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Title: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on March 29, 2007, 07:36:51 PM
"Five names that I can hardly stand to hear": All from charting singles.

1. accomplished
2. carbon
3. inclement
4. misconstrued
5. prefix

Have fun!  (If anyone gets No. 5 I'll be amazed, though it was a Top 40 hit.)
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on March 29, 2007, 09:32:28 PM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
"Five names that I can hardly stand to hear": All from charting singles.

1. accomplished
2. carbon
3. inclement
4. misconstrued
5. prefix

Have fun!  (If anyone gets No. 5 I'll be amazed, though it was a Top 40 hit.)


2. carbon appears in both "Woodstock" and "Ride the Tiger".
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on March 29, 2007, 09:39:14 PM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
"Five names that I can hardly stand to hear": All from charting singles.

1. accomplished
2. carbon
3. inclement
4. misconstrued
5. prefix

Have fun!  (If anyone gets No. 5 I'll be amazed, though it was a Top 40 hit.)


2. carbon appears in both "Woodstock" and "Ride the Tiger".


Bonus frink points already!  (I was thinking of the latter.)
Title: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on March 30, 2007, 08:50:37 AM
misconstrued is in "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"

Inclement will come to me shortly.
Title: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on March 30, 2007, 03:22:56 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
misconstrued is in "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"

Inclement will come to me shortly.


You got "50."

And I stumped you with "inclement" when I was in town in Dec.   :wink:
Title: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on March 30, 2007, 10:42:59 PM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Quote from: "mshray"
misconstrued is in "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"

Inclement will come to me shortly.


You got "50."

And I stumped you with "inclement" when I was in town in Dec.   :wink:


Not even remembering that at this point.  I want to say it's something by Macca...a line where he rhymes inclement weather with something or other we can do together.  I can totally hear the line but nothing before or after is coming to me, so I'm stuck thinking of the song title.

AAAAAaaargggh
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: princessofcairo on March 31, 2007, 07:09:53 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
"Five names that I can hardly stand to hear": All from charting singles.

1. accomplished
2. carbon
3. inclement
4. misconstrued
5. prefix

Have fun!  (If anyone gets No. 5 I'll be amazed, though it was a Top 40 hit.)


2. carbon appears in both "Woodstock" and "Ride the Tiger".


talk about a mondegren! i always sang "we are stardust, we are golden, we are pained, and you know we're hardened."
Title: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on March 31, 2007, 10:36:56 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Quote from: "mshray"
misconstrued is in "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"

Inclement will come to me shortly.


You got "50."

And I stumped you with "inclement" when I was in town in Dec.   :wink:


Not even remembering that at this point.  I want to say it's something by Macca...a line where he rhymes inclement weather with something or other we can do together.  I can totally hear the line but nothing before or after is coming to me, so I'm stuck thinking of the song title.

AAAAAaaargggh


Thanks for the dead giveaway: "With a Little Luck". The willow turns it's back on inclement weather...
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on March 31, 2007, 10:39:10 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
"Five names that I can hardly stand to hear": All from charting singles.

1. accomplished
2. carbon
3. inclement
4. misconstrued
5. prefix

Have fun!  (If anyone gets No. 5 I'll be amazed, though it was a Top 40 hit.)


2. carbon appears in both "Woodstock" and "Ride the Tiger".


talk about a mondegren! i always sang "we are stardust, we are golden, we are pained, and you know we're hardened."


LOL! I always thought the line about the bombers riding shotgun in the sky was "barbers riding shotgun" (because the barbers were pissed off at hippes for not getting haircuts).
Title: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on April 04, 2007, 02:32:43 PM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Quote from: "mshray"
misconstrued is in "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"

Inclement will come to me shortly.


You got "50."

And I stumped you with "inclement" when I was in town in Dec.   :wink:


Not even remembering that at this point.  I want to say it's something by Macca...a line where he rhymes inclement weather with something or other we can do together.  I can totally hear the line but nothing before or after is coming to me, so I'm stuck thinking of the song title.

AAAAAaaargggh


Thanks for the dead giveaway: "With a Little Luck". The willow turns it's back on inclement weather...


So glad someone got this one.

Mike, I'm disappointed that you didn't get the first one, as winter's gonna turn to spring and you haven't accomplished a thing.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on April 04, 2007, 02:35:01 PM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
(If anyone gets No. 5 I'll be amazed, though it was a Top 40 hit.)


Yeah, I was afraid this one was too far removed ... it was Smokey and the Miracles' "Yester-Love."  "Yester is/The prefix that we fix/To things that have gone ..."
Title: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on April 04, 2007, 02:38:57 PM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Mike, I'm disappointed that you didn't get the first one, as winter's gonna turn to spring and you haven't accomplished a thing.


I got number one during the Saturday replay, but I guess I forgot to post it. It was that Tavares song we heard last week, "It Only Takes a Minute".
Title: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on April 04, 2007, 03:19:42 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Mike, I'm disappointed that you didn't get the first one, as winter's gonna turn to spring and you haven't accomplished a thing.


I got number one during the Saturday replay, but I guess I forgot to post it. It was that Tavares song we heard last week, "It Only Takes a Minute".


"If you don't post the answer in time/
Then we'll never know what's on your mind"
Title: New scavenger hunt
Post by: Gazoo on August 11, 2007, 10:34:16 AM
This hunt has a theme: Songs I heard on oldies station 3WS while in Pittsburgh last week.  I have to say, I was impressed with the breadth of the station's playlist; it rivals what I read of WCBS's.

1. as yet
2. 73
3. Mozart
4. James Taylor
5. gunnin'
6. tumble
7. vibes
8. violins
9. whippoorwill
10. fawwin'
Title: Re: New scavenger hunt
Post by: RGMike on August 11, 2007, 10:40:48 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
This hunt has a theme: Songs I heard on oldies station 3WS while in Pittsburgh last week.  I have to say, I was impressed with the breadth of the station's playlist; it rivals what I read of WCBS's.

1. as yet
2. 73
3. Mozart
4. James Taylor
5. gunnin'
6. tumble
7. vibes
8. violins
9. whippoorwill
10. fawwin'


3. "Blinded by the light" (go-kart Mozart, I'm guessing it was the MMEB version)
4. "Rings", Cimarron (that *IS* impressive -- was it a bigger hit in P-burgh than it was nationally?)
10. H,FJ&R of course (they shoulda followed it with "I Wike Dweamin')

more to come as I think of 'em...
Title: Re: New scavenger hunt
Post by: RGMike on August 11, 2007, 10:35:19 PM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
This hunt has a theme: Songs I heard on oldies station 3WS while in Pittsburgh last week.  I have to say, I was impressed with the breadth of the station's playlist; it rivals what I read of WCBS's.

1. as yet
2. 73
3. Mozart
4. James Taylor
5. gunnin'
6. tumble
7. vibes
8. violins
9. whippoorwill
10. fawwin'


3. "Blinded by the light" (go-kart Mozart, I'm guessing it was the MMEB version)
4. "Rings", Cimarron (that *IS* impressive -- was it a bigger hit in P-burgh than it was nationally?)
10. H,FJ&R of course (they shoulda followed it with "I Wike Dweamin')

more to come as I think of 'em...


9. "Phila. Freedom"
8. could it be? Ray Stevens' "Misty"???  (If so I'm even more impressed)
6. I'm hoping they played "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" but I didn't think you'd give a clue that's part of a song title...
Title: Re: New scavenger hunt
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2007, 09:27:51 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
This hunt has a theme: Songs I heard on oldies station 3WS while in Pittsburgh last week.  I have to say, I was impressed with the breadth of the station's playlist; it rivals what I read of WCBS's.

1. as yet
2. 73
3. Mozart
4. James Taylor
5. gunnin'
6. tumble
7. vibes
8. violins
9. whippoorwill
10. fawwin'


3. "Blinded by the light" (go-kart Mozart, I'm guessing it was the MMEB version)
4. "Rings", Cimarron (that *IS* impressive -- was it a bigger hit in P-burgh than it was nationally?)
10. H,FJ&R of course (they shoulda followed it with "I Wike Dweamin')

more to come as I think of 'em...


9. "Phila. Freedom"
8. could it be? Ray Stevens' "Misty"???  (If so I'm even more impressed)
6. I'm hoping they played "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" but I didn't think you'd give a clue that's part of a song title...


You're right on 3, 4, 9, and 10.  ("Rings" wasn't especially big in Pgh AFAIK, so I was equally impressed/surprised.)  Never having heard "Misty," I didn't know there were "violins" in it; I was going for something else.  Same with "tumble," for which I'll invoke Shray's edict about hunt words not appearing in titles.
Title: Re: New scavenger hunt
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2007, 11:47:55 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
You're right on 3, 4, 9, and 10.  ("Rings" wasn't especially big in Pgh AFAIK, so I was equally impressed/surprised.)  Never having heard "Misty," I didn't know there were "violins" in it; I was going for something else.  Same with "tumble," for which I'll invoke Shray's edict about hunt words not appearing in titles.


"and a thousand violins began to play..."

FYI, "Rings" was also a country hit in '71 for Tompall & the Glaser Bros. (charting the same time as the pop version) -- only I think they had "Merle Haggard" on their stereo. And of course it was covered in '74 by Lobo.
Title: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2007, 03:32:14 PM
73 men sailed up to the San Francisco Bay...to try to catch a ball in McCovey Cove.
Title: Re: New scavenger hunt
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2007, 10:12:18 PM
Quote from: "RGMike"
And of course it was covered in '74 by Lobo.


Did not know that.  I've only heard 2 or 3 Lobo songs (partial to "I'd Love You to Want Me"); should I seek out a GH comp?

PS to Mshray: Nice.
Title: Re: New scavenger hunt
Post by: Gazoo on August 17, 2007, 08:54:53 AM
ANSWERS:

1. as yet - Cat Stevens, "Another Saturday Night"
2. 73 - (MS) Blues Image, "Ride Captain Ride"
3. Mozart - (RGM) Manfred Mann, "Blinded By the Light"
4. James Taylor - (RGM) Cymarron, "Rings"
5. gunnin' - Steely Dan, "Do It Again"
6. tumble - not Culture Club, alas, but Tommy James, "I Think We're Alone Now"
7. vibes - Jefferson Starship, "Miracles" (and a big "Harrumph!" to y'alls :) )
8. violins - Supremes, "I Hear a Symphony"
9. whippoorwill - (RGM) Elton John, "Philadelphia Freedom"
10. fawwin' - (RGM) Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, "Fallin' in Love (Again)"
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on March 18, 2010, 08:15:55 AM
Here's a quick scavenger hunt for y'all.  All from very well-known tunes.

1.) bower
2.) grinner
3.) spanner
4.) strewn
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on March 18, 2010, 08:57:26 AM

2.) grinner


That would be "The Joker", methinks. 
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on March 18, 2010, 10:00:49 AM

2.) grinner


That would be "The Joker", methinks. 

yep!
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on March 24, 2010, 10:13:31 AM

Here's a quick scavenger hunt for y'all.  All from very well-known tunes.

1.) bower
2.) grinner
3.) spanner
4.) strewn

Hint: the other three are all R'n'R HoF bands with very prominent guitarists.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on March 26, 2010, 09:27:35 AM
I'll post the answers after the set if no one gets any by then.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on March 26, 2010, 10:00:41 AM
I'll post the answers after the set if no one gets any by then.

Sorry, I got none o' these.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 26, 2010, 10:01:42 AM
I'll post the answers after the set if no one gets any by then.

Is Ian Hunter involved with one answer?
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on March 26, 2010, 10:25:10 AM
I'll post the answers after the set if no one gets any by then.

Is Ian Hunter involved with one answer?

nope.

two of the above-mentioned three guitarists were in even in a recent movie together.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 26, 2010, 10:27:16 AM
I'll post the answers after the set if no one gets any by then.

Is Ian Hunter involved with one answer?

nope.

two of the remaining three were in even in a recent movie together.

I looked up some lyrics w the words in question. there are a few songs that feaure the words, but I suppose you're looking for the most "popular" or accessible answer?

Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on March 26, 2010, 10:32:42 AM
I'll post the answers after the set if no one gets any by then.

Is Ian Hunter involved with one answer?

nope.

two of the remaining three were in even in a recent movie together.

I looked up some lyrics w the words in question. there are a few songs that feaure the words, but I suppose you're looking for the most "popular" or accessible answer?

ones you'd hear on KFOG or The Band
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on March 26, 2010, 10:33:04 AM
Re 3) I know Rod Stewart had an album called A Spanner in the Works, but I can't pin it to a song.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on March 26, 2010, 10:34:00 AM

Re 3) I know Rod Stewart had an album called A Spanner in the Works, but I can't pin it to a song.

the song in question uses that phrase, but breaks it up a bit.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 26, 2010, 10:46:01 AM

Re 3) I know Rod Stewart had an album called A Spanner in the Works, but I can't pin it to a song.

the song in question uses that phrase, but breaks it up a bit.

UB40s If It Happens Again uses "spanners". Not a song in heavy rotation -- or any rotation -- on KFOG, but a song I'm familiar with.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on May 02, 2010, 08:25:49 AM
Mark, which song were you going after?

Here's a quick new scavenger hunt.  Y'alls know the rules: all are Top 40 charters, not in the title; bonus frink points if you come up with one I didn't intend.

calliope
embryo
fashioned (NOT old-fashioned)
spectacle
spectacles
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on May 02, 2010, 09:54:55 AM


Here's a quick new scavenger hunt.  Y'alls know the rules: all are Top 40 charters, not in the title; bonus frink points if you come up with one I didn't intend.

embryo


Ms Reddy was still an embryo, with a long long way to go in "I Am Woman" -- which is why my mom thought it was an anti-abortion song!
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: mshray on May 03, 2010, 10:53:53 AM

Mark, which song were you going after?

Spanner = "Industrial Disease"  Dire Straits
Bower = "Gallows Pole"  Led Zeppelin
Strewn = "Sunday Bloody Sunday"  U2

(hint = the latter two HoF guitarists recently appeared with Jack White in It Might Get Loud (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229360/))

Nothing leaps to mind on any of yours, I'll have to keep racking my brain.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on May 10, 2010, 06:00:53 PM
Mark, which song were you going after?

Here's a quick new scavenger hunt.  Y'alls know the rules: all are Top 40 charters, not in the title; bonus frink points if you come up with one I didn't intend.

calliope
embryo
fashioned (NOT old-fashioned)
spectacle
spectacles


calliope = "Blinded by the Light"
embryo = Mike gets points for Helen Reddy for the World's "I Am Woman"
fashioned (NOT old-fashioned) = Level 42, "Something About You" (fashioned by fate)
spectacle = Barry Manilow's true-blue spectacle, "It's a Miracle."
spectacles = Donovan looks through crystal speck-tickles in "Epistle to Dippy."
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on November 10, 2010, 09:53:24 AM
Haven't done one of these in a while...  8 words, find them in a song lyric.  6 of the songs I'm thinking of were Top 40 hits, one is a cultish obscurity for chart geeks and one was an early single that didn't chart for a rock pioneer.

botheration
determination
cogitation
masturbation
salutations
preservation
investigation
accusations

Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on November 10, 2010, 09:58:39 PM
I was going to say "Give Peace a Chance" is all of them, but I think it's just "masturbation."
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on November 10, 2010, 10:03:58 PM

"determination" = the Impressions, "Choice of Colors"

This is wrong; I misremembered the lyric.

Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: urth on November 10, 2010, 11:14:49 PM
Haven't done one of these in a while...  8 words, find them in a song lyric.  6 of the songs I'm thinking of were Top 40 hits, one is a cultish obscurity for chart geeks and one was an early single that didn't chart for a rock pioneer.

botheration
determination
cogitation
masturbation
salutations
preservation
investigation
accusations


I think there's a verse of "Ball of Confusion" that could contain all of them, but I'm sure that's not right. But one of them, perhaps?
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on November 11, 2010, 07:38:59 AM
Gaz gets his masturbation right (er, can I rephrase that?) and urth is onto something with "B of C" -- one of the remaining 7 is in there.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on November 11, 2010, 09:26:27 AM
Gaz gets his masturbation right (er, can I rephrase that?) and urth is onto something with "B of C" -- one of the remaining 7 is in there.

There's also "masturbation" in Green Day's "Longview."
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on November 11, 2010, 09:37:48 AM
Gaz gets his masturbation right (er, can I rephrase that?) and urth is onto something with "B of C" -- one of the remaining 7 is in there.

There's also "masturbation" in Green Day's "Longview."

Frink points!  But was "Longview" a Top 40 single or just a popular album track? (my '90s chart knowledge is not what it should be)
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on November 11, 2010, 10:40:17 AM
cogitation = "Resurrection Shuffle"?
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on November 11, 2010, 10:46:06 AM
cogitation = "Resurrection Shuffle"?

vibrations but no cogitations from Ashton, Gardner, Dyke or Jones.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: urth on November 11, 2010, 10:49:29 AM
Gaz gets his masturbation right (er, can I rephrase that?) and urth is onto something with "B of C" -- one of the remaining 7 is in there.

Determination?
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on November 11, 2010, 10:53:42 AM
Gaz gets his masturbation right (er, can I rephrase that?) and urth is onto something with "B of C" -- one of the remaining 7 is in there.

Determination?

DING DING DING! It's my obligation to say there's no humiliation in your answer.  2 down, 6 to go.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on November 11, 2010, 02:56:31 PM
Gaz gets his masturbation right (er, can I rephrase that?) and urth is onto something with "B of C" -- one of the remaining 7 is in there.

There's also "masturbation" in Green Day's "Longview."

Frink points!  But was "Longview" a Top 40 single or just a popular album track? (my '90s chart knowledge is not what it should be)

It was one of those gappers that would have charted if it had been a commercial single.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on November 15, 2010, 09:02:16 AM
Haven't done one of these in a while...  8 words, find them in a song lyric.  6 of the songs I'm thinking of were Top 40 hits, one is a cultish obscurity for chart geeks and one was an early single that didn't chart for a rock pioneer.

botheration
determination (Ball of Confusion)
cogitation
masturbation (Give Peace a Chance)
salutations
preservation
investigation
accusations


last chance on the above -- I'll post answers if no one bites today.
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on November 15, 2010, 10:08:12 AM
You did a good job of stumping us on these, Mike!  I know I'll kick myself on a few of them ...
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on November 15, 2010, 12:52:13 PM
botheration
determination (Ball of Confusion)
cogitation
masturbation (Give Peace a Chance)
salutations
preservation
investigation
accusations

accusations = Police, "Don't Stand So Close to Me"

And it's not frink-point-worthy, but "preservation" appears in a deep Jefferson Starship album cut from 1984's Nuclear Furniture: "Showdown," with a Grace line about "self-preservation, the original greed."
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on November 15, 2010, 01:57:30 PM
botheration
determination (Ball of Confusion)
cogitation
masturbation (Give Peace a Chance)
salutations
preservation
investigation
accusations

accusations = Police, "Don't Stand So Close to Me"

And it's not frink-point-worthy, but "preservation" appears in a deep Jefferson Starship album cut from 1984's Nuclear Furniture: "Showdown," with a Grace line about "self-preservation, the original greed."

Right on the Police -- and you're knocking on the door of "preservation" with that hyphenated word....
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: RGMike on November 16, 2010, 09:43:03 AM
OK kids, time for the big reveal:

botheration - "Too Much Monkey Business", Chuck Berry (early single that amazingly never charted Pop).

determination - "Ball of Confusion", Tempts (yay urth!)

cogitation - "Nikki Hoeky", PJ Proby, a beloved-by-chart-geeks regional hit from '67; I was wrong, it actually did get to #23.

masturbation - "Give Peace a Chance", Plastic Ono Lennon (yay gaz!)

salutations - "Life is a Rock", Reunion ("friends and Romans, salutations/Brenda and the Tabulations")

preservation - "Young Hearts Run Free", Candi Staton ("self-preservation is what's really goin' on today")

investigation - "Me & Julio", Paul Simon

accusations - "Don't stand So Close...", Police (yay gaz again!)
Title: Re: Scavenger Hunts
Post by: Gazoo on November 16, 2010, 10:06:26 AM
preservation - "Young Hearts Run Free", Candi Staton ("self-preservation is what's really goin' on today")

Oh damn, I should've got that; I've used that quote before.