Name The Song -- A Googleproof Quiz.

[icebreaker]

First two lines:
"24 hours ago, personal problems were non-existent
"Today, it is quite obvious that these worries are likely to remain a permanent feature of my life"

What well-known song ?

If you get it right you have to put up another opening two lines from another song.

[Roberto]

Is it "Yesterday"? (All my troubles seemed so far away, etc. etc.)

[icebreaker]

Excellent, Roberto! Well done ........... very good word-association and lateral thinking.

I was beginning to think I had made it too difficult.

[mathare]

Ahh, I see how this works now.

I assumed the lyrics were the actual first couple of lines from a song, not a cryptic version of them

[Fadetoblack]

Ahh, I see how this works now.

I assumed the lyrics were the actual first couple of lines from a song, not a cryptic version of them

Lol me too...thought it was some obscure hit in the back of Jack's vault...

[icebreaker]

Why not put up the first two lines (your words) of a well-known song yourselves FTB and Mat .................

[vegyjones]

Everyone is habitating in an underwater vessel of lemon colouring!
in an underwater vessel of lemon colouring

:laugh :laugh

[plater]

Canary Canoe by the Byrds :doh

[icebreaker]

"We all live in a Yellow Submarine,
A Yellow Submarine, A Yellow Submarine"

Released by the Beatles but written by Ringo Starr.

[vegyjones]

Come on then... Who's next?

[icebreaker]

"Dearest Mother, I just despatched a fellow human being into the next life,
"I placed a weapon to his cranium, activated the firing mechanism ...... resulting in his demise"

BTW Vegy .......... you cheated in your one ............. you gave the chorus and NOT the opening two lines!

[mathare]

Bohemian Rhapsody

[Fadetoblack]

"At about the time the day ended, and the earth was murky"

[MarcusMel]

"At about the time the day ended, and the earth was murky"

Good news week?

"
Its good news week
Someone's found a way to give the rotting dead a will to live
go on and never die,
Its good news week
We are wrapping brains in metal trays
to keep us from the heat"

erm thats what I remember of it!

[MarcusMel]

Oh hang on it supposed to be well known :rolleyes:

[Fadetoblack]

Tis indeed....

[wb]

after i've had the difficulty with the missus, resulting in her departure......

my abode is in a different spot.........

[mathare]

Wayne - Heartbreak Hotel?

[wb]

correct, mathare!

[markwales]

First two lines...

"All of us omitted the glare of the triple time boogie"
"twisted gymanstics moves athwart the ground."

[Profit Seeker]

Everyone is habitating in an underwater vessel of lemon colouring!
in an underwater vessel of lemon colouring

:laugh :laugh
:hoho: You are a funny chap Vego!

[vegyjones]

I'm glad someoene thinks so! :D

[samantha1303]

A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procal Harlem

[sparkyminer]

A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procal Harlem
No one likes a smart @rse Sam! :wink :D

[samantha1303]

:pk1

[markwales]

Well done Sam.....your turn now :D

[sparkyminer]

That's been racking mi brain all day. :geek :doh :)

[samantha1303]

Without female there are no tears

[sparkyminer]

No woman No cry.

[samantha1303]

Well done Sparky, kept it nice and simple for you :hearty

[vegyjones]

Well done Sparky, kept it nice and simple for you :hearty
:laugh Simpleton Sparky! :D

[sparkyminer]

We're not lost.
But we were.

[Ruby]

We're not lost.
But we were.
Is it Amazing Grace?
"I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see" ?
Or maybe not???

[sparkyminer]

No Ruby it's not.:)

[wb]

good guess ruby. this one has me stumped!

[icebreaker]

Could it be :--

"Well, we know where we're goin',
But we don't know where we've been"

ROAD TO NOWHERE ............. Talking Heads.

[sparkyminer]

Well done Ice.:D

[vegyjones]

that was a toughie sparky...
something a little easier now please Ice! :D

[Ruby]

Hmmm :doh :)

[icebreaker]

Okay,........ off the top of meh head. Back to 1970 for this one. Song about a strange (very strange!) love affair. Was a Number 1.

"In a drinking establishment in an old and bohemian part of London (West End),"
"This is a place where the customers drink a certain expensive French drink and don't talk loudly"

[sparkyminer]

Hmmm :doh :)
Sorry Ruby. :wink :)

[Yoda]

Okay,........ off the top of meh head. Back to 1970 for this one. Song about a strange (very strange!) love affair. Was a Number 1.

"In a drinking establishment in an old and bohemian part of London (West End),"
"This is a place where the customers drink a certain expensive French drink and don't talk loudly"

I'm thinking LOLA by the kinks......

I met her in a club down in old Soho, Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola

Not 100% though

Yoda

[Yoda]

If I am right then its my turn. As i'll be sleeping the working all day and night i'll leave a song here, If its not the Kinks the please ignore this post. :Blac7

A flat tyre on a lonesome steep incline, i wonder if i'm no longer female
To be honest, its a shocker! :yikes: :yikes:

Yoda :peeky

[mathare]

That's the Smiths.

Punctured bicycle on a hillside, desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?

Which makes it This Charming Man.

Lyrics coming up...

[mathare]

What action would you take if my vocalisation wasn't perfectly harmonised?
Arise and depart from this place leaving me alone?

[markwales]

A Little Help from My Friends

[icebreaker]

Yes Yoda .......... you are absolutely correct. Well done.

I have to mention this -- 'cause it is such a strange conincidence. A parody of the song was recorded by Weird Al Jankovich for his album Dare To Be Stupid. The name of his version??? ............ "YODA"!!! (Based on the Stars Wars movie.

[samantha1303]

What would you think if I sang out of tune would you stand up and walk out on me.
Little help from my friends - Beatles / Wet Wet Wet

[mathare]

Hurrah - well done Mark and Sam

[samantha1303]

You beat me to it Mark - your turn

[icebreaker]

Well done Mat and Mark. You guys are good at this.

I'ld never have got "Charmimg Man". I can't abide the Smiths. Sacrilege, I know!

[markwales]

"I take a pew and linger
maybe a heavenly body with think about what is going to happen to me."

[icebreaker]

Angels

[wb]

"I take a pew and linger
maybe a heavenly body with think about what is going to happen to me."
angels?

[wb]

beat me to it ice!

[markwales]

Well done guys.....I like these :D

[icebreaker]

After you, Wayne ........... your turn to put up one.

[wb]

Im soliciting wet weather from the almighty, in a state close to nevada

[icebreaker]

"I'm prayin' for rain in California,
So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine"

Little ol' Wine Drinker Me. By Dino.

[wb]

got it in one ice!

[icebreaker]

Hee hee
:d

[icebreaker]

A Rod Steward Number 1 from the Seventies:

Consequent to my juvenile period in State education,
I have held total disregard for all social mores and standards.

[wb]

A Rod Steward Number 1 from the Seventies:

Consequent to my juvenile period in State education,
I have held total disregard for all social mores and standards.

Very hard Ice! think I got it though....

Was it 'I was only Joking'?


Ever since I was a kid at school,
I messed around with all the rules,
Apologised then realised - I'm not different after all

[wb]

AWW CRAP!

Icebreaker is offline,

Im dying to know if im correct! :D

[icebreaker]

Indeed you are, Wayne ........... correct that is.
Well done!

[wb]

Commence circulation of the Information about recent events,
my departure is during or on the present day.

[mathare]

New York, New York

"Start spreading the news
I'm leaving today"

[mathare]

I am experiencing some difficulties but I am confident that they will be gone shortly
This lawn looks like a nice place to rest horizontally

A little more obscure this one

[MarcusMel]

Back to the Kinks again Mathare ?

Lazy afternoon?

"Help me, Help me, Help me, please
I have got a big fat mama
trying to break me
and I love to live so pleasently
live this life of luxery
lazin on a sunny afternoon

My girlfriend's gone off with my car...etc

Lazing on a sunny afternoon"

[MarcusMel]

Oh heck - Here is a real easy one

"Domicile, belonging to more than one lying equidistant between two end points of the thoroughfare"

[MattR]

Madness


Our house in the middle of the street

'Correct - When I thought of it I could not resist putting it up - Marcus'

[icebreaker]

Marcus .......... I reckon you have got Mat's one wrong!

But your one is :
OUR HOUSE by Madness.

Cannot figure out Mat's one, but I am fairly confident it is not "Sunny Afternoon"

Correct on 'Our House by Madness' - Marcus

[icebreaker]

Heh Heh, just beat me to it Mattr.

Your turn to put one up.

[MattR]

Ok, i'll put one up in a few minutes

[MattR]

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Have it difficult? Looked at worse



Not a band everybody will be familiar with but a well known song from the eighties

[mathare]

Mine was by a lady with a famous father. It peaked at number 4 in the charts I think.

[MarcusMel]

Sorry Mathare the only famous singer I can think of with a famous father is the Osbourne Girl! and I don't know any of her songs.

[sparkyminer]

I was thinking of Kim Wilde.

[mathare]

Far more famous than either of those. Back in the 60s.

Started the rock chick movement really.

[sparkyminer]

Marianne Faithful?(Sp.)

[markwales]

I initially thought Nancy Sinatra.....but that turned out to be wrong (I think)

[mathare]

I initially thought Nancy Sinatra.....but that turned out to be wrong (I think)Or did it? :wink

[MarcusMel]

MatR

"I'm the Urban Spaceman baby, I got speed
I've got everything you need
If you knock me over
I just get up again"

Bonzo dog dodah band.

[markwales]

Or did it? :wink

Grrrr.....I think I've looked at every song she ever sang, and I still can't put a song to your question.

[mathare]

Grrrr.....I think I've looked at every song she ever sang, and I still can't put a song to your question.Look for a very sweet song

[markwales]

Look for a very sweet song

Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Town

I got some troubles but they won't last
I'm gonna lay right down here in the grass

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[mathare]

Nancy Sinatra - Sugar TownSpot on :)

I said it was a little more obscure than some of the previous efforts. Well done Mark.

[markwales]

I viewed the brightness during the late hours in which I meandered by the pane
Glimpsing the rapidly moving sillouette of devotion on the females privacy aid.

A nice easy one for you :D

[sparkyminer]

That's Delilah, of the Tom Jones type.

[markwales]

Well done Sparky.....

[sparkyminer]

The earth's natural satellite was above and not happy when my visionary glands registered your presence.
There won't be many revolutions of the clock before you embrace me.

Early to mid eighties was this band's best times. Had a couple of comebacks.

[MattR]

MatR

"I'm the Urban Spaceman baby, I got speed
I've got everything you need
If you knock me over
I just get up again"

Bonzo dog dodah band.


no, not that one Marcus

[icebreaker]

Sparkyminer and Mattr ........... your's are quite difficult,I cannot figure them out. :doh

Are they very obscure ............. is it time for a small clue perhaps?

[MattR]

A clue, erm , right...........

Ok the group were American. Song was about 1984/85. Very recognisable synthesizer riff in chorus.

[bigcumba]

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Have it difficult? Looked at worse


The excellent Van Halen and Jump!

[bigcumba]

Here's one from me...:D

There is an original type of choreography, of which I am unaware of it's appellation,
that humans from abodes of ill-reputation perform repetitively

[MattR]

The excellent Van Halen and Jump!

Spot on BigC :D

[sparkyminer]

About the same time as Mats possibly a year or so earlier. British new wave / indy group. Rabbits.

[samantha1303]

Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing Moon
Under blue moon I saw you so soon you'll take me up in your arms

[sparkyminer]

That the one Sam.:)

[samantha1303]

I wouldn't have got it without the clue

[sparkyminer]

I didn't think it hard, but then again I knew the answer. :rolleyes: :geek :D

[icebreaker]

Sparky ............ Killing Moon by Echo is a well known song?????
A bit niche I would say.

[sparkyminer]

Sparky ............ Killing Moon by Echo is a well known song?????
A bit niche I would say.
It might've been niche in Ireland. I thought it was a hit over here. :yikes:

[mathare]

It was a hit over here Sparks

[icebreaker]

I thought it was a hit over here. :yikes:
But Mansfield did always have a reputation for peculiar tastes ( not only in music).

[sparkyminer]

The Killing Moon (single)


The Killing Moon 5.45
Do It Clean 2.44


The Killing Moon (All Night Version) 9.12
The Killing Moon 5.46
Do It Clean* 6.38
7" Korova KOW 32
7" WEA 24 95367 (Canada & Germany)
12" Korova KOW 32T
12" Sire 0-20203 (US) released January 20, 1984
some came with a free song sheet


*recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London July 18, 1983



Highest UK Single Chart Position: 9
Jan 1984

[icebreaker]

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 9
Jan 1984

Resting my case ............... a HIT??? Reaching Number 9???

The only reason I'm going on about it is 'cause you said "I didn't think it hard". Maybe not, but only easy for Echo anoraks.

[sparkyminer]

In 1984. 9th would've been a hit :wink . I think you had to sell a few more copies in those days. There was no t'internet to download from. :yikes: :)

[bigcumba]

In case anyone missed mine.... clues later if needed...:)

There is an original type of choreography, of which I am unaware of it's appellation,
that humans from abodes of ill-reputation perform repetitively

[sparkyminer]

I keep thinking of The Bump by Kenny. :yikes: :D

[bigcumba]

I keep thinking of The Bump by Kenny. :yikes: :D

That's sad... and wrong.... I remember that one too well, was a staple at family parties back then :yikes:

[piggy]

here's one: it is an ultimate beings terrible tiny extra marital activity

[radders]

In case anyone missed mine.... clues later if needed...:)

There is an original type of choreography, of which I am unaware of it's appellation,
that humans from abodes of ill-reputation perform repetitively

Fashion .... Bowie?

[bigcumba]

Spot on Radders, well done!

[radders]

Spot on Radders, well done!

First thing I got right today! :)

[Fadetoblack]

Did anyone get my one from the start after?

[icebreaker]

Oh well done, Radders .............. that one had done meh poor 'ead in!

No FTB, yours remains the only one out of dozens that remains unsolved. Something about night-time and murky earth, right?

[Fadetoblack]

yes indeed Icey....very famous song