Quotable quotes trivia item:
O.k., here's how this works.  Post some lyrics.  The goal is to get the
group and the song.  If nobody can guess either, clues might be given, or
(preferably) more lyrics, from that song or another.  To keep things
from getting bogged down, feel free to do favorite lyrics, but avoid 
deliberately finding obscure lyrics.  As with most trivia items, the
person who answers one correctly gets to ask the next one.
Exx of obscure lyrics:
        "In my nightmare, we're all so happy."
        "From out the east there came three men, their fortunes for to find."
        "To find there's no Hope Road there."
(Guess all three, you get a cookie.  :)

78 responses total.

O.k., let's start with an easy one:
"This is a song about a superhero named Tony.  It's called..."
(Well, easy for Buk, I suspect.)

        It's Pixies from Surfer Rosa, don't know the name of the song as
my tape has no song names on it...

"We jumped up on the table and shouted anarchy, then someone played a beachboys
song on the jukebox."   Okay Maybe it's too easy but...

        Tony's Thing

        Here's a medium hard one: "I dreamed last night that you were flying
circles around me."

Peacefrg:  You have to get one right before you can post the next one.  ;)
Raven:  Actually, it's "Tony's Theme", but that's close enough.
Hmmmm.... no guess on yours.

3 is "Punk Rock Girl" by the Dead Milkmen

I'll come up with my lyric after the holiday...

Good call Steve

        Here's a couple more from the same artist: "This hairdos truely evil,
I'm not sure it's mine," and "I laughed till my heart stoped."

Eep!  Two threads... how do the other trivia items behave?
*oh well*
Raven:  Sounds like a punk group, early 80s... your handle suggests Killing 
Joke, but that may just be q coincidence, since I don't recognize the lyrics.

        Not punk though this person sang with a postpunk group in the late
80s.  This album is just voice acoustic guitar and cello.
        My handle is the bird Raven no more no less...

Cello ?!  Interesting...
One guess for group that pops to mind is Jonathan Richman, but my feeling
is the Modern Lovers are a bit too early, and at any rate I don't know any of 
their songs.  :-(

(No offence, Raven, I figured as much re:  the name.  Just that Killing 
Joke's lead singer, I think, is Paul Raven -- but I'll mention it 
nevermore.)

        re # 12 If you want to offend me you'll have to try harder than
that :-).  No not not the Modern Lovers, this is a grrrl singer.

It's not Kate Bush is it?? WIld guess, i didn't actually read the prev

        No not Kate Bush though she is a goddess :-)

I know #2 from R#0, "From out the east there came three men, there fortunes
for to find."  I believe those are the lyrics to the folk song John
Barleycorn, covered by groupd like Traffic, Steeleye Span, and the John
Renbourn Group...?

Re to 9: is it Siouxsie by any chance?
D

        No not Siouxsie though the post punk group from Boston that she
was in reminds of good early Siouxsie.  One member of the group she was
in left it to form Belley.  That's all the clues you get!

Gee, I never did tell you what the ones in #0 were.... hehehe
Yes, Anthony, that's John Barleycorn, written by some famous Irish poet
whose name eludes me and covered by Traffic and others.  
The others, if anyone cares, were Anne Clark's "Hope Road" and 
Danse Society's "In my nightmare".  Now, raise your hand if you 
heard of either of those groups... be honest.

Wish I could find the lyrics of "Somewhere My Love"

Then it must be Throwing Muses...
Are you referring to Tanya Donnely, or Kristin Hersch?

"I dreamed last night I got on the boat to Heaven..."
"Once upon a time, not long ago, the head of every studio knew how and when to 
play his aces..."
(easy one) "The hills are alive with the sound of music."

May I put in a quote?
"You ask me if I love you, why do ships with sails love the wind?"

(23 reminds me of:  "You ask me if I love you, Does the Pope live in the woods?
Quod erat demonstrandum, baby."  "Ooo!  You speak French"  ["Airhead", Thomas
Dolby])

        re # #24 it's Kristin Hersch off her fab solo album.  Rick you
get to enter the next quote.

re # 22 You have to get one right before you can enter another quote.

re 24 and 25:
My quote 's been put in 23.
24, not right.
Lety me help you a bit:
itis a seventies song
they sang a song of Brecht

"Do I want you, do I need you?  Do bears sha-la-la-la in the woods?"

Another hint for the ships with sails:
(Going to be easy now, I guess)
By their own words they played orgastic rock.

        Ugggh now you make it sound like Yes, or Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

No, they are better than that.
Last hint:
A few years ago there was a hype around this band as the result of
a movie. And: the singer is burried at Pere Lachese in Paris.
For the title: mind the main keywords.

        Ahhh must be the doors, for that have to Jim Morrison yer talking
about.

Re # 31:
You've got the band right.
What shall I do? Seems nobody's gonna guess the songtitle.
Songtitle: Ships and sails.
OK, Matthew, you're on to think of another question.
R.

OK here's one:

"I wrapped a newspaper 'round my head
 So it looked like I was deep.
 I said some mumbo jumbo then
 I told him he was going to sleep.
 I robbed his rings, and pocket watch
 And everything else I found
 I had that sucker hipnotized.
 He didn't even make a sound.
 I proceded to tell him hi future then
 Just as long as he was hangin' around, I said,
 'The price of meat has just gone up,
 and your ol' lady has just gone down.'"

Well, I just hooked up with this particular bbs item, so perhaps I have
the rules wrong, but this looks like a Frank Zappa quote to me.  Some-
thing from _Apostrophe_ I believe.  I'd have to go get my copy to come
up with the title of this cut.

CORRECT! 'bout time too. It is from Apostrophe. _Cosmic Debris_
to be exact.

does this mean that I'm meant to enter a quote from a song now?

Go for it!

If this seems tough to people (I have no idea what counts as tough
in this context) I'll happily give some clues:

"I'm considering, I'm considering

I'll find a favorite restaurant
And eat there every day
And at the nearby bowling alley
I'll bowl my cares away

Somedays I'll order chicken
Somedays I'll order fish
Somedays I'll have piroshkis
That's a Polish dish

And after bowling twenty frames
I'll sit and have a beer
Perhaps I'll meet a pretty girl
Who is a barmaid there

I'll get a job at a steak house
Wash dishes, mop floors
Yes, I know I won't get rich

Memphis is the kind of town 
That won't feel like a trap
Besides I kind of like the way
It sits there on the map"

No idea....but it pretty much has to have been written in the late
80's on for me to remember!

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