just what you want me to
My all-time number one favorite New Order song, Age of Consent (that is the title, right? it's the first track on Power, Corruption and Lies at any rate).
And Rocky's Dylan quote is from Ballad of a Thin Man ...
because you know something is happening but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?
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Post by tuneschick on Jun 1, 2004 12:39:05 GMT -5
No fair trying to steal one of the only two answers I got, Holzman - Ballroom Blitz is so mine!  |
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Post by Kensterberg on Jun 1, 2004 12:45:06 GMT -5
Sorry Tunes ... didn't even see your post! But you can have it, as long as I get to keep my New Order.  |
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Post by tuneschick on Jun 1, 2004 12:46:11 GMT -5
Be my guest - wouldn't have known that song in a thousand years.  Yes! Sweet and Lita Ford - I rule! (man, I'm hopeless at this game... why do I enjoy it so much?) |
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Post by Kensterberg on Jun 1, 2004 12:53:08 GMT -5
Tunes -- you don't own Power, Corruption and Lies? Oh that's a huge oversight, that you need to correct at some point. A great, great record. Better than anything Joy Division ever did ... IMHO at least. Easily New Order's best album, and absolutely essential for anyone who cares the slightest about "post-punk" whatever the hell that genre is. Filled with ghosts and great hooks, it's one of the best albums of the eighties.
At least I think so ...
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Post by tuneschick on Jun 1, 2004 12:58:17 GMT -5
Ken - New Order has always been a bit of a blind spot for me... I own a 'best of' but nothing else. It's not that I don't enjoy what I've heard, it's just that I've always had so many other things I want to pick up first. But I'll surely keep an eye out for PC&L, I promise.
As far as Joy Division - to be honest, no matter how much I've tried, I've yet to be able to get into them. It's a bit strange, but I just chalk it up as one of those critical blind spots we all have, and every once in awhile I'll try again.
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