A bit of bank holiday week-end fun if you fancy it.
Can you think of a song that is identifiable by it’s first word alone? Post the word, let others guess for literally hours of unbridled fun.
I’ve been wracking my brains and I came up with three – one of which – Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom – I immediately disqualified. Proper names should probably be ruled out too.
I’ll post one of mine after the break (bet you can hardly wait)…
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badartdog says
Sup
Gary says
up yer beer and collect your fags.
badartdog says
yay! Such an odd word to start a song with!
bobness says
Mamaaaaaa……
Rigid Digit says
Bo Rhap?
dadwardo says
Negative Ghost Rider. The first word of Bo Rhap (as any fule know) is “is”…
roger114 says
Weer all crazee now
Alias says
He’s making eyes at me.
Sewer Robot says
Disturbing, yes, but if you check in FAQ, not actually prohibited by the rules of the blog..
Rufus T Firefly says
Punctured
badartdog says
good one!
Black Type says
Charming.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Cat’s
badartdog says
Not sure ..?
GCU Grey Area says
foot
Vulpes Vulpes says
That’s the one.
mrxsg says
In the cradle.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Purple
Lando Cakes says
Haze.
Junior Wells says
rain
metal mickey says
Ivory…
Gary says
Madonna
metal mickey says
Tick!
Gary says
But I don’t know which of her songs it is though.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Sunday
badartdog says
Sunday Morning by the Velvet Underground?
Vulpes Vulpes says
at six….
GCU Grey Area says
when they close both the gates?
Vulpes Vulpes says
indeed.
Martin S says
Help!
Moose the Mooche says
I’m a rock.
Mousey says
You win
Junior Wells says
Me in my weakness
I heard the drifter say
Vulpes Vulpes says
Desperado
Lando Cakes says
you’ve got to come to your senses.
Kid Dynamite says
Efficiency (easy because it’s also one of those songs where the first word is out before the music comes in)
badartdog says
Dunno that one
Black Celebration says
OMD’s Genetic Engineering starts with the word “Efficient”
Kid Dynamite says
Has to be efficiency, I’m afraid. Them’s the rules.
IanP says
and progress is ours once more
Kid Dynamite says
Well done sir!
Gary says
Crawlers
badartdog says
or that one …?
Gary says
GCU Grey Area says
It could be argued that the Gabriel version starts ‘There’. . .
Gary says
Go away. Silly man.
GCU Grey Area says
No. Is fun here.
Gary says
Smiley face emoticon.
GCU Grey Area says
TMFTL.
badartdog says
Heroes in the halfshell
badartdog says
the other one I had was:
Antiques!
Gary says
Good one.
chiz says
As obsolete as warships in the Baltic
badartdog says
yep – Faron Young by Prefab Sprout
Gary says
Saigon
(first word of a Springsteen song and a Ford Coppola movie)
Kid Dynamite says
Brothers Under The Bridge and Apocalypse Now?
Gary says
Yep
Kid Dynamite says
One of my very favourite Bruce songs. Thrown away on disc four of an outtakes collection.
anton says
Rrrrrrright
badartdog says
Anarchy in the UK?
badartdog says
Err … there seems to be just me guessing/answering. Does everybody else already know the answers?
anton says
right now
anton says
vinyl quotation number one…..har har har
Mr H says
Wasted
badartdog says
Tom Waits? Tom Traubert’s Blues?
Junior Wells says
Days and wasted nights?
Jorrox says
Heaven….
Freddy Steady says
Is the whole of my heart?
Gary says
Is the home of our hearts?
badartdog says
the gateway out there… (Temptation – New Order)
Vulpes Vulpes says
must be missing?
Lando Cakes says
heaven is a place.
Jorrox says
I was thinking Irving Berlin via Alex Harvey. Cheek to Cheek.
Black Type says
Belligerent
chiz says
Spineless bastards all!
Billybob Dylan says
‘Ello! (said in fake cockney accent)
Gary says
It’s my entrance. My own creation. My grand finale. My goodbye.
Billybob Dylan says
I was thinking of Ian Hunter’s ‘Once Bitten Twice Shy,’ but ‘Public Image’ works as well!
badartdog says
could be Ian Hunter – Once Bitten, Twice Shy, though
Sewer Robot says
Libraries
Vulpes Vulpes says
The Manics innit.
badartdog says
excellent!
RubyBlue says
Oh crap I was going to post that one.
Carl says
Two, both beginning with B
1) Buffalo’d
2) Busted
Billybob Dylan says
1) Little Feat – Tripe Face Boogie?
Carl says
Correct and take double points for beating Twang to it.
Billybob Dylan says
Woohoo!
Freddy Steady says
Blur!
Gatz says
2) Me and Bobby McGee
Carl says
Tick.
That’s my pair disclosed.
Mousey says
I once did a gig with a singer who asked the band if we knew “Busted Flattin”
“Sorry” – we said – “er – how does that one go?”
“You know” she said – “Busted Flattin Baton Rouge…”
Gary says
Bless
Sewer Robot says
.. my cotton socks
Gary says
Yep. Best opening line ever.
badartdog says
another good un
Wayfarer says
Billy Bragg on the Tube, Alan Parker on the Tube – we both stood watching as a bloke next to us shouted loudly at a person only he could see. Maybe he was auditioning.
Ingrid Bergman coming out of Harrods. A proper bonafide star.
Wayfarer says
Oops
retropath2 says
I
joe robert says
never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham
Twang says
The
OK, that’s not a very good one.
GCU Grey Area says
Higher.
Tiggerlion says
‘n higher
I see this lady took a bite out of you
And you can’t go on in this condition
You go blind just tryin’ to crawl out of bed
Like you’re the sacrifice of superstition
GCU Grey Area says
Sorry, no.
Higher is also the last word of the song. . .
Dave Ross says
Got
Gary says
myself a cryin’, talkin’, sleepin’, walkin’, livin’ doll.
Junior Wells says
My mojo workin
Twang says
Honky
Brown
Wild
badartdog says
First words?
Junior Wells says
Tonk
Sugar
Horses
Black Type says
Sometimes
Gary says
…all I need is the air that I breathe.
Sewer Robot says
..I walk sideways to avoid you when I’ve annoyed you
Black Type says
No and no.
DogFacedBoy says
You’re better off dead, there’s a gun in your hand and it’s pointing at your head
Black Celebration says
Sometimes, only sometimes
I question everything.
Sewer Robot says
..you’re better off dead (?)
Black Type says
Indeed.
Kid Dynamite says
Paradise
Tiggerlion says
Caught between the
Fire and the ice
No need to
Think twice
Kid Dynamite says
not what I was thinking of…
Kid Dynamite says
Paradise waits on the crest of a wave
I’m not angry, @duco01, I’m just disappointed.
duco01 says
Yes, poor show from duco01, there. I score minus 10 Deadhead points.
I should’ve recognised “Help on the Way”
badartdog says
J-J-J-Jive
Black Type says
talkin’
JustB says
If
Dave Ross says
a picture paints a thousand words?
Gary says
I were a swan, I’d be gone.
you leave me now, you’ll take away the biggest part of me.
badartdog says
I were a rich man?
JustB says
No no and no. @bingo-little will get it.
Bingo Little says
You’re having girl problems.
Kid Dynamite says
I feel bad for you son
Bingo Little says
I actually performed this tune in public a little under 24 hours ago. I got 99 problems, dignity ain’t one.
JustB says
It’s one of those tunes makes me run a bit faster.
You crazy for this one, Rick.
JustB says
Correct!
Dave Ross says
C’mon
JustB says
C’mon.
Or
Everybody.
roger114 says
Get up
retropath2 says
Goodness.
(Sad that Twang and I are so sad as to have both chortled over our last choices, I and The, so simultaneously as to have consumed our own smoke.)
Tiggerlion says
Goodness came playing at recklessness’ game
And Cain can question his name
Bingo Little says
Rape.
JustB says
Me.
Kid Dynamite says
Raw
Tiggerlion says
Raw: where the shot leaves me gagging for the arrow
Kid Dynamite says
not this one either, I’m afraid….
Malc says
Huh – What is it good for?
Kid Dynamite says
Raw I’ma give it ya, with no trivia
Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia
Very poor show from the Wu contingent here.
JustB says
Man! Missed this post! I’d have been in like Flynn.
LesterTheNightfly says
Load
Tiggerlion says
Load It, cock It, aim and shoot
Load It, cock It, aim and shoot
Living like we bulletproof
We bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang
LesterTheNightfly says
No
duco01 says
How about …
“Load up on guns and bring your friends,
It’s fun to lose and to pretend”
LesterTheNightfly says
Johnny’s
Gatz says
In the basement mixing up the medicine
LesterTheNightfly says
Correct sir!
Freddy Steady says
Or…always running around trying to find certainty?
Jackthebiscuit says
Cumaweskascuschickavee
Freddy Steady says
Quantum jump?
Jackthebiscuit says
Sorry, but no. Its actually the mighty Slade & “Thanks for the memory” (1975).
LesterTheNightfly says
Guess
Rigid Digit says
who just got back today
(and now thy’re down at Dino’s Bar in Rhyl)
LesterTheNightfly says
They are indeed!
Rigid Digit says
Inflammable
LesterTheNightfly says
material planted in my head
Rigid Digit says
Yup!
( I am too transparently obvious)
LesterTheNightfly says
Naughty
Rigid Digit says
boys in nasty schools
LesterTheNightfly says
Yep got it in one!
Rigid Digit says
White
chiz says
light?
Rigid Digit says
Ye …. No, not that one
badartdog says
lines – visions dreams of snow
Rigid Digit says
could be … but it’s not what is written on the card
Sewer Robot says
RIOTIWANNARIOTWHITERIOTARIOTOFOUROWN
Rigid Digit says
and our survey said: PING!
You’ve won a prize – it’s your very own riot
minibreakfast says
She
Rigid Digit says
may be the face I can’t forget
(one of EC’s finest)
minibreakfast says
No, not that.
Rigid Digit says
said
minibreakfast says
No.
Rigid Digit says
was just seventeen
(if I ignore the actual first word of “Well”)
minibreakfast says
No. You need to think more…. me.
JustB says
Got a smile that it seems to me…?
minibreakfast says
Ha! No.
DogFacedBoy says
Said there’s something in the woodshed
minibreakfast says
Sorry, no. We established a further downthread it’s actually “she’s”, if that helps.
JustB says
Screams in silence?
minibreakfast says
Nope.
Gary says
…laughed in my face, told me good-bye
Said “Don’t think about it, you can go crazy
Anything can happen, anything can end
Don’t try to fight it, don’t try to save me”
She’s a woman in love
And he’s gonna break her heart to pieces
She don’t want to see
She’s a woman in love, but it’s not me.
Well alright, do what you want
Don’t try to talk, don’t say nothin’
She used to be the kind of woman
You have and you hold, she could understand the problem
She let the little things go
She’s a woman in love
And he’s gonna break her heart to pieces
But she don’t want to know
She’s a woman in love, but it’s not me.
minibreakfast says
Nuh-uh.
Sewer Robot says
…crossed herself as she put on her things
minibreakfast says
Sorry, no.
Black Celebration says
told me that she loved me…?
minibreakfast says
Nope. I wonder if I can keep this going over the bank hol (no, it’s not the Lighthouse Family).
Sewer Robot says
keeps her Moët and Chandon in a pretty cabinet
minibreakfast says
Ooh, good one! No.
Rigid Digit says
sells sea shells on the sea shore
minibreakfast says
I’m shurpished you can shay that after five pints.
Nope.
Lando Cakes says
was a party girl, stayed up till the small hours?
minibreakfast says
No.
nickduvet says
loves you, yeah yeah yeah!
minibreakfast says
No, no, no.
nickduvet says
lives alone…?
minibreakfast says
No.
Kid Dynamite says
Got everything she needs?
minibreakfast says
Morning! No.
minibreakfast says
Just had a listen, and more specifically it’s “she’s” rather than just “she”. Hope this helps!
Gary says
Ah-ha! That’s what threw me!
…so 20th century, she’s so 1970s.
Rigid Digit says
A thoroughly modern mini
minibreakfast says
No. But 1970s is relevant.
Kid Dynamite says
..got a way?
minibreakfast says
Nope. Think…. European.
DogFacedBoy says
Crazy like a fool?
Sewer Robot says
A model and she’s looking good
minibreakfast says
Ooh, right country! Getting warm…
minibreakfast says
Just noticed DFB’s comment. He is correct! Here they are, they mighty M and Daddy Cool….
Kid Dynamite says
Afternoon! I was convinced that was right. Tsk.
Junior Wells says
I would have preferred she’s as sweet as tupelo honey
LesterTheNightfly says
Finished
chiz says
with my woman
LesterTheNightfly says
Had to be. Well done!
Rigid Digit says
Ground
chiz says
control?
Rigid Digit says
Have a protein pill
Gatz says
Arseholes
JustB says
Fucking cunts and pricks.
Rigid Digit says
bastards, fucking cunts and pricks
(this thread is getting a bit sweary)
Gatz says
Admirably swift response to the more sweary side of the thread!
badartdog says
Cock Womble and spunk monkey
Rigid Digit says
Doctor
JustB says
Who – oi!
Rigid Digit says
The Tardis
chiz says
doctor, please! Oh the mess i’m in
Rigid Digit says
which works equally as well, so everyone is a winner (there are no losers here)
Gary says
Skinny
chiz says
white sailor
Gary says
Yep.
LesterTheNightfly says
Auschwitz
Kid Dynamite says
the meaning of pain
LesterTheNightfly says
Tick!
LesterTheNightfly says
Sunrise
Lando Cakes says
early in the morning
LesterTheNightfly says
No
Tiggerlion says
…And the new day’s breakin’ through
The morning
Of another day without you
And as the hours roll by
No-one’s there to see me cry
Except the sunrise
The sunrise and you
DogFacedBoy says
Sunrise, wrong side of another day
Sky high and six thousand miles away
Motorhead
Moose the Mooche says
….heart and the mind and the soul and the spirit
LesterTheNightfly says
Digging
Lando Cakes says
my potatoes
LesterTheNightfly says
Nope
Moose the Mooche says
Me
Rigid Digit says
and the Farmer
Moose the Mooche says
No. Right era/style/level of musical competence though.
Moose the Mooche says
girlfriend looks like Peggy Mount
Sewer Robot says
Husband
Rigid Digit says
don’t know what he’s done
Sewer Robot says
👍
Bingo Little says
Shimmy.
Kid Dynamite says
Shimmy
JustB says
Shimmy ya shimmy yam shimmy yay
Gimme the mic so I can take it away
chiz says
ya shimmy yam shimmy ya
JustB says
Thing is, isn’t the first word of Shimmy Shimmy Ya “ooh”?
As in, “ooh baby I like it raw”?
Bingo Little says
I believe that, technically, it’s “ow, fucker you can’t even sing”.
Let’s go with the El Michels Affair cover version, for maximum clarity.
Bingo Little says
ROOOOOOTS.
Kid Dynamite says
Bloody roots
Bingo Little says
Nope. It’s BLOOOOODY ROOOOOOTS.
Kid Dynamite says
I was doing the twee acoustic cover from the upcoming John Lewis Christmas ad.
atcf says
Generals
Gatz says
Gathered in their masses
atcf says
Yes!
atcf says
Regrets
Rigid Digit says
I’ve had a few
(Pint number 5 going down nicely)
Beezer says
Woe
JustB says
We’re halfway there
😋
Beezer says
Don’t be a silly sausage
badartdog says
Ha ha
chiz says
Woe woe yey yey
I love you more than I can say
– You a big Leo Sayer man, Beezer?
Beezer says
*sighs*
Beezer says
Woe to you… ‘The Number of The Beast’
Beezer says
Yes
JustB says
We have no bananas
Beezer says
No. You’re bound to get it. You luuurvvve him and his band. 🙂
Beezer says
we’re gonna have a wing-ding.
New Frontier. Donald Fagen
badartdog says
Is it Yes, today – all mu troubles seem so far away?
JustB says
Shame
badartdog says
Shame shame
Bingo Little says
On a nigga.
JustB says
It’s this one.
JustB says
Sell
Tiggerlion says
A fan of Rhianna?
Sell me candy like the summer when it’s melting in my hands
I know you’re around like the ice cream man
Blue Boy says
Once
Rigid Digit says
in Royal Davids City
davebigpicture says
Upon a time, not so very long ago
Blue Boy says
Well the first three words are right
Twang says
Upon a time you dressed so fine…
Blue Boy says
That’s the fella
Rigid Digit says
Unemployment
LesterTheNightfly says
rising in the Chigley end of town
Rigid Digit says
Correct
although the 100% true answer is:
‘s rising in the Chigley end of town
davebigpicture says
Southern
Blue Boy says
Man
davebigpicture says
Sorry, not what’s on the card.
davebigpicture says
Give up?
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Twang says
Lively
JustB says
Up yourself
Twang says
Yep!
roger114 says
1234
chiz says
Can I have a little more?
Blue Boy says
Tell me that you love me more
Bingo Little says
My baby don’t mess around and this I know for sure.
chiz says
Oceanic
Freddy Steady says
Lights are cleverly dim?
chiz says
Only you or HP would have got that!
Freddy Steady says
Possibly! But fortuitously it had just appeared randomly on my pod…great track!
Bingo Little says
Dearly.
Rigid Digit says
Beloved
Twang says
Flies
Bingo Little says
Are a nuisance, bugs are worse.
Twang says
Nope
Bingo Little says
Yup.
Twang says
Exodus
Kid Dynamite says
I think you may have misposted. Isn’t this meant for the pooing thread?
Blue Boy says
Hello
davebigpicture says
It’s me
Blue Boy says
Nope
Bingo Little says
I’m fairly sure it is him.
Blue Boy says
Never seen him before in my life your honour
Kid Dynamite says
If it’s not him, then is it me you’re looking for?
Blue Boy says
No. I’m not actually greeting a person or animate object.
davebigpicture says
Darkness my old friend.
Blue Boy says
Correct!
Rigid Digit says
How are you (Thunderbird by Quiet Riot).
No … perhaps not
You never listen to a word that I said
(Public Image)
nickduvet says
give me missing persons…
badartdog says
Operator – can you get me number 9? White Stripes
IanP says
I love you
Rigid Digit says
from the bottom of my pencil case
(The Beautiful Doors mash-up)
Rigid Digit says
Bubble-perm
Malc says
Ever since your bubble perm
I’ve gone ex-directory
Just in case you need me
Rigid Digit says
“but I can put a tennis racket up against my face and pretend I am Kendo Nagasaki”
Bingo Little says
Killing
fedoraboy says
(In The Name Of)
Bingo Little says
1989.
Moose the Mooche says
The number. Another summer.
Lando Cakes says
Einstein
Moose the Mooche says
A-Go-Go
Lando Cakes says
Ah, no.
Rigid Digit says
was not a handsome fellow, nobody ever called him Al
Lando Cakes says
That’s the one.
Lando Cakes says
Destination
badartdog says
Venus
Lando Cakes says
Indeed.
Lando Cakes says
Flew
chiz says
Into Miami Beach BOAC
Lando Cakes says
Indeed.
Sewer Robot says
Aim
Moose the Mooche says
High?
Sewer Robot says
That’s one thing I’ve never been accused of..
Rigid Digit says
a little tin soldier
Sewer Robot says
Not what I’m thinking of. Perhaps sir would like something for the weekend? I’ll be discreet and just pop these in your top left pocket….
Sewer Robot says
That’s right! It’s the Gang Of Four:
Aim for the body rare, you’ll see it on TV
The worst thing in 1954 was the bikini
See the girl on the TV dressed in a bikini
She doesn’t think so but she’s dressed for the H-bomb
(For the H-bomb)
I found that essence rare, it’s what I looked for
I knew I’d get what I asked for
fedoraboy says
Emily
Moose the Mooche says
tries but misunderstands
fedoraboy says
Indeed she does
fedoraboy says
Frankly
Moose the Mooche says
Mister Savage
IanP says
Mr Shankly
fedoraboy says
In one
Sewer Robot says
Let’s see what you could have won… *caravan is wheeled in*
(apols – I’ve been watching Bullseye repeats…)
Moose the Mooche says
Time
Black Type says
…is waiting in the wings
…takes a cigarette
Moose the Mooche says
Not this time guv
nickduvet says
keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping…
badartdog says
Is on my side
Moose the Mooche says
Both wrong.
Same band as “Me” above.
Moose the Mooche says
flies by when you’re the driver of a train
Rigid Digit says
speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine
Black Type says
Together
Moose the Mooche says
…we will go our way
Black Type says
Yep.
Black Type says
Dig
Moose the Mooche says
in boys for an extended stay
(long shot…)
Black Type says
Nope
Billybob Dylan says
One clue – these are all from the same author:
Blue
Sex
Partial
badartdog says
Ian Dury?
nickduvet says
May
Tiggerlion says
May God’s bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
minibreakfast says
Out! 🙂
nickduvet says
No, both wrong, but Tig’s along the right lines lyrically
DogFacedBoy says
You never
nickduvet says
👍
Campo says
Stonecutters
chiz says
…made them from stones! Midlake.
Campo says
Daft
Tiggerlion says
Daft Punk is playing at my house
Campo says
Naked
DogFacedBoy says
As sin
Next!
Campo says
Woe
Tiggerlion says
Woe betide those whose luck is lousy
They may never love someone who loves them back
Rigid Digit says
Woe to you oh earth and see, for the devil sends the beast with wrath. Let him who hoth understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number. It’s number is six hundred and sixty six
Campo says
this was my one indeed
Campo says
Reluctantly
Kid Dynamite says
oh, this just came up on random play in the cafe I was in! You’re crouched at the starting line, aren’t you?
Campo says
o yes i was
Campo says
Within
Tiggerlion says
Within these walls of without you
Campo says
Within the fire and out upon the sea / Crazy man Michael was walking
Campo says
Soon
Tiggerlion says
Soon, baby
I will cry my last tear
Campo says
Poor
DogFacedBoy says
Old grandad
Campo says
that’s the one
davebigpicture says
Old Johnny Ray
Campo says
(Just went through my file with my 100 favorite songs and these were the ones with the most distinctive first words, one I discarded for being to easy: ( “Rosarita”)
Malc says
Mirror
badartdog says
In the bathroom, please don’t freak
Hawkfall says
Steve
Gary says
walks warily down the street.
But proper names aren’t accepted. (If they were, I’d have gone for Thelonious.)
Hawkfall says
Rats
*scratches out Buddy, Sammy and Ibrahim *
Vulpes Vulpes says
Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Sniffity says
Huh, that’s easy for you to say…
nickduvet says
er, is it the Lone Ranger?
bricameron says
The chances of anyone scrolling down this far being slim to none,means that I’m out of smoke inhalation.
Your Russian Bot that has you sussed so don’t try anything funny.
Gdansk!
Tiggerlion says
Gdansk has me stumped!
RubyBlue says
London
badartdog says
Calling? Lady? Traffic? Girl?
RubyBlue says
‘Calling’ for me, always, but OOAA. 🙂
RubyBlue says
Panic*
*Oh man that’s easy but meets the brief.
badartdog says
New thread – songs that begin with their title.
SouthernExile says
Something
Black Type says
Out
Blue Boy says
Demons out?
Black Type says
Nope.
Rigid Digit says
on the wiley, windy moors
Black Type says
Yep.
Black Type says
Make
Tiggerlion says
Make somebody happy?
Santana
badartdog says
Me a deal and make it straight – Virginia Plain
Black Type says
Correctomundo!
fitterstoke says
Existence
Rigid Digit says
is futile
fitterstoke says
Interesting statement, RD: but I’m not familiar with the song of which you are thinking…
fitterstoke says
…. is a stage on which we pass,
a sleepwalk trick for mind and heart:
it’s hopeless, I know,
but onward I must go
and try to make a start at seeing something more than day to day survival, chased by final death:
if I believed this the sum
of the life to which we’ve come,
I wouldn’t waste my breath.
Somehow, there must be more.
There was a time when more was felt than known:
but now, entrenched inside my sett,
in light more mundane,
thought rattles round my brain:
we live, we die…and yet?
Tiggerlion says
Yellow
Malc says
Checkmate
Sewer Robot says
Dennis Bell of Torquay.
Sewer Robot says
Are you being all “meta” Malc? The silence here is oddly reminiscent of the theme of this song.
I demand points!
Malc says
You’re right, of course. As well as being a couple of days ahead of Lando.
mrxsg says
Five
Twang says
years
mrxsg says
Not the one I’m thinking of.
Rigid Digit says
Green bottles hanging on a wall
mrxsg says
No. The song has something to do with footwear.
Sewer Robot says
Is it Dexys Midnight Runners?
Bootsy Collins?
S-Uggs?
Brogue Mahone?
The Sandals?
Guru Galosh?
mrxsg says
The title of the song has something to do with footwear.
LesterTheNightfly should get this.
Tiggerlion says
Five gears in reverse
For girls looking for the big lift
Somebody send out for the night nurse
Please don’t stick me on the late shift
Isn’t that about girls’ heels?
mrxsg says
Not the correct answer Tiggerlion.
The title has a type of footwear in it.
Noboru Wataya says
Bad Sneakers (Five names that I can hardly stand to hear…).
mrxsg says
Yes! Well done Noboru.
Blue Boy says
Arrested
Tiggerlion says
Arrested on charges of unemployment,
He was sitting in the witness stand
The judge’s wife called up the district attorney
Said you free that brown eyed man
You want your job you better free that brown eyed handsome man
Blue Boy says
spot on
Noboru Wataya says
Tolchocked
Kid Dynamite says
I thought this was going to be Gaye Bikers On Acid, and was all ready to post a cryptic PFX comment, but I just listened again for the first time in ages and it’s not the first word of “Tolchocked by Kenny Pride” so I have no idea.
Kid Dynamite says
But I posted it anyway to raise the discussion point that Gaye Bikers On Acid were the ur-Kasabian.
Tiggerlion says
On a related matter, how about ‘Cheena’?
minibreakfast says
“….so sound, so titty up this Malchick, say
Party up mood, naddy vellocet round on Tuesday”
Tiggerlion says
I knew you would know.
DogFacedBoy says
Easton, punk rocker
Tiggerlion says
Still not got this one.
Noboru Wataya says
Horrorshow by the Scars:
Tolchocked a babooshka
Just a mite too horrorshow
Malenky in the rot
Waah! Her litso yelled)
Tiggerlion says
Oh. Thanks
Tiggerlion says
Standin’
badartdog says
on the edge of the Hoover Dam ? (Sugar)
Tiggerlion says
No.
minibreakfast says
…no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there’s no limit.
badartdog says
Chuckles
Rigid Digit says
in the door of the Pink Flamingo
DogFacedBoy says
In the shadows of love
Tiggerlion says
I like your thinking but not the answer I have.
Tiggerlion says
It was
Standin’ on a corner,
Suitcase in my hand
Vulpes Vulpes says
in the dock at Southampton.
badartdog says
Harmful
Tiggerlion says
Harmful elements in the air…
badartdog says
Yep
DogFacedBoy says
Shed
Rigid Digit says
I stay or shed I go
DogFacedBoy says
Shed a tear cos I’m missing you
I’m still alright to smile
By whiney dog voiced Axl Rose and his band
Tiggerlion says
Ah. I’ve never heard it.
DogFacedBoy says
I wish I was you. In so.many ways
DogFacedBoy says
Lashing
Tiggerlion says
Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
DogFacedBoy says
Yes have gone metal in an attempt to throw people off
DogFacedBoy says
Tossed
Tiggerlion says
Tossed into my mind, stirring the calm
You splash me with beauty and pull me down
DogFacedBoy says
Yup amazing how I know every word by heart hut can’t recall where I put my keys
It comes From Out Of Nowhere -arf
DogFacedBoy says
Los
Tiggerlion says
Los dos nos conomicos
DogFacedBoy says
Sleepin’
Tiggerlion says
Sleepin’ late, sleepin’ late
Whenever I sleep late you know I can dream
DogFacedBoy says
Ladies
Tiggerlion says
Ladies and gentlemen
Ladies and gentlemen
Spider
He is our hero
DogFacedBoy says
No ‘Coopidy coop coop cadoo’ but still no
Rigid Digit says
and gentlemen, we are floating in space
DogFacedBoy says
Yeah maybe you got a heads up on that one (great album evs etc)
Rigid Digit says
In the world of extreme coincidences, it was on my listening list last night
DogFacedBoy says
Alright
Tiggerlion says
Alright, alright, alright, come on
Alright, alright, alright, come on
Alright, alright, alright, come on
Alright, alright, alright, come on
DogFacedBoy says
Nope it’s a spoken intro
Billybob Dylan says
12XU – Wire
Rigid Digit says
Maybe
DogFacedBoy says
I don’t really wanna know
How your garden grows
Cos I just Wanna shiiiìiiiiiiinnnnnnne
Rigid Digit says
Yup.
Either that one, or the theme to Grizzly Adams
IanP says
baby, I’ll have you
Tiggerlion says
Couldn’t
Sewer Robot says
get ahead
Tiggerlion says
No.
Sewer Robot says
Tee hee! I knew it wouldn’t be. I’m just tugging your stripy tail…
badartdog says
Sleep a wink last night Pyjamrama
Tiggerlion says
👍
Locust says
My brain just refuses to retain lyrics. Out of all of these entries the only one I’ve been able to guess right was Faron Young…
Sewer Robot says
Fortunately
Tiggerlion says
I suppose so. Locust has listened to so many songs, if she could remember lyrics there would be no room for the rest of us!
Sewer Robot says
..er.. that’s an opening word for a song!
Tiggerlion says
Fortunately you have
Someone who relies on you
We started out as friends
But the thought of you just caves me in
The symptoms are so deep
It is much too late to turn away
We started out as friends
😉
Sewer Robot says
🎯
Sewer Robot says
Crawling
badartdog says
Over your window – you think I’m confused – I am the Fly?
Sewer Robot says
✔️
DogFacedBoy says
Cease
Tiggerlion says
…to know or to tell or to see
Or to be your own
DogFacedBoy says
Clue: this band released 2 different versions of this same song
badartdog says
To resist – giving my goodbyes – Pixies, Wave of Mutilation?
DogFacedBoy says
History
Sewer Robot says
..repeats the same conceits
nickduvet says
Never repeats
Junior Wells says
there’s a kiwi for you
nickduvet says
plastic kiwi, I’ve only been here 15 years
DogFacedBoy says
Remember
Rigid Digit says
Remember Then – Showaddywaddy
(probably not)
Tiggerlion says
…when you were young
How the hero was never hung
Always got away
DogFacedBoy says
Oh the first line is fine but then it slides away. Have a cigar anyway
Rigid Digit says
when you were young
you shone like the sun
salwarpe says
Gimme
Living
Carrion
Flesh
Love
(Five songs, one act)
DogFacedBoy says
Black Lace?
salwarpe says
Black lace was probably involved at some stage in this group’s career.
Junior Wells says
Steve Winwood ?
salwarpe says
No
Kid Dynamite says
I’m voting Judas Priest
Rigid Digit says
As an alternative to May or Corbyn.
That should add some british steel to the Brexit debate.
Hell bent for democracy
salwarpe says
I thought if anyone would get it, you would. No.
Kid Dynamite says
HANG ON!!!
Gimme the ring
Living as an angel in the place where I was born
Carrion child
(flesh is a whisper at the beginning of one of the FALAA B-sides. Blood Money, maybe?)
but I can’t place which one ‘Love” is from?
salwarpe says
Possibly my favourite one, that – it’s an early song.
A surprising number start “And” – is that a reference to the singer, I wonder…
Hawkfall says
OK, I’m going to put on my sunglasses and black paisley shirt and step up to the plate.
Gimme – This Corrosion. Though if we’re going to do this properly, we need to specify that it’s only for the 7″ and cassette single (told you we were going to do this properly) versions. Otherwise it’s “Hey”.
Living – 1959
Carrion – Possession (worst song on the album – sneaky)
Flesh – Blood Money
Love – This had me stumped as well, but I’m going with Fix, even though I thought the first word was The.
Do I win a Reptile House mug and pen?
Kid Dynamite says
Fix is probably right, and I speak as a man who has just googled the lyrics to Good Things and Wide Receiver on the off chance Sal was playing hard to get
salwarpe says
By Jimmy, Fix it is! A harsh, curt snatch of a song channeling Jane Austen by way of Black Adder III.
Not sure about the mug and pen, but you win my respect with your in depth This Corrosion knowledge, @hawkfall.
Next challenge – how many TS Eliot quotes can you find in his lyrics?
Hawkfall says
Oof! I have to throw in the towel and leave that one to Kid, Sal. I just don’t have the knowledge of TS Eliot’s poems to do that. I do recall in the midst of my Sisters phase taking out a book of his poems from the college library and reading The Waste Land, The Hollow Men and the Four Quartets, but “April is the cruellest month” is the only thing that’s stayed with me. (TS must have been an Arsenal fan.)
DogFacedBoy says
Looka
Tiggerlion says
Looka that
Here she comes
Here comes that girl again
One of the cutest since I don’t know when
Junior Wells says
Jesus
Tiggerlion says
Jesus, help me find my proper place
Jesus, help me find my proper place
Help me in my weakness
‘Cos I’m falling out of grace
Jesus
Jesus
Junior Wells says
Yes I had 2 in mind. That’s the more esoteric. The other probably the most powerful opening line in popular music …evah !
Tiggerlion says
Jesus walks!!!
Noboru Wataya says
…died for somebody’s sins but not mine?
Tiggerlion says
Shoot
paulwright says
Bodhisattva
Ok, I know there could be a lot of choices….
Tiggerlion says
I give up! 🙌
Junior Wells says
Whatsa
#1 hit
Tiggerlion says
…matter you? Hey! Gotta no respec’?
Noboru Wataya says
Laocoön
Tiggerlion says
Got to be REM
Laocoon and her two sons
Pressured storm tried to move
No other more emotion bound
Martyred misconstrued
I prefer it when I can’t make out the words.
Noboru Wataya says
Yep, that’s the one. I’ve had Murmur since 1987 but only found the lyrics last year. I agree it’s better when you can’t make out the words.
Billybob Dylan says
Midnight
Tiggerlion says
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows painting our faces
Traces of romance in our heads
Rigid Digit says
Midnight to six am
For the first time from Jamaica
Dillinger and Leroy Smart
Delroy Wilson – cool operator
Billybob Dylan says
This is what was written on the card.
hubert rawlinson says
Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauo
Rigid Digit says
oh, me sir!
Is that the Lone Ranger / Keemosabbe thing from the late 70s?
(Youtube tells me it was Quantum Jump)
Moose the Mooche says
It’s on that brilliant Emperor Rosko album as I recall.
Moose the Mooche says
No it’s not. I’m thinking of King Kong by Jimmy Castor, for some reason.
Good excuse to plug this belter though but!
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Presented-By-Emperor-Rosko-Rosko-So-You-Wanna-Hear-Another/release/2603209
Sewer Robot says
Beguiled
(A bit obscure, but around here who knows? Quite keen to post the rest of the lyrics is all)
Sewer Robot says
Time’s up! ‘Twas this:
Beguiled by blue moon
Oh, enchanting light
We lost our way like lovers sometimes do
Searching, wide-eyed, for wild flowers
In the fragrant forest of the night
Now memories slowly drift on by
Like grey clouds against the somber Winter sky
And all our yesterdays are now become
The Springtime of our days
Life is the greatest teacher
Love is the lesson to be learned
Like how the heart’s seasons shift
How the sweet smelling blossoms of Spring
Are soon become the icy arrows of Winter’s sting
How Spring, intoxicated by the sun
Now throws off her green gown
And Summer’s golden smile is soon become
The frown of Autumn’s brown
How passions spent
We droop, like sapless vines
In the Winter of our minds
Moose the Mooche says
Enough Limp Bizkit, already!
Sewer Robot says
Ooh! This just came up on shuffle – I think it perfectly exemplifies the “I’ll name that tune in one” criterion:
Hoverin’
Sewer Robot says
All together now:
Hoverin’ by my suitcase
Tryin’ to find a warm place to spend the night
A heavy rain a fallin’
Seems I hear your voice callin’
“It’s all right”
A rainy night in Georgia
A rainy night in Georgia
I believe it’s rainin’ all over the world
Rigid Digit says
Trudging
duco01 says
Nice one there, Mr Digit…
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon—come! Armageddon! Come, Armageddon! Come!
badartdog says
Giant
Rigid Digit says
steps are what you take, walking on the moon
(Giant steps are also what you take when hearing a fire alarm)
badartdog says
Yup 👍
badartdog says
Walk
Tiggerlion says
Is it Van Morrison at his most imaginative?
Walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Walk that walk.
Oh, talk that talk and walk that walk.
badartdog says
Nope. Scottish. 80s.
Noboru Wataya says
out to winter?
badartdog says
correct!
Lando Cakes says
Stale
Tiggerlion says
Stale as a 2 day half full beer
Cigarette boats float around in here
Lando Cakes says
Sounds appealing.
But no.
Lando Cakes says
Checkmate!
Sewer Robot says
Is this thing on?
Lando Cakes says
Cold.
Sewer Robot says
If it’s not Dennis Bell of Torquay this time, I’m taking my ball and going home…
Lando Cakes says
It is indeed Dennis’ 5 minutes of fame.
Billybob Dylan says
And…
Clue – each verse begins “And…”
badartdog says
…Jerusalem?
Billybob Dylan says
Good answer but not the right one.
Early 70s, band named after keyboard player, this was their biggest hit.
SouthernExile says
And if it’s bad, don’t let it get you down
Hold your head up by Argent
Billybob Dylan says
Correctomundo.
Milkybarnick says
Feigning
Tiggerlion says
Feigning joy and surprise at the gifts we despise over mulled wine with you
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month
The Darkness
Milkybarnick says
Yep, nice and seasonal.
Milkybarnick says
While I’m here:
Jeremiah
Billybob Dylan says
was a bullfrog?
Milkybarnick says
Correct!
salwarpe says
One album (not in order) –
Oh Look Here I Young I La Until It Hot Black Oooh. Oh Shut It, Dorothy
badartdog says
Prince ..?
salwarpe says
You got it.
Noboru Wataya says
Clarity
Junior Wells says
Rows
clue – topical
nickduvet says
Clouds innit
Lando Cakes says
September
Noboru Wataya says
gurls do so much?
Lando Cakes says
Nope.
duco01 says
“September ’77, Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual in Police room 619…”?
Lando Cakes says
Finally!
Stephen G says
Zoo
Noboru Wataya says
time is she and you time?
Stephen G says
That’s it!
Junior Wells says
Nope
Very successful song. Covered a lot
Noboru Wataya says
Docks
Malc says
Mission
Sewer Robot says
Been waiting for this!
Circus Games
Mission is a gambler
The wager, the one card to play
Priest has the burden
He thinks, the right thing, to say
Amid all the honour
He sees, the wrong one, to share
Since child is an angel
The duty, the one card prepare
Jury is a gambler
The wager, the one card, to play
Judge has this burden
He tells, the wrong one, to pay
Amid all the honour
He puts, the wrong one, to trial
Since child is an angel
No jury, but one card, so vile
Come and play circus games
Come and play at circus games
Malc says
Spot on!
I got the 6-CD Skids box set at the weekend, but haven’t heard it yet. Expecting a real rush of nostalgia when I do
SouthernExile says
Well
Tiggerlion says
…be bop a-lula, she’s my baby.
SouthernExile says
Not quite but the right era
minibreakfast says
You know you make me wanna shout. 😀
Tiggerlion says
…alright mama
SouthernExile says
Close but no cigar
Rigid Digit says
Thomas Dolby?
SouthernExile says
Getting colder now
Rigid Digit says
the little things you say and do,
Make me want to be with you
minibreakfast says
You know you make me wanna shout.
SouthernExile says
Little bit earlier
minibreakfast says
Okay, see above.
Sewer Robot says
Up top✋️ Mini!
Is it Rave On?
SouthernExile says
Nope but again you’re in the right era but the wrong state
JustB says
That’s all right mama?
SouthernExile says
Nope. Who knew so many songs started with the same word in the 1950s
badartdog says
It’s a one for the money, two for the show …
SouthernExile says
Getting warmer
Rigid Digit says
since my baby left me
SouthernExile says
We have a winner!
Lando Cakes says
bless a my soul what’s a wrong with me.
nickduvet says
since my baby left me…
Tiggerlion says
I’m feeling smug. It’s been days now & no-one has even guessed at ‘Yellow’ and ‘Shoot’
😉
Moose the Mooche says
Is the latter…. Doris Day?
Tiggerlion says
No. Not even Sly & the Family Stone covering Doris Day.
Moose the Mooche says
Dude…
Tiggerlion says
No. Not even…
badartdog says
Yellow – I love you wont you tell me your name?
Tiggerlion says
Yellow is Shake Me Baby by LL Cool J.
Shoot is Come Together by The Beatles.
nickduvet says
Yellow is the color of my true love’s hair, in the morning, when we rise
minibreakfast says
Take
badartdog says
Take take take ttttake take take(Mel& Kim)
minibreakfast says
Damn, you’re good!
Moose the Mooche says
…the ribbon from your hair (though I know dog has it)
Billybob Dylan says
Photographs
Rigid Digit says
of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six
???
Billybob Dylan says
That’s the one!
hubert rawlinson says
Locked
Stephen G says
Harmful
Jackthebiscuit says
Zoo
Billybob Dylan says
time is she and you time?