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red dog 1

(28,143 posts)
Wed May 22, 2024, 02:59 PM May 22

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

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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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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 (Original Post) red dog 1 May 22 OP
Here's a good obscure one... Otto_Harper May 22 #1
Well it's true I have 2 beaden swords and it cost me deep in the purse. GreenWave May 22 #2
Played the guitar on the toilet too long dpibel May 22 #3
Heard this one earlier today: happybird May 22 #4
One of my favorites Bok_Tukalo May 22 #5
"The natural cards revolve thucythucy May 22 #6
That's from "Laugh Laugh"... appmanga May 22 #7
Ding! red dog 1 May 24 #19
Ohhh, so look at me from across the room Bayard May 22 #8
Obscure it is Caribbeans May 22 #9
Try this... Tikki May 22 #10
My brain read that in the style of the Monster Mash happybird May 22 #12
It is a novelty song of sorts... Tikki May 23 #13
Now Wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbors BOSSHOG May 22 #11
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" by The Beach Boys? red dog 1 May 23 #15
No but good guess BOSSHOG May 23 #17
I Feel Xipe Totec May 23 #14
"You look so pale, you've lost so much weight. Well, six months ago was the last time you ate" nt sl8 May 23 #16
"Boy Wonder, I love you! Hoo, hoo, hoo" JoseBalow May 23 #18
Here's one: Dulcinea May 25 #20
"(Don't Go Back to) Rockville" Song by R.E.M. Tikki May 26 #21
You got it! Dulcinea May 26 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author JohnnyRingo May 27 #28
We both know we're never gonna make it, But when we touch we never have to fake it...nt Dulcinea May 26 #23
Ah! Leah! Mad_Dem_X May 27 #24
We have a winner! *ding*ding* nt Dulcinea May 27 #25
I have tix to see him next month. JohnnyRingo May 27 #27
I have tickets to see Donnie next month in Kent JohnnyRingo May 27 #29
Have fun! Dulcinea May 27 #30
Here's an older but very distinctive one. JohnnyRingo May 27 #26
"___ ___ do as I please,. ___ ___ to ride the breeze, ___ ___ baby, I can't stay red dog 1 May 29 #31
The Jimi Hendrix Experience... obscure? Harker May 31 #34
Yes, it's a Jimi Hendrix song; but it was put out as a single by a San Francisco band that released 2 albums red dog 1 Jun 1 #39
And I didn't know anyone else recorded it... Harker Jun 1 #40
They were a very good band red dog 1 Jun 1 #41
I just posted lyrics from a song that the band wrote themselves red dog 1 Jun 2 #43
Not so obscure VGNonly May 30 #32
Alice Cooper... "School's Out." Harker May 31 #33
Some more Coop VGNonly May 31 #35
"Her number always turns up in your pocket VGNonly May 31 #36
You got it easy, you don't know when you've got it good...nt Dulcinea May 31 #37
"Have you heard about the boom on Mizar Five?..... A HERETIC I AM Jun 1 #38
"I would give up everything that I own// I would forget everything I have known/ red dog 1 Jun 2 #42
I'll work on it... Harker Jun 2 #44
Well, it's probably gonna' be hard for anyone not from the Bay Area to guess the name of this band red dog 1 Jun 2 #45
I had a feeling that might be the case. Harker Jun 2 #46
Here are a few hints, red dog 1 Jun 4 #47
That clinches it, red. Harker Jun 4 #48
No, not them. red dog 1 Jun 4 #49
I'm slapping the mat, red. n/t Harker Jun 4 #50
Maybe this one: LakeArenal Jun 4 #51
One of my favorites: Glorfindel Jun 4 #52
"Come on, shake it. Come on, squeeze it like you do. red dog 1 Sunday #53
If I don't do it you know somebody else will...nt Dulcinea Sunday #54
"The seagull flies, In search of land. The children hide, Beneath the sand. red dog 1 Yesterday #55

Otto_Harper

(531 posts)
1. Here's a good obscure one...
Wed May 22, 2024, 03:06 PM
May 22
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

(7,252 posts)
2. Well it's true I have 2 beaden swords and it cost me deep in the purse.
Wed May 22, 2024, 03:08 PM
May 22

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

(2,958 posts)
3. Played the guitar on the toilet too long
Wed May 22, 2024, 03:30 PM
May 22

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

happybird

(4,797 posts)
4. Heard this one earlier today:
Wed May 22, 2024, 03:31 PM
May 22

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

(4,341 posts)
5. One of my favorites
Wed May 22, 2024, 03:39 PM
May 22

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

appmanga

(637 posts)
7. That's from "Laugh Laugh"...
Wed May 22, 2024, 05:44 PM
May 22

...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".

Bayard

(22,578 posts)
8. Ohhh, so look at me from across the room
Wed May 22, 2024, 06:10 PM
May 22

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

(804 posts)
9. Obscure it is
Wed May 22, 2024, 06:49 PM
May 22
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

(14,586 posts)
10. Try this...
Wed May 22, 2024, 09:47 PM
May 22

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


Tikki

Tikki

(14,586 posts)
13. It is a novelty song of sorts...
Thu May 23, 2024, 12:45 AM
May 23

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

(37,377 posts)
11. Now Wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbors
Wed May 22, 2024, 09:56 PM
May 22

They make it very clear they got no room for ravers

Circa 1968

Xipe Totec

(43,929 posts)
14. I Feel
Thu May 23, 2024, 01:00 AM
May 23

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

JoseBalow

(3,094 posts)
18. "Boy Wonder, I love you! Hoo, hoo, hoo"
Thu May 23, 2024, 04:57 PM
May 23

"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."

Tikki

(14,586 posts)
21. "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville" Song by R.E.M.
Sun May 26, 2024, 01:45 AM
May 26

One of my all time favourites..

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Tikki

Response to Dulcinea (Reply #20)

JohnnyRingo

(18,816 posts)
27. I have tix to see him next month.
Mon May 27, 2024, 09:21 AM
May 27

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

(18,816 posts)
29. I have tickets to see Donnie next month in Kent
Mon May 27, 2024, 09:28 AM
May 27

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

(6,816 posts)
30. Have fun!
Mon May 27, 2024, 10:08 AM
May 27

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

(18,816 posts)
26. Here's an older but very distinctive one.
Mon May 27, 2024, 09:18 AM
May 27

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

(28,143 posts)
31. "___ ___ do as I please,. ___ ___ to ride the breeze, ___ ___ baby, I can't stay
Wed May 29, 2024, 08:44 PM
May 29

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

red dog 1

(28,143 posts)
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
Sat Jun 1, 2024, 05:38 PM
Jun 1

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)

red dog 1

(28,143 posts)
41. They were a very good band
Sat Jun 1, 2024, 06:27 PM
Jun 1

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

VGNonly

(7,561 posts)
32. Not so obscure
Thu May 30, 2024, 11:53 PM
May 30

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

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

A HERETIC I AM

(24,409 posts)
38. "Have you heard about the boom on Mizar Five?.....
Sat Jun 1, 2024, 12:02 AM
Jun 1

People got to shout to stay alive."


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

red dog 1

(28,143 posts)
42. "I would give up everything that I own// I would forget everything I have known/
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 06:09 PM
Jun 2

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

red dog 1

(28,143 posts)
45. Well, it's probably gonna' be hard for anyone not from the Bay Area to guess the name of this band
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 07:21 PM
Jun 2

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

red dog 1

(28,143 posts)
47. Here are a few hints,
Tue Jun 4, 2024, 02:17 PM
Jun 4

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

(14,286 posts)
48. That clinches it, red.
Tue Jun 4, 2024, 02:43 PM
Jun 4

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

(28,143 posts)
49. No, not them.
Tue Jun 4, 2024, 02:47 PM
Jun 4

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.

LakeArenal

(29,034 posts)
51. Maybe this one:
Tue Jun 4, 2024, 05:21 PM
Jun 4

🎶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

(9,771 posts)
52. One of my favorites:
Tue Jun 4, 2024, 05:24 PM
Jun 4

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

red dog 1

(28,143 posts)
53. "Come on, shake it. Come on, squeeze it like you do.
Sun Jun 9, 2024, 06:33 PM
Sunday

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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)

red dog 1

(28,143 posts)
55. "The seagull flies, In search of land. The children hide, Beneath the sand.
Fri Jun 14, 2024, 06:40 PM
Yesterday

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

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