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mshray

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« 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.
"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

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« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2005, 10:34:57 AM »
> 8 - like Strawberry Fields

Bush, "Glycerine"

 :P
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

mshray

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« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2005, 10:36:41 AM »
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> 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.
"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

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Re: Similes
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2005, 10:40:58 AM »
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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?

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« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2005, 10:54:32 AM »
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10 - wavy hair like Liberace


"Mr Sandman"  -- have you been listening to KABL?
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

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« Reply #5 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"
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2005, 11:03:43 AM »
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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.
"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2005, 11:04:27 AM »
RGMike is 3 fer 3.
"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

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« Reply #8 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 ..."
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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« Reply #9 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.
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2005, 11:25:49 AM »
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> 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!
"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

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« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2005, 11:43:33 AM »
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> 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.
and any fool knows
a dog needs a home
a shelter
from pigs on the wing

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« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2005, 11:52:40 AM »
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> 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.
and any fool knows
a dog needs a home
a shelter
from pigs on the wing

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« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2005, 12:34:59 PM »
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> 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
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

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« Reply #14 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!
"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

--Carlos Santana, 2010