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Post by beth on Jan 29, 2009 20:54:50 GMT
One more (easy, easy) then somebody else can pick up. (we still don't know the title to your song trubble) Hey where did we go, Days when the rains came Down in the hollow, Playin' a new game, Laughing and a running hey, hey Skipping and a jumping In the misty morning fog with Our hearts a thumpin'
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Post by trubble on Jan 29, 2009 23:54:06 GMT
and you, my brown eyed girl, you-oo-oo my brown eyed girl.... got that one at least! I posted my answer I thought... mambo de la luna - Kirsty McColl. sha-la-la...
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Love is a temple Love is a shrine Buy some love at the five and dime A little bit of love From the counter store Get it on credit if you need some more.
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Post by beth on Jan 30, 2009 5:13:23 GMT
I, also, thought it was too easy. Pretty song. RG, have you seen O'Brien's "Shock Treatment"? Not as good, but it has it's moments. My favorite "Shock Treatment" song. Too obscure to use in the quiz, but priceless. B*tchin' in the Kitchen
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 30, 2009 12:16:52 GMT
Oh, I love Van Morrison.
Here's a more difficult one:
'It's too late to be a kid in love, We'll be kids in hate.'
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 30, 2009 13:15:20 GMT
She's good on her music, Beth. I'll have to start posting some obscure ones to try and win back some points. So far I haven't got ANY of them right LOL! i'll help you out hon. here's one that, twelve years ago, i spent $130 to put on cassette. (title), just how you feel your love for me, might not be real, it's over now, but it was grand
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 30, 2009 13:21:27 GMT
another easy one. my lifetime theme song.
it seems like yesterday, but it was long ago janey was the queen of my nights there in the darkness with the radio playing low
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Post by beth on Jan 30, 2009 15:03:14 GMT
another easy one. my lifetime theme song. it seems like yesterday, but it was long ago janey was the queen of my nights there in the darkness with the radio playing low Bob Seger Running Against the Wind Used to love Seger. Haven't listened to him in a long time. Nice One.
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 30, 2009 18:01:42 GMT
another easy one. my lifetime theme song. it seems like yesterday, but it was long ago janey was the queen of my nights there in the darkness with the radio playing low Bob Seger Running Against the Wind Used to love Seger. Haven't listened to him in a long time. Nice One. evidently, it was TOO easy. yeah, it's a great song, and describes me to a T
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 30, 2009 18:24:55 GMT
and you, my brown eyed girl, you-oo-oo my brown eyed girl.... got that one at least! I posted my answer I thought... mambo de la luna - Kirsty McColl. sha-la-la...
. See that Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison shite? Is that not just the worst song of all time? It's a dreadful song. I once walked out a nightclub (The Shed, Shawlands, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe) because they played that song. And I just thought that the kind of nighclub that played that song was not the kind of nighclub I could ever feel at home at. I have a deep and unsettling hatred for that song. It is so rubbish.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 30, 2009 18:25:49 GMT
BTW, I am lost as to which song lyric it is we are supposed to be guessing currently.
Could somebody clarify?
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 31, 2009 0:01:23 GMT
BTW, I am lost as to which song lyric it is we are supposed to be guessing currently. Could somebody clarify? there's a couple that haven't been guessed yet
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 31, 2009 0:02:53 GMT
and you, my brown eyed girl, you-oo-oo my brown eyed girl.... got that one at least! I posted my answer I thought... mambo de la luna - Kirsty McColl. sha-la-la...
. See that Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison shite? Is that not just the worst song of all time? It's a dreadful song. I once walked out a nightclub (The Shed, Shawlands, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe) because they played that song. And I just thought that the kind of nighclub that played that song was not the kind of nighclub I could ever feel at home at. I have a deep and unsettling hatred for that song. It is so rubbish. what do you have against good music? you say that you don't like the greatest rock and roll band of all time, then say you don't like one of the best bubble gummer songs of all time
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Post by beth on Jan 31, 2009 0:17:43 GMT
She's good on her music, Beth. I'll have to start posting some obscure ones to try and win back some points. So far I haven't got ANY of them right LOL! i'll help you out hon. here's one that, twelve years ago, i spent $130 to put on cassette. (title), just how you feel your love for me, might not be real, it's over now, but it was grand Jim, if that's an oldie called "I Understand", I can't imagine anybody else knowing it. It's only chance I do. When we were kids, my sister took piano lessons. Her teacher gave her one "pop" song a month if she did well with her Bach. She had this sheet music, and it stayed in the piano bench the whole time I was growing up. Don't recall the original artist unless it actually was . . . . . Freddie and the Dreamers '65 I promise I probably won't know any other obscure lyrics you have.
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Post by beth on Jan 31, 2009 0:20:31 GMT
BTW, I am lost as to which song lyric it is we are supposed to be guessing currently. Could somebody clarify? C'mon, RiotGirl, don't be mean. My 13 yr old loves Brown Eyed Girl. Good for VM - it has terrific shelf life. p.s. Lin and Trubble both have lyrics up on pg. 3.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 31, 2009 10:55:03 GMT
BTW, I am lost as to which song lyric it is we are supposed to be guessing currently. Could somebody clarify? C'mon, RiotGirl, don't be mean. My 13 yr old loves Brown Eyed Girl. Good for VM - it has terrific shelf life. p.s. Lin and Trubble both have lyrics up on pg. 3. Beth, in the interests of 'not being mean' I will freely admit that Brown Eyed Girl is NOT such a hideously bad song that my reaction to it is fully to be expected. It's not VM, it's me. And oh Lord, I hate that song. I really, really hate it. In my ears it sounds like bland American/Irish don't-frighten-the-horses RUBBISH. But each to her own; Chacun a son gout; one man's poison another man's fish etc.
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Post by trubble on Jan 31, 2009 13:07:07 GMT
Brown Eyed Girl is a great song that has been over played.
It has been played at so many parties, weddings and clubs, and so many times, sometimes more than once in an evening and the radio insists on keeping it on their playlists and films have used it...
It gets so that when you hear it you are trapped in it till the end, knowing every beat and chord change, like an evil deja vu and it's depressing because it's not like it was ever on your own list of songs that rock your world so you only know it so well because other people have forced the situation.
The same thing happens to brilliant phrases, we call them cliches. The song is a cliche now.
But it's still a great song.
My friend says that whenever a party somewhere is keeping you awake with their loud music and you suddenly find that you can bear it no more, it's always a Van Morrison song playing at the moment you snap.
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 31, 2009 14:29:04 GMT
i'll help you out hon. here's one that, twelve years ago, i spent $130 to put on cassette. (title), just how you feel your love for me, might not be real, it's over now, but it was grand Jim, if that's an oldie called "I Understand", I can't imagine anybody else knowing it. It's only chance I do. When we were kids, my sister took piano lessons. Her teacher gave her one "pop" song a month if she did well with her Bach. She had this sheet music, and it stayed in the piano bench the whole time I was growing up. Don't recall the original artist unless it actually was . . . . . Freddie and the Dreamers '65 I promise I probably won't know any other obscure lyrics you have. very good hon, you're absolutely right. i don't know if they were the original, but, the g-clefs did it before freddy. freddy and the dreamers actually had two versions. as i said, i spent a bunch to put it on cassette, because it hadn't been available in the u.s. for five years, and the cd had to be imported from holland. that meant that i had to get a cd player, and a couple other things to put it on cassette. i also had the line wrong. it's "your love for me, why not reveal" instead of "might not be real" although that goes better with the song, and, for the girl i intended it for, the most apt. what sucked was that there are 19 songs on the cd, and i didn't like any of the rest of them. my favorite version. i made an hour tape of it over and over again, and one time i went for a drive, 120 miles up and down the coast, and never took that tape out of the radio:
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Post by beth on Jan 31, 2009 20:19:06 GMT
Jim, if that's an oldie called "I Understand", I can't imagine anybody else knowing it. It's only chance I do. When we were kids, my sister took piano lessons. Her teacher gave her one "pop" song a month if she did well with her Bach. She had this sheet music, and it stayed in the piano bench the whole time I was growing up. I promise I probably won't know any other obscure lyrics you have. very good hon, you're absolutely right. i don't know if they were the original, but, the g-clefs did it before freddy. freddy and the dreamers actually had two versions. as i said, i spent a bunch to put it on cassette, because it hadn't been available in the u.s. for five years, and the cd had to be imported from holland. that meant that i had to get a cd player, and a couple other things to put it on cassette. i also had the line wrong. it's "your love for me, why not reveal" instead of "might not be real" although that goes better with the song, and, for the girl i intended it for, the most apt. what sucked was that there are 19 songs on the cd, and i didn't like any of the rest of them. my favorite version. i made an hour tape of it over and over again, and one time i went for a drive, 120 miles up and down the coast, and never took that tape out of the radio: That's quite a saga - between those two songs. "I Understand" is a vicious little ear-worm song anyway, so I'll bet you were semi-tranced after all that repetition. Did she come back, or did you just have to get over it?
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Post by beth on Jan 31, 2009 20:23:37 GMT
and you, my brown eyed girl, you-oo-oo my brown eyed girl.... got that one at least! I posted my answer I thought... mambo de la luna - Kirsty McColl. sha-la-la...
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Love is a temple Love is a shrine Buy some love at the five and dime A little bit of love From the counter store Get it on credit if you need some more. I wish someone would answer this one. If this is the song I'm thinking of, it's Annie Lennox and, I thought, "Love is a temple" or "Temple of Love" was the title - but maybe not, since you left that part in.
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Post by beth on Jan 31, 2009 20:37:35 GMT
Brown Eyed Girl is a great song that has been over played. It has been played at so many parties, weddings and clubs, and so many times, sometimes more than once in an evening and the radio insists on keeping it on their playlists and films have used it... It gets so that when you hear it you are trapped in it till the end, knowing every beat and chord change, like an evil deja vu and it's depressing because it's not like it was ever on your own list of songs that rock your world so you only know it so well because other people have forced the situation. The same thing happens to brilliant phrases, we call them cliches. The song is a cliche now. But it's still a great song. My friend says that whenever a party somewhere is keeping you awake with their loud music and you suddenly find that you can bear it no more, it's always a Van Morrison song playing at the moment you snap. You're totally right - a great song that has become cliche. Others that come to mind are many by Queen and the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel and Elton John and, even, Journey. I like 'em all in smallish doses but can easily see how they have been over-exposed. One thing to consider though - they are no less great - we're just tired. As RioGirl pointed out - it's mostly "us". I notice that especially because my daughter and her friends are just now discovering these artists and like them equally or better than the current hits. I love Into the Mystic and double-love Tupelo Honey - cliche or not.
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