Nigel Stapley
2011-12-29 23:54:01 UTC
As threatened.
The following 80 quotes are all from UK hit singles.
They are skewed towards the 60s-80s because that's when most of my
singles collection dates from. There's also an expected UK bias.
The quoted lyrics are from the *second* verse of each song.
Answers in a few days - and no cheating! I can see you, you know! (and
don't make that gesture to me, Mr Nicholass! :-))
50s:
1. "Do you remember, baby, last September"
2. "So I chaffed them, and I gaily laughed"
3. "Well Adam told Eve, "You listen here to me...""
4. "I met her on the mountain"
5. "Sun lights up the daytime"
60s:
1. "Just the way that you say 'Goodnight' to me"
2. "From my laboratory in the castle east"
3. "On a street-car or in the café"
4. "He let his hair grow long, and he dressed in style"
5. "My folks were always putting him down"
6. "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you"
7. "I just can't get over losing you"
8. "High above, the dawn is waking"
9. "If I should call you up, invest a dime"
10. "When you feel lost, and about to give up"
11. "Emptiness is a place you're in"
12. "You walked behind me, following closely"
13. "I tell you what I'll do"
14. "In the room where you've been sleeping, all your clothes are thrown
about"
15. "So I lay upon my side with all the windows open wide"
16. "My wife and my kids, they pack up and-a leave me"
17. "I know I need a small vacation"
18. "Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind"
19. "He's never near you to comfort and cheer you"
20. "Stepping from cloud to cloud, passing years of light"
70s:
1. "When you're down and out, when you're on the street"
2. "Back with my wife in Tennessee"
3. "She's got a brother, like any other"
4. "Come on with me cruising down the street"
5. "I told Billy Ray in his red Chevrolet"
6. "I was lying in a burned-out basement"
7. "And now I'm feelin' better, 'cause I found out for sure"
8. "Oh your friends with their fancy persuasions"
9. "Girl you cause me so much pain and sorrow"
10. "Lovers appear in your room each night"
11. "When salmon spawn"
12. "The hours that were yours echo like empty rooms"
13. "You're a teaser, you turn 'em on"
14. "You only came for a smile"
15. "To keep in silence I resigned"
16. "The doctors are avoiding me, my vision is confused"
17. "Runnin' down the avenue"
18. "I can't see much of a future"
19. "With the dark, oh I see so very clearly now"
20. "The plane is on the move"
21. "I'm gonna call her on the telephone"
22. "Sing it in the subway"
23. "I said now watch what you say"
24. "Now the light fades out"
25. "And now we meet in an abandoned studio"
80s:
1. "Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching's is blue"
2. "A puppet's motion controlled by a string"
3. "Time and again I tell myself I'll stay clean tonight"
4. "Why is the bedroom so cold?"
5. "On a silent summer evening, the sky's alive with light"
6. "Playing for the high one, dancing with the devil"
7. "Our so-called leaders speak"
8. "So I lay down in the darkness with the beer and coffee stains"
9. "Princes stand in queues, they stand accused"
10. "Watching your friends passing by"
11. "By order of the Prophet"
12. "Hey hey, night fights day"
13. "Well I ask you, the boy said "Dad, they're going to take me to Task""
14. "Easier said that done, you said"
15. "Wonder what's cooking at the house tonight"
16. "Galibier et Tourmalet"
17. "You hear the door slam"
18. "I'm looking for reasons - day in, day out"
19. "The sun is laughing, it's another broken morning"
20. "I got plans for us, nights in the scullery"
21. "There's a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway"
22. "Baby, I think tonight we can take what was wrong and make it right"
23. "You could have a big dipper"
24. "From Bissau to Palau in the shade of Avalon"
25. "I spy tears in their eyes"
90s:
1. "We plied an ancient trade where we threw all life's instructions away"
2. "Well the years they passed so slowly, I thought about him every day"
3. "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld"
4. "I'd work very hard, but I'm lazy"
5. "And singing illuminate the main streets and the cinema aisles"
The following 80 quotes are all from UK hit singles.
They are skewed towards the 60s-80s because that's when most of my
singles collection dates from. There's also an expected UK bias.
The quoted lyrics are from the *second* verse of each song.
Answers in a few days - and no cheating! I can see you, you know! (and
don't make that gesture to me, Mr Nicholass! :-))
50s:
1. "Do you remember, baby, last September"
2. "So I chaffed them, and I gaily laughed"
3. "Well Adam told Eve, "You listen here to me...""
4. "I met her on the mountain"
5. "Sun lights up the daytime"
60s:
1. "Just the way that you say 'Goodnight' to me"
2. "From my laboratory in the castle east"
3. "On a street-car or in the café"
4. "He let his hair grow long, and he dressed in style"
5. "My folks were always putting him down"
6. "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you"
7. "I just can't get over losing you"
8. "High above, the dawn is waking"
9. "If I should call you up, invest a dime"
10. "When you feel lost, and about to give up"
11. "Emptiness is a place you're in"
12. "You walked behind me, following closely"
13. "I tell you what I'll do"
14. "In the room where you've been sleeping, all your clothes are thrown
about"
15. "So I lay upon my side with all the windows open wide"
16. "My wife and my kids, they pack up and-a leave me"
17. "I know I need a small vacation"
18. "Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind"
19. "He's never near you to comfort and cheer you"
20. "Stepping from cloud to cloud, passing years of light"
70s:
1. "When you're down and out, when you're on the street"
2. "Back with my wife in Tennessee"
3. "She's got a brother, like any other"
4. "Come on with me cruising down the street"
5. "I told Billy Ray in his red Chevrolet"
6. "I was lying in a burned-out basement"
7. "And now I'm feelin' better, 'cause I found out for sure"
8. "Oh your friends with their fancy persuasions"
9. "Girl you cause me so much pain and sorrow"
10. "Lovers appear in your room each night"
11. "When salmon spawn"
12. "The hours that were yours echo like empty rooms"
13. "You're a teaser, you turn 'em on"
14. "You only came for a smile"
15. "To keep in silence I resigned"
16. "The doctors are avoiding me, my vision is confused"
17. "Runnin' down the avenue"
18. "I can't see much of a future"
19. "With the dark, oh I see so very clearly now"
20. "The plane is on the move"
21. "I'm gonna call her on the telephone"
22. "Sing it in the subway"
23. "I said now watch what you say"
24. "Now the light fades out"
25. "And now we meet in an abandoned studio"
80s:
1. "Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching's is blue"
2. "A puppet's motion controlled by a string"
3. "Time and again I tell myself I'll stay clean tonight"
4. "Why is the bedroom so cold?"
5. "On a silent summer evening, the sky's alive with light"
6. "Playing for the high one, dancing with the devil"
7. "Our so-called leaders speak"
8. "So I lay down in the darkness with the beer and coffee stains"
9. "Princes stand in queues, they stand accused"
10. "Watching your friends passing by"
11. "By order of the Prophet"
12. "Hey hey, night fights day"
13. "Well I ask you, the boy said "Dad, they're going to take me to Task""
14. "Easier said that done, you said"
15. "Wonder what's cooking at the house tonight"
16. "Galibier et Tourmalet"
17. "You hear the door slam"
18. "I'm looking for reasons - day in, day out"
19. "The sun is laughing, it's another broken morning"
20. "I got plans for us, nights in the scullery"
21. "There's a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway"
22. "Baby, I think tonight we can take what was wrong and make it right"
23. "You could have a big dipper"
24. "From Bissau to Palau in the shade of Avalon"
25. "I spy tears in their eyes"
90s:
1. "We plied an ancient trade where we threw all life's instructions away"
2. "Well the years they passed so slowly, I thought about him every day"
3. "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld"
4. "I'd work very hard, but I'm lazy"
5. "And singing illuminate the main streets and the cinema aisles"
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Regards
Nigel Stapley
www.thejudge.me.uk
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Regards
Nigel Stapley
www.thejudge.me.uk
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