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Title: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 18, 2005, 10:29:18 AM
Here's another bunch for your Friday pleasure:

1 - everything feels like the movies
2 - familiar, like last life's nursery rhymes
3 - just like a rainbow you know you set me free
4 - like a circus wheel, it's changing all the time
5 - like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
6 - like a ship on the ocean
7 - like my head against a board
8 - like Strawberry Fields
9 - like you're the only person sitting in the audience
10 - wavy hair like Liberace
11 - years gone by like so many summer fields
12 - you treat me like I was your ocean

note a couple of these have rarely been heard on KFOG, but most of you have them on the radio somewhere.  I think the hardest will be 2 & 8.
Title: Similes
Post by: Gazoo on February 18, 2005, 10:34:57 AM
> 8 - like Strawberry Fields

Bush, "Glycerine"

 :P
Title: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 18, 2005, 10:36:41 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
> 8 - like Strawberry Fields

Bush, "Glycerine"

 :P


see, I am always wrong about who finds stuff difficult.  Watch the highest charting song take the longest to identify.
Title: Re: Similes
Post by: princessofcairo on February 18, 2005, 10:40:58 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Here's another bunch for your Friday pleasure:

5 - like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
7 - like my head against a board




5 - bob seger?
7 - fiona apple?
Title: Re: Similes
Post by: RGMike on February 18, 2005, 10:54:32 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
10 - wavy hair like Liberace


"Mr Sandman"  -- have you been listening to KABL?
Title: Re: Similes
Post by: RGMike on February 18, 2005, 10:56:39 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Here's another bunch for your Friday pleasure:


4 - like a circus wheel, it's changing all the time

12 - you treat me like I was your ocean



4 - FMac, "Over My Head"

12- Steve Miller, "Jungle Love"
Title: Re: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 18, 2005, 11:03:43 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
Quote from: "mshray"
Here's another bunch for your Friday pleasure:

5 - like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
7 - like my head against a board




5 - bob seger?
7 - fiona apple?


nope, 5 is not nearly old enough to be Seger, and 7 is too old (although not that old) to be Ms. Apple.
Title: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 18, 2005, 11:04:27 AM
RGMike is 3 fer 3.
Title: Similes
Post by: Gazoo on February 18, 2005, 11:10:08 AM
> 7 - like my head against a board

Indigo Girls, "Closer to Fine"

"twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before, when I went in seeking clarity ..."
Title: Similes
Post by: Gazoo on February 18, 2005, 11:17:12 AM
> 6 - like a ship on the ocean

See, I've got to know where you got the notion to put the Hues Corporation's "Rock The Boat" in this quiz.
Title: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 18, 2005, 11:25:49 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
> 6 - like a ship on the ocean

See, I've got to know where you got the notion to put the Hues Corporation's "Rock The Boat" in this quiz.


Ha ha!  In fact I got the notion to quote Kansas:

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean


but Hues Corporation also works!
Title: Similes
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on February 18, 2005, 11:43:33 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
> 6 - like a ship on the ocean

See, I've got to know where you got the notion to put the Hues Corporation's "Rock The Boat" in this quiz.


Ha ha!  In fact I got the notion to quote Kansas:

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean


but Hues Corporation also works!


I think John Denver does too, but I can't remember the name of the song, so I'm having trouble with verification.
Title: Similes
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on February 18, 2005, 11:52:40 AM
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Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
> 6 - like a ship on the ocean

See, I've got to know where you got the notion to put the Hues Corporation's "Rock The Boat" in this quiz.


Ha ha!  In fact I got the notion to quote Kansas:

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean


but Hues Corporation also works!


I think John Denver does too, but I can't remember the name of the song, so I'm having trouble with verification.


Never mind.  In Annie's Song, it's "like a sleepy blue ocean."  Which is really a crappy lyric.
Title: Similes
Post by: RGMike on February 18, 2005, 12:34:59 PM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
> 6 - like a ship on the ocean

See, I've got to know where you got the notion to put the Hues Corporation's "Rock The Boat" in this quiz.


it's not the size of the boat
it's the motion of then ocean
Title: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 18, 2005, 03:33:18 PM
yeah, thanks to Gaz I can't get the Hues Corp out of my head all day!
Title: Like a ship out on the ocean
Post by: ggould on February 19, 2005, 04:39:40 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
yeah, thanks to Gaz I can't get the Hues Corp out of my head all day!
isn't it just a little different?
Title: Re: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 22, 2005, 10:25:21 AM
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Here's the list of remaindrs (with hints):

1 - everything feels like the movies
following line: "you bleed just to know you're alive"

2 - familiar, like last life's nursery rhymes
On the band's greatest hits CD & heard sometimes on 10@10, but not among their most prominent songs.  Beej & I have BOS-ed it before in '84 sets

3 - just like a rainbow you know you set me free
not a KFOG song per se, but a staple in the 80's on New Wave stations, one of this future HoF band's earliest hits.

5 - like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
90's band from PA, occasionally gets KFOG airplay

9 - like you're the only person sitting in the audience
a prog rock god, didn't name the band after himself.

11 - years gone by like so many summer fields
I can't believe no one got this yet.  The bustout song by a KFOG favorite, now a classic rock staple.  Y'all have heard this song a MILLION TIMES!!!

Title: Similes
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 10:39:25 AM
> 1 - everything feels like the movies

Argh, I just heard this the other day, thanks for the hint.
Goo Goo Dolls, "Isis"

> 3 - just like a rainbow you know you set me free
> not a KFOG song per se, but a staple in the 80's on New Wave stations, one
> of this future HoF band's earliest hits.

New Wave and HOF?  Gotta be either Talking Heads or Blondie.

> 5 - like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
> 90's band from PA, occasionally gets KFOG airplay

Your hint gave me this one.  Live, "Lightning Crashes"
Title: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 22, 2005, 10:43:35 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
> 1 - everything feels like the movies

Argh, I just heard this the other day, thanks for the hint.
Goo Goo Dolls, "Isis"

> 3 - just like a rainbow you know you set me free
> not a KFOG song per se, but a staple in the 80's on New Wave stations, one
> of this future HoF band's earliest hits.

New Wave and HOF?  Gotta be either Talking Heads or Blondie.

> 5 - like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
> 90's band from PA, occasionally gets KFOG airplay

Your hint gave me this one.  Live, "Lightning Crashes"


1 - yes, but 2nd best typo of the day, should be Iris, not Isis.
3 - no, it's a British band
5 - yep.  I sure wish Ed could have put out a bunch more material of this quality.  Ah well.
Title: Similes
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 10:53:59 AM
"Just like a rainbow, you know you set me free..."

and I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough of Depeche Mode.
Title: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 22, 2005, 12:11:17 PM
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"Just like a rainbow, you know you set me free..."

and I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough of Depeche Mode.


Wull thar ya go, Chief!
Title: Re: Similes
Post by: mshray on February 23, 2005, 10:28:06 AM
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2 - familiar, like last life's nursery rhymes
On the band's greatest hits CD & heard sometimes on 10@10, but not among their most prominent songs.  Beej & I have BOS-ed it before in '84 sets

9 - like you're the only person sitting in the audience
a prog rock god, didn't name the band after himself.

11 - years gone by like so many summer fields
I can't believe no one got this yet.  The bustout song by a KFOG favorite, now a classic rock staple.  Y'all have heard this song a MILLION TIMES!!!


Answers:

2 = BOC "Shooting Shark"  
I know it's pretty obscure, but I just love the image

9 = Tull "Skating Away..."

11 = Jackson Browne "Running On Empty"
Come ON people, this one was easy.
Title: Re: Similes
Post by: RGMike on February 23, 2005, 11:10:25 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
11 = Jackson Browne "Running On Empty"
Come ON people, this one was easy.


I always heard that line as "so many sown fields". You can't wrap your mind around a mondegreen...