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Person who gets it right sets the next one, and so on.

Gonna pull down your defences
Tear you apart
My laser guided love-beam's headed straight for your heart

Jon Corby wrote:Person who gets it right sets the next one, and so on.

Gonna pull down your defences
Tear you apart
My laser guided love-beam's headed straight for your heart

Presumably this is from a hit from an established artist.

Marc Meakin wrote:Presumably this is from a hit from an established artist.

Ummm....

It should be familiar to enough people to make it gettable.

Does it ring any bells?

It sounds like something annoying like The Darkness.
The words look familiar for sure but then they're song-y enough to look familiar anyway I think.

Probably worth pointing out in your OP there should be no Googling just to make it clear Jon, though you'd hope people would only want to play if it's done properly.

Matt Morrison wrote:Probably worth pointing out in your OP there should be no Googling just to make it clear Jon, though you'd hope people would only want to play if it's done properly.

Well yeah, it should go without saying really. I still think there's some knackers who will Google anything though, which is why it's so difficult to set puzzles online. This one is deliberately Google-proof though

Cool. Love this shit. It seems to be ringing a bell, but i haven't much of a clue. It's not the song David Brent sang in the office is it?

Andy Wilson wrote:Cool. Love this shit. It seems to be ringing a bell, but i haven't much of a clue. It's not the song David Brent sang in the office is it?

It's not, but I like your thinking.

Jon Corby wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:Probably worth pointing out in your OP there should be no Googling just to make it clear Jon, though you'd hope people would only want to play if it's done properly.

Well yeah, it should go without saying really. I still think there's some knackers who will Google anything though, which is why it's so difficult to set puzzles online. This one is deliberately Google-proof though

I like your style! Not afraid to admit you tempted me into a quick search just because I wanted to see what you meant, and you're right, no results!

Are the written lyrics true to their performance, or is part of the game that you have paraphrased them so as to prevent Googlery?

Sounds a bit Spinal Tap to me...

Matt Morrison wrote:Are the written lyrics true to their performance, or is part of the game that you have paraphrased them so as to prevent Googlery?

I'm relying on my memory somewhat, but I'm fairly sure they're accurate. I mean, the "headed" might've been "heading" or something like that, but nothing important.

Jon Corby wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:Presumably this is from a hit from an established artist.

Ummm....

It should be familiar to enough people to make it gettable.

Does it ring any bells?

It sounds very eighties to me.

I just managed to sing the lyrics along to the Licence to Kill theme music VERY adequately, though I don't think that makes it right.

Matt Morrison wrote:I just managed to sing the lyrics along to the Licence to Kill theme music VERY adequately, though I don't think that makes it right.

Nope.

This is totally nagging my brain too, 'laser-guided love beams' is just making me think space vixens, no idea why.

is it gandiseeg?

Klew?

Marc Meakin wrote:Klew?

Not yet...

I'm like a quadripeglic. Totally stumped.

Andy Wilson wrote:I'm like a quadripeglic. Totally stumped.

Sorry to side track... I too believed for a long time that 'quadriplegic' meant someone who had lost all four of their limbs (first bumped into the word on a very old X-Files episode about a guy who'd lost all four limbs and had developed psychic abilities), but Badcock told me off and Wikipedia research indeed learned me that quadriplegia and paraplegia are overarchingly concerned with just the loss of the use of limbs, be that 'merely' paralysis, or full physical loss.

So, to set my mind at ease, does anyone know if there is a proper term for someone who is physically missing both legs and arms, other than just something like 'quadruple amputee'?

Matt Morrison wrote:

Andy Wilson wrote:I'm like a quadripeglic. Totally stumped.

Sorry to side track... I too believed for a long time that 'quadriplegic' meant someone who had lost all four of their limbs (first bumped into the word on a very old X-Files episode about a guy who'd lost all four limbs and had developed psychic abilities), but Badcock told me off and Wikipedia research indeed learned me that quadriplegia and paraplegia are overarchingly concerned with just the loss of the use of limbs, be that 'merely' paralysis, or full physical loss.

So, to set my mind at ease, does anyone know if there is a proper term for someone who is physically missing both legs and arms, other than just something like 'quadruple amputee'?

Not sure, but when he is in a swimming pool he is called Bob.

a nugget

Perhaps there's already been a clue, and we just haven't picked up on it?

Gonna pull down your defences
Tear you apart
My laser guided love-beam's headed straight for your heart

Hmmm... it sounds like Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler... yet it isn't. Will keep looking, then when I fail give up and ask Emma for a kiss to make me feel better

No one knows?
Thats a good song, by the way

If this was millionaire i'd definitely have to phone a friend.

Andy Wilson wrote:If this was millionaire i'd definitely have to phone a friend.

I doubt any of my friends would get it either. FWIW, I thought it was You Win Again by the BeeGees at first but that just proves how rubbish my music knowledge is!!

It's from a pretty old BT advert featuring ET. Some bloke's kid finds an old vinyl which inspires him to get in touch with his old bandmates. Can't remember the band name though.

Phil Makepeace wrote:It's from a pretty old BT advert featuring ET. Some bloke's kid finds an old vinyl which inspires him to get in touch with his old bandmates. Can't remember the band name though.

Ha ha, you cheating googling fuck!

That answer was obtained from an answerbag question posted by Corby himself.

I no cheat. I no lie.

Is the answer to post the band? (Atmosphere? Stratosphere? Something like that...)

Phil Makepeace wrote:It's from a pretty old BT advert featuring ET. Some bloke's kid finds an old vinyl which inspires him to get in touch with his old bandmates. Can't remember the band name though.

It didn't have ET in it I don't think!

But yeah, that was it. WOO. Can't remember the name of the band for the life of me though!

Is this really a puzzle, or just a ruse to get an answer to a question thats been bugging you.

Marc Meakin wrote:Is this really a puzzle, or just a ruse to get an answer to a question thats been bugging you.

It was more supposed to annoy other people, that they recognised the lyrics but could not place them.

But yeah, I would like to know the answer. For next time I decide to set it in a lyrics game

Good stuff that. Don't really remember the advert myself. (youtube anyone?)

Certainly very hard Jon, I think this would have been a great way to kill off a lyrics game thread rather than start one though! tough precedent to follow.

Matt Morrison wrote:Good stuff that. Don't really remember the advert myself. (youtube anyone?)

Certainly very hard Jon, I think this would have been a great way to kill off a lyrics game thread rather than start one though! tough precedent to follow.

Yeah, I didn't really care much for starting the game, I just wanted to be a bit of a prick - I did hope that more people would recognise it and it would bug them. As I said, a lyrics game would be kinda pointless because people will just Google it. As they did here.

Jon Corby wrote:Can't remember the name of the band for the life of me though!

Does that mean my suggestion wasn't right? It was something like it, tho...

Lesley Hines wrote:

Jon Corby wrote:Can't remember the name of the band for the life of me though!

Does that mean my suggestion wasn't right? It was something like it, tho...

Could've been, I'd have thought I'd have recognised it as soon as I'd heard it though. I've got a nagging feeling it was more a sort of portmanteau rather than just being a word. Dunno really.

Nonsense, we can have a bit of craic without cheating, right? Well, i'm willing to try anyway... so here goes:

'Got a head full of lightning and a hat full of rain'

Very well known songwriter, but a recent enough record so perhaps not such a well known song. If noone's got it by the time I split from college in a couple of hours i'll give it away and someone else can have a go...

Andy Wilson wrote:Nonsense, we can have a bit of craic without cheating, right? Well, i'm willing to try anyway... so here goes:

'Got a head full of lightning and a hat full of rain'

Very well known songwriter, but a recent enough record so perhaps not such a well known song. If noone's got it by the time I split from college in a couple of hours i'll give it away and someone else can have a go...

I googled it since I didn't know it. Never heard of the song OR the artist.

Well you're in for a treat so!

It's from Long way home by Tom Waits. Want to set one?

Didn't know that one, Andy. Something a little different/partially google-proof. The artists associated with the following lyrics are connected by the name of a band - which band?

"You and me, we have an opportunity
And we could make it something really cool"

"Oh - thinkin' about all our younger years
There was only you and me
We were young and wild and free"

"You better run, you better do what you can
Don't wanna see no blood, don't be a macho man"

"At six foot six and a hundred tons
the undisputed king of the slums
With more alias' than Klaus Barbie
the master butcher of Leigh-on-Sea"

"Warm sun feed me up
And I'm leery loaded up
Loathing for a change
And I slip some boil away"

I feel sorry that Jon's initial one has been slightly forgotten about.

Aw, don't worry Ryan... it enjoyed it's moment in the sun i'm sure!

On yours Bob I only recognise the last song - which if i'm not mistaken is Swallowed by Bush. That's as far as i've gotten! Anyone recognise any of the rest?

The 3rd is MJ, Beat It.

2nd one is Heaven by Bryan Adams. So with thanks to Andy and Matt, I reckon the band is 'The Presidents of the United States of America'.

I don't know the first one, but the others - is it anything to do with moving to the country?

Edit: Aw, Lucy beat me to it! (And eat me a lot of peaches, obviously...)
Edit 2: #4 is Carter USM - quality tunes

Spot on Lucy (and Lesley)! The first one is a 1999 Number One, which somebody should be able to get now you know the connection.

Presidents of the United States is the connection surely, well their surnames anyway (or the Carter part of Carter USM [I agree with Leslie, btw, love this band]).

Is the first one Madison Avenue? Or did they just sample the original version? The only other one I recognised was Heaven

OK so Bob's was solved, very good! Jon's is still unsolved and remains a mystery to everyone. Here's my half-assed attempt at something lyrically puzzling.

"I can't see me loving nobody but you for all my life"

"Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space"

"Windmill, windmill for the land turn forever hand in hand"

"You took a left off last laugh lane"

What links 'em?

Quite straightforward

Ryan Taylor wrote:OK so Bob's was solved, very good! Jon's is still unsolved and remains a mystery to everyone. Here's my half-assed attempt at something lyrically puzzling.

"I can't see me loving nobody but you for all my life"

"Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space"

"Windmill, windmill for the land turn forever hand in hand"

"You took a left of last laugh lane"

What links 'em?

Quite straightforward

Second one is Steppenwolf - 'Born To Be Wild', fourth one is Arctic Monkeys - 'Fluorescent Adolescent'. Don't know the other two and can't think of a connection unless it's something to do with stages of aging or summat.

Yep, nice one James. MADISON Avenue, Bryan ADAMS, Michael JACKSON, CARTER U.S.M., BUSH, and connection is PRESIDENTS OF THE USA

Didn't Jon's get solved? (Stratosphere was the band I think).

EDIT: The windmill one is Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz

I think the first one is "Happy Together" - it's an animal connection so I was thinking it was by The Animals - I have now googled and it aint.

David O'Donnell wrote:I think the first one is "Happy Together" - it's an animal connection so I was thinking it was by The Animals - I have now googled and it aint.

Turtles. Don't know what the other one is though.

Yo. Nice one. Apologies to Jon for leaving the unsolved band behind, i thought sussing it was from the ad was solving it. Was it stratosphere? Google doesn't seem to know. Nice one Bob and Ryan, savage stuff. Who's go is it now?

Here is my effort. (3 seperate lyrics)

'Sronger and harder than a bad girl's dream'

'The feeling that I can't go on is light-years away.'

'When the chips are down I'll be around'

Whats the connection?

Marc Meakin wrote:Here is my effort. (3 seperate lyrics)

'Sronger and harder than a bad girl's dream'

'The feeling that I can't go on is light-years away.'

'When the chips are down I'll be around'

Whats the connection?

We haven't actually got Ryan's yet, need the fourth lyric.

David O'Donnell wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:Here is my effort. (3 seperate lyrics)

'Sronger and harder than a bad girl's dream'

'The feeling that I can't go on is light-years away.'

'When the chips are down I'll be around'

Whats the connection?

We haven't actually got Ryan's yet, need the fourth lyric.

I thought someone already said it was Fluorescent Adolescent by The Arctic Monkeys.
So the connection (Gorrilaz, The Turtles, Steppenwolf) was The Animals, or they have animals in the band titles.

Marc Meakin wrote:Here is my effort. (3 seperate lyrics)

'Sronger and harder than a bad girl's dream'

'The feeling that I can't go on is light-years away.'

'When the chips are down I'll be around'

Whats the connection?

3 different songs all released in the same year ('85 I think) all titled The Power of Love by (I think) Huey Lewis and The News, Jennifer Rush and erm... someone else possibly Billy something.

Marc Meakin wrote:Here is my effort. (3 seperate lyrics)

'Sronger and harder than a bad girl's dream'

'The feeling that I can't go on is light-years away.'

'When the chips are down I'll be around'

Whats the connection?

All from songs called "The Power of Love", and you've taken the mid-eighties triumvirate of Huey Lewis and The News, Jennifer Rush and Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Okay then, try these:

"With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat"...

and

"If Joan of Arc had a heart, Would she give it as a gift"