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RE: 2014 - Sweder - 28-09-2014
(27-09-2014, 11:03 PM)marathondan Wrote: 2/8 is a genuine no.2 chart hit rock song (sort of) from the 80s or 90s. (Or the 50s / 60s, in a way)
Ultravox?
RE: 2014 - marathondan - 28-09-2014
(28-09-2014, 10:01 AM)Sweder Wrote:(27-09-2014, 11:03 PM)marathondan Wrote: 2/8 is a genuine no.2 chart hit rock song (sort of) from the 80s or 90s. (Or the 50s / 60s, in a way)
Ultravox?
Not close, I'm afraid. Suffice to say it seems my cheap mp3 player has a favourite band. Not only did it play this track twice, but it's the same band as another track you've already identified.
RE: 2014 - Sweder - 29-09-2014
(28-09-2014, 07:08 PM)marathondan Wrote: Not close, I'm afraid. Suffice to say it seems my cheap mp3 player has a favourite band. Not only did it play this track twice, but it's the same band as another track you've already identified.
Hmm, the only 'waltz'-like track I can think of related to my previous guesses would be Nothing Else Matters by Metallica, which bizarrely is in waltz (3:4) time ...
RE: - Bierzo Baggie - 29-09-2014
"Joan of arc" OMD and that Bev Bevan bloke who was Jasper Carrot's mate....
RE: - Bierzo Baggie - 29-09-2014
I think I'm getting muddled up again..
RE: 2014 - marathondan - 29-09-2014
(29-09-2014, 02:06 PM)Sweder Wrote: Hmm, the only 'waltz'-like track I can think of related to my previous guesses would be Nothing Else Matters by Metallica, which bizarrely is in waltz (3:4) time ...
Not high-tempo enough to keep me below 8 minute miling though...
OMD is far too Electro for this playlist.
RE: - marathondan - 01-10-2014
** BREAKING NEWS **
My number has come up - see you on the start line, EG.
#vlm #omg #wtf #etc
RE: - Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 01-10-2014
Wow!
RE: 2014 - marathondan - 01-10-2014
(01-10-2014, 12:21 PM)Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man Wrote: Wow!
My sentiments exactly! I think this is the 11th year I've applied, so in some ways I was due one.
Remind us what's happening with your entry MLCMM? Are you also in the ballot?
RE: 2014 - Charliecat5 - 01-10-2014
(29-09-2014, 02:52 PM)marathondan Wrote:(29-09-2014, 02:06 PM)Sweder Wrote: Hmm, the only 'waltz'-like track I can think of related to my previous guesses would be Nothing Else Matters by Metallica, which bizarrely is in waltz (3:4) time ...
Not high-tempo enough to keep me below 8 minute miling though...
OMD is far too Electro for this playlist.
The Anniversary Waltz by Quo?
RE: 2014 - marathondan - 01-10-2014
(01-10-2014, 05:06 PM)Charliecat5 Wrote: The Anniversary Waltz by Quo?
A shot comes out of nowhere... GOAL!
RE: - marathondan - 01-10-2014
Just checked my old blogs... actually I got a ballot entry in 2011 as well. So I make that 2 successes in 10 attempts - slightly more jammy than average.
RE: 2014 - Charliecat5 - 01-10-2014
(01-10-2014, 07:14 PM)marathondan Wrote:(01-10-2014, 05:06 PM)Charliecat5 Wrote: The Anniversary Waltz by Quo?
A shot comes out of nowhere... GOAL!
#6 Aliens Exist by Blink 182?
RE: 2014 - marathondan - 02-10-2014
(01-10-2014, 09:03 PM)Charliecat5 Wrote: #6 Aliens Exist by Blink 182?
He's done it again! This boy has come out of nowhere and turned the game around, suddenly he's on a hat-trick!
(I suspect you may have googled Wii rock band?)
RE: 2014 - Charliecat5 - 02-10-2014
(02-10-2014, 06:26 AM)marathondan Wrote:(01-10-2014, 09:03 PM)Charliecat5 Wrote: #6 Aliens Exist by Blink 182?
He's done it again! This boy has come out of nowhere and turned the game around, suddenly he's on a hat-trick!
(I suspect you may have googled Wii rock band?)
I don't know what you mean! *Shuts laptop*
RE: 2014 - marathondan - 13-10-2014
Shook off a shameful 16 days of avoiding running, with a late-night rain-soaked muddy interval session. Sometimes you just gotta get out there. The interval session is all about the square wave - quite a nice one tonight.
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Answers to the music quiz:
1. Enter Sandman - Metallica
2 & 8. Anniversary Waltz (Part 1) - Status Quo
3. Welcome To The Jungle - Guns 'n' Roses
4. Action - Def Leppard (originally by The Sweet)
5. Hooks in You - Marillion
6. Aliens Exist - Blink 182
7. Paper Plane - Status Quo
9. Bloody Luxury - Whitesnake
10. Rock Rock - Def Leppard
Two interesting (to me) facts about no. 4 - it was also covered in German by Scorpions (also available for your listening pleasure on YouTube), and apparently if played backwards it (the Sweet version) contains the words "You kiss my arse".
RE: - marathondan - 16-10-2014
5 mile tempo run tonight. Still very mild round here - shorts and singlet at 10pm in mid-October. I took my orthotics out for the first time - we'll see how that feels tomorrow. I probably won't do a half marathon event now this year - although I'm bouncing back from a fortnight of slovenliness, motivation is somewhat mercurial at the moment. So I'd prefer to just relax and try and enjoy my running for a couple of months. I seem to have built up some base fitness, so two quick 5s and a slow 10 per week would be excellent. London training proper will start at Christmas.
Anyway, tempo run means another game of Mrs Brown Went To Playlist. Here is your music quiz for this week. It makes the last one seem positively mainstream.
Lots of people with bright faces were walking around. In fact, each of them had a star for a face. Every one a star.
They were hot-blooded as a result. Well, you would be with all that nuclear fusion going on.
Now, you know what that's a euphemism for. In fact, it seems they were filled with desire.
I must apologise for the continued double entendre generating mode of my music player, but as a result of this, something was rising. With considerable force.
Time to stop this. You never know who's reading on the internet. They could be too young for this. It would be too much for them.
Wasted on them, in fact.
Now, to put a stop to all of this, my daddy arrived, ringing a bell. Ding dong, it went.
He had with him some kind of hound or dog.
They were in the kitchen, listening to Joy Division, the dog doing some baking and hence wearing oven gloves.
The curse of the cheap mp3 shuffle repeat now returned, and a track was repeated. The heat from the oven was making the dog hot-blooded.
But suddenly it was cold as a morgue. I rue the day I hired that cheap central heating fitter. I could cheerfully murder him.
This all took me back to my teens. Was that a wolf?
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2. & 10.
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Answers on a post please. Most are stupidly obscure. There's a back-to-back brace from the 1950s. And a quartet of European rock (just). The paragraph breaks are there to help you. There's one artist in common with last time.
RE: - Sweder - 17-10-2014
What kind of Quizmaster offers numbered answers without numbering the questions???
2 & 10? I can't figure out if it's 2 & 10 or 2 & 9 ...
Hey Lord, don't ask me questions? Who was that, eh? No Googling ...
OK, top of my head, Goose Island IPA in full flow at Miami airport ...
2&10 - hot-bloodied, Foreigner
5 - Specials - Too Much Too Young (live) - or possibly Ghost Town (wasted?)
6- Chuck Berry, My Ding-a-ling
7 - Elvis, Hound Dog
11? - Iron Maiden - off Killers? If that's too obvious, Belalugosi's Dead, Bauhaus (Lugosi starred in the film of the Poe story)
RE: - marathondan - 17-10-2014
I think googling is fair game. Some of them are quite googleable if you can just find the key phrase in the sentence.
2&10 - right title, wrong artist. Your choice is a better song, frankly.
5 - correct (first one)
6 - right lines, but less mainstream I'm afraid (and this is Q7)
7 - correct (but it's Q8)
11 - right first time, just need the title please...
On the subject of 11, I came across a fairly recent youtube video of Paul Di'Anno, cutting a somewhat tragic figure. It sounds like his voice packed up about 20 years ago but he hasn't got the message yet. Circa Killers he was superb.
Bon voyage!
RE: - Sweder - 17-10-2014
IM is Murder on (in?) the Rue Morgue. Dianno was my (the) first Maiden front man, circa 1978 at The Marquee on Wardour St. Always remember Steve Harris's peppermint stripe tights as he stepped up onto the monitors to thrash out another manic bassline. It was so damned hot in there, jungle hot. Terrific times.
Oddly enough I've never seen them at a stadium gig. One of me new mates from Japan, an independantly wealthy fellow, follows them all over the world. A Superfan, if you will. I've never really got that. I did 22 gigs in 30 days on the road with Motörhead. I love Motörhead, but 22 live gigs in a row slaked my thirst for a goodly while.
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We may have covered this before, but have you seen Flight 666, the Maiden docco?
Absolute GOLD.