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Music Quiz 5

2008-01-16

Which two song lyric lines are described by these smilies?

1 2   3 4 5

And what’s the name of the song?

Yes, maybe that is hard – on the other hand, maybe someone instantly knows the answer…

Additional question (since I’m a Queen fan): What’s this song’s connection with Queen?

The solution, found by kanpeki: :clap:

There’s room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill

from “Working Class Hero” by John Lennon.

Covered by Queen drummer Roger Taylor on his album “Electric Fire”.

Thanks for participating!

(The smilies are from GreensSmilies.com, of course.)

Build yourself an album cover

2008-01-15

I simply had to join this CD Cover Meme :) – found first at Fearblog, and e.g. the Dia-Blog has some links, and there’s a large Flickr pool, too.

It works like this:

And be so honest and really take the immediate results without reloading. Then put it all together, and this is my result:

(» original photo – Jael, if you don’t want me to use it for this just-for-fun purpose, sorry, just let me know and I’ll remove it. — Original quote from Woody Allen: “Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.”)

You don’t have to record music of your own, of course. (Phew!) Now anyone who wants may take this baton and create his/her own random album…

PS: The evaluation of my “Music 2007” blog carnival that ended yesterday should be done by tomorrow, at most on Thursday. And tomorrow will see the next instalment of my Music Quiz series.

Blog carnival: Music of the Year 2007

2007-12-27

Blog carnival Music of the Year 2007 Alright, now I’m conducting a blog carnival (what’s that?) of my own – with three little questions about which music you liked best this ending year:

  • Your song of the year?
  • Your album of the year?
  • Your live concert of the year?
    (Alternatively, if you weren’t at a noteworthy concert: Live album/DVD of the year.)

Preferrably, it should be new releases of 2007, but if you came across something older and like that more than any new stuff, that’s also okay. :) And I don’t mind if you write a little more about your choices, of course, but you don’t have to, a simple list is enough.

If you want to participate, write – as usual for blog carnivals – a post on your own blog (you can use the graphic above if you like) and inform me (and the other readers) via trackback/pingback or, if that doesn’t work, a manual comment to this post here; the carnival ends on 14 January 2008, and I’ll analyze the results afterwards, of course.

I’m curious to see what will be mentioned…

» To the results

My own favorites are:

  • Song: Within Temptation, “What Have You Done” (feat. Keith Caputo) – that song just rocked this spring. :)
  • Album: Ozzy Osbourne, “Black Rain” – in my opinion, an all-around good and, somewhat surprisingly, not at all too soft work from this, erm, strange guy. ;)
  • Concert: Genesis (“Turn It On Again”-Tour in Munich) – great show, great ol’ songs, great evening (after the rain had stopped).

Music Quiz 4

2007-12-18

This time, two “frightened” songs are wanted:

In which songs of which artists is the first-person narrator concerned or frightened about
a) 17
b) 43
things/situations/circumstances etc.?

(Hope I didn’t miscount them…)

If needed, hints will follow. :bigsmile:

1st hint after 4½ hours:
The artists of a) are more basically exclusively known for their comedy (not just comedy songs, that is); b) is a solo song of an artist who’s much more popular as part of a band (a band that I’ve mentioned before multiple times on this blog)…

The solution, found by juliaL49, though not without search engine help…:

a) is “I’m So Worried” by Monty Python with 17 different reasons to worry (and some are repeated) such as “I’m worried about the baggage retrieval system they’ve got at Heathrow”.

b) is “I’m Scared” by Brian May, who packs 43 fears into 34 lines from “I’m scared to move, I’m scared of standing still” to “I’m scared it may all be for nothing”.

:clap: