what song is that from

1. Baba O'Rielly - The Who
7. Wild Thing - The Troggs
8. Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
10. Bue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
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funslover wrote:

Huh? I first thought it was Jimmy Hendrix but then I saw it fits only in the first lines. Who´s the rip-off, Jimmy or the Troggs?

jappen wrote:

You got me, so I went to AllMusic and found Cub Coda's write-up about the song:

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One of the most popular of all the sports rock anthems started life as a demo by Chip Taylor, also author of "Angel in the Morning." The tune was originally recorded by a New York Chicano group called the Wild Things, sporting six-foot-high pompadours, but the record went nowhere. Picked up as a song demo, the tune was brought to international acclaim by a group called the Troggs. As a song, "Wild Thing" is little more than the same three-chord progression as "Twist and Shout" or "La Bamba" or "Louie Louie" with a deadpan vocal that belies its sexual message. The Troggs' hit version features the unlikely use of an ocarina in the middle for the instrumental solo. That the tune can be interpreted a variety of ways is obvious in its most famous cover by Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival where he uses the song as a guitar-smashing set closer. The song also sprouted legs as a continuing theme in the movie Major League. A true garage-punk classic, the simplicity of "Wild Thing" has given it life into the 21st century of popular song.

So, The Troggs were the first to have a hit with it (1966) but were not the first to record it. Jimi was a few years later.
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ok just to annoy the both of you after that marvelous bit of trivia.

if you read the word then you will find that it was neither of them.

try again

Sir D

Thanks for keeping the torch aloft, Sir D!

sir_darkstar wrote:

Yes, I had just read the first bit. Is that some sort of Weird Al Yankovich parody?
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Number 4 is Run Baby Run by Sheryl Crow

funslover wrote:

Finally, I can contribute something. That version of Wild Thing was recorded by the late Sam Kinison. The video featured a newly enhanced Jessica Hahn.

That would explain it. I never liked Kinison.
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<whoooosh>

RM rambles in fresh from vacation to quickly grab #2 ... methinks that Sir Darkie-Dark has a soft spot for a certain bleating "pales in comparison to Christine McVie" part of Fleetwood Mac. Stevie Nicks -- Stand Back.

Just my opinion SD ... please ... step away from the scythe ... slowly now ... besides, you got me on #5, 6, and 9 ...

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Oh you know me to well RM, Stevie in her early days was awsome and a babe to boot

heres the answers as I think you have all had a go, seeing the thread was half way down the page

1) The Who - Baba O'Rielly (funslover)
2) Stevie Nicks - Stand Back (RM)
3) Simon and Garfunkel - America (Esteban)
4) Sheryl Crow - Run Baby Run (Dionysus)
5) Shakira - Underneath your clothes
6) Screaming Jets - Better
7) Sam Kinison - Wild thing (funslover) (Townboy)
8) Al Stewart - Year of the Cat (funslover)
9) Amiel - Another love song
10) Bue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (funslover)

I cant believe you guys missed three of those? am I making them to hard or is it just that Mozzie was a great help?

Anyways, I liked the Sam Kinison version of wild thing, stared some pretty amazing Hard rock personel from the 80's, including Billy Idol, Richie Sambora just to name a few

ok maybe RM should have a go, Im sure he said he had one ready to place in the next slot when this oen was finished.

So without further adieu

Ladies and Gentlmen I give you.......(drun roll)

Ramblin Man

sir_darkstar wrote:



To quote Nicholas Cage in The Rock ... I love pressure.

Sorry all, I missed this before. I do have a little something something, but some of these are pretty darn hard (IMHO). Should get easier once the really obscure "theme" becomes obvious. And just so you know, there is NO Led Zeppelin, and NO Allman Brothers (other than in my sig):

1. Ramble on, baby. Settle down easy. Ramble on.

2. Well I told my baby, I said baby, I know where you been. Well, I know who you are, and what league you played in.

3. I'm thinkin' 'bout givin' up this ramblin' round, hangin' up my highway shoes. Lately when I walk they make a hollow sound, and they carry me away from you. Every night I lay my body down, my empty arms just leave me blue. So I'm thinkin' 'bout givin' up this ramblin' 'round, and find my way back home to you.

4. They're selling independence, actors in the White House, acid indigestion. Mortgage on my life, mortgage on my life, move, down the road I go.

5. To break the silence, open up and ramble. To break the silence and open your mind, leave it behind you.

6. Spasm waiter dropping to his knees, sees slander on wrap paper ties. Lifting up his head he feels the sunlight in his eyes. Grasp a kettle top and shoot the breeze, please. Ramble while slop sc****r sighs, tossing in his bed at night he'll dream until he dies.

7. A tiny turtle in a can, I dig a living room in the sand, poke a toe through a hole in the floor (floor!). And ramble on some more (ramble on!).

8. So don't ask where I'm going, just listen when I'm gone. And far away you'll hear me singing softly to the dawn. Rivers belong where they can ramble, eagles belong where they can fly.

9. Didn't he ramble.... he rambled, rambled all around.... in and out of town. Didn't he ramble....didn't he ramble, he rambled 'til the butcher cut him down.

10. Well my mind was on the ramble, and my mouth wanted to be too. I want no one else to know this, it is just between me and you. Well I walked up to the kitchen, and I called your name, thrust my nose against the window pane.


If anyone gets all of these, you'll get a great big gold star!

RM

Looks like everyone is too interested in tits and pussy these days RM

1) Grateful Dead - Ramblin Rose
2) Bob Dylan - You want to Ramble, oh dylan still my favorite singer/songwriter
3) Steve Earl - Steves Last Ramble
4) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Ramble Tamble
5) Silverchair - Ramble, one of Australia best exports
8) Diana Ross - The Sky
10) Tom Cochrane - Talkin to myself

I better leave some for the others
has anyone seen Mole or Mozzie this place is quiet without them.

6. Spasm waiter dropping to his knees, sees slander on wrap paper ties. Lifting up his head he feels the sunlight in his eyes. Grasp a kettle top and shoot the breeze, please. Ramble while slop sc****r sighs, tossing in his bed at night he'll dream until he dies.


Damn... this is the only one I got. It's Phish "The Mango Song" from A Picture of Nectar.

I'm gonna close this out since its been a while and maybe more people would participate if SD does one his great (and less strange) sets again.

In case it isn't obvious, every song has the word "ramble" or "rambling" in the title or lyrics. Yes, I may in fact be that quite egotistical. Nahhh.
Townboy wrote:
Townboy, AWESOME! That was one of the hardest ones.

Kudos to SD for the ones he got ... and the ones he didn't enter. Especially the Tom Cochrane, that was a toughie. The POTUS was the other real toughie IMRO. #8 is forgiven, since Diana Ross might have done a cover.

1. Grateful Dead -- Ramble On Rose
2. Bob Dylan -- You Wanna Ramble
3. Steve Earle -- Steve's Last Ramble
4. CCR -- Ramble Tamble
5. Silverchair -- Ramble
6. Phish -- The Mango Song
7. Presidents of the United States of America -- Mobile Home
8. Corner of the Sky -- from the show Pippin
9. Louis Armstrong -- Oh Didn't He Ramble
10. Tom Cochrane -- Talkin' to Myself

Honorable Mention:
Led Zeppelin -- Ramble On (too easy)
Allman Bros. -- Ramblin' Man (in my sig)
Bob Seger -- Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (too easy)
Steve Martin -- Ramblin' Man (yes, the comedian/actor)
Blues Traveler -- Mind to Ramble
Dropkick Murphy -- Ramble and Roll
"Cause I was born to ramble I was made to roll..."

Mighty Mighty Bosstones -- Let Me Be
"Let me rant and let me ramble..."

Duke Ellington -- Blue Ramble
Dr. John -- Didn't He Ramble (would have been just another gimme for SD)

And last -- although there are probaby several dozen more I could list --but certainly not least, the late, great, Mississippi Delta bluesman with his own uniquely strange style, ladies and gentlemen ... Mr. Nehemiah Curtis James, forever known as "Skip". Strange world we live in -- listening to songs on CD that were first recorded back in the 1920s.

Skip James – Cherry Ball Blues
"I'll catch the Southern if you take the Santa Fe
I'll take the Southern and if you'll take the Santa Fe
I'm gonna ride and ramble, tell cherry to come back to me."

RM does the Blues