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Moos Wrote:

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> Hee hee!

>

> You've even got the right album!

>

> "Then I met an Englishman - ohhhhhhhhhhh, he said.

>

> Won't you walk up and down my spine

> It makes me feel strangely alive

> I said - in these shoes?

> I doubt you'd survive...."

>

> Have quite often made a tit of myself singing it

> to myself when plugged into the iPod.



Kirsty Macoll - In these Shoes

Brendan Wrote:

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> I don't know. It used to be on the tape that I had

> in my car years back that said Priaml Scream on

> it. I won't be able to tell you without searchin

> on t'interweb. Which is against the rules isn't

> it?


I'd say in this instance it's merely checking the song that that you probably have pinballing round your brain at the moment, but can't put a name to.

The 'It's on the tip of my tongue, honest' rule can be applied.

Brendan Wrote:

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> Ok then with thanks to google. It is called Space

> Blues 2

>

> And apparently that album that I had in my car all

> those years back was called Evil Heat.


Was this car named Christine by any chance, Brendan?


Any way off you go.

Anyone? Anyone?


Hello?


Come on I have tried really hard on this thread not to use lyrics from most of the bands I listen to and rather find ones that you normal folk will know.


I didn?t think these guys were that obscure. They?re even poms.


From the West Midlands, big in the ?90s, this was one of their biggest songs.


Played a style of music that shares its moniker with Nanny Ogg?s cat in Terry Pratchett?s Discworld novels. (just to be a bit obscure about it)

Ok not spelt exactly the same as the cat but anyway, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grebo for those that are interested.


Anyway not wanting to hold this up, here's one you can really sink your teeth into:


Is this the way to Amarillo

every night I've been hugging my pillow

dreaming dreams of Amarilloand sweet Marie who waits for me

As everyone knows Grebos were Greasers with no work ethic.

One of the main protaginists was a band called Crazyhead who named an LP after the horse Desert Orchid, if I'm not mistaken.

I reckon The Anti Nowhere League fitted in to the category as well, probably best 'known' for their evisceration of Ralph McTell's Streets Of London.

I just knew that the money I invested in buying Sounds every week would pay off at some point.

Ok, I confess I was intrigued by the grebo clue as I used to be into those bands many years back, and I was sure it was Ned's Atomic Dustbin (my friend "dated" their drummer aged 16 and they invited us backstage when supporting the Wonderstuff at Brixton Academy, oh the excitement!), so I looked it up online and it was - Until You Find Out


Brendan Wrote:

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> all you need to is catch me

> when i'm back on the real scene

> and all the things that i don't do

> just make me laugh, 'cause they irritate you

sanity girl Wrote:

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> Hello, by the way. Sorry for jumping in on your

> game unannounced. And for cheating. If I'm

> allowed, I'll have to go off now and think of some

> good lyrics now...


That's fine, SG we mostly don't announce ourselves on this thread and the game is not 'ours', it belongs to the world.

And you brought some fine personal detail about the Dustbins that I for one appreciated.

Took their name from an episode of the Goon Show, a favourite of our own Prince Charles.

That?s, Touch me I?m sick by Mudhoney



Sorry for breaking the lyric game for a bit there btw, mea culpa. Interesting thing that Sanity pointed out about Neds Atomic Dustbin is that, peculiarly they had 2 bass players so I suppose teenage girls were twice as likely to snog a basserist from them than from other bands.



Surely Anti Nowhere League are a punk rock band though Honestlucy.


Here is the next one directly from the womb of mainstream corporate rock so as not to cause any confusion. Although there is a link to the Seattle scene as a nod to the previous post.


What have we done with innocence

It disappeared with time, it never made much sense

Adolescent resident

Wasting another night on planning my revenge

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