Author Topic: Pop quiz  (Read 174261 times)

nicknack

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1175 on: 17 February, 2010, 04:43:53 pm »
After you.

No, after you.

Etc...

Here's a quick one anyway.

What song are these the opening lyrics to: (easily gooooglable I suppose)

"It's been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town"

<edit> Ha! Beaten to it anyway. Is that Mr Gurtu?

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1176 on: 17 February, 2010, 04:44:49 pm »
Trilok Gurtu it is!

PaulF

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1177 on: 17 February, 2010, 05:04:37 pm »
After you.

No, after you.

Etc...

Here's a quick one anyway.

What song are these the opening lyrics to: (easily gooooglable I suppose)

"It's been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town"

<edit> Ha! Beaten to it anyway. Is that Mr Gurtu?



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nicknack

  • Hornblower
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1178 on: 17 February, 2010, 05:17:34 pm »
Ho, yus.

Too easy.  :)
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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1179 on: 20 February, 2010, 08:19:21 pm »
anybody want to ask a question?
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1180 on: 21 February, 2010, 01:41:09 pm »
What connects

Starship
Kenny Loggins
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Rembrandts

and

Groove Armada?
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1181 on: 21 February, 2010, 05:16:49 pm »
They're all pretty shit? ;D
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1182 on: 22 February, 2010, 11:34:52 am »
Three of them are pretty much one-hit wonders from a UK perspective.  And Mozart was mightily prolific.

I'm thinking (based purely on the Rembrandts link) that they all provided the sig tunes to TV programmes, but, beyond Friends, I couldn't speculate which. :(

Kenny Loggins did Footloose, didn't he?  Was there a TV series of that?

*grasping at straws*
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1183 on: 22 February, 2010, 11:44:23 am »
Three of them are pretty much one-hit wonders from a UK perspective.  And Mozart was mightily prolific.

I'm thinking (based purely on the Rembrandts link) that they all provided the sig tunes to TV programmes, but, beyond Friends, I couldn't speculate which. :(

Kenny Loggins did Footloose, didn't he?  Was there a TV series of that?

*grasping at straws*

Uncle Peter's German Singing Owls sang "Footloose" on The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer...

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1184 on: 22 February, 2010, 11:46:35 am »
 And Mozart was mightily prolific.

I'm thinking (based purely on the Rembrandts link) that they all provided the sig tunes to TV programmes,

If that's the case, then you can add Mozart's 'A Musical Joke (presto)' into it.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DwVS1dK-I7M&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/DwVS1dK-I7M&rel=1</a>.
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1185 on: 22 February, 2010, 11:50:51 am »
Struggling with the TV connection, but Starship's 'Nothing Gonna Stop Us' was in a film.  And, er, there was Amadeus.

Rembrandts & GA still don't fit though.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1186 on: 22 February, 2010, 11:53:34 am »
Quote from: Marbeaux
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citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1187 on: 22 February, 2010, 12:02:23 pm »
If that's the case, then you can add Mozart's 'A Musical Joke (presto)' into it.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DwVS1dK-I7M&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/DwVS1dK-I7M&rel=1</a>.

Also...

Chas & Dave (mis)appropriated Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for their theme song to The Happy Apple, a sitcom from the very early 80s in which Leslie Ash played a young lady called Nancy who worked in an advertising agency.

The song started off: "Nan-cy is a secreta-a-ry / In an ad-vertising agency..." but I can't remember the rest.

Since I seem to be the only person in the world who ever watched this show, I sometimes wonder if it's really the product of my fevered imagination.

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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1188 on: 22 February, 2010, 12:05:56 pm »
Crikey...

Just googled The Happy Apple and it turns out that not only did I not imagine it, but Keith Waterhouse wrote it.

"The Happy Apple" (1983)

d.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1189 on: 22 February, 2010, 12:47:56 pm »
You're along the right lines with themes. Find the relevant Groove Armada piece, and that should help you with the others.

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1190 on: 22 February, 2010, 12:49:21 pm »
Groove Armada did 'Shakin my ass' on the Megane advert. Is 'car adverts' the connection ?

rob

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1191 on: 22 February, 2010, 03:05:48 pm »
but Starship's 'Nothing Gonna Stop Us' was in a film. 

Mannequin.   Embarrassed I know that.

I was thinking brat-pack movies as Kenny Loggins did Footloose.   The Rembrandts did the theme to Friends so maybe someone guested in that.


rob

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1192 on: 22 February, 2010, 03:38:02 pm »
I've got the link to the first two artists now, but had to google the Groove Armada theme to figure it out.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1193 on: 22 February, 2010, 07:56:41 pm »
Groove Armada did 'Shakin my ass' on the Megane advert. Is 'car adverts' the connection ?
No, not adverts.

Mannequin.   Embarrassed I know that.

That's what gave me the idea for the question. Well. The other day I was cycling to work and Together In Electric Dreams came on my mp3 player and my thoughts went "oh, that was in Mannequin. No, it was in something else. Can't remember what. The one with the flying dragon thing? No, that was Limahl. Electric Dreams, maybe? Never saw it. What was in Mannequin? Oh yeah, Starship. Oh, and you know who was in that?" and that's how the question was born.
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1194 on: 22 February, 2010, 08:29:38 pm »
Together in Electric dreams was in a film called, not unsurprisingly, Electric Dreams. It is to my utmost horror and shame that I finally have to own up, not only to having the soundtrack LP, but the special edition with fancy plastic sleeve. That was forgiveable, maybe, as it was in 1984 and I was going through a "phase". However, that does not allow my loaning of it from Lovefilm late last year to watch the pile of shite again 'for old time's sake'.

Utter, utter crap.
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Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1195 on: 22 February, 2010, 08:40:16 pm »
Together in Electric dreams was in a film called, not unsurprisingly, Electric Dreams.
Utter, utter crap.

I beg to differ; due to some loyalty to Phil Oakey's great song I got it out on video (on Betamax IIRC), it's not even deserving of the term crap;

awful awful film about a student who buys a computer which then takes over his whole house then life then gets jealous about his girlfriend before committing suicide by connecting itself to the US grid.

The rest of the soundtrack is also sh1te

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1196 on: 23 February, 2010, 06:19:52 pm »
Clearly I am too ingenious for you so I will give you a clue, which is

Mannequin
Footloose
Amadeus
Friends
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1197 on: 24 February, 2010, 11:28:57 am »
Even with that, which I got to before, I am stumped. ;D
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1198 on: 24 February, 2010, 11:37:06 am »
Groove Armada's product must surely have featured in a Motion Picture and/or Televisual Presentation, as have the products of the others mentioned...
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1199 on: 24 February, 2010, 02:25:42 pm »
Is it Sex and the City? ( I know three of them were in the 3 films - and I assume the other had a brief appearance in Friends)