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Albums recognisable from the first three letters
Posted by Burt Kocain on 7 November 2011 - 4:59am.
Any luck with these? Any of your own? (no three-letter titles, the less ambiguous and the more obvious the better!)
Ode
Gau
Umm
Aox
Rox
Pet
Abr
Exo
Neb
Ege
Kam
L.A.W
Unh
Hej
Liz
Zab
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Odelay
Gau
Ummagumma
Aoxomoxoa
Rox
Pet Sounds
Abraxas
Exo
Nebraska
Ege
Kam
L.A.Woman
Unhalfbricking
Hej
Lizard
Zab
"Odessey and Oracle" - The Zombies
My first thought on seeing "Ode" was that it was a cunning trick question, to which the answer was "Odessey and Oracle" by the Zombies.
From Wikipedia:
"The famous misspelling of "odyssey" in the title was the result of a mistake by the designer of the LP cover, Terry Quirk (who was the flatmate of bass player Chris White). The band tried to cover this up at the time of release by claiming the misspelling was intentional."
Nick, you're right.
But "Odelay" was more obvious, and so a better answer.
But...
...my answer was more "Word".
More "me"
too, as Odessey I bought (yawn) on vinyl at the time and have listened to ever since. Odelay I haven't even heard.
You're not missing much
The curse of Q.
At his peak Beck was voted Q mag's "Most important/valuable person in rock". From there it was only a short step to the loss of his muse, followed by the inevitable collapse in the sales of his albums.
Could have been
Odessa by The Bee Gees. Now there's an album.
or two ...
.
Roxy Music Exodus Hejira
Roxy Music
Exodus
Hejira
FWIIW
Odelay
Ummagumma
Roxy music
Pet sounds
LA woman
Hejira
Already got
all those
Guaranteed 100% ungoogled:
Gaucho
Ege Bamyasi
Kamakiriad
Zabriskie Point
Well, I think
you've all done jolly, jolly well. Really, really jolly well done. Especially seeing as how you didn't resort to the internest!
Go on - have a go yourselves, you lazy twats.
3
Ach
Aut
Mur
Achtung Baby
Automatic For The People (or, preferably, Author Author by The Scars)
Murmur
In 15 mins!
6
Lum
Kay
Sut
Chu
Wic
Axi
Lumley Sings The Blues Kay
Lumley Sings The Blues
Kay Kendall Croons In Her Bath
Sutcliffe: The Musical
Chuckle Brothers Sing Iron Maiden
Wiccan Ballads: An Introduction
Axis: Bold As Love
(One of these may be correct.)
I bet you have
the Kay Kendall on vinyl, right?
(Yes, one was right.)
Indeed.
And with a gatefold sleeve. You can really see the bubbles!
OK...
Lumpy Gravy
Kaya
Sutherland Brothers and Quiver
Church Of Anthrax
?
Axis Bold As Love
Apart from the last one, did I get any right?
Oooh! Sir! Sir! Is it Wichita Lineman? Is it Sir? Is it?
Go to the top of the class!
Lumpy Gravy
Kaya
Sut? (Mojo should get this one?)
Chunga's Revenge/Church of Anthrax
Wichita Lineman!!!!!!
Axis Bold As Love
A few more
San
Kim
Imp
Doo
Possibly....
Sandinista!
Kim Wilde
Imperial Bedroom
Doo-Bop
Do tell.
one and three right
The others that I had in mind were Kimono My House and Doolittle.
I got
Impostors of Life's Magazine and Doobie Brothers.
Kimono My House is a good one.
What about these....
Kil
Tag
Mov
Bor
Aqu
Zze
Poo
Asy
Woy
Nur
Thr
Loo
Nic
How about...
Kilimanjaro - Teardrop Explodes
Tago Mago - Can
Moving Pictures - Rush
Born To Laugh at Tornados - Was (Not Was)
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Pooh Sticks
Asylum For The Musically Insane - Tea & Sympony
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Three Imaginary Boys - Cure
Look Sharp - Joe Jackson
Nicely Out Of Tune - Lindisfarne
Damn good try!
Differences from my original list:
check
check
Moving Waves - Focus
Borboleta - Santana
Pookiesnackenburger! - er, Pookiesnackenburger (sorry)
Asylum - Cressida
check
Thriller - Wacko
check
check
Which just leaves these remaining...
Zze
Woy
Woyaya
or something similar by Osibisa. Did it involve flying elephants courtesy of Roger Dean?
You're right,
that's the answer I had in mind.
Which still leaves Zze....
has anyone checked Google? Maybe it isn't there? It's on my LP shelf anyway!
Hint: there's an Osibisa connection.
Is it...
... Zzebra?
I didn't cheat - I did some "research" and looked it up on amg.com.
Indeed it is.
Has to be really! They were half of 'If' added to some 'Osibisa' members, and it's a great little jazz funk album from around 1974.
Indeed it is.
Has to be really! They were half of 'If' added to some 'Osibisa' members, and it's a great little jazz funk album from around 1974.
And on drums
they had Liam Genockey, who I believe has been the Steeleye Span skinsman for going-on 20 years now.
"Ode
..To Joy, Great Choruses By Beethoven • Wagner • Bach • Handel & Mozart". Deutsche Gramophon cat no 413 414-1 if you're after the vinyl.
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edited double post
Sut?
Still on the Zappa theme, is it a clever typo/anagram for the first three letters of Studio Tan?
*puts on David Mitchell voice*
Well, I really don't see why that could possibly be clever in any sense other than not at all. Why would I deliberately break my own rules and run the very real risk of being revealed as a charlatan and a cheat?
(I mean, bloody hell, Moj! For shame!)
Well of course
I've got it now.
Sutras by Donovan.
For some reason I was stuck on the Zappa theme.....
*sarcastic applause*
Please surrender your "Gift From A Flower To A Garden" headband on your way out!
You can keep the headband
but you'll have to take this from my cold, dead, er, neck: