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djbollocks  said about 1 year ago  or at  7:04PM on Tuesday, July 27 2010 in chat

Let's give this a go. I ask a piece of music trivia and whoever gets the right answer can either elect to ask a question of their own or throw it back to me and I'll ask another question.

Q1. At Which magazine did Neil Tennant work before finding fame in the Pet Shop Boys?


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

A- Smash Hits


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

Correct. One point to unvisible.

Q.2 Who wrote the Bangles hit Manic Monday?


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

A- Prince


__v  said about 1 year ago:

Prince.


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

Q- Which band managed to rope in Orson Welles to perform a voiceover on their debut album?


__v  said about 1 year ago:

Heh.


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

V.good.

Q.3 Which 80's goth band did Wayne Hussey front? (no googling the answers either).


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

Pretty sure it was the Mission?


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

Correct. Question is with unvisible. I don't know the answer but I'm intrigued.


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

That one may take a while to get an answer, so you might as well ask another one as well.


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

Which rapper helped out Shakira on Hips Don't Lie?


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

I'm gonna take a wild stab in the dark and guess Puff Daddy/P Diddy.


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

No, but you're on the right track.


noneabove  said about 1 year ago:

Ma$e? Totally guessing.


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

He was born in Haiti.


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

Wyclef?


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

yup.

Who was Paul Weller's partner in the Style Council?


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

Bumping this shit for daytime chats. 2 questions currently in play-

Who was Paul Weller's partner in the Style Council?

Which band managed to rope in Orson Welles to perform a voiceover on their debut album?


buttonselgringo  said about 1 year ago:

Mike Talbot?


buttonselgringo  said about 1 year ago:

shit, MICK ?


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unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

Was this ever answered? If not, the Alan Parsons Project.

Nope. (unless he did voiceovers for more than one band)


noneabove  said about 1 year ago:

No motorcycling Bob Dylan fans out there? Bummer.


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

It was a Triumph Tiger.

What does Cansei de Ser Sexy mean in Portuguese?


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

This thread never got the attention it deserved. I believe it's ''tired of being sexy''.


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

correct!


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

Easy one- all four members of which band each individually wrote #1 singles?


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

The Beatles.


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

not the Beatles.


electricsound  said about 1 year ago:

queen?


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

Queen it is.


electricsound  said about 1 year ago:

woulda said 10cc but they wrote in pairs not individually


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

What did Courtney Love call her diaries, published in 2006?


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

Here's on I just discovered elsewhere on the internet- which musical artist had a cameo in the movie Iron Man that didn't make the final cut?


Hellzapoppin  said about 1 year ago:

'From the sagging tits of a loud mouth whore'


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

Witty on the Inside?


djbollocks  said about 1 year ago:

incorrect.


unvisible  said about 1 year ago:

A football team takes a shower after four periods?

Oh wait, that's the punchline to my favourite Courtney Love joke.


noneabove  said about 1 year ago:

It was a Triumph Tiger.

Indeed it was. A '65 T100.


noneabove  said about 1 year ago:

Witty on the Inside?

Zing!


bigstar  said about 1 year ago:

Outerspace said:
AARGGH!
I'm logging off the internet. FOREVER.
Hangs head in shame. While shaking fist at the Ghost.

actually Status Quo have appeared on Top of The Pops more times than any other band. Close enough Outie.


bigstar  said about 1 year ago:

wiki actually confirm this:

They have recorded over 60 chart hits in the UK, more than any other rock group in history.[4] 22 of these have reached the UK Top Ten.[5]


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