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June 1, 2007 at 11:54 pm #24333lee_UKParticipant
I listened to a question on the radio abouts songs that start with the whole band coming in, no intro, no click click, no one two three… just straight in, it also has to have been a hit single in the UK, and the singing has to start in the first bar. apparently, there is only 1, but i know of another, the one i thought of is ‘Buddy Holly’ by Weezer, can you guess the other one?
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July 17, 2007 at 8:06 am #69962lee_UKParticipant
try and say that after 5 snakebites and a Jim Beam chaser.
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July 17, 2007 at 7:23 am #699821bassleftParticipant
That’s Lee. There are sometimes a few nuggets in the pans of sift.
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July 15, 2007 at 11:44 pm #69966lee_UKParticipant
The Nuts and nuggets are in there, you just need to pick em out.
Me=Lee
Lee= Drummer from Talk Talk
Garry = Bass player
Garry’s sister = Housewife
Talk Talk’s bass player = Very progressive.happy sifting.
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July 15, 2007 at 7:38 am #69950TimParticipant
😕 …is Gary a very progressive bass player or is the drummer from Talk Talk the progressive bass player. Or is it Gary’s sister, maybe sibling rivalry led to them being a family of excellent bass players, sweet…and you know these people, go you! 😀
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July 15, 2007 at 7:06 am #699791bassleftParticipant
So, Lee has a bass player called Gary (I knew this bit) and Gary has a sister, who is married to a drummer called Lee… hang on, I’m getting a bit lost… a very fine bass player… life’s what you make it, I suppose.
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July 15, 2007 at 4:55 am #69972lee_UKParticipant
No…but… you remember Gary?, the bass player in our originals band LAND? well his sister is married to Lee the drummer from Talk Talk, very progressive Bass player, played some very nice stuff.
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July 15, 2007 at 1:37 am #699671bassleftParticipant
Yes, Mrs Bass had a couple of their albums. Quite ahead of their time, certainly didn’t date like a lot of 80s stuff. Have they an introless song?
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July 14, 2007 at 5:12 am #69959lee_UKParticipant
Also, as a single it reached the giddy heights of number 79!! not exactly top 10 material, anyone into the band Talk Talk?
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July 13, 2007 at 8:30 am #699741bassleftParticipant
Sorry Shake, lengthy intro on the original recording:
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July 13, 2007 at 8:22 am #69983shakedown_04092Participant
A-ha! I’ve got one!
Nothing But Flowers by the Talking Heads.
At least the “newer” versions that David Byrne does….can’t remember if the original came right in or not, but I think so!!
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July 13, 2007 at 6:08 am #69957MichaelParticipant
fark, you know what… I shot the Sheriff was one the first songs I went and listened to at the start of this thread… I thought for sure it was a contender. Except I listened to Bobs, not Erics.
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July 11, 2007 at 4:19 am #69973lee_UKParticipant
so, we have:
The Beatles – We can work it out.
Weezer – Buddy Holly
Eric Clapton – I shot the Sheriff
Squeeze – Pulling mussels.Any others?
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July 11, 2007 at 1:12 am #699851bassleftParticipant
Nobody did and, to my mind, it’s a qualifier.
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July 10, 2007 at 6:29 pm #69969lee_UKParticipant
I was playing 461 Ocean Boulevard last night and came up with another one:
‘ I shot the sheriff ‘ was number 1 in the States and number 9 in the UK, so it qualifies, did someone already mention it? -
June 28, 2007 at 1:02 am #69975TimParticipant
Help.
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June 27, 2007 at 5:22 am #69970lee_UKParticipant
Ruby tuesday had no drums on the verse that comes in, and ‘Help’ everybody is in and the vocal too but that is the intro, this is songs with NO intro, Well done again glw i thought it was beyond everyone, very good.
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June 26, 2007 at 4:00 pm #69960glwParticipant
[quote=”Michael”]lol good work GLW.
Yeah it is a shame it’s over. Was a lot of fun.
C’mon, Spandau Ballet wasn’t such a bad guess.
And I still rekon I had one with Ruby Tuesday.[/quote]
Ah, but the thing about Spandau, Mike, was that they didn’t have a 2-guitar line-up. I’m not sure that they regularly had keyboards either. Didn’t they have a sax?
I was trying to think of a 5-piece band with two guitars in the line-up, and I was guessing that the singer was probably one of the guitarists. I couldn’t actually think of very many bands fitting that criteria and who also had over 20 hit singles in the UK. Other than Squeeze the only other band I could think of was Super Furry Animals, but the date of 1978 was too early for them.
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June 26, 2007 at 1:29 am #69947TimParticipant
And ‘Help!’ 😆
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June 25, 2007 at 6:13 am #69956MichaelParticipant
lol good work GLW.
Yeah it is a shame it’s over. Was a lot of fun.
C’mon, Spandau Ballet wasn’t such a bad guess.
And I still rekon I had one with Ruby Tuesday.
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June 24, 2007 at 9:28 pm #69980shakedown_04092Participant
[quote=”lee_UK”]i thought this was going to wrangle on for months.
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so did i, but i’m kind of dissapointed it’s over; it was fun to check everyday & see peoples answers.got any other trivia?
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June 24, 2007 at 2:37 am #69981lee_UKParticipant
Sh*t.
I can’t believe somebody got it!!
Well done glw, SQUEEZE indeed, great songwriters, Pulling Mussels was the song, i thought this was going to wrangle on for months.
Well done.
Good competition, let’s face it, Mike was never going to get anywhere near it, Spandau Ballet my arse! -
June 22, 2007 at 11:09 pm #69958glwParticipant
OK, I’ve been ruminating on this for the best part of this afternoon, and I reckon that the band (two guitars, bass, keyboards, drums), hailing from London, active between 1978-2000, 22 UK hit singles, absolutely must be Squeeze.
The song?
“Pulling Muscles (From The Shell)”
(I’ve just listened to it to check – my colleague has a bunch of CDs here in the office including a Squeeze compilation – it works!)
What do I win?
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June 22, 2007 at 9:00 am #69964MichaelParticipant
There was 5 wasn’t there. ANy of em coulda picked up a guitar.
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June 22, 2007 at 8:42 am #699861bassleftParticipant
“Four musicians and a drummer”, so Mike hazards a guess with Spandau Ballet. No wonder you hid under your GNW s/n, Mike.
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June 22, 2007 at 7:18 am #69984Guitar ExpertKeymaster
Spandau Ballet?
Edit: Arg just realised im logged in as admin. Mike.
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June 22, 2007 at 7:05 am #69963Guitar ExpertKeymaster
Is there a John Peel connection?
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June 21, 2007 at 2:28 pm #69987lee_UKParticipant
Micky finn made all the difference in that band.. 🙄
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June 21, 2007 at 6:16 am #69953MichaelParticipant
[quote=”lee_UK”]so that’s 4 musicians and a drummer.[/quote]
😆 good job slotting that one in there.
T. Rex?
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June 20, 2007 at 9:47 pm #69954lee_UKParticipant
No, no and ermm definatly not.
1 keyboard
1 drummer
2 guitars
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June 20, 2007 at 9:23 pm #69949shakedown_04092Participant
Flock Of Seagulls! Peter Frampton!
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June 13, 2007 at 8:03 am #69988MichaelParticipant
Madness?
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June 13, 2007 at 7:53 am #69976lee_UKParticipant
Not the Beatles, not Queen either, think of a singles band, British, i think they are still about today but with a change of 2 or 3 original members, all from London, from 78-2000 they were credited with 46 released singles, 22 charted in the UK, 8 were in the top 20, 3 were in the top 5.
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June 12, 2007 at 6:36 am #69971MichaelParticipant
It thought Queen too, and than I thought, hey didn’t Invisible Man fit the bill. F’kin has an intro. Arg.
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June 12, 2007 at 6:32 am #699681bassleftParticipant
[quote]Hello Goodbye – The Beatles (no proper drums on the first bar)[/quote]
Why pick on just the first bar of this particular song? 😆 , I was thinking of Lennon’s cruel (and not really correct) dig at Ringo.
Anyhoo, I was thinking it’d be an early chart song, before radio loved the intro so that their DJs could prattle endlessly over the opening bars, but Lee distinctly mentioned a 70s/80s five-piece. I had a feeling that surely Queen must fit the bill. The trouble is, they most often have n bars of vocal before the instruments come in. Would this cover of “We will rock you” count, though?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDR9RckfEU&mode=related&search=
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June 12, 2007 at 6:11 am #69978MichaelParticipant
lol lord, can you just tell us if it’s the beatles?
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June 12, 2007 at 5:16 am #69952lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”glw”]I’ve been checking through The Beatles singles. I reckon these are contenders:
We Can Work It Out – The Beatles (the jury is out on this one)
With A Little Help From My Friends – The Beatles (Billy Shears moment?? and the ‘WHOLE’ band is’nt in on the first bar)
Hello Goodbye – The Beatles (no proper drums on the first bar)
Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles (it’s all violins and cellos’ none of the band were any where in it, let alone the first bar, plus it was a B side to Yellow Submarine)[/quote]
I think you could have one with ‘We can work it out’ , not realy the whole band in, but it’s not the one that came up,
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June 12, 2007 at 5:00 am #69830lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”1bassleft”]BTW, were it not for that opening sus chord, “Hard Day’s Night” would have fitted the bill, surely?[/quote]
Thats a No-Goer too, ‘kerrrang……it’s been a (then the band is in) Hard days night.. Has to be straight in to the song, the whole band and the singer singing the verse or chorus within the first bar.
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June 11, 2007 at 6:51 pm #69829glwParticipant
I’ve been checking through The Beatles singles. I reckon these are contenders:
We Can Work It Out – The Beatles
With A Little Help From My Friends – The Beatles
Hello Goodbye – The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles
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June 11, 2007 at 9:02 am #698251bassleftParticipant
BTW, were it not for that opening sus chord, “Hard Day’s Night” would have fitted the bill, surely?
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June 11, 2007 at 4:39 am #69800lee_UKParticipant
No Drums, and ‘Help, i need somebody’ is the actual intro, it’s not repeated anywhere else in the song, as well as no drums on the intro just a tap tap tap on the high hat.
Hey Joe is a poor attempt Tim, what about the guitar lick at the start?
It’s a lot harder than you think…
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June 9, 2007 at 6:36 am #69802TimParticipant
Yellow Submarine! Yeah alright, drums are iffy.
‘Help’ – Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8UOHpMGG0Y
Yay, go me! Don’t know if it was a number one though.
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June 9, 2007 at 6:33 am #69824TimParticipant
‘Hey Joe’ all in by 9 seconds…I know thats not it but what the hey.
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June 8, 2007 at 8:08 pm #69835lee_UKParticipant
Where are the drums? bass? tambourine? flute? guitars?
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June 8, 2007 at 5:35 am #69799MichaelParticipant
ruby tuesday ?
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June 7, 2007 at 3:28 pm #69820lee_UKParticipant
What a great song though, what a great solo too, but sadly no.
And it was never a single, unles you count the scissor sisters version… but was that a single? -
June 7, 2007 at 9:16 am #69828MichaelParticipant
Were there 5 members at one time?
I thought the Hello, Hello was some Pink Floyd reference, but c’mon, what pf song doesn’t have a 30 minute instrumental intro.
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June 6, 2007 at 11:33 pm #69798Lou_RankoMember
Loving Cup – Rolling Stones.
Edit: Not quite true.
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June 6, 2007 at 6:54 am #69826MichaelParticipant
Good heavens. This is like a drug. i need to get it.
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June 6, 2007 at 6:22 am #69827lee_UKParticipant
not around today, lots of singles success, great songwriters. i think there were 5 in the band.
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June 6, 2007 at 6:13 am #69807MichaelParticipant
I request just one more clue. Just one more Lee.
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June 5, 2007 at 9:34 pm #69842lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”1bassleft”]Close, but I don’t think so. Elvis leads the band in. I’m trying to remember whether that monstrously blown “Glorious” has the “She-ee-eeee-ee-ee-ee” vocal bit right at the start, in which case…
EDIT: Nope. It even has a pointlessly lengthy “wibby wibbby wibby” start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjZTrdEoh8[/quote]Not only does it have the wibbly start, but once the band is in where is the vocal??? oh yeah there it is, 16 bars behind the intro!!!
I tell you, it’s a lot lot harder than you think, it was brought up on a radio show and thousands were e-mailing in and texting, nobody got it, there is only 1 other, by a British band late 70’s early 80’s.
Theres your clue.
1st one to get it gets Mikes free tuition time!!
Hello??? Hello?? where did everyone go?
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June 5, 2007 at 9:29 pm #69815lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”Michael”]Elvis Presley, Hound Dog. #2 on the 1956 UK singles chart. Done Deal.
Unless Lee says it has to be a “band.”[/quote]
Vocal starts then the band is in…. get with the program Mike.
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June 5, 2007 at 10:25 am #698081bassleftParticipant
Close, but I don’t think so. Elvis leads the band in. I’m trying to remember whether that monstrously blown “Glorious” has the “She-ee-eeee-ee-ee-ee” vocal bit right at the start, in which case…
EDIT: Nope. It even has a pointlessly lengthy “wibby wibbby wibby” start.
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June 5, 2007 at 5:14 am #69839MichaelParticipant
Elvis Presley, Hound Dog. #2 on the 1956 UK singles chart. Done Deal.
Unless Lee says it has to be a “band.”
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June 4, 2007 at 7:11 am #69805MichaelParticipant
Even if they did, Genesis would make up for it with a 23 minute introduction of Phil Collins eating puff cakes in the video version of the song.
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June 4, 2007 at 7:06 am #69814lee_UKParticipant
American pie?? no way, the whole band isnt in playing, just that watery vocal and a piano.
It’s a lot harder than you think.The WHOLE band has to be playing, including the vocal in the first bar.
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June 4, 2007 at 6:37 am #69845MichaelParticipant
One only… I doubt it… seems like there are 2 more already bought up here.
I’m keen to here what they had but Lee.
Edit: Is doo-wop counted?
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June 4, 2007 at 1:28 am #69817glwParticipant
American Pie?
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