Post a song lyric from an obscure rock & roll band and see if anyone knows the band and/or the song w/o using Google

[red dog 1]

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(By obscure, I mean a relatively little-known band, either still playing & recording, or played & recorded at least one album in the past)




"In their search, the whole wide world they roam, they roam.
Is there no place, for a girl and her dog?"

"Down by the train tracks you can hear a mournful sound
The chattering of teeth is heard for miles around, around"

(Both are lyrics from the same song)

[wyldwolf]

1. hmm. Need "obscure" and "rock band" more clearly defined.

[red dog 1]

2. Will do.

[blm]

36. Hah

Found you

[wyldwolf]

51. well, now. If I'd know you were looking, I might have made it easier to be found.

[patphil]

3. Obscurity Knocks - The Trashcan Sinatras

Obscure from the Obscure:

[50 Shades Of Blue]

7. Love them! Actually saw them in person pre-covid.

[Goonch]

4. The Fugs - Nothing

[red dog 1]

6. I knew someone who played bass with The Fugs (Not on their first album)

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A really nice guy, and a very good musician (He also played with NRPS)

[DFW]

164. I think I met their first bass player

He was almost normal, compared to Sanders. Sanders was nuts, but actually kind of funny, although triple X-rated. Saw them at the Pentagon demonstration in 1967, and at the Ambassador Theater in DC in 1967. A friend of mine did their sound system.

[red dog 1]

171. Sanders "has been called a bridge between the 'beat' and 'hippie' generations." (Wikipedia)

He did vocals.
According to Wikipedia, The Fugs 1st bass player was John Anderson, from the summer of 1965 to October of 1966.

From October of '66 to spring of '67, Chuck Rainey played bass. He "is credited for playing bass on more than 1,000 albums, and is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of recorded music."

The guy I knew, Billy Wolf, played bass for The Fugs from the winter of '68 to March of '69. He toured with them in Europe.
After that, he played with various groups, including The New Riders of the Purple Sage (One of my all-time-favorite bands)

[rogerballard]

5. Oh what a splendid story but I've heard it before to me it's a mystery that's somehow still, well je t'adore

but really
I know the score
you've heard it before
you say that you're sanctuary

[Midnight Writer]

8. Tonio K-Funky Western Civilization

"There's a fire in the courthouse

There's a riot in the street

There's a sinner being trampled by a thousand pious feet

There's a baby every minute being born without a chance

Now don't that make you want to jump right up and start to dance?

Let's do the funky

The Funky Western Civilization

It's really spunky

Just like a summertime vacation

You just grab your partner by the hair

Throw'em down and leave them there."

[rogerballard]

10. Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

[Midnight Writer]

9. Blue Mountain-Jimmy Carter

"Shake the hand of the man with a heart full of love

The one and only Jimmy Carter!"

[Silent Type]

33. Not keeping with thread, but love Blue Mountain and Jimmy Carter.

[consider_this]

11. Rolled in velvet crystal...

Broken reds with scarlet
Hand-me-down of sundry seas
Melting golden flesh is
Cracked and spilled in garden
Circles grown of me

Fly me on, fly me on
The hour will be
Fly me on, fly me on
The hour will be

Window morning I see, wonder, come to me
You will turn it, nothing is the key
Window morning I see, wonder, come to me
You will turn it, nothing is the key

[Bongo Prophet]

35. Ah, Starcastle's the band. The song name...hmm...Sunfield, maybe?

Their first two albums we straight up great, better than most late Yes. Some would say. Saw them open for Gary Wright and also Robin Trower... They pulled it off live as well.

Am I supposed to add a song now? If so:

"This is the sound of poisons
The sickness no one knows
No one is crying for us this time
Our shapes are blurring under miracles of snow
Weave a circle round him three times
You have to plan your moves at these times
Our hearts are breaking
One more song to go

These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
These hands I kiss
Tragic as anything
These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
All splash and hiss
Beyond my measuring"

[consider_this]

43. Yep, you got it: Starcastle's Lady of the Lake...

found a YouTube to share: (I do not recognize your song lyric - you might want to put in a reply to OP so others might guess?)

[Bongo Prophet]

46. Oh right! My inner DJ kept looping back to the synth part right after "Release the sun field"

That synth patch is so like Wakeman's Moog on "And You and I" from waveform to portamento.

Thanks for the reminder of a song/album haven't heard in a while.
Be sure to check out their 2nd album "Fountains of Light", if you haven't already. It definitely continues that 'Yes adjacent' style, and has a very interesting production. Funny that, to this day, they deny that Yes was any influence at all. Riiight...

Starcastle is to Yes like Triumvirate is to ELP. No harm nor shame in that at all. Glad to have all those options, myself.

[consider_this]

73. Glad someone here recognized them!

I like how you describe them as 'Yes adjacent' - nice and accurate description. I have the original vinyl (from days of yore), but have not heard their 2nd album, so thanks for the info - will check it out.

[ProfessorGAC]

75. Those Guys Were Big Heat When I Was In College

They were based out of Champaign & EVERY musician from Kenosha to St. Louis knew about them.
In central Illinois, they had god status.

[Bongo Prophet]

84. We had some good machines, but they don't work no more...

New at this here game, so I wrote my lyrics in the my reply to the Starcastle song, rather than the title. Fixing that now, by just sharing the answer so as to share its beauty.
"Tis songs like this that make a prophet weep humanity's tears...

For a couple of insights as to meaning, check out Genius lyrics. Are they correct? Probably not, but also maybe.
https://genius.com/Shriekback-faded-flowers-lyrics

[Mister Ed]

12. "Because it's a game alright they're playin', but it ain't like on TV...

...nobody shakes hands when it's over,
and there ain't no referee
And the stands are full of broken men,
And the field's grown up in weeds
And the winners get your children
Yeah, they do just what they please
And they'll cut you for no reason,
'Cept they wanna watch you bleed
So forget everything you've heard or read or seen
It's a game alright they're playin'
But they're playin' it for keeps"

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. Cheap Beer Joint

A tune by Dave Wilcox. I heard this band in Owen Sound, CA in the early 90's doing this. tune. Band was the Bearcats. Had a big black dude named Jimmie that played harmonica. Totally awesome. He did a version of "Wind Cries Mary" that rivaled Jimmy Hendrix.

https://music.

&si=ofjcyM3cHviV472k

[stopdiggin]

14. She's gonna kill me - and I don't mean softly

I got it badly for a stick-legged girl

[LakeArenal]

15. Okay.

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You pretend you're high
Pretend you're bored
Pretend you're anything
Just to be adored
And what you need
Is what you get

It is………….


Stupid Girl by Garbage.

[JoseBalow]

16. Kidney in a Cooler by Keller Williams

Any Keller Williams fans?
So many great tunes to choose from, I went with this one...

Kidney in a Cooler
Keller Williams

A break in the schedule
Sufficient coolant leak
Well we thought we were doing the right thing
Now you cannot be too picky
In Cheyenne on a Sunday
Then up walked the mechanic
With the perpendicular teeth
Perpendicular teeth, oh yeah

By the 17th hour
They pulled us up in the bay
And funky tooth started diggin'
Down under the hood
After clearing a path to the water pump
And taking a four hour break
By hour 27 we were all good
Then we sailed from Little America, oh yeah

Only two days later
On the way down to Deep Elem
We broke down in Oklahoma
Where a wind come behind the rain
We got towed to a town called Perry
Where a woman's car took priority
She had a kidney in a cooler
So two nights we had to stay
So she could deliver the kidney, oh yeah

When you go down to Deep Elem
Down to the Gypsy Tea Room
Tell 'em I'm broke down in Perry
And I'll try to make it back soon
Oh sweet mama
Your daddy got them Deep Elem blues
Oh sweet mama
Your daddy got them Deep Elem blues

Now I know I will be paying
On the concept after it's through
Unrealistic, maybe
But there's something I gots to do
I need a big ass bus with a satellite dish
A double-decker double-wide what I wish
I dream open eyed
That this be true
My double-decker double-wide, oh yeah

It's gonna have two icemakers
In both refrigerators
A silent but violent generator
To run the subwoofers and the disco ball
The escalator up to the dance hall
On the second floor with a giant sky light
Driving range and jacuzzi just right
For skinny dipping right after the show
At 80 miles an hour
It's worth all the dough

Until then I'll stand on the corner
With a sign that says
I will work for my
Double-decker double-wide

Perpendicular teeth
In Little America
Deliver the kidney
In my double-decker double-wide

[bedazzled]

17. Hate your mommies. Hate your daddies ...

Hate the lousy little brats who called you fatty...

Very old song and very politically incorrect...

[ProfessorGAC]

86. I Cheated

Wow, that's one set of lyrics!

[bedazzled]

89. Horrific isnt it

I am not to blame. My brother discovered that bunch!

[Brother Buzz]

18. Look at that chicken butt going away. Come back, chicken butt, here to stay

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Or more lyrics by the same band:

Ain't no bunk. Chicken Funk. This ain't no bunk. Chicken Funk. Huh!

Edited to add small clue: The Mississippi sax player in the first song, and lead vocals in the seconds song was invited, along with his new band, to perform in the chorus of "We Are The World" a mere ten years later. He got promoted to a solo vocal spot when Prince chickened/flaked out in the wee hours of the night.

Second clue: The band's best-known album isn't its own album and the band isn't even in the credits. The band played back up on Elvis Costello's first album, but for contractual reasons, couldn’t be credited; the were initially identified as The Shamrocks in publicity releases (which is another amusing clue).

[KarenS]

19. Here's a one hit wonder song,,,,

"Keep a-wearing your bracelets and your new Rara
And cross your heart, yeah, with your livin' bra"

[WestMichRad]

25. Anyone who listened to pop radio in the 60s

… should know that one. John Fred and his playboy band, “Judy in Disguise”

[Eko]

20. Herbivores ate well cause their food didn't never run

[happybird]

38. and if your dog or cat ever dies I'll buy you a ewe

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My Sweet One!

[Eko]

48. Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Lovely!
Ever see them?
Eko.

[happybird]

49. Many, many times in the 90's

But only twice since 1998. All in all, 43 times.
Was looking for a nice Ha Ha Ha to post for ya and got sucked into a rabbit hole. YouTube is amazing, and totally beats waiting 6+weeks after a show for someone to mail a tape back to you.

[Eko]

54. Only about 20 or so times for me.

Did see Dave Matthews open for Phish in like 95 in Virginia so that was interesting. So much good music out there now, kids dont even understand how lucky they are now.

[happybird]

55. Hey now!

At Nissan Pavilion? With the Three Little Birds encore? I was at that show, lol.

Edit: I was just the right age at the right time, and in the right place for Phish- 20 years old in 1995 and from Northern Virginia, going to college in WV. We raged it.

[Eko]

57. Yup, too funny.

I got way drunk that show but had a blast.

[OldBaldy1701E]

21. Okay, Here is one... good luck...

Last night, I had a crazy dream...
'bout a chick, in a black bikini.
Well, she looked so good, she couldn't be real...
She must be a magic genie!

But she disappeared around the corner...
All I saw were three doors, and the top of her bikini.
I made through the first door, there was a party going on...
I asked about the chick but what they said was freaky!

(Name that tune...)

[OldBaldy1701E]

45. Not surprised that this is a tough one...

Some of you might kick yourselves once I reveal it. Some will never have heard of it. But, I will give you all a hint.

This tune was originally supposed to be on a Monkees album. But, the show was canceled and the album was canned. So, they used it for another band in another show.

[crud]

160. I really love...your hair due yea...I'm glad you like mine too...see what lookin pretty cool will get ya.

[UnderThisLaw]

47. Chick A Boom by Daddy Dewdrop

[OldBaldy1701E]

59. And the crowd goes wild!

Now, this was the way I first heard it...

I then heard it on the radio a few times, but it was the original one...

I do recall thinking that I did not hear the lyrics about the girl leaving her bikini on various doors... LOL.

Congrats UnderThisLaw!

[DFW]

165. While I didn't get the song, I DID get to marry the "chick in the black bikini"

That has to count as some kind of consolation prize, doesn't it?

[OldBaldy1701E]

170. If your time played out like the song, you certainly did!

(Bear in mind that he finds her naked in the third room...)

[OldBaldy1701E]

22. Another one...

After the turn of the century...
In the clear blue skies over Germany.
Came a roar and a thunder man has never heard...
Like the screaming sound of a big war bird.

Up in the sky, a man in a plane...
Baron Von Richthofen was his name.
Eighty men tried, and eighty men died...
Now they're buried together in the countryside.

(Name That Tune...)

[FSogol]

24. Snoopy and the Red Baron n/t

[DebbieCDC]

27. Snoopy vs. The Red Baron

[SarahD]

32. Snoopy and the Red Baron.

[OldBaldy1701E]

44. Very good.

But, who did the song? I will help with that...

[FSogol]

23. How about this one?

Conquering myself
Until I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another drop in the ocean

[AZSkiffyGeek]

29. Echo and the Bunnymen

The Cutter

[DBoon]

26. "In the mist of sassafras many things will come to pass"

an oldie from 1968

[GReedDiamond]

31. "Hot Smoke & Sassafras" by Bubble Puppy...

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...I had the 45 back then.

[DBoon]

42. yes

[AZSkiffyGeek]

28. Saturday Saturday don't stay home

Robot girls at the Monster Dome
70 foot tall and 20 foot wide
X-rated robot genocide

[dpibel]

30. "All your sins are forgiven,

now let me down."

[JenniferJuniper]

34. "One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead

I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead."

[FSogol]

41. Punk rock girl by the Dead Milkmen n/t

[The Wizard]

37. I got no love to give you anymore.

[k55f5r]

127. I know! I know!!!

Blodwyn Pig - Dear Jill.

[happybird]

39. I'm down and I'll drag you along and around

Until you burst into song and unwind
And leave your new life behind for a while

[happybird]

40. How can I believe that everything in this world is going to be fine?

How can I believe that everything in this world has it’s place in time?
When I lay down to sleep I feel the world spin
Slightly off axis, it’s shaped like a fig
And when I lay next to you I shiver and shake
You tell me you love me, I dream I’m awake

[ificandream]

50. Here ya go ... I'll post the answer later.

"I feel depressed, I feel so bad
'Cause you're the best girl that I've ever had."

[ificandream]

60. Here's the answer ...

“Psychotic Reaction.”

[red dog 1]

68. I remember that song

[DFW]

163. I saw them do it live!

Alexandria, Virginia, must have been 1966 or so.

[SarahD]

151. Cramps did a good version.

[ificandream]

52. One more ...

Oh it's been getting so hard
Livin' with the things you do to me
Aha
My dreams are getting so strange
I'd like to tell you everything I see

[ificandream]

61. The answer..

“Ballroom Blitz.”

[ProfessorGAC]

88. I'm Way Too Late

There are few people who liked Desolation Boulevard as much as I did. Awesome album. 8 potential hits on that record.

[Jrsygrl96]

53. Punk era

“I Wanna be a Lifeguard.” Band? Zinc oxide on your nose.

[Dulcinea]

67. Blotto! nt

[Jilly_in_VA]

56. I dare anybody to get this one

"At the dawn of an ordinary Sunday
I remember the taste of you still in my mouth,
And in the stillness of an Oriente rainfall
I remember the warmth of you
Still in my arms,
Late in the year....."

[AuntyGravity]

58. I remember ...

We were flying along and hit something in the air

[AuntyGravity]

65. The Answer...

Bloodrock
D.O.A.

[mpcamb]

62. "Handsome Kevin got a little off track...

[Dulcinea]

66. Welcome to the Boomtown

David & David. One of my favorite songs from the 80s.

[rogerballard]

63. I see Mary standing by the river side, waiting

She thinks the queen is coming by
Then I looked around
And she was gone
Why

[rogerballard]

64. Oh, baby, love me right

Let me love you till we get it right
Can't you let the others be
'Cause with you is where I got to be, yeah

[red dog 1]

69. "I will find a way - To get to you some day - Oh but I, babe, I'm so afraid I'll fall, yeah

Now can't you hear me call?"

[rogerballard]

70. Hand out the arms and ammo...

We're gonna blast our way through here
We got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here

[happybird]

71. Something in the Air

Thunderclap Newman

[rogerballard]

72. Correct!

[Tikki]

74. "Life is a scream Man is an engine Blowin' off steam An engine With a vengeance..."

Tikki

[Ferrets are Cool]

76. Most have either forgotten about this band or never knew about them at all...

I was riding on a submarine
Got a message from my mermaid queen.
She was hanging on a fishing line.

[Tikki]

77. "Jim Dandy to the Rescue"..this song was originally recorded by LaVern Baker..

Probably many bands covered this song.

Tikki
ps I said the lyrics out loud and it was Mr. Tikki who knew it right away.

[Harker]

78. I saw Black Oak Arkansas in concert, 1976.

I was unaware it wasn't original to them.

[Ferrets are Cool]

79. Neither was I

[Harker]

80. Loved the pants!

[Mr.Bill]

81. I just got out my little red book the minute that you said goodbye.

Hint: American band, 1966.

What band? Bonus if you know the singer's name.

[Tikki]

82. Aurthur Lee..LOVE..."Little Red Book"

Maybe written by Bacharach ?

Tikki

[Mr.Bill]

83. All correct!

I honestly didn't know much about him, but remember seeing Lee and Love on American bandstand. I just read his Wikipedia page and it's a very interesting story.

[NowsTheTime]

85. Just think all the sights we'll see, If you will go with me,

There’ll just be you and me tonight.

Oh, so beautiful the night will be,
A country road and you and me.
The moon won’t have to shine tonight,
Your eyes will be our light.
There’ll be no rush, we’ll take it slow,
No matter where the road may go,
We’ll just drive on,
And meet the rise of dawn.

[red dog 1]

87. "Turn around, go back down. Back the way you came. Can't you see that flash of fire. Ten times brighter than the day"

[k55f5r]

128. Pride of Man

Broken in the dust again. Steppenwolf

[red dog 1]

157. Ding!

[miyazaki]

90. We save no souls. We break no promises.

Eee yai eee yai eee yooohh...

[red dog 1]

91. "Hey __ __ you don't have to hide nothin' no more. You didn't do nothin' that hadn't been done before.

__ __ thought she wouldn't get caught , you see.
She thought she'd get away with goin' out on me, yeah"

[GReedDiamond]

94. "Little Girl" by Syndicate of Sound.

Also had this on 45 vinyl a long time ago.

[red dog 1]

95. WinnerWinnerChickenDinner!!

[Dulcinea]

92. Just corporate criminals, Playing with tanks...nt

[rdmtimp]

121. The Call - "When the Walls Came Down"

If memory serves, I think Garth Hudson of The Band played on that (and other of their tracks).

[Dulcinea]

124. You got it!

But I think it's just "The Walls Came Down."

[VGNonly]

93. "Is it any wonder

we hate to see the sun going down,

Is it any wonder we hate to see the full moon coming around"

[red dog 1]

96. "Well, when I was a young girl, I learned not to care, Off whiskey and frlick I often did swear.

My mother and father said Whiskey's a curse
But the fate of their baby was many times worse

[dpibel]

131. Codine, Buffy Ste. Marie

[red dog 1]

133. Ding!

[red dog 1]

97. "Hey ___ ___ ___ Lives a block away. It's those sugar lips that I could kiss all day

I climbed the stairs to the 13th floor. Hey ___ ___ ___ Come on and open your door"

[Dulcinea]

98. Looking at your watch the third time, waiting in the station for the bus...nt

[red dog 1]

99. "Stamp out reality, Be what you want to be, Do what you want to do, Before reality stamps out you"

[red dog 1]

100. "And my belly is craving, I got shakin' in my head.

Feel like I'm dyin' and I wish I was dead"

[dpibel]

132. Codine, Buffy Ste. Marie

Is there an echo in here?

[red dog 1]

134. Yes

(I guess I forgot about already posting the other line from that song).

[jmowreader]

101. "Still, we wouldn't mind seeing Ditka run over by a truck."

[red dog 1]

102. "How can you think love will end. When I've asked you to spend your whole life. With me? (with me, with me)"

[rogerballard]

103. Cherish by The Association

[rdmtimp]

123. Actually that's not from "Cherish"...

It's from another big hit of theirs, "Never My Love".

[malthaussen]

110. Are the Association "obscure" now? n/t

[red dog 1]

113. Well, perhaps they could be referred to as a "relatively" obscure band,

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(They did have several hits, though)

[rogerballard]

104. Baby, it's you on my mind, your love is so rare

Being with you is a feeling I just can't compare
And if I can't hold you in my arms, it just wouldn't be fair

[red dog 1]

106. "Back on his bronco, We now find Pancho,

With his Pepito by his side
He thinks he's handsome
Worth any ransom
To him he's still the blushing bride"

[red dog 1]

107. "I used to walk on the city streets. Now I wander far and wide. And I never found my happiness

Until I moved to the country-side.
Now follow me for a quiet day
Out riding on the trails
Away from smog and traffic clog
Where all the pigs have tails"

[red dog 1]

108. "A letter came today from the draft board...With trembling hands, I read the questionnaire

It asked me questions about my mama and papa
Now that ain't exactly what I call fair"

[VGNonly]

109. Not a lyric but

what well known Stones song has no electric instruments other than bass?

[red dog 1]

112. You Got To Move?

[VGNonly]

114. Mick Taylor played an electric slide,

Keith played a National Guitar on You Got To Move.

The track I was talking about is from the Beggars Banquet album.

[Harker]

120. "Dear Doctor." n/t

[VGNonly]

135. Has sitar,

tamboura and shehnai.

[Dulcinea]

141. Street Fighting Man. nt

[VGNonly]

142. Yes

With Nicky Hopkins and Dave Mason. Bill Wyman didn't play on it, Keith was on bass.

[malthaussen]

111. "A trip to the fair, but nobody was there." n/t

[rdmtimp]

122. Renaissance - "Trip to the Fair"

One of my all time favorite bands still.

[red dog 1]

115. "Baby, baby,, I love you so. Give me money. Give me dough.

Give me music.
And a car with speed.
And I'll give you
All the love you need"


(Hint: Not an American band)

[Dulcinea]

116. We both know we're never gonna make it, But when we touch we never have to fake it...nt

[Hikerchick57]

117. Not all that obscure but my favorite lyric

I'm a pretty good cook
Sitting on my groceries
Come up to my kitchen
I'll show you my best recipe



Joni Mitchell
Raised on Robbery

[Wolf Frankula]

118. I want, to go back home and mow the lawn for my dad.

I want, to walk to school and get high with my friends.

Wolf

[justaprogressive]

119. Okay try this one!

It hurts him to think that
She is hurting her by
Him being hurt to think (To think that he thinks)
That she thinks he is hurt (He is hurting her by)
By making her feel guilty (Making her feel guilty at hurting)
At hurting him by (Him by her thinking)
Her thinking she wants him (She wants him to want)
To want her, he wants her (Her he wants her to want)
To want him to get him (Him to get him to want)
To want him to get him (Her she pretends she wants)
To want her she pretends (Him to get her she wants)

[red dog 1]

125. "Now listen -- Oh we're steppin' out

I'm-a turn around
Gonna turn around once
And we'll do the ___ ___"

(Hint: Same band as reply # 115)

[TlalocW]

126. All righty...

So I'm heading out the back door and in the other side
Gonna eat the cherries up and take them all for a ride

[k55f5r]

129. Well I ain't gonna pee pee in no cup

Unless Nancy Reagan's gonna drink it up
Said yo Nancy, we just say, no, no, no no no no no
Well go ahead and fire me from my job
There's one little thing you ain't gonna rob
That's my freedom, and my liberty

Well I ain't gonna piss in no jar
Them evil peckerheads they done gone too far
I wouldn't pee in their mouths if they were dying of thirst
Yeah we got to get rid of this evil curse
I'm alive and I'm fighting this jive

One of the leads for this group died on a cruise a couple of months ago.

[Dulcinea]

136. The late great Mojo Nixon!

I Ain't Gonna Piss In No Jar. I had this on cassette!

[bamagal62]

130. Try this one...

I live in a tent
With the world’s strongest man
When I met the mother
Like to broke my hand
My baby she’s a lady
In the high wire act
When I’m feeling tense
She walks on my back

Now the pays OKAY
The benefits are great
I get to shoot the bull
With the world’s smartest ape

[red dog 1]

137. "Don't think I'm bein' funny when I say you got just what you deserve

I can't help feeling you found out today
You thought you would, you could, you had a lot of nerve"

[VGNonly]

138. Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

One of the singers, Ray Sawyer lost his eye. What was the cause of the eye loss? Was it his right or left?

[GAJMac]

139. Whisper me your number, I'll call you up at home

[Mad_Dem_X]

140. "Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know...

She's been to Paris, France and she can really dance."

[red dog 1]

143. "They call her for dinner, she makes up a reason

She looks at her arms and she rolls down her sleeves
And her mother is starting to see through her lies
And last night her father had tears in his eyes"

[Dulcinea]

144. When the feeling has ended, There ain't no use pretending...nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

145. It's Only Love

Bryan Adams and Tina Turner

[Dulcinea]

146. You got it! nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

147. That's a great song. Love the guitar!

[red dog 1]

148. "Can't you see me runnin" -- I am really runnin' -- For ma life"

[red dog 1]

149. "You got gas in the mornin'...My oil changed at night...When I go to your funeral....Everything gonna' be alright"

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(Hint: S.F. psychedelic rock band that released two albums and played at The Avalon Ballroom)

[Dulcinea]

150. She's a dandy, yes indeed/She's a dandy, but now she's free...nt

[pdxflyboy]

153. Lee Michaels

“Do you know what I mean?

[Dulcinea]

155. You got it! nt

[pdxflyboy]

152. Jenny was sweet....

She always smiled for the people she’d meet.

[Dulcinea]

156. Driver's Seat

Sniff & the Tears

[JoseBalow]

154. I look at her and she looks at me; In her eyes I see the sea

I don't see what she sees in a man like me
She says she loves me

[red dog 1]

158. "Would you like some of my tangerine?"

[red dog 1]

159. "Years may come and a-go. I will love you so...No matter where we go"

This '50s artist tarted out as a singer and became a record producer.

[red dog 1]

161. "Well I saw a crazy chick a-runnin' down the street...I said wooo pretty baby, Why the ready beat?

She said wah what a square, Dontcha dig the scene?
___ ___'s a-playin' on their music machine"

(Hint: Not an American band)

[red dog 1]

162. "Well my baby had a party the other night -- The party was gettin' dead

I spied a piano in the corner
Looked at my baby and said.."

[DFW]

166. "Yeah your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea"

Not super obscure, but one of my favorites, so I slipped it in.

[Not Heidi]

168. Brandy

Looking Glass

great song

[DFW]

169. That song outlasted the group by 50 years! We just did our own Trump parody of it as a tribute:

[Not Heidi]

167. I rode on the airstream

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I rode on the airstream across the great lonesome afternoon
And I wished hard enough to hurt, drove fast enough to catch the moon

Edit: Not a band but an individual. I didn't read the instructions very well.

One hint: the artist is a three-time Grammy winner.

[red dog 1]

172. "Make your insurance letter...........You better make it second accident, too

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'Cause if you ain't careful
Somethin' gonna; happen to you"


Hints;
- This psychedelic band formed in early 1967 at 1915 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA, a large Victorian rooming house in the Haight-
- They released two albums.
- This song's title is a reference to an automobile
- Same band as reply #149

[JoseBalow]

173. Just another bird in a house, Dying to get out

I want to join my own kind that's all
Cried the bird and flew into a wall
There must be some way out he cried
And his desperation echoed down the hall

[VGNonly]

174. "Be the first one on your block

to have your boy come home in a box"

[JoseBalow]

175. Follow the bouncing ball.. And it's 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for?

Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam!

The Vietnam Song by Country Joe And The Fish

One of the great Woodstock performances, such a classic... Whoopee!

[VGNonly]

179. "There's plenty of money to be made

supplying the army with the tools of the trade"

[WheelWalker]

176. "Her pelvis has the caffeine shakes, 'cause she's got that..."

[Redleg]

177. The first first starts with: "Cast your mind by ten years" (complete verse follows)

Cast your mind back ten years
To the girl who's next to me in school
If I put my hand upon her leg
She'd hit me with a rule
Though tomorrow won't be long
You're gonna have to play it cool

[RazorbackExpat]

178. I think it's so groovy now

That people are finally getting together
Yes, I think it's so wonderful now
That people are finally getting together

[red dog 1]

183. I know that song

"Reach Out in the Dark", (Now?)
(I can't remember the name of the band)

Welcome to DU!

[RazorbackExpat]

184. The original title was "Reach Out In the Darkness"

but the record producer changed 'in' to 'of' because they thought it sounded more optimistic. By the husband-wife group Friend and Lover It reached No.10 in 1968

And thanks for the welcome.

[Dulcinea]

180. If I don't do it you know somebody else will...nt

[LeonidPlanck]

181. Obscure?

“When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some fucking black shirt who was cursing all the Yids”.

RIP, Shane.

[red dog 1]

182. That does sound like a Shane McGowan lyric

Welcome to DU!

Was it by Shane McGowan & The Pogues?

[LeonidPlanck]

185. I'm not sure why I like The Pogues so much

I’m a classically trained guitarist who can sight-read but I dislike most music (mostly because it’s all corporate pop now), but Shane’s mush-mouthed cursing and no-bullshit approach really attracted me.

“Spewed-up in the church” is a phrase that seemed so common to him but so distant to me I had to hear more.

So be easy and free when you’re drinkin’ with me, I’m a man you don’t meet every day.

I like you Red Dog 1.