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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #350 on: 20 January, 2010, 01:45:31 pm »
Music been used in TV programmes/football?

Probably but that's not the connection I'm thinking of.

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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #351 on: 20 January, 2010, 02:16:09 pm »
Famous songs / albums named after Cities?  Lou Reed's Berlin, JD's Warsawa, for example
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Tourist Tony

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #352 on: 20 January, 2010, 02:20:39 pm »
I think you may be right there. Brel had "Amsterdam", Ultravox "Vienna".....

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #353 on: 20 January, 2010, 02:23:15 pm »
Joy Division had an album called Warsaw too, and also Preston 28 February 1980

clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #354 on: 20 January, 2010, 02:24:51 pm »
Tangerine Dream did Poland, but maybe they have a 'Warsaw' as well...?
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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #355 on: 20 January, 2010, 02:26:34 pm »
Almost right - I'll give the point and hand over the Question Master's baton to RobM, though the link is actually more specific than that.

I'll leave it open in case anyone wants to keep guessing. NB it's songs rather than albums.

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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #356 on: 20 January, 2010, 02:35:16 pm »
Thank you Mr Smudge.

Sticking with the connections game, what do these three old tracks have in common?

All You Need is Love - The Beatles
I'm Mandy, Fly Me - 10cc
Los Endos - Genesis

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Woofage

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #357 on: 20 January, 2010, 03:25:02 pm »
Bits of national anthems?
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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #358 on: 20 January, 2010, 03:38:30 pm »
'fraid not. But it is a musical link.  And you've just given me an idea for another question!
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JT

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #359 on: 20 January, 2010, 03:51:22 pm »
Weird intros?
a great mind thinks alike

Woofage

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #360 on: 20 January, 2010, 04:07:40 pm »
Bits of other songs then (not necessarily national anthems...)?
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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #361 on: 20 January, 2010, 04:33:24 pm »
Bits of other songs then (not necessarily national anthems...)?

On the right lines - but I think I need you to be a bit more specific.
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #362 on: 20 January, 2010, 04:34:39 pm »
Do they quote previous songs by the artist themselves?

'She Loves You' is in 'All You Need Is Love'

'Los Endos' is a closer from Genesis which reprises some of their tunes

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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #363 on: 20 January, 2010, 04:39:58 pm »
Well done Clarion, close enough.

Paul McCartney sings a line from She Loves You at the end of All You need Is Love

I'm Mandy starts with four lines from Clockwork Creep, off the Sheet Music album

Los Endos closes with Phil Collins warbling a couple of lines from Supper's Ready, off the Foxtrot album
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #364 on: 20 January, 2010, 04:41:46 pm »
I'd never have got the 10cc reference, so yo're very kind.

I'm up to my ears in pension admin atm, so perhaps woofage should do the next question?
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #365 on: 20 January, 2010, 06:41:34 pm »
Because I am feeling generous I shall award the point to Clarion.

"Geburt Einer Nation" is Queen's "One Nation" translated into German.  The sole hit of bemulletted Austrian cheesemongers Opus1, "Live Is Life", actually appears twice - in English as "Opus Dei" and in German as "Leben Heißt Leben"
I'm not aware of any Queen song called One Nation. They did do One Vision though.
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Jaded

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #366 on: 20 January, 2010, 06:54:07 pm »
Who or what links Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel and Roger Eno.
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Woofage

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #367 on: 20 January, 2010, 07:02:32 pm »
Who or what links Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel and Roger Eno.

They're all from Suffolk?

BTW, I thought it was my turn?
Pen Pusher

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #368 on: 20 January, 2010, 07:06:32 pm »
Nope..Fripp is from Dorset and gabriel from Surrey.  Fripp produced Gabriels first solo album, and Gabriel and Eno founded a union, 'Frippertronics' for those sad enough to know was based on tape looping devised by Eno.

Jaded

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #369 on: 20 January, 2010, 07:06:58 pm »
Who or what links Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel and Roger Eno.

They're all from Suffolk?

BTW, I thought it was my turn?

It was!  ;D Fire away.

Mine hasn't been got yet...
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Woofage

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #370 on: 20 January, 2010, 07:13:04 pm »
Gabriel and Eno founded a union, 'Frippertronics'

Wouldn't that have been Brian, not Roger, Eno?
Pen Pusher

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #371 on: 20 January, 2010, 07:16:26 pm »
Can we please get back on topic? ie "Pop quiz" rather than obscure, wanky bollocks!!

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Woofage

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #372 on: 20 January, 2010, 07:20:31 pm »
While everyone is pondering Jaded's Q, here's a quick one:

Towards the end of the video to "Road to Nowhere" by Talking Heads there is an example of stop-frame animation using some unorthodox media. What was that media?
Pen Pusher

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #373 on: 20 January, 2010, 07:28:24 pm »
While everyone is pondering Jaded's Q, here's a quick one:

Towards the end of the video to "Road to Nowhere" by Talking Heads there is an example of stop-frame animation using some unorthodox media. What was that media?

I believe it may have been toast.

If I'm correct, and accepting that we now appear to have two questions ongoing (since Jaded's remains unanswered) then my question if "What was the name of OMD's 4 track tape recorder?"

jogler

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #374 on: 20 January, 2010, 07:29:46 pm »
This thread is getting a bit frayed at the edges :(