Author Topic: Pop quiz  (Read 174184 times)

jogler

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #825 on: 31 January, 2010, 11:00:50 am »

Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #826 on: 31 January, 2010, 12:12:39 pm »
another connection;

Kate Bush
The Beatles
Depeche Mode
New Order
Eminem

clue; think of another thread on this board  ???

clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #827 on: 31 January, 2010, 04:07:46 pm »
Here's a question, then.

How would a Mexican Whistler and Celina's other half be able to better inform the Only Man On The Island?

All right, then, ya bunch o' quitters! ;D

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ICc2MiApS30&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ICc2MiApS30&rel=1</a> was the signature track of Roger Whittaker, famously born in Nairobi, Kenya.  Celina, for those fond of World Music, is probably the most famous Kenyan pop song, by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z5d_1GW-ieE&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Z5d_1GW-ieE&rel=1</a>.  He was a Kikuyu, but certainly had more knowledge of Nairobi than Tommy Steele, who recorded the execrable single <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/IZ1_vpsGCM8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/IZ1_vpsGCM8&rel=1</a>.  Another of his criminal records was The Only Man On The Island.
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #828 on: 31 January, 2010, 09:59:19 pm »
another connection;

Kate Bush
The Beatles
Depeche Mode
New Order
Eminem

clue; think of another thread on this board  ???

OK, I'm thinking cover versions (since no one else seems to be having a go).

We know that Kate Bush does very few covers, but maybe it's a cover of one of her tracks.

The only one I can think of is The Lemonheads' Running Up That Hill.

EDIT: I think that's Placebo.  Seems that it's Futureheads who did Hounds of Love :-[

For the otehrs, I can think of surprisingly few cover versions (except, of course, the Beatles, who every man & his dog have done).  Johnny Cash did Personal Jesus.
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Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #829 on: 01 February, 2010, 07:56:44 am »
no; think album covers

Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #830 on: 01 February, 2010, 10:25:24 am »
All had black and white album cover photos rather than colour?  I can think of The Dreaming, Sensual World, With the Beatles and one of the New Order ones. Can't claim familiarity with M&M and Depeche Mode
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #831 on: 01 February, 2010, 10:26:42 am »
Wasn't Hounds of Love B/W too?

The Dreaming was sepia.

Depeche Mode did have one with a B/w photo, but I have no idea what it was called, but I think it was a compilation
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Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #832 on: 01 February, 2010, 10:33:43 am »
Hounds was colour on the front, mono on the back.  She got a bit of stick for the front cover (with two dogs) which some people found erotic.  The back cover was to illustrate the other half of the album, the Ninth Wave, and has her covered in seaweed and other ocean debris.  The things artists go through.
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Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #833 on: 01 February, 2010, 11:11:05 am »


Depeche Mode did have one with a B/w photo, but I have no idea what it was called, but I think it was a compilation

101 (live double album)

no it's not the colour of the sleeves; something else

Redlight

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #834 on: 01 February, 2010, 11:24:28 am »
Oh, hang on.  Album covers that don't feature the name of the act on them.

e.g. Abbey Road, Aeriels,
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Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #835 on: 01 February, 2010, 11:31:50 am »
Oh, hang on.  Album covers that don't feature the name of the act on them.

e.g. Abbey Road, Aeriels,

no; although one of the covers in question does not have the name of the act or title on it

Pingu

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #836 on: 01 February, 2010, 12:40:28 pm »
Guess:

Sensual World (Bush) & Power, Corruption & Lies (New Order) & Sgt Pepper (Beatles) have flowers on the sleeves.

Edit: just used a famous interweb serach engine & found an Eminem & a Depeche Mode album with flowers.

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #837 on: 01 February, 2010, 12:41:49 pm »
Dosn't Violator have a flower on it?
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Martin

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #838 on: 01 February, 2010, 12:44:27 pm »
Guess:

Sensual World (Bush) & Power, Corruption & Lies (New Order) & Sgt Pepper (Beatles) have flowers on the sleeves.

Edit: just used a famous interweb serach engine & found an Eminem & a Depeche Mode album with flowers.


is correct! all roses too if I'm not mistaken (the Eminem one is Curtain Call)

Violator is indeed the DM one

Pingu

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #839 on: 01 February, 2010, 12:46:40 pm »
A quickie:

David Bowie
The Cure
Belle & Sebastian

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #840 on: 01 February, 2010, 12:53:44 pm »
God that one's easy!
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #841 on: 01 February, 2010, 01:03:35 pm »
I know. I wanted to pass the buck quickly, but didn't have a question prepared. Are you going to answer?  :demon:

citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #842 on: 01 February, 2010, 01:42:04 pm »
Guess:

Sensual World (Bush) & Power, Corruption & Lies (New Order) & Sgt Pepper (Beatles) have flowers on the sleeves.

Edit: just used a famous interweb serach engine & found an Eminem & a Depeche Mode album with flowers.


Bugger! I was going to say that but I couldn't remember a Beatles album with flowers on the cover.

D'oh!

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Mrs Pingu

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #843 on: 01 February, 2010, 01:43:24 pm »
I know. I wanted to pass the buck quickly, but didn't have a question prepared. Are you going to answer?  :demon:
No, because I don't have a question :)
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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #844 on: 01 February, 2010, 03:37:54 pm »
Is the link anything to do with boys? As in...

The Boy With The Arab Strap - B&S
Three Imaginary Boys - The Cure
Boys Keep Swinging - Bowie

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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #845 on: 01 February, 2010, 03:38:30 pm »
Or Boys Don't Cry
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Pingu

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #846 on: 01 February, 2010, 03:41:24 pm »
That's a link but I was thinking of Secret Life of Arabia, Killing an Arab & The Boy with the Arab Strap  ::-)

On you go CS  :thumbsup:

citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #847 on: 01 February, 2010, 03:51:42 pm »
Okey dokey! Give me a minute to think of a question...
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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #848 on: 01 February, 2010, 04:10:16 pm »
Linky, pls...

Ladytron
Madness
The Sisters Of Mercy
Motorhead
Shakespear's Sister
Stiff Little Fingers
Death Cab For Cutie

Not difficult - you probably only need to have even heard of one or two of the bands to get the link.

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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #849 on: 01 February, 2010, 04:12:33 pm »
All named after songs by someone else?
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