Sing a song of M6 bends
So this has been my first full week of being a proper little commuter. Pretty much doing 100 miles round-trip to work every day. Joy o joy.
But, I thought to myself, I shall not moan about it on my blog. For it is Friday and I am Cheery. (not the dwarf.) So instead I shall share with you the music that I have been listening to this week whilst on my 80mph excursions. A lyric or two from each cd, in the order that I listened to them this week, points (naturally - Hobblings need Incentives) to be handed out for getting the song/band/composer in each case. One band is doubled up because I listened to two of their albums. Some of these are significantly easier than others.
1. "I still have some do-oubts that yo-ou...are the reason"
2. "No, I'll save her, then I'll kill her"
3. "Nobody likes you, everyone left you, they're all out without you, having fun."
4. "The trouble with your brother - he's always sleeping...with your mother..."
5. "Que tout l'enfer fuie au son de ta voix"
6. "Leave the road and memorise this life that passed before my eyes"
7. "I suffer dreams of a world gone mad, I like it like that and I know it"
8. "Gang pack yer bags, ye English loons, gang tak' yer banners hame"
Bonus points for numbers 7 and 8. No points at all for number 2. Minus points for anyone who suggests that number 8 sounds like it should be sung by the Nac Mac Feegle...
posted by skittledog @ 9:03 pm
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23 Comments:
Obscure enough?
3 and 6 are Green Day, yes? The others (apart from 2 which isn't even worth mentioning) I wouldn't have a clue.
Probably something silly, like Pink Floyd...
I wasn't trying to be obscure...well ok with one or two of them I could have picked easier songs from the albums. But they're just what I was listening to...*looks innocent*
3 is Green Day, yes. 6 is not. 6 is the same band as 7...not that that will help you much. :)
And I really ought to listen to a Pink Floyd record one day. So no.
I don't even know #2.
7 is Mr. Stipe. Rian..ah..thinks.
And Rian is fairly sure there is no such dwarf as 'Cheery'. Although perhaps he was the one they kept in the 'Back Room'.
emano needs to follow the tv advice of Hobblings.
Nil points.
Gah on this roadtrip from hell, we get lots of Green Day being played. St.. I mean *cough* Gingerbeard... has every single album apparently. It is really getting on my nerves. I have discovered that I hate a lot more music than I thought I did. Some of the Green Day seems good but the more recent nasel stuff makes me want to leap out of the window. At least when they play Green Day they can't play any of the really bad stuff that makes me want to throw everyone else out of the window.
No prizes for clever knowitalls who suggest I use the word defenestrate. Because it is a terrible word. Why did anyone bother inventing it?
Because it was better than inventing dewindowate?
I prefer Green Day to a whole load of other shouty semi-punk boy bands...sometimes Green Day have pretty good words. I like words. Plus Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) still has the power to make me cry for...reasons unrelated to their musical ability.
I appreciate no. 2 will not be got by emano or by Rian (unless she is speeding through her dvds)...but if you know what it is (as jes and Kepp clearly would) it isn't worth dignifying with an answer. Still one of my favourite lines.
And yes, no. 7 was messrs Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe. Odd that someone got that one before 6, considering the albums they're on. *hands bonus point to Rian*
*eyes Rian suspiciously*...Back Room?
*feels suddenly unnerved*
Gah - perhaps my brain is just elsewhere at the moment - but I can't get any of those either. Eesh. Bad Flowyks.
You should definitely get around to listening to Floyd. I'd have got them. Hmph. 'Dark Side of the Moon' is the obvious classic to start with (listened to it all the way through this week for the first time in ages), but I can also highly recommend 'The Division Bell' (their most recent album) as fantastic yet not too intense listening.
Go forth and listen.
Yeah...somehow the knowledge that my father used to like Pink Floyd puts me off them. One day I'll try them, though.
Okay. Before you all get bored and bugger off elsewhere, I shall bring forth the answers.
1 and 8 were unfair - nobody was going to get them. But I listened to them, so they got included.
No.1 - there is a reason that I listened to OMWF after this. It's a cd of various songs from Buffy/Angel soundtracky cds. I know, I know...*rolls eyes at self*. I did at least pick a lyric which you hear during the show...this is the song playing in the Bronze during Crush. 'Key' by devics.
No.2 - OMWF, obviously.
No.3 - Green Day, Letterbomb.
No.4 - Pulp, Razzmatazz
No.5 - Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine, on a cd of the Requiem. Good but radio traffic announcements cut in far too loudly when you've got classical music turned up to hear it.
No.6 - R.E.M., Find The River.
No.7 - R.E.M., Leave.
No.8 - the Corries, who were a Scottish folk music duo sort of deal, and a song called The Black Douglas...which, now I google it, is apparently about a guy who fought at Bannockburn. Huh. Nice anti-English sentiment, anyway.
*yawns*
Rian can also applaud Pink Floyd. They are certainly well worth a listen, although Rian will recommend the older albums before the new.
But perhaps that is because Rian is, most likely, nearly as old as skittledog's father.
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Heh, I get to play with the remove button on skit's blog. How could I have miss OMWF? Perhaps I have lyrics disreadia on top of lyrics dishearia (copyright@prue)
Ach, I'm terrible at lyric games. At least I can amuse myself by reading Skit's posts with her voice in my head.
A'hm Scooorish indeed. *g*
If we ever find ourselves sitting around a campfire, I say we make Skits break out the Nac Mac Feegle song. Just for laughs.
*laughs*
*kicks jes*
And Rian is not as old as skittledog's father. Not by quite a long way. Which I think should make Rian happy but will probably make her inquisitive.
And I am nowhere near as old as Skittledog's father.
Floyd transcends generation gaps. Come on - we're not talking The Rolling Stones here, people. Floyd actually are brilliant and talented musicians. Their music is unparalleled.
And for Pete's sake - I should have at least got 'Find the River'. Argh. I adore that song.
*sniggers*
Yes, I did wonder about you not getting that one...
Oh, my father putting me off them has nothing to do with his age. I listen to the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel...
I now need answers. Does Rian own New Adventures in Hi-Fi or has someone else played Leave at her or has she maybe somehow picked it out of the soundtrack to A Life Less Ordinary...I cannot rest until I know.
Rian owns New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
And also most of Pink Floyd.
How old is skittledog's father?
62.
And I now award Rian muchos bonus points for actually owning New Adventures. I love that album, although I'm never quite sure why.
Which leaves jes on 1 point, Rian on muchos and everybody else on none. Hah.
Cheery Littlebottom, dwarf, Feet of Clay, Pratchett. Do I get a point because I knew there really was a Cheery dwarf?
Heehee. Yes. Un point to emano. No more than one, though, because you still need to read more Watch books after Feet of Clay.
Emano and jes tie for second place.
*passes over bouquets of dead nettles*
How droll. I shall make little potpourri pouches...
Drat.
Mater is showing off.
Where are Rian's laurels to sit upon?
*passes over holly wreath*
...this do you?
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