Who's the Horse Whose Gifted Mouth This Fell Out Of? (Quote & Hint, Guess & Carry On)

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'tis somewhat similar to the 'pub quiz' thingy, undeniably. But let's restrict our good selves to just quote-spotting here, followingly.

Post a quote and give a hint or a few about the source.
Who first guesses that source correctly, can (inna manner of speaking) open the next horse's mouth and post the next quote.

Yes, yes, I'll go first then :)

"Let's not forget that the role of the musician in society is to provide employment for journalists and photographers"

(Hint, hint: This was uttered, with no small amount of unseriousness, by a "leftfield" guitarist, male & British, in the early '90s)
Who he?
Feel free to guess away, fellow ILMers.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

the guy from Bush?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Snrub, thank you. But not too close. It's much more "leftfield" than that.

(I Have this hunch that -)
If Mark S was around he well might remember the quote, for it's from a Ver Vire piece from '92.
In the photos that went with that Vire piece, the quote worthy guitarist, proponent of "spazz" stylee, was wearing boxing gloves.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

This sounds precisely like the crap that Richey Edwards used to spout, though whether he could be described as a guitarist is debatable.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

...and whether there could've been an Invisible Jukebox with him in Ver Vire in '92 seems questionable too, to me.

Anyway, back to the source.
Said source has recorded, among others, pieces with titles like "Johnny Cash", "Charles Manson", "Elvis Presley", "Ronald Reagan", "Oliver North" (all these on one album).
And he's recorded improv sessions - as series of 12 three-minutes 'matches'.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It's Billy Jenkins.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Bravo, Barry!

Shoot the next one then!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(Or in case you don't want to post a quote, let someone else pick up the option)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy who?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Let somebody else do the next one ... I won't be near a computer for a bit ... I'll try to think of one and come back later.
Billy who?
Billy Jenkins ... thanks be to Google.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

(Billy who? That doesn't look much of a quote, Snrub, now does it? ;)
(But in case yer serious, just check All Music Guide or something)

Okay, Barry 'Google' Bruner. Do come back later.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

This one's dead easy:

"A review in the Financial Times said I was an extremely funky pub pianist. That was a good summing-up of what I am."

― pete s, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Hints, pete s!

(...unless that's Elton John)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Bingo! See none needed!

― pete s, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Um. Damn.
Now wait a minute...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry i'll find some better ones, i just thought it might grease the wheels a bit

― pete s, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

You're welcome, pete!
(I myself was searching in earnest, for awhile, for a certain classic Momus quote 'bout dog faces and stuff, but as that keeps eluding me and my mem'ry, here's another oldie then)

"My idea of the average person is someone in a crowd who's running towards me trying to tear my clothes off"

horse's mouth: male.
though it's not the mouth that's been his most spoken-about body part, for a number of years already...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Mo' hints?
He wasn't in the Beatles (haha),
but there is actually a link between them. Even several. He's recorded with the more famous of the two remaining Liverpoodlians, too. He's 'bout six years youger than Macca, and from 'merica.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Golly i don't know...

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

That's Michael Jackson, easy.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

MJ's 18 years younger than MCartney

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Though...hmmm...Macca was born in '42, Jacko in '58.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I've thought of all the obvious ones...Billy Preston, Stevie Wonder, Brian Wilson...could it be the latter?

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

No, same age

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Iggy Pop?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

He has to be a big star, going by the quote...

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete, you're right -- my bad, me sorry. About the age difference :(
Michael -- I did mean MJ, yes.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(Must have been MJ's nose - that I tried to avoid mentioning as long as possible - that got in the way of my late night math, arrgh)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it was fun! And seemed harder than it, er, actually was. Michael, want to set one?

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm thumbing through my Rock Yearbooks right now...

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bruce Springsteen? Oh, he's great, but he needs his hair styled."

Needless to say, the speaker usually has perfect hair...well, maybe not recently. (He's still alive, though.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it a musician?

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Definitely a musician. A singer.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm thinking female, but i'll try Bowie first.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"perfect hair" as in, um, "not bald"? or "perfect hair" as in, like, "a dream haidresser's masterwork"?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

He's male, and he was born in the '30's, and his hair has almost always been immaculately coiffed, except maybe in the late sixties/early seventies when he followed the men's fashion of the day.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Other big exception: recent embarrassing photo.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

James Brown

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Bingo.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, here's one (please don't google for it tho, it's easy to find and it's more fun to work it out):

"I've enjoyed accomodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap."

Hint: it's not who you might think

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

A darn good hint, that!

So it isn't Ozzy then?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

why am I thinking it's Keith Richards?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Because that's who you'd *think* it was. But it isn't.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Elvis Presley?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

No. But this person does have associations with drug taking.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

David Crosby?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

No. But there's a link between them.....

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Gene Clark?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

So it is a "rocker", not a hip-hopper?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

James Taylor?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

No to Gene Clark and James Taylor. Yes we're talking rock

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll drop bigger clues if you want

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

John Phillips?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Some Guns N'Roses guy?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

'John Phillips?'

No, but there's a link there too, in fact, probably more than i know

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No, the others have the right idea about the era of this person's *initial* fame

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur Lee, p'haps?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

No. But this person's clearly American.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

If you were young and trendy back then, chances are you would have owned one of their records. Not so much now. That should help.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Lovin Spoonful?

(Not that I've read much about them being regularly police accommodated, tho...)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

No! Is this too hard?

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Hard, maybe. Intriguing, certainly :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I wussed out and googled the quote.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Nooooooooooo! Hahaha!

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoooo-oh-ah. Daddino, so that's why you suddenly look all so coyly contemplatin', eh?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Homer Simpson *loves* one of their songs. One of their later ones.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so very insufficiently versed in Simpsoniana, alas.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

This person's voice is instantly recognizable. They had two big hits which everyone still knows today. One was recently used on the Sopranos.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That was the early phase of their career. They had a couple of bigger hits later, one of which, as i said, Homer J loves.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It's 'hippy shit' we are talking?
Is it perhaps not a man but some wacky woman we're after?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

You got it!

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

MARTHA WASH! Homer's favorite song is "It's Raining Men"!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! Hey i didn't say 'favourite'.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Grace Slick?

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

YES.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Give that man a big kiss! Anthony?

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

oh I thought Jim would get to do it.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

God's on yer side now, jim!
Shoot your horse's mouth!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm experiencing problems with the browser, so someone else take it from here, thanx.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll do it if nobody else wants to.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Be our guest, man.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Hit us with the digits

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, who described their songwriting style as such: "There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state. It's like Elizabeth Fraser from the Cocteau Twins--she doesn't always use real words, but you know exactly what her songs are about. I often just sort of sing words and sounds. I hear Bono does that, too. And eventually the words begin to make sense. I have all this technology-you know, I built this really cool recording studio in San Francisco--but when I write, it's with an acoustic guitar and a yellow notepad. I keep it very simple."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Bjork?

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

nope.
(clue: this person group's second album shares a word with the name of a Cocteau Twins album. Plus the city should be a clue as well)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

argh. this PERSON'S group's

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

also their favorite band is Camper Van Beethoven

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

This's a *guy* you're quoting?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

yup

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, another clue. The guy claimed he thought his band's first album would be a critical and cult favorite, "like Radiohead." But it wasn't.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

that's funny

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny, you bet. I mean, Stipey used to champion Camper Van B, but this other stuff Anthony just posted pretty much makes that factoid irrelevant.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It ain't Stipey.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

No cos were clearly talking about a band that formed in the wake of either 'The Bends' or 'OK Computer', my guess would be the latter, so that's from '98 to the present

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

close but wrong

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Simon Stinger?

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm guessing that the Cocteau Twins clue is "Treasure"?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

nope. nope. "Blue Bell Knoll."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Elliott Smith?

― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

definitely right time period

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

but remember his first album wasn't a cult favorite.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Do Ucunt magazine like this band?

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck if I know.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

My Morning Jacket?

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

they weren't a cult favorite meaning they were fucking huge. Aim up.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

you've been leading us astray dude....

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

unintentionally. I thought you'd realize this guy was, you know, BIG by the fact that it wasn't a cult favorite.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

we're not that smart;-)

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh shit, it's Third Eye Blind, right?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

BINGO BANGO BARRY BRUNER

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope we've all learned a little something about Stephan Jenkins today.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

see i still don't know who they are

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

dude they've sold millions in the US. "Semi-Charmed Life"! Anyhow, it's Bruner's now. I gotta get some work done finally.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I finally found an interesting one, for those who are still around,

"Madonna has mentioned that I was important to her, and that's very satisfying. However, a cheque would have been better."

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

A hint?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Clue : the speaker is American, and the band he or she became famous in is American, but they had their first breakthrough hits in the UK.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Gladys Knight and the Pips

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope. About a decade later.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Debbie Harry?

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

YES!!! Nice going, was is really that easy?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The breakthrough hits in the UK hint was a giveaway.

Let me find a quote...

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

here's one:

Quote: "I think everyone can write one hit, but the more you do it, the harder it gets. Every time you devise a new formula, you use it up quicker because you've developed the technical expertise to do that. You end up cloning yourself and getting angry."

Hint: prefers to be known as a 'sonic architect' or 'The Hitman'

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete Waterman?

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Thursday, 26 February 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I reckon so. Funny, he seems to be a very angry person thesedays...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 February 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's a similar quote to Jeremy's (I'm quoting from memory so it's nowhere near exact)
'Writing great pop songs is like discovering the prime numbers. You get the first 8 or 9 really easily, but after that it gets harder and harder'

Who said (very approximately) that?

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Thursday, 26 February 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's a hint. He's from the North of England, and has something basic in common with the last answer.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Thursday, 26 February 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

(Pete Waterman: CORRECT!)

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Try this one:

"I wish everyone who has the T-shirt had the album, you know?"

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil, is it Carter USM or James?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope. Hints: older, (much) louder, wartier.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Lemmy.

― pete s, Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

English male, born in the fifties, still alive:

"People have always chased me down the street with Stanley knives--it's given me an edge."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Alright, another hint. Ned's reviewed his...well, his band's first two albums for the AMG.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Morrissey.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

No, not Morrissey.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I know, I just checked the AMG and Ned didn't review them ... even though Ned and Stephen Thomas Erlewine are apparently the same person according to the Tokenism thread ...

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

mark e smith?

― m (m), Friday, 27 February 2004 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Gary Numan?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, Ned didn't review his first two records. Hell.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Hook?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

No! (Somebody's post was close in an odd, unexpected way.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Tennant?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

goddammit I keep forgetting the Ned rule

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Not Neil, no.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Bernard Sumner then?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Not anyone in New Order, no.

I'd like to see Ned try and guess this.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Shaun Ryder?

― pete s, Friday, 27 February 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Not Shaun Ryder.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Another hint: the band the speaker was in had a few hits in America.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

David Gahan!

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Or uh Martin Gore or one of those Depeche Mode guys

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope, no-one from DM.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit x 1000

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I know I'm just throwing out early '80s Brit pop star frontmen, but... uh, Richard Butler?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Sooo NOT Richard Butler.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I give up.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Another hint: the band formed in Liverpool.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

And the band's not Frankie Goes to Hollywood or Echo and the Bunnymen,

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

JULIAN COPE

― pete s, Friday, 27 February 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

No! Not OMD, either.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

flock of seagulls guy??

― m (m), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No, not A Flock of Seagulls, either.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Lee Mavers
John Power
Howard Jones
Baltimora
Jimmy Sommerville

― pete s, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It has to be job-lots now

― pete s, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

No, no, no, no and no.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy Bell
other Erasure blokie
Dave Stewart
Morton Harkett

― pete s, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

None of them, either.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Ade Blackburn ain't that old, is he?

Uh. Some guy from the Boo Radleys?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

No and no, Nate.

Wow, I don't think I can hold out much longer. OK, if you go on AMG and find an entry of a band from Liverpool that's already been mentioned, and you click on the "Liverpool, England" link on the top of the page, you'll get a list of bands and artists. The band the singer is from is on that list.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Lloyd Cole
Del Amitri
Edwyn Collins
Paul Heaaton
Bryan Connolly
Norman Cook
Boy George
Stuart Adamson
Martin Carr
Sice

― pete s, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Julian Cope? I checked--Ned reviewed The Teardrop Explodes records.

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, GOD, he's really really awesomely CAMP!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

pete burns!

― m (m), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

YES!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

See, "English male, born in the fifties, still alive" should've tipped you off right there. Plus, there's the Morrissey connection. And Dead Or Alive had a few hits, not just "You Spin Me Round" but "Brand New Lover" and a few other, minor ones. The rest is pretty self-explanatory.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Doh.

― pete s, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm busy with a few billion things, starting this up again is up for grabs.

― m (m), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

me me me

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga. I never been one of these guys who drives cross-country and knows some one-legged sailor who has a boat parked off some pier with a thousand Russian funk records that he stole from the Red Army in 1972."

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(By the way, if P Burns googles his name and gets tempted to post here like he did [supposedly] in the why-does-pete-burns-look-like-a-muppet thread, lemme just say, Pete, I'm sure as hell NOT mocking you, k?)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

That's not Beck, is it?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna guess it's El-P.

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

You Googled that! (As did I.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I swear I didn't.

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh. Well I did, anyway.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

so is it my turn? lemme think of something...

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

my predictability is my downfall

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, here's one:

"I come from a folk music tradition. I was a folk singer with a guitar. The repetition in my music I think of being like folk music: you have your chorus and your verse. I'm more interested in how the voice digs down into emotional reality."

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Wyclef Jean?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 February 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

nope.

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

do I need to give a hint?

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the person in question was born in Queens but claimed to be from Lima, Peru.

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

aaaaaaand....nobody cares! sorry for ruining the game.

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Yma Sumac!

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

good guess, but wrong again!

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It's Meredith Monk. I got the quote from a randomly opening a book sitting on my desk. Somebody else play now.

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, the Mer'Monk quote was a good one.

If there're no other volunteers, I'll gladly post a new one then.
(I have to leave in less than an hour, though, haha. So hope you get it quick)

"While you're wondering who that old fart is sitting there, I wanted you to realize that in that minute, there were hundreds if not thousands of children hacked to death with a machete, beaten to death by their parents, got typhus and died of disease".

Li'l hintington: The horse's mouth is not of a musician's this time. But it's someone who's conspicuous by their relatively recent presence in a "big" video of a big star.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 27 February 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

further hintington: "relatively recent presence" = 2001
further hintington 2: the conspicuous quote's reported to have originated at a (not quite as popular as expected) anniversary event of the referred-to-above big star

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 27 February 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"not a musician"=actor

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 27 February 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Christopher Walken?

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Friday, 27 February 2004 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

No, not him.

Further suggestington:
Think a bit about the "children" in that quote. A notoriously important theme regarding which star?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 27 February 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

aaaaah. Is that the bit from "Pulp Fiction" that we didn't hear cuz we were still getting over the 'adrenalin' scene?

(xpost. Obv not!)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 27 February 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

(mark - no, obviously not :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 27 February 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to see Ned try and guess this.

Sorry I missed the guessing game here -- this looked terribly amusing! And no, I didn't guess it myself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

*comes back 9 hours later*

Okay, guys. Take your time.
I just gonna drop another bit of hintington:
The old actor chap's initials are MB (which's halfway the same as the musician's whose video he was in).

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Marlon Brando?

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Friday, 27 February 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ain't that the truth!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 27 February 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd start a new one, but I don't have any non-googlable sources with me, not even any good liner notes, unless you want to guess who wrote "ITYO FDIS ABILY DIGITAL WASTYAND, LICKKSPITTONEPOTIS." Would someone else care to carry on?

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Friday, 27 February 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"ILxers will be pleased to know I now have a version of Metal Machine Music I can listen to again once again."

the source: a venerable ILxer, often averse to using capitals and conspicuous by his absence lately
the quote is today's, but not from ilx

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

o c'mon, 'tis not that dif'cult surely ;)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

he makes, in a manner of speaking, his own radio, too...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

...and writes his own book(s), and stuff.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It's Mark Sinker, isn't it?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeh!!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

meanwhile on radio free narnia, and in the extra-ilXestrial omniverse...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

REVIVE!
JON WILLIAMS CANNOT GUESS ON THIS ONE:

"Is that Missy Elliott? Is it? I can tell by her voice. She's good. I like what she does. When I flick through the radio dial, I'll sometimes rest on the hip-hop stations to see what's going on. But a lot of it is too corny for me."

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

kekekekek

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

is it kekekekek?

― woly boly (woly boly), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

is that from the new invisible jukebox?

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

no.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My guess: Ian Williams having sex at Burritoville in a trucker hat.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Avril Lavigne

― woly boly (woly boly), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

wrong, and wrong.

GYGAX! BARRY BONDS BOREDOMS OWEN CASIOTONE SLANTED DOOR

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

*sproing*

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

stop perving on Barry Bonds and his friends, gygax!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

c'mon, more good guesses! need hints?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

you need to be more clear, mr. man.

eg, is it an ILX0r?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no, it is not an ILXor, it is a FAMOUS MUSICIAN. And no, it is not Jay-Z (but this person IS from New York, kinda).

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(checking ilm rather seldom lately, i was quite confused now, for a moment and a half, why this thread's title looked so damn familiar, haha)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen Merritt.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

wrong.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

ryan adams.

― todd burns (toddburns), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

lou reed

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark Ibold

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

wrong. wrong. wrong. Think Nutmeg State.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Timbaland.

THURSTON!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave R. OTM ROFFLE FOOFFFFLELFELAFEL!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It was either Thurston, Moby, or me, so I figgered I had a good shot @ getting it right.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

okay try this big chunky one on for size:

"I have an ear that's beyond most human being's ears when it comes tomusic. My library, all hip-hop put aside, what I listen to at the crib, you can't front on it. I play nothing but raw shit. I like rock music, all that. AC/DC, Rush, Pat Benetar, Joan Jett, Simple Minds, Yes, Led Zeppelin, the Cars, I know my shit! Blue Oyster Cult, I can go any direction!

I used to be one of the only people in my high school who would wear the punk rock gear, with the double belts, the boots and all that! I wasn't afraid of that at all. At that time, that was the rebel style. That went into hip-hop culture too, because I remember how Flash and them was dressed, with the leather and the spikes and all. That punk rock and New Wave era was dope. You can't even compare it to the "punk" that's out now, you gotta know about groups like Fad Gadget, Tones on Tail, Bauhaus, old Depeche Mode, the Smiths. Morrissey is gay and I understood his lyrics for what they were saying, but at the same time I liked his music. It was dope and you can't front on it. I respected him with an open mind. Most people who are homophobic have some problems that way anyway, so I wasn't really afraid of it. They're just human beings and that's their preference. But I was into the Smiths, I was into Siouxsie and the Banshees, Devo, the B-52s, Talk Talk, I went to all those concerts. As a matter of fact, I found my memory book from high school and I got mad concert tickets of all kinds of shows I went to. I've been to see AC/DC millions of times, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Genesis, all that."

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the folx in Northern State

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

El-P

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i think ive read this before.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, not El-P.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

clue ?

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Pharell!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, not Pharell. This is a hip-hop dude, and he used to live in my neighborhood in Brooklyn (but it's not Biggie).

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Eminem

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never lived in Detroit, dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

so much for jam master jay, then. he's probably a lil old, anyway

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike D.?

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Jam Master Jay was from Queens, so not him. It's not Mike D.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Juan Atkins?

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I HAVE NEVER LIVED IN DETROIT DUDE.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

prime minister pete nice?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, but getting close era-wise.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

mc lyte

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

WRONG! Hint: not an MC.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

dj shadow and his $100 haircut

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

WRONG! Not from Davis, California.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

prince paul, except i think he from queens

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

eric b is on the cut

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

WRONG WRONG.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Posdnuos

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Terminator X

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

dj minutemix

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

TERMINATOR X

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

GOD YOU GUYS ARE SO CLOSE BUT YET SO FAR.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

PRINCE PAUL

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

dj premier

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe another clue is in order

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

dingdingdingding GYGAX! finally got it!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

dan selzer

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to get a copy of that DJ Premier mix Primo's Bakery, where the fuck can I get it?

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

A BEASTIE?

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

dudes do you not understand what DINGDINGDING is supposed to signify? Jeez.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

spinderella

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

don't wear out your welcome.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

answer me fux

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

dj joel hunt

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax! play right or get off the pot.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

scott la rock

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

throw up another quote to the snarling dogs

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm all out, it's GYGAX!'s turn since he's so clever BARRY BONDS CASIOTOWEN BOREDOMS GAIJIN JAPAN SF GIANTS SMOOTH DENIMES

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

LET'S GET IT STARTED
http://sfbappa.org/SF28.images/POY%2010%20copy/3%20jmb%20copy/10jmb12.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Barry Bonds has never said anything interesting about Morrissey.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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