Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Spoken word
Just for fun, and because I know you love a challenge, which songs feature these spoken interludes...?
1) "Just put your feet down, child, 'cos you're all grown up now."
2) "I know thee well: a serviceable villain"
3) "...I'm going to cut you into little pieces!!!"
4) "It's only true the children of the fucking wealthy who tend to be good looking"
5) "Is the Lone Ranger ready?"
6) "Where can the horizon lie when a nation hides its organic mind..."
7) "Hi there, nice to be with you"
8) "James Dean"
9) "The killer awoke before dawn"
10) "Look, mummy. There's an aeroplane up in the sky"
11) "Ah heugh heugh, I don' believe ya. Aye, Eh, huh, ya, uh . Hey Ray, hey sugah, Tell 'em who we are"
12) "Backside melts into the sofa"
13) "First I'll buy some beads, and then perhaps a leather band to go
around my head"
14) "Me? I'm just a lawnmower"
15) "Elric's cousin Yyrkoon has usurped his throne"
16) "My sex and my drugs and my rock and roll are the only things that
keep me here"
17) "There is one seat in the circle, 500 million in the stalls, simply everyone will be there"
18) "Man, I don't feel like goin' thru with this, this is really silly"
19) "She said 'No, I'm the daughter of kate"
20) "Naa, Leave it, yeah!"
21) "I am Michael Caine"
22) "I knew that someday I was going to die, and I knew that before I
died, two things would happen to me"
23) "My advice is, if you maintain this lifestyle, you won't reach thirty"
24) "...gang of nearly a thousand youths entered the grand hotel in
pursuit of two, leather clad rockers"
25) "Let's go. Ready? From the top!"
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Only know 2
1) The Fog, Kate Bush
17) No Rehearsal, Jethro Tull
Bonzos
7. the Bonzos - the intro & the outro
In a bit of a rush as the Aged P needs me
9) The Doors.
13) Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
14) Genesis.
Back Later.Gotta dash......
Oh, another one?
8)Rock On, David Essex (I think)
14
I know what I like by Genesis. There goes my street cred.
10
It's not "there goes concorde again" is it?
I would have added to the list
"never could stand that dog"
Is 10
Floyd Goodbye Blue Sky?
and 3 is their
'One Of These Days I'm Going To Cut You Into Little Pieces'
21
Michael Caine by Madness
I'm a bit late
(2) I Am The Walrus - HJH
(3) One Of these Days - The Floyd again...
And another
19 is Matopedia by the McGarrigles
I'm sure the line about "a serviceable villain" comes from Othello but I doubt that is the answer we're looking for here.
It's from King Lear...
which happened to be on Radio 4 while Lennon spun the dial while recording in Abbey Road.
Not easy
08 Rock On -David Essex
12 Faith No More - RV
22 Manic Street Preachers -Of Walking Abortion
23 Cut My Hair--The Who
A couple more
22. Manics - Of Walking Abortion
24. The Who - something off Quadrophenia, but I can't remember the title
EDIT: Note to self: Always hit refresh before posting reply in case someone pre-empts your answer.
Number
6 is Bowie's All The Madmen. Is 15 Hawkwind? The characters are from Michael Moorcock's Stormbringer
20
Black Country Woman - LZ
4 - Ugly - The Stranglers
11 - Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr Hook
Got 2
23 - Marillion - Torch Song
15 - Hawkwind - The Sea King (not deffo sure it's that song, but it's from Chronicles of the Black Sword)
Damn, you lot are good.
1) Kate Bush - The Fog
2) Beatles - I am the Walrus
3) Pink Floyd - One of these Days
4) Stranglers - Ugly
5) Fairport Convention - Sir Patrick Spens (Live)
6) Bowie - All the Madmen
7) Bonzo D Band - The Intro and the Outro
8) David Essex - Rock On
9) Doors - The End
10) Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
11) Dr Hook - Cover of Rolling Stone
12) Faith No More - RV
13) Frank Zappa - Who Needs the Peace Corps?
14) Genesis - I Know What I Like
15) Narration/Sea King - Live Chronicles
16) Jane's Addiction - Ain't No Right
17) Jethro Tull - No Rehearsal, Chateau D'Isaster Tapes
18) Jimi Hendrix - Little Bears
19) McGarrigle Sisters - Matapedia
20) Led Zeppelin - Black Country Woman
21) Madness - Michael Caine
22) MSP - Of walking Abortion
23) Marillion - Torch Song
24) Cut My Hair - The Who
25) William Shatner/Henry Rollins - I can't get behind that
Have a few more
1) "No no no, you can't get there that way, follow me."
2) "Also, it takes much longer to get up north the slow way."
3) "One time."
4) "It was the dwarves that were given the task of digging the ditch and laying the nag's carcass in the ground."
5) "Well there's nothing wrong with a woman having two men."
6) "Fellas I'm ready to get up and do my thang!"
7) "Take your year in Provence and shove it up your arse!"
8) "Excuse me, can I have the attention of the class for one second."
9) "Come on people now, smile on your brother everybody get together, try to love one another right now."
10) "Confiteor Deo omnipotenti vobis fratres quia peccavi nimis cogitatione, verbo, opere et omissione. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa."
Can Only Manage A Few..
2. Clever Trevor - Ian Dury
6. Sex Machine - James Brown
7. I Spy - Pulp
8. My Name Is... - Eminem
10.
The welsh stuff is at the end of It's A Sin by Pet Shop Boys.
Oh Bloody Hell...
... 3's the bleedin' Fugees isn't it?
All correct
The others, for those still interested, are:
1) Picadilly Palare - Morrissey (spoken by Suggs)
4) The Carny - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5) Generation Sex - The Divine Comedy
9) Territorial Pissings - Nirvana (spoken by Krist Novoselic)
Is anyone still playing?
(1) "What Number is this Jim?"
(2) "And in a funny way, the shaving of my head has been a liberation from a lot of stupid vanities really."
(3) "Can you record the talkback?"
(4) "I don't want the world, I just want your half"
(5) "I'm Norman, pleased to meet ya"
Norman Watt-Roy, of course
5 is from Ian Dury & The Blockheads' "I Want To Be Straight".
Thinking about that song has brightened my day!
No 1
I think that's Daydream Believer, isn't it?
To this day, I am not convinced that this was spontaneous banter.
right
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