But every now and again, people will insert things from dustier corners of the dictionary.
Some of the songs and artists are pretty obscure, but many of them are mainstream acts.
No artists are represented twice in my list, but the point here is to find a song that contains each word. If it's not the same as the one I have, that's OK.
Happy Hunting!
- Parallelogram
- Pentathol
- Pneumothorax
- Pacman
- Stickleback
- Aplomb
- Pogonip
- Filibuster
- Posthumous
- Boobs
- Dermatitis
- Plebian
- Parasol
- Annoint
- Paramours
- Cubicles
- Mohair
- Yonks
- Spiffing
- Pesto
- Pompatus
- Epistemology
- Pancake
- Pavlovian
- Facsimile
- Humdrum
- Backgammon
- Pneumonia
- Gavotte
- Semolina
Below are some answers.
- parallelogram, Motörhead , Motörhead , submitted by John.
- pentathol,
- pneumothorax,
- pacman,
- stickleback,
- aplomb,
- pogonip,
- filibuster, Birdhouse in your soul, They Might be Giants, Submitted by Jim Bliss
- posthumous, Forgotten Sons, Marillion, Submitted by John
- boobs,
- dermatitis,
- plebeian,Cry me a river, Various artists, submitted by Jim Bliss
- parasol, Parasol, Tori Amos, submitted by Jim Bliss
Monster in your Parasol, Queens of the Stone Age, submitted by John. - annoint, Silver Waterfalls, Siouxie and the Banshees, submitted by Jim Bliss
- paramours,
- cubicles,
- mohair, Mohair Locker Room Pinup Boys, submitted by Jim Bliss
- yonks
- spiffing
- pesto
- pompatus, The Joker, Steve Miller Band, submitted by Jim Bliss
- epistemology
- pancake, St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast, Frank Zappa, submitted by Jim Bliss
- pavlovian
- facsimile, The Collector, The Legendary Pink Dots, submitted by Jim Bliss
- humdrum, Humdrum, Peter Gabriel, submitted by Jim Bliss
Humdrum, The Dean and I, 10cc, submitted by Nanook - backgammon
- pneumonia, Dust Pneumonia Blues, Woodie Guthrie, submitted by Jim Bliss (could only find a cover version on youtube)Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu, The Flamin' Groovies, submitted by John
- gavotte
- semolina, I am The Walrus, The Beatles, submitted by Jim Bliss
Semolina, The Residents, submitted by Nanook
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21 comments:
I'm sure there's another couple that might leap to mind given time. But I got a fair few. Wouldn't have gotten the Adam Ant one if the word wasn't in the title (don't actually know the lyrics to that song, but I do own the 'Vive Le Rock' album for reasons lost in the midst of time). Same is true of the Woody Guthrie song which I'm not too familiar with, but know the title of. The rest are songs I know fairly well though.
Claymore: Several Species of Small Furry Animals / Pink Floyd (not sure if that particular rant counts as "lyrics" though)
Filibuster: Birdhouse in Your Soul / They Might Be Giants (not only are we instructed to "filibuster" in this song, but we're instructed to do so vigilantly)
Plebeian: Cry Me A River / Lots of people
Parasol: Parasol / Tori Amos (and I seem to remember the word in a Syd Barrett song, though I can't recall which one... quick google and I now know which one, but I won't add it here... google is cheating after all)
Annoint: Silver Waterfalls / Siouxsie and the Banshees
Mohair: Mohair Locker Room Pinup Boys / Adam and the Ants
Pompatus: The Joker / Steve Miller
Pancake: St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast / Frank Zappa
Facsimile: The Collector / The Legendary Pink Dots (actually it's in the plural... as in: "15,934 plastic facsimilies of the Eiffel
Tower"... a gloriously weird song)
Humdrum: Humdrum / Peter Gabriel
Pneumonia: Dust Pneumonia Blues / Woody Guthrie
Semolina (easy one): I Am The Walrus / The Beatles
"midst of time"? What an odd phrase! Pretty certain I meant "mists".
The adam and the ants one is a different but equally valid choice to what I have :)
Ditto, Pancake, Mohair, facsimile, humdrum, pneumonia, and annoint!
Having several answers to each word is fine though. I will try to fill out this post with links or embedded videos or copied and pasted lyrics, etc as answers come in.
My apologies by the way. I had two Pink Floyd ones, and I replaced Claymore. Your post crossed with this.
That is a small clue to one of the words of course.
Glad you posted that 'They Might be Giants' video. It's a while since I heard the song and hearing it now took me right back...
Ella Fitzgerald's version of 'Cry Me a River' is amazing. In a dream I had while back, I was in a club listening to Tom Waits singing 'Cry Me a River'. In the dream I thought to myself, "this is the *perfect* cover version" and the thought carried a weight of significance that can only be found in dreams.
Which is why I felt an irrational sense of disappointment when I checked out the track listing of the new Tom Waits album and there was no 'Cry Me a River'. Still looking forward to listening to the album though.
Number 30. Semolina by The Residents from the album Duck Stab/Buster & Glen.
Number 26. Humdrum from the song The Dean and I by 10cc
Thank you. Keep them coming :) There's at least three "humdrum"s then.
Parallelogram - Motorhead-Motorhead
4th day ,5 day marathon,we're moving like a Parallelogram
Parasol -Queens of the Stoneage Monster In A Parasol
Pacman - I'm sure PWEI mentioned Pacman but I could be confusing it with Big Macs, anyone else
Thanks John. It was the incongruity of a British Heavy Metal band using a word as incongruous as "parallelogram" that gave me the idea for this quiz in the first place :)
Your 'answer' for the word, 'pacman' is too tenuous to count sorry.
This is turning into a cool as fuck playlist :o)
Pacman - it was tenuous, I was thinking pacman, it was in fact watchmen , from Def Con One IIRC
Rockin' Pnuemonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu by the Flamin' Groovies,Aerosmith & many others
Marillion - Forgotton Sons
For a second you'll be famous but labeled posthumous - thats posthumous sorted and your great playlist knackered
Of the new ones you've added, one is rather obvious... Syd Barrett's Effervescing Elephant ("... with tiny eyes, and great big trunk...")
Maintaining the "unexpected lyric" theme...
As a result of this quiz I've just listened to Frank Zappa's St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast and Adam Ant's Mohair Locker Room Pinup Boys back-to-back which - even in these days of the mp3-shuffle - probably isn't done too often.
And oddly enough, one of the things that jumped out at me was the fact that both songs contain the word "margerine".
Also, thanks to this quiz, I listened to The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse by The Legendary Pink Dots today. Seriously good album. I recommend it if you're not familiar with it.
lol@John.
I'm not discriminating. There's a couple of turkeys on my list I think.
4. 'Pacman' is in Oh My God by The Kaiser Chiefs.
14. The word 'Annoint' is mentioned in a James B-side, titled Honest Pleasure.
26. 'Humdrum' is in William It Was Really Nothing by The Smiths.
I'll post if any of the others spring to mind.
annoint is also in The Conjuring by Megadeth, annoint is becoming more of an expected lyric by the minute, I'm sure it's a go to word in black metal circles 'with the blood of belphogore I annoint thy wizardly knob' etc
Can I just say the Stickleback lyric is annoying the hell out of me because I'm sure it was an answer in a pub quiz awhile ago and I just cannot remember it
I also know a couple of others because I googled the meanings and they gave the answer away but as I wouldn't have got them in a million years I'm keeping schtum
stickleback The Carpet Crawlers by Genesis, knew I'd heard it somewhere
Apologies for not updating this post for a few days. Not the most energised of states of mind at the moment. I will try to add videos for the answers I've been given, and provide the list I had over the next few days.
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