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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #30 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
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #31 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.
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #32 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.
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #33 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.
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #34 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
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #35 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!
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #36 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)

Nothing leaps to mind on any of yours, I'll have to keep racking my brain.
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #37 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."
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #38 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.

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determination
cogitation
masturbation
salutations
preservation
investigation
accusations

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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #39 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."
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #40 on: November 10, 2010, 10:03:58 PM »

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

This is wrong; I misremembered the lyric.

« Last Edit: November 11, 2010, 12:00:43 AM by Gazoo »
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #41 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?
Let's get right to it.

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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #42 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.
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #43 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."
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Re: Scavenger Hunts
« Reply #44 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)
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