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    lee_UK
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    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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    • #69962
      lee_UK
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      try and say that after 5 snakebites and a Jim Beam chaser.

    • #69982
      1bassleft
      Participant

      That’s Lee. There are sometimes a few nuggets in the pans of sift.

    • #69966
      lee_UK
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      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.

    • #69950
      Tim
      Participant

      😕 …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! 😀

    • #69979
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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.

    • #69972
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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.

    • #69967
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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?

    • #69959
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Also, as a single it reached the giddy heights of number 79!! not exactly top 10 material, anyone into the band Talk Talk?

    • #69974
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Sorry Shake, lengthy intro on the original recording:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOEIRI5HSuQ

    • #69983
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      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!!

    • #69957
      Michael
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      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.

    • #69973
      lee_UK
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      so, we have:

      The Beatles – We can work it out.
      Weezer – Buddy Holly
      Eric Clapton – I shot the Sheriff
      Squeeze – Pulling mussels.

      Any others?

    • #69985
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Nobody did and, to my mind, it’s a qualifier.

    • #69969
      lee_UK
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      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?

    • #69975
      Tim
      Participant

      Help.

    • #69970
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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.

    • #69960
      glw
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      [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.

    • #69947
      Tim
      Participant

      And ‘Help!’ 😆

    • #69956
      Michael
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      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.

    • #69980
      shakedown_04092
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      [quote=”lee_UK”]i thought this was going to wrangle on for months.
      [/quote]
      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?

    • #69981
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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!

    • #69958
      glw
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      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?

    • #69964
      Michael
      Participant

      There was 5 wasn’t there. ANy of em coulda picked up a guitar.

    • #69986
      1bassleft
      Participant

      “Four musicians and a drummer”, so Mike hazards a guess with Spandau Ballet. No wonder you hid under your GNW s/n, Mike.

    • #69984
      Guitar Expert
      Keymaster

      Spandau Ballet?

      Edit: Arg just realised im logged in as admin. Mike.

    • #69963
      Guitar Expert
      Keymaster

      Is there a John Peel connection?

    • #69987
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Micky finn made all the difference in that band.. 🙄

    • #69953
      Michael
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      [quote=”lee_UK”]so that’s 4 musicians and a drummer.[/quote]

      😆 good job slotting that one in there.

      T. Rex?

    • #69954
      lee_UK
      Participant

      No, no and ermm definatly not.

      1 keyboard
      1 drummer
      2 guitars
      and a bass player, so that’s 4 musicians and a drummer.

    • #69949
      shakedown_04092
      Participant

      Flock Of Seagulls! Peter Frampton!

    • #69988
      Michael
      Participant

      Madness?

    • #69976
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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.

    • #69971
      Michael
      Participant

      It thought Queen too, and than I thought, hey didn’t Invisible Man fit the bill. F’kin has an intro. Arg.

    • #69968
      1bassleft
      Participant

      [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=

    • #69978
      Michael
      Participant

      lol lord, can you just tell us if it’s the beatles?

    • #69952
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [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,

    • #69830
      lee_UK
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      [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.

    • #69829
      glw
      Participant

      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

    • #69825
      1bassleft
      Participant

      BTW, were it not for that opening sus chord, “Hard Day’s Night” would have fitted the bill, surely?

    • #69800
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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…

    • #69802
      Tim
      Participant

      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.

    • #69824
      Tim
      Participant

      ‘Hey Joe’ all in by 9 seconds…I know thats not it but what the hey.

    • #69835
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Where are the drums? bass? tambourine? flute? guitars?
      No, not Ruby Tuesday, but what a great song though

    • #69799
      Michael
      Participant

      ruby tuesday ?

    • #69820
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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?

    • #69828
      Michael
      Participant

      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.

    • #69798
      Lou_Ranko
      Member

      Loving Cup – Rolling Stones.

      Edit: Not quite true.

    • #69826
      Michael
      Participant

      Good heavens. This is like a drug. i need to get it.

    • #69827
      lee_UK
      Participant

      not around today, lots of singles success, great songwriters. i think there were 5 in the band.

    • #69807
      Michael
      Participant

      I request just one more clue. Just one more Lee.

    • #69842
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [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?

    • #69815
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [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.

    • #69808
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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

    • #69839
      Michael
      Participant

      Elvis Presley, Hound Dog. #2 on the 1956 UK singles chart. Done Deal.

      Unless Lee says it has to be a “band.”

    • #69805
      Michael
      Participant

      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.

    • #69814
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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.
      And a UK hit single too, no obscure Genesis tracks.

    • #69845
      Michael
      Participant

      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?

    • #69817
      glw
      Participant

      American Pie?

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