Post a lyric from a song by an obscure singer or band & see if anyone knows the song or the band w/o using Google

[red dog 1]

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"Don't think I'm being funny when I say
You got just what you deserve
I can't help feeling you found out today
You thought you were too good; you had a lot of nerve"
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[Otto_Harper]

1. Here's a good obscure one...

It was 1948 like a Hollywood scene
Everybody at the door trying to live a little dream
And it was 1959 in a difficault time
We were laughing everyday singing songs and blowin' minds

[GreenWave]

2. Well it's true I have 2 beaden swords and it cost me deep in the purse.

But you will have the better of them and I will have the worse.
And you will strike the very first blow and strike it like a man.
I will strike the very next blow and I'll kill you if I can...

[dpibel]

3. Played the guitar on the toilet too long

The songs I was singin' were neat
When I stood up, to my surprise,
Both my legs was asleep

[happybird]

4. Heard this one earlier today:

I'm basically frightened
Of moral turpitude
I'm scared of politicians
Who have no hobbies
As I get up in the morning
I'm afraid of increased weight

I'm afraid of people
Who don't think wrastlin's real
And I'm afraid of people
Who don't believe in the moonwalk
As I get up in the morning
I see lizards with Campho Phenique

[Bok_Tukalo]

5. One of my favorites

You know old Ronnie Reagan
He was a shoe salesman's son
He got himself in the movies
Yeah, he impressed everyone
He thought trial by fire
Was America's fate
He made a joke of the poor people
And that made him a saint

But he was tan enough, he was rich enough
He was handsome like John Wayne
And there was no one at the country club
Who didn't feel the same

But it's a, it's a little uncanny
What he managed to do
Got me to read those Russian authors through and through

[thucythucy]

6. "The natural cards revolve

ever changing.
Seeded elsewhere, planted in the garden fair..."

[appmanga]

7. That's from "Laugh Laugh"...

...by The Beau Brummels, and produced by Sly Stone. One of the better Beatles sound alike songs.

Try this one:

"Jesus rides beside me.
He never buys any smokes.
Hurry up!
Ain't you had enough of this stuff?
Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes.
See, you're high and lonesome.
Try, and try, and try".

[red dog 1]

19. Ding!

You got it!

[Bayard]

8. Ohhh, so look at me from across the room

Ohhh, so look at me from across the room
You're wearing your anguish again
Believe me, I know the feeling
It sucks you into the jaws of anger
Ohh, so breathe a little more deeply
All we have is this very moment
And I don't wanna do what his father
And his father, and his father did
I wanna be here now

[Caribbeans]

9. Obscure it is

Woe be unto the pastors
That lead my sheep astray,
Everyone, everyone shall get his pay.
All the gates of Hell
Just could never prevail.

Could never understand why, when I played this song, most people would back away slowly and then ignore my calls...

[Tikki]

10. Try this...

“As I was walking home the other night
Walking past the alley with the flash of the scarlet neon light….”


Tikki

[happybird]

12. My brain read that in the style of the Monster Mash

[Tikki]

13. It is a novelty song of sorts...

Here are a few more lyrics from way later in the song..

"The next thing I knew
I lay face down in the street all alone..."

Tikki

[BOSSHOG]

11. Now Wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbors

They make it very clear they got no room for ravers

Circa 1968

[red dog 1]

15. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by The Beach Boys?

(Definitely not an "obscure" band)

[BOSSHOG]

17. No but good guess

English Band. Some members would later lose their obscurity.

[Xipe Totec]

14. I Feel

I fell fine
don't wake me up yet
O the young and the old they get everything
and it's my turn
I'm here
I'm someone to know
I'm calling the tune but
I'm losing the words
Laughingly I take the fevered applause
of the people by the riverside
I'm Walking
walking on water
God knows why

[sl8]

16. "You look so pale, you've lost so much weight. Well, six months ago was the last time you ate" nt

[JoseBalow]

18. "Boy Wonder, I love you! Hoo, hoo, hoo"

"Oh, Boy Wonder, I'm making a gum wrapper chain to symbolize my love for you.
It's going to be as long as I am tall, and I'm five foot ten inches in stocking feet.
Please, Boy Wonder, please come next Saturday and sleep for a week or two.
I will feed you breakfast in bed!
I will make your bed for you, and I like you so much that I want you to spend the whole summer with me.
I hope you know this is a girl writing."

[Dulcinea]

20. Here's one:

"I know it might sound strange but I believe you'll be coming back before too long..."

[Tikki]

21. "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville" Song by R.E.M.

One of my all time favourites..

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Tikki

[Dulcinea]

22. You got it!

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One of my favorites too.

[Dulcinea]

23. We both know we're never gonna make it, But when we touch we never have to fake it...nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

24. Ah! Leah!

Donnie Iris (I think that's his name).

[Dulcinea]

25. We have a winner! *ding*ding* nt

[JohnnyRingo]

27. I have tix to see him next month.

There's nothing like Donnie Iris on stage.
He's in his 80s and the last time I saw him a couple years ago he went to his knees at the edge of the stage, then stood up without using his hands.

He took a year off to fight cancer but he's back.

[JohnnyRingo]

29. I have tickets to see Donnie next month in Kent

Being from the Keystone State, I imagine you already know what a Donnie Iris show is like.
I missed him while he was battling cancer, but he's back in the van!

[Dulcinea]

30. Have fun!

I've seen him a couple of times. He blew everyone else off the stage at a festival I saw him at some years ago.

[JohnnyRingo]

26. Here's an older but very distinctive one.

Clue: the guitar player is a mime.

She was a woman who was twice my size
She looked into my eyes
She said "Only you can blow my blues away"
She said "I'll tell you what to do
Bring all your friends with you
And you can come up and see me any ol' time of day"

Ain't nothin' like a gang bang
Ain't nothin' like a gang bang
Ain't nothin' like a gang bang
To blow away the blues

[red dog 1]

31. "___ ___ do as I please,. ___ ___ to ride the breeze, ___ ___ baby, I can't stay

I got to, got to, get away
I got to, got to, get away"

[Harker]

34. The Jimi Hendrix Experience... obscure?

"Stone Free."

[red dog 1]

39. Yes, it's a Jimi Hendrix song; but it was put out as a single by a San Francisco band that released 2 albums

A little-known late 1960's San Francisco band "that played a heavy blues rock style with psychedelic elements."

(I didn't know it was a Jimi Hendrix song or I would have posted lyrics from one of their own songs)

[Harker]

40. And I didn't know anyone else recorded it...

Fun stuff, red.

[red dog 1]

41. They were a very good band

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I knew 2 of them (I lived next door to the bass player)

[red dog 1]

43. I just posted lyrics from a song that the band wrote themselves

(Reply # 42)

[VGNonly]

32. Not so obscure

"We've got no class, we got no principles, we got no innocence...

.. We can't even think of words that rhyme"

[Harker]

33. Alice Cooper... "School's Out."

I voted for it being my high school graduation song.

[VGNonly]

35. Some more Coop

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[VGNonly]

36. "Her number always turns up in your pocket

whenever you are looking for a dime"

[Dulcinea]

37. You got it easy, you don't know when you've got it good...nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

38. "Have you heard about the boom on Mizar Five?.....

People got to shout to stay alive."


Admittedly not an obscure band, but not a well known lyric, I think.

[red dog 1]

42. "I would give up everything that I own// I would forget everything I have known/

A Paper flower,
A Wasted hour,
An Empty tower,
Tomorrow's shower

All these things
The brass rings
The queens and kings
As morning brings
They're all for you"


Hints:
The band formed in San Francisco in 1967
They released two albums
They were featured on posters for shows at the Avalon Ballroom with many other bands, including:
The Doors
Procol Harum
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Grateful Dead
Steve Miller
Santana
Quicksilver Messenger Service
and Big Brother and the Holding Company

[Harker]

44. I'll work on it...

[red dog 1]

45. Well, it's probably gonna' be hard for anyone not from the Bay Area to guess the name of this band

(They were pretty much an S.F. band)

[Harker]

46. I had a feeling that might be the case.

I don't give up easily, though.

[red dog 1]

47. Here are a few hints,

Several of the band members were from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where they played in a band there.
After that band broke up, a few of them joined the San Francisco band I'm asking about.
The band from Idaho, after breaking up in 1968, re-formed in 1980 and are still performing.

[Harker]

48. That clinches it, red.

The only band from Idaho I could think of is Paul Revere & the Raiders, and they formed in Boise and the dates don't match up.

[red dog 1]

49. No, not them.

The band wasn't really "from Idaho" ..(a couple of members moved from northern Idaho to SF, where the new band was formed)


Another hint:
The band's name is also a national landmark.

[Harker]

50. I'm slapping the mat, red. n/t

[LakeArenal]

51. Maybe this one:

🎶Times when the day is like a play by Sartre
When it seems a bookburning's in perfect order
I gave the doctor my description
I've tried to stick to my prescriptions
Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline
Someday I'll wear pyjamas in the daytime🎶

[Glorfindel]

52. One of my favorites:

"Bell flight 14, you now can land
See you on Aldebaran
Safe on the green desert sand..."

[red dog 1]

53. "Come on, shake it. Come on, squeeze it like you do.

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Oh-oh, oh, baby
Workin' can kill a man
Lovin' babies like you can too"

(Australian band who had a hit about a Cadillac)

[Dulcinea]

54. If I don't do it you know somebody else will...nt

[red dog 1]

55. "The seagull flies, In search of land. The children hide, Beneath the sand.

As golden toys,
Come floating down.
I play the fish,
I swim around."

[red dog 1]

56. "One day you're up and the next day you're down.

You can't face the world with your heart to the ground.
The grass is always greener on the other side, they say
So don't worry boys, life will be sweet some day."