Spoken bits in songs: a Quiz!

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Name the songs from whence these spoken bits spring...

1. "Pour Me out of the Water, pour me onto the land...beneath the sky there is an open fire."

2. "This ain't rock'n'roll, this is.....genocide."

3. "In Detroit, a Pontiac Michigan youth was reported dead at the scene of a head-on collision on Grand Avenue this morning. The youth was reportedly driving on the wrong side of the boulevard when he struck a delivery truck and was catapulted through the windshield of his car. The driver of the truck is reported to be uninjured. The identities of both men are being withheld by local police. County legistlators today are expected to rally to the aid of striking long shoremen....

4. "...nothing inspires quite like love"

5. "I care enough to know that I could never love you."

6. "Freedom from the reds, and the black, and the criminals, prostitutes, pansies and punks...."

Add more..

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

6. Freedom from the likes of you...... (and me)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

These are all from "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" by Meat Loaf.

― Huck Everlasting (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

1. charlotte anne julian cope
5 abc poison arrow
2 diamond dawgs bowie

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Right, Right and Right. C'mon, though,...#3 is such a give-away.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

6 is Power in the Darkness - TRB

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Correct. And a damn fine song it is.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

7. We couldn't find it in the van at all, we wonderin' if you looked in that trash can. When we threw out that trash, man, was the bag in
your hand, did you dump it?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

8. "I must be....the Bahamas are islands!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

7. Sonic Youth - Providence

The voice of Mr Watt...

― mzui, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

9. This ain't rock 'n' roll, this is pesticide.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

10. Mother, I can never come home again 'cos I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere, somewhere in a field in Hampshire.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

11. Space Patrol! What's Out There? I'm gonna get my pants back on!
My Mom *is* comin over!

― mzui, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost) ... alright"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

3. Stan by Eminem

― garret (garret), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, I know #10, I think.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

10's Sorted for E's & Wizz by Pulp.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

That's it!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

12. "One month ago today I was happy as a lark"

13. "Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why I’ll never know."

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

14. "Legend has it that the bloodstains from Charles the First's decapitation were never actually washed from the stones.... Captain Blood who walks The Bloody Tower.... what are you doing with that stuffed ostrich, you shit? .... stuffed underneath his arm.... Yes Beefeaters will accept bacon burgers.... How old are the mummified remains? Well, they're 14 to 15.... they sawed his leg off and counted the rings you jerk."

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

12. mumble mumble, maybe to the park
13. emptiness all around me

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

So what do you want (I want you)
You can't have me, well maybe just tonight (So what time are you coming, come on)
No, I, no I can't, no (But I just gotta have you)
No way, I told you!

Don Dokken (phone conversation in It's Not Love)

― Rocco, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

#4 anthrax, go4

15 is there anybody there?
YES!

― mig, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

16. Be ready to win when I tell you to call in and whatever you do remember the phrase that pays!

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

17. "Darkness falls across the land
The midnite hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'awl's neighbourhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzy ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of...."

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

.. c-man?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

18. "I don't usually says things like this to girls your age, but when I saw you coming out of school that day, that day I knew -- I KNEW -- I've got to have you, I'VE GOT TO HAVE YOU!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I know 15. is from Live At The Witch Trials.... but which track?

.... Industrial Estate?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

17 is "Thriller". Duh.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

19. There were rumors he was into field hockey players...

20. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!

21. Lying on the floor next to his own severed head, a head which at this time has no name...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

22. "The first time that I met you, I knew you were no fool
You said 'I've got a twelve incher; but I don't use it.... as a rule'".

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

23. "I'm going to beat you up at the end of this song"

― tipustiger, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

No. 19. is The Pixies....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

24. The...next thing he knows, they've exchanged opinions on the book, and he has handed it BACK to the old man and is being shown into hell.

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

25: Ecce momenta
Illa mirabilia
Quae captabit
In aeternum
Memor
Modo dolores
Sunt in dies
Non est reliquum
Vero tantum
Comminicamus
Perdita

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooh, i think I know that one is it "Oh what a circus David Essex" ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

25. Reach between my legs, ease the seat back...

― Shooz (shooz), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

#3 is Kiss - Detroit Rock City

27. "Sunday afternoon we go up to John's with a lot of beer in time to watch The Simpsons..."

― Richard C. (avoid80), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

25 is "Panama" by Van Halen

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

28:
"That`s it . . . hello?"
"Hello."
"Did you get it?"
"Sure did. It`s beautiful. (laughs) I think that we have enough on the tape to, er, just use that as it is for the album. Okay, I`m gonna listen to it back now. I gotta go right to where . . ."

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

FINALLY, someone got "Detroit Rock City". Sheesh!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

30. "Starts Thursday as usual with the Canteen Quiz and again no-one wins the big cash prize"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

30 - First Big Weekend, Arab Strap.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

31. "So I sat myself down, on the wall, outside her house, and began to wait...."

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

25 is neither David Essex nor Van Halen (as if!)

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

27 is First Big Weekend as well

32. How do you spell New York?

33. So they catch him, and they say he's mental

34. Did you say order in the court. Well, I'll have 2(?) bottles of beer please

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

27. Oh yeah, didn't notice.

32. Bottle and cork

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

32. "And on the 8th day, when he had rested, he created darkness. For all around him, he needed a cloak to hide himself from his tired labors. And the Antelope and the Deer, and the Ostritch and the Zebra hid their faces and ran like tiny children into the shirvelling blackness around them. The trees grew hoods and the cows winced. All the crops began to droop. Even the coal rattled in terror for lo there was no light anywhere. And he was well pleased with his labors. And he smiled. But he was unable to find his way out of the room. Consequently, he blundered around his new creations, stamping helplessly left and right upon the new buds of his endeavor. Octopusses, catepillars, tendons and worms...squashed like bugs. Easter bunnies ruptured like eggs. At length he found the door and fumbling with the handle, he chanced to knock the key onto the ground. As he lowered his nose to rummage around with that vast appendage where he might see something on the floor, he beheld a ray of light coming in from the hall.

Kevin? Supper's ready!

MUM, I'm LOCKED IN!

KEVIIN! Supper's READY!

MUM!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder how rock'n'roll got confused w/ genoicide in the first place?

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

25. Reach between my legs, ease the seat back...

Is COMPLETELY from "Panama" by Van Halen!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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Wow!
85."can you roll me another Bull Durham, please?
Can't you do it with one hand, boy?"

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

stumped

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

86. "Well, they told me, when I have these bad dreams, to try and put
endings on the dreams, like I come out a winner. But everytime i try to do that, I just...don't get anywhere. It seems, I keep having the same dream over and over every night, and that's why I'm up so late."

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

69. is the replaxcements, kids don't follow or something off Stink

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

83. Take Five, D. Minutemen.

― C W (C W), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

87."what's that on your shoulder?" "what?" "that on your shoulder?" "that's my head!" "uh, is that the root of all your problems?" "no." "then what is your problem?" "what? well i wouldn't say i've got what you call a chip on my shoulder, there's just some people that i can't get along with. i mean i've tried...and then i've really tried." "yeah!" "and it never seems to work out, honey!" "well, what are we going to say to these people?" "there's a big, ugly city out there!" "you wanna see it?" "yeah i wanna see it!" "well then look through my eyes and you can see it!"

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

87. What's Wrong With Me? X

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

82. is Hole in my Shoe (I think)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

You think right.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

88.“Oh Curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out like your damned nose up by the predicament tonight ?”
“Well, d’you know, he jack-knifed that son of a bitch slicker than owl shit!”
“Now gimme a little joe over here, honey.”
“Hey man, you don’t suppose that he had a little ol’ hog waitin’ on down the line somewhere, do you ?”
“Oh, oh, oh, hell, Curly, don’t you know that them truckers they got to take up a little filly at every, every café from here to Las Cruces!
“Eh, eh. Yeah, don’t they! Ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ..”
“Ah ah ah ah ah, he he he he he ...”

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

72. speakin' for Bugles. Good ol' Stardust Bugles.

Legendary Stardust Cowboy

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

86. "Well, they told me, when I have these bad dreams, to try and put endings on the dreams

Butthole Surfers - 22 going on 23 ?

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

88 is "Highway Cafe." I know Tom Waits does it, but I'm pretty sure it's a cover.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

86. "Well, they told me, when I have these bad dreams, to try and put endings on the dreams
Butthole Surfers - 22 going on 23 ?

-- mmmmsalt (prole...), January 27th, 2004.

yup.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"88 is "Highway Cafe." I know Tom Waits does it, but I'm pretty sure it's a cover."

of Kinky Friedman.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

89. You got drunk, and smashed up your ex-girlfriend's property.
I have come to one conclusion, that is to sentence you to five months in prison. Before they take you down to the cells, what have you got to say for yourself?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Watt looking for missing pot = total classic!

Here's mine:

90.
The concrete of the aquaduct
Will last as long as the pyramid of Egypt
Or the Parthenon of Athens
Long after Joe Harriman is elected major of Los Angeles

And I think #11 (way up there) is the "Third Stone From the Sun" deepthroat played at 78RPM, is it not?

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"49. Are you ready, Steve?... Are you ready Mick?... Are you ready Andy?... Well, let's goooooo."

Do you mean "Are you ready Steve? (Uh-huh) Andy? (Yeah) Mick? (OK) Well alright fella's, let's go....."? (Sweet - Ballroom Blitz)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

91. "Oh as yes the sky did turn to night
I shield my eyes and hide from the bright of day
And cast the stone deep into the field of man
And hide in shame
And low the flag raised in vain
And close my mind to this lost day
And shield my body with ferns of grey
And ask no more of life unsaved
Amd smile no more and lay here scaved
Become the tombstone of my grave"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Seeing as no one got it, my #25 was "A Song For Europe" by Roxy Music.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

89. Stupid Marriage - the Specials.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

92. "I just got back from Africa - I was playing cards with the natives. Zooloos? No, I usually won, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck."

93. "I go to the hardcore show and see F.O.D."

---
#69. is not the Replacements. Either it was misquoted or the answer was incorrect.
"Hennepin County Police! ...Everyone get your stuff and go home!"
(Rings a bell as something else too...)
-vs- "This is the Minneapolis Police Department - the party's over. Grab your stuff and go and there won't be any hassle. ... The party's over with ... ... grab your stuff and leave, and no one goes to jail."

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

94. What happened, we only have this excerpt...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Cruiser's Creekah.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

95. "And in the death, as the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimey thoroughfare,......"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

95. Empire song Killing Joke, prob.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

96. "Scuze me, we have a gig on campus tonight, and we're looking for the gymnazyum. the gymnazyum. the gymnazyum. the gymnazyum. ..the FUCKING GYM! DAMN!"

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

95. - Nah that's Mr. Bowie's "Future Legend"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Very good, Stew.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Just in case anyone still cares (or indeed ever did to begin with):

9. "I Don't Talk To Pop Stars" - Atilla The Stockbroker
14. "Lovely Money" - The Damned (I thought someone might have got that one - it's not as if I didn't give you enough of it!)
22. "J.D.H.A.N.E.Y." - The Monochrome Set
31. "The Right Thing" - Diatribe.

I'm surprised Mr. In NYC didn't recognise 91.; I'd have thought that one was right up his alley....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

97. "Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created
It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

98: "There's a rockabilly party on Saturday night"

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

98. Mott - Roll Away The Stone

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

92. "I just got back from Africa - I was playing cards with the natives. Zooloos? No, I usually won, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck."

the monkees - gonna buy me a dog

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

99. "Mister Dobalina, Mister Bob Dobalina."

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll let someone else get that one.
China Clipper calling Alameda...

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorr, Stew, I'm no longer as following this thread as closely. It got a bit too complicated.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

100) --- I’m not going back to Woodstock for a while,
Though I long to see that lonesome hippie smile.
I’m a million miles away from that helicopter day
And I don’t believe I’ll be going back again.

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

46 was the Fall "Slates, Slags, Etc"

Here's another one:

101. "The following tone is a reference tone recorded at our operating level."

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

100 is Neil Young's "Roll Another Number for the Road" (I think that's the name of it anyway).

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

101. ding ding ding ding ding .. "Go around the world the wind blew back...."

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"The following tone is a reference tone recorded at our operating level." Ooh! Ooh! it's from Captain Beefheart's Safe As Milk and comes immediately before the first track on side 2 of the vinyl.... which is.....uh.... Yellow Brick Road?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

#93 - "I go to the hardcore show and see F.O.D."

= Dead Milkmen, "Nutrition" I believe. From an album jam-packed with great spoken bits re. cough syrup, dogs named Mavis, etc.

― Scott, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Who the fuck WAS F.O.D. anyway? I've always wondered.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

999. In den letzen Monaten ist die Zahl
Der vermißten Personen dramatisch angestiegen
Die jüngste Veröffentlichung der lokalen Polizei-
Behörde berichtet von einem weiteren tragischen Fall.
Es handelt sich um ein neunzehnjähriges Mädchen,
Das zuletzt vor vierzehn Tagen gesehen wurde.
Die Polizei schließt die Möchligkeit nicht aus, daß es
sich hier um ein Verbrechen handelt.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

94.
Es ist Zeit für etwas Flottes stimmung
Guts Laune
Die Damen in den Innenkreis
Die Herren in den Außenkreis
In Gegenrichtung, Marach, Fox
And the monkey wrapped his tail around the flag-pole
To show his arse-hole
To the one, two, three
Broken hearts for you and me

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

999 is Jeanie from Falco.

FOD were Flag of Democracy, a pretty cool and better-than-average if basic hardcore band from Philadelphia. Hated met them on our '88 tours, and we did a couple of shows together.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

18. is Christine by Kiss

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Thursday, 29 January 2004 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

102. "I don't want to talk about it"

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Thursday, 29 January 2004 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

57. "Alive"-Beasite Boys
73. "Sister Ray"-Joy Division

― The Good Dr. Bill, Thursday, 29 January 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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