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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2012 18:58:40 GMT -5
Well no, that wasn't the song BUT I forgot about that one. Should I give the title I meant? Or save it? Darin Sometimes there's more than one right answer. If a person comes up with a correct answer you didn't think of, give 'em credit but also tell 'em the one you were thinkin' of. Then let 'em pick their next word and take their turn. BTW, we ARE sometimes doing Ian solo stuff. That is permissible. (See the title of this thread.) It really all depends on the choice of the person who's "it". If you post one, you can choose to tell us whether it is Tull only or Ian solo, at your discretion. Good ones, all. I shoulda guessed "sparkle". I was just listening to Rock Island. "Undressed to Kill" was never one of my favorites off that album, though. I was dating this British chick at the time, when I got that album in the winter of '89. She cracked up when "Kissing Willie" played. I had no idea of the hidden meaning there. "Strange Avenues" and "Another Christmas Song" are probably my favorites off that album. Funny how certain Tull albums carry seasonal meanings for me. Because I got that one in winter, it is a winter album for me. TOTRARTYTD is a summer album for me. Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses are Autumn albums. WarChild and Minstrel in the Gallery are springtime albums. Of course I listen to 'em all at any time of the year, depending on my mood, but they carry those associations for me. Do any of the rest of you do this? I shall await the next installment. "keeping cool by mutual permission" Flying Colours Thought it would be more informative to most the other option! Lord, in 71, 72, and 73 the Tull tours would hit LA in the early summer right after school got out, which added to the joy, so I have always felt like it was a summertime treat. Most of the following tours landed here at different parts of the year. As time went on, since the west coast was always the last of the tour they would end up here later in the year so the band could have christmas off but I just considered them running late! Darin
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Post by lordmarcovan on Sept 12, 2012 6:20:38 GMT -5
So where are we now? Bear, is it? I've managed to get myself lost, in my own game thread.
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Post by lordmarcovan on Sept 19, 2012 20:28:38 GMT -5
Okay here we go again, I'll try to make this a little difficult. The password is: Bear. If we're still on bear, I'm stumped. I know there was a polar bear on the back of the Stormwatch album cover, but I can't think of where it appeared in any lyrics on that or any other album...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2012 21:16:13 GMT -5
Okay here we go again, I'll try to make this a little difficult. The password is: Bear. If we're still on bear, I'm stumped. I know there was a polar bear on the back of the Stormwatch album cover, but I can't think of where it appeared in any lyrics on that or any other album... "Swing your big bear down" No LullabyThe word is dandies
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Post by Icy Lucifer on Sept 21, 2012 5:15:32 GMT -5
well, that's 'lace-covered dandies... ....revel with friends pure as the truth, tied at both ends'. You'd expect me to get that from PP. I am Icy lucifer after all. So, in the spirit of Icy L try these two: Nipple an easy one that Curtain Cracks bit more tricky? OK, I know that's two words. Clue: different albums icyL PS No googling! I'll know it if you do.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2012 8:19:02 GMT -5
well, that's 'lace-covered dandies... ....revel with friends pure as the truth, tied at both ends'. You'd expect me to get that from PP. I am Icy lucifer after all. So, in the spirit of Icy L try these two: Nipple an easy one that Curtain Cracks bit more tricky? OK, I know that's two words. Clue: different albums icyL PS No googling! I'll know it if you do. That's tongue NIPPLE teasing........... I know that's only half but I just can't let nipples sit unattended.... The other I'll leave for another Is it an Ian solo lyric? (no am not googling) Darin
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2012 8:58:33 GMT -5
curtain cracks
The Chequered Flag [Dead or Alive]
the sunlight streaks through the curtain cracks, touches the old man where he sleeps...
If that is correct then my word is
suburban-ness
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Post by Icy Lucifer on Sept 21, 2012 9:54:28 GMT -5
curtain cracks The Chequered Flag [Dead or Alive] the sunlight streaks through the curtain cracks, touches the old man where he sleeps... If that is correct then my word is suburban-ness Damn! Yep. I thought that was a hard one. Now suburban-ness.Sounds like it should be from TAAB2. But isn't. MMM. Bottom-scratching time I think... icyL
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Post by lordmarcovan on Sept 21, 2012 13:47:35 GMT -5
"suburban-ness"? That's from "Living In These Hard Times". The first two discs of the 20th anniversary box set are my favorites, and on my "essential desert island list". Thing is, I always understood the lyric to be "suburban nests". At least one website has it as "suburban mess". (Yes, I Googled, but only to confirm. I knew this one!) And I'm sticking to my guns and saying it is "suburban NESTS". Makes more sense to me that way, so nyah, nyah. OK, I've got a fun one coming up, but gimme a sec to upload a picture to accompany my clue.
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Post by lordmarcovan on Sept 21, 2012 14:07:12 GMT -5
OK, this one comes with a real-life material prize! I am a numismatist. That is a fancy-schmancy word for a coin collector and/or coin dealer. I am both. (Witness my avatar picture which shows me in the Coin Geek costume I wear to shows.) Here is an old British two-shilling coin of George the Sixth. (Sorry, I didn't happen to have one from Ian's birthyear handy, so you'll have to settle for one from when he was a year old.) To win the actual coin below, you will need to do three things: One: name the type (denomination) of this coin. Yes, it is a two-shilling piece, but that is not what the Brits called 'em. This question should be very simple for anyone who is British and old enough to remember predecimal coinage. Two (and three): since it is a two-shilling piece, you have to name TWO different Tull songs in which shillings are mentioned. First to do this (name the type of coin and the two songs, and quote the lines) wins this coin.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2012 15:02:43 GMT -5
"suburban-ness"? That's from "Living In These Hard Times". The first two discs of the 20th anniversary box set are my favorites, and on my "essential desert island list". Thing is, I always understood the lyric to be "suburban nests". At least one website has it as "suburban mess". (Yes, I Googled, but only to confirm. I knew this one!) And I'm sticking to my guns and saying it is "suburban NESTS". Makes more sense to me that way, so nyah, nyah. OK, I've got a fun one coming up, but gimme a sec to upload a picture to accompany my clue. Correct although the Palmyra - Jethro Tull 25th Complete Lyrics gives it as Suburban-ness, but I'm not fussy I'll hang back on the next one to give some non-brits the opportunity to have a go.
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Post by Nonfatman on Sept 22, 2012 9:29:22 GMT -5
well, that's 'lace-covered dandies... ....revel with friends pure as the truth, tied at both ends'. You'd expect me to get that from PP. I am Icy lucifer after all. So, in the spirit of Icy L try these two: Nipple an easy one that Curtain Cracks bit more tricky? OK, I know that's two words. Clue: different albums icyL PS No googling! I'll know it if you do. The Devil's Advocate was such a great movie. It combined elements of The Omen and Rosemary's Baby, but with a satircal spin in its condemnation of the legal profession. The movie worked equally well as a horror film and as a commentary of unethical law firms and the crooked legal process here in New York. Al Pacino was great as the head of the firm/Devil. It seems almost as if the role was written specifically for him, especially his philosophical soliloquy about God at the end. "I'm a fan of man"! The subway scene was classic too. (The Devil speaks all languages). Jeff
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Post by alienart on Nov 19, 2012 20:47:57 GMT -5
This looked like such a fun game. It's a shame it sort of fizzled for a month. I don't know the answer to the shilling question, save that the chorus of Broadford Bazaar has "It's all come willing now. Spend a shilling now . . ." Maybe someone else will get the rest of it.
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Post by lordmarcovan on Mar 27, 2014 4:51:57 GMT -5
This looked like such a fun game. It's a shame it sort of fizzled for a month. I don't know the answer to the shilling question, save that the chorus of Broadford Bazaar has "It's all come willing now. Spend a shilling now . . ." Maybe someone else will get the rest of it. Well, this one certainly did wither on the vine, didn't it. More than a year gone by. (I had my first UK visit in that time.) I just thought I'd visit here to read some of the Homo Erraticus buzz. I've been listening to the samples and forming my favorites in advance! Alienart, you got half of that last challenge. Good enough. I reckon I'll send you that 2-shilling piece, if you want it. (PM thy snailmail address.) The other "shilling" mention I could think of was from the "Stand Up" album, in the song "We Used to Know". "Remembering mornings, shillings spent, made no sense to leave the bed. The bad old days they came and went giving way to fruitful years."
Wanna hear something funny? Just as I was typing that, I was listening to the sample of "The Pax Britannica" off the upcoming new H.E. album, and just heard the line: "No hard coercion, whip, or stick, but ten good shillings to be won"Funny coincidence, huh? OK, so shall we reboot and resurrect this game? Or is everybody heartily sick of it? I'm working my overnight desk clerk job in a hotel right now. So the new challenge word is hotel. I can think of at least one song where the word is used, but there are probably several others. Next person who quotes a Tull or IA song lyric with the word "hotel" in it gets to pick the next challenge word.
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Post by Heavy Horse on Mar 27, 2014 13:15:53 GMT -5
Next person who quotes a Tull or IA song lyric with the word "hotel" in it gets to pick the next challenge word. "Welcome to the Hotel California..." Ah, wait! That's "We Used to Know" again! What about: "Slap in front of my hotel - it's nobody's car." My turn? OK - the next word is "cushion"... That's "cushion"... c-u-s-h-i-o-n... "cushion".
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Post by lordmarcovan on Mar 28, 2014 2:12:13 GMT -5
Good one. I was thinking of "Down in the half-lit bar of the hotel" from Rocks on the Road, but as I suspected, there are other hotel mentions.
Cushion, huh?
Hmm... that's a toughie. Best I can come up with off the top of my head is from "Orion", on the Stormwatch album.
"From the black horizon, to the pillow where I lie".
But that's a pillow, not a cushion.
So I was close, but no cigar. Hmm...
I've gotta think a while longer before I can figure out "cushion".
Nice word choice for this game. It's esoteric enough to stand out, but not so esoteric that the answer is obvious.
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Post by lordmarcovan on Mar 28, 2014 2:20:42 GMT -5
Here is another pillow mentioned in the Stormwatch album, in the song "Pussy Willow":
In the half-tone light of young morning she sighs and shifts on the pillow
Still no cushion.
Actually, I found one, but had to "cheat" with Google in order to do it.
So we'll shoot the moon, and hope to call the tune and make no pin cushion of this big balloon.
From "SeaLion", on the War Child album.
You stumped me, so you get to pick another challenge word, I guess. No credit for my answer this time.
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Post by Heavy Horse on Mar 28, 2014 5:09:31 GMT -5
Yep. Pillows aren't cushions. Never were, never will be.
OK... Let's try "chattering".
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Post by TM on Mar 28, 2014 9:47:32 GMT -5
Yep. Pillows aren't cushions. Never were, never will be. OK... Let's try "chattering". I take it solo albums are acceptable? Not Ralitsa Vasseliva Dinner table chattering classes. Try this one without searching! "limited"
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Post by Morthoron on Mar 28, 2014 21:29:51 GMT -5
I direct ten limited companies with seeming consummate expertise two ulcers and a heart disease a trembling feeling in both knees --- I'm a working John and I'm a working Joe...
Okay, how about: incestuous
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Post by lordmarcovan on Mar 29, 2014 1:49:07 GMT -5
I direct ten limited companies with seeming consummate expertise two ulcers and a heart disease a trembling feeling in both knees --- I'm a working John and I'm a working Joe... Okay, how about: incestuous "Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride, spawning new millions throws the world on its side."
From "Wond'ring Again", which was on... uh... Living in the Past? I was able to get that one without cheating. I did, however, Google it to see what the "charabanc" word was. I never quite caught that word in the lyrics. Sounded like "shower bang" to me. Thanks to my Googling, I now know that a charabanc is basically a tour bus. Let's try another semi-obscure "c" word next: Caracal
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Post by Lucas on Mar 29, 2014 5:48:10 GMT -5
Caracal... that's a though one... Just saw the thread and I think I know the cushion one. Sealion.
"So we'll shoot the moon, and hope to call the tune and make no pin cushion of this big balloon"
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Post by Heavy Horse on Mar 29, 2014 5:57:58 GMT -5
Hunt By Numbers!
"Tabby, spotted, black as coal - Something, something, Caracal." Will you let me have it?
I had to google the "Something, something"! It's "Serval, Margay", apparently. It's lucky I like cats, though mine's a tortoiseshell...
Suck on this one: "Canyons".
Oh, and I was thinking of "Jack Frost and the hooded crow: "While you, through chattering teeth, reply and curse us as you go."
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Post by TM on Mar 29, 2014 11:31:34 GMT -5
We should clarify if we can use IA solos or not.
Canyons ay? Mmmmm. No clue.
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Post by Preston Platform on Mar 29, 2014 12:03:55 GMT -5
Lights wink out in the canyon walls Rock Island
What about orbits
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