Lyric Snippets 3

Let's see what the iPod has been pouring into my ears this morning.

The lyric snippets below are from the last five songs played this morning. Can you identify the songs?

1. It's the singer not the song, That makes the music move along, I want you to join together with the band, This is the biggest band you'll find, It's as deep as it is wide, Come on and join together with the band

2. The eagle flies on friday, Saturday I go out to play. Sunday I go to church, Gonna kneel down and pray.

3. "I gotta rush away," she said, "I been to Boston before. and anyway this change I been feeling doesn't make the rain fall"

4. my heart is not clean, your table is green, to collect bright things, the harvest of every men, is in the can.

5. You know after you have done all you could do and you can't take no more, then you go downtown, you get your big baseball bat and you come back onthe scene where they both are still together, and then you just go and kick down the door. Now as you kick down the door you just start beating the hell out of everybody that you can see, everybody that comes through the door, and just as you make up your mind that you're gonna try to forgive her, then out comes another one of your friends, and that really blows your mind. So you go and think about it, you say to yourself, baby, I realize I've done wrong but please forgive me. And with a smirky smile on her face then she look up at you and she say. ..

Answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

The full list of answers will be posted later.

The answers to Lyric Snippets 2 are now in the comments for that post.

Great Plate

The other night, driving home, I was passed by a car bearing this number plate.

Surely this plate would attract bids of huge sums of money from the citizens of Dundee, Greenock, Clydebank, Airdrie or {insert favourite soap dodging location here}?

Does It Chook!

Started reading Christopher Brookmyre's Etched In Blood And Hard Black Pencil which combines a modern day murder with the main protagonist's memories of school. The following passage fleetingly drew back the mists of time for me.

'We're gettin split up,' announces Joanne. 'The brainy wans are goin in wi the Primary Fours an the rest are gettin took tae the Church Hall.'

This gives Martin a moment's discomfort as he considers how little he fancies the idea of being thrown in - physically or academically - with the bigger ones currently lining up alongside. Then he remembers that it's Joanne who is saying it.

'Are we chook,' says Colin, voicing Martin's thoughts for him.

Chook is the latest word to come into regular usage, exclusively to express disbelief. Is it chook, did ye chook, will I chook. He doesn't know what the word itself means or its derivation; and nor, he is sure, does anyone else. Martin has no problem comprehending the playground's neologisms, but is frustrated by how they can be unheard of one week and then common coinage to all but him the next. He suspects it must be because lots of the other boys play together away from school. Most of them live in the Braeview scheme, in the council houses where Martin's grandparents stay. Martin lives in the new houses up the hill towards the Carnock Brae.

I remember the word 'chook' suddenly coming into use at my secondary school, I can't recall where it came from, just that for a while it became part of the common language at school.

This and other phrases such as 'To the side...' and 'Don't mess with the best or you'll end up like the rest' just seemed to appear out of the ether.

Brookmyre always provides an entertaining read. His recollection of the details of everyday life in Scotland, his colourful use of language, and his completely over the top plot lines combined with biting satire make every book a must read.

Anyone who can write a novel featuring a bank robbery carried out by five people dressed up as Zal Cleminson to the soundtrack of Faith Healer by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band deserves a medal. It's almost enough to make you forgive him for supporting St Mirren...

Does anyone recall any other strange words or phrases from their schooldays?

Link : Christopher Brookmyre's site

Don't You Like Me Baby?

Do you ever get the feeling that sometimes the world is trying to tell you something?

This blogger in the US recently booked a flight with Southwest airlines and received this confirmation/booking code.

Nasty...

Axe Attack

Another great quiz over at Mental Floss.

In this one you have to match up the guitar with the guitarist.

Link : A Few Strings Attached

The Name Game

According to the BBC, Celtic are interested in signing Rod Fanni from Nice.

You would have thought they would have learned a valuable lesson after the Rafael Scheidt fiasco...

Lyric Snippets 2

As per the previous post on this subject the following snippets of lyrics are from the last five songs played on my iPod this morning.

Can you identify the songs?

I think that this lot will prove to be a bit of a test.

1. You look so self possessed, I won't disturb your rest, It's lovely when you're sleeping, but wide awake is best
2. I gotta great idea, I'm gonna wait right here, while everything is adding up
3. Are we too far gone, Are we so irresponsible, have we lost our balls, or do we just not care
4. When me and a bunch of cowboys, rode into Jesse James, well the bullets were a flying, just like a shower of rain
5. And you find out life isn't like that, its so hard to understand, why the world is your oyster, but your future's a clam

Answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

The full list of answers will be posted later.