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Music Quiz 10

Welcome to a new round of my music quiz, again with a few easy(?) picture riddles (3 or 4, depending on how fast they’re solved) depicting a song or band name – and I’m planning to have a music quiz regularly every week…

1.) Which song title (from which band) is this?

Musik-Quiz 10.1

Gelöst von Julia: Sunday Bloody Sunday von U2. :clap:


2.) Welcher Liedtitel (von wem) wird hier dargestellt?

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Links of the Week (2008/14)

Cuddle song hampers percentages – or something like that…

Not that I wouldn’t like my low-price cellphone provider blau.de (=“blue”), on the contrary – but if you combine and build upon what’s in their latest newsletter I received today, this post’s title may be the result: ;)

Main news item is the price reduction from 9.9 to 9 cents per voice minute and SMS, presented by their two blue sock hand puppets (my translation): “From April 1 on, I pay only 9 cents per minute and SMS in the general tariff.” – “Great, then you save even more, a full 10 percent!

Well, they got it wrong: You save 0.9 cents, that’s 0.9 / 9.9 = 1 / 11 = 0.090909… ≈ 9.1 %. So rather nearly 10 %. :klugscheisser:

Items 2 and 3 in the newsletter are the accessories tip of a UMTS PC card and the WAP tip “Google to go” – and then the ringsound download tip for this unspeakable, unbearable, unfeasible, un–whatever Schnuffel Kuschel-Song (“cuddle song”), number 1 for weeks in the official German single charts. “Get the spring hit on your cellphone”. Aaaaargh!
:blossnicht:

Quote (translated) from Schnuffel: Germany in cuddling fever (laut.de, German) (via 49 Suns)

“Number one for a virtual cuddly toy singing about a carrot. Of course, it can’t get more moronic, but we also thought that about the Crazy Frog. […] The song itself (music & text: Jamba) is a cheap large-hall disco stomper with a text you usually find on fall-asleep CDs babies. But that’s okay, since Jamba is a company that makes money out of bullshit. And it’s legitimate because people buy that bullshit. And Jamba doesn’t claim it were art, let alone music.”

Music Quiz 9

Like last time, I have a few easy(?) picture quizzes for you which each depict a song title. Once one is solved, I’ll post the next; and you can ask questions, too. Let’s start with an easy one:

1.) Which song title (by which artist) is this?

Musik-Quiz 7 Song #1

Gelöst von Pas: Purple Rain von Prince. :clap:


2.) Which song title (by which artist) is this?

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German Translation of Deep Purple – “Child In Time”

This is my German translation of this song’s lyrics

Deep Purple: Child In Time – Kind in der Zeit / Kind, mit der Zeit

Der Titel ist etwas mehrdeutig, denn einerseits kann man ihn allein für sich als Bezeichnung sehen, zum anderen als Ausschnitt aus dem Text…

Süßes Kind
Mit der Zeit siehst du die Grenze
Die Grenze gezogen zwischen
Gut und Böse
Siehst du den blinden Mann
Auf die Welt schießen
Fliegende Kugeln
Ihren Tribut fordern

Wenn du böse warst
Gott, ich wette, das warst du
Und du nicht getroffen wurdest
Von herumfliegendem Blei
Schließ besser deine Augen
Senke besser den Kopf
Warte auf den Querschläger

Die ganzen “oooh”s und “aaah”s (die manche Songtext-Seiten im Netz auch aufführen), kann ich mir hier sparen, oder? :) Nur die Zeile “Oh, I gotta hear you sing” fehlt noch: Oh, I muss dich/euch singen hören.


Verbesserungsvorschläge sind willkommen, ebenso Wünsche für die nächsten Übersetzungen…