# Rock Lyrics Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472 "2007-01-02T22:26:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/1 "2007-01-02T22:26:42Z")
Guess the artist by the words used in their songs(1 point), Name the song each word appears in(2 points), Name another song by a different artist that uses each word,if there is one.(3 points) Heres my lists Artist #1 Jollification Belladonic Tatterdemalion Decorously Artist #2 Hogshead Bootlace Captain Marvel Jackboots Artist #3 Gingerbread Glitterati Incontravertible Spoiler tags for your answers so others can play. Post your own list if you’d like,all 3 of the artists I have used are in the R&R HOF. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/2 "2007-01-02T22:51:46Z")
Wow cool game. I have only a much lamer set of fun words: Artist #4 calliope reservoir Burt Reynolds ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/3 "2007-01-02T23:15:09Z")
Awesome game. Way above me. Except… Artist #2 is: The Beatles I feel kind of dumb for having to look up the 1-2 and 4 words in their lyrics. VERY good work on your part! ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/4 "2007-01-02T23:45:10Z")
#2 is The Beatles–#1 is _Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite_ , #2 is _Lady Madonna_ , #3 is _Bungalow Bill_ , and can’t think of #4. OK, here’s one: blueprint oleander kerosene zombie ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/5 "2007-01-02T23:53:58Z")
#3:Roger Waters? I don’t know “Gingerbread”, but “Glitterati” is from _The Fletcher Memorial Home_ (… anonymous Latin-American meat-packing glitterati…) and “Incontrovertible” is from _The Trial_ (…the evidence before the court is incontrovertible, there’s no need for the jury to retire…) Is that right? ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/6 "2007-01-02T23:55:24Z")
Great game. Number one is …Queen. The Fairy Feller has tatterdemalion in it, which I learned when I was young hearing it for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/7 "2007-01-02T23:59:06Z")
Thanks **Gigi** and **ZipperJJ**. 🙂 Just a question for **Gigi** and **want2know** are your artists staying with the R&R HOF theme? If not maybe a little clue as to what genre we should think in. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/8 "2007-01-03T00:00:38Z")
Sorry, my list is #5 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/9 "2007-01-03T00:02:04Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] Thanks **Gigi** and **ZipperJJ**. 🙂 Just a question for **Gigi** and **want2know** are your artists staying with the R&R HOF theme? If not maybe a little clue as to what genre we should think in. [/QUOTE] I don’t think mine is in the HOF; I’m just going with “rock lyrics” in general as per the title of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/10 "2007-01-03T00:03:27Z")
I figure if I solve one, I should’ve put one on the table. Artist 5: Pentecost Dappled Moonbows Scatterlings ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/11 "2007-01-03T00:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=MrSquishy] #3:Roger Waters? I don’t know “Gingerbread”, but “Glitterati” is from _The Fletcher Memorial Home_ (… anonymous Latin-American meat-packing glitterati…) and “Incontrovertible” is from _The Trial_ (…the evidence before the court is incontrovertible, there’s no need for the jury to retire…) Is that right? [/QUOTE] You are mostly right,I am sure you know what band your answer was in,tho he did not write the song with gingerbread in it. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/12 "2007-01-03T00:04:33Z")
[QUOTE=Birdmonster] Artist 5: Pentecost Dappled Moonbows Scatterlings [/QUOTE] Let’s make that artist 6 (insert head-slapping emoticon) ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/13 "2007-01-03T00:07:26Z")
#3 [spoiler]MrSquishy got the other ones, but “gingerbread” is from Bike… “I’ve got a clan of gingerbread men Here a man There a man Lots of gingerbread men Take a couple if you wish They’re on the dish” [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/14 "2007-01-03T00:08:29Z")
Pink Floyd, of course… ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/15 "2007-01-03T04:03:50Z")
[QUOTE=Birdmonster] I figure if I solve one, I should’ve put one on the table. Artist 5: Pentecost Dappled Moonbows Scatterlings [/QUOTE] Paul Simon, pentecost is from _Duncan_ and scatterlings is from _You Can Call Me Al_ . He says moon rose in\* America\*,cant think of a moonbows off hand. and dappled is on the tip of my tongue…just can’t place it…sure I will abe able to after posting this tho. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/16 "2007-01-03T06:54:52Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] Paul Simon, pentecost is from _Duncan_ and scatterlings is from _You Can Call Me Al_ . He says moon rose in\* America\*,cant think of a moonbows off hand. and dappled is on the tip of my tongue…just can’t place it…sure I will abe able to after posting this tho. [/QUOTE] I’ve got no deeds to do, on promises to keep, I’m dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep let the morning time drop all its petals on me. Live I love you, all is grooooovy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/17 "2007-01-03T07:30:49Z")
gigi’s Artist #4 is Bruce Springsteen. Let me throw a few out (I’ll use my own numbering system): **NDP’s Artist #1:** –Transit –Bushwacked –Lester Bangs –Asp **NDP’s Artist #2:** –Bleachers –Capitol –Aladdin –Pigeons ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/18 "2007-01-03T07:35:49Z")
**NDP’s Artist #1** is… R.E.M. “Transit” is from _Radio Free Europe_, “Bushwacked” is from _Drive_, “Lester Bangs” is mentioned in _It’s the End of the World (As We Know It)_, and “Asp” is from _Man on the Moon_. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/19 "2007-01-03T07:57:02Z")
[QUOTE=Foldup Rabbit] **NDP’s Artist #1** is… R.E.M. “Transit” is from _Radio Free Europe_, “Bushwacked” is from _Drive_, “Lester Bangs” is mentioned in _It’s the End of the World (As We Know It)_, and “Asp” is from _Man on the Moon_. [/QUOTE] I knew that was too easy. It’s late and I’m probably too tired to come up with anything mentally challenging. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472/20 "2007-01-03T13:41:13Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] blueprint oleander kerosene zombie [/QUOTE] Steely Dan. Oleander is the giveaway, that’s from “My Old School.” Kerosene is from “Kid Charlemagne.” Zombie is from “Haitian Divorce,” although I first thought of “All You Zombies.” Can’t think offhand of where Blueprint is from. Here are a couple from me: **BtES #1** _logistics systemically maisonettes crosslegged_ **BtES #2** _keyloids sterilized broadcasting hot-wire_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-lyrics-game/386472.md?page=2)