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SouthernN'Proud
7/19/05, 11:34pm
Or at least I think it will be. I won concert tickets a few years ago on this question, actually proved the DJ wrong by giving a song he wasn't ready for.
To the best of my knowledge, only two popular rock songs have the word "stadium" in the lyrics. Name them.
Apollo Fourty Four had a song, Stadium Parking Lot. #2?
SouthernN'Proud
7/20/05, 12:14am
Never heard of that one. Both of these are well known staples on classic rock stations.
Oh, right right...
Everybody knows that Rock and Roll achieved perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact!
:D
SouthernN'Proud
7/20/05, 12:42am
1973, actually. KISS debuted. :lloyd:
So it was all downhill from the first album?
SouthernN'Proud
7/20/05, 01:20am
:trout:
SouthernN'Proud
7/20/05, 06:35pm
1. "Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you..."
2. "And the words of the prophets
Were written on the stadium walls,
Concert hall"
unclehobart
7/20/05, 06:42pm
Brown Eyed Girl
Sound of Silence
SouthernN'Proud
7/20/05, 07:09pm
Close...
Brown Eyed Girl
Limelight (Rush)
unclehobart
7/21/05, 05:30am
Limelight
Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage
Cast in this unlikely role,
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact
Living in the limelight
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation
The underlying theme
Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can't pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend
All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage
umm...
unclehobart
7/21/05, 05:34am
sound of silence (excerpt)
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out it’s warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, "the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whisper’d in the sounds of silence.
Its closer... but not dead on. Are you sure the lyric exists?
SouthernN'Proud
7/21/05, 09:13am
Ack...brain fart on my part. I was thinking Spirit of Radio and typed Limelight...
Begin the day
With a friendly voice
A companion, unobtrusive
Plays that song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood
Off on your way
Hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact
In your happy solitude
Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy
Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price ---
Almost free...
All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question
Of your honesty
One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity
"For the words of the prophets
Are written on the stadium wall,
Concert hall ---
Echoes with the sounds...
Of salesmen."
unclehobart
7/21/05, 09:39am
Thought that might have been it... I just couldn't remember the title 'Spirit of Radio'.
I heard the song today, and I have to ask... are you sure it's not studio wall instead of stadium wall?
*Revive*
I thought we had a lyric trivia thread...appears I been smoking something. So I'll hijack this.
Simple enough, guess the song and artist (no cheating with search engines) and then it's your turn up to bat.
I don't know but I've been told,
If you keep on dancing you'll never grow old.
*Revive*
I thought we had a lyric trivia thread...appears I been smoking something. So I'll hijack this.
Simple enough, guess the song and artist (no cheating with search engines) and then it's your turn up to bat.
I don't know but I've been told,
If you keep on dancing you'll never grow old.
I won't GoogleCheat, but damn that sounds familiar...
And hey- puff,puff, pass!
Nope.
Gimmee that back when your done.
Sounds like a Military march song
"I don't know, but I been told.
Eskimo p@ssy's mighty cold!"
*poke*Some kinda weird cadence when y'all Navy swabs was tryin to learn how to march?
:hmm: no...duh...we marched cadence to Popeye the Sailor Man.
Is it Neil Young? (brain cells fire then go dormant again)
UUUuuhh- Springsteen?
Dammit-used to be good at this.
BeardofPants
7/28/08, 05:03pm
Tom Petty? Or... no Steve Miller Band?
.....Maybe. Still need the song title.
If I'd kept on dancing, maybe I wouldn't be having this senile brain fart. Damnit, I can hear the guitar riff and everything!
BeardofPants
7/28/08, 05:10pm
Don't know the title. :eh: I'm pretty sure it's one of those two though. Someone else'll hafta guess.
Mwah-haha!
Yer a cruel, cruel woman! (right on the tip of me wee brain syndrome)
paul_valaru
7/28/08, 05:20pm
Dance
dance dance
Bingo, Paulie! You're up.
Paul's turn, but I'll throw one in here. Name the song and band that references U.S. Highway 441.
I know one with Hwy 41....as in "I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus rolling down HWY 41".
I know one with Hwy 41....as in "I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus rolling down HWY 41".
"Lord, I was born a rambling Man"
but the 441 ref. is a Florida band- that's all the hints you get
WDMG- "Worst Damn Music in Georgia"- playin' the Hits! -all 5 of 'em!
:hmm: no...duh...we marched cadence to Popeye the Sailor Man.
"C-130 rollin down the strip
Airborne Daddy gonna take a lil' trip..."
oh.....oh...now that stirs up something in the archive of my brain.
I know one with Hwy 41....as in "I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus rolling down HWY 41".
Damn, y'all- chcs got it awhile back, but was a sport and let you all keep guessing. Okay, Paul- whatcha got for us from the Great White North?
paul_valaru
7/28/08, 11:08pm
Damn, y'all- chcs got it awhile back, but was a sport and let you all keep guessing. Okay, Paul- whatcha got for us from the Great White North?
ahem...
song mentions Milhaven maximum security
paul_valaru
7/29/08, 10:35am
Crap.
nope, that is neither the song, nor the band.
It was the sentiment I meant. I need coffee for this.
paul_valaru
7/29/08, 10:40am
a hint
Millhaven Institution is a maximum security prison located in Bath, Ontario. Roughly 400 inmates are incarcerated at Millhaven.
Aha! You Canucki rock is tricky. I got it but I cheated...which made me feel bad because the song is in my media player.
ahem...
song mentions Milhaven maximum security
Heard this on CBC Radio1 - a song about a guy riding the trains who gets arrested and taken off the train.
Something like "I'll never go back to (city name here)*Probably Milhaven :P
..or not.
Damn thing rings a bell
paul_valaru
7/29/08, 02:12pm
nope
Anyone? Does Paul need to be declared the victor and pick again? I cheated so I can not answer.
FOund the thread again...and thanks to CHOM, I may well have the partial answer.
38 years old - U2, I think. Or The Hip, maybe Counting Crows
(I can google the band name, but that's cheating)
It's the Hip! I am so ashamed of my self for taking the easy way out. I like that song.
Fate. I'd never have gotten it if it hadn't played on the radio.
Here's an oldie but a toughie.
On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves
..
Washes the ground with so many tears
..
A soldier cleans and polishes a gun
..
War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions
God's finger.
..in my ears?
/me wonders what he isn't supposed to hear. :D
paul_valaru
7/30/08, 04:47pm
Here's an oldie but a toughie.
On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves
..
Washes the ground with so many tears
..
A soldier cleans and polishes a gun
..
War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions
toughie??
I work at a herbal place,
scarborough fair
parsley sage rosemary & thyme.
oh and 38 years old by the hip was correct.
:P
Not that many people know the 2nd part of that canticle.
paul_valaru
7/30/08, 05:06pm
:P
Not that many people know the 2nd part of that canticle.
Dude, friday night, apres LEXX marathons
paul_valaru
7/30/08, 05:07pm
Soldier blue on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Run to the hills by Iron Maiden.
"...and deep beneath the rolling waves
in labyrinths of coral caves..."
"...and deep beneath the rolling waves
in labyrinths of coral caves..."
I know it isn't the correct song but these lyrics have put Octopus's Garden by The Beatles in my head.
Oh! Is the Agua Man correct? If so, he's up.
paul_valaru
7/31/08, 09:59am
Run to the hills by Iron Maiden.
correct
I am guessing that H2O Boy isn't going to come back and ask a question so I will go.
If we'd go again
All the way from the start,
I would try to change
The things that killed our love.
still loving you - scorpions
Take the children and yourself
And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don't believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I'm with the high command
Good one! I had to sing the verse several times to remember the title. Haven't heard that in ages.
Silent Running - Mike & The Mechanics :D
That's correct, you're up :D
Sweet days of summer, the jasmine's in bloom
July is dressed up and playing her tune
When I come home from a hard days work
And you're waiting there, not a care in the world
Seals and Crofts -- Summer Breeze
...makes me feel fine
Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind...
"And the burglar alarm's been disconnected
And the newsmen start to rattle
And the cops are telling jokes
About some whorehouse in Seattle..."
Hint: I left out the par about "raconteurs and roustabouts said buddy come on in" because I figured that made it too easy. ;)
Okay, that was "Small Change" by Tom Waits. Try this one:
"Grandad grew the dry land wheat.
Stood up on his own two feet,
'Til his mind got incomplete
And they put him in the home..."
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