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Post by jk on Dec 13, 2023 18:07:10 GMT
Actors and Actresses:
Doris Day ~ Doe Maar Bruce Lee ~ Underworld Clint Eastwood ~ Gorillaz Sea Cruise ~ Frankie Ford Kelly Watch The Stars ~ Air The Weaver ~ The Pendulums My Body Is A Cage ~ Arcade Fire Robert De Niro’s Waiting ~ Bananarama John Wayne Is Big Leggy ~ Haysi Fantayzee By The Time I Get To Phoenix ~ Glen Campbell
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 14, 2023 14:10:19 GMT
One to Ten
One, Harry Nilsson Games Two Can Play, the Beach Boys Three Packs a Day, Courtney Barnett Four Times a Minute, the Brown Flamingos Five Years, David Bowie Six O’Clock, Ringo Starr Seven Seas of Rhye, Queen Eight Days a Week, the Beatles Morning Train (Nine to Five), Sheena Easton Ten, Lady Lamb
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Post by jk on Dec 15, 2023 9:48:29 GMT
Some of the ways to pronounce "ough":
You Oughta Know ~ Alanis Morissette I Fought The Law ~ Bobby Fuller Four I'm Looking Through You ~ The Beatles Mouldy Old Dough ~ Lieutenant Pigeon Iron Out The Rough Spots ~ Paul Young The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack ~ The Nice Prelude: Thoroughly Modern Millie ~ Julie Andrews We Plough The Fields And Scatter ~ The Cambridge Singers When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going ~ Billy Ocean No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) ~ Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer
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Post by jk on Jan 9, 2024 23:27:03 GMT
I know, no life. Here are eleven songs that together incorporate all 26 letters of the alphabet as initials. Try as I might, I couldn't get it down to ten! (Perhaps you can.) They have to be songs I'm familiar with (golden rule):
MLK ~ U2 I.O.U. ~ Freeez SWLABR ~ Cream TVC15 ~ David Bowie I.G.Y. ~ Donald Fagen RDNZL ~ Frank Zappa Susie Q ~ Dale Hawkins P.F. Sloan ~ Jimmy Webb Pow R. Toc H. ~ Pink Floyd WPLJ ~ The Mothers of Invention EXP ~ The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Several days and untold billions of destroyed brain cells later:
Fixed it!!!!
MLK ~ U2 I.O.U. ~ Freeez SWLABR ~ Cream TVC15 ~ David Bowie I.G.Y. ~ Donald Fagen RDNZL ~ Frank Zappa Susie Q ~ Dale Hawkins Pow R. Toc H. ~ Pink Floyd EXP ~ The Jimi Hendrix Experience S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song) ~ Joe Tex
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Post by jk on Jan 12, 2024 22:49:18 GMT
A double-ten:
Alabama ~ Neil Young Delaware ~ Perry Como Hawaii ~ The Beach Boys Nebraska ~ Bruce Springsteen Massachusetts ~ The Bee Gees North To Alaska ~ Johnny Horton Memphis Tennessee ~ Chuck Berry Indiana Wants Me ~ R. Dean Taylor Pennsylvania 6-5000 ~ Glenn Miller Blue Moon Of Kentucky ~ Elvis Presley Moonlight On Vermont ~ Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band Poofter’s Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead ~ Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart The Yellow Rose of Texas ~ Mitch Miller New York, New York ~ Frank Sinatra Sweet Virginia ~ The Rolling Stones Georgia On My Mind ~ Ray Charles Kansas City ~ Wilbert Harrison California ~ Joni Mitchell Montana ~ Frank Zappa Mississippi ~ Pussycat
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Post by jk on Jan 17, 2024 22:43:28 GMT
Gods and goddesses:
Diana ~ Paul Anka Athena ~ The Who Victoria ~ The Kinks Nemesis ~ Shriekback Lucifer Sam ~ Pink Floyd Jupiter Hollow ~ The Band Mr Apollo ~ The Bonzo Dog Band Venus In Blue Jeans ~ Jimmy Clanton In The Wake Of Poseidon ~ King Crimson The Brain From Planet Eros ~ Gary Lucas
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Post by jk on Jan 22, 2024 15:38:04 GMT
Tango Echo November Bravo Yankee Juliett Kilo:
India ~ Roxy Music Foxy Foxtrot ~ Nico Haak Charlie Brown ~ The Coasters Papa Don't Preach ~ Madonna November Rain ~ Guns N' Roses Mike Come Back To L.A. ~ The Beach Boys (Just Like) Romeo And Juliet ~ The Reflections Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel ~ Frank Zappa Cigarettes, Whiskey And Wild Wild Women ~ Buck Owens Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church) ~ Frank Zappa
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Post by jk on Jan 23, 2024 9:29:09 GMT
Here a boom, there a boom...
Boombastic ~ Shaggy Sh-Boom ~ The Chords Boom Bang A Bang ~ Lulu Boom Boom ~ John Lee Hooker Boom Boom Boom ~ The Outhere Brothers I Don't Like Mondays ~ The Boomtown Rats Sophisticated Boom Boom ~ The Shangri-Las Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!! ~ The Vengaboys Buzz Buzz A-Diddle-It ~ Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon Boom! Shake The Room ~ DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
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Post by jk on Feb 2, 2024 10:16:35 GMT
Well it does say "Anything"...
Imagine a Beach Boys Scrabble game where the only scoring letters are I, V, X, L, C, D, and M, the Roman numerals standing respectively for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 and 1000.
Taking just the one-word titles of tracks on albums released at the time (life is short), the top eleven* would be "Stoked" and "Wendy" (500), "Darlin'" (551), "Kokomo", "Mona", "Steamboat" and "Sumahama" (1000), "Deirdre" (1001), "Misirlou" (1052), "Marcella" (1200) and, way ahead of the pack, "Melekalikimaka" (2102).
* There was no way round this. Sorry!
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Post by jk on Feb 26, 2024 21:55:39 GMT
Ten places in London:
Waterloo ~ ABBA Victoria ~ The Kinks Angel ~ Rod Stewart Do The Strand ~ Roxy Music Baker Street ~ Gerry Rafferty Tower Bridge ~ Spike Milligan West End Girls ~ Pet Shop Boys Sunny Goodge Street ~ Donovan Hammersmith Guerilla ~ Third World War (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea ~ Elvis Costello and the Attractions
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Post by jk on Mar 9, 2024 20:06:46 GMT
Wanted either way...
I'm Alive ~ The Hollies Wake Up Dead Man ~ U2 Staying Alive ~ The Bee Gees Tuesday's Dead ~ Cat Stevens Dead Joe ~ The Birthday Party Don't Take Me Alive ~ Steely Dan James Brown Is Dead ~ L.A. Style My Mummy's Dead ~ John Lennon Born To Be Alive ~ Patrick Hernandez James Brown Is Still Alive ~ Holy Noise
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Post by jk on Mar 20, 2024 18:51:47 GMT
Ten UK non-singles by The Beatles released as singles by others (with varying degrees of chart success):
Girl ~ St. Louis Union Michelle ~ The Overlanders I Want To Be Your Man ~ The Rolling Stones Dear Prudence ~ Siouxsie and the Banshees You've Got To Hide Your Love Away ~ The Silkie With A Little Help From My Friends ~ Joe Cocker She Came In Through The Bathroom Window ~ Joe Cocker Got To Get You Into My Life ~ Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers Do You Want to Know a Secret? ~ Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey ~ Fats Domino
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Post by jk on Mar 22, 2024 15:31:47 GMT
Less than twice:
Once Upon A Dream ~ Billy Fury Once In A Lifetime ~ Talking Heads Once In Every Lifetime ~ Ken Dodd Just Once In My Life ~ Stevie Wonder Once Upon A Long Ago ~ Paul McCartney Once I Had A Sweetheart ~ The Pentangle Once You Get Started ~ Rufus & Chaka Khan For Once In My Life ~ The Righteous Brothers Once Upon A Time ~ Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells I'd Love Just Once To See You ~ The Beach Boys
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 22, 2024 15:41:32 GMT
Less than twice: Once Upon A Dream ~ Billy Fury Once In A Lifetime ~ Talking Heads Once In Every Lifetime ~ Ken Dodd Just Once In My Life ~ Stevie Wonder Once Upon A Long Ago ~ Paul McCartney Once I Had A Sweetheart ~ The Pentangle Once You Get Started ~ Rufus & Chaka Khan For Once In My Life ~ The Righteous Brothers Once Upon A Time ~ Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells I'd Love Just Once To See You ~ The Beach Boys Doubly less than twice (presented a la jk): Nevermore ~ Queen I Was Never Young ~ Of Montreal Never Forget You ~ The Noisettes Never Gonna Say Goodbye ~ Dawes Tomorrow Never Knows ~ The Beatles The Devil Never Sleeps ~ Iron & Wine Never Before, Never Again ~ The Muppets I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man ~ Prince You Will Never Work in Television Again ~ The Smile Why Would That Hurt (If You Never Loved Me)? ~ Herman Dune
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Post by jk on Mar 24, 2024 19:00:03 GMT
Until the Twelfth of Never:
Forevergreen ~ Finitribe Forever ~ The Beach Boys Forever Young ~ Bob Dylan Together Forever ~ Rick Astley Who Wants To Live Forever ~ Queen Diamonds Are Forever ~ Shirley Bassey Let Forever Be ~ The Chemical Brothers Strawberry Fields Forever ~ The Beatles I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles ~ Vera Lynn The Yard Went On Forever ~ Richard Harris
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