Free competition to win Walls Have Ears
 

No strings attached...
I'm moving countries next week, and can't take everything, so on the assumption that whatever I store I'll never see again, I thought I'd make a competition to win a Walls Have Ears (one of the later ones with black & white labels, but still worth having, I think). Most of the questions are oldies, so I guess Googling has to be acceptable, but try to answer as many as you can without, in the spirit of competition.

First all-correct answers posted here gets it.

Round one (of two): Lyrics - name the song and artist....

1. I spend hours looking sideways to the time when I was sixteen
2. I tell myself I will not go, even as I drive there
3. Ring the doorbell in your mind but it's locked from the outside
4. Dear baby Jesus, here are my shoes
5. The weight of my body is too much to bear (tjhis one shouldn't be to difficult)
6. I feel bad with the dancing baby
7. And when I hit the ground I hear a ringing sound
8. Mom threw me out 'til I get some pants that fit
9. I can't stand what you do, I'm in love with your eyes
10. As the water gets warmer my iceberg gets smaller

Round two (of two): General...

Two gigs seen as influential in the UK music scene took place on the following dates. The artists and the cities required (half a bonus point for both venues):
1. June 4th 1976
2. July 4th 1976

3. Sonic Youth's original drummer had a very small part in a movie with someone whose recordings inspired a Sonic Youth side project. The name of the drummer, the movie, and the bit-part, please.

4. Tricky one. I'm looking for two different songs, released by two different bands, written by the respective vocalists from those bands together, when they were part of the same band. You may need some help here... the release years were 1978 & 1979 - the first released as an A-side, the second as a B-side. If you get this one, you deserve the records....

That's it.... simple really!

Good luck

r1
5. inhuman SY
r2
3. Ferrris Buehller's Day off. He was the valet guy

Zero points, heh. try again

oh shit...World looks red....mah bad.



EDIT: I feel so embarrassed right now. I had to google.

1. the fall - frightened
2. big black - bad houses
3. dinosaur jr. - the wagon
4. butthole surfers - rocky
5. SY - world looks red
6. ah fuck it. guess i lost.

^^^hahahahaha

i know the answers to 9, 10, and the other questions too. ah well. :7(

Ah, great effort on the first few. As there's not much interest, I'll give the release years for 6-10:
1970 1984 1976 1976 1978

That might narrow it down a little.

Round 1:

1- "Frightened", by The Fall
2- "Bad Houses", by Big Black
3- "The Wagon", by Dinosaur Jr.
4- "Rocky", by The Butthole Surfers
5- "The World Looks Red", by Sonic Youth
6- ?
7- "Upside Down", by The Jesus and Mary Chain
8- "Final Solution", by Pere Ubu
9- "Hospital", by The Modern Lovers
10- "Marooned", by Wire

Round 2:
1- June 4th, 1976
The Sex Pistols at Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England.
Setlist: "Did You No Wrong", "No Lip", "Seventeen", "Stepping Stone", "New York", "Whatcha Gonna Do About It", "Submission", "Satellite", "No Feelings", "No Fun", "Substitute", "Pretty Vacant", "Problems", "No Fun".

2-July 4th, 1976
Ramones at The Roundhouse in London, England.
Setlist: "Loudmouth", "Beat on the Brat", "Blitzkrieg Bop", "I Remember You", "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", "Glad to See you Go", "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment", "53rd & 3rd", "I Wanna be Your Boyfriend", "Havana Affair", "Listen to my Heart", "California Sun", "Judy is a Punk", "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You", "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World".

3- Richard Edson. I've never followed his career as an actor, so i can't pin down any relationship whatsoever with the question at hand.

4- ????????






Hopefully this will help someone to nail down the missing questions and win the copy of "Walls Have Ears" eazyrazors has kindly offered. Good luck.

For my part, i thank you for the chance, eazyrazors.

OH! is 6 "fun house"? i'm not sure if those are the lyrics, though.

also, 4 is "lipstick" by buzzcocks and "shot by both sides" by magazine.

and C+P hipster_bebop_junkie's answers.

can i win?!

edit: nvm

So close. Narrow down #6 & we have a winner...

Oops... the drummer question's not answered fully either.

Richard Edson > Desperately Seeking Susan > Madonna > Ciccone Youth

Edson plays the man with the newpapers.
Actually, I've never seen it, but that's how he's credited on IMDB.

I already own a copy of Walls Have Ears, so I'm not in competition.

Correct!

All that's needed is the "dancing baby" lyrics' song, and the previous person already got the album right.

okay, singing it again in my head, i'm positive #6 is "loose." i feel almost embarrassed now as its one of my all-time favorites.

Well done.

PM me your address, I'll mail it on Monday.

YES! thanks to pokkeherrie and hbj for helping me out though hahaha.

Number 4 try, a certain try and fail:

1978 song: orphans
1979 song: the staircase

I don't say the artists... just in case (almost sure) I fail, but if the artists remain somewhat correct, others can have fun looking for them... Funny question, dude!

ghey!