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Pant's Obscure Music Subject Quiz
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 14:28
by Dog Pants
Most songs are about love, some are about lust. Rarely, you get a song about something that's just weird. Try to guess which songs are about these subjects:
Mötley Crüe
Horror movies
Elvis and Prescilla Presley
Bombing Hiroshima - Enola faaabulous, OMD (Buzz)
Stalking
Heroin - Golden Brown, The Stranglers (Fabyak)
A prostitute - Roxanne, The Police (Randomgazz)
Woking
Dislike of performing on stage
Frankenstein - China In Your Hand, T'Pau (FJ)
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 14:45
by amblin
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Posted: July 30th, 2009, 14:50
by Dog Pants
Heroine as in the drug. Penguins and cats?
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 15:08
by buzzmong
Enola faaabulous by OMD is about Hiroshima isn't it?
Psst, Pants, the drug is Heroin. No 'e'.
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 15:09
by amblin
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Posted: July 30th, 2009, 15:10
by Dog Pants
Hiroshima, and the bombing of, is indeed the subject of Enola faaabulous by OMD.
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 15:13
by fabyak
Heroin - Golden Brown by The Stranglers?
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 15:14
by Dog Pants
fabyak wrote:Heroin - Golden Brown by The Stranglers?
Correct!
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 15:16
by randomgazz
A prostitute- Roxanne by Sting and the Police
as for heroin, I was going to say perfect day - Lou Reed
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 15:18
by Dog Pants
randomgazz wrote:A prostitute- Roxanne by Sting and the Police
as for heroin, I was going to say perfect day - Lou Reed
Correct! You could well be right about Perfect Day. Lou Reed was a bit peculiar.
Re: Pant's Obscure Music Subject Quiz
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 16:42
by FatherJack
Dog Pants wrote:Frankenstein
China in your Hand by T'Pau
Re: Pant's Obscure Music Subject Quiz
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 16:49
by Dog Pants
FatherJack wrote:
China in your Hand by T'Pau
Correct!
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 18:22
by Roman Totale
Didn't The Clash do a song about Woking? I forget the name and I refuse to Google-fu.
Probably lots of songs about stalking, but the one that instantly springs to mind is 'Why won't you give me your love' by The Zutons (only song of theirs I like).
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 18:27
by Dog Pants
You might be right on both counts, but they're not the ones I was thinking of. The Clash is close, right era. They might well all be 80s songs actually, I've not checked the dates but they're all thereabouts. Not deliberately, just what I know.
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 20:00
by Sol
Dog Pants wrote:
Correct!
Sorry you're both wrong, it's about toast.
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 20:20
by Dog Pants
Sol wrote:
Sorry you're both wrong, it's about toast.
http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/profile.ph ... rofile&u=2 ?
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 20:20
by HereComesPete
Song about stalking?
There's about fifty songs called I want you. Cure did 'pictures of you', blondie 'one way or another' and then about a million songs by the smiths and morrisey involve stalkery lyrics.
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 20:29
by Dog Pants
HereComesPete wrote:Song about stalking?
There's about fifty songs called I want you. Cure did 'pictures of you', blondie 'one way or another' and then about a million songs by the smiths and morrisey involve stalkery lyrics.
Well this particular one is often mistaken for a love song. The writer was quoted as saying "One couple told me 'Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!' I thought, Well, good luck."
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 20:37
by HereComesPete
Oh that one! Did not know that, never really listened to the werds mind.
Tangent - Anyone else not give the slightest fuck about this current slew of young popsters like la roux and pixie lott and little boots? Because all this shit is doing to me is hurting my ears and making my fists itch.
Posted: July 30th, 2009, 20:40
by Dog Pants
Don't really pay attention to them. I've noticed an 80s electro influence in music lately, which would be good but they seem to be missing the mark and ending up in the musical equivalent of Uncanny Valley.
Did you google that quote then? I assume so since you didn't post an answer.