Music trivia

[Perd Hapley]

Flame on
I'm gone
I'm so sweet like a nice bon-bon
Came out rappin' when I was born,
Momma said, "Rock it till the break of dawn."

[Snowdog]

I'm sure it's by the Beastie Boys, but I can't remember the name. I can usually name the band, but seldom the song.   

[LadySmith]

Beastie Boys
Body Movin
Body movin, body movin,
A1 sound, sound so soothing
Body movin, body movin,
We be getting down and you know we're crush groovin

Let me get some action from the back section
We need body rocking not perfection
Let your back bone flip but don't slip a disc
Let your spine unwind just take a risk
I wanna do the freak until the break of dawn
Tell me party people is that so wrong
The ship is docking, inter-lockin
And up-rockin electro-shocking
We're getting down computer action
Do the robotic satisfaction
All of y'all get off the wall
Have a ball and get involved with

Body movin, body movin with the A-1 sound sound so soothing

Flame on, I'm gone
I'm so sweet like a nice bon bon
Came out rapping when I was born
Mom said rock it 'til the break of dawn
Puttin bodies in motion cause I got the notion
Like Roy Cormier with the coconut lotion
The sound of the music drivin you insane
You can't explain to people this type of mind frame
Like a bottle of Chateau Neuf Du Pap
I'm fine like wine when I start to rap
We need body rockin not perfection
Let me get some action from the back section

Body movin, body movin,
A1 sound, sound so soothing
Body movin, body movin,
We be getting down and you know we're crush groovin

Mike D with the master plan
Ooh my my and thank you ma'am
And when I grab the mic you scream Ooh god damn
The creme de la creme is who I am
MCA where have you been
Packed like sardines in the tin
So kick off your shoes and put on your swim fins
Cause when it comes to quarries I'm known to swim
Adrock light up the place
And if you pull my card you pull the ace
And if you ask me turn up the bass
And if you play defender I could be your hyper space

Body movin'
*********************

OK, so what did I win? 

[280plus]

Sounds like Kid Rock to me. Or does Kid Rock sound like the Beastie boys? Hmmmmm...

 

[LadySmith]

Beastie Boys predate Kid Rock. The Beasties were out back when folks used to install house speakers or stolen drive-in theater speakers in their cars. At least in my neighborhood.

[Perd Hapley]

Sounds like Kid Rock to me. Or does Kid Rock sound like the Beastie boys? Hmmmmm...

 

No, Kid Rock sounds nothing like the Beastie Boys.  Old guys.      


LadySmith, you win the chance to pose the next challenge.  Nothing too obscure, now.   

[280plus]

Stolen drive in speakers? I don't know what you're talking about... 

[LadySmith]

LadySmith, you win the chance to pose the next challenge.  Nothing too obscure, now.

Oh darn. Well here goes...

Look like nothing's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, yes

[280plus]

Bobbie Brown "My Perogative" 

[Perd Hapley]

Was that Otis Redding who was Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay? 

[LadySmith]

Was that Otis Redding who was Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay?

Yep. I was just going to put the whistle part but figured it would be too easy. 

Stolen drive in speakers? I don't know what you're talking about...

Oooohhhh...I'm telling! 

[Perd Hapley]

It's a good thing that I'm not a star,
You don't know how lucky you are.
My records might say it,
No one will play it.
Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year. 

[LadySmith]

Hmmmm...is it:

Bobbie Brown "My Perogative"

  (280Plus, now you know I'm going to listen to Bobbie Brown today because of you) 
But I found it:

Sad Songs And Waltzes by Cake

I'm writing a song all about you.
A true song as real as my tears.
But you've no need to fear it
Cause no one will hear it.
Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.
I'll tell all about how you cheated.
I'd like for the whole world to hear.
I'd like to get even
With you cause you're leavin'.
But sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.
It's a good thing that I'm not a star.
You don't know how lucky you are.
Though my record may say it,
No one will play it.
Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.
It's a good thing that I'm not a star.
You don't know how lucky you are.
Though my record may say it,
No one will play it.
Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.
*******
Now I'm passing my turn to someone else because I've got to hurry up and go home.
Besides, I really wanted a cookie. 

[Perd Hapley]

Did you have to google that?  Because that's just not right.  I believe it was actually written by Willie Nelson, or at least he did it before Cake.


Here's a better-known song that he didn't write.

Livin' on the road my friend,
S'posed to keep you free and clean.
Now you wear your skin like iron,
Your breath as hard as kerosene.
You weren't your momma's only boy,
But her favorite one, it seems.
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
And slipped into your dreams. 

[charby]

The Beasties were out back when folks used to install house speakers.

So true, in 1990 I had a 1968 Plymouth Satellite and in the back seat I built a speaker box and stuck to 15" subs from HiFi I saw sitting out on a curb. I powered it with a 100w amp.

Also we would sit out at the park and one of my friends would connect up home stereo speakers to his car stereo and sit them upright in the back of his pickup.

[280plus]

  (280Plus, now you know I'm going to listen to Bobbie Brown today because of you) 

Just trying to do my part! 

Of course, now I REALLY feel stupid not knowing that was "Dock of the Bay" ! 

 

[Perd Hapley]

280, you got beat by a guy who wasn't even born when he sang that song.     (I think.)  But I guess at your age, the memory ain't workin' so good. 

[280plus]

Memory? What is this "memory"? 

[crt360]

Pancho & Lefty

[Perd Hapley]

    I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
    "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
    Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
    Since God is marching on."

[Sergeant Bob]

My turn.

I'm only breathing. There's life on my ceiling.
The flies there are sleeping quietly.
Twist my right arm in the dark.
I would give two or three for
one of those days that never made
impressions on the old score.

[Matthew Carberry]

    I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
    "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
    Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
    Since God is marching on."

Battle Hymn of the Republic?

[Felonious Monk/Fignozzle]

I'm in:

No more gravity, nothing holding them down
Floating endlessly, as their ship leaves the ground
Through the walls of time, at the speed of light
Fly the crystal ships on their celestial flight, on their celestial flight


...HUGE points if you guess this AND you were born after, say, '72.
Fig

[Gewehr98]

Jeebus, Monk, that's an easy one. 

I still have the Billy Thorpe Children of the Sun LP next to my turntable.  Every now and then, they play it on the local classic rock station, and I've even got it loaded into my RCA Lyra MP3 player.

(Born in 1965, so yeah, I still use vinyl on my turntable.  It intrigues my stepsons, who have no clue...) 

[Sindawe]

Born in 1965, so yeah, I still use vinyl on my turntable..

Shoot, you're a year younger than I, and I don't recall that last time I SAW a turntable outside of a club.  Much less USE one. 

OK, lets see who gets this one:

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