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Guess That Tune Game

 
 
Hydra vs Leviathan
13:14 / 13.12.06
Alright, this is possibly a very silly idea and one that will in all likelihood sink without trace, but i suspect i'm in some sort of manic phase today, so i thought this might be a fun game for all the family...

Basically, the aim of the game is to describe a tune, using as mad, poetic, esoteric and far-fetched metaphors and descriptive gambits you can think of (don't say anything about the person/people who made the tune, or when/where it was created, etc). Everyone else then has to guess what the tune is. Ze who guesses the tune right, gets to describe the next one...

I'll start with a pretty easy one:

this tune resembles a relentless robotic juggernaut of squelchy noises, which is somewhat like what the mutant love-child of The Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" and Missy Elliott's "Get Your Freak On" might possibly sound like if it was born in a London Underground station after having been concieved in Kraftwerk's secret basement laboratory...

the aim is a) to have fun showing off musical knowledge and/or playing around with creative writing skills, and b) to possibly turn people on to tunes they haven't heard before by getting them to think "bloody hell, what would that sound like?!?!"

go purple prose team go!
 
 
ispeakman
18:21 / 13.12.06
I think this is a cool idea, you might need to make it just a little bit easier though, maybe give us the year it was released, or compare it to a few more bands. I'm lost on this one.
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
20:19 / 13.12.06
Genre would be helpful, and, yeah, year of release. Narrow it daaaan...
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:25 / 13.12.06
I third more hints. I still have no idea what it might be, and try to remember when I heard squelching noises in songs.
 
 
at the scarwash
03:13 / 14.12.06
ummm, something off of ShinyCrystalPlanet, by Christine23Onna?
 
 
Sniv
09:00 / 14.12.06
*stroking my indie-muso beard* hmmmm.... it's either the Mr Blobby song or 'Dr Jones' by Aqua, but I really can't decide which. Is it the Mr Blobby/Aqua mash-up? (gah! if only...)
 
 
Hydra vs Leviathan
10:37 / 14.12.06
i thought this would sink without trace.

it's not any of the above. (it's probably far more obvious than any of them, actually...)

er, hmmm... it's about 5 years old. it has a male vocalist, whose dreader-than-dread pronouncements are in the tradition(s) both of Chuck D and KRS-One and of Prince Far I and Linton Kwesi Johnson. it mentions a popular british early morning snack...

(after having not listened to it in a long time, it and the album it wa off were driving me somewhat manic yesterday...)
 
  
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