Author Topic: Pop quiz  (Read 174294 times)

jogler

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1550 on: 14 May, 2010, 06:02:55 pm »
OK, not a stinker, but amusing:

Stop!  Please please please don't be cruel, halfway up and halfway down.

No longer.  Couldn't agree with the

Great Heart



?????? are you on some sort of whacky baccy

Pingu

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1551 on: 14 May, 2010, 08:22:44 pm »
Please, please, please - James Brown?

clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1552 on: 16 May, 2010, 09:43:47 pm »
Pingu, as ever, your mighty brain and vast knowledge point you in the right direction. :)  Keep going.
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1553 on: 17 May, 2010, 05:00:33 pm »
OK, there's not much movement, so I'll make it clearer.  How might the artists of:

Stop! 

Please Please Please

Don't Be Cruel

and

Halfway Up And Halfway Down.

be on their way out because of the decision of the artist of:

Great Heart ?
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1554 on: 04 June, 2010, 10:50:13 am »
No one?

It's a shade less topical now.

James Brown is certainly an important part of the answer... :-\
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1555 on: 04 June, 2010, 11:01:32 am »
This took me a while to think I've got it figured out.  "Stop!" is by Sam Brown, "Please Please Please" by James Brown and "Don't be Cruel" by Bobby Brown.  Haven't got a clue about "Halfway Up And Halfway Down", but it probably wasn't written by Alistair Darling  ;D

"Great Heart" was originally by Johnny Clegg & Savuka, whose namesake Nick got into be with the Bastard Tories™ and thereby prevented Mr Gordon Brown from remaining as The Prime Minister.
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1556 on: 04 June, 2010, 11:05:31 am »
At last I am released!  Good work, Mr L, though I'd hoped that you'd have recognised Halfway Up And Halfway Down by the great Dennis Brown (famous in this country mainly for Money In My Pocket) rather than the Bobby Brown, which I had to gewgle. ;D

Apart from that lacuna in the reggae department, correct in every particular. :thumbsup:
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1557 on: 04 June, 2010, 11:09:13 am »
OK, quiet everyone.  I iz having a thinkz.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1558 on: 04 June, 2010, 11:45:36 am »
I am a band.  In the course of my career I have visited - well, sort of - New Jersey, Paris, Turkey and/or Syria and/or Iraq, and Roswell.  Who am I?
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clarion

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1559 on: 04 June, 2010, 11:53:56 am »
You are a git, more like. ;D

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citoyen

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1560 on: 04 June, 2010, 12:09:52 pm »
Bon Jovi?
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1561 on: 04 June, 2010, 02:33:13 pm »
You are a git, more like. ;D

*goes to ponder*

I was thinking more along the lines of "tragic waste of fossil fuel" ;D

Bon Jovi?

Nope.
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1562 on: 04 June, 2010, 02:41:15 pm »
Saxon?  I'm thinking 'Crusader' for a start...

EDIT: Rethink.  The only place I can think that's mentioned in the entire Saxon oeuvre is Dallas, and that's rather outside New Jersey. :-\
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1563 on: 04 June, 2010, 03:47:52 pm »
Not Saxon.
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RJ

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1564 on: 04 June, 2010, 10:44:27 pm »
I'm thinking waste disposal ...

PaulF

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1565 on: 30 June, 2010, 11:12:12 am »
As Mr Larrington seems to have stumped the collective wisdom here's hopefully something a little easier.

What links Brian Jones and Winnie the Pooh?

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1566 on: 30 June, 2010, 11:19:30 am »
They both liked honey?
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PaulF

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1567 on: 30 June, 2010, 11:32:20 am »
They both liked honey?

Not quite the answer that I was looking for :)

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1568 on: 30 June, 2010, 11:36:05 am »
They were both murdered by Mick Jagger?

Jaded

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1569 on: 30 June, 2010, 11:38:54 am »
Heffalump traps?
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1570 on: 30 June, 2010, 11:46:24 am »
I am a band.  In the course of my career I have visited - well, sort of - New Jersey, Paris, Turkey and/or Syria and/or Iraq, and Roswell.  Who am I?

Hmm. UFO related, but I bet you didn't know there was a band called UFO, and I have no idea what their wider connection to the other places would be.

B52's sounds possible.... but Paris?

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1571 on: 30 June, 2010, 11:53:16 am »
Yes, there is a band called UFO, but I can't think of any way to connect them to the other places (and I did own a substantial part of their oeuvre until I was relieved of it in an unscheduled manner).

When I think of New Jersey, I am brought to Bruce Springsteen, but can't see the connections.  The other band who made a big thing about the New jersey connection was Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, IIRC
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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1572 on: 30 June, 2010, 12:30:36 pm »
I think there is a major airbase in New Jersey so USAF led me over to the B52s but Paris? (unless, Paris Texas)

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1573 on: 30 June, 2010, 12:34:35 pm »
Brian Jones.

I knew he went to a fairly posh school (turns out it was Cheltenham Grammar School for Boys), so I wondered whether maybe Christopher Robin had gone there (he hadn't).  But it throws up an interesting link between Jones and Alvin Stardust, in that the Head of the school (now merged) is Shaun Fenton, son of Shane (apparently.  This is from Wikipedia, after all, and its not beyond pupils to have a prank.)

But i do remember, from when I lived near the Hundred Aker Wood.  Didn't Brian Jones buy Milne's old house in Hartfield?
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PaulF

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Re: Pop quiz
« Reply #1574 on: 30 June, 2010, 01:00:15 pm »
Brian Jones.

But i do remember, from when I lived near the Hundred Aker Wood.  Didn't Brian Jones buy Milne's old house in Hartfield?

Correct!!